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    Great Island Eatery

    3.9 (8 reviews)
    Open • 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
    Updated a few days ago

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    Ian W.

    Located at the Safe Harbor Marina Wentworth By The Sea, Great Island Eatery is a seasonal open air and outside low-key restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with fantastic views of the marina waterfront. They offer full service dine-in and takeout. This place is not to be confused with another Great Island Eatery in Maine. For breakfast, they serve breakfast sandwiches, acai bowls and coffee. For lunch/dinner, they serve up salads, sandwiches, fish tacos, crab cakes, lobster rolls, fried seafood plates, chicken tenders, hot dogs, shrimp cocktail, oysters, and cold drinks from the cooler. They also serve Memories Ice Cream, beer, wine, liquor, and mixed drinks. The prices are moderate high. The seating areas are open air (seat yourself) with covered table seating in the eatery, adjacent patio table seating, a canopy covered table seating section along the waterfront and adjacent picnic table seating. I stopped by Great Island Eatery (NH) for a quick dinner. I sat myself at a table in The Eatery since the waterfront seating was full. I was given a laminated menu and a plastic cup of cold water. I went with the Fish & Chips ($19 plus tax), which came out to me about 6 minutes later, served in a paper takeout box with plenty of crispy salted golden fries (small pieces), house slaw, a good sized piece of deep fried haddock and lemon wedge. The haddock was hot and had a very crispy oily light breading (panko), dipping into the provided tartar sauce. There was also a ketchup squeeze bottle at the table which I definitely needed for the salted fries. The shredded slaw had a vinegary taste and pretty decent. After I finished everything, the server arrived with a Square portable electronic payment block which you pay for your check by card electronically. The check total was $20.62 with tax and before tip. Overall, the fish & chips were pretty good and I had a great view of the waterfront, even from my seat in the Eatery. NOTE: The nearby gravel/paved parking lot configuration is very short-sighted and poorly thought out, by limiting parking for folks who only want to patronize the waterfront marina restaurant outside of a gated parking area for marina members with plenty of open spots. It was difficult trying to leave as folks waiting to park were blocking exiting vehicles.

    college roommates enjoying a meal and the marina

    I first heard of this location while looking for restaurants in the area on a bike ride recently. With such mixed reviews, I hesitated to give it try. So glad I did! Fantastic experience, all around. I met two college roommate friends for lunch on a summer Monday. It was a perfect place for a beautiful day on the water. Note: there is a members gate at the parking lot. Park in any designated restaurant parking spot and walk down a short distance to the restaurant. Restrooms are housed between the parking lot and restaurant. Seating is all outside, or indoors open to air (it looked like there were plastic sides that could be rolled down for inclement weather). The server told us to sit anywhere we wanted. If you want to order alcohol there are designated areas (state regulation or some such rules). Every seat has a great view of all the fancy boats docked in the marina. An easy way to feel like you're rich, even if you're not. :) Flower plantings were beautiful. The strawberry lemonade was outstanding: sweet, tart, and refreshing. My friends enjoyed overflowing mai tais. The fish tacos were excellent - hot and crispy fried fish, with delicious slaw, pickled onions, and sriracha aioli. A wonderful spot for old friends to catch up and spend a few hours on our beautiful seacoast! I will definitely return, and hopefully have more time to walk down the docks to check out all the amazing boats.

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    I ordered a breakfast sandwich and there was one piece of bacon, for an 8 dollar sandwich. Outrageous.

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