4.5 stars, rounding down. You can’t beat the view on a beautiful sunny day. And the food was excellent. Fish tacos were generous and delicious, didn’t drip and ooze while still managing to be moist. Lamb and mushroom dumplings in a tom kai soup style broth were also very tasty. The dumplings, however, is what is keeping this from a 5-star rating.

There are three choices of dumplings on the menu. We would have preferred the prawn and chicken but the menu indicated that they come in a broth. We didn’t want broth, just dumplings, so went with the lamb and mushroom. And we had assumed they would come out first or, at the least, together with the tacos. Regardless, we were not asked our preference. Not only did the tacos come first but we were on our last bites of our third taco, and on the verge of cancelling the dumplings, when to our great surprise the dumplings showed up, sitting in a full bowl of creamy white soup.

The menu gives no indication that these would also be in a broth. Had we known, we would have ordered something else. In any case, if I’m having soup and tacos, it should be soup first. Or we should be asked. The soup and dumplings tasted very fresh as if made to order. Maybe this is why they took longer. But we should have been advised of this when ordering.

We did really enjoy our meal and will be back. But we’ll be sure to ask more questions and specify preferences next time.