Coast Dining

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This Is London

This Is London

Thursday, July 30, 2009 - As the date pointed out there's not much 'Coast' about a wild mushroom risotto or a chicken and duck liver parfait. Maybe they worried about depleting the oceans. They'd scoured them diligently for my standout glass of tiger prawns with aioli, sensational specimens with a fresh, meaty bite. A fish soup was another winner: clearly home-made, it was unusually creamy and delicious mopped up with warm, crusty bread...With no fresh fruit option, we opted for ice cream, and were delighted by a selection of some of the most delicious home-made ice cream we'd recently sampled.

TimeOut

Guy Dimond - 3/5

Friday, July 17, 2009 - The future of the British seafood restaurant may look a lot like Coast. Fish conspicuously absent from the menu are the premium, expensive species that were once the centrepiece of any good fish restaurant. 'We're trying to go down the sustainable route,' founder David Upton told me...we chose the sardines, splayed, deboned and grilled, served with pesto and microgreens; a good starter. Information about the environmental consequences of eating tiger prawns is complex and conflicting, but what I can tell you for certain is that served with aioli, the plump ones served here tasted of ocean, with an appealing firm bite.

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Booked a table at Coast Dining for St Valentine's Day and turned up to find no reserved table available. We were shown to a shared table area which was in a very cold area. The staff could not cope very well with all the customers demands. When the main meal was served we had no crockery for over 15 mintues despite us asking for plates.. The experience was not up to my expected standard and I would never recomend this restaurant.
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Debbie
Overall rating 0 stars
Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I never get around to reviewing things but this time I really felt motivated to make an effort - we've been looking for a great local restaurant ever since we moved to Camden 6 months ago and we've finally found one we could wholeheartedly recommend. I really loved everything about Coast. The food was absolutely excellent and the ambience and service were great too with the owner being particularly friendly. Overall it was a fantastic experience that succeeded in bringing a bit of Cornwall to Camden.

I had oysters and the fantastic catch of the day, which was linguine with scallops and lobster, and my other half had a really really excellent soft shell crab tempura with chilli jam - hugely recommended by both of us - and a light and tasty fish pie. Will definitely return and bring friends.
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Julia
Overall rating 10 stars
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Thursday, October 21, 2010

I've never gone online to write a restaurant review before, but at Coast on Saturday we had the best meal we've had in ages, so I thought I should share the fact!

We had the 3 courses for £15 menu, which was an unbelievable bargain - between us we had superb gravadlax and whitebait, REALLY great smoked mackerel salad, excellent fishcakes, and grey mullet in an unbelievably tasty lentil broth.

Service was super attentive though never pushy, there was a very good crisp sauvignon for just £16 a bottle, and they did all the little things right like giving us (and regularly replenishing) tap water without us having to ask.

A terrific chance drop-in on the way back from Regents Park. We're going to become regulars!
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John Fosbrook
Overall rating 9 stars
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Monday, September 13, 2010

Came by recommendation and very please we did so. Great Camden fish restaurant. Fabulous enormous Halibut on display between the lobsters and crabs as we entered. First rate service and attention. Wines from £16 and a fine selection. We started with native oysters and Champagne, Moved on to catch of the day and homemade fish pie. Little room for ice cream and pavalova ... but we managed!! All washed down with Provence Rose. Very nice staff and customers. We will certainly return in near future and bring a few friends.
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pete - View all reviews by this user
Overall rating 10 stars
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Having read several reviews from this site itself we decided to try this place seeing the good reviews and rating. What started out as an entertaining and good value evening (3 courses for 15) quickly became expensive and unwelcoming. It wasn't until I noticed we had ordered well before several tables, yet they were onto their desserts that I questioned the waiter about the slow service and delay to our food. When I eventually got the bill at the end of the night, it became clear as to why, we were ordering wine and it appears the deliberate slow service was in aid of selling more wine - at 26 pounds a pop. The final bill came to roughly 40pp - almost 50% coming from the wine and service charge (we really should have asked for it back). I cant help but feel cheated by this establishment. The food was average at best. A word of advice if you do go, make sure they don't use this tactic on you, especially if you have a group booking where its likely people will drink and chat while losing track of time and costs.
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Tom
Overall rating 4 stars
Food 4 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 1
Sunday, February 14, 2010

I ate at Coast recently and had one of the best meals i have had in a while. I went for the daily specials for starter and for mains.

The starter was grilled mackerel with a salad of courgette and aubergine with a garlicky dressing. It was outstanding, perfectly cooked and seasoned.

The main was brill with sprouting broccoli & almonds and roast cherry tomato, again perfectly cooked and by no means a small portion, i was so impressed with the food that despite being stuffed i went for a pudding, it was homemade ice-cream selection, there was a choice of about 10 different ice creams and sorbets to choose from (you get 3 scoops for £5) i went for guinnes & raisin, gingerbread & pecan and the red fruits & honey sorbet. They were without doubt the greatest ice creams i have ever had in my life! served with a little pecan praline on the side. 10/10!!!
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P.
Overall rating 10 stars
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, October 09, 2009

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Dos Hermanos

Dos Hermanos

Friday, July 10, 2009 - Coast is a newish restaurant which promises to bring a taste of the seaside, Cornwall in this case to the grotty environs of NW1...Fish Soup tasted mostly of Fennel and very little of fish. The accompanying Rouille was underpowered and too polite. Like the Fish Cake these were dishes that would turn up at your average credit crunch dinner party...By the time we'd settled up and left the place was filling up with groups of happy locals. So obviously Coast is fulfilling some gap in the local restaurant market.

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