Fish & Chips Chowder House — Restaurant in Bandon

This place can be both the best fish and chips or the worst fish and chips you have ever eaten. Had lunch with my son there back in April of 21 and it was fantastic! We were both excited to return with the whole family and have it again. Just went back this past Saturday August 28, ordered the same Cod fish and chips and none if us could eat it. Hard small pieces of dry fish that was way over cooked and totally disappointing. The scallops were very fishy tasting and not edible. My wife and other son could not believe how bad it was due to how much we had talked it up. We all ended up tossing our pricey meals and settled on an ice cream cone from the Cheese factory. I still cant believe how much money we spent on food that we had to throw out. I bet even the seagulls had a hard time choking it down. Perhaps the next time will be like I first remember but if I was going to judge this place on the last meal we got there I would never return. Perhaps your day will be better. I will share that our great lunch in April was on a Friday around 3 and the horrible lunch was on a Saturday around noon. Hope this review helps. I mean everyone can have a bad day. Maybe our last experience was just that, caught them on a bad day. Good luck. I hope your meal is as awesome as our...

I'm a local business owner and get no joy in criticizing fellow businesses in the hospitality/food arena. However, the owner of this establishment needs to stop and reexamine their product. We visited Bandon seeking clam chowder & fish n chips. Having a couple options we decided to choose this place. The calamari was nothing but over fried tiny crisps of batter, that kept you hoping to find some tender calamari. It was obvious they were being skimpy on the quality, size of cuts and lazily over frying. The moment the clam chowder hit my tongue, I thought of dried/powdered milk. It also lacked any substance whatsoever. The fish n chips was atrocious. I swear it was the same thing you'd get in a box of frozen fish Van de Camps in the frozen section of the store. I'm well traveled, had the best fish n chips in New Zealand and even some amazing fish n chips on the lower Oregon coast elsewhere in places like Gold Beach and Brookings. But this place hands down served a horrible product. I dare the owner to sit down publicly and eat what we had. If the owner thinks that's fresh, quality and great presentation, then they've fooled themselves and gotten overly comfortable w/uninformed and inexperienced tourists. I hope the locals know better because this place really needs to...

Ok, to be fair, New England clam chowder was okay (the small size cup is generous in size, you'll wish you had ordered a Sm if you ordered a large)-I would say 4 stars for chowder on generous size and flavor. The 3 star overall rating came into play because the cod fish basket is very pricey $$$ for a one person basket (17'ish dollars) and the cod just tasted, "Meh" due to it's dry texture and a bit soggy for batter. I just didn't taste any real flavor to it. In fact, I would have felt probably more satisfied eating frozen fish sticks out of pre packaged box from Walmart than this-EEK, you guys really need to step up your A-game on this dish and ASAP!! Hate to say it because I want to see neighboring towns succeed. It would've been nice to see some more fries in the basket for this price as well. Atmosphere was good being outdoors and sitting at the picnic table but nowhere to empty your basket-trashbin was packed to the brim to the point of nearly toppling off onto the pavement it was so...