Thom's Seafood Grill - Christchurch

We visited the Seafood Shack at the Thomas Tripp pub last night for a birthday meal and we were absolutely impressed! The beachy decor made us feel so relaxed, the service was attentive, especially Sheila who was fabulous. My partner and I had the warm...sharing platter and it was huge! Delicious fish, it was so fresh with light batter! We do have quite high standards for eating out and the Seafood Shack truly deserves a great review. We had a wonderful time and already booked to go back!

Can’t nock the service from the staff but they’ve got huge problems in the kitchen. Went for a meal Friday night. The starters, tempura vegetables very nice, amount of Whitebait disappointing, quality disappointing. For main we ordered the hot seafood sharing platter, Mussels like rubber,...Calamari like rubber, quality of fish poor. I would say that every element was a frozen product. They seemed over whelmed by the volume of people in the pub. Starters took over forty minutes. The table behind were offered a complimentary bottle of wine as their order was so delayed. Such a shame as the decor etc is brilliant but the food is the worst I’ve had in years.

Hi First of all great staff very friendly. Starters we ordered tempura soft shell crab and salt and pepper squid, great really enjoyed them. Main we ordered the same crab linguine we enjoyed it but it didn’t mention cream which made it a bit too...heavy I would have preferred to have had it with a good quality olive oil ,in the future I would certainly request it be made without cream.

Last night tried The Seafood Shack for the first time, the service provided by Matt was amazing. The food was gorgeous, we shared a starter sized mussels to start with, this was a perfect size and very tasty, main course we opted for steak ..beautiful! The atmosphere was perfect, we were placed inside and had a huge table for the of us. Matt made us feel very welcome and ensured we had everything we needed and checked that our food was ok. Very surprised to hear it was his first night, you would never of known that. We will definitely be returning again soon.

Over the course of month i visited the restaurant many times and never had a bad meal there. As a bonus all of the staff were very friendly as were the clients