Abbey Wharf in Scarborough

Busy restaurant but still great service and food was really good. Allowed dogs in. Reasonable pricing. Food came in adequate time to say it was busy. Would recommend

Nice place but at over £5.00/pint it's a bit expensive

Be aware, if you book a table for 4 and only 3 turn up, you lose your deposit if you don't inform them prior. Apparently they expect 3 people to share a small table that just about fits 2😤😤

We find the atmosphere & view of the quayside lovely.

Dinner with a view on the outside terrace at the end of October. Quick service, nice atmosphere and the best fish-pie I have probably ever eaten.

We visited on Goth weekend it was busy! But the service was impeccable

A great place to go to and meet up with friends, or to go and watch the views from the balcony weather permitting, also a great place for dog lovers even got a doggy menu. Food is good value n service great. Also great choice of drinks. All in one place.

We eat in here regularly, Lovely interior and view. The staff are really friendly. The food is great, always arrives quickly. It's Dog friendly (paws on floors) and loads of seating available.

Great food, good selection of drinks. We went at lunchtime so just starting to get busy. Been later on in the day and going into the evening many years ago and really enjoyed it.

Lovely meal everytime I go. Definitely worth every penny

Absolutely amazing wasn't judge for being on my own service amazing staff amazing food hot couldn't ask for ant better will recommend and its the first place I've been where pets are allowed to eat with there human amazing what can I say.

Called here for lunch while visiting Whitby for the day with my family - and I’m so glad we did - we found a table an browsed the menu - absolutely love the self serve beer pumps :) they do have a bar you can order from but the novelty of serve your self is fun - all our meals ordered arrived soon after ordering an were all piping hot - bacon cheese burgers I’m told were really lovely an the Mornay packed with fish an a lovely sauce an crumble topping - the chips were to die for proper chips not some nasty cheap frozen efforts - we left full an contented will be back when visiting again :)

Don’t let the few poor reviews put you off visiting. We booked very last minute, to dine there last Monday evening. I then checked the reviews and was dubious. I’m so glad we ignored the poor reviews and went, as we had the most delicious meal - the fish pie was the best I have tasted and my husband also loved his haddock morney. Washed down with a Peach Bellini and refreshing pint. (You can even pour your own). It’s a large and modern restaurant with lovely views over the river and great music playing. Don’t miss out and enjoy your evening at Abbey Wharf.

This is the first bad review I have ever written. I work in a and e and since we left the restaurant this evening I’ve put it into perspective that there are far worse problems. Extremely poor customer service and very unkind manager.

The thing about visiting Whitby, the sea air makes your legs wobbly. We had to sit outside side on a terrace with a lovely view and must have stayed too long. Sure enough, when I got up to leave, my legs had gone wobbly 😭. They have all the usual beers here and served lovely meals. Great staff and friendly service. Just be careful if you sit outside!

Absolutely awful. We went here on supposed good reviews. It was hard to get seated for 9 of us but we squashed into a table borrowing chairs from elsewhere. The staff wasn't interested in seating us as the place is packed and you can take it or leave it. They do work hard. Whilst our meals all came up around the same time they were barely Luke warm (which tells me not enough waiting staff) I don't like cold food but didn't send it all back as the hassle to get seated in the first place had an adverse affect on the nice lunch it should have been. The fish was so minimal in the batter (I should have had fish fingers had they had some! And the last 3 Scampi out of its little dish were swimming in oil that I took, the (not quite an inch) tiny bit of meat out of the batter save drinking the oil. I had saved for this for months to take my adult kids out to lunch in Whitby a total waste of money for what it was - but kept my mouth shut so as not to spoil the day!

Lovely building. Food roughly £20 per meal with a soft drink. Dogs are allowed, which I dont mind, but I didn't enjoy one at my table sniffing my food as I ate. The owner didn't have it on a lead. The fish pie and burgers were lovely. However, the gammon was quite dry.

Cool place to help yaself to beer pumps.

Had some monkfish, side salad and chips was ok nothing special, not that I'm not a dog lover but people were coming in with 3.4 dogs at a time and was a bit off putting woof woof

Food fresh and good value, and the atmosphere very relaxed and lovely staff

Lovely food and great atmosphere.

It's fantastic for food and meetings with family and friends and also social gatherings

We only went to the fish and chip shop take away section so I can’t speak for the restaurant, but the fish butty they serve is shocking. A mini roll from a multipack, nothing wrong with the fish just the bread issue. Upon asking the lady working if they had run out of normal sized bread rolls she said this was how they always serve them. Shocking, especially for the price they charge

Absolutely disgusting customer service, especially from the bar manager. Ordered a long island iced tea, what consists of 5 spirits mixed with coke and lemon juice! Couldn't taste any alcohol what so ever so took it back asked for it remaking, but they point blank refused! Asked for money back was refused again! Her excuse was she apparently watched her make it and knew it was made right! They refused to try it but still said there was nothing wrong with it?! We will never be returning here due to the attitude of the bar manager and staff. However I would definitely recommend Macy Brown's for cocktails as they know how to make a long island iced tea.

Nice view over the esk. You can either order at the bar or via app. The App-Order was to complicated for my liking. You had to register. Food was all right. They have one vegan option.

Beautiful place with delicious food and great service.

Always something going on here and great for a pint especially in the outdoor area. Had great weather also which helped. Been coming here for years great place.

My wife and I love Whitby. It's been one of our favourite places for decades. Probably because it's on the other side of the bridge from where we arrive, we've visited the Abbey Wharf on very few occasions. There's so many good Fish & Chip places, we've usually eaten before we reach AW, which is a shame really because when we have climbed the stairs, it's always been a pleasurable experience. Having eaten (not successfully), we fancied a coffee with a view and ascended the stairs and made our way to the bar in AW. I didn't notice whether the guy who served us was wearing a name tag, so I didn't catch his name. I think I may recognise him being a large chap with long hair and a sizeable beard and, more importantly, an excellent sense of humour. Whilst I 'bantered' with the Viking behind the bar, my wife found a table outside with a great view of the harbour. I was very pleasantly surprised at the cost, £5.20 for two generous white Americano's with a free biscuit. Excellent value, excellent view and excellent service. I just need to devise a route to arrive at AW via another direction to eliminate food competitors so I can sample their F& C's next time.

Large venue for groups with good view if you're sitting by the windows. The fish pie was OK. The lamb burger and veggie curry were a long way below par. The standard fish & chips and scampi based dishes seemed to be well received though. Perhaps offering a smaller menu and doing those things really well would help. Service wasn't great. Seemed to be only one server covering a large number of tables.

Do not go here for coffee! Really slow because the staff didn’t know how to use the coffee machine. Then the coffee was cold and disappointing. Worse still we were ill the next day, and all our other food that day was what we’d been eating all week. Do they clean the machine? I wonder. Best to stick to beer here.

Absolutely loved it here. The atmosphere and the food was perfect even though we had to fight 50mph winds to get there but was worth it. Fish and chips should definitely get an award in place of Aldburgh. Waitress was a bit miserable and was working behind ice cream area as well, but apart from that, it was a lovely and memorable evening for us

Lovely place to sit out on the balcony overlooking Whitby and enjoying a nice pint of Peroni

Great views. Good staff and enjoyed the food and drink

Busy but seated quickly , both had the 1/2 kilo of mussels comes with bread and fries absolutely lovely

Good food and beer, large airy room with good views.

Great place to spend a sunny afternoon with friends overlooking the harbour

Service was terrible no wine available that was on the menu and could not have starters and mains separately we were told we had to have everything brought out together. Shocking service

Nice views over the Harbour, We didn't eat just had a relaxing Coffee and Hot Chocolate.

We have been coming to Abbey Wharf for years and have always really enjoyed the food and drinks! We have never been let down! Our last visit was testament to fantastic customer service, my mum was poorly and the staff were amazing, especially Tracy who was security she was fab and really did help!

The meal was the worst I have ever had . The steak wasn’t cooked properly and the smell from it was horrific the whole of upstairs smelt of it . The fillet steak smelt of urine it should never of been cooked or nerved I dread to see what had happened to it . Inexperienced chefs . The manager was very nice and helpful but I hope the person who served that steak was sacked as I could have been dreadfully ill if I’d have eaten it .

Fabulous location, overlooking the harbour. Great food, and highly recommend. Excellent accessibility. Stair lift for motility scooters. Staff extremely helpful. Will visit again.

Absolutely loved it here. We went in the evening and the food was excellent. Very busy, good atmosphere and the staff were great!Will go back

We ate here twice while on holiday, restaurant dog friendly, plenty of tables but usually gets full on the balcony when the weather is nice. The food was really good and reasonably priced. Even though it was quite busy, food came within a reasonable time. Would recommend.

Great music. Great atmosphere. A must

We did not eat, so 4 stars for the drink, venue, and atmosphere. It was packed when we went. Motown Night was in the Pavilion that night, and the buzz in here was electric. The self-service was a right giggle. My only gripe was we got drinks, and then there was nowhere to sit. Individuals sat on the balcony with no drink, but on their phone, was infuriating. The up stairs was reserved only. I'm not sure how that worked. A lady outside waiting for her daughter asked us to sit with her. A fantastic hour sat in the sun with some great conversation.

Food was absolutely delicious, very nice place but spoilt by dogs barking as well as sitting on seats at the table opposite us, we're dog lovers but it was ridiculous dogs barking during our meal

Beautiful scenery very tranquil

Nice modern eatery with plenty of tables with seating upstairs and on the balcony. It was too cold to sit on the balcony, so we sat inside. We managed to navigate the food and drinks app by using the barcode system that was shown on the table. Food and drink arrived in good time. The food was good. Varied food choices on the menu. Pub grub. Staff were kept busy serving and clearing. Dogs are allowed indoors. It's quite noisy with it being a big place with hard surfaces that allows sound to bounce about but not off-putting. I would recommend this place for dining and drinking. Especially when the weather is warmer, then you can sit on the balcony and admire the view across the harbour. It's a very busy place, so hats off to the staff for keeping up with catering for their customers.

Lovely food friendly and efficient staff.

Absolutely beutiful food and when sitting outside with a view like this place has . Only downside is never leave your food unattended lol, my hubby left his and within second a seagull swoop down and pinched his fish ,was so funny ,lady that was serving would let him eat the chips as she said they carry diseases so she brought him a fresh plate with a fresh fish

Called in without a booking and no problem they got me a table , had a few pints of Caffreys which was very nice and we had the bacon cheese burger, onion rings and lasagna all was delicious and lovely views from the restaurant I was very pleased with this place

Big place with good views, on my visit the place was busy and we had to clean our table ourselves even after we asking twice no one turned up to clean. Food was not very special.

Nice food and pleasant place although a bit noisy but expected with it being so big.

Didn't eat here. But drink options were good. Like the Self Serve bar too, which saves the wait at main bar. Glass balcony was great in the sunshine. Much bigger than you'd expect from the street. Lots of seating, even on a busy day. Will definitely be back!

Ordered 2 cod & 1 portion of chips as the portion sizes are huge! Definitely worth the money as it’s on pricey size. Had take out and took about 15minutes.

Visited twice on a very busy bank holiday weekend. The place was full but after finding a seat we ordered drinks and food at the bar and despite it being packed out the food arrived at the table in less than ten minutes. We were very pleased with the quality of food on both occasions and would recommend just because all the staff seemed very well trained in dealing with a very bust restaurant. Also dog friendly in the bar area which was very nice

Great place to chill on the glass balcony with drinks and good food we had the best time here and will return 😋 staff amazing especially the young dude behind the bar with the beard funny and great at his job even when busy well done fella sorry don't have your name

Booked a table and didn’t mind at all paying the £20 deposit.Arrived on time and I was surprised to find it very quiet especially as the sun was blazing!Nice views and Will one of the waiters was helpful but,I wouldn’t recommend this place.Lots of young kids running the show with very little customer service training.If you had asked how our meal was or if we needed anything I would have gladly spoken in person and not popped on here with a poor review. Food plonked down and the waitress ran away with no offer of tartare sauce or ketchup….sorry but,it takes 5 seconds to ask and makes all the difference! Food was average at best…fish and chips should be excellent in this area. Sorry I couldn’t possibly recommend this restaurant other than popping in for a drink possibly but,that’s just my opinion!

Lovely place overlooking the harbour also dog friendly. Menu has lots of fish choices but other things too. Kids menu looked great aswell. I had the fish pie was lovely packed full of lovely fresh fish. My friend had the monkfish which she enjoyed . Will be back in October so will definitely revisit

The place was busy as it’s was a Friday night. The table we had was just inside the main window overlooking the harbour, it was sticky from the last occupant. Paid on the APP for food and drinks. The drinks came after about 10 minutes and food about 30. Suggest if you want drinks quicker order at the bar. Food was good, hot any plentiful. My only criticism would be that there were far too many dogs in the place, most well behaved but some (in my view) too big to be in an eatery. Overall decent venue

We went for dinner here and had a pretty good meal - nothing to write home about but fine. Food orders and drinks are taken at the bar - it's a huge place and was absolutely packed when we went, so must be doing something right. It reminded me of a giant Wetherspoons in many ways. We had scampi and chips and a seafood chowder, both of which were ok.

Excellent meal, we all had the cod and chips and we weren’t disappointed. Dog friendly and plenty of space. Reasonable prices. Well worth a visit.

If I'm being honest, I didn't expect much from this place other than mass catering for hordes of beer monsters. How wrong I was. Clean, bright, spacious with stunning views over Whitby - fantastic verandah!! The food was magnificent in taste and portion. Add a decent selection of drinks and attentive service then the old adage 'don't choose a book by its cover' comes to mind again. Superb experience.👌 UPDATE: Back again - 28.08.24 and The Abbey Wharf is still buzzing. Food was perfect again. Great to see folk out on the balcony overlooking Whitby Harbour.

Reasonable priced restaurant for food. Drinks are a little pricey compared to other local bars. The balcony was nice but it was far too windy. The place was packed when we arrived on a Sunday afternoon. The service was ok. Although they brought our bread and butter out 2 minutes after placing our order and this sat and went dry for 25 mins whilst waiting for the meals to be brought out? Why would you do that lol? Fish mornay and fish pie 10/10. Delicious! Just please bring bread and butter at the same time ha!

Didn't eat too busy, tried on 2 separate occasions, very lucky to even get a table to have a drink.

Nice view and good customer relationship 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Loads of room,lovely on a sunny day

Dogs are allowed Two cask ales on tap, probably 3 sometimes. They had space on a busy Friday night All very efficient Not fine dining, but certainly providing a valuable service. Yes we would go back, three kids and a dog, so suited us well. But not a quiet romantic setting.

Big, busy and noisy. Took a while to get served at the bar for drinks. Food and service though was very good. Excellent fish and chips and fish cake. Prime location overlooking the harbour with lots of outside tables.

We went in for lunch on the 21st of August my other half had lasagne and chips I had veggie curry with rice meal was really nice and hot

Great place to eat wonderful fish and chips🍟

Ordered Fish and chips ,Scampi and Calamari.Chips and scampi were good.Fish was undercooked and batter was so oily.Calamari was terribly overcooked and batter so oily.Will never go back.

Excellent pub for food and drink and kid friendly too.

Lovely setting overlooking the harbour . Was pretty much self-service ie ordered at the table via app. No fish platter sharer available so ordered several small platters to share. All came with good portion of salad so the side salad we ordered was probably not necessary. Nice food well cooked and presented. Had iecream and a drink earlier in the day Sat on the balcony overlooking the harbour nice !!!

Great place to eat in whitby. I've only been once myself but we all fully enjoyed our meals and would happily go again. It's big, airy and the service was excellent 👌

A busy, noisy place full of families/kids which is great if that's what you're looking for but not if you're a couple looking for a nice quiet meal out. We both ordered the fish morney, from the specials menu, but were sadly disappointed. There was far too much bread crumbs on the top which soaked up what little sauce there was making it quite stodgy. It tasted fishy but apart from the odd tiny prawn you could not distinguish any type of fish as it had been shredded into tiny pieces, so no nice chunks of fish. The chips were cooked well, but not the best I've had. The restaurant itself is in a good location right on the side of the river, with seating outside on the balcony, if it's sunny. Alas when we went it had been raining so all the chairs were wet through. It's a large, bright open plan type restaurant with alot of seating on 2 levels, you have to climb a short flight of stairs to enter, but there is a chair lift for wheelchair users or those who cannot climb stairs. It's self ordering, so you either order from the bar or download the app. There was also a separate ice cream bar which again you could order from or use the app. I also noticed a self service row of beer pumps, I'm assuming that you enter your card details then it allows you to pour your own, which saves you queuing up at the bar when it's really busy. There were a few hand pump beers on, at thd bar, including Doom Bar as well as the usual lagers/ciders etc. Unfortunately it's not somewhere I would go again, too much like a family pub selling typical underwhelming pub grub.

Busy family friendly bar and kitchen. Good service, lovely cocktails!

Excellent beautiful outlook with brilliant staff

As always really nice service from the fantastic staff, the food is so good I forgot to take a photo and got straight into it 🙄 I had tiger prawns 🦐 in batter with chips, my partner had chips with muscles in white wine and her daughter had chicken curry, we all really enjoyed the cold drinks and hot food...will try to take photos next time 👍🏼

REALLY wanted to try some genuine Whitby scampi and, having read the reviews, decided this was the place - it wasn't. Its just like a Wetherspoons with a nice balcony and great views. Frozen scampi - just like you get anywhere else. Dissapointed.

Great fish & chips, Over looking the hsrbour.

Although I haven't had food yet here, the food I saw being served looked great. Menu has a fantastic choice. So does the drinks menu. I really enjoyed it here and can't wait to return to try the food. The staff were very helpful and friendly. Dog friendly too. Great place.

Food was okay but the manager was awful 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻the way that she treated us unacceptable never going back again

Love a beer in the sun here if I can get on the balcony 😁

Always have nice food at the abbey wharf but the bar staff were very uncommunicative and lacking in social skills. The table.service was ok but we were left wandering around the restaurant fetching our own cutlery napkins and condiments while our food.was.getting cold outside. Seems to be typical of a.lot.of restaurants these days that were far better being staffed by east Europeans. Hopefully next time it'll be a bit closer to perfect.

We stayed very close to Abbey Wharf, and our teen son said he'd like to eat there as we passed it one day. We ordered using the app, and even though the app said it would be a 30 minute wait, our food arrived in less than 20. The portions were huge and and everyone agreed, very tasty. It wasn't busy when we went in around 4 ish, but it was filling up by the time we were leaving. The prices were very reasonable considering the sizes.

Fish done in beef dripping was great! Service could better - we waited a long time for our meal. But food was really nice.

Had a really lovely lunch at The Abbey Wharf with my wife. Also great to be able to bring along our dog. We found it to be a very relaxing visit, in an open, airy and clean environment. Very welcoming and happy staff. I opted for the fish and chips/mushy peas and the wife Lemon Sole. Both beautifully cooked. If I may say over the water is a famous Whitby fish restaurant - I have been and these fish and chips were just as good.

Well I have to say the fish well I couldn't taste it had better cod in Whitby at other places nice place though and like the place but the fish nah won't be back

Exceptionally accommodating restaurant. There is a platform stair lift to take you to the first floor restaurant. The staff were friendly and well trained in the use of the lift, asking all the way if I was comfortable and ready to travel, makes such a change. Upstairs indoors is all flat, the balcony seating involves a couple of steps here and there but the staff are helpful if you need them. The order is placed via an app and was quick service especially as it was a hot July day and they were very busy, they were happy to make changes to the oder to accommodate my eating preferences. We took our small dog and was surprised to see that they had a dog menu too so Dora didn't miss out on her fish and chip dinner. Access to the restaurant is not disabled friendly, eg cobbles and no disabled parking nearby but the staff were fantastic in making our stay trouble free. Easy access Disabled toilet. Fab views over the water.

Eaten here half a dozen times in the last few weeks been excellent then tonight one of my guests had the gammon couldn't cut it with a steak knife took it away by the time the rest of us had finished another one turned up which was fine but no apology such a shame 🙃

The food was okay but the lack of table service for orders and drinks isn't ideal.

Nothing noteworthy to be honest. It’s OK. But not great. Fish and chips were fine, you can’t mess that up really, but the fish pie was disappointing, loads of cheesy mash and very little fish. Ah well. Will probably never be back.

Food was excellent! I had the mussels in wine cream sauce and the seafood Mornay (cod, haddock, prawns) - totally tasty. Great variety on the menu. The inside is laid out like a fish market/warehouse - rustic and rough but comfortable. Nice views of the harbor. Added plus of seeing the rowers.

Always enjoy the food here and service is good even when busy

Very nice place we were treated very. The MonkMonkfish and Lemon Sole were both to a very high standard.

Absolutely beautiful place! Food is amazing! Service is very quick and efficient! Definitely recommend!!

Absolutely perfect food, and a wonderful view over the water. Prompt and friendly service. The curry sauce will blow away, and I didn't know it was possible to make mushy peas better than anyone else!

Food is normally good here but our last visit was a bit disappointing!! My meal, a small portion of home made fish cake was nice but my partner who chose chowder didn’t finish it! It was basically a bowl of what tasted like parsley sauce with about 5 small mussels in shells, one small piece of smoked haddock and not a prawn in sight!!! It was exactly the same as the sauce poured over a fish dish we had there previously!! As I say, food is mostly good but avoid the chowder!! The restaurant is lovely, good bar and if you sit on the balcony on a sunny day it’s lovely!

Normal food, but not worth its price. Very nice and large place, but careless, disorganized and rude service. Very short wait but we had to ask 4 different waiters for the sauces before they arrived... and they arrived when we had finished eating...