Kempster's Cookhouse — Restaurant in Halifax

The only good thing about Kempsters was, it was open for breakfast. I wanted to take a friend and her husband out for breakfast for her “70”th Birthday. We arrived at 9am to a full parking lot but found a parking space. We were seated, after a few minutes wait. Our orders were taken by 9:10 am. and coffee served. Never saw the waitress, again until 9:40am, when she delivered our food, on extremely hot plates. We asked for a coffee refill, so she returned to fill our cups and disappeared. Once we started eating we realized that the food was lukewarm and tasteless. Probably sitting for most of the time under a heat lamp. My French toast was tough to cut and the ham was almost burned on one side and tough to chew. The home fries seemed to collapse when I poked them with a fork. My friends had cold scrambled eggs, which were a strange consistency that could only come from a carton and tasteless home fries, as well as an omelette with everything in it, except taste. The waitress did come back to ask how many checks we wanted and left to bring it with more coffee. It was my treat and I should have said something right away, but I didn’t want to make a scene and two of our group are diabetics and had to eat as soon as the meal arrived, to avoid low blood sugar. The restaurant was not full and a group that arrived after us, was served and almost finished by the time we received our meals. The price for the quality of food was atrocious and I will never recommend or return to this...

What a disappointment. Kempster's was always so good, but after tonight's meal, we will never be back. We took my Dad out for his 81st birthday. He loves it at Kempster's and always orders a hot hamburger sandwich. He said it was good, but there was no peas on top. My husband always gets the meat loaf. The potatoes were from a box, not the real thing. The vegetable was sweet potato. And the meat loaf was mushy. So he had potato from a box, sweet potato, and mushy meatloaf. I have fish and chips. That was good, however the batter was very crispy. My husband and I got lemon meringue pie to go. That was the worst pie I have ever had. There was liquid in the bottom of the take out container, so the whole bottom crust was a soggy mess. The meringue was gritty and very sweet. I think the pie was a week old. The waiter didn't even come back to see how are meals were. So all in all it was the worst $72.39 I have ever spent. My family will have to find a new favorite place, because Kempster's isn't it. After reading the reviews after we got home, it doesn't seem that the staff, management or owners really...

Overall a great place for a casual sit down meal.

Serves a good variety of western foods,. We ordered a seafood chowder, pulled chicken sandwich and Haddock bites.

Overall everything tasted good, the chowder had a good proportion of seafood in it and it was a pretty thick chowder served with a great biscuit.

The pulled chicken had crispy onion on top of the chicken which greatly enhanced the texture, and the chicken itself was soft and flavourful.

The Haddock bites were breaded and deep fried peices of haddock, the breading is well done and crispy the Haddock taste is a kind of muted from the breading but it's still pretty good. On a side note about the sides they offer a pretty good variety of sides to order we had a side of rice.

The tables are well spaced and well kept. The decor is as expected for a family restaurant.

Service is quick and courteous.

Parking is sufficient but the way the spots are layed out is a bit annoying.

Overall I...