Aurora Bar And Restaurant - Ipswich

Service a bit slow but they made up for it. Really busy as it’s Mother’s Day. Pawel and Lena was great with their service. Great attention to detail. Made sure were not just left there sitting without any service. Even better than the last time we were here! Lastly great tasting food. Will come back again for sure…..

We went at 5pm to eat, we were too early as a bottomless brunch was finishing, the music was so loud we couldn’t talk. We were the wrong age group and felt out of place. It might be quieter later on perhaps if you just wanted to eat. We had duck which was slightly too rare but nice. We had been to a-listers Woodbridge which was 100% better. Nice but would t go again.

This is our 2nd visit. Visited when first opened and was doing table service, took ages to order and get drinks. We seven saw one couple leave.they also had a load of cocktails in the menu that then weren’t avaliable. Several months later we thought we’d go again, yesterday. This time it was find a seat then come and order at the bar. This was better. Limited cocktails but decent menu of other drinks. Food menu was new and we had the dough balls, which consisted of 3 large dough balls and dip for £7. Which were nice. They brought water out to the table too which was great. Cocktails expensive tinker bell martini £12, beer better pint of beer about £5. Not the venues fault but shame about all the roadworks and blocked views by railings etc.

First time at Alisters new restaurant after having been to the Woodbridge venue, which we enjoyed very much. We sat on the balcony for a cocktail, with a nice view of the river, we both had a Pornstar Martini, and it was buy 1 get 1 free, bonus, they came out quickly and were very nice, water came straight out also, we decided to move inside for our food as it was getting a little chilly, we decided to order 3 starters, the duck bon bons, houmous, and the jerk chicken wings, all came out in good time and were all delicious! , I’ve eaten in many nice restaurants and couldn’t fault anything, for our mains we had the fish and chips and the burger, the mains came out quite soon after our starters, and didn’t disappoint, my ‘mushy’ peas were more crushed, and were the best I’ve ever had, so well seasoned, and the burger was ‘juicy’ according to my partner, so he was happy, good portion sizes for the price, we were too full for a dessert but decided to try the panna cotta anyway, perfect! so all in all a great evening with delicious food and very good service, highly recommended.

I don't understand why they only offer table service for drinks. The past two times I've been here, it has taken over 30 minutes to get our drinks. If we were able to order at the bar, we might have ordered more drinks in that time!