Anchor Restaurant & Bar

Absolutely superb! The service was friendly and welcoming and the food was excellent! My blue cod was melt in the mouth delicious! My partner’s vegetarian curry was very tasty. My sister enjoyed her chicken, and her husband said his groper and scallops meal was fantastic!

The Anchor is well situated with plenty of parking close by and a lovely outlook over the boat harbour and hills in the background. My wife and I have had many outings to The Anchor and would not hesitate to recommend it to others. On Monday night as usual the staff were attentive and the food delicious. We especially enjoyed the sticky toffee pudding, and our friends' favourite was their main course of whitebait patties. Many thanks for a top-rate dining experience.

Lovely setting, great food with good sized portions, and super service - thank you :)

We were celebrating a 75th birthday, the food and the service were great. The only problem - we ate too much!!! Will definately go again.

Lovely evening to be out dining. Beautiful view from our table, excellent food and service. Brother visiting from England was blown away by First Table experience.

The Anchor bar is a Nelson gem, we are never disappointed. We always find we get fantastic service at the early sitting.

Nice and fresh seafood!

Went for my hubby's birthday, great setting, beautiful night with delicious food and great service. We all had steak meals and all cooked as we like them, surf-n-turf so yummy, a must try. Thank you Anchor restaurant and bar.

I would highly recommend going here..The service and food were great. Couldn't fault anything. Would go again.

This is the 3rd time we’ve dined here. Each time has been superb.Our steaks were cooked exactly as we ordered. Everything was delicious!

Absolutely terrible! My partner ordered the anchorman’s choice I think it’s called where you get a bit of all the seafood.. every single bit of seafood was extremely over cooked and the fish wasn’t fresh, it was so old you couldn’t even swallow it. I ordered the surf n turf and I got basically a slop of unseasoned over cooked prawns in a floury tasting sauce with a steak that was well done when I asked for medium rear, worst eating experience we have had ever! We also never had one waitress come over to ask how our meals were going, we sat there with untouched plates for about 10 minutes and ended up having to go up and complain. They made us pay for one of the meals even though both were pretty much completely untouched. Was not happy at all & I highly recommend you not coming here & wasting your time!

Our experience was wonderful! The food was delicious. Especially the Liver and Bacon dish was to die for (thank you for offering it, very rare find on a menu in Nelson). The steaks were very nicely cooked and decent size, and the whitebait omelette was great and full of whitebait. Big portions. The staff were nice, friendly and attentive. It was quite busy on a week night but our meals still arrived in a timely fashion. I loved the atmosphere and the lovely views. Very happy with the whole experience, would definitely return.

A wonderful dining experience from the moment we walked in. We were greeted warmly and shown to a superb table with views of the marina. The menu had a great selection and when our meals arrived, we were impressed with the quality and generosity of the portions. I had whitebait fritters, my partner had crusted mushrooms, and our friend had fish of the day (snapper). All were delicious! And the desserts (apple and berry crumble, banana split) were also very good. This was our first First Table experience. To have such superb food at such a great price was fantastic!

Enjoyable evening excellent food no complaints

good food and service

Service very good and food could have been hotter. Pudding quite dry but told to ask for more sauce next time. Would visit again but maybe next year.

The staff were great but unfortunately the food was sub-standard

The Anchor is in a premier location overlooking Nelson Marina. The staff are friendly and attentive. The restaurant was very busy with couples, families and groups as expected in the run-up to Christmas. The ambience was relaxed, casual and buzzy.

Unfortunately, for us the food was disappointing.

The signature seafood chowder was over-salty, flour-thickened and bland. The liver and bacon sauce was gloopy and we wondered whether the mash was freshly made from actual potatoes. The salads were drenched in glutinous dressing. The fish, prawns and scallops were heavily battered; the chips seemed not be freshly-made from actual potatoes; the mussels, prawns and shrimps, supposedly steamed in herb butter, were just wet, soggy and flavourless, served inside of tinfoil. The whole dining experience was Large City GastroPub.

We felt the meals were over-priced and poor quality. There are far better restaurants in Nelson.

Great service great food nice scenery

Lovely evening meal and great service

Fantastic ! We ordered a mix of entree's and mains to share between the 3 of Us. Breads n Dips; Prawn Salad; Scallops; Salmon, and Spicy Calamari (salt n pepper style) YUM!! The Calamari was the Best I've had in a very long time. I always order it when out at different Restaurants. It was soooo melt in your mouth and the perfect spicy heat-ness. The salad with each dish was really fresh and a great mix. Delicious. Just needed a few more Olives in the Dishes that mentioned them.
The Wine List is well thought out to match the Menu and reasonable priced. And Jo that looked after us was Awesome ! She was very welcoming and professional. Thanks very much : )

A deliciously delightful evening with a sun kissed view over the marina. Excellent service, tasty generous portions, fine ales and chilled rose.
Highly recommended.

What a great place the food and service was out of this world

Very good service and great food thank you

Thx Anchor Bar & Grill, another great dining experience in a relaxed setting by the marina

The service was great, the food was excellent, I had a friend over from the UK who loved that we could look over the harbour while eating the freshly cooked food, will definitely be going back

All very good nothing to complain about

Pleasant evening. Food was good. Wait time was really good between meals. Thank you

Service was excellent food was good

Delicious meal and excellent service.

Great experience at Anchor Restaurant and Bar. Best Creme Brulee I've ever had A+++

Great food, great service! Thanks

Love the beautiful location right by the port looking out over the boats. The Anchor restaurant served a great value meal alongside a decent wine selection and the front of house team were lovely and friendly even though we dined on a busy weekday night. I highly recommend the fillet steak and sticky toffee pudding!

Beautiful meal as always in this fine resaurant

Had a lovely evening, food and service very good. Chose the more expensive meals as we were only paying half price, win win all round.

Great food, great service, awesome location and view

Excellent food and service, neat location and view. Highly recommend to visit and experience great atmosphere and lovely meal. Definitely would come again.

Dined there last night to celebrate our 51st anniversary. Excellent food and service. I had the salmon main which was cooked perfectly. My husband had the steak which was beautiful and tender with lovely sauce. I went for the Creme Brulee for dessert and it was as good as any I have had. We will certainly be back

Seafood chowder a must. Great location and great service. Thank you.

Amazing service and fantastic food yet again Anchor - you never let us down! Love looking over the marina too, great views. We'll be back :-)

Had a nice dining experience using First Table for the 1st time. It was hard choosing what to have from the menu as lots of yummy choices. The four of us all choose something different and we all enjoyed our meals. The service we received was very good.

Good sized and yummy feeds. All of us happy with choices. Drinks range was limited but sufficient to cover most tastes.

almost food was good,
especially arancini was nice!

Beautiful view and amazing food. Will definitely be back, and would highly recommend!

We hadn't been for ages and were not disappointed when back, with beautiful chowder and fish chip and salad meals. Service was great and we will be back for sure

Thankyou great offer and lovely food and service was A1.

Great food, great company only thing was the very loud table that arrived detracted from the evening

A most enjoyable experience with delicious well presented food from friendly attentive staff -Thank you.

Super location for generous tasty food! Enjoyed by all!

Awesome food, service and location!