Amelies in Cornwall

Amazing food, gorgeous location & fabulous staff!

Due to CODID we haven’t visited Porthleven for a few years but we were excited to celebrate Mother’s Day at Amelie’s having really enjoyed our last visit but we were sadly really disappointed!We love the fact that they welcome dogs as we wouldn’t have dined without our girls with us and the welcome glass of Prosecco for the ladies was very thoughtful!However, the food was a real disappointment - my wife ordered prawn cocktail and received a ramakin sized dish with just a few prawns cut in half lengthways!!! If they were short of prawns why put it on the menu. Or perhaps they felt that a lady couldn’t eat a whole prawn? Bizarre!I had salt and pepper calamari to start and it was fine but nothing to write home about.My wife then had scallops for main which was more the size of a starter whilst I had a trip back to an 80’s Bernie inn with a surf and turf consisting if a mini steak and a couple of prawns, basic fries with a hand full of rocket! Where’s there ambition! And at £28 I would have expected at least a whole steak, triple cooked chips and some asparagus with a contemporary presentation.Service was attentive but the whole experience was sooo average. By comparison and for a quarter of the price we’ve had fabulous meals at both Dan Dan the lobsterman’s shack and the Muscle Shoal so sadly we won’t be returning to Amelie’s any time soon.

Change of management since we last dined here a couple of years ago, and it shows: it has vastly improved. Attentive, prompt and friendly service. Delicious food, well cooked and beautifully presented. We sat in the conservatory overlooking the harbour. Our little dog was welcome too. We hope to return.

We went there on Saturday evening to celebrate our wedding anniversary, big disappointment, very salty mackerel pate, fish pieces dry from being over fried, small pizza ordered which came like the toppings had been served on a poppadom, overall presentation very poor. We didn't complain because we didn't want our evening completely ruined, we will go somewhere else and celebrate our wedding anniversary again as it was one of the big ones . We did tell the waitress we were bitterly disappointed, but only when she asked if everything was okay when we paid the bill. We noticed her telling the manager as we were leaving, but he didn't approach or stop us .

Extremely disappointing. Lacking atmosphere, the squid was rubbery and tasteless, the king prawns over cooked and smothered in cream with no flavour of the promised garlic and chilli.We hoped for better with the over priced main course.Mussels and fries..half the mussels were hot on the surface and cold underneath the other half was cold. Drowned in cream with no flavour. The top layer of chips were hot, the rest were cold. Bread was like cardboard.Surf and Turf..chips were hard in the middle, steak was cooked well but same issue with king prawns. Rocket salad was drowned in oil and soaked Parmesan.Wait staff were attentive and fair, refunding the cost of mussels, but sadly we will not be returning.

Had a delightful lunch overlooking the harbour. Very friendly service by the young surfer waiter. Food was good too and they went out of their way to ensure that the crab aranchini were fried in the chip frier so that our friend with an allergy to prawns was effected by cross contamination.

Starters were tiny and lacking punch. We were advised to try platter on the express basis they were full size. Then we get told if we ordered separately it would be same tiny portion size but just spread out on the plate. Bruschetta was cold / very hard. Babaganous came with the smallest piece of flatbread. Mains came out just luke warm - not hot. Didn’t have the energy to complain as the feedback on starters was somewhat ignored.Defo do not recommend. Lacked any feel of putting client experience first. Feel dissapointed. Even the children’s ‘ fish bites’ felt processed rather than flakey fish.

Great good kitchen and service

Very good restaurant with a great location on the harbour. Friendly staff and good food. Highly recommended!

Very good staff, food was really tasty, on my opinion a bit small portion of starter ( shrimps) and a bit not enough choice of sea food for example no oysters, octopus...(if its possible)