Aurora Bar And Restaurant - Ipswich

Service a bit slow but they made up for it. Really busy as it’s Mother’s Day. Pawel and Lena was great with their service. Great attention to detail. Made sure were not just left there sitting without any service. Even better than the last time we were here! Lastly great tasting food. Will come back again for sure…..

This is our 2nd visit. Visited when first opened and was doing table service, took ages to order and get drinks. We seven saw one couple leave.they also had a load of cocktails in the menu that then weren’t avaliable. Several months later we thought we’d go again, yesterday. This time it was find a seat then come and order at the bar. This was better. Limited cocktails but decent menu of other drinks. Food menu was new and we had the dough balls, which consisted of 3 large dough balls and dip for £7. Which were nice. They brought water out to the table too which was great. Cocktails expensive tinker bell martini £12, beer better pint of beer about £5. Not the venues fault but shame about all the roadworks and blocked views by railings etc.

First time at Alisters new restaurant after having been to the Woodbridge venue, which we enjoyed very much. We sat on the balcony for a cocktail, with a nice view of the river, we both had a Pornstar Martini, and it was buy 1 get 1 free, bonus, they came out quickly and were very nice, water came straight out also, we decided to move inside for our food as it was getting a little chilly, we decided to order 3 starters, the duck bon bons, houmous, and the jerk chicken wings, all came out in good time and were all delicious! , I’ve eaten in many nice restaurants and couldn’t fault anything, for our mains we had the fish and chips and the burger, the mains came out quite soon after our starters, and didn’t disappoint, my ‘mushy’ peas were more crushed, and were the best I’ve ever had, so well seasoned, and the burger was ‘juicy’ according to my partner, so he was happy, good portion sizes for the price, we were too full for a dessert but decided to try the panna cotta anyway, perfect! so all in all a great evening with delicious food and very good service, highly recommended.

This Iconic restaurant at the end of the waterfront Marina, Ipswich has recently been taken over by A Listers and what a difference. Friendly team who welcome you on arrival, water on the table and great new menu, reasonably priced. We sat outside on relaxed seating in the sun with our cocktails, then moved in to eat on the balcony watching the sun go down over the Marina it was absolutely beautiful as was the food and wine. Perfect service and thoroughly recommend.

Whenever I am in Ipswich, Aurora is my go to fav restaurant. Haven't been since the pandemic so was very much looking forward to visiting last night. What a disappointment, lack of menu options, no atmophere, cold venue with very few tables occupied compared to previous occasions. The presentation of the food was sloppy, no finesse and my meal, which was due to come with sweet potato fries came with regular ones. No-one bothered to check if our meal was ok until well after we'd finished. However, once aware of our complaint, the waitress, who is in fact the events manager handled the situation well and recompensed us for the extremely poor experience. We had originally been going with friends who have never been but I am so glad we didn't as this experience would have been an embarrassment. Aurora please get your act together and restore this restaurant to its former glory.