Ferry Café Reviews Summary

Category: Fish & chips restaurant

Address: 14 The Esplanade, Fleetwood, FY7 6HF, United Kingdom

Phone: +441253875338

Rating: 4.3
based on 252 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Fantastic food as always, excellent value especially the pensioners special."
  • "Freshly cooked fish and chips and mushy peas which were excellent and ample portions."
  • "The food is great! Fresh fish and proper chips with mushy peas and bread and butter, it was lush!"
  • "The adult portions are also large and very reasonably priced and perfectly cooked."
  • "The chef grilled me a piece of Cod to perfection served with chips and peas."
  • "Mushy peas 👌, gravy👌. Chips always hot and crispy."
  • "The food here is excellent, best fish and chips I have had anywhere."

Cons:

  • "Today the chips were naff (maybe seasonal spud quality)."
  • "The chips were not the nicest. I ended up binning them all."
  • "Waited 45 mins for burger chips and a bacon and cheese toastie when it came it was disgusting and cold."
  • "Had their chicken curry last week and it was god awful, you can stand a spoon up in the (what they call) soup."
  • "The battered fish was so small it should have been thrown it back! The Chips were Soggy and dripping with Grease!"
  • "Nice view rubbish fish and chips...fish looked massive until cut into it had almost no fish also the chips were hard with no potatoe in center ? What's going on there!"
  • "Food was ok, although it was re heated."

Service

Pros:

  • "Customer service was lovely, and staff were fab even when the younger children changed their minds a couple of times."
  • "The staff are always busy and serve the best milky coffee like my Mum used to make and Pensioners Special for £6.95, beat that!"
  • "Very professional staff and friendly."
  • "They are ready for you before you enter, lovely staff and quick to take order."
  • "Staff service is polite, helpful and friendly."
  • "Staff lovely food home made so can't fault it."
  • "Staff were polite and friendly and good portion sizes for the price paid, good value for money all round I think."

Cons:

  • "The staff where not friendly."
  • "They were being really RACIST and were pretending to not understand us."
  • "Went up yesterday and... spoke to a member of staff and she stood there laughing."
  • "The two ladies behind the counter just ignored us for ages."
  • "Table service is terrible. Fingers inside the plates touching food, grumpy young girls with no training given."
  • "Staff was very rude, and abrupt no customer service or skills at all."
  • "Always getting orders wrong and when you question it you get an arrogant response of 'Well I didn't hear you so you should talk louder.'"

Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "Toilets only for customers which I agree with, but very clean and obviously maintained regularly."
  • "Toilets were nice as well."
  • "The cafe is so clean and the toilets are very clean."
  • "All hygiene precautions in place tables cleaned properly, friendly staff."
  • "The place is very clean. Tables being cleared and cleaned right away."
  • "Lovely clean and well kept."
  • "Premises clean."

Cons:

  • "The Cafe is dirty & the cups look like they haven't been washed in some time."
  • "U will not find a dirtier cafe on the fylde."
  • "Overall this place needs a good clean and a revamp."
  • "Plates are chipped, cracked and broken, sticky tables wiped with no detergent by dirty cloth, no napkins available."
  • "Tables are not cleaned properly just a girl giving them a quick spray with a liquid then roughly wiped with a very wet cloth leaving them sopping wet & still dirty."
  • "The place is not clean."
  • "The card machine wasn't working to purchase ice creams and the hygiene around that area wasn't as good as rest of the cafe."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "Outdoor garden over looking the mouth of the river wyre."
  • "Lots of seating inside and outside with nice views of the sea."
  • "Great location, close to the sea and efficient, tasty food."
  • "Very welcoming and friendly atmosphere."
  • "Nice view of Fleetwood beach."
  • "Loved the atmosphere inside and outside."
  • "This is a proper seaside cafe. Bright and breezy with friendly staff and super clean."

Cons:

  • "Went here for morning coffee. If you want a cafe where you can sit near the window and look at the estuary in peace and quiet, or a cafe where you can chat to your companion without having to shout, this is NOT the place for you."
  • "The place was really busy/loud and it looked like we had stepped back into the 1980’s with the layout/decor."
  • "The girl who served us was as miserable and sullen as a wet weekend in Blackpool."
  • "It was a nuisance. The owners were completely oblivious but they should have gone outside and been offered a takeaway."
  • "Very disappointing attitude towards our school visit."
  • "The decor is my main problem... It is so outdated!"
  • "Food was quite expensive for 2 fish and chips with 2 coffees was nearly £20 more expensive than Harry Ramsdens."

Value

Pros:

  • "Ordered two meals plus drinks for under £17."
  • "The food was excellent and the price at just under £6 was good value."
  • "Very well priced for food and also ice creams which makes a change at the seaside."
  • "Their pensioners specials are very good and very good value."
  • "Enjoyed the food, good value for money."
  • "Everything about our meal was delicious and very reasonably priced."
  • "The food prices are affordable and fabulous value."

Cons:

  • "Their prices were, shall we say, a little high for anything that they hadn't deep fried themselves."
  • "Ended up in Fleetwood with my family and father in law, went here before we left for something to eat. Had fish chips and peas, 3 year old daughter had a sausage, bill came to £28 which we thought was a bit over the top for 3 adults & a small child."
  • "Rather expensive and never seem to be open all the time."
  • "The food came and it wasn't that nice the chips were warm ups.. and fish wasn't that nice."
  • "Had chicken curry that was on offer board. What turned up was more like a curry soup with very little chicken, some mushrooms and lots of onion."
  • "This place is becoming run down and needs a bit of modernisation as they shout your order number over the tannoy like in the 70s and 80s."
  • "One son didn’t like the chips (which isn’t unusual for him), the other didn’t like his sausage (which is very unusual), hubby thought his was ‘OK but nothing special’."

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