My friend and I have frequently discussed possibilities to try out the seafood buffet here. Sydney is a great town for seafood, unfortunately this did not touch Parramatta in this instance.
For $69, one would expect a much wider variety of both hot and cold...offerings. However, most food carry the theme of frozen, overcooked and displayed a complete lack of any cooking skill by the chef. For example, the only cooking station was a dessert crepe station. All the ‘chef‘, and I use this title loosely, did was to reheat shop bought crepes and serve them with icy ice cream.
The seafood was ordinary and simply did not reflect the richness of seafood available to Sydney. The hot food were not well cooked in any definition, and again appear to be reheated from frozen.
The live music from the bar was suitable for a pub environment and not a restaurant. Not to mention the midge flies flying around the food and the restaurant.
Down to the wire, we felt we didn’t get value. If the buffet was charged at $25, then I would’ve rated this higher. The rating reflects environment and the food. The positive rating is for the fact that at least the staff cleared the table often.
We will not return for this disappointing meal. For the money we paid between the two of us, we could’ve got a lot more in terms of quality at any a la carte restaurant.More