Nhung N.
Yelp
Seas the Day is a Vietnamese Pho and seafood restaurant located on 320 Revere Beach Blvd. In my opinion, the restaurant is perfectly situated, facing the Atlantic ocean, and by the newer condo development side of the beach. There was plenty of parking on Sunday when we went. Since it was still a chilly spring afternoon at the beach, both the restaurant and beach was not busy. I would imagine it would get busier when the weather gets warmer. Bonus parking spots for Revere city residents with beach parking permit.
I have to say, the menu, although not yet their full menu, is pretty eclectic. I would say it's made up of an American menu, a Vietnamese menu, and a seafood broil menu.
There is a very short list of pho noodle soup options. When I visited, there were only three available types of Pho, eye round steak, beef meat balls, and the dac biet which has eye round steak, meatball, and tripe. My husband order the large pho dac biet, which will cost $19. My husband thought it was just ok. The meat were tender, which I liked, and the broth was good enough to me. I was expecting worst based off of earlier Yelp reviews but it's not as bad as some write it out to seem.
There were a number of seafood appetizers. You can order raw oysters at $3.25 each or you can select steamed or sautéed in coconut sauce mussels, little neck clams, or soft shell clams. The waitress recommended we order the soft shell clams sautéed in the coconut sauce. This dish came in a small bowl and two slices of toasted bread. This dish comes with a very pricey tag for quantity so be ready for the sticker shock. The coconut sauce was sweet and nice to dip the bread into. However, not a dish I would order again.
I also ordered the crawfish boil in the Seas the Day sauce with noodles add ons and in the mild level for spice level. You may be shocked by the small amount of crawfish, but Seas the Day uses large fresh crawfish. The broil came in clear plastic bags.
The sauce is buttery and garlicky. If you like spicy, I'd say ask for extra hot for the level of spice. The mild spice level is not spicy at all.
Additional fried items on the menu included fried egg rolls, fried clams, fried shrimp, French fries, and fried wings. You can order grilled salmon, steak, pork chop, as well as hamburger. There is a pasta section where you can also order seafood pasta or spaghetti with meatball. I see that the restaurant also serve American breakfast items like bagel, eggs, etc.
The restaurant has only been opened for two months and still working out front end and back end communication. There was only two front end staff members the whole time I was there. Although service was overall very good, I feel like there is still some kinks to work out. For example, the waitress who seated us didn't have menus in hand before seating us and said she would get us one right away. But she kept getting pulled away by other seated customers, take out orders, and more walk in customers waiting to be seated. Another waiter eventually brought us a menu because she got so busy. After our appetizers, drinks and crawfish broil came out, a party who were seated before my family had to flag down their waiter to find out what happened to their order when they saw that our food came out first. The waiter who took their order went into the kitchen to check and came back apologizing that the order was lost. He offered no remedy. They was lost despite the restaurant not being too busy. By this point, the mother wanted to leave as she claimed that she had waited over an hour for their food. The waiter didn't know how to make amends to the situation other than keep apologizing. This was quite unfortunate.
Our waitress, aside from forgetting our food menu in the beginning, was fantastic. I am told that the restaurant has just been approved for their liquor license and will soon be serving alcohol. There will also be a new menu in about two weeks but she wasn't sure if there will be more Vietnamese food item added onto the menu or more seafood item. Either way, I am curious to see and will definitely be back. Imagine having a hot bowl of pho on a cold or rainy day and looking out at the Atlantic Ocean. I hope their business pick up in the summer and that they are here to stay. Like other Yelpers have commented, I would stay away from the Vietnamese coffee. Definitely not the Vietnamese coffee I am used to. The waitress was kind enough to give me a refill after hearing that I wasn't happy with my drink. She was so thoughtful.