Stamps Cafe — Restaurant in Port Alberni

Unfortunately ate here with my boyfriend September 2nd 2022, at 7 pm, who became SEVERELY ILL WITH FOOD POISONING starting an hour after eating half of the beef dip which was given to him with cold/questionable meat. I could barely spend time with him as he was in and out of the hotel lobbies bathroom with relentless diarrhea and could not make it to our room. When he did get up to the room he threw up all night until 10:30 am the next day!!!!! Clear symptoms of food poisoning. We were so hungry travelling and had not eaten all day. My meal was the curried chicken normally I take photos of my meals when I am out but the presentation was like a big pile of mushy gelatin greenish curried slop, absolutely HUGE portion of whatever it was with small strings of chicken that were so soft and squishy I did not bother.

A woman at the front desk of the hotel, relayed to me that the chef “had the beef dip yesterday” and “it was just pulled out” basically calling the customer a liar.

No. Don’t eat here. You will risk getting...

Stamps Cafe is a bog standard hotel/motel cafe. Possibly a little lower standard than usual. The meals that I've had (all breakfast, so somewhat limited in scope) are bland and unimaginative. Spicing seems to be unknown, even on the breakfast potatoes. The food is certainly prepared reasonably, and is edible, but nothing more than that. The menu is uncreative standard fare. You will get enough, but the prices are fairly steep.

The wait staff, when you get to know them, are very nice people.

Most of what I have had is coffee. Their blend is definitely not my favorite coffee. It's dark and bitter, so if you like Starbucks, and dark, bitter, black coffee, this is possibly your place. Not mine. And, while the staff have been very good about it, overall, I have recently found out that despite the high price that they charge for coffee, if you do not order a meal with it, covers only one...

I just wanted to let the traveling public know about a kind of shady tactic that's going on. If you look at the menu on soup the difference in price between a bowl and a cup is $1.50. Now if you go to the menu and look at some of the entrees you can get your choice of fries, cup of soup, or salad. Here's the rub (or deception) if you want a bowl of soup instead of cup of soup with that entree then they are going to CHARGE YOU AN EXTRA $2.00!!! Not the $1.50 like you'd think....