Darcy’s Seafood

We visited this restaurant on two consecutive evenings in June. The first night we had a rump steak which was cooked to our liking and very good value for money. The next night my husband had sea bream which was excellent and i had the salmon fishcakes. Two huge fishcakes, I unfortunately couldn't manage to finish them but they were very tasty.

The staff were courteous and the food worth the short wait as it is all freshly cooked.
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John & Maggie
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Friday, July 08, 2011

Horrific!!! Worst food I ever had in my life.

horrible and very unprofessional waitress, disgusting food,

mcdonalds staff and food are much better then darcy's

I don't understand how then can be still open, they must serve this disgusting food during the day and do some other kind of business in the night to stay open

very very disappointed
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Lucia
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

We were there last night. My partner's fishcakes were unbelievably salty as well as over peppered and my 'seafood risotto' was a sticky clump of tomato flavoured rice totally lacking in proper texture.

The place is cramped and everything is charged - no bread, nibbles etc. Would never go there again.
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Peter Stelzer
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Food 2 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

An unbelievable rip-off.

The bill came to over £90 for mediocre food. My partner asked for lemon sole and out came dover sole 50 minutes later which cost £30. The waitress then refused to take this off the bill.

There are plenty of better value restaurants in brighton and this place won't stay open much longer just by ripping off tourists in the summer.
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Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Friday, April 22, 2011

Should have masks and guns. Seems liike we are not the only ones, and we're local.. really stupid upsetting the locals... Ordered one thing got another, Dover Sole, Lemon Sole? Questioned at the time, but a silent response when I queried. Massive bill comes, rewritten adding all the dishes for each course together, how strange never seen that before, obviously didn't look right, a bit of a discussion hoping that I wouldn't be able to do the maths, original itemised biill appears, ending in still charging me for the dish I didn't ask for.

The food was quite nice but charging tourist prices at about 50% over actual value, inside horrible, outside nice, but you are in the street after all, service varied, on asking if a table would be available outside soon, the waitress was, like how do you expect me to know, people are sat there, I don't know when they are going, and depends totally on who you deal with, the main woman there, was nice enough until it came to admitting her mistake and sucking up the price difference for their mistake. Has the feeling of uncaring decay about it.

People like this don't deserve your money, don't be silly by giving it to them, there are so many excellent restaurants at far more reasonable prices in Brighton, go to one of them instead.
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Food 6 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 2
Friday, April 22, 2011

I visited Brighton with my boyfriend for a romantic anniversary dinner on Valentines weekend. We were asked to pay a £15 deposit for the pleasure, which I must say rather took me aback and when we arrived there seemed to be some confusion over the fact that we had booked at all! We were ushered to our tiny table, sat far too close to other diners (I know the place is small, but come on!) and were subjected to a constant stream of waitresses bumping their derrieres against the table.

The food was absolutely nothing special, I had garlic prawns to start, which I could have made myself with some frozen crustacae and garlic salt and scampi for my main. The scampi was fine, but personally again I'd rather have stayed at home and bought a bag of frozen! My partner had the seabass, which to be fair he did really enjoy but overall I found the evening to be extremely overpriced and really not that enjoyable (and we never did get out £15 deposit back- it mysteriously disappeared into the restaurant booking ether.)
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Laura
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Food 3 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 3
Saturday, July 11, 2009

We were up from London for the day and I fancied some fresh fish and were attracted to Darcy's outside tables and the fact that they offered gluten-free pasta (I am gluten intolerant).

My first warning that something wasn't right should have come when placing our order. I asked for the gluten-free pasta with half lobster and an avocado with crab to start. I asked the waitress if the crab seasoning was gluten-free and she said she didn't know, they don't make the mayonnaise there. No offer to go check for me. So I had it plain. It was ok, the avocado was ripe and my husband loved his whitebait starter.

While waiting for our main course, I was shocked to hear the waitress shouting, liteally shouting, at a couple two tables away. From what I could gather the lady had been brought the wrong main course and had eaten it, not wanting to send it back and leave her partner eating alone while she waited. She was then billed for this dish, which was much more expensive that the one she had ordered. She complained, and the waitress started to shout at them, saying that she ate it, she had to pay for it and she should have complained at the time. It went on for about 5 minutes. I've never heard anything like it before in a restaurant.

Our main courses arrived. My husband enjoyed his fish pie, but found it overpriced. My gluten-free linguini turned out to be gluten-free spaghetti, drowned in what tasted like a tinned tomato sauce, straight out of a can. The lobster was tough and tasteless. We definitely won't be going back again.
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Food 3 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 3
Monday, April 13, 2009