Blue Collar Lobster / The Gloucester House Pub — Restaurant in Gloucester

Nice ambiance near the restaurant if you like New England water-based things, which I do. Easy parking too.

If you like bringing your dog and keeping it unleashed during dinner at a restaurant / having it walk around the dining area, this seems to be the place to do it though.

Went there with my mother for lunch and, as the sign indicated for us to do, we sat ourselves. We chose the table as far away from the dog that was walking around on its own as we could, and a long, silver haired employee told us we'd have to change tables, even though we were simply trying to coexist with the off-leash dog.

The dog-party was the only other party in the entire area so they were actually quite easy to avoid, even if I personally think dogs should be strictly maintained by the table, if theyre even in a restaurant. this was not a service dog, as it was simply meandering about the premises, as dogs do.

I thought it was annoying that the restaurant staff person didn't accept my solution to the dog and seemed to act like having unleashed dogs inside was a normal thing, so, i simply left after being asked to relocate to a table that was next to the animal.

I like animals tbh, and i specifically like dogs, but i do not like unleashed strange dogs walking around my food and family, at restaurants. I was willing to avoid even thinking about it by simply existing far away from it in the restaurant, and this was deemed unacceptable to them.

I was looking forward to trying this place, not from reputation, but from the way that people seemed to be rather cheery exiting the location (maybe they were coming out of the dessert place, idk) so I'm kind of sad I didn't have the experience.

I just simply was not going to eat a meal next to a large, unleashed animal that was brought in by a guest and interacting with other guests/tables.

Odd experience honestly, especially since I was trying to keep it really quiet that we were avoiding the dog so as not to embarrass or call out the party that brought it. They obviously weren't doing anything wrong since the restaurant didn't mind their presence and the dogs just a dog.

My experience seems to be very different from what other people have had, so thats weird, but in all fairness, the dog-party were the LITERAL only other party in the place, so telling us we HAD to sit next to them when the entire dining room was empty was kinda F'd up, and is why we simply went down the road to Mile Marker, which...

Fun atmosphere, bad experience with everything else. First off there's no table service but they don't make that very clear if you've never been there and you Don already know. It's a really big place with lots of different seating areas, not typical for a counter service place. So you'll end up wandering around to all the various entrances trying to find literally anyone who works there to help you or even a sign that tells you where to go, which is the ordering counter which outside (so if it's raining, you're getting wet) the opposite end with no signs guiding you that way. Because it was raining heavily, they reduced service to the only window under a little part of the roof so then it got very crowded and still wasn't very dry. I ordered the haddock sandwich and it was a disaster. Giant piece of fish which might please some people but it was way way too big for the bun. The slice of tomato was so thick that it instantly made the sandwich very soggy. They put like a ridiculously large piece of lettuce as well. Why does it all need to be huge? Is that what people really want? When I tried to pick up the sandwich I couldn't find the bottom. I did eventually manage to get a handle on it and after one bite it became unmanageable. The hot tomato juice soaked the entire thing, the soggy bun couldn't hold the weight of the overflowing content and it all fell apart. As I tried to pick up the pieces of haddock to put the sandwich together, it flaked apart and made that very difficult. I ended up eating it with a fork. It's not a "handheld" as they called it if you have to eat it with a...

Came in on a Sunday around 7pm. The three ladies chatting behind the host stand gave us a lukewarm welcome, and all looked like they'd rather be somewhere else. We were seated promptly in a booth with a great view of the wharf. Our server had an indifferent/cold attitude. But I know he was capable of smiling because he did so when talking with his co-workers. We ordered lemonade, clam chowder, mussels, and pan-fried haddock with a lemon caper sauce. Chowder was standard. Lemonade was store bought. Mussels were amazing, perfectly cooked, fresh, served with a rich creamy butter sauce. Fish was very disappointing, mushy and barely warm, and fishy not in an appetising way. The lemon sauce was warheads sour, likely to mask the taste of the fish. The fish was only palatable after being thoroughly washed in the mussel sauce. The taste, temperature, and consistency of the fish all point to it being cooked long ago, left to sit out under a heat lamp. The fries that came with the fish were soggy and less than warm, likely suffering the same fate as the fish. No acknowledgment when leaving the establishment. No thanks you, no goodbyes, no come again, and we definitely won't be. Tl;dr: The food was supbar, except the mussels. The service was subpar. But the ambience and...