Maray Albert Dock — Restaurant in Liverpool

Very average food, Above average prices I understand this restaurant has a great dockside location with nice views (if you are lucky enough to be seated by the window). The style/structure of the building and windows means that unless you are sat on the one table upstairs by the window, you don't really get much of a view. The food is small plates/tapas style and we ordered a range of different dishes. We were recommended 2-3 dishes each which we found enough for us. I would recommend the cauliflower however I will say that it was (along with every other dish we ordered) very salty. I think some might mistake this for flavourful but I genuinely don't think a lot of it was edible without the pita bread (which we ended up ordering more of). The bread was £2 per piece which seems like a set up in a way as you go through more than expected! The drinks were alright, nothing special and prices were about right for a restaurant in a city. The timing of the dishes could've been a little better as I found the order a bit random as some plates didn't go with each other. Instead of a slow bit continuous bringing out of our order it seemed sporadic and poorly thought out. They also missed a dish off our order which we ended up asking them not to bring out as by then we had ordered and received our extra bread we needed to finish the dishes that had arrived. The chocolate tart was lovely but the baklava cheesecake was a bit to sweet and rich for my tastes. Staff were nice and our waiter had a great personality (as well as the girl who kindly went to go find us in the bar next door while we waited for our table) however they seem to be understaffed and under a lot of time pressure/stress. The place, cutlery and glassware were all very clean and decor seemed minimal. I would suggest investing in a better extractor fan for the kitchen as the smell of the oven stuck to our clothes and the air seemed to be thick with smells from the kitchen. Overall we paid over £124 for 4 people including alcoholic drinks and I can't help but feel that it could have been spent on a much better...

We were going to book a table online (Friday night) but I was completely turned off when they wanted my credit card details for the booking. Never had any restaurant do that before?So instead we physically popped in and booked a table for that evening without any problem (or credit card request).

Had dinner for two. The waitress recommended we order 5-6 dishes between 2 and encouraged us to order 3 mains, then said we needed another pitta togo withthe dips (tuemrns out we definately did not). We ordered 6 dishes, 3 mains, 3 sides, plus olives.

We are reasonably big eaters but definately over ordered.

We also found that we had doubled up on things which already came with the shared plate.

We ordered falafel share plate (Delish!) We need not then ordered the Fattoush as a side (already had it on the plate), and same applied to the hot dips and pickles, in this came a green dip called zhug - that was horrible. Bitter and zero flavour. The sea bass in red lentil and ciconut, fennel and peas was very good, the rump steak with Spinach, ras el hanout peppercorn sauce I would not bother with again. It was small as you would expect but failed mainly on the sauce.

If I were to order that meal again.. I should have gone for 2 shared plates of Falafel plus one side of hommus and that would have been more than enough and maybe even had room for a dessert.

Dinner for two, plus 3 glasses of wine plus the 10% tip they include on your bill in advance for you, and offer that you can remove if you choose, (at least they are transparant) came to £95 which I thought was a bit pricey.

I WOULD eat here again as the flavours were completely there on the majority of dishes and I liked the venue, the menu and the friendly staff.

I think something was wrong with the zhug...wrong herb used by accident or something as I eat most things but this was really unpalatable.

Over all would love to work my way through the whole menu and will return again. So I do recommend you...

I've been going to Maray for years and I've become increasing disappointed each time I go. The portion sizes get smaller and smaller and the prices get bigger and bigger. This time the quality was lower. Hummus chips used to be lovely skin hand cut wedges, now they're just like frozen chips. Sweet potato was undercooked and bland. Sea bass was also bland and too salty. When the fried chicken came I was shocked at the portion size. Three tiny goujon shaped pieces for over £10. You used to get a decent pile of it. It was also not as crispy as it used to be. The sharing mezze was tasty but at £20.25 you'd expect bread to be included to dip into the mezze but no, we were upsold 3 pittas at £2.75 each, so for £28.50, the mezze and bread was not worth the price. The wine was really lovely though and the atmosphere sat outside looking over the docks felt very special. Staff were friendly and pleasant though as we were outside perhaps not as attentive as they could have been. I won't be rushing back and if they carry on the way they're going with expansion at the expense of their quality then it'll basically be like La Tasca and look what...