Warning: Salty Sea Dog

On 8 June, my family and I went to Salty Sea Dog in Simonstown. While they ordered hake and chips, I made the never-to-be-repeated mistake of ordering the "Grilled Baby Squid" from the menu. I confirmed with the waiter that it came as tubes.

When it arrived, it was very much half tubes and half baby squid tentacles that appeared to have been pan fried (covered in oil) of the type where the chef sc****s the burn off the bottom of the pan and mixes it in with the food making it taste like oily burnt toast.

Needless to say that it was probably the worst calamari tubes that I have ever had. To top it off, the chips that I left because they had clearly been cooked in old oil, we charged for separately.

The calamari was R88 and the chips were R15. When I queried it with the waiter upon payment he showed me on the menu that it's R100 for the meal.

Thankfully there are various other restaurants within a stone's throw from Salty Sea Dog, so I obviously wont be back. I would simply like to warn others of this.