Mermaids - WHITSUNDAYS

It was with fear and contempt that we booked to go to mermaids, as we were there years before and the terrible reports about travel advisors and urban spoons speak for themselves. we were quick and pleasantly surprised! they had a new chef who was there less than a week and he makes some fantastic changes. we saw him for most of our nights and he's a wonderful cook. we saw how he carefully prepared and plated every plate perfectly. we ordered the salt and pepper scatter and the pumpkin, the pine nut ravioli from the solid, which were absolutely delicious. so tasty in the did I had to go back to lunch on the following day and check if they had the pumpkin ravioli for...read more

Awful! salat limp, not enough sauce with the feather rolls and no one will wipe away the dirty teller.

**** food, small portions and plastic tasting cheesecake. Yuck!

What a Great Find. Excellent food, There was a bit of a stuff up with one table ordering exactly the same dishes as our table that were seated right next to us. They got their food first, and whilst we get this will happen from time to time it was the way they went about fixing it up. Because you get to sit so close to the kitchen you can hear stuff right.. : Anyway, a waiter first noticed it, but couldn't work out where the plates of food had gone.. so instead of just putting us back in the cue he was right onto it, spoke to the head waitress, she spoke to the kitchen head chef within seconds chefs had jumped to action instead of the usual bickering that goes on between wait staff and...read more

Was a beautiful surprise to find this place embedded in a corner of the island. we sat under a ventilator a and the seabreeze made it a comfortable visit. we ordered a woodfield pizza, fish and chips and pecan caramel tart for dessert. the pizza was a good size and filling, was a little oily because of the cheese, but much topping and taste. the fish and chips were not too bad, a piece of fish was and little dry, but the other three were on place. the dessert, wow! would come back even if only dessert. a welcome change to takeaway style elsewhere on the island eat. mock **** was fresh and refreshing!