Turtle Bay

I really love this place. This is one of the best restaurants in London that I’ve ever visited.
They have really tasty food, great service, special mood and great music.
If you want to eat there, better book a table because they have a lot of customers.

I’ve been to this chain previously, in Birmingham. I actually quite enjoyed the food, service and the atmosphere. Although I did mistake hot spicy sauce for sweet chilli sauce and ended up being sick and … You can imagine the rest… For the rest of the night.
Even though, I sort of have good experiences from this chain, the Brixton chain was a pretty poor and different experience.
Firstly, the cocktails two for one… Ok brilliant — right up my street. However, I could hardly taste the alcohol. I only tasted ice and fruit juice. Not really worth it if you ask me. I’m no alcoholic — despite what other people think that is… But I want to TASTE the rum, I want it to make be feel something ya know!!! More like a mock tail!
Also… I was in a massive group of people, there were about 16 of us… So obviously the food isn’t able to come out at the same time. But my food came out first and I waited for 20mins!!! Until the rest of the food was ready. Good job mine had a lid over it obviously it would of gone cold. I just think it’s poor service and not good enough!!! Serves me for being pretty polite hey!
Next rant… You know what it was three stars but I’ve now changed it to two because the more I write the more it has annoyed me… So next rant… It was my friends birthday… We wanted to order an ice cream with a sparkler or something like that and we asked the waitress if this was possible her reply was … WE DONT DO BIRTHDAYS… I couldn’t speak — my mouth dropped. Then she turned around and said … You could buy some candles and a cake and bring it in if you want… There is a sainsburys round the corner… I felt like saying I tell you what I’ll get a meal deal while I’m at it cos I need to get my lunch for tomorraa. Seriously??? Just the way she said it… As if we had asked her to serve special fried rice!!!
Lastly… They messed up the bill a lot. It’s always going to be challenging to get bills paid if your in a group — some people paying cash others card… Some people didn’t drink… Some people just got a main and not a starter… It’s all a bit confusing … But they totally over charged us and took the mick!
Don’t bother going back to this chain in Brixton. That is all!

I came here with a friend for lunch. There was a lunchtime special on where you got any dish from the lunchtime menu forn £6.95 so this was quote good. My friend ordered The street burger which she was happy with. My daughter had a burger from the kiddies menu, I asked for a hamburger but was brought a cheese burger — a little annoying when daughter has a dairy intollerance. This was however changed swiftly.
In order the mango and shrimp wrap as pictured I have to say this was awful. The bread was soggy and it’s almost like this was placed on the menu with no testing prior as to if these ingredients would work together. It was bland and my wrap was burnt! I told the staff u was unhappy and they did remove this from the bill with nonfuss whatsoever– so I have no complaint at that part.
We ordered the Kola Colada as part of the happy hour 2 cocktails for 6.95 the drink was absolutely yummy, if it wasn’t for the fact it was daytime and I has my little one, I definately would have ordered another 1… or 2 ;)
The restaurant itself is nicely decorated I can see they were trying to give it a ‘back home’ type theme. The waiting staff were lovely, very attentive and polite without being intrusive.
Overall — would I return, yes! However, I would definately not order the same thing.
It’s nice for lunch with family and friends but I wouldn’t say it’s intimate enough for a date or special occasion…

I really enjoyed my visit here on a Friday night. Atmosphere was fun and lively, cocktails were deliciously sweet. We all had a hot pot which on first appearance didn’t seem like a lot of food but actually it was pretty filling — especially with our sides of sweet plantain and dumplings.
The service was good in general however we ended up not getting two of our sides and our drinks took forever (they came half way through our meal) even though the bar staff didn’t seem particularly busy. Our mains on the others and arrived within 10mins, which was pretty speedy considering it was packed.
The food was tasty, although not the best Caribbean food we’ve had. I’d definitely recommend trying it out though!