Me and my husband stopped in this week around 3 in the afternoon and there was approx 5 other tables with customers and so not real busy but just moderate/minimal. The place actually had a nice decor whereby was comfortable and my husband even seen a picture on the wall of his uncle in the restaurant honoring the ones from Toronto who served in our military. From where we were seated the restaurant, everything appeared to be kept clean and in order although neither one of us had gone to the bathrooms to know about them.
It didn't take long for our waitress to come to our table but was as if she was in a hurry to get us to order instead of relaxing a bit especially when like I said they weren't busy and they even had 2 waitresses there working the tables.
They have a standard variety to choose from on the menu...pretty much the typical diner stuff they all have. I ended up ordering the breaded clams which came with 2 sides but the menu says can substitute the sides with a salad for 1.25.however upon asking the waitress what exactly this meant, meaning do we still get the sides if we pay an extra 1.25 to get the salad, she politely responded by saying no this means the 2 sides are cancelled and then you pay 1.25 on top of what the dinner costs, but during the confusion of us wondering why we would have to drop the 2 sides which are 3.00 each on the menu and then pay an additional 1.25 on top of the clam dinner cost just to get a basic salad, the waitress said she would go ahead and include the 2 sides anyways and so I got french fries and the coleslaw. My husband didn't see anything that was out of the ordinary so got the 1/2 pound cheeseburger which said it came with a side but since I had gotten french fries and there wasn't anything else on the side menu that looked interesting, he asked the waitress if he could replace the side with a salad like mine which was just lettuce, cheese, & croutons, and said he would just eat some of my french fries, and the waitress said yes but salad would cost the additional 1.25. We both were like that's a bit ridiculous but maybe the salads here are actually bigger than the standard size salads elsewhere.
She first brought out our salads which looked pretty pathetic for what all the bs we went through just to get the salads & my husband having to pay the 1.25 extra for his. I mean there was literally a SMALL handful of salad, 6 croutons, and a very scandalous sprinkling of cheese however we will say we both liked their dressings....ranch and the french
So our meals came next and the first thing I noticed was that my clams were PATHETICALLY missing most anything bigger than the size of a pea...it was like they just dump whatever was left in the bottom of their freezer bag into the deep fryer...I had like 5 pieces of breaded clam that could actually use my fork to grab with and the rest of the tiny bits of clams (most were just breading) could be scooped up with a spoon. Their coleslaw tasted a little bit old as if it had been in their refrigerator a little too long and the french fries were BLAND whereby they added no salt and by the time we got and tried them it was too late to add our own salt from the table because the salt kept falling off and wouldn't stick. We don't expect a lot of places to add salt because of the growing numbers of people who need to cut back on it but GEESH at least add a dash or two or ask your customers if they want things like french fries salted.
My husband grabbed his cheeseburger and immediately noticed the bun was hardly room temperature and the burger itself was BLAND whereby again no to VERY little salt or pepper and it was quite dry and not juicy.
The clam dinner was 8.99
The cheeseburger was 8.50
His side salad was an additional 1.25 (keeping in mind he had to give up one of his sides that came with the cheeseburger and pay an additional 1.25 for a TINY salad)
Our drinks came to almost 5.00
Tax was approx 1.70
So bottom line, our bill came to approx 25.00 and then my husband actually left a few dollar tip because we know waitresses get paid less hourly wages, and so obviously this place is either hyped up or we have such bad luck that it's only when we stop at them that their food is just average and even below average read more