The Goat — Restaurant in Newburyport

I have never been to this location in Newburyport but my friend had, she had a good experience. We take our daughters for lunch. My girlfriend and I got drinks to start. She got a strawberry margarita and I got their red sangria. My friends strawberry margarita was great. The red sangria was not good at all. I asked the waitress if I could have the strawberry margarita and that I didn’t like the sangria. Then we ordered our food. We got a chicken and waffles, nachos with chicken, 2 wing baskets, tater tot’s, Caesar salad and then another Caesar salad with chicken fingers. When the food arrived (we didn’t have enough silverware and had no plates) the nachos had hardly any cheese on them and we counted 8 pieces of diced chicken. The salad came and they were side salads. We didn’t get salsa with our nachos we are waiting and waiting for our waitress to come over to check on us. When she finally came to the table we explained the nachos and she agreed that it was awful. Told her about the side salads were supposed to be full salads. She said she would have it all fixed. The nachos came out and they still hardly had any chicken on them. The nachos on the menu stated they were $14 and to add chicken is $6 which would be a total of $20. Got charged $21. The salads would have been cheaper if the full size came out the first time. We waited for the nachos and the salads the second time for a very long time. The waitress just brings the food. We hardly ate any of it we packed up the wings. The lettuce was very soggy and the nachos second time weren’t any better than the first time. We asked for the check as we had been there longer than we anticipated to be. When I hand her the check back with the credit cards to split. I said to her that I have been in this industry for a long time and I would never have made my table paid for everything knowing we didn’t have a great experience with the way the food came out and she looked at me and said, “ yea I know” Heather the waitress comes back and hands me the slips and still never had a manager take anything off or offer us anything or even have a manager come over to maybe have customers leave happy. The bill was $184.80. We left hungry and annoyed on how it didn’t seem to bother our waitress at all that we had an experience like we did. I will not...

Terrible experience even getting expedited past the main door line…(which you think would be advantageous?)

Bartending staff was rude and inhospitable (probably due to the fact they’re working 80 hour workweeks)

(That’s a personal issue don’t take it out on me…)

Note to the bar room staff that seems overtly happy 😊

Maybe if you actually applied yourself in life you could get a position where you’re not an intoxicant server and realistically just a pawn…

Oh for the patrons ? Now that is even more questionable…

At the hour of 10:00 pm it was anecdotally noted that 90% of the people there were over served and over intoxicated…

Had one “gentleman” spill his drink on my sports jacket and then apologize in a calm rebuttal in which he had stated that, “I apologize I will buy you a replacement drink.”

He in-fact never did the aforementioned but at a later point in that evening he did proceed to get overly close to me and step on my deck boots….

In which I told him kindly to get off my toes and then proceeded to have an open consult with him discussing his self-limiting beliefs pertaining to his golf game in which the resolve was questionable due to the fact they were unconsciously unconscious…

Also another positive annotation was the fact; I was questioned several times all through the night by over served over intoxicated people why, “I was wearing a suit?”

In which I replied amicably every-time, “it’s not a suit it’s a sports jacket and it’s quite chilly, thank you for asking.”

You would think with an affluent demographic like Newburyport people would not have biased preconceptions on people whom are financially successful…

Keep in mind wealth is a byproduct of success and you get what you put in…

If you’re subconsciously unhappy with seeing other people of status and success in your day to life (how do you ever expect to be happy yourself?)

All in its entirety if you’re looking for a, “bar room blitz” and to yap it up with a bunch of immature habitual drinkers (alcoholics)

I formally recommend the goat; in Newburyport Massachusetts…

You’ll fit in just fine I am sure with the over-achievers that frequent...

hello again yup another 5 star review- the goat newburyport harbor- ohhh boy - for a eatery to stick out there is some kind of accomplishment-not only are there one million two hundred thousand restaurants in the area - but but to compete with the views - the park - just the whole big beautiful experience of newburyport hummm - lets dig in - for starters the goat ( moving forward tg ) doesn't compete- they blend in - they are part of the experience- if you know me - food comes last in my reviews- sure it plays a part - but food is food - i bring you the big picture- blend in - yes blend in and compliment - from the insane beauty of the planters -( spectacular) to the fully opening sliders that give you a outside on the dock feeling - inside- no seagull poop !!! - or the actual option of outside with the full experience of eating on the pier-just kidding about the poop - lol -seriously- the structure is perfect-- u know me - top of my list is the staff-our server was as good as it gets - interactive- funny - and didn't make it about her - it was our show- and she enjoyed it - god gave us two ears and one moth on purpose- like a well oiled machine- just like a race car every lap with perfect timing- courses came at perfect times-one of my big no no s - is when paying takes forever- when your done and its time to go - another half hour oh hell no - but not our server - again- well oiled machine- round trip with cc and take home boxes in hand -- i would give the staff server chef and owner for assembling this magic 5 stars anyplace they hang a shingle -ok as promised the food - oh i could go on and on about how perfect the bacon and spicy maple dipping sauce is- or the incredible burger menu- how creative the brisket cheese soup was - and the freshest marble rye with my off the chart pastrami but instead look at the picture - they absolutely should sign the food yes tg you get a yabadubado 5 across the board - i ty for helping to mske...