East Ocean Restaurant — Restaurant in Gander

Really not impressed. For the price I did get a one portion meal but the value seemed expensive for what I got. It was $17.00 with tax. For 12.99 in St. John’s I used to get the same meal but it was so full of flavour. My beef with broccoli has no sauce- well most of it was on the bottom- not poured over which I understand - not wanting to get anything else all saucy- but it did appear to be just onion so it was literally beef with broccoli and a whole lot of broccoli. Which I didn’t mind because I was craving the vitamin C but still… I always share with my dog and so not much to share. The fired egg roll upset my stomach- but perhaps it’s the fried dough.

I got 3 chicken balls. All I am saying is portions for price seemed small- Had I known I would have ordered another meal or more chicken balls. It was just very plain is all. I’ll have to try the other ones in the city to compare but I wasn’t super impressed. Chicken fried...

We were visiting Gander en route to Fogo and decided to get some take out for supper. We ordered the Dinner for 2B.

The good: This is a TON of food - enough to feed 6 people easily. The service was reasonably fast and good, and the price was decent for the amount of food. The cashew chicken had a lot of cashews and broccoli and wasn’t too heavily sauced. The decor was nice.

The bad: Everything that was deep fried had a very off-putting flavour, as if the oil had gone rancid. We couldn’t eat the Cantonese ribs, the wontons, or the spring rolls. The things that weren’t deep fried were ok, but really had very little flavour. We had to add salt to everything.

We still ended up with plenty to eat, as the portions were so huge, but we’d much prefer quality...

Often typical of these little family run, bare-bones restaurants, the food and service was second to none. Our waiter was very polite and attentive, as was our server (perhaps his mom and cook?!?) And the cost was very affordable, cheaper than most similar places - including wine. This place deserves your patronage if you're ever...