Water Grill - South Coast Plaza

We arrived well before our 8 p.m. reservation time and were told they were running “slightly” behind. We were finally seated at almost 8:45. The place was bedlam, people EVERYWHERE. There is nowhere to wait except the bar, which was packed the entire hour we waited. Once we finally got seated the service was very good. There was about a 35-40 minute lag between starters and mains. They did offer to comp our desserts which was gracious. The food was excellent, too bad the capacity management didn’t match up.

Wild Spanish octopus: remainded me of cardboard..... Seafood tower: lobster was a little rubbery, oysters fresh and tasty, shrimp-pluffy sweet, not properly clean mussels. King crab legs were dry. Seabass: beautiful piece of fish decent taste. The kitchen looked chaotic and a bit worrisome.

Eating was just okay this time, but the two new barkeepers have dried!

Had a reservation and checked in a few minutes early. was not set up until 35 minutes after the booking period. they came by to talk to us a few times and took a drink job while we waited.

We had reservations at 6:00, but had to wait 30 minutes before a table was finished. because we had tickets at segerstrom for 7:30 a.m., but the time we could arrange was not enough time to order steak or huh and make our concert. I ordered the wedge salad and my wife ordered the shrimp sampling that were excellent, but not what we had ordered if we had more time.