By The Bay — Restaurant in East Lyme

We are locals, have been here a few times, and really wanted to like it because it has outdoor seating, a view of our bay, and the building is historic. Our visit tonight will be our last. It's a shame. I don't understand how with so many negative reviews for the same types of things, management wouldn't be interested in analyzing the quality control and make some changes. It doesn't seem like it's ever going to be a priority. Repeatedly answering a negative review with the same generic "Sorry you should have told us and we might have been able to do something" doesn't fix anything or change the fact that it keeps happening. You actually need to change something to make a change. If you claim you only use local and fresh ingredients, and so many are claiming it tasted like it was frozen or tasteless, guess what? someone is ruining your delicious ingredients before it leaves the kitchen.

Let's see...Tonight's family evening out...

A dead fly in beer taster glass to start. Waitress said it must have flown in on the way over, but was clearly dead.

Vodka,soda, lime( how hard is that?) Brown rotten limes in drink. If they are nasty, just say sorry your out. Then a lemon suddenly appeared in one.

We were excited for the Pretzels. Ordered 3 orders, 6 pretzels. Pretzels were microwaved, came out smoking hot, and hard as a rock after 2 minutes.

Pretzel cheese sauce was watered down or something. I thought it was some sort of salad dressing, but was told it was cheese.

Kids chicken tenders were burnt black. Literally. I asked if they looked a little dark to the waitress but she ignored it. They tried, but wouldn't eat it. Why would a kitchen even consider putting that out. Or why would a waitress except it ?

10.00 for a small bowl of kids ziti.

We actually came here because I was craving the Sesame tuna. I have had it before here and it was good. Not this time. It was well done and literally had only 3 sesame seeds on it. We counted.

French dip meat was dry and the beef broth was half grease and we kept trying to mix it up after it separated.

The house salad seemed fresh, but the blue cheese dressing was just mayonnaise.

I didn't bother with my fish sandwich. The service was pretty good though, and although I didn't want to tip on the $150 tab of that food, I gave her 20%, because she did a good job and I felt bad because they probably hear about it a lot and are forced to mediate and make excuses for the lack of quality and care.

Yeah, we will never go there again! Please don't feel the need to reply. You are only embarrassing yourself more.

*Are you trying to defer by insinuating that those chicken tenders were not from this restaurant? That's hilarious. What's ever funnier is that's my cutting board at home, from the take home box, and right before I decided,"nope, even I won't eat it", and then promptly threw it out it in the woods for the coyotes to eat. If it's any consolation, it was gone the next day, so they must...

We have been to their other location and we're excited to try this location since it's closer to us. I emailed them to make a reservation and they were able to fit our large party. We went here during Sunday brunch with my family and it was nice to see how open this brewery is and so close to the water! They had plenty of seating and also have an outdoor patio that allows dogs. Our server was really nice but they seemed to appear to be short handed because he seemed to be the one waiting and serving all of the tables. He greeted us and got us our drinks right away but then it took a while for us to order. When he took our order, he never wrote anything down and got all our orders accurately! We got a few beers like steeple people and pew pew which were pretty good. We liked steeple people better. I liked that they also offered mimosa and Bloody Mary flights. We started with mozzarella sticks which were not on the menu but the chef was able to make it for us which were good. I got the macaroni and cheese burger and fries, which I thought was a little boring. I would add cheese, ketchup and mayo on the burger but the fries were great! My sister got the adult macaroni and cheese which she thought was okay but would be better with breadcrumbs. My husband got the buffalo chicken pizza with blue cheese to dip which was good and had a nice flavor. My father got the French dip and seafood chowder which he said the soup was exceptional, probably the best he ever had. We even got a few more cups of soup to go! My mom got the eggs Benedict which she enjoyed. My son got a cheeseburger and fries and my daughter got the linguine and meatballs and both they enjoyed! Overall, this is a nice place to stop by if you're...

We went to Five Churches for brunch on Sunday, this was our second time dining at the restaurant. The first time was decent, no complaints. This time, different story. We order the mimosa flight which was good, and a spicy Bloody Mary. For food we ordered two Eggs Benedict ($17) and the Italian combo ($16). The eggs Benedict was embarrassing, the eggs were a very weird texture, the bacon was definitely pre cooked bagged bacon, the hollandaise sauce tasted off and was cold and the home fries were straight from a bag. The Italian combo looked good, until my fiancé bit into it. There was a long string of slime, it was absolutely disgusting. The meat was definitely bad. When the waitress came over we told her about the sandwich and even opened the sandwich to show her the slime inside, she immediately brought it back to the kitchen. She did ask if he wanted them to remake it, but at that point, we had all lost our appetite. We didn’t touch our Eggs Benedict. She didn’t ask how it was and could clearly see we didn’t touch it. The Bloody Mary was also terrible, I took three sips and every sip I got chunks of chopped up jalapeños. Overall is was a horrible experience, our waitress brought the check over, she did take off the combo, but at the end of the day, we ended up paying almost $80 for a flight of mimosas (the only thing we finished). I would not recommend this place to anyone and we will never go back. We ended up going down the road to Fat Tuna and had a...