Fish Seafood Grill & Rotisserie

Fish's logo

We went to this restaurant at Docklands 2 weeks ago to celebrate MM's birthday. The reason we chose this restaurant is simple, we just flipped thru Mouse's Entertainment Book with seafood and somewhere near in mind, and hence Fish it is =)

Fish was situated at the end of the Docklands' restaurants area (regardless of the "Docklands Drive" address, it is actually situated at the end of New Quay). The interior was not very fancy though,despite the fact that from their website somehow the restaurant looks a lot nicer online =D. Given the location & the price of the food, we expected something fancier. The design was seemingly not very well done and not very in tune with the restaurant. I think during the day would be a lot better, since you can at least enjoy the view better (overlooking the harbour)Hmmm. But complaints aside, it was still a happy!yay! occasion because it was MM's birthday (haha, here's to you growing ermm...more mature :D).

Alf's Cosmopolitan, $15.40

This is quite good. I had a sip n enjoyed it. Alf liked it too. I also ordered a glass of Killawarra Klassic, $8.25. Most of the wines are by bottles, altho they do have a few ones by glass.

We also ordered (sort of) 2 servings of garlic breads to share. It was lovely.V crunchy and aromatic. For those that can't stand garlic, maybe you can hav a try at this as they r not too garlicky. I would love it to be more garlicky but this is good enuff. Buuut the waiter was rather pushy, we wouldn't have gotten the garlic bread if he wasn't being pushy and kinda irritating (All 6 of us get the vibes that the waiter was overly pushy). Luckily, they were good =)

3 Florentine & 3 Natural Oysters, $19.80

Another entree we ordered n shared was Oysters! On the menu, there is this requirement: We ask you to select a minimum of 3 oysters per type and half dozen or more per order. Therefore, we ordered half a dozen, one was fresh n one was cooked. The oysters were fresh n eating them with a squeeze of lemon is always tasty. The Florentine ones (spinach, mornay, parmesan) were delightful too.

Our Oysters

Ok, after finish our entrees, its time for our mains to show up.

MM's pasta, $36.00

First up, MM's garlic prawns over angel hair pasta tossed in white wine, garlic, virgin olive oil and fried spinach. Sounds good rite? It was good. MM definitely enjoy it. Although the portion might look a bit small, she said it was just nice for her. Hmm. So I think, mayb it won't b enuff for a guy =P But she reckons that it is actually VERY expensive.

MM's dinner

Fish & chips in a light batter served with pea puree and rustic hand cut chips, $29.00

Now its JK's. JK is not a big fan of seafoods. Yup, he does not quite enjoy prawns, crabs..etc esp. when he has to use his hands to peel prawns' shells/use some utensils to get the crab's meat out. I do know some people around me, besides JK, that do not enjoy seafood too as they think its troublesome to eat them. So, he went for the fish n chips =) He enjoyed it, particularly the chips. LOL.

Cauliflower mornay $9.00

Jk had also ordered this salad to complement his fish n chips. He was totally in love with this I tell u. He just kept on raving about how good this salad was. I had a try n thought it was rather good too.

Spanish Paella with chorizo sausage, fish of the day, black tiger prawns, mussels, clams and chicken with saffron vinaigrette (for two guests), $54.00

Me n Alf shared this main. This is delicious, altho not memorable, with generous amount of seafoods in it. One thing is that it was not properly seasoned, so we had to put quite a bit salt n keep on squeezing the lemon juice on it =D Other than that,lovely. OOooo, another thing is we were struggling to finish it. So, I would recommend 3 people to share it, instead of 2, given that you gonna hav entrees and/or desserts too.

Prawns, mussels, bay bugs...etc!

Chardonnay risotto with mixed seafood, asparagus, baby onions & finished with champagne $28.00

KH orderd risotto as his main. I did not have a try but he finished the whole thing, so I guess that suggested something =)

Atlantic salmon fillet served with chive sauce $30.00

As for the Mouse, she had ordered salmon for her dinner. Except for some blackened bits at the edge of the salmon skin, Mouse was pretty much happy with her salmon. It was grilled just right and Mouse really liked the texture. The mash was just all right though - nothing too remarkable. But the tomato mix + olives + the puree + the salmon = happy Mouse.

Overall, the food is quite good and we are satisfied with it. Not anything wow or omg or highly recommended, but good enough. But we were not very happy with the service. Our waiter was pushy and kept trying to make us have wine when we obviously didn't want to. Same goes for garlic bread entree. When we just arrived, we would just love to have some plain water first while looking through the menu. However, he just keep coming back to ask whether we would like to order some wines and entrees to start off, while took ages to bring the plain water. Would've been better if he was recommending nicely instead of being all dictatorial! Oh, and as an extra note, it's 10% extra surcharge for weekends and public holidays. Boooo.

*EDIT: I forgot to mention that we went to this restaurant on a weekend n hence need to pay 10% more on all the food. The prices I stated above have not include the 10% as I just take the prices from their menu online. For example, the fish n chips,we actually need to pay $31.90, instead of $29 =(

- IronEaters

Fish Seafood Grill & Rotisserie
439 Docklands Dve,
Waterfront City,
Docklands, Victoria
Phone: (03) 9640 0686439

Waterfront at Station Pier

MM has been mentioning this restaurant a few times and strongly recommends (she herself has been there several times!) us there as she REALLY like the ambience of it. Hence, since HW is here for holidays, I got the chance to tag along and to try out this restaurant =) This restaurant, Waterfront, is opened by the restaurateur Nick Zampelis, who also owned Cafe Greco(Crown), Waterfront (Crown) and Campari (Port Melbourne).

Waterfront (click here for their website), Port Melbourne

After approximately 45 mins of drive (it takes us that long because of traffic jams in the city), we arrived at Port Melbourne. The picture above is the outside of Waterfront, if you can c the words.

Waterfront's menu consists of mainly seafood although they do offer a few choices of steaks. If you wanna indulge yourself, there is luxury seafood platters. The menu also has sushi and sashimi. Yup, the menu is a fusion of western and eastern cuisines, therefore, you can expect to c words like "curry" on it =D

Inside of Waterfront:

I really like the interior design of it where they used alot of timber and glasses. It makes me feel very comfortable, plus the just right amount of light in the restaurant just make it really relaxing and romantic =) For the seatings, you can choose to sit inside o outside. We were seated inside and although this resulted us could not enjoy the view of the sea but we were happy as we needed the warmth! If you wanna have a day look of the restaurant and some scenic views, you can click here.

bread and capsicum dipping sauce

The sauce is very nice! Its just make you wanna eat the bread non-stop =D Luckily, I could control myself and stop at 2 slices of breads.

Entree:

Moreton Bay Bugs, $45

MM loves to eat the bay bugs and hence we ordered this to share. There were 3 bay bugs on the bowl and all of them were being cut into half. You have 2 sauces to dip into ~ lemon sauce and homemade mayo. Btw, they didnt season anything on the bay bugs so I feel its nicer to either squeeze some lemon on it or eat with the lemon sauce. The mayo is nice but it come across to me as too strong, hence, covers up the natural delicate flavours of the bay bugs.

Haha.. just for fun =D

Waterfront’s classic seafood chowder, $19.90

Another entree is the chowder. Its quite lovely with a few pipies and bit and pieces of salmon in the soup.

Our mains:

Seared Salmon fillet with fennel and scallop risotto and lemon butter sauce, $32.00

MM's choice for the main. She feels that the salmon is not seasoned properly, and the risotto as well. Thus, it makes u feel as if the dish misses some essential flavours in it. However, as a whole, not too bad and she enjoys the crispy salmon skin.

Lobster Risotto with green pea, chorizo, chilli, finished with mascapone and Thai basil, $39.90

When we were ordering, HW's eyes have been captured by the word "lobster" next to the risotto and hence he ordered this dish. The red thing on the right is the lobster shell, just in case you are wondering. Although he is quite happy eating the lobster, the risotto itself was too mashy =(

Whole salt and pepper Baby Barramundi, green papaya and pomelo salad, $32.00

My main

This dish came with a bowl of rice. The rice was cooked with coconut milk and hence very aromatic. The name of the dish sounds exciting, isn't it. However, I was quite dissapointed with it as first the sauce was way too little. Although the sauce was quite nice and tasted very oriental and also has a sublte hint of spicyness in it, it wasn't even enuff for 1 piece of the fish on my plate (I got a few pieces of barramundi). 2nd, I did not have any pomelo in my salad. The salad, as u can c, are just bean sprouts, cucumbers and 2 small cubes of tasteless green papaya (the green papaya was cooked b4 adding to the salad, either steam or cook in the water). To be honest, I could not really taste any dressings in the salad! =( The fish itself is crunchy, however, without any proper seasonings and sauce, this dish is too plain!! I can just pan fried a whole barramundi at home myself. San is really dissapointed!

Btw, I oso ordered a glass of wine. I forgot the name though... The restaurant only have 2 types of wines by glass, if im not mistaken. One is muscato and another one is white wine ~ the one i orederd. I did enjoy the wine as it was quite fragrant.

Desserts:

Although we were very full after finishing our mains, somehow we still manage to find some space in our stomaches to savour the desserts =D We only ordered one to share:

Dark and white chocolate terrine with Marquise chocolate and mocha, $16.50

OOO... this dessert is delectable! It tasted like frozen mousse and ice cream at the same time. Very yummy indeed.


Overall, the food, esp our mains, was dissapointing as the rissoto was too mashy and Me & MM's dishes weren't properly seasoned and (mine) did not have enuff sauce at all. However, lucky Waterfront got such a beautiful location as the ambience was very appealing that I might go back to try out other dishes there (mayb lunch to enjoy the views) and also thumbs up for the lady that served us. She was very friendly.

Or, I would go back to Port Melbourne and try out other restaurants there because of the nice views...


San


Waterfront
1 Station Pier
Port Melbourne
Victoria, 3207
Phone: (03) 9676 9180
Fax: (03) 9676 9186