Doug's Seafood Cafe

Just classic fish and chips with a big variety of seafood, salads, soft drinks, coffee and cakes. Not gourmet seafood but traditional fish and chips style seafood. My favourites are the seafood basket and the barramundi and chips. Great location with a view of Moreton Bay and good service. Fair prices too.

Pretty terrible unfortunately. Portion sizes were good but the barra strips were so badly overdone and dry. The battered cod was so underdone, I broke the piece open and you could smell the flour and undercooked batter 🤮 it was thick and inedible. Basically ate chips and calamari for $58. Picture is of the thick uncooked batter that just peeled off the fish.

Like most establishments, the quality nosedives over time. Not sure if the kitchen staff changed, but they seemed clueless today. We paid the public holiday surcharge for dine in, but staff called our name for a take away. So here we are, all covid checked in and seated, and theyre handing out brown boxes. Told staff to serve at the table, and they handed out cutlery and plates. The food was ok, but the prawns were microscopic in size this time, and the sweet lip had swollen in size from the fryer. Got the impression that they didn't care much for our business, so wont be returning.

Dougs comes with a good reputation lately from friends and we haven't been here for years so today was the day to catch up. Whiting was excellent as was the large piece of snapper. Calamari was right up there with the better ones too. Unfortunately, the big let down was the batter. Nice and crisp at one end of the snapper but thick and doughy at the other, thicker end of the fillet. Same for one piece of whiting and also the piece of pineapple. The doughy batter was golden brown on the outside but glug on the inside. It seems unlikely, taking into account friends good comments, that this is normal, so it was just a little slip of attention on the part of one of the cooks. Mistakes happen. Life goes on. Huge pieces of fish and cooked well so no whingeing there. 😊