Chicken & Chips
Watch House

Watch House

1 The Square, St Mawes TR2 5DJ, TR2 5DL, Truro, United Kingdom

Soup • Fish • Bistro • British


"Excellent, gourmet level food in a humble dining room with 4 booths and just 14 other chairs, staffed by friendly, helpful servers. Note, the name has changed since the previous review written in 2010. The 'Old ' has been deleted. The restaurant is now The Watch House. Google map the location. The address says Truro but the actual tiny seaside village is St. Maws. Use the public parking just to the right of building. The car park sign is obvious. 75 parking spots available. Then walk 200 yards to the eatery. My meal: delicious sweet potato purée. Slightly spicy with chili oil. Liquified with coconut milk. Croutons in a side cup to top onto the soup. Fish was whole sautéed plaice in clarified butter topped samphire capers. Adequate cup of chips on the side. Fried correctly and delicious. Wife 's meal: roasted tiger prawns, spicy exterior, juicy meat. I was a little surprised that the portion of 6 shrimp was considered a meal, as my plaice dish was comparatively huge. Also, shrimp came with no sides. So for £20 This dish is overpriced. But Barbara was satisfied. She ordered an extra side salad for £4. It was sparkling fresh. Small selection of locally made beers (by the bootle, no,casks), wines and a few cocktails on the menu. I had an ale made in neighboring Penryn, it was satisfying. Barbara had a glass of South African Pinot noir. It was passable at best. (I 'm a wine snob from Northern California) Verdict: good food, excellent service, not cheap. Meal described above price was £55. You can eat more economically. Fish and chips will set you back £14."

La Braseria

La Braseria

Wind Street, Swansea SA1 1DZ, United Kingdom

Pizza • Kebab • Seafood • Fast Food


"Terrible experience of dining the worst we have ever had! It was our first ever time to this place (and last) and we didn 't even get shown to a table, instead got told to go find a table over there . No one explained the ordering system until I had to ask a waitress about 15minutes later. Ordering food was to be done upfront by the deli looking counter (felt like a takeaway place). 3 of the dishes we tried to order were out of stock (oysters, scallops, leg of lamb). The 1 star rating goes to the chicken skewer starter which was tasty and tender even though they took a long time to arrive. With the time passing I even had to go and extend our parking as it was going to run over the 2 hour limit with a fine to be had. Mains took a considerable time to arrive and when they did eventually come, complete and utter disappointment!. I had the lamb skewers which were chargrilled to death, dry and chewy with no flavour. My partner had the seafood platter which wasn 't edible (he usually eats anything and everything). There were 3 closed muscles, overcooked salmon, cold calamari, small whole fish with no actual meat to eat inside them and deep fried cold fish. Not once did a waiter waitress come over to check on us, we had to get ourselves new cutlery for mains as they took them away with the starter dishes then also had to ask to order another drink as no one else came to the table. On plate collection I told the waitress the food was inedible as there was a considerable amount of food left on both plates. The manager then came over to query the complaint and instead of offering any sort of apology or discounted bill, all he done was correct me on what I thought was deep fried sardines, turned out to be deep fried whitebait... (Very helpful).. the overall bill came to £92. Very disappointed, would never return here or recommend the place to anyone. Avoid at all cost."