Great home-style cooking with very friendly service with a charming diner vibe. I had the dinner…read morespecial: a meat pie with potatoes. Recommended.

Love the food here from the tea biscuits and rolls to turkey dinners. Spaghetti and meatballs are…read moreexcellent. oh and their pies and chocolate cake with boiled icing which I brought to my daughters for Thanksgiving dinner was so good it disap quickly.Nice treat to go for lunch or supper. Their pizzas are good too! Wonderful caring staff! We have been going there since it opened. child friendly as well- my grandson enjoys the chicken fingers. Nice quiet atmosphere.

Never a disappointment when my wife and I stop in for an early or late supper. The restaurant is…read morevery clean and the hospitality and friendliness of the staff is great. They have many options to choose from on there menu but I always enjoy my hot turkey sandwich or the stir fry. Most of all I would like to Thank the Management and staff for going beyond in there generosity to us. Always a pleasure dining at The Aulds Cove Big Stop. Thanks.

I would not eat at this restaurant if I was anybody coming through I know from experienced there is…read morerats in the kitchen the cooks don't speak English and they don't care about hygiene I personally witnessed the cooks using the washroom and a washing their hands rats all over the kitchen and in the fridge they don't wave anything down but with cold water no cleaners went to the washroom and there was needles all over the bathroom I recommend stay away find another restaurant in Port hawksbury for your buck the staff is rude I don't even see no stars I can leave them there I give them a zero star if you also look up big stops history they have been shut down four times due to rodents if you decide to eat there do not tip do not talk to the waitresses just hope you can keep your food down they're kitchen their staff that you don't see in the back kitchen is so gross you would gag if you could smell them or see them I guarantee it if you go in there during lunch supper time and you actually look around you will see the rats running around the dining room and kitchen when I was there there was a little girl who got bit by a rat so caution if you stop at this restaurant if I was people stopping there I would have one look and say can I see your kitchen if they refuse to show you their kitchen move on to another restaurant there's a nice one just down the road from there between Tim Hortons and Big Stuff there's a nice little restaurant but save your money stay away from Big stop

Great breakfasts but love to see them stay open till 9pm they close at 3pm.limited seating need to…read moreexpand

After crossing the Canso Causeway, we took a drive up the Ceilidh Trail via NS Trunk 19 to Port…read moreHood. After spending a brief time at the Port Hood Day Park enjoying the nice views of the water and Port Hood Island on a sunny Sunday morning, we decided to stop off for a light breakfast at Sandeannie's Bakery & Tea Room (formerly Greco Pizza Donair Xpress). The place was very busy when we arrived here with a mix of locals and tourists. The place is not fancy which consists of a cozy dining room with self serve table seating and order counter. There are also bakery goods & breads (in clear plastic bags)for sale on the shelf including rolls, biscuits, scones, cookies, muffins, and oatcakes. The breakfast menu (served all day) includes a variety of egg dishes, breakfast sandwiches, French toast, breakfast sides, cinnamon rolls, and other baked goods. The lunch menu (from 11AM) includes sandwiches, burgers, salads, soup, chili, seafood chowder or lobster bisk, seafood, fish cakes, and all beef meat pie. For dessert, they also offer Deep Fried Mars Bar and Deep Fried Ice Cream. The prices here seem reasonable, most entrees $6.00-$9.95 and seafood dishes $8.50-$12.95. They also offer a kids menu and specials too. This is how it works here. They have restaurant menus you can look at, but you have to order your food and drink at the register & pay first, then your order is brought out to your table. The coffee and tea is also self serve. For breakfast, we ordered 2 coffees, a cinnamon roll, and a classic breakfast with two eggs (scrambled) with fish cakes, home fries, homemade toast, oat mash, and orange slice garnish. The brewed coffee was good and refillls were self serve. The cinnamon roll was okay, which was served warm and slightly dry inside, and not the frosted icing kind we're accustomed to enjoying. As for the classic breakfast, the scrambled eggs were soft, the homemade bread was toasted crisp and lightly buttered. The soft grilled fish cakes had a slightly pungent odor, otherwise tasted just fine served with chow. The very modest portion of home fries were fresh cut potatoes lightly grilled and lightly oily outside. The "oat mash/porridge" was very dense and quite good. In all, breakfast here was good, but not wow. As we were finishing up and getting ready to head out on the road again, the very high pitched smoke detector went off over the register area near the kitchen. The owner was using a serving tray to try to fan the heat under the smoke detector. "A small lesson in fire safety" remarked another customer. FREE WIFI with password

Spent a very nice Valentine's Day dinner here. Reservations are strongly suggested as it is a small…read moreplace. The waitress was very kind and attentive. Offered to make a cocktail since there were no specialty holiday cocktails (a missed opportunity) I did take advantage of the holiday special menu. My partner ordered from the main menu. (It's great to have the choice) It started with the cacao sourdough with whipped strawberry butter. I had no hint of the cacao but it was still delicious. I had the squash ravioli as my appetizer. I would have eaten that as a main. I loved it. Honestly the best part of the meal for me. Add this place to your must go to. My main was seared salmon with lobster cream. I found the salmon a tad more done than I'd prefer but perfect if you like it well done. I took my dessert home with me. I have since eaten it and there was a saltiness I found as a turn off. The cherry chocolate torte otherwise was small but tasty. My partner had the turkey dinner. He thoroughly enjoyed it and finished every morsel.

Nice place to grab a bite for brunch, nice service…read more However, the food is a bit much for breakfast though, perhaps I don't each as much lol.

First off, we came to Smitty's for lunch, they seated us and immediately asked if we wanted and…read morecoffee or tea, we did not, but asked for water. The girl said we would have to wait for our server and ask her. Okay, no big deal, but then I over heard the same thing happen to two other tables that got seated after us. Just give us the water!! Menu wise, I found it very confusing, and extremely over priced. I have noticed a few of their entrée's did not come with a side, and to add on French fries it was $5.50, WOW! My dad wasn't happy about the $2.00 charge for gravy, but $5.50 for a side of fries is just insane. I ordered the chicken parmesan sandwich, which was very tasty, but had so much sauce my bun was very soft and difficult to eat. Overall I was not very impressed with Smitty's. I'd choose another place before going back there again.

Visited this restaurant in New Glasgow NS. It is located in the downtown area…read more We were seated promptly. The service was great as was the atmosphere. We enjoyed the cauliflower appie and the seafood chowder and teriyaki bowl.

Having been back in New Glasgow for a few months now, we've started to cycle through more…read morerestaurants, after hitting old favourites and new-to-us spots fairly thoroughly. A return(s) to East Avenue was inevitable, and certainly looked forward to. It has to have one of the most beautiful restaurant interiors in northern Nova Scotia - exposed brick, soaring ceilings, and walls dotted with paintings by local artists. For our first visit of 2023, I had the Tamis anghang ($20). Filipino for "sweet and spicy", this is a slightly fancier, single-serving version of sweet and sour chicken. Replacing the cloyingly-sweet sauce at most Chinese-Canadian restaurants, East Ave's Thai chili sauce is much more balanced, with a light punch from the hot pepper that livens up your taste buds but won't scorch them. The chicken was cooked with a deft hand, and the crisp batter held up until the last bite. My wife's duck ragu gnocchi ($29) was a hearty meal, with an impressive amount of rich, shredded duck and fluffy sweet potato gnocchi. If that wasn't enough, shredded parm added even more umami. The sauce was a bit thin and served overly generously, which made the dish a bit soupy, but was otherwise quite delicious. Bonus points for this dish and many others having gluten-free options! They had an impressive crowd for a Tuesday evening and that plus a very large group that came in just after us seemed to make for somewhat uneven service. A return visit had us targeting their patio, sadly one of the few in the non-Pictou towns of Pictou County. Step it up people! We just wanted some mid-afternoon snacks, so we went for a couple appetizers. The fried sweet chili cauliflower ($15) was a tasty app. The mild crunch of the cauliflower gave further crunch to the crisp coating, which did wilt under the slathering of sauce. Said sauce did have a bit more bite than most sweet chili sauces out there, but it won't have you breathing fire. Our kale Caesar salad (side size, $10) was a bit on the healthier side than our deep fried app, and pleasant departure from the standard formula. The mix of kale and romaine paired the strengths of both greens, while chickpeas and tomatoes brought added couloir, flavour and texture. And don't worry, there was still bacon, shaved parm, and a hearty dose of dressing. East Avenue continues to put out generally great food in a killer atmosphere (both inside and out), and I love how much this new business has brought and added to the food scene in the area.

Our first clue to avoid this place, which is inside Inverary Resorts, should have been that it…read morelooks like it's straight out of 1957. Some of the food also tastes like it's been sitting around since 1957. The lobster dinner was on special for $20, which makes it overpriced by about $30. Clearly caught sometime last year, it bordered on slightly rotten and had a somewhat dead flavor. We also made the mistake of ordering the wild mushroom risotto, which was wildly overcooked. The beet salad appetizer was OK but was drizzled with some kind of sugary glop that passed for dressing. The dinner rolls were sugary, cheap, institutional, old-fashioned sludge, the kind that thankfully went out of style long ago, and haven't appeared in most places since the 70s or the 80s. I should add that the wait staff was very nice. It's not their fault. But the nicest service in the world can't improve the food. We rate based on food. We're at the restaurant to eat. Also, we ate breakfast here because we're staying at the hotel and had a voucher for breakfast. The breakfast buffet was tolerable, with decent scrambled eggs, though some things were stale. I'll be generous and assume that's because we showed up past 9:30. Also, they served a decent brand of green tea, not Lipton, so that counts for something. And again, the staff was very nice and sweet, plus at breakfast, we could see the view, which was impressive. But that's not enough to raise it above one star overall. We're not at the restaurant for the view. We can get that on the Cabot Trail. There are people on another website who have given this place decent reviews, but I suspect their taste buds are decrepit and failing (there is a lot of elderly clientele here) and they are basing their ratings on service and the view. Also, some may assume because they're paying a lot, that the food must be good, even though they can't taste it. Human psychology! This breakfast not worth $14 which was the wildly exorbitant rate that another group was paying per person Just pass this place and go to the convenience store and get some chips. Or plan ahead, and before you ever get near Cape Breton Island, stock up on provisions. Be warned, if approaching from Routes 104 and 105 from the west, no supermarkets are visible from the highway beyond roughly Antigonish or so. Maybe there's one in Port Hawkesbury or so? Good luck.

Great food , service and views from upper deck Server was amazing. Food all fresh Would…read morerecommend

The maple vinaigrette salad with candied almonds is excellent…read more We got the loaded baked potatoes skins also excellent. Then the apple crisp with ice cream. Perfect. Service was prompt and very informative. Ambience is old mill type aura. We sat next to the fire and it was toasty. Recommended. Highly.

Solid restaurant with tasty food. The mushroom ravioli is great. Had the basically in-house beer…read moreand it was good. Server was super friendly. Three seating areas: the nice bar, indoor dining room , and lovely outdoor deck with a nice view.

More of a 3.5 but I'm bumping it up to a 4 for the seafood chowder. And the nice dining area facing…read morethe water. Came here two dinners in a row (because the second night nowhere else was really open) so tried quite a few items on the menu. Really enjoyed the seafood chowder. It was full of seafood and tasted so good. Little shrimps, scallops, pieces of fish. Consistency of the soup was more watery than creamy but I enjoyed it like that. Also tried the battered fried fish and the fish tasted good. For me, the batter was a bit oily though. Still very tasty. The fish cakes were nice and fluffy, and garnished with some sweet marmalade type stuff (not sure what it was). At first I thought there was bacon mixed in but I think it was actually the smoked fish i was tasting. The caesar salad was ok. I felt that it had too much dressing. Tried a sip of the blueberry blonde and it was also just alright. All in all, I found the food to be a little bit of a gamble in terms of whether it would be really tasty or not. It was also odd that the first night we were offered complimentary biscuits with some maple butter of sorts, whereas the second night we weren't offered it. Also on the second night, we were asked where we would like to sit. When I said we would like to sit in the dining area, the waitress told us that the tables weren't set up. I wasn't sure what she was implying by this cause it didn't come with a follow up - did it mean we couldn't sit there or just had to wait? Turns out we just had to wait and after a quick minute it was set up for us and ready to go and the rest of the evening was very nice.