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Last minute decision was totally worth it, service was exceptional as our waiter who was on his own all night was brilliant, funny and even decided a …
Emma Gibbons
The Red Cray on Beaufort
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Fantastic food and great value. So good to have an awesome seafood restaurant to go to that knows its product. Attentive service without hovering.…
Peter Biasin
The Red Cray on Beaufort
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After dining once before and being very impressed Id thought Id come back and dine again.Let me say, that this place has the potential to be really gr…
Jillchau
The Red Cray on Beaufort
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10 Reviews on “The Red Cray on Beaufort”
Excellent and attentive service. Had calamari and barramundi both cooked to perfection. The chips are amazing!! The seafood platter that the next table had looked spectacular.
Shared the seafood platter… chilli mussels were to die for! Oyster kilpatrick were also to die for! So much seafood! Really enjoyed the meal
The service was great and the entree mussels not bad, was a large serve for an entree just needed more chilli. The bread was light and served warm. My husband thought the grilled octopus and chorizo entree was also okay but it was accompanied by too many other flavours eg red onion, capers and a mustard sauce? Mains however were very disappointing. I ordered the lobster risotto. The lobster came in a half shell seperate from the risotto and was very over cooked and the saffron risotto lacked flavour with three fresh grape tomatoes on the side. This layout also made the dish quite awkward to eat as I’m used to risotto in a bowl with everything cooked together so you can eat it with a spoon. My husband ordered the meat medley which came out a lot smaller than we anticipated. The sliders on his plate were mainly bread and the steak very chewy. It didn’t look appetising. To the staffs credit when I informed them of the overcooked lobster they offered me another one. I declined as we’d already eaten most of our meals. So instead they then gave us a discount on the bill to compensate and were very apologetic. We might come back to give it another chance as the service was very considerate.
Mixed feelings about this place. Pros: Excellent garlic bread, child meals are huge, good variety of mainsCons: Dim and harsh lighting, place can get noisy, table service not consistentThe fish of the day was meant to be snapper, however it was swapped to barramundi as I was told the snapper did not come up well. What luck, as it turned out to be the freshest barra I have tasted. The crispness of the crust gave texture to the smooth perfectly cooked fish. I enjoyed it immensely, thank you.
Aesthetically, the restaurant looks extremely dated and crappy. I didn’t like our table because of the lighting and there was a tealight candle that no one had bothered to light.We ordered the Red Cray platter which was $80. I should’ve known when it was served with chips really. The sauces that came out with the platter were basic: just mayonnaise and tartare sauce, presumably not even made in the kitchen. I asked if there were different sauces I could have and I was offered tomato sauce…! No, thank you! My date felt the scallops were underdone, but overall it was just very average and cold. The food was in no way impressive.Service was average-poor. I was totally unimpressed with our awkward greeting, the waiter asked twice if we had already been looked after when we clearly hadn’t been. I asked for a side of rice, and the waiter kept asking did I want more chips. Why would I, when I already had a mountain of chips in the middle of the platter we had? Then out came a side of chips. Bizarre. Side of rice took forever, I eventually went to cancel it, then out it came. So funny.Last little gripe: they don’t have their own bathrooms.I’ll never ever go there again or recommend it to anyone, in fact I’ll definitely be recommending against it. Sorry guys but you need to do better.
I went for dinner on a Monday night with the family as my second visit here. We ordered the executive seafood platter, tuna, mussels, squid and barramundi risotto. Everyone enjoyed their meals, but the chilli mussels sauce was too salty so they offered to replace it with prawns and squid in a similar sauce. The new dish was still extremely salty as we were told the first batch of chilli mussels were salty from the mussels and no salt had been added. I think they’ve used a pre made sauce, which was quit annoying as it tasted the exact same and this was literally the last thing to eat as we had finished our other meals. Next time I won’t order the mussels unless it’s a small serving on the platter because it was very salty.
The first time I dined here I quite enjoyed my grilled salmon – it was well priced and tasty.However we had dinner here with some friends and the sea food platter was not enjoyable at all – we found it to be very over priced and quite tasteless. I was expecting a lot more from the Red Cray