Places to eat around Nelson Bay / Shoal Harbour / Fingal Bay

[pippin88]

Some of my family are staying up at Fingal bay this weekend, and I was just wondering what are some good places to eat around Nelson Bay / Shoal Harbour / Fingal Bay?

Stubbsy / Birddog: I thought I heard you talking about an Indian up there?

Cheers

[birddog114]

Some of my family are staying up at Fingal bay this weekend, and I was just wondering what are some good places to eat around Nelson Bay / Shoal Harbour / Fingal Bay?

Stubbsy / Birddog: I thought I heard you talking about an Indian up there?

Cheers

These two are great restaurants with quality food and good services, we always went to the Spanish Restaurant after the meet up there.

Indian Restaurant at the lower level of Australia Post Office.
Spanish Restaurant has all type of pizza and tapas just around the corner of the AP.
John Dory Fish & Chips is with the great bargain meal during the day.

More restaurant at Shoal Bay, Corlette, Tanilba Bay and Fingal Bay but they're not our styles and expensive.

[radar]

Hi Nick,

I've been at Merretts at The Anchorage. Great location, food was really nice, good service, expensive $$$. It is a special place, but I was lucky on that occasion, someone else was paying
http://www.peppers.com.au/


The John Dory that Birddog mentions is great for fish/chips plus all kinds of other seafood, great for lunch, take it away and have it along Shoal Bay, can't beat the view.

Cheers,

André

[Raskill]

I've been at Merretts at The Anchorage. Great location, food was really nice, good service, expensive $$$. It is a special place, but I was lucky on that occasion, someone else was paying

Merretts is very nice, I recommend it also. Theres a good feed to be had at the Shoal Bay Resort and Spa also.

I always find though that fresh prawns from the Fishermans Co-Op and some lemon juice kick ass!

[birddog114]

I've been at Merretts at The Anchorage. Great location, food was really nice, good service, expensive $$$. It is a special place, but I was lucky on that occasion, someone else was paying

Merretts is very nice, I recommend it also. Theres a good feed to be had at the Shoal Bay Resort and Spa also.

I always find though that fresh prawns from the Fishermans Co-Op and some lemon juice kick ass!

Raskill,
Agreed! The Anchorage is nice place but costly.
Merrets is another one
Stay away from Fisherman Co-Op, they aren't good as the old days

[Raskill]

Stay away from Fisherman Co-Op, they aren't good as the old days

The good old days... Showing your age Birdy???

I made a pig of myself at the Coffs Harbour Co-Op at easter, fresh prawns the size of my arm! (well, not quite, but you get the idea). That Co-Op was good, not cheap though, but good none-the-less.

[birddog114]

Stay away from Fisherman Co-Op, they aren't good as the old days

The good old days... Showing your age Birdy???

I made a pig of myself at the Coffs Harbour Co-Op at easter, fresh prawns the size of my arm! (well, not quite, but you get the idea). That Co-Op was good, not cheap though, but good none-the-less.

Coffs Harbour and Nelson Bay is in distance and things at Nelson Bay are not the same at Coffs Harbour.

I'm telling you this and it's true: every weekend we went up to our holiday home, we shopped all the seafoods as fish, prawn same as steaks, pork etc... and brought up there, my other half will do the cooking and all better than do the shopping at local with mostly the frozen fishes, steaks + they're more expensive and none of them fresh as at Sydney market.

[radar]

I'm telling you this and it's true: every weekend we went up to our holiday home, we shopped all the seafoods as fish, prawn same as steaks, pork etc... and brought up there, my other half will do the cooking and all better than do the shopping at local with mostly the frozen fishes, steaks + they're more expensive and none of them fresh as at Sydney market.

That's true birddog, much better selection in Sydney. What ends up happening, the Nelson Bay fishermen catch the fish, then send it to Sydney's fish markets. That way they get better prices.

Cheers,

André

[birddog114]

Nick,
The spanish restaurant which we dined there almost after the meets is:
Casa De Oro
30 Donald Street
Nelson Bay
They do have very nice selections

[stubbsy]

Nick - what birdy said - both restaurants are great food at excellent prices. John Dory for fish & chips is also great (piece of fish you'll struggle to finish & enough chips for two for $7). Not the cheapest fisho, but best quality and value for money in the bay (it's one street back from the street that goes past D'albora marina). Deps restaurant is also very good.

[pippin88]

Thanks for the recommendations - went to the Indian on saturday night and it was quite good.