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Calis Beach Forum => Calis Bar and Restaurant Questions and Discussions => Topic started by: sadler on June 09, 2015, 18:36:05 PM
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Situated between the Oceana Bar and the dress shop on the main drift. We have been here twice now, after a recommendation from friends. Lovely food, slightly different from the general ones, no chips, rice and salad. Have been really pleased both times and would thoroughly recommend. Very competitive prices also. :)
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also have to recommend the Rosemary. The four of us had a variety of dishes and all were well presented, properly cooked and served whilst still hot. Just sorry we went towards the end of our holiday rather than the start. The chef there takes rather more care than the average Calis chef and is to be commended for it. The man on the next table ordered fillet steak and when it came it actually was a fillet steak and looked very nice. We're going back to Calis in September and will be spending a few evenings there..
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"The chef there takes rather more care than the average Calis chef and is to be commended for it."
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Clioman, can you quantify that statement please, because I don 't know what care the average Calis Chef takes ??
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no chips, rice and salad
I doubt that will take off in Calis ;)
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Actually, Scunner, we watched with interest this restaurant during our month stay and we're pleased to note that it appeared to be full every night we passed. We ate there four times during our stay and were more than happy with our choices. It is almost "fine dining" and nearly as good as some of the best dining places in England. Obviously it would not meet Scotland's best! Very different to the majority of the eateries in Calis and worthy of high praise I M H O !!! ;D ;D ;D ;)
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"The chef there takes rather more care than the average Calis chef and is to be commended for it."
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Clioman, can you quantify that statement please, because I don 't know what care the average Calis Chef takes ??
Quite straightforward to me....
Across the various restaurants in Calis there is an average standard of cooking and presentation and the chef at Rosemary takes care to be better than average.
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"The chef there takes rather more care than the average Calis chef and is to be commended for it."
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Clioman, can you quantify that statement please, because I don 't know what care the average Calis Chef takes ??
Have another glass of wine Your Maj and don't overtax the braincell. ;)
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Why does the Chef take more care?? because the fillet steak was fillet steak?
Do the other Chef's in Calis not take care because their fillet steak is sirloin. ?
The Rosemary Chef must have been to Spec Savers.
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Jacqui - can I respectfully ask you to read Clioman2's post again which read
"The four of us had a variety of dishes and all were well presented, properly cooked and served whilst still hot...... The chef there takes rather more care than the average Calis chef and is to be commended for it."
I read his next comment re steaks to be a separate comment.
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John, lets just ask Clioman, do not worry yourself to be a moderator in this discussion. i feel that the Chefs do very well in Calis and could not find fault in the ones we regularly eat at. The food is always well presented and served hot. Perhaps you have had badly presented cold meals. I cannot say we have. Perhaps Clioman will say where these cold badly presented meals were served.
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Jacqui
I posted a comment in this thread as I believe I am entitled to do, as indeed you are. How you can consider that as moderation is entirely beyond me.
Please show me where I said that I have had badly presented meals and where Clioman2 said he had "cold badly presented meals".
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John, lets just ask Clioman, do not worry yourself to be a moderator in this discussion. i feel that the Chefs do very well in Calis and could not find fault in the ones we regularly eat at. The food is always well presented and served hot. Perhaps you have had badly presented cold meals. I cannot say we have. Perhaps Clioman will say where these cold badly presented meals were served.
Jacqui, to clarify. The chef at the Rosemary presents food to a standard higher than the average Calis chef; more like a restaurant in Britain. The arrangement of the food and garnishes on the plate is definitely a cut above the norm for Calis which is similar to what one might do at home. As regards cold food, the Mangal took well over an hour to present simple dishes (mainly chicken) which were so cold that a skin had formed on my garlic sauce. The Brothers served a lamb shank that was dried out and cracked open, and the Serkul 2 provided lamb chops that were predominantly gristle. We have been coming to and dining in Calis since 1996 and I can say that the Rosemary provides food of a higher quality( not just appearance) than that which is generally available.
Highlander, thanks for the support, I was only trying to point people to a good restaurant.
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See the UK forum are having an arguement amongst themselves now, I feel great been left alone for awhile. ;) :)by the way Rosemary,s serve excellent food, I M O. :)
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Great to read there is a restaurant that takes a different approach to food! :)
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Sounds like a nice restaurant to visit
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We ate there three times last month, friends were across a couple of weeks ago and they ate there four times, speaks volumes, good food, good service, and the staff are friendly, if you frequented the Orient you will recognise most of the staff, well worth a visit.
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Clioman, The three restaurants you mention.. Mangal, never been, never fancied it and took note of reviews a few years ago). The Brothers, great recommendation on this Forum, ate there last month, meal O.K. but nothing startling. Serkul 2. Had lunch once, put off by waiter picking his nose, never went back.
However, have eaten at many restaurants in Calis just a few I would give top marks to for food and service. The Calis Beach Restaurant, Casa De Mama, Bella Mama, The Nil Bar, Meeting Point and of course Georges, where we have eaten now for 10 years and it is consistantly good, great professional service, always cloth napkins (which I love a sign of a good restaurant) always excellent food, never had a bad meal there. They have had the same Chef, Hussain, for 7 years and we know him well and often compliement him on our meal. So, IMHO I would say a lot of Restaurants in Calis give the same service you have received in Rosemary.
However, we will try Rosemary in September and get back with our review then, but we will not be judging it by the steak.
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Cloth napkins - a sign of a good restaurant???? You can't have eaten in a Holiday Inn.
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Cloth napkins - a sign of a good restaurant???? You can't have eaten in a Holiday Inn.
Yes I have, say there quite a lot when we have a night out in Aberdeen.
I like cloth napkins and always find that all the fine dinning restaurants have cloth napkins. Waiters will always put a napkin on your lap before you eat.
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Cloth napkins !! All the fine dinning restaurants have cloth napkins.
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!! Classic !!
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Clioman, The three restaurants you mention.. Mangal, never been, never fancied it and took note of reviews a few years ago). The Brothers, great recommendation on this Forum, ate there last month, meal O.K. but nothing startling. Serkul 2. Had lunch once, put off by waiter picking his nose, never went back.
However, have eaten at many restaurants in Calis just a few I would give top marks to for food and service. The Calis Beach Restaurant, Casa De Mama, Bella Mama, The Nil Bar, Meeting Point and of course Georges, where we have eaten now for 10 years and it is consistantly good, great professional service, always cloth napkins (which I love a sign of a good restaurant) always excellent food, never had a bad meal there. They have had the same Chef, Hussain, for 7 years and we know him well and often compliement him on our meal. So, IMHO I would say a lot of Restaurants in Calis give the same service you have received in Rosemary.
However, we will try Rosemary in September and get back with our review then, but we will not be judging it by the steak.
if you haven't already tried the Rosemary and decide in September that it's just like a lot of restaurants in Calis after you have, it may say more about your standards rather than the restaurant's. And by the way, who judged the Rosemary by the steak? Not I.
You talk about the service, I critiqued the food; both quality and presentation...
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Sadly, to judge a restaurant by whether or not it has cloth napkins is extremely misguided. The first thing I generally do is read a few reviews, ask friends if they've ever had a meal in the restaurant and then judge for myself when we're there. If I was ever to judge a restaurant on the tableware, it would be the standard and cleanliness of the cutlery, if anything. Quite often, when in Calis we've seen what appear at first glance to be quite nice restaurants and then you think to yourself, why is this place empty. I'll guarantee it has nothing to do with tablecloths and napkins, but poor standard of food or service. If the food is nice at The Rosemary and not the average Calis Beach restaurant fayre as suggested, I'll trust the reviewers judgement, try for it myself and post my comments, good or bad at a later date. After all, you don't judge a book by its cover,do you ?
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Cloth napkins !! All the fine dinning restaurants have cloth napkins.
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!! Classic !!
Classic but true. Generally if you are in a fine dining restaurants they take into account you are wearing expensive clothing and so they protect it with a napkin. This traditional goes back many hundred years... you probably remember it from the 18th century yourself KKOB. ;)
Also tonyb, I never judge a restauant just on the fact it has napkins. I however think it is a sign of a good restaurant who care about their customer's clothing. It is something I appreciate. As said, Georges is consistently good and we have never had a bad meal there. It is our favouirte restaurant in Calis and I like they fact they have napkins. :)
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We were home on Tuesday night after two weeks in Calis. We ate out more in Fethiye this year than previous years but still ate at various different restaurants in Calis, both on the prom and elsewhere and I cannot think of one of them, when eating out on an evening, that didn't have cloth napkins. It's not just George's that do them Jacqui it seems to be quite common! ;) It's certainly not a sign of a good restaurant either.
We didn't try Rosemary's when we were there, just didn't get round to it. Wish we had done now.
Next time :)
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O.K. Once more.....Napkins are a sign of a caring restaurant who look after their customers and want them to keep their clothing clean. I appreciate it. The ones I can think of in Calis are all good restaurants.
So Napkingate. I know Georges, Bella Mamas and Casa De Mama have cloth napkns, but trying to think who else has them??
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Was in Bella and Casa - not a cloth napkin to be seen.
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The Nil bar have cloth napkins, but there is not much taste to them. :-X : :) ;D ;D
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Bella always give us cloth napkins. i remember this because Phil accidentally knocked his wine over and I used my napkin to cover it. The staff were brillant and rushed over and gave us another table.
Nil bar do not have cloth napkins. We ate there on the Auction night and there were none to be seen.
It maybe that some restauarants put them out occasionally. I know George's are never without them.
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Jacqui is right, I only eat in the poshest of restaurants too :D
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Jacqui - the present tells me that I am wrong on both counts. Sorry. :-[
PS if memory serves that is not the first time she has told me that :(
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Jacqui is right, I only eat in the poshest of restaurants too :D
Is that an A.I. wrist band Abbie has on.
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That is not relevant, it is a restaurant with cloth napkins. That's all you need to know ;)
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I can't see anyone else wearing one. Do you have to put your name on a list to share one ?
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They aren't as posh as me
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Yeah, I can tell by your Matalan vest. The bloke behind you is only wearing Pri-Gucci.
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You lot leave our Keith alone, he is been quite sensible, he is a big lad, got a lot to cover ;) as for cloth napkins, our Jacqui will be wanting finger bowls next and her own wine waiter. :) :)
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Des, what to you mean finger bowl and my own wine waiter.... I already have them ;D ;) :o :angel: :-* 8)
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Why does that not surprise me Jacqui. ;) :)
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I'm not at all surpised.Who possibly coulde be lol. And are sure that's not your hanky in disguise Keith ?
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is the food a jacket potato and chips? ;)