Restaurants near Sparkes Marina

As always, super food, excellent service and great ambience. Love this branch of The Ivy, visit as often as possible and have recommended lots of friends!

Great taster menu (Halibut course was Devine) great service. The cost is what you would expect from any restaurants at this level. Loved it all apart from desert on the taster menu the caramel flavour was bitter and it just seemed a like it was trying to be a little more clever than flavoursome. I’m sure this is just a preference thing or maybe our undiscerning palate. Well worth a visit.

Great food and service at a fair price This place is consistently good

Things did not get off to a great start on a few counts: 1 - The table had a QR code for menu and ordering at the table. But upon using this, the website did not respond. I went to the bar and raised this with a waitress and she said, "yes, sometimes we turn that off", which makes no sense. Why would you just turn that feature off? 2 - So I ordered drinks at the bar in person, and they did not materialise. I went back to the bar after 10-15 mins to query this, and I had to give my order again. I think there may have been a new-starter there, and we all have to learn somewhere, so I did not give them a hard time over this. 3 - The guy taking my food order asked if I wanted to run a tab, which I did as knew we'd order more drinks. But then a waitress said that they don't do tabs, there was some discussion and it was deemed I was not able to run a tab. That's pretty ridiculous to be honest, if you're voluntarily disabling the QR code self-service, then not allowing customers to run a tab, it's just causing customer inconvenience. After this, things picked up and our food orders were taken promptly, the food arrived in a reasonable time, and the food turned out to be pretty good. Putting aside the new starter matter - as it would be unfair to mark the place down due to a training item - the service re. the QR code self-service and not running a tab needs resolving, but other than that, this was a pretty good experience and all of us enjoyed our food and had a nice evening.

Booked a table for six on a Thursday night. Excellent greeting from our waitress. Looked after us throughout our stay. Lovely meal, good selection from the menu. Really enjoyed ourselves.