I can't speak for the menu food. We just had the buffet only yesterday. Although I've been coming…read morehere since the 1970s, I even had my 16th birthday party here, and a company Christmas party. I was extremely disappointed in the buffet all around. They list what MAY be available on the buffet. They advertise it as a seafood buffet. Well, there were no crab legs, although you could purchase them in addition to the the already pricey $39 "seafood" buffet (for the meager offerings). No crabs. No rockfish. No clam chowder. No shrimp skampi. No seafood salad. None of the more expensive items. Basically, bottom of the barrel offerings, and nothing that we went there for. I left there hungry and feeling ripped off. The only really good thing where the raw oysters. And theyre damn near impossible to ruin. All of the shrimp were over cooked. Mealey and dry. The creamy seafood bowties were inedible. The fake scallops were dry, tough, and very fishy. And as per the rest of the shrimp, they were cooked to death. I will say the garden salad, while simple, was pretty good. There was no ceaser. The fried oysters were the absolute worst ever. Over cooked, bad batter, dry and tasteless. The roasted oysters with a thick chunk of rubbery bacon, were hard to tell what they were. The clams casino were just ok. So much topping that it was hard to find the tiny little clam under all that. The so called "crab balls" were stuffed with a very dry tasteless crackers or bread crumbs but they should be called bread crumb balls. Even the seafood chowder? It was hard to tell as most things were unmarked or mismarked. The chowder was a very failed attempt. Slightly fishy, overcooked (whatever the tasteless meat was). And disgustly overly thickened. Worst I've ever had. I did try the red bliss potatoes. Were they boiled? Very plain, but edible. The canned green peas were what you'd expect. The cooks haven't ruined them yet. Now for the none seafood dishes. Chicken cordon Bleu? Eh. Roast beef? Dry tough and covered in canned gravy. Stuffed shells? Overly creamy and not very good. I took a small serving of anything I tried so I wouldnt waste much. I gave up after 2 sample plates. I find it hard to believe that a restaurant thats been around this long, could in good conscious, even attempt to pawn that way over priced sub Sysco quality food as a seafood buffet. Overcooked tasteless shrimp, clams muscles and oysters, especially cooked as poorly as all of these offerings do not make up a seafood buffet. I must add, the staff was 5 stars. Very friendly and attentive. No complaints there. In summation, I feel like the generalized menu, lead you to believe there would be some decent choices. But they cheapened it down so badly with very poor quality food that there was no reason to go back up. Poor selection, tiny buffet, very poor quality food, unmarked, mismarked, and very unappealing. I dont know who runs this place now, but its a far cry from what it used to be. I shouldn't have gone. This experience ruined my memories. I still can't get over anybody pawning this garbage off as a buffet, let alone a seafood buffet. For $10 less, I can literally get ten times the options with 100% fresh seafood at several nearby places. Oh, and I almost forgot. Who cooks a beautiful salmon filet so long that you have to gulp down a drink with it so it doesn't get stuck in your throat? 1 star. And thats being very generous. Now if your somebody that enjoys gulping down lots and lots of mediocre food at a ridiculous price, this place my be for you.
