Chowder House on Main — Restaurant in Tatamagouche

1- Had to ask for cleaning the (dirty) table; otherwise... would have eaten in a piggery 2- This "place" doesn't deserve neither the name of "restaurant" nor the word "food" as for what is sold in your plate 3- Fish not fresh, badly cooked, pabdly presented, very small portion, the whole among 40 or 50 unfrozen (but still cold) shrunken green peas and 8 or 9 carrot slices. No oil, no butter, no seasonning, NOTHING 4a- "Chowder" was all the same with an evident presence of artificial thickenning "product" 4b- "Salad" is just 9 or 11 (tiny) pieces of harsh tomato with a lot of green leaves (takes more room in your plate, costs nothing and give the false impression of a full plate), RAW onions (are you 200% or 300% MAD??), a little commercial sauce in a cup and "DIY" policy. You wouldn't give that to your rabbit... Hardly suitable for compost... 5- ALL food was definetely TASTELESS, hardly warm, vapid, boring and expensive 6- Not the slightest effort or imagination to do a nice presenting in the plate; nothing at all, totally shameful 7- A frozen and heated meal from any grocery is 500% than this garbage. How the HELL dare you serve that crap in touristic places? Is it because you're already sure we'll never come back again? 8- When I see (here or in the "guest book") all the positive opinions, I really wonder what the hell these people usually eat, either in "restaurants" or even at home... 9- Don't worry, it's about the same thing almost everywhere in Nova Scotia, unless you accept to be ransomed for hardly decent meals in some "restaurants" where you will have to pay a minimum of 100/150 $ per person. 10- Never again...

I've been travlling through dozens of countries, 4 continents, lived in 6 different countries over 3 continents, eating in all sorts of restaurants (tiny, family, 5 stars, atc, etc. in almost every kind of "cooking culture" in the world. This place in definetely a NO-GO. Keep far away from...

What a let down, we have been to many local restaurants and even one a few buildings away from this restaurant.

Where to start … it was bad all around

We came in and stood there waiting to be acknowledged be the staff…. After 3 or 4 minutes we finally hear from behind the counter “ sit anywhere you want” so we find a table and sit down. Ended up getting our own menus after , never did see a wait staff until I got up and walked to the cashier station and asked if we were going to be served at all, since we had been sitting for 15 minutes. The staff gave me some line about not knowing how to use the POS system and the other girl was working her first day. So back I go … sit down finally 5 min later a older lady doing the serving shows up . Pretty sure she was new to because she didn’t have a clue about anything on the menu and seemed annoyed when asked about different foods and what was in them. She made her tone quite noticeable and was quite rude with us . My wife has allergies for food and always asks when we go out , and this is the first time we have been treated like an inconvenience over what we ordered .

Overall my rating for the staff is 1/5.

The food was bland , didn’t offer any thing to make up for the service . The fish and chips were boring , soft and greasy

The burgers were plain , the only compliment Is my wife was happy with her seafood chowder .

Food overall 2/5

At 6 pm ,1 hour before close the owner / mgt comes and locks the doors in and out ( massive fire code infraction) and closed the restaurant to anymore guests.

My suggestion is to find some where else to eat, any where else …. If your a tourist coming to indulge in some local eats , I’d suggest the nook and cranny or to...

A friend and I tried going to another restaurant for lunch on a hot Thursday in August, but it was taking very long to get service. We left and came here instead. We were greeted immediately and told we could take whatever table we wanted. There are a few six-seater tables and a few two-seater, for total seating of maybe 30? (at least during covid times). There were two other tables taken at the time, around 1:00? Anyway, it's a nice little spot with lots of natural light, simple decor, very clean. I tried the lobster roll (can't find an online menu to double check the price). It came on a warm long, soft, seeded, multi-grain 'sub style' bun, good chunks of lobster, microgreens and maybe a simple mayo? Overall decent, fresh and healthy-feeling. My friend had their fish & chips and said they were good, not overly special, but no complaints at all. Their frozen fries are the kind that I can only describe as sort of almost lumpy/battered-looking/similar to the style at Burger King? LOL But fine. I had a slice of the Skor cheesecake for dessert (just the right size, sweet of course, but good) and he had the key lime cheesecake (strong, good flavor). We each had pints of the Tatamagouche Brewery Hippie Dippie draught? I was too full in the end. This was only maybe my 2nd or 3rd time in this area of the province in my 40+ years, but would have no problem returning here again to definitely try their chowder or...