Haida Way Restaurant — Restaurant in North Cowichan

Went for dinner here Wednesday evening Jan 25th. Myself and another person in our party ordered the Cheese, mushroom, bacon burgers with Onion rings instead of fries. When the orders came, they both had fries. Honest mistake which is fine. Rather than put our plates down and just bring out the rings, the waitress took them both back to the kitchen burgers and all. I had tried to ask her to just leave the plates off food and bring out the rings but she wouldn't because apparently they needed the fries back 🤔 even when I then suggested that she bring out a seperate plate and we would transfer the fries onto it for her she wouldn't and both plates ended up back in the kitchen. Ridiculous to me that a patrons waiting longer for their food based on a staff member's mistake is how they handled this, that a restaurant would want to take two handle foods of fries back in the first place and that the waitress didn't seem to clue into how inappropriate and non customer service oriented this was.

When the plates were finally brought back out after taking the wrongly inputted fries off them mine went back fully.

Will not return to a sketchy place that would make it's patrons wait longer and eat cold food based on their mistake and hand full of fries. According to the others in my party the food wasn't great and most of it looked to have been prepacked frozen items one would buy at a grocery store and...

This was the 3rd time my oma and I tried eating at this restaurant. We try once a year thinking the food will be different and try giving it another chance but it is absolutely TERRIBLE. We waited OVER 40 minutes for our food to come. My oma ordered porkchops and they were so dry and hard my poor oma couldn't chew them. Neither could I. Hard as rock. No gravy even for the dry pork. Veggies were from frozen and looked gross and cheap. The salad was watery and poor quality and had brown sour lettuce leaves. Dressing was tasteless. And then I ordered the deep fried zucchini which had a dark stale crumbly fried brown shell (it really didn't taste right and I have eaten many deep fried veggies from much better places) and the zucchini was soggy and slimy. The deep fried prawn was minimally acceptable but was not crazy about it what so ever and the cocktail sauce was thick could not dip it in. HOW is this place still in service... I've read enough bad reviews on this place after tonight, I will NEVER go back here in my entire life. They don't even deserve 1 star. Thankful the waitress didn't make us pay for food we didn't eat. Chemainus deserves a much better family restaurant imo. Never in my life have I eaten worse restaurant...

Haida way has a rustic charm and friendly staff. Our server was timely and cheerful. We had the beef dip and stir-fry. Mine (the beef dip) had a fresh bun and just the right amount of beef. The fries were crisp with a perfect crunch on the outside. The dip was not as dark colored as I am used to seeing but had good flavor. The color threw me off thinking it was watered down but had great taste. The stir fry was so yummy my wife cleaned the whole plate with just the right mix of veggies. (some just fill the plate with bell peppers, this was not the case here). All in all I Would recomend the place. The table tops could use a refresh. Enjoyed the food and service!

May 18 Tried some stir fry I got a chicken and shrimp stirfry. The noodles were spaghetti noodles that had flavor notes like they were cooked in Italian spice water. This threw my taste buds off. The sauce had what seemed like peanut oil and a sweet sauce so by having three flavor notes it just turned my stomach. I would remove this from the menu. I don't recomend...