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    The Carriage House

    4.4 (142 reviews)
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    THE CARRIAGE HOUSE ATMOSPHERE

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    Moderate noise
    Intimate
    Good for groups

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    View from our upstairs table
    Dave R.

    Another awesome find, thanks to Yelp The food was fantastic. The octopus appetizer in particular was fantastic. I will hardly ever order octopus, because years ago in San Fran I had it in a place where the octopus appetizer wowed me. Ever since, I have been disappointed every time I tried it. But my SO wanted to try it here . Now I know another place that knows how to make it perfectly, Carriage House. Everything else was excellent too . We loved it so much we came back the next night at 4:30 in order to be first in line for a bar seat. Tables were fully booked that night. The decor is nothing to rave about, but there's nothing wrong with it either. And you can't beat the ocean view if you're lucky enough to get a seat near the front of the house. Anytime we're in the Portsmouth area. We will be sure to come back.

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    Zuzu P.

    Blew all expectations out of the water. Simply put, an incredible menu, prepared so exquisitely that the experience becomes a standard for what "good" actually is.

    Claire C.

    Loved the ambiance. All of our food was amazing, our favorite bite was the mushroom toast which was recommended by our server. It was phenomenal!! So rich and we ate every bite. Drinks were pretty good. Would've loved to try more dishes!

    Rich & delicious
    Franny A.

    They have their own farm!!! Top notch culinary experience not to be missed. Tranquil house in lovely Rye NH serves sophisticated modern American fare: Ate: Tomatoes with cucumber & avocados Roasted peppers with anchovies Jonah crabs Linguine with truffles Short ribs Swordfish with asparagus Baked Alaska with sour cherries This meal was a total knockout !!! Wow!!

    Raw oysters

    10/10 wonderful. Quaint location, super friendly staff, and food that kicked off our east coast vacation in the best way. It's right across the street from a beach + was beautiful scenery for dinner. All of the food was good but our favorite was the sweet corn tart

    Oysters & shrimp
    Travis C.

    Wow wow wow! Came here for our anniversary and boy are we glad we did. The parking was pretty good and the weather was horrible due to the fact that it was raining hard and no sun or moon but that didn't stop us from making our reservations on this spot. Once parked and walked inside we were greeted and seated for our reservations. We started off with raw oysters from all over the east coast and a coupe of shrimps. Next we had this olive dish that was stuff with meat. Each olive had meat inside and was fried to perfection. For our entrees, I order the Duck Confit Gratin and it was very good. The Duck was moist and not dry and everything went well with the dish. My other half ordered the Gulf of Maine Fluke and I'm not a fish eater unless it's raw but I gave it a try and it tasted good. For dessert I ordered the Fennel Almond Torte and it consists of mascarpone ice cream, candied fennel, crème anglaise, almond crumble. It was amazing and I wanted more but was too full. I highly recommend this place for an anniversary dinner or a romantic dinner.

    Artic Char.
    Stephen S.

    Serving some of the best food on the NH Seacoast the carriage house is a great restaurant. Very unique menu. Ambiance is cozy. The pasta dishes were delicious with large portions. Plenty of seafood options. A must try.

    White fish pate on potato cake
    Michael R.

    We have not been to the Carriage House for many years, and it is under new ownership and remodeled. We tried them out during restaurant week and were delighted with the food, service and atmosphere. Years ago we found the restaurant to be dark and the food only average. Happy to say that has all changed for the better! The restaurant week menu offered 3 courses, with a large selection of choices, which all sounded great, it was hard to choose! They do offer parker house rolls as well, these are offered for an additional $5, and so glad we tried them. Four big, hot delicious rolls were presented. Portions were very large, in fact our waitress made a point to tell us that they serve full size portions for restaurant week. We don't typically order three courses each, and often will share an appetizer and dessert, so we found ourselves only able to eat a portion of each course. Yes, there was an abundance of food! Cocktails were great, our server was friendly and overall we found service from the kitchen to be good. We did notice a small lull between our appetizer and mains, but they were busy. The short rib entree was delicious, a big piece of melt in your mouth beef, beautifully presented. Both the bread pudding and chocolate budino for dessert were also quite good. We will be back to work our way deeper into the menu. I'm glad we gave them a try for restaurant week!

    The view from table 205
    Gretchen K.

    What an amazing meal we had tonight at The Carriage House. RJ provided superb service and the appetizers (Oysters Rockefeller and Mushroom Toast) and entrees (Lobster Gnocchi and Flounder) were exquisitely prepared and presented. The view from table 205 looked out to the ocean, a perfect New England evening.

    Spritz (did not like but pretty color)

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    The service and atmosphere are amazing. The drinks and food are always tremendous I highly recommend.

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