Introducing Finbar's of West Bay, a renowned restaurant located on top of West Bay Cafe in Westgate-on-Sea, United Kingdom. With stunning sunset views from the dining area, Finbar's offers a delightful dining experience with its superb food, lovely staff, and great atmosphere. The menu boasts a variety of options, including steaks, superb fish dishes, and upmarket burgers. One highly recommended dish is the dressed crab with crispy shelled eggs. The restaurant prides itself on being LGBTQ+ friendly and identifies as women-owned. While currently closed for dine-in, Finbar's below is offering takeaway drinks and food, including their popular battered fish and chips. Open daily from 10am (weather permitting) until late afternoon, Finbar's of West Bay is a go-to destination for a memorable dining experience.
Amenities and More
- Offerings
- Healthy options
- Small plates
- Organic dishes
- Planning
- Accepts reservations
- Reservations required
- Payments
- Credit cards
- Parking
- Free of charge street parking
- Plenty of parking
- Crowd
- LGBTQ+ friendly
- Transgender safe space
- From the business
- Identifies as women-owned
- Highlights
- Rooftop seating
Reviews
Such good food. Best burger I’ve actually ever had and living in London, I’ve had a lot of burgers. :)
Beautiful setting. We went in winter, so it must be glorious in summer. Last time we visited was before Covid, so I didn’t hold my expectations high….yet the food was just as delicious and the staff were lovely too!
The view is fantastic and sitting outside on the terrace on a nice evening is stunning. Next time though I would watch the sunset on the beach and then go somewhere else for dinner.
First, the positive. Our server was fantastic - very friendly, professional and helpful. She was attentive throughout the meal and very quickly corrected a small mistake on our bill at the end.
There are a few more negatives unfortunately.
I had the burger and it was incredibly greasy. It was OK initially but left a nasty taste in my mouth and feeling in my stomach all evening and night, I could even still taste it this morning. The bun was also cold - not room temperature cold, refrigerated cold - which made me feel it had just been taken straight from the fridge or defrosted and put on my plate.
To contrast this, my partner did say the pan fried cod was quite nice. The desserts were very nice too, perhaps a bit too sweet towards the end but not extreme.
As I said above, service from our waitress individually was excellent but the restaurant overall was very slow. This was despite having what appeared to be one staff member to every 2-4 customers - behind the bar inside was absolutely packed. A good proportion of these staff looked like they were aged 12-16 as well.
To illustrate the pace of service, my partner and I each had one drink, one main and one dessert - we were there for 2 hours and 15 mins. As a specific example, when we requested the dessert menu it took about 15 mins for it to come and then a further 15-20 mins for someone to come back for our order. I've been to places that are much worse but this is definitely on the slow end.
Really lovely restaurant, food was absolutely perfect. There's not many places around here I've been that will serve a steak cooked blue, and it's a really good indicator of how good a place is in terms of hygiene, freshness, and skill if they do. The steak was gorgeous (bavette is my favourite cut) portions were just right. Poached pear was really elegantly spiced - not heavy handed with it as many places tend towards - and refreshing. Overall the seasoning for every dish we had showed a great degree of skill and care; nothing was bland, nothing was unbalanced or over-salted, and honestly I didn't expect it to be so good for the price. It's about middling on cost, I'd say, but the quality is absolutely top.
The service staff were all absolutely lovely too, very patient when we took our time figuring out what we want (we forgot to ask for a corner or side table and find being surrounded a little overwhelming so took a bit to settle ourselves - such is life when you're ND).
Menu is clear and uncluttered, and vegetarian options and gluten free options are clearly marked, tho I didn't focus on what they were once I saw they had my favourite cut of steak.
We took a short flight of stairs from the grass at the top and then a ramp to get in, but I think there is a long long ramp led route along the bay we might have been able to take - all I can definitely say is that the place is AMBULANT disabled accessible, with space in the toilet to prop your stick, though it didn't have an explicitly accessible toilet (not that I saw). The wooden ramp in front of the door was a bit slippy under my stick in the rain, which I think may just be my needing to replace the rubbery bit at the bottom - it's been happening everywhere lately.
The view over the bay is gorgeous too.
Honestly a gem, definitely recommended.
Oh my goodness, your team ACED my brother’s beautiful wedding meal/evening bank holiday Saturday!!!
AMAZING food, fab staff, perfect atmosphere and you even nailed the sunset for them! Thank you all so much for your efforts, they had the most special day - it was all perfect! Special shout out to Lauren who read the room and interacted impeccably!
Kelly was discreetly in full calm control and nothing at all was too much trouble for anyone - every want and need was met, all with a super relaxed atmosphere.
Honestly, every person from our party was overwhelmed with the meal and service, so even guests who’d travelled for the occasion will be heading back to Finbars now!
Thank you, thank you, thank you - can’t recommend you guys enough! xxx
Lovely little restaurant overlooking the bay. We visited on a Friday evening - only outside seating was available when I booked, which was fine and even though it started raining, fortunately we were seated at a table for two along the front, which has a canopy over it, so we were dry and got a great view.
Delightful service, and delicious food. A good range of drinks including for non-alcohol drinkers.
Wow, fresh & delicious food, fab service, and a stunning view. You couldn't really ask for more!
I recently ate lunch here with colleagues and ordered the Club sandwich, which looked fantastic, and you can see by the picture it looks very fresh and of a generous portion size! The fries were so tasty I would maybe say the best I've had. My colleague ordered the salt beef sandwich and commented on how good that was, too.
I was lucky enough for the sun to be shining, although foggy, but the view was absolutely stunning. I definitely want to have dinner whilst the sun sets. It's the perfect location to be honest and would be suitable for date nights, catch ups, special occasions, sunday family lunch, holiday dinners - it really suits all.
The team were super friendly and attentive, too. I need to plan my next visit!
Lovely new addition to Westgate. We had the seafood chowder which was delicious and my Dad had the cod which he loved. He also said that the apple pie was the best he'd ever had. The restaurant is lovely, the staff were friendly and …
Loved it!
Great food, staff and sea views!
Although fish restaurant They had a few veggie options too. Great kids menu
Very attentive waiter. Shame the bar area was a little bit messy which would be my only negative bit of feedback (kinda ruined the look they were going for - see photos)
Highly recommend a visit though, the food was pretty amazing!
Such good food. Best burger I’ve actually ever had and living in London, I’ve had a lot of burgers. :)
Beautiful setting. We went in winter, so it must be glorious in summer. Last time we visited was before Covid, so I didn’t hold my expectations high….yet the food was just as delicious and the staff were lovely too!
The view is fantastic and sitting outside on the terrace on a nice evening is stunning. Next time though I would watch the sunset on the beach and then go somewhere else for dinner.
First, the positive. Our server was fantastic - very friendly, professional and helpful. She was attentive throughout the meal and very quickly corrected a small mistake on our bill at the end.
There are a few more negatives unfortunately.
I had the burger and it was incredibly greasy. It was OK initially but left a nasty taste in my mouth and feeling in my stomach all evening and night, I could even still taste it this morning. The bun was also cold - not room temperature cold, refrigerated cold - which made me feel it had just been taken straight from the fridge or defrosted and put on my plate.
To contrast this, my partner did say the pan fried cod was quite nice. The desserts were very nice too, perhaps a bit too sweet towards the end but not extreme.
As I said above, service from our waitress individually was excellent but the restaurant overall was very slow. This was despite having what appeared to be one staff member to every 2-4 customers - behind the bar inside was absolutely packed. A good proportion of these staff looked like they were aged 12-16 as well.
To illustrate the pace of service, my partner and I each had one drink, one main and one dessert - we were there for 2 hours and 15 mins. As a specific example, when we requested the dessert menu it took about 15 mins for it to come and then a further 15-20 mins for someone to come back for our order. I've been to places that are much worse but this is definitely on the slow end.
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