Applebee's Fish

SquareMeal Review of Applebee's Fish

Seafood is definitely the name of the game at this family-run outfit, which has been doing a sterling job on Borough Market for many a year. Comprising a fishmonger’s and café under one roof, it’s a dead cert for foodies and tourists looking for something fresh off the slab or cooked to order in a colourful setting of tiled walls and orange banquettes squeezed close together; you can also sit at one of the kerbside tables under the canopy and watch the world go by. The menu changes each day, depending on the catch – oysters, prawns, tuna, sea bass, and so on – and dishes are accompanied by vegetables from the market where appropriate; at lunchtime, they will also cook just about anything that takes your fancy from the fresh counter (orders permitting).

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Average Price
££££ - Under £30
Cuisines
Fish
Alfresco And Views
Outside seating

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Location

5 Stoney Street, London Bridge, London, SE1 9AA

020 7407 5777 020 7407 5777

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Opening Times

Thurs-Sat 12N-10pm (Fri 11.30am-10.30pm)

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12 Reviews 
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Antonis A

13 August 2023   - Verified Diner
Food & Drink 4.5
Service 4
Atmosphere 4
Value 4

Gwendy B

28 May 2023   - Verified Diner
Food & Drink 5
Service 5
Atmosphere 5
Value 5

Jenni L

27 April 2022   - Verified Diner
Food & Drink 5
Service 5
Atmosphere 4
Value 4
Great!

Food was amazing! Especially the monkfish and chorizo skewers. Nice cocktails as well and the staff were friendly. Would recommend!

Anon

30 August 2020  
Applebee's Fish restaurant

There are restaurants that would devote the concept of artistic gastronomy, which is reflecting on the human thoughts of the labor of love. Conversely, there are restaurants that do not give a shit about customers' emotions and thoughts on their foods but only concerning the concept of mass unhealthy food productions. 

I have a yellow body and wandering around the city looking for a restaurant that could call me back for the next time, while I could say "I am hungry for more." 

I went to Applebee's Fish restaurant on August 30th, 2020.

Address: 5 Stoney St, London SE1 9AA

 

The restaurant's design is pleasant and the staffs are "quite" friendly. I did not wait very long to get ready to seat in the restaurant. I like the atmosphere that the kitchen openly displays in the public. Because of this, I felt that there was a sense of security knowing where is my food coming from and how the food is making by the hands of the chief. However, I saw a fly more or less approach to my table, that I was worried that the fly would seat on my plate. 

When I had ordered thick french fries, Middleterran steak tuna, a cup of coffee, and butter garlic scallops. I had asked the waiter where were the fishes specifically coming from, that she had a confident tone asking the question of what I had given, which is showing the staff care about the root of food production such as import. Nevertheless, the stuff was forgetting about what I had ordered for drinks, then I had to reply again to what I had ordered on drinks. On the other hand, the waiters are not servicing the table individually, which would lead to a certain communication in the restaurant system. For example, there was another waiter asked me again what I would like to order, then I order the french fries as an additional order. Sadly, he did not ask me whatever I want the french fries as the first course or second course. 

The experience on the first-course Garlic butter scallops. 

The price is overwhelmingly experience, 12 pounds for two scallops.

The taste of the food is good and the presentation is good. I could feel the sweetness of scallops, and slightly garlic and butter. Despite the first bite would make me feel the five stars and fanciness, I wish the garlic and butter could be more significant, that I feel the color of these two elements not cooperate with the sweetness enough. An analogy would be like, a dancer (garlic and butter) aim to engage with his/her partner, but the dancer (sweetness) has a lack of encouragement. 

The experience of the second course: Mediterranean Tuna Steak and French Fries (French Fries is not getting asked by placing as the first or second course). 

Mediterranean Tuna Steak is good. I like the Tuna steak, which was well cooked on point medium and rare. The flavor of olive oil surrounds the Tuna Steak. The eggplants and the yellow cucumber placed under the Tuna steak. There is sweet yellow pepper place under the Tuna steak as well. I assume there is spicy pepper, but it tasted quite sweet, I could not feel spicy. The first bite of Tuna steak with olive oil, that I could feel the smell of Mediterranean. I also liked to eat the Tuna steak with the eggplants and the other vegetables, which are sweet and fresh. Nevertheless, the yellow cucumber is not well seasons enough, that it tasted plain. This dish was closed to my idealization, but yellow cucumber. 

On the other hand, I was disappointed with the thick hand made French Fries. Despite there are fries taste good, which is thick, there are other fries too thin. These thin fries got overcook, that the taste of fries was not respected the principle of the menu title "thickness." These think fries got overcook, which also showed there was a lack of careless from the person who cooks this course.  Maybe the restaurant was almost closed at the end, that the chief did not concentrate on this particular french fries enough. I had pointed it out to the waiter/staff, the staff had noticed it. But, they did not sort it out the solution of this issue, instead of bringing the check and indirectly forcing me to pay this unpleasant French Fries experience. Because of this, when the waiter asked me whatever I still want to order dessert as a means of getting through the third course, that I did not have the consistency of desire want to seat in the restaurant by feeling a little bit sense of unwelcoming.  

Will I go back to Applebee's Fish? 

............questionable and doubtable.....

 

 

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andrew J

26 November 2019   - Verified Diner
Food & Drink 4
Service 4
Atmosphere 4
Value 4
Excellent fish and chips

Friends were visiting from Tokyo who wanted Fish and Chips. Now normally we would go to Wright Brothers but London Bridge does not serve chips. so for the first, and certainly not the last, time I booked Applebees.

The fish batter is thin and crispy leaving the cod to tell its own tale. All agreed the main course was perfect, just enough chip matter, peas mushed and tartare sauce.

We started with oysters and mussels to share but the highlight was the octopus with chorizo that melted in the mouth.

Washed down with some cheap portuguese white or cornwall lager - everyone was happy - especially when my Tokyo friend picked up the bill - around £45 per head  

Jacqui Z

26 July 2019  
Good fresh fish and friendly service.

AmyM

02 March 2017  
Food & Drink 5
Service 5
Atmosphere 4
Value 5
You can't get fresher unless you caught it yourself
I don't really want to write a review as I kind of like the fact that far too few people realise there is a delicious restaurant serving the Borough Market Shopper behind the fish counter. I took clients for lunch and all of them said "I didn't know that this was here!". Everyone knows about the scrummy street stalls outside of this joint plying fresh Cajun prawn or garlic seafood wrap with a fabulous fishmonger just inside, but few venture into the bowels. The restaurant has a regularly updated menu, great specials on the board and the possibility of ordering from the fish counter should something particularly catch your eye. I had an enormous (for me) portion of pan fried turbot with sweet potato mash and brown shrimps, which was both crispy, rich and refreshing with the salty samphire accompaniment. One of my companions ordered the Mixed Seafood Platter special, which was so mouthwatering that even as I write I am having to swallow. I had to steal a mouthful, the scallops were the most sweet and succulent I have ever had, coupled with a juicy madagascan king prawn, as big as your head, that had been marinated to perfection. The wine list has plenty on offer (unusually) under £30 - we had a very decent Muscadet for £25 - from around the globe and so the whole meal is incredible value. Admittedly, none of us opted for starters, and some think that the main courses are a little steep, but unless you really are a guzzle guts, you really don't need them. Plus, you would have to really begrudge the money for such fresh fish treated so well. Please don't go and let me keep it to myself... precious.

Nicki T

02 February 2017  
Food & Drink 4
Service 4
Atmosphere 4
Value 4
Good
Booked table for my boss and his client, really enjoyed the food and would go again. Good atmosphere and service was great.

Timothy P

30 July 2016  
Food & Drink 4.5
Service 4
Atmosphere 3.5
Value 4
Peaceful, quality spot in Borough Market
I'm surprised there hasn't been a recent review! We ate as a group of 4 on a Friday evening - it was much more peaceful than the local pubs which were spilling people onto the street in Borough Market! Seafood is the obvious thing to have here - starters were scallops and bacon, grilled squid and fresh crab - all tasted as good as they looked. mains were the special - trout with samphire, plus sea bass and cod; so good we took a photo of it! Grilled zucchini were hot and crispy on the side. Wine was a bottle of cold Picpoul; excellent choice for fish. With service it ended up as just over £100 per couple; a fair reflection of the quality.

Caroline G

07 June 2016  
Very fresh fish as fishmonger is attached to the restaurant, nice Borough Market surroundings, friendly service.
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