The Beach Restaurant — Restaurant in Great Britain

We were excited to try the beach restaurant because we had heard they had good fish, my girlfriend had ordered mussels and I ordered the sea bream special.

The younger waitress seemed quite polite, but unfortunately we were mostly served by an older lady who seemed like she didn’t want to be there from the moment we walked in.

To put a long story short, the mussels hadn’t been de-bearded properly and I’m certain they were spoiled, the mussels had caused the sauce to taste rancid.

She (my girlfriend) told me about the beards and said that the mussels weren’t fresh, as she is foreign she didn’t have to words to explain herself properly to me.

I didn’t know she meant they were in fact rancid and thought the beards weren’t a big enough issue to bother complaining about, so it took until i tried the sauce after she had finished nearly every single mussel before i realised something was not right.

As a courtesy, I politely mentioned this to the waitress at the end of the meal, explicitly stating we were not looking for a free meal, as she had already eaten it.

We were essentially dismissed completely, she said “they’re normally very popular” and I'm sure she went straight to the bin to throw it away without getting the chefs to try the sauce.

Well now we’ve arrived home, not only have we been left with a bad taste in our mouths, but my girlfriend is now throwing up in the bathroom. I hope for everyone’s sake, the chefs check their stock immediately.

I am really disappointed in the way we were treated by the waitress more than anything, I expect to be treated with respect but that’s not how I felt. If i could go back now i would’ve walked out without paying, even though my...

Great food, great customer service

We went to the Beach restaurant for my (already grown up) daughter's birthday. The view from the restaurant is beautiful. Immediately, we were warmly greeted by Emma who very kindly understood that one of us (we were 7 in the group) was still looking for parking and she took our drink orders and some appetisers. We had mackerel pate and mussels to start, both of which were excellent, especially the mackerel pate. Emma also took note that our grandson would probably want his food earlier and she made sure it was ordered straight away. Our grandson ate his huge burger! After we ordered our mains. Emma discreetly held back on serving the mains until our heroic car driver had successfully found parking and was finally with us in the restaurant. At dessert time, Emma also placed a lit birthday candle on one of the desserts for my daughter to blow out ( my daughter did not order her own dessert) and they even played the happy birthday song from the bar area so that we could all sing along. The food was excellent. It is a seafood restaurant. I had the lemon sole which did not disappoint. Chips were lovely and chunky. Others had hake and other sea food. All reported they were very happy. The food was definitely good value for money. We will...

Amazing! Choice of fish, choice of butter or crust, choice of side for fish dishes, also a few other good looking dishes - jealous of the next tables steak!

2 starters, 2 mains, 2 extra sauce, 2 wine spritzers, pint & half +1 coffee = £75 including service

Service quick & friendly. Not quite booking only, but booking recommended. Older waiting staff clearly know very well what they're doing, and enjoy their job.

We had the chowder starter (a big fat Yes from me) and the muscles starter (even better than the chowder!), both came with a lot of bread. For mains we had lemon sole with coriander lime & chilli butter, dressed salad, and an extra white wine sauce. The butter was mild, but almost perfectly complemented the sole. The side salad was excellently balanced & very nicely dressed. The sauce was amazing. Both fish were cooked perfectly. I had mackerel fillet with cajun butter, a side of duck fat potatoes, and a chimichurri sauce. The cajun/mackerel combo was ❤️, the potatoes tasted super scrumptious, the chimichurri was excellent too. My only possible comment for improvement is that the potatoes could have been crisper, but they were skin on new potatoes so that's difficult. I wish I'd taken a crust or asked for the mackerel battered to give more texture, but that's down...