GUD Sea Food
Fish and seafood on Sadoveanu, with meat, pizza and house lemonades
Fish and seafood, with service praised as often as the food
Good if you want fish in Chișinău: shrimp, tuna, mussels and oysters, a room where you can actually talk, and service the reviews praise as often as the food. Come prepared for the price.
GUD Sea Food is a fish and seafood restaurant at Strada Mihail Sadoveanu 19, open daily from 11:00 to 23:00. In the reviews, shrimp is named most often, followed by tuna, mussels, Saint-Jacques scallops, paella and oysters, with freshness mentioned as a quality in its own right. Meat comes up almost as often as a praised main course, and guests also name the pizza, the platters and the house lemonades, the mango and pineapple one and the aloe and grape one. Service is mentioned nearly as often as the food, and waiters are named personally. The room is the second most frequent theme, and more than half of those who rated the noise level say you can talk quietly, which is rare in a full restaurant. Booking is recommended, especially at weekends. Prices sit above the city average: of the guests who stated a figure, most wrote over 1,000 lei per person.
Digest of the reviews
What 179 reviews from the last 12 months say
Google Reviews
Based on 1,302 reviews
We read 400 Google reviews for GUD, sorted newest first. 313 are from the last year, 179 of them with text. The bars show how many of those 179 mentioned each theme.
What their own numbers say
What they paid per personstated by 79 of 313
- over 1,000 lei28
- 400-500 lei13
- 900-1,000 lei8
- 800-900 lei8
- 500-600 lei7
How quiet it isstated by 80 of 313
- quiet, easy to talk42
- moderate noise23
- very quiet7
- loud, but you can talk7
- very loud1
Which meal they came forstated by 94 of 313
- dinner69
- lunch19
- other3
- breakfast2
- brunch1
What group size they recommend it forstated by 32 of 313
- groups of 3-412
- two people8
- groups of 5-87
- groups of 9 or more5
The service comes before the food
The service36 of 179 20%
„Best in town"10 of 179 6%
What the reviews say
At a fish restaurant you would expect the fish to dominate. Here the service comes up almost as often, and people write down names: Cristian, at the bar, appears in one review as a reason to return in his own right. The phrasing repeats · „true professionals", „perhaps the best in the city". Ten recent reviews go further and call GUD the best restaurant in Chișinău.
The fish is the reason, but not the only one
Fish and seafood38 of 179 21%
Freshness13 of 179 7%
The meat9 of 179 5%
What the reviews say
Shrimp comes up most often, then tuna, mussels, scallops, paella and oysters. Freshness is mentioned separately from any dish, as a quality in itself. But meat appears almost as often as a praised main, and reviews also name the pizza, the platters and the house lemonades, the mango-pineapple one and the aloe-grape one. Google itself files it as a modern European restaurant, not a fish one.
The room, the wine and the pace
The room and the atmosphere37 of 179 21%
The wine10 of 179 6%
What the reviews say
The room is the second most frequent theme, right after the food · people write about how it looks and how comfortable it is to sit there. More than half of those who filled in the noise level say it is quiet or very quiet, which is rare for a full restaurant. Wine comes up ten times over the last year. GUD gathered 313 reviews in twelve months, averaging 4.69 · at over 25 reviews a month, a slip in quality would show within weeks.
What goes wrong, when it goes wrong
Service slip-ups2 of 179 1%
Price as a complaint4 of 179 2%
What the reviews say
Thirteen of the 179 recent reviews with text are one or two stars, under 8%. They do not describe the same thing: two dishes forgotten at the table, meat cooked other than asked, a lunch where the restaurant was closed with no notice, the lack of parking. Two are heavier · one reports food poisoning and says the restaurant never answered after being contacted privately, another describes a manager turning the blame on the guest. Price appears as a complaint in four reviews, the same share as before.
the oysters were incredibly fresh, the carpaccio melted in the mouth
Kristina M.the waiters are true professionals, perhaps some of the best in the city
Vasile C.the plateaus are wonderful · the downside is the lack of parking
Ana P.
- Service, mentioned nearly as often as the food · waiters are named personally
- Fresh fish · shrimp and tuna named most often
- Meat, praised as often as a main course
- The room and the atmosphere, the second most frequent theme
- House lemonades, mango with pineapple and aloe with grape
- You can talk quietly · rare in a full restaurant
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“DEFINITELY THE BEST RESTAURANT IN CHIȘINĂU From the entrance, when you come inside, you see the elegance. everyone smile at you and they are happy. The food is amazing and the taste satisfying you like never before . The wine selection is amazing and the service waiters are focus on your table . The appetizers was absolutely gorgeous but the aubergine steak with parmesan foam l…”
“Surprised both me and the company I was here with, with basically everything. But I recommend to first of all do a reservation, almost everything was booked beforehand. We have ordered: Salată Panzanella (no photo) Tasted amazing, would 100% recommend as both aperitive and a side dish for meat/fish Salată Green by GUD (1st photo) Interesting combo of grapes and strawberries wi…”
“We were a group of 4 and got the Samson platter. Nearly 4 kg of seafood and fish plus a bottle of nice local sparkling wine. Very nice experience and would definitely try it again when in Chisinau.”
- Prices above the Chișinău average · many say it is worth it, but come prepared
- No parking of its own
- Book at the weekend · the room fills up
- Rare, but it happens: forgotten dishes or meat cooked other than asked