Review: Oceana Seafood, Steakhouse & Bar

[cityhunter2501]

Address : #101 - 7th Street SW
Tel: (403) 245-8787

Decided to try Oceana as they say they specialize on seafood dishes and since my friend loves seafood pasta I decided to check the place out.

Ambience/Atmosphere: 9/10
It's a very bright cozy location, instead of the dim/romantic look they decided to go for a more summer/bright decoration
Lounge music was playing on the background and they also have a patio.


Food (quality, portions, presentation): 6/10
Lots of seafood dishes, steak and pasta on their menu.
Free complimentary bread was served.
A must try is the Hot Seafood Platter for 45$, it was enough to fill up all 3 of us. It had fried calamari, fried oyster, shrimps and crab cake, calamari and oyster were great.
Only reason why I'm giving the food 6/10 is because the dishes that we ordered (2 seafood linguine, 1 seafood marinara) the mussels tasted and smelled funny, otherwise the meal would have been great.
The waitress and manager appologized and gave us a 25$ gift certificate.


Service: 10/10
Staff was really nice and always checking out for us, the manager at one point even offered if we wanted to move to the patio after some customers left.

Pricing: 7/10
I thought for the portion we had, it was fairly overpriced.
76$ for steak and lobster iirc
Bill for us 3 was $142
1 - Stella Artois
1 - Alexander Keiths
1 - Hot Seafood Platter
2 - Seafood linguine
1 - Seafood marinara

Overall: 7/10
I thought it was an ok place, I should visit it one more time to give a fair review.
The hot seafood platter was really good though.


You can check pictures of the restaurant and their menu from their website
http://www.oceanacalgary.com/

[GQBalla]

hrmm may have to try this place out.

good review earl, im goin to try out Catch.

[cityhunter2501]

Originally posted by GQBalla
hrmm may have to try this place out.

good review earl, im goin to try out Catch.

where's Catch?
was planning to go to Mercato but they were booked for the whole weekend already, and Big Fish was all booked that night already as well.

[GQBalla]

Catch is on stephen ave right beside the Hyatt

[89coupe]

Originally posted by GQBalla
hrmm may have to try this place out.

good review earl, im goin to try out Catch.

Don't bother, its terrible, trust me.

Catch is nice, but Oceana is pure crap!

[msommers]

Big fish is definitely a good spot so try to get in there next weekend or so.

[nonlinear]

catch and big fish are both great, although two different things entirely.

[RX_EVOLV]

Went to Oceana a couple times before. Love the Ambience and services, but the food is okay at best, definitely overpriced imo.

[Altezza]

Had lunch at Oceana once. I agree, it's not very good.

[GQBalla]

Originally posted by 89coupe


Don't bother, its terrible, trust me.

Catch is nice, but Oceana is pure crap!

wow seriously eh?

ill take your word for it and never go.

Catch ill still try thoughs