Sea Smoke - Étlap

Sea Smoke was a delight: beautiful view on the waterfront, inventive dishes, attentive and friendly service from Holli, and a lovely, quiet ambience inside the softlit restaurant. It's the first time my friends and I had been there, and we will go back often

Unfortunately, I can't recommend Sea Smoke. After making a reservation and receiving confirmation, we made the trek to the restaurant only to be told that the reservation couldn't be used because it was made the same day. Makes you wonder what's the point of having a service like Open Table if the restaurant won't honour the reservation.We were told we could get on the list and wait for minutes to an hour. We thanked them and went about feet away to the Bicycle Thief which was able to get us an outside patio table in minutes. In the end, it all worked out, we spent our money at a better restaurant where we felt appreciated

We made our reservation a few days prior and really wanted to eat outside. When we arrived they told us that there were no tables outside we could see a few empty ones and that even though you can’t reserve an outside table, they prioritized those people who made reservations to give them the outside tables. We were offered to go inside and they would move us outside as soon as a table was open. This never happened. They never offered and we could see tables outside emptying and being filled. And they were not being filled with other people inside, like us, who had been waiting. I didn’t think it was incumbent upon us to pester and ask for an outside table since we were promised one when we...