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.

Had some delicious food here and some local beer! What a magical neighborhood spot and a definite…read morefixture. I would love a locals spot like this, total cheers vibe at the bar. Service was great too.

We walked in the door to live music (5-7pm). Service was excellent. I had the Hali it special and…read moreit was elevated fine dining. The sauce, the risotto, the zucchini. I don't know who the chef is but he/she is fantastic. Well done!

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

Very overpriced the food is somewhat OK. We've been there twice and really didn't enjoy the menu.read more

Great food great value great service will definitely recommend will definitely be backread more

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.

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.

Looked like a good place right on the water and became crowed very quickly so I concluded this…read morewould be a good meal. Beware! I ordered the lobster dinner although price was shown as $$$. I did not ask for actual pricing but thought it must be very special. Instead I was served a lobster that was likely not even one pound with very little meat in the tail. I got a large serving of fries and a tiny cup of slaw. Dessert was a very good cake and included. When I finished, the server asked how was the meal. I said the lobster was small. She laughed and stated "they just grab them out of the tank so you never know." Surprise! I was stunned to be presented with a bill for $96 CanadIan! I had only water for my beverage. I don't believe this is an isolated occurrence as the cashier also seemed aware of this issue and would not meet my gaze and just nodded when I complained.

4 of us went for dinner. The staff were great, the food,,, not so much! Dry scallops and lobster-…read moreover cooked! Not worth the price- sorry

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.