1 Cheryl Anne Usherwood - a year ago
Sadly, I now understand one of the contributing factors of OB franchises closing; deterioration of quality.
The atmosphere was good and the staff were friendly.
I do not feel that protocols of social distancing have been placed here. Spacing between customers are inadequate. Also, there was no soap in all the ladies toilet facilities.
Starters ordered were the following:
Oysters: Can’t complain here, basically tasted like it was from the sea and went straight into my plate, beautiful!
Mussel soup: Tasted like chicken soup with canned mussels, I found that to be quite sad.
Salmon sashimi: The first order had to be sent away, the menu didn’t state that spices and sesame seeds would be added to this dish. I honestly haven’t seen any restuarant do this to such a beautiful piece of meat. Once that gunk was off, I had my sashimi. Tasted great but you’d swear it was meant to be sliced like a carpaccio, it was extremely small for the price placed. I’d suggest ordering a dish like this at either Parrots restaurant or Kung fu kitchen, at least you would get value for your money and the actual dish that was ordered.
Mains were the following:
Platter for one: Grilled. Everything was there but you had to go swimming in the sauce to find your meal. Rice was undercooked and the sauce tasted like a heavy hand of lemon mixed with margarine, one would say that it’s unappetising.
8 Queen prawns: Tasted good but some of the prawns were overcooked and because of that I found it very difficult to peel my meat off of the shell. Rice also undercooked.
Top up calamari heads fried: Tasted very nice though the portion and the price was not worth it. It was also swimming in that margarine disaster of a sauce.
Based on this experience, I will not go back to this OB or any other, nor would I recommend it to anyone else.
I feel there are other restaurants who don’t specialise in seafood that will definitely give OB a run for it’s money.
