Sam's Fowey Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "What a fantastic restaurant. The food, wow some of the best seafood I have had."
• "The surf & turf is 10/10 and the beef short-rib 11/10."
• "The food is delicious, and worth the price."
• "Everything was perfect, from the service to the food which only took about 10 minutes to come to the table."
• "The food was glorious and the portions were huge!"
• "Food quality and presentation was first class from our fresh scallops to our desserts."
• "The food was absolutely amazing."

Cons:

• "Extremely overprice, rude staff and long time waiting for food and was even cold when it got here."
• "Our steaks were undercooked and cold, rare rather than medium rare."
• "The stir fry was cold and mainly cabbage. The crispy bacon was pale and limp."
• "The goats cheese bruschetta was cremated to the point of the bread turning to dust."
• "The mussels sauces was watery and lacked flavour; the calamari a very small portion for £8 and served on limp salad; the BBQ chicken thighs were really tough and overcooked."
• "The fish soup was bland and tasteless."
• "This is definitely a restaurant that will disappoint you. I've never tasted such bad seafood."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff so helpful and pleasant."
• "As always, the best welcome, service, food, atmosphere."
• "We were welcomed at the door with our names."
• "From entering until leaving the staff are polite and attentive."
• "Perfect customer service. Friendly and cheery."
• "Staff were welcoming and very helpful."
• "The staff and owner are all super nice people."

Cons:

• "Management wernt bothered atall so we just paid the bill and left."
• "The staff asked four times how our meal was and I probably should have said something at the time but to be honest there was an arrogance from all staff."
• "It was a bit odd when one guy was doing odd jobs with the light fittings whilst we were eating."
• "The two girls hid behind the counter and chatted loudly about personal issues."
• "When the waitress was told she just said oh sorry and walked off without offering to reimburse us."
• "No one came to ask for anymore drinks during our meal, and we waited 15 minutes for our table to be cleared after our meal."
• "The staff were totally disinterested to the point of rude."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The atmosphere is lively."
• "The atmosphere is so chilled and welcoming."
• "The ambience was good, and the wait team attentive."
• "Had a lively vibrant atmosphere especially with the cocktail bar."
• "The atmosphere was amazing."
• "The Atmosphere was lovley fun and relaxed."
• "Absolutely buzzing atmosphere, menu is outstanding."

Cons:

• "The only reason I didn't give 5 for atmosphere is due to the door being open it was a little on the cool side."
• "We were sat upstairs and it was cold and drafty."
• "You’re then given a number and are told to go upstairs to the holding pen aka bar which had no natural light."
• "Although set up for social distancing the restaurant itself felt like it needed a good clean - sticky tables with crumbs etc."
• "The atmosphere was hopping."
• "Some staff seemed distracted and service wasn't as responsive as other places."
• "The whole demeanour of the service was lack lusting and unprofessional."

Value

Pros:

• "Good value for such quality."
• "Very reasonable prices for the food."
• "Great, tasty, reliable food and decent value."
• "The food was excellent and there was a mouth-watering selection."
• "Very reasonable priced for the quantity and quality both of the food and the presentation."
• "The food is excellent and good value for money and plentiful."
• "Price is cheap compared to quantity and quality of food we got."

Cons:

• "Fish starter was overpriced and portion was small."
• "The food was good but a little on the pricey side but it was tasty."
• "Also it's getting pretty expensive, £60 for three non-drinkers with no starters."
• "One of our kids wanted Nachos as a starter. They charged for a mains £16.50 for some doritos!"
• "Steak dinner well over priced and far too salty."
• "The calamari a very small portion for £8 and served on limp salad."
• "Sadly the food was very below par, tepid, low quality american style food that felt like a lot of it had been deep fat fried."