Latitude 30 - Coffs Harbour

Visited Coffs Harbour for the first time and saw this restaurant written up as having good seafood. I love all things seafood so I showed up without a reservation. Alessandro greeted me and found what turned out to be the last available table. He walked me thru their menu including the fresh off the boat Specials. I ordered his favorite, Cerviche made with fish not shellfish just wonderful! Very fresh, crisp tastes, wonderful mix of textures. He recommended a Margaret River Sauvignon Blanc that went perfectly with the cerviche; flinty, waxy, almost a gruner. Then came the whole grilled stripped bass. Again perfectly cooked with lemon, butter and not much else. Exactly as it should be straightforward and delicious. He suggested a Grillo white from Sicily that was a perfect Compliment. Allesandro knows his wines so ask and take his recommendations. I saved some off my S Blanc to have with 4 local oysters my dessert). I loved them. And I 'm a big oyster foodie so I 'm critical but these were wonderful. One more glass of the Grillo with a coffee to finish a perfect dinner. It is a casual place as a beach/seafront restaurant ought to be. The next night my customers booked to take me here again! When I said I had been the night before they offered to change but I said no as there were other dishes waiting to be tried. This time I started with the oyster and re proved how good they were. Then the yellowfin tuna for my entree. It had a bit of a Asian fusion influence but was, again, wonderful. I again had the Sauvignon Blanc with the oysters and asked our waitress to ask Alessandro for his recommendation for the tuna a Pinot Grigio. Great. When I thanked him later he said the choice was the Pinot or a light red but chse the Pinot since I clearly enjoyed my whites. So I give Latitude 30 5 stars for its food and for Alessandro. Great place and can 't wait to Come back all the way from Connecticut.!

For coastal views, people watching and great seafood. Consistently good quality food fare. I've always enjoyed a meal here by the water and the bustling boardwalk. The service can be hit and miss and they have missed out on dessert orders and patronage after stuffing up bookings.

The food was absolutely amazing. I have tried fish and chips all over the world and this was by far the best. The prawn was phenomenally as well as the flat bread. This was a fun discovery for an unplanned lunch with a great view of the ocean.

We just called in for coffee with a couple of locals. It was mainly to see the view. I would have liked to have tried their food but we were really here at coffee time. We sat at the back looking at the traffic rather than the water, which was an excellent view. I soon realised why we HAD to have a coffee here as our guides are very needy when it comes to soy, low fat etc etc chai or coffee. The barista here catered to those needy people. My ordinary cappuccino was good. I wasn't tempted by a cake but my dining buddies were, and devoured them with gusto.

4.6 If you love great local seafood and wonderful wines in a perfect daytime or evening setting at reasonable prices, then this is your place. We loved it. We received a lovely greeting on arrival. We immediately noticed the lovely sea view from the restaurant. My gin and tonic to start was great as were my companions' cocktails, the Jimmy Choo and a Jamaican Cool Aid respectively. My loved one started the meal with gin cured ocean trout. She declared it magnificent and said it went fantastically with the Jimmy Choo. 50c and I had the seafood mezze, a combination of oysters, Balmain bugs, smoked salmon and prawns with a seafood mouse and crostini. We had this because we were too timid to order the seafood platter in view of cost as the world's most beautiful woman is suddenly on an economy drive. Bottom line, our decision was inspired. This is just a fantastic dish. The seafood is magnificent. So fresh and full of flavour. We'd prepared our own meal at $20 a head from the Seafood Co-op the day before. We'd never do that again. We'd go to Latitude 30 instead. The seafood mezze was $30. It was about 25 times better than the ordinary seafood we'd got from the Co-op. The senior server at Latitude 30 told us why that was so. The restaurant gets the pick of the seafood and gosh it shows. The seafood mezze was so good, I couldn't work out what to finish with as every seafood piece was superb. I had the swordfish special for main. This comprised a superbly cooked fillet on chat potatoes with broccoli and beans. I expected a fairly small dish. It's the opposite. It is a very generous main. A large fillet and no less than five potatoes and ample vegetables as well. We didn't really need our sides of hand cut chips and seasonal greens. The swordfish was a delicious dish. The food was presented and cooked superbly. Not just the fish. The veggies were beautiful. Hot and flavoursome with just that right amount of residual crispness. Now, whoever put the wine list together really really knows their stuff. It's a fantastic and really thoughtful list. The prices are also restrained for the quality of wine on offer. There are no less than four excellent Aussie rieslings on the list, all of them brilliant wines. We chose the Skillogalee riesling which is a beauty. One of our favourite wines. It complemented the food wonderfully. At the end of the night we also got into a Rutherglen fortified, a superb Muscat. This is about the last place I expected to find such a great wine. As I said, this is a very very good wine list here. We loved Latitude 30. It is not perfect but it's a very good restaurant. At $120 a head tonight, it's fantastic value compared with the same or similar quality seafood and wine in the major cities. It would have been significantly less without the cocktail and after dinner drink. Our conclusion: this is a place that's not to be missed if you are in or near Coffs Harbour.