Champlin's Seafood — Restaurant in Narragansett

Three of us ate here on a Monday night in October. OK, I should have known from the run-down look of the building that perhaps this would not be a good choice for us, but Monday nights off-season have limited dining options. We climbed the outside stairs to the 'dining room', encountering seagull feathers and bird excrement on the stairs and the outside tables when we reached the top. In the 'dining room' we realized that the 'view' consists of a lower roof deck covered in seagulls and their white droppings. The floor of the dining room was not clean, and the tables are essentially long picnic tables. The hopeful diner must go to a small window, and give his order to a disinterested woman seated on a stool behind the window. You pick up your food when your number is called. We had fried clams, broiled flounder, the fried calamari and complimentary cup of white chowder and some clam cakes. You get your own napkins, salt & pepper in little packets, foil pouches of ketchup. Customers order beer/wine/drinks at a very small bar, tip the bartender and carry the drinks back to their table. Frankly, the calamari at Champlins has ruined it for us until at least next summer. The fried clams were not nearly as good as we get in inland Massachusetts. Clam cakes were as dense as small hand grenades. Overall, a dismal dining experience in every respect. And it wasn't cheap - over seventy dollars for three of us, not including drinks; for waiting on ourselves, for eating lousy food in a nasty environment, for leaving cheerless....

This place must crush it with tourists with its great location. That said this place is for the birds. When ordering we were told there are no combo plates, so if you want clams and scallops you have to order them seperately, scam. What seafood place doesn't offer combos!? So I get the scallop plate and shrimp order but want rings instead of fries, the girl quickly told me, we can't substitute. So I offer to pay upcharge for rings she still insists we can't do that. So they literally cant put food and rings on the same plate!? Its like a weird kosher seafoods stand! Actually its just a shack taking liberties. So I have to order seperate rings. Then I want to order a kids fish and chips, I ask is it haddock, nope its flounder. So I ask if I can just get a piece of haddock for her. Nope! They really stand there and tell you they can't fry up a piece if haddock! We can't do that over and over. So we get the food, scallops tasted fishy, the shrimp were in a southern grits type batter and the fish was paper thin. This place serves bottom of the barrel. Looks like they wipe it down once a year and forget the bathrooms..urine smell is like old fenway! I never have time to leave reviews but for this tourist trap I made time. The sweet spot ice cream shop downstairs is amazing! Eat somewhere else then get the delicious dirty grasshopper of mint...

I went to Champlin’s last week, the food was amazing! It was super busy but the line went quick. I’ve NEVER had bad food here! It’s one of my favorite summer spots! Onto my real/other reason to write this review!!…I left my wallet there. I knew it was lost but I didn’t even remember bringing it in there since I was with family members that paid so I didn’t even consider that it was left there. Once I realized it was missing a couple days had gone by, I checked all of my accounts and nothing was missing so I really just assumed it was in my house somewhere and wasn’t panicking or anything. Yes I did cancel some accounts to be safe but I really just figured it would turn up. BUT yesterday I got some calls from a few of my doctors offices that Champlins had called them to see if they could get in touch with me (from appointment cards that were in my wallet) and asked them to let me know that my wallet was there!! I just can’t believe they went through those hoops to find me and get it back to me and kept it secure for me until I came to get it. Thank you Champlins! You’re an A+ 5 star restaurant...