Turquoise – LI – Great Neck

Blog, I am back.   

Earlier this week I finally ate at Turquoise (LI not UES) across from the Great Neck train station.  It’s a seafood restaurant, but really a Mediterranean one.  Incidentally, they have wine & beer, no liquor.

The Israeli salad appetizer was great – crunchy, finely chopped and a touch briny. The chilean sea bass was tasty & just the right texture.  The whole red St. Peter’s fish was lovely and very good.  Even the bread was good — lightly toasted.  That’s all the good stuff.

The service was non-existent to diffident. We were ignored most of the time. One of our salads was forgotten.  And the perennial effort to get the check was a quest.  The only service bright spot – the server offered a taste of a wine to assist with decision making.

Add the bad service to the sparse decor, in a cold rather than chic way, and unfortunately the negatives outweighed the positives of the food –too bad.

~ by crschepp on December 6, 2008.