Salterns Bistro - Poole

Such a shame this is still a disappointment. There seems to be no management or staff training. The tables hadn't been cleaned since the night before so poor hygiene despite covid. Every table had to ask to get theirs cleaned. The food was average and expensive for what it was. In the hour we were there we saw 4 tables including us complain about wrong orders or a lack of service. They get away with it because it's in a nice location by the marina, but looking rather shabby these days.

Meal with friends , staff very friendly , a great menu, mules to die for , and wonderful view of the bay. Food well presented , very unreasonably price, dont be put off by the view from the outside.

My wife, kids and I have just had a lovely evening and fantastic meal at Spinnakers. Staff could not have done more and were friendly, helpful and very professional throughout. A thoroughly enjoyable evening, thank you.

On arrival it didn’t look great. We arrived and the door was wide open on a cold rainy evening. It was freezing to say the least! We were sat underneath a noisy air con unit making it impossible to speak. Nether the less we thought the food could be great. The food was average and the chips were over cooked and very dry. Overall 2.5/5, wouldn’t go again!

We booked our Christmas dinner here. We were looking forward to it for months, as we 'd been before and the service and meal was exceptional. However, this year we were disappointed as the main meal was 'warm '. It didn 't resemble your traditional Christmas meal. The only veg we had was sprouts and they were hard). I found out afterwards that the carrots and parsnips were pureed into a sauce which run into the gravy. There was no 'pigs in blankets ', just a couple of tiny chipolates. The roast potatoes were cut into small chunks and most of them were burnt. Overall, we were very disappointed especially at the prices we paid £79ph). To finish it off our coffee was luke warm and we had to ask for hot water. We will never eat there again for Christmas, such a shame compared to our previous visit.