This restaurant used to be extremely popular and always crowded. This evening we found it was fairly quiet.
At the Jetty Restaurant you help yourself to a buffet menu which includes seafood, steak, salads, Chinese dishes, desserts, soup and crusty rolls. All for $32.50.We ordered a Mocktail, $8.00, after it was suggested by our waitress. A refreshing drink, I had the Tropical Mocktail, very nice indeed.
This evening we decided to start with dessert as we had been told that to really enjoy a dessert you need to eat it first. We tried the two cakes on offer and the cheesecake. The cheesecake, by far, was the nicest.
We tried a little of everything that was on offer from the buffet. The seafood was fresh and appetising.
I really enjoyed the pumpkin soup, lots of flavour and HOT. Being a cool Dry Season night, the soup hit the spot.
There were small portions of steak, although a little chewy, they were quite nice. The Chinese curried dish was full of flavour, and surprisingly it was actually served with some heat to it.
Sadly, I have to report that most of the food in the bain marie was barely warm. On such a crisp, cool evening I found it off putting to eat cold noodles, barely warm fried rice, cold vegetables and cold....and cold...and cold... We did pass on our disappointment on this issue and we were told that the pork bits were supposed to be cold, however the rest of the food should have been hot.
The staff were friendly and as it wasn't busy we were well looked after. We finished the evening with a lovely hot cappuccino.
It was pleasant to sit outside on the balcony and look out over the harbour. This restaurant is located in a great spot and would be a good place to bring visitors to Darwin, but unfortunately I would be hesitant to do so after this visit, particularly because of the lack of heat in the food. I'm hoping to hear in future from our regular readers that things have improved.
Sounds like a good place to take visitors. We have never been there, always saying One Day..The meals sound good, bit sad about the lack of warmth in some of it..
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed our visit to The Jetty, we were there nice and early and because of the buffet style service... no waiting!!
ReplyDeleteWe indulged ourselves by ordering a mocktail and eating dessert first!! Whoever said you should do that was right, I didn't enjoy dessert nearly as much when i had it again after eating the meal!
All the cold dishes I put on my plate were beautiful and I enjoyed them immensely, unfortunately the hot foods were barely warm, a huge disappointment.
There was however an upside.... it was a buffet.... go back and get more of that which you enjoyed.
I had a good meal, marred a little by the cold 'hot' food... serving staff did listen and take it on board when we shared our disappointment with them.
Let us know if there is an improvement.
I have never been there, but sounds like a good place.
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