The Yachtsman - Carta

Stopped in a couple of times recently for lunch. The food is good and the service is very attentive. It’s also nice just to sit with a pint on their decking and eat the world go by.

We stopped for a quick lunch while exploring the area. We enjoyed a tasty prawn sandwich served with salad, crisps, and coffee. The staff was very friendly and we highly recommend this place!

Came here with friends for a Cowes week meal and was impressed by the service (well done to Josh who had only recently started) and the quality of the fish and seafood. I ordered the hot seafood platter (see photo) and it was delicious. The mussels were the highlight, but all cooked really well and with respect to the quality produce. Ver carta

We have been here before enjoyed our meal(s) The view is great looking out to sea watching the many boats yachts on the water. I had the scampi chips with a side salad. All was good. More enjoyable if it had been served with a wedge of lemon. My husband had a burger requested no cheese. It arrived with most of the cheese scraped off, so presumably this was a ready made burger.

Our dining experience was disappointing, especially the stir fry chicken which had strange ingredients like raw tomato and canned silverside onions. The other meals were average, with lukewarm chips that were a letdown. It seems like they were not putting much effort as they are closing until March. It's a shame because the venue has a nice ambiance with live music and a maritime theme.

Arrived at 7:45pm, food didn’t arrive until 9:30pm. Chips were not cooked, scampi soggy, red snapper was not red snapper, full skin on beer battered cod. Bad service and communication, questioned arrival of food several times, kept being told it was “being plated up” serving staff were so embarrassed they didn’t even make eye contact. Maybe an off day with the kitchen and front of house staff, although reading other reviews it seems like bad business as usual. Avoid like the plague horrendously substandard and poor. Ver carta

A friend treated us to lunch at a restaurant we had been to twice before, where the food had been decent in the past. This time, we ordered a starter and main course upon arrival. Unfortunately, the starter never arrived and when our main courses of linguine with ham and chicken and the pie of the day finally came, the linguine had very little sauce and the pie crust was so hard that we couldn't even cut it with a knife. The staff were very helpful and apologetic, but it didn't make up for the disappointing meal experience.

Can see there have been a few below average reviews so wanted to share my view. Seafood was extremely fresh, prompt service and two very polite staff. Every dish was lovely, as you can see the quality of the food was high. If I was super critical the mussel sauce was average and could have been better but I think this place believes in letting the seafood speak for itself. I can handle that purely down to the quality we had but that would be my feedback. Location is lovely with great views and based on our experience it was a good one. If you want some lovely seafood then it’s well worth a visit.

Very poor. Feel sorry for the hard working front of house staff who were great. We ordered posh fish and chips, seafood platter and a sandwich. Others were served before us who had arrived after us so we had to ask a couple of times about our food as it was well over an hour since ordering and unfortunately when it came the fish was accompanied by the worst greasy,less than thrice cooked, flaccid chips reminiscent of when your mum had a chip pan in the 70s and hadn’t heard of kitchen roll... the plate was swimming with so much grease I had to use the serviette to lay under the food to mop it up. Posh was not an adjective I would use... so sadly will not be returning as it is in a good settin... Ver carta