Tidewater Taphouse — Restaurant in Seward

I want to give this place a 5 star, review. I really do. Unfortunately, I have been a bit bummed out the last 2 times that I went there for a bite.

Pros: It has an awesome environment. The shop connected to it has lots of neat things available, there is a really nice outside area out back and big garage style doors to make everything really open in the summers, the food is delicious and there are some creative dishes, and finally it has some appetizing specials that come up.

Cons: For me, the biggest drawback is the lack of a website outside of Facebook. Menu photos say “Breakfast served till[sic] 3pm” but when I went with my family, I was informed that breakfast ended at 11:00am. I love to browse the menu and plan on what I want to order before going to places when possible and I got my hopes up showing up a little before 11:30am only to be told that they no longer had breakfast. That would’ve been alright, but we were then told to go upstairs to the restaurant seating area to order food to-go, which was different from my prior experience. We opted to go for the last remaining spam masubis, which were tasty, but we were hoping to get more. Other than that, it’s pretty pricey, even by Seward standards. Although tasty, it’s a bit of a splurge to eat (from) there since their entrees average around $18 give or take. Also, the parking is a bit cramped/sparse.

Overall, I like this place a lot. I want to love it, but I’ve been let down a few too many times by the lack of clear information (website/menu/hours) and the high cost. It is a cool environment and you’re paying for the atmosphere, staff, and uniqueness of the dishes, however, it does have the potential to improve with a few tweaks. All in all, worth...

Bought food somewhere else. Went there to shop at store. Seen menu and decided to order off their menu if we can drink and if I can eat what I got from a bakery. Server said yes cause we was ordering from there and eating outside. While there the rainbow haired manager kept giving my daughter a side eye. We ate and before leaving used the bathroom before our drive back to anchorage. The manager took it upon herself to question my daughter when I wasn’t with her about bringing in outside food. My daughter told her it was ok’ed by staff and then rainbow bright took it upon herself to validate this in front of my daughter. After I got out of the bathroom my daughter was upset. She said she will tell me after we left. I listened in the car and marched back inside. Rainbow bright took it upon herself to side eye my daughter who only drank an outside peach tea with permission from staff. I ate a couple short ribs and a bite of rice before eating my order f there. Never once did she come up to me or us while drinking our tea. She waited till I was no longer near my daughter and well after eating there. I told her she was very rude. We are paying customers and had permission. She had no right to talk down to my daughter and upset her the way she did. Much less come at her well after the fact and have a full on investigation. I used to look forward to coming here. I spent a lot prior in the shop every time coming here and for dinner with drinks. But I’ll be damned if I ever go back. Messing with people’s kids is a no no. Especially when that child did...

We arrived to this restaurant at 2:30pm according to the time on my messages and were kicked out after an 1 hr 15 min as im posting this around 3:55pm.

Our first server was excellent! Kind and talkative and making sure everything was lovely. We were enjoying some quiet family time with drinks and food as the place was rather empty. Waiting for the train that was arriving shortly around 4ish.

Our first server was cut from the staff and we were replaced with a different server as we had finished our food and still sipping on root beer.

after only 1hr and 15min we were asked if we were waiting for the train and we said yes! as to which the server responded passively “we don’t really do that here”

oh! weird? considering it is right on top of train station… we left immediately.

we had an 80$ tab for a brewery within 1hr and 15 min so ig that was not enough even though others were only sipping on beers and we had ordered the crab dip and halibut sandwich, 3 root beers, diet coke, and beer… we were leaving at 4 regardless but i did not think we were loitering… crazy.

the halibut sandwich was delicious, the diet coke and root beer was flat. Crab dip was ok. But would not come back as that ruined the vibe.

while we were leaving the capacity was only 25% full. I understand that some people probably do try to stay there for several hours waiting for the train but we really had not been there long. And if the place was busy and people had been waiting for tables but there was a significant amount of...