Princess Fish Restaurant & Café
29th June 2012
Let me start by saying that the rather nice seating area pictured on their website was ‘out-of-bounds’ on our visit, as was the upstairs. The party of five that arrived moments after we did, were given short shrift when they asked for an upstairs sea-view. The photo you see here is the area that’s used during quiet periods. Alright, I can see that the staff wouldn’t want to be trailing up and down the stairs for one table but, as it’s a significant selling feature of the place, I would expect it to be available upon request; apparently not so.
As seems to be the case with most Scarborough Cafés these days, they do like their East European Waitresses, as was evident from the accents. Not that I have anything against that; it just seems a feature that’s becoming more and more common, and one worth commenting on as, in general, the work ethic of the East Europeans can either be viewed as being efficient to the point of providing a ‘production line service’, which many will like, or lacking the warmth and friendliness that one would hope for when holidaying. Personally, as long as they show a bit of leg and humour me with the odd flirtatious smile, I ain’t really fussed.
That aside, I plumped for the steak pie, chips & peas, whilst my wife had the lasagne & salad. With tea for two it came to £17.50, which seems to be about average for sea-front Cafés. The portion of pie could have been a bit more generous and my wife thought the lasagne required a little more salt, at the time of cooking, obviously. Other than that, it wasn’t anything to write home about but I think one comes to expect that from seaside Cafés.
Would I recommend it? Only if your tongue was hanging out and all the other places were packed.
Rating (out of 10): 7
Review by Tom
As seems to be the case with most Scarborough Cafés these days, they do like their East European Waitresses, as was evident from the accents. Not that I have anything against that; it just seems a feature that’s becoming more and more common, and one worth commenting on as, in general, the work ethic of the East Europeans can either be viewed as being efficient to the point of providing a ‘production line service’, which many will like, or lacking the warmth and friendliness that one would hope for when holidaying. Personally, as long as they show a bit of leg and humour me with the odd flirtatious smile, I ain’t really fussed.
That aside, I plumped for the steak pie, chips & peas, whilst my wife had the lasagne & salad. With tea for two it came to £17.50, which seems to be about average for sea-front Cafés. The portion of pie could have been a bit more generous and my wife thought the lasagne required a little more salt, at the time of cooking, obviously. Other than that, it wasn’t anything to write home about but I think one comes to expect that from seaside Cafés.
Would I recommend it? Only if your tongue was hanging out and all the other places were packed.
Rating (out of 10): 7
Review by Tom
The Golden Grid
Parent Company
I would also note from their email address that The Princess Café appears to be owned by The Golden Grid Restaurant – the Golden Grid being the Restaurant we decided to pass on after doing our cost comparisons.
