Review Marina Cafe & Bar - Sydney

While a great place to sit and relax, the food is absolutely vile. The nuggets and chips looked and tasted like they had been recooked several times, while the nachos were burnt on one side and uncooked on the other (and were missing the beans promised on the menu). The salsa also tasted off, the sour cream was clumpy and the “guac” was the squeezey, watery kind from a packet. We also ordered a wrap that came about 15 mins before the rest of our food (but was fairly decent). All up over 50 bucks and worth about 15. Take a packed lunch and save your money for a bottle of wine. 🤣 Response to owner: While I thank you for acknowledging the fact my “famous” (did you mean to write infamous?) nachos came sans beans, I have to admit I was relieved as the last thing food related diarrhoea needs is added fibre. Additionally - I’ve noticed quite a few passive aggressive replies to negative feedback re: your food, instead of acknowledgment and improvement. I’ve even noticed a trend of you actively encouraging people to bring picnics. Therefore, the only logical conclusion I can come to is that Yogi Bear has hacked the actual Cafe’s account and is using this as a platform to procure snacks.

Salad of the day.👍👍👍Smoke chicken sooo soft and tender taste like Michelin Low Temperature Sous Vide cooked. 👍👍👍.Tap beer 👍👍👍.Handmade pizza so amazed that pineapples were poping juice and aside with mozzarella cheese milky taste. 👍👍👍View 👍👍👍Prize and service and food quality so nice👍👍👍Sweet Potato Chips so yum👍👍👍Definitely will come again and again.

We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Jacob and the event team for making our day so special. We celebrated our wedding on cockatoo island and Jacob and the team here were amazing. After a over extended engagement and having a change of event planners midway through Jacob really made it so easy and stress free. We moved our dates and decided to organise it within 2months. He was really understanding and quick at responding, answered any questions and was so helpful with the whole process even if it was just listening to me ramble on trying to figure out what I wanted. They organised our whole wedding from the ceremony to the reception. They we’re really accomodating to our requests. Due to covid we changed from a 80+ guests list to a small intimate occasion with 30 guests. He was so helpful and took all the stress off me. On the day he was there early and they pretty much set the whole reception and ceremony up for us. They took all our visions and made it more than special. Also get the grazing table. I don’t think I’ve ever had so many compliments on something before. Everyone was talking about it the next day lol Jacob we just really want to thank you for everything. We had so many compliments on our wedding and it is thanks to you. It felt like we had a friend running it and that our vision was as important to you as it was to us. I seriously can’t express enough how much we appreciated you. Thank you to Chloe for being our driver and to everyone else for all our work into making it our special day. Your service on the night was great and our guests all really enjoyed themselves. We would highly recommend marina bar and cafe for your next event and highly recommend doing your wedding on cockatoo island. It was such a beautiful day and our photos look amazing with that unbeatable view

Great spot on the harbour for lunch. Live music on Sunday. Public boat parking 👍

Considering the cafe is located in a touristy area, the prices were very good. There is a nice selection of food and drinks if you want a short break while walking around the island.

Really lovely spot to visit. I've been two times now last month and then again last week. The first time we visited Cockatoo island we ended up here and got some absolutely delicious food and they were setting up for a private event, but let us stay. We ended up staying with our family for most of the event that was on and there were incredible singers wandering around entertaining people and it was so unique and fun. Definitely recommend. I'm looking at getting a glamping trip happening with the fam next. Love that it's a get away but also still in Sydney.

Wife got told that better order wraps as burgers or fish and chips need to wait up to one hour, the place was not even busy at all, went back to confirm as the kids wanted chips still, same answer. Sorry, but chef (could be the owner?)needs to multitask especially when the deep fryer was not frying anything in it as can see both fry baskets were empty Must say the floor staff were very friendly.

5 star for the service. 2 star for the food. Pizza was burnt (pics attached) and burger wasn't that great.