Great food and service! Fries live up to the claim. Great selection and taste for decent price
Every time I've gone to this restaurant, the service, atmosphere, and food have been phenomenal.
Certainly a restaurant I'd reccomend in a heartbeat! (Assuming that whoever I was speaking to liked seafood, anyway.)
Came in looking for seafood. Sat at the bar and started chatting with the bartender about his recommendation. One was the oyster burger, which intrigued me. I went for it! It has a great blend of flavors and really was a pleasant and different option. Bartender was talking about his passion and this was when I found out that this is Ferris. They handle each guest as they are their only guest. I would highly recommend Ferris's place, and of course sit at the bar, he is an incredible individual.
From all the places I visited in Victoria this one was the least favourite. It is a building with different restaurants .. tried the one downstairs they said they have oysters but for oysters lovers just a few options. Then tried the tapas perro negro that is upstairs the food was good but price/quantity I’ll consider that expensive but they were so nice with my daughter that they gain some points. I tried to get table at upstairs ferris but the server was really not nice and you could see she didn’t want to accommodate because of our daughter.
Captain's Log: it has been 1 hr and 44 minutes. We still haven't seen our food. Our server has yet to refill the water glass of my pregnant wife, the one we asked for 1 hour and 12 minutes ago and again 38 minutes ago. My first beverage is finished, I wonder how long it will take for the ice to melt.
The Upstairs of Ferris' is THE best seafood restaurant in Victoria. The atmosphere, service and food is all divine. There isn't an elevator but they were very kind to accommodate my 90 year-old grandma and help her up and down the stairs. Otherwise, I would have given them a 5. Love the canadiana art as well.
Best selection of oysters prepared in different ways. Really nice garden patio in the back.
I will definitely return to try other dishes in spite of the seating disadvantages.
Great staff, Really delicious food and a good enough wine list. The service was exemplary. A really good place for my birthday dinner.
I find that there are only 2 downsides (at least in the downstairs grill): The tables are almost too small to comfortably hold your dinner and enable you easily to eat it, and the tables are so far away from the benches (bolted to floor) that you can get a back ache just having dinner and the single chairs are hard enough to reduce your butt to tears.
I have been eating here consistently for the last 15 years. Although it has changed in some ways, I still find it delicious. The warm spinach and goat cheese salad is a thing of dreams.
The upstairs is great. The oysters are local and small. Great drinks and large selection of wines and spirits. The food is great quality and staff are very friendly and helpful. As a queer couple we always feel welcome here.
ACCESSIBILITY: There is an elevator and wheelchair access through the street level restaurant and seating available for chairs as well as an access ramp to the elevator and bathrooms.