George's Paragon Seafood Restaurant

4.1
based on 16 reviews

16 reviews about George's Paragon Seafood Restaurant

verified email - 28 Jan 2018

Wonderful, relaxed, great location and perfect food, great value and customer service is great, friendly and enjoyable

verified email - 16 Jan 2018

On the river and a little more pricey than some other places but it is quite a good establishment with freshest of food and wonderful service too.

verified email - 12 Apr 2017

Love love love coming to George's paragon! Always the best and freshest seafood. Also have alternative meals. Great service and friendly staff

Approximate cost: $40

verified email - 21 Aug 2015

Brought my overseas visiting mum here for lunch one week day (a couple of years back) and loved it. What a great spot - on the river. To be fair the restaurant was comfortably filled ie. the staff were not rushed off their feet and so, the service we received was excellent and the seafood was delicious. Would recommend again.

20 Aug 2015

Good Fresh Seafood, never had a problem when we dine at Georges Paragon. One of the best seafood places in the area, highly recommend

verified email - 17 Aug 2015

We absolutely love coming to Georges paragon! We always get the three course meal it's amazing! The seafood is so fresh and I've never had a bad Experiance

Approximate cost: $50

verified email - 26 Jul 2014

My friends recommended this place. We went for the 5.30 - 6.30 half price dinner, which was just as well. It's very expensive so even half price was not cheap. Meals are around $40 or more. Even pasta. We all found the meals over-sauced and not Greek in flavour at all. Lots of cream and heavy saucing. The venue is lovely and we had a lovely view. We wouldn't go back.

Approximate cost: $40

verified email - 27 Oct 2013

A Big No-No!!!

I was invited for my girlfriend's birthday dinner that was celebrated on Saturday evening. As it was meant to be a surprise for her, everyone was meant to arrive at 7pm. A couple of us arrived 10 minutes to 7pm when our table was not ready just yet. So we were seated close to the bar and ordered a glass of champagne each. The restaurant was already busy at that time. All looked promising and made me believe it would've been a great dinning experience.

As soon as our table was prepared, we were seated. While I was passing the lady who seated us, she did not even have the courtesy to greet me but asked me out of blue how tall I was (What The Hell?!) I found it very offensive and so not professional!
When our birthday girl arrived, I could not stop looking at her how excited she was to see us all. She was seated right next to me. While she was seated - waiter pulled out her chair, I was amazed how the waiter placed a cloth napkin on her lap. She did not even sit properly yet when he flicked the napkin between her busy hands and lap...and then he pushed (literally pushed) her chair even closer to the table. It did not look good at all. She did not say a word but I think it was mainly because she was having a little happy cry. From that point the waiter did not turn up to be any good...but even worse.
I did not know what to order right to the last minute. Even though I had menu list opened, I involved myself more into conversations...as you do. When waiter was taking orders, I was able to ask for a garlic bread because I had not had a proper look what else. "Is that all?" he asked. "No, it is not but I need a bit more time to decide what else" In meantime, he took orders from others and came back to me. As I was reading through the menu, he started talking to me unexpectedly from behind. So I ordered an entree Avocado Seafood. "Is that all?" he asked again. "Yes, please"

During the night the waiter upset me to no end. I talked to a friend sitting right next to me quite often. I sat close to her and sometimes had to even lean over the table a bit to hear her when she talked to others. When the waiter brought me a glass of water or needed to fill up my glass, he pushed his hand between us. It was very wrong...so I could not help myself and raised my voice "EXCUSE ME?!" He did not even apologise...no word came out of his mouth. Later on he was giving us dessert menu. So obvious how much he was order & money driven. I do not know if they had to make a budget per table but this didn't look right. When he approached me, he slid the menu between my and my friend's head while I was listening to and looking at her. I so wanted to smack him with the menu.

The entire experience with waiting service made me refuse to order anything more than I have - a glass of Moet, an appetiser and garlic bread. I refused to support their business anymore.

Considering the prices, the food did not correspond to them at all. Seafood that ended up on my plate was hardly fresh. Prawn tasted like a boiled prawn tale bought from deli in Coles. Meat was a bit tough and colour very orange. I had an outstanding entree Garlic King Prawn in Southport which cost about the same...yet, incomparable quality. It was purely a piece of octopus, scallop, king prawn and a tiny bit of barramundi on avocado. No rich in taste...no dressing...for $22 I felt like I could still have something. Yet, I refused. Luckily I did because I did not have much cash on hand.

At the end, I was meant to pay $6.5 garlic bread, $22 avocado seafood and $19 a glass of Moet ($47.50 in total). A friend who organised the get-together asked us to contribute extra $10 booking fee per person. A booking fee?! I have never heard of it. So I gave $60 into the pool of money...and we were still over fifty dollars short for the table. So I gave them another five bucks. So not happy with it all...but tried to forget for the sake of my friend's birthday celebration.
Five of us decided not to give any tip to our waiter. So the total cash was only 30 cents more than bill. Ha, suck up, waiter!!!

When I shared my disappointment over our waiter, one of us who is Even Coordinator for restaurant in Caxton Street mentioned she must have seen the guy before. She thought he might have been a waiter from agency she used for casual waiting staff when she was short of people. If he was or was not, that is a question. It definitely does not excuse George's to hire such hopeless staff.
The only highlight of the entire experience was bar staff. A friend of mine took me to a bar where we asked for tasting of greek wine. There were three young guys who were very helpful. Although they did not give me the tasting right away, they did not forget to bring it to our table...even though it took about 15 minutes easy :-/

While we were leaving a waiters standing close to the exit greeted and thanked us. I was smiling at them but thinking "I am so never coming back here ever again"

Approximate cost: $35

verified email - 11 Dec 2012

We decided to take a friend visiting from Sydney to George's as we had heard good reviews. We weren't disappointed. Seated at one of the front tables right next to the window, the view across to the Story Bridge was beautiful. As the sun set and the lights on the bridge were switched on the view really was magical.
The food was lovely and fresh and portions large. My husband enjoyed the Coffin Bay oysters while I tucked into the Grilled baby octopus. The mains were generous and delicious.
The decor of George's is of course very Greek, but it has a certain charm to it.
For a very busy restaurant the service was efficient, and our waiter was top notch. A lovely venue with a view that is impressive.

04 Nov 2012

The service is always excellent and atmosphere is reall nice. The food is very good and is always consistent. It is always a pleasure to dine there and is definately recommended.

Approximate cost: $35

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