The Offshore Bar and Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Fish and Chips were lovely."
• "The good was so fresh and perfectly cooked fish."
• "Food was excellent."
• "The food was excellent. Highly recommend the mussels and lobster, good size portions."
• "Lovely staffs. Amazing mussels from just outside of the sea and yummy scallops."
• "The food is a perfect filling portion & at a great price."
• "The food was perfect and very reasonably priced."

Cons:

• "Do not have breakfast here tiny sausage not cooked, egg laid by hummingbird, a little slice of bacon still not cooked."
• "Prawns tasted of cinnamon/Christmas pudding."
• "For mains we ordered pizza which was very overcooked to the point of being burnt and the chicken was so dry it was inedible."
• "I order a pizza with extra extra pulled pork topping, what a joke I asked for a double extra topping so as not to be disappointed but sadly I was."
• "Food wasn’t great i had risotto very stodgy."
• "Sat outside on a sunny day. Waited some time for food to arrive, and was served old and cold chips with undercooked cold cod."
• "Pizza good and crab cakes okay but my husband ordered a burger. It came with rotten brown salad."

Service

Pros:

• "Definitely worth a visit, we will be making further visits."
• "Busy, lively and friendly with live music."
• "The staff are very friendly and efficient."
• "We were looked after by Kief, who was very friendly and helpful."
• "Our family of eight and toddler went last night and we had amazing food the staff were very attentive and friendly, really nice chilled atmosphere been a couple of times now and never been disappointed."
• "The staff were helpful and unobtrusive, serving us with a friendly smile."
• "The service was warm, welcoming, and attentive."

Cons:

• "If I could I'd put 0 stars me and my family which only consists of 4 adults, 2 children and a dog were down in Torquay for the day and came across offshore restaurants and bar about 2:45, where there where plenty of seating and asked if they were still serving food, the women had to go and check and a man come out and said that they stopped serving food for the day, We came passed an hour later and there were people outside eating food, it appears they refused because we had a dog but other people had dogs there, will be avoiding any Offshore bar in the future 😡."
• "Poor service, we wanted cocktails, server said she hadn't got them on the drinks menu but could make us any we wanted."
• "Service was good but as a walk in, we were asked to pay for our order up front which felt a bit strange as a table service restaurant."
• "Won’t be back! The older staff have a big attitude problem here and like to blame the customers!"
• "Food was not bad. Be warned, service is very slow."
• "Service wise was good aside from being served after a family that sat down 5-10 mins after us."
• "Staff were very rude, ordered coffee tea and a tea cake, no tea cake had to ask where it was response was go and sit down will sort it out, oh tea cake arrived too late had finished my pot of tea, really felt unwelcome."

Ambience & Location

Pros:

• "Great location to people watch."
• "It was lovely sitting out in the sun on the quayside."
• "Right on the corner of the harbour, great spot and views."
• "Probably the best place to people watch in Torquay..sit and chill and watch the world go by."
• "First time on the 'English Riviera'... Very enjoyable and reasonably priced."
• "Location is great overlooking the harbour and the window seat inside is ideal for a bit of people watching as you dine too."
• "Lovely views. What more can you want?"

Cons:

• "The only negative was that the restaurant was on the cold side."
• "Initially we seated in their fantastic terrace but we had to move inside as the day was very windy."
• "Sat outside than decided we where cold & asked to go inside which we got told we had to book to sit inside even know it was empty… so had to stay outside."
• "They seated us in the corner with a very strong wind, and across was several empty seats with heaters."
• "For me it was a little too busy on a Friday night as the place is not that large inside."
• "The seating can be a bit hit and miss with wobbly tables and squeezed in etc."
• "Dirty table when seated."