Captain Moonlite

We took another couple with us for a birthday lunch. We shared the calamari, whole fish and the slow cooked lamb as well as a small salad and chips. That was plenty of food for 4. The bill wasn’t small but we were more than happy to pay for perfectly cooked food in a lovely setting.

Would certainly recommend for special lunch or catch up with friends

I love this place. Informal dining with really good creative food. The view is to die for and it’s in glorious Anglesea. Best place in town.

Great food with a beautiful view to complement the experience.

Really delicious food and lovely service with friendly staff. Great location and should continue for a long time. Hope to be back

Love the food and atmosphere

Wonderful ... food excellent as usual. Excellent value for money

Amazing food and wait staff, hope to get the opportunity to come back again.

This was one of the best, if not the best seafood meal, we have had in Australia. We choose to share five entrees, accompanied by a delicious salad and the best chips ever!! The quality and presentation of the food was excellent - service was attentive, efficient and friendly. Unfortunately we did not have room for desert which looked/sounded great/interesting. We have booked to return before the closure for renovations at the Surf Club and hope Moonlite remain in the neighborhood.

Lovely view with delicious food & fast service (a bit too quick!)

The bugs and octopus was amazing !

The food was very nice, however was overpriced. Fish and chips for $30 and not even one lettuce leaf with it . Salad would have been nice. The berry ice cream was superb.

Thankyou for a wonderful evening.
The food was excellent and your staff provided us with outstanding service throughout the evening.
Our guests from London, who read about you in England prior to their arrival were so impressed.
We may even visit Hervie's partner Rebecca in St. Kilda on March 1st. for a skate!
Thankyou again.

Really loved thus place located in the Surf Rescue Club building.

Wonderful sea outlook. Fabulous fish. Great service. Lovely historic Club photos. Quite idiosyncratic but in a good way. Limited parking.

Highly recommended

Wonderful food in a gorgeous location. Service was top notch too!

Absolutely loved the restaurant. Fabulous food with a second-to-none view. Well done, Gem!

Outstanding as always! Service was attentive and the food was delicious.

King George whiting was as good as it gets. Mussels were excellent

While the staff were friendly and the ambience nice we felt the food and presentation was poor. We had 2 entrees and then decided to leave based on the lack of quality. The mushroom fitters were quite tasty but served without garnish or any type of accompanying sauce. The zucchini fritters were simply tempura batter fried pieces of zucchini served without any garnish (details show you care) and accompanied by a lack lustre sauce.

Sorry Captain Moonlite but we feel a lot more attention to detail is required and less fried choices. The main courses we liked were only available as a serve for 2 people which is also very limiting. Anglesea really needs some good food choices, so please don't give up guys just keep improving and trying harder with more choices, attention to presentation and toss out the fryer ! or at least keep it on the back shelf - fresh is best !
All the best
T and J Feb 2020

Food was excellent and service was speedy and friendly with some good recommendations. Pity it’s in its final weeks!

Always get what we expect at this fave. Cheerful service and excellent food

Lovely atmosphere, delicious food and wonderful service. Highly recommend!

have ben twice within a fortnight. fabulous each time, friendly staff, food quality very very good.
Would recommend this restaurant highly ....

All excellent great food and ambience
Really great night

Thank you for a terrific evening of great food and a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Please don’t leave the surfcoast

Excellent service by all the staff .
Beef had some gristle.
Food was well presented and delicious
What a great pity you are closing .

We were really looking forward to this meal. We had traveled from Melbourne for our anniversary and I guess this has heightened our disappointment.

We were seat on time and our waiter asked if we wanted to start with some still or sparkling water. We asked for sparkling and waited, d waited, and waited. 45 minutes later he came back, after clearing most of the tables around us and finally asked if we wanted to order a drink, we still hadn't recieved our water at this stage, 45 mins in. We said we'd like to order since we had been waiting so long and ordered the white bait and octopus for starters and the $30 a serve fish and chips for main.
The starters were excellent. The white bait in particular, was exceptional.
An hour and forty minutes after ordering, we finally recieved our main. At $30, we were expecting something incredibly good, an unusual take on the dish, exceptional ingredients, SOMETHING???
The reality, was that it was huge in size but low on quality. Ok for a fish and chip shop, just. The fish was over battered and greasy and the chips were very dark and borderline burnt. It was not nice to eat.
We watched the waiter and floor staff float around chatting when tables were left with dirty dishes on them and we waited for our meal. The kitchen was full and there were a few free tables so definitely not at capacity.
We ordered the Black Berry cheesecake and the licorice and anzac biscuit icecream for dessert. These were both quite good.

The overall feeling was that the staff don't care and have better places to be. The whole fish and chips dish needs to be reconsidered. $30 is an unacceptable price to pay for chip shop quality in a hatted restaurant.

Every course was exceptional. The Lamb and the donuts in particular.

The restaurant has a most beautiful location and we enjoyed quality food and good service

Absolutely fantastic experience! Wish I could eat here every day!

Pleasant surroundings, good food and great service

Love it every time we go never disappointed.
We celebrated my daughters birthday and they made it very special for her. The food is always beyond delicious we can’t go past the lamb always mouthwatering

Our favourite on the coast!
Outstanding food and service not to mention the stunning ocean views.

Amazing fresh food with a beautiful vista. This is seasonal and fresh and yes leans towards the mediterreanean greek flavours but just good food.
Portions are small so be aware

The only downside is parking is horrific especially at the moment with the new surf club being built...allow an extra 20minutes to find a spot!

We had a magnificent lunch looking over the beach. The lamb was delicious and I loved the anchovy donut. Service was kind and attentive. Can’t wait to go back. It’s wonderful to have such a fabulous restaurant in Anglesea.

Our lunch, on a not wildly busy day took well over an hour to arrive. The waiter apologised, but did not ask whether we would like another drink while we were waiting. It was as if we were an annoyance because something had happened to our order (3 x the same dish, so nothing complicated about the order). Very disappointing, particularly as we had driven a long way just to have lunch. Food was good, scenery lovely, but a less a wonderful experience.

The slow cooked lamb for two was superb - it just broke apart it was so tender. Service was excellent and we thoroughly enjoyed our dining experience.

There was nothing drastically wrong with our dinner at Captain Moonlight but the meal and the service we received was far from what we had hoped for to celebrate my husband’s birthday. One of the female wait staff (the younger one)was excellent and the location in the Anglesea Surf Life Saving Club is different; a little quirky, and can be spectacular if your seat is facing the sea.
Nonetheless I cannot for the life of me understand how this restaurant has a ‘hat’. It is no more than at best a pleasant seaside cafe.
To start, our entrees were served very quickly, even before the cocktails we ordered first up had been served to us. It is nice to enjoy a pre dinner drink on its own rather than drink it as an accompaniment to food. I felt that was poor form and it was disappointing that our Aperol Spritz’ came in a water/beer glass.
I chose badly for my entree as when the dusted prawns that I ordered arrived I saw that they hadn’t been shelled. I cannot stand eating unshelled prawns so my husband gallantly ate those and I had his calamari which was tasty but quite tough.
Our fish and chips main course was excellent. The fish was crisp and beautifully cooked.
Our half bottle of white wine was also an excellent choice.
A waiter served us the wrong salad so we had to send it back, asking for a replacement. Feeling very underwhelmed we didn’t want to risk ordering a dessert so we left the restaurant after quite a short time overall.
This restaurant would do well to better coordinate the serving of its alcohol and food such that it’s diners enjoy a slower and more enjoyable experience. We may well have ordered more wine and a dessert had our dinner not felt so rushed.
The food at Captain Moonlight is no more than adequate. We had the sense that the female Maître D was a little over it all

Loved it! Friendly & attentive service. Food was just gorgeous, fresh produce and quality ingredients - delicious! Cosy coastal feel in the dining room and the view is priceless ! Would definitely recommend!

Food & service were excellent. Ambience is not great as a rebuild of surf club is in progress .
Parking is also a problem at this time .