Tempest Seafood And Teppanyaki Grill

This is not a review on the restaurant, which is great. This is a review on the Teppanyaki. We booked the teppanyaki for Wednesday night and there was a...

A nice spot next to the marina. The deck area itself looked like it could use a bit of a touch up, the service was ok and the food was pretty good, we got...

My family has been here twice for dinner and the experience was wonderful! The seafood fresh and good sized portions- we were stuffed The kids were thoroughly entertained by Chef’s Luke Yugi. Thanks Tempest

Myself, hubby and a couple of friends decided on lunch here at Tempest recently. I started with a glass of Prosecco, which was a bit flat. I guess I should have asked for a replacement, but I drank it anyway. Lord N had an Asahi beer, while hubby and Lady J went for a lemon squash soft drink $4.50) as they were both driving.<br/ <br/ We ate these meals: for moi, lightly-seared slices of tuna with watermelon, cucumber, mint, miso aioli and ponzu dressing $34). I loved this! It was so delicious; tangy and fresh and light. Perfect for a hot summer’s day.<br/ <br/ Hubby chose the mushroom linguini $26), being a huge pasta fan. The pasta was al dente, which he found a bit too chewy for his tastes. He thought the meal itself was a bit small for his appetite, and he would have loved a bigger portion. He also said it needed more mushrooms. But he liked the extra flavours of capsicum, olives, onion, spinach, parmesan and pesto.<br/ <br/ Lord N went for the fish and chips with salad $23) and a sesame dressing. He was very happy with this large and crunchily golden dish. There were 3 or 4 generous portions of fish, along with the chips. I was quite envious as my meal, gorgeous though it was, didn’t really fill the gaps. I kinda wish I’d had some chips too. <br/ <br/ Lady J chose the bug and prawn linguini, with tomatoes and peas $35). This dish looked beautiful, and very tempting to those of us who love seafood. There was a large piece of bug on top, and several large prawns. This was a winner with Lady J.<br/ <br/ Did I forget to mention dessert? I enjoyed the caramel apple pie parfait $14) – layers of caramelised apples, Chantilly cream, cookie crumbs, butterscotch sauce and salted caramel ice cream. Oh yum! Deliciously salty-sweet, creamy, fabulousness. Lady J had the bourbon sticky date pudding $16) with a toffee sauce, bourbon cream and vanilla ice cream. She adored this over the top bowl of warm, creamy pudding.<br/ <br/ All in all, we had a lovely lunch with fabulous food with just a few minor niggles). We had great views and a really wonderful waitress who was friendly and helpful. We would all very happily go there again.<br/ <br/ The produce is locally caught and/or grown. The menu is seasonal, and designed for their local customers. The fish is hand-picked every day by the head chef. Oh, and don’t forget the teppanyaki room, which holds 33 people. There is a beer garden, and a function space too. The restaurant juts out over the water, and you can dine while watching the boats in the marina. A really nice place to while away a Sunday afternoon.

Dined here with a friend on Friday for lunch as was visiting from Melb. Had bought a scoopon voucher so best value as we had $200 credit to spend for only $95 for both of us. And we spent it for sure between the 2 of us. We enjoyed many entrees local king prawns both chilled in the shell with cocktail sauce and with garlic butter and gremolata, Tasmanian scallops, stuffed calamari, croquettes and beets. For main we enjoyed salmon king prawn and snapper. For dessert we pushed our stomach and shared the pavlova and it was worth it and the food coma we were both in at the end. The food was very delicious and the seafood was very fresh and tasty. The service was very friendly and attentive also and the food all came out in parts which was great and as we requested. Would recommend this place and I hope to return and visit again next time I'm in Qld again.