31, Town Quay, Southampton TEL: 023 80335045  www.losmarinos.com

To be fair go & look through the Guest Book to find an entry from Joan Lake made on July 8th 2005, she is a great fan of Los Marinos, read her opinion as well as ours.

Revisited May 2004

All I can say is that I should have re read my own review before  giving this establishment a second chance!  It has now moved to Town Quay & if it had been a very warm day & we could have sat outside it may have helped to cheer the experience.  It is now in what was Old Orleans & it doesn't look as if they have done much to the interior as everything is very shabby.  ( Expect it looks better at night).  To be fair they did have to leave Ocean Village whilst all the building work is going on there but one of the staff told me that they are now staying on Town Quay so perhaps they will do a refurb.   The waitress was very smiley & friendly, even when I sent back my starter.  I chose a Tapas Platter, a selection of marinated peppers, olives, anchovy fillets, pickled asparagus & fresh bread.  It was terrible, freezing cold so everything tasted exactly the same, & obviously all out of tins.  ( See what I said  about the olives below!)  We all had 2 starters so to replace my first choice I chose Calamari,  & again I should have remembered what they were like last time!  My other choice was a Tortilla Espanola, which was OK.  The other 2 were luckier with their selections. Albondigas,( meat balls), Deep Fried Whitebait, ( very tasty), Championes Ali-Oli ( mushrooms in a bacon cream & garlic sauce) & Spinach & Avocado Florentine ( pan fried spinach with nutmeg, onions, dressed in avocado, topped with a cheese sauce ( best choice).

We had a bottle of house white ( the only thing I enjoyed!)

They do have an excellent website, details of all the menus on there & some great pics which show that an awful lot of people do have a good time at Los Marinos.... we must have just been unlucky, twice!

Cost £ £ £

Yummy Factor 4/10  

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Visited May 2002

Lovely setting on edge of Ocean Village Yacht Basin.  Beautiful sunny day & chose to come here so we could sit outside.

Had a bottle of house red & half a bottle of house white, very palatable.  Large menu of "lite bites" but we decided to share a selection of tapas...... Tortilla Espanola, good.  Albondigas (meatballs in a chef's special sauce), Ok, but sauce was bland.  Chorizo (hot spicy sausage) bites & salsa, chorizo very tough & not very spicy.  Calamares Fritas, good but really looked & tasted like goujons of any sort of fish.  A portion of fries, fine.  Lastly a plate of mixed olives, terrible!  It was the most boring mix of pitted green & black olives, no stuffings, oil, herbs or dressing of any kind.

Cost £ £ £

Yummy factor for food, 5/10 for the sun & the view 8/10

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PS Don't go any where near here in the evening unless you are under 25!!