Melrose

Our favourite fish restaurant. It takes us half an hour to drive there, but it's worth it.

We both had whole grilled place yesterday, and it was wonderful. Don't know how they always manage to get the best fish, but they do. Well done, Melrose.
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Stan Bateman
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Thursday, August 12, 2010

I would like to express my deep satisfaction for this quirky little restaurant. As soon as you walk in the door you are treated like family. The food is exquisite and the service, second to none.

Overall, excellent service and I would recommend the fresh fish platter ( cod halibut and salmon) which I will be eating at Melrose again as it was extremely delicious. My compliments to the chef. There was a good selection of wines and beverages. Very friendly atmosphere, with a lovely decor. Every need is catered for and you leave feeling like lifetime friend. Will visit again and again! The waitresses are also very polite and friendly.
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Nina
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Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, July 30, 2010

The only slight issue I have with this 'Fish Restaurant' is that they do not appear to know how to cook fish. This might seem unfair but if their 'house speciality' fresh fish platter is among their best dishes, they have set the bar as low as it can go. My family eat there today and the above dish featured a piece of Halibut that had the texture of carpet felt and a chunk of salmon that appeared to have been deep fried the previous day and left under heat lights thereafter. The only edible offering on this staggeringly poor 'speciality' dish were the classic nuggets of breaded scampi that one might normally expect on the shelves of Iceland or as the most average of bar snacks. I suspect all the pieces of fish on the plate had been dropped into a deep fryer with the frozen scampi. The second dish of little merit was the dressed whole crab, which had been boiled to death and clumsily dressed, resulting in a dry, tasteless experience with dentistry threatening 'crunch'. To give credit where due, my son had a properly cooked whole plaice in this otherwise totally unsatisfactory experience.

Our complaint was met with a patronising 'that's how halibut is', while the waitress prodded the fish with a fork.
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Rethinkfood - View all reviews by this user
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Food 0 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 0
Monday, June 07, 2010

One of our favourite restaurants. Food is always excellent. Staff are attentive and whole atmosphere is really good. A must if you are visiting Brighton for a memorable meal.
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Sue Frost
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Just been to the Melrose. What a wonderful lunch I had, fried fish platter consisting of whitebait, scampi, calamari & a lovely piece of cod, all cooked to perfection. Followed up by a homemade creme caramel, nice polite smiling waitresses what more could you want.
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Ploddy - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Sunday, May 24, 2009

This unpretensious seafront restaurant has always been quite literally in the shadow of its more famous neighbour The Regency Restaurant. But the food and atmoshere here is much better. The service tends to be charming, and "less take it or leave it " than next door. It is also one of those rare eating places in Brighton that doe's not make you shout above the music. It simply doesn't have any playing.
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Johnny - View all reviews by this user
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Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Saturday, March 21, 2009