kota restaurant with rooms Reviews

Kota
Porthleven
TR13 9JA
Tel: 01326 562407
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Prices from £0.00 - £0.00
Cuisine: Seafood , Fusion
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Average rating

Food: 9 | Service: 7 | Ambience: ? | Value: 7 | Recommendation: ?
  • Emma Macley Mar 23rd 2008

    kota restaurant with rooms review

    Overall: 9.5
    Food: 10
    Service: 10
    Ambience: N/A
    Value: 8
    Recommend: N/A
    Having eaten at Kota restaurant on many occasions I'm shocked to read the review below. I visit Porthleven many times a year and always make sure i fit in at least one visit to Kota. The food served is always amazing, using good quality local products and fish. I also like how the menu changes from visit to visit so I'm always able to try new things. The most shocking thing is the comments about the service. I really like the relaxed feel they manage to convey, yet i always feel the service is top notch without being over the top and stuffy. I always am made to feel relaxed and welcome, and I remember how on my first visit i was actually very impressed with the FREE homemade bread on offer, many times throughout my meal. Can a restaurant in a small fishing village in Cornwall get away with serving amouse bouche?? All this talk of food is making me hungry!! Im off to plan my next visit to Cornwall!!
  • Pete Mar 4th 2008

    Kota restaurant - A hobby or a profession?

    Overall: 6
    Food: 8
    Service: 4
    Ambience: N/A
    Value: 6
    Recommend: N/A
    We visited this restaurant and whilst the quality of the food is good, even very good - we felt that it doesn't quite make the grade in a number of areas.

    For instance, on entering we were moved from pillar to post as first a waitress told us to wait, then another told us to take our table, and then we were asked if we'd like to have drinks first - which we agreed to - only to be told to take our table.

    At the table - we had to wait longer than we'd have liked for drinks to be served, and also, it's preferable to be served bread etc whilst you're waiting to order. When the bread did arrive later - there wasn't much of it.

    Whilst waiting, we wondered why, such a restaurant which was not particularly busy (about half full) did not offer amuse-bouche or anything like it. Having read the rave reviews on the Internet - you're expecting something rather good. Not average.

    The order was delivered - generally in good time - but sadly part of it over my clothes.

    The owners are certainly enthusiastic and eager to please, but one cannot help but feel that it's all done in a rather amateur fashion.

    But then again - if you're just going for the food - and no 'polish' - you should be happy enough.

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