Waterfront Seafood Market

07/01/09

Good experiance for me

by Lisabon

My third time ever to try sushi and I loved it. I love their shrimp basket, always will. But the Chuck Norris was beautiful. The chef was so friendly and it was good.

Although our server was super friendly, he had 5 other tables to serve. I noticed quite a few teens just standing by the service desk chatting while this man was running around serving food. I know we waited longer then we should of had because he had a lot on his hands, but someone needs to put those kids to work! They're getting paid just so they could talk? I'd like to not think that. Overall, it is a good place to eat.

• Pros: Friendly service, good Chuck Norris!, fresh food
• Cons: Waited a couple minutes longer for our food then we should

06/02/09

Do you like bones?

by diningpro99

Firstly, I will say that the seafood tasted fresh, hard not to when the place was packed and according to a customer next to us, always is. But why? We started with the Seafood & Andouille Gumbo. NOT! It was smoked sausage, chicken and 1 lone baby shrimp. I was mediocre in flavor. We also had the Clam Chowder, it was cream of potato soup with a couple pieces of canned minced clams. My date had the special of the night, grilled Catfish. The fish was grilled fine except for the black burned areas, but had no spice at all, NONE. It came with a disgusting mixture of mayonaise and pickles trying to pass as tartar sauce. I had the Wall Eye Pike, it was grilled well, no burns on this one, but again nothing, no spice, no sauce, no flavor. But it came with a bonus, lots of bonus'. Every bite came with its own bone, at least one. So if you like bones in your FILET, bon appetit!

• Pros: Fresh seafood
• Cons: Full of Bones

02/06/09

Need to Rethink Their Service

by sushiiowa

I never write reviews either, but I went to Waterfront for the first time on a busy Friday night, and the service was horrible. My boyfriend and I sat at the bar and the waitress hurried us through our order and would barely look at us. The people at the other end (selling fish? greeting?) had attitudes and chatted the whole time. At the end, our bill was messed up and the waitress acted mad that we even pointed it out.

I got the feeling that because the place was packed, the staff had a "take it or leave it" attitude, as if they didn't particularly need anyone's business. Anyway, the sushi was pretty good, but it can be really frustrating with service like that, so we will probably try and find somewhere else next time we are in Des Moines.

• Cons: Service