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Tugboat on the Bay

October 30th, 2004 at 9:15 am by David Farrar

The first in a regular series of brief restaurant reviews

First visit on Thursday evening to Tugboat on the Bay for a couple of years. Chosen on the spot as wanted to get out of the CBD for once.

The view of the harbour, as always, is a great setting for dinner. Being on an actual boat not as big a thrill as when I was 12!

The menu is seafood orientated and I had a seafood bisque followed by seafood risotto. Companion had fries and the kumara and leek soup.

Food was nice, but not superb. Nothing wrong, just nothing original. Service was the same – good, but not great. The wine (Villa Maria reserve) was excellent and cost for 2 was $75 which isn’t bad value.

Ratings:

Food ***
Decor ****
Service ***
Overall ***1/2

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4 Responses to “Tugboat on the Bay”

  1. GPT Says:
    October 30th, 2004 at 12:13 pm

    Wouldn’t that be 3 1/3 stars?

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  2. Conor Says:
    October 31st, 2004 at 8:23 pm

    David, I think you forget a couple of categories that the tugboat would have probably rated highly in and that is ambience and the view…

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  3. David Farrar Says:
    October 31st, 2004 at 10:59 pm

    GPT – the overall rating is not a literal average of the other ratings but also takes account things like price and value.

    Conor – I tend to include ambience and view as part of decor, hence the four stars for that. In fact the actual boat is not great, but the view magnificent.

    I want to keep the same categories for all restaurant reviews so figured food, decor and service covers most of it, plus the overall rating. Feedback welcome on whether there should be other permanent categories.

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  4. Conor Says:
    November 1st, 2004 at 11:31 am

    I don

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