D'arcys Seafood Restaurant (Seafood)

Reviews

Julia - 12-09-2007

I have just returned from a meal with my family at D'Arcys Seafood restaurant and I have to say I have rarely been so disappointed by a meal. This is a warning to anyone who is thinking of going to this restaurant on the Argus 'dine for £5' offer. It seems that they have made a separate menu of cheap and nasty food especially for this deal. Me and my family are all seafood lovers and after reading previous reviews and looking at the restaurants website we were looking forward to our meal. When we received our menus there was very little choice of mainly pasta dishes, and this was supposed to be a seafood restaurant! As the choice on the £5 menu was so limited we opted for meals from the £10 menu thinking these dishes sounded slightly more tempting, how wrong we were! I ordered the seafood pasta which was spaghetti in an insipid looking sauce with, what were quite obviously cheap frozen prawns, a few bits of white fish and a few mussels for appearance. A cod and chips was also ordered and it looked ok but for £10 with dessert I thought it was extremely over priced and this was supposed to be a special offer! Now for dessert - I had cheap supermarket ice cream with squirty cream on top, absolutely appalling, and the rest of my family had what looked like a kids party trifle with tinned fruit and jelly. What made things worse was that we were sat next to a blackboard which listed all the lovely fresh caught fish that they usually do, none of which is on the offer menu. I was later told by the manager that they do this special offer menu to promote their restaurant but I will certainly never be going back and I doubt anyone else who has tried this menu will do either, its just such a shame as it seems their regular menu would actually be quite nice.

Julia - 12-09-2007

I have just returned from a meal with my family at D'Arcys Seafood restaurant and I have to say I have rarely been so disappointed by a meal. This is a warning to anyone who is thinking of going to this restaurant on the Argus 'dine for £5' offer. It seems that they have made a separate menu of cheap and nasty food especially for this deal. Me and my family are all seafood lovers and after reading previous reviews and looking at the restaurants website we were looking forward to our meal. When we received our menus there was very little choice of mainly pasta dishes, and this was supposed to be a seafood restaurant! As the choice on the £5 menu was so limited we opted for meals from the £10 menu thinking these dishes sounded slightly more tempting, how wrong we were! I ordered the seafood pasta which was spaghetti in an insipid looking sauce with, what were quite obviously cheap frozen prawns, a few bits of white fish and a few mussels for appearance. A cod and chips was also ordered and it looked ok but for £10 with dessert I thought it was extremely over priced and this was supposed to be a special offer! Now for dessert - I had cheap supermarket ice cream with squirty cream on top, absolutely appalling, and the rest of my family had what looked like a kids party trifle with tinned fruit and jelly. What made things worse was that we were sat next to a blackboard which listed all the lovely fresh caught fish that they usually do, none of which is on the offer menu. I was later told by the manager that they do this special offer menu to promote their restaurant but I will certainly never be going back and I doubt anyone else who has tried this menu will do either, its just such a shame as it seems their regular menu would actually be quite nice.