Seafire Bar - Carlsbad

This restaurant is a little gem! We were pleasantly surprised. The scallops were melt in your mouth delicious. The muscles were tender and the butter-wine sauce devine. I was really surprised there weren’t more people there.

6 of us met to celebrate a birthday. Wednesday evening at 5 and we were the only ones in the entire place but the manager still made us move to the back patio to take advantage of the happy hour menu. He was not rude but also not friendly. Food was good and service was efficient. $5 house wine is a deal. Lots of seating and parking. Ambience is not exceptional but the back patio isn’t bad. Nothing compels me to go back.

Food was terrible I’m sorry to say and we sampled many items. The shrimp served flambé on a skillet was by far the worst. 4 popcorn shrimp, one tomato slice, a couple of onion slices and a few peppers unflavored. I would have been embarrassed to serve it. Zero flavor. We ate because we were very hungry. Trio of dips was a tablespoon of each. The portions were comically small and the only thing they gave in excess was their pita bread. Mussels were cracked with bits of the shells floating in the poached liquid, octopus was average at best, feta fries were again a tablespoon of feta sprinkled with oregano on a bed of fries, just terrible representation of Greek cuisine. I’m sorry but we just moved to the area and we’re hopeful that their marginal yelp reviews were unjustified. Now we know people were generous in their 3 star ratings. It was an expensive experiment to try out that we won’t do again. There has to be decent Greek food in the San Diego market but this place is definitely not it.

Very nice, not crowded, great parking and prompt hostess. Food was good and service very good. Prices very reasonable

I understand it was Valentine's Day, but how about anticipate the crowd? Only took minutes to order, but we didn't see another waiter until our main course came minutes later. But....we never got our appetizer!! It was only a cold trio dip with pita bread! It was cold! It should have come out in minutes! So, we had our main course and appetizer at the same time. The waitress was very apologetic and I told her it wasn't her fault, she wasn't the one that took our order. Sad part too was no one ever checked to see how we were doing, refill our water, get us a straw, let us know when the food was coming, etc. My salmon was great, my wife liked her lamb chops, dessert was good too. All in all, sadly, we're not going back