amazing food and service!!!! The fish and chips were so yummy!! Would go back again!!!

The Quarter deck is all 100% The post is another matter .these vehicles were seen roaming around unfortunately. By other guest photos were exchanged. read more

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I ordered salmon, rice and asparagus. It was so damn delicious. Perfect cooking with seasons! Love it. Would be nice to add some more veggies. The services are friendly. Beautiful view at the Summerville beach! read more

I was here recently to celebrate my husband's uncle and aunt's 53rd wedding anniversary. We were a small party of 6. The couple of honour really like this place and they had been there several times. It was my first time there and of my own accord, I would not return. The food was really rich and salty and pricey. I had the scallop linguini $25. It was 5 large scallops with bacon and smoked salmon and a sprinkling of peas in a rich creamy sauce with linguini, of course. The sauce was so rich and the dish was very salty. The scallops were good though and the pasta was al dente. Almost everything on the menu had either pork belly, cream or was deep fried. Dieters beware! My husband had the seafood chowder to start $15. He enjoyed it. I didn't have any because it looked like it was made with 35% cream and my arteries advised me not to. My husband had the Hodgepodge $28 as his main. Again, he liked it and I declined to try any. Others at the table had the steak (they said it was tender but overdone), Lobster Thermidor (he enjoyed it and said it was filling), scallop linguini as I did, and a few had the Lobster Fritters to start. I had a Lobster Fritter and I tasted mostly filler, very little lobster. Everyone other than me seemed to enjoy their meal. The place apparently underwent some major renovations. It's very new and modern looking. There's a wraparound patio where you can eat by the water. Even if you eat inside. the large windows give you a beautiful view of the water. Service was nice and friendly, but they were really busy, so not as attentive as I would have expected for the price. Overall, it's a beautiful place, but I personally found the food too salty, too creamy/rich, and too expensive. read more

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We just returned from the quarter deck. Everything was lovely. We were a bit worried about the restaurant because of the review on Yelp but the good was lovely!! And the service excellent. I had the chicken Lucy and it was delicious. My husband ordered the steak. It was a bit thin ( we like 1.5-2 inch thick) but despite that the chef still pulled off a medium rare and the demiglace was delicious. We will definitely be back!! As for the room, we stayed in he lofts which had very comfy beds and were nicely appointed Nice view of the beach too read more

Restaurant 9/10 Food 2/10 Service 0/10....would give a negative if I could Where to start. First of its a beautiful restaurant, clean with a beautiful view, and that's about it. Had a reservation for a Friday night got a ocean view which was beautiful. However we managed to the rudest most snottest server we have ever had, took order twice, non attentive and just didn't care. Calamari is frozen like the same stuff you get at Costco just with some gross sweet beer sauce that just makes it soggy and dose not go at all with it. Veggie paste was decent but a little bland, no salt or pepper on the table, server didn't bother to ask if we needed any. Pan-fried haddock was frozen freezer burnt, bland and dried, rice pilaf taste like it's from a bag, and is a very small portion size. Asked server if the fish was fresh rudely said "um yeah" and then walked away even though the dried crunchy pieces of fish was still on the plate, zero attempt to be helpful, gave us the debit machine and bill and completely disappeared. he clearly doesn't want to be a server so stop being one. Bill was $90 for that garbage. read more

*Restaurant review only* Since we were celebrating our wedding anniversary in the area, we came the Quarterdeck restaurant for lunch after hearing about the nice view. The restaurant itself is very nice, more Laguna beach vibe than rural Nova Scotia. Beautiful views and excellent service. The food however was just so-so. We started with the lobster samosas. Good Indian flavors but one of them didn't even have any lobster in it. Nice presentation though. For my lunch I had the seafood penne. Very large portion with a lot of fresh seafood but quite bland overall. Hubby had the club sandwich and was a little put off that it had processed cheese. Once again, very nice place with great service but the food didn't seem to match the ambiance or slightly high price tag. read more

The renos done and the new menu tweeked It's going to take some getting used to if you knew the old property. They have a chance to take it up to the level of the new decor and I hope they do. This is a must stop on the south shore drive so I hope they keep the menu exciting but I hope we don't have to pay for he renovations from it. read more

The Quarterdeck Beachside Villas and Grill - a view of the beach - Hotels Near Me

The food was reheated. I ordered haddock which was overcooked, vegetables were reheated marginally and potatoes were reheated from frozen. My son ordered the mussels. The broth was so salty it was inedible. The servicer was surely. read more

This is our family's 8th year and it will be our last. A decline in the last 2 years. We had hopes going back this year that last summer was just a bump in service. This summer was worse. Our 3 villas weren't ready on time and when we did get in, the weren't cleaned properly. We always pre-book a year in advance so for them not to be ready is ridiculous. There were underwear under my son's bed, pills under another and dirty towels in the bathroom. It was disgusting. There was also no bedding for the pull out couch for any of the 3 villas. It took awhile to get the bedding and clean towels. The biggest hit was the 35% rate increase that we were not told until checkout. Overall very disappointing for a place we considered an annual family destination. read more

Beautiful restaurant. Great staff. Very good food and drink. Was last there in 2016 and loved it then. Glad to be able to return.

We are super happy with our stay! We arrived at midnight.. the lady behind the desk was so cheerful :) We found our room.. which is fabulous!! It's a 3rd floor (walk up be warned) on the corner so our balcony is extra amazing!! The room is spacious, clean and beachy feeling. It is right on the beach... can't get any closer:) It doesn't have a kitchenette but there are dishes, cups and silverware to go along with the microwave and mini fridge. Parking can be a bit of a challenge. We would absolutely stay here again and very much recommend it. read more

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A beautiful seaside restaurant. We lucked out and arrived on their first full day of business. Not many options from 2:00 pm-5:00pm, but no worries! The house Mai Tai & seafood chowder are excellent choices. Clean, nautical ambiance, great service & the view can't be beat! read more

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I've been coming here for over 25 years. The staff here are the best I've experienced from hotels around the world. Service is exceptional and always has been. The new restaurant is gorgeous, but the food leaves much to be desired. My last 4 experiences have been disappointing and were not cheap. Undercooked food twice and items on the menu unavailable twice. If you want a good burger and fries this place is great with an amazing view, but do not expect fine dinning. Accommodation prices keep going up and are unaffordable for most now. I may go back during winter months when it's cheaper but I will bring my own food to cook in the villa kitchen and skip the restaurant from now on. Nothing beats this place for the view and beach access. Beach is one of the best in Nova Scotia. Free wireless is also useless most of the time. Not fast enough to load large sites like Facebook. read more

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I've eaten here annually over the last ten years or so. Every year I go hoping things will be good, usually they're not so good. This year there is new management, so things could have been different. It's a lovely facility, right on the ocean, 1/3 of the tables actually overhang the ocean on a semi-enclosed deck. Views of the long beach, the rest of the coastline, everything sets you up for a great seaside dining experience. But for years, the problems have been the same. First, be wary of a menu with photographs of the food -- that's the first clue that this is not going to be a fine dining experience. The staff always seems to be inexperienced with how restaurants operate -- they're young and mostly eager, but they don't seem like they've ever been to a full service restaurant before. ( I've seen soup served and been unable to find a server to provide spoons -- for 10 minutes.) The food over the years has remained unimaginative in design, mediocre in execution and overpriced compared to what you get. Best items on the menu have been the calamari (appetizer) and often the scallops (appetizers and entrees) are good. But the vegetables are dull, unseasoned medleys. Dull, flavor hiding sauces. Just not a great experience. Again. read more

I stayed at the Quarterdeck for three nights and it was an interesting experience. The rooms were small but the "villa" overall was a somewhat decent size. The mattresses were not that comfortable, however, what can one expect from a hotel in the middle of Ghetto Scotia. The Quarterdeck makes plenty of false claims, however. They claim to be a four star hotel, four stars my arse. More like a three star hotel at best. Four star hotels have a maid service that thoroughly cleans the rooms, not one that surface cleans. Four star hotels also serve breakfast, especially if the hotel is located on the coast of Ghetto Scotia where there's no place to get breakfast for several kilometers, eh? The Quarterdeck, mediocrity at it's finest. read more

This review is for the restaurant, not the accommodations (we stayed in the lofts and they were lovely. No complaints.) After making a reservation in early May for a visit in late June, we showed up on time at 7:15 on June 22. It was a busy night. We were greeted by the manager and were told we would be sitting upstairs, they just needed to clear off the table, and to please have a seat at the bar in the meantime. We waited....and waited. She saw us still sitting there, then asked a server nearby if he had a chance to clear off the table upstairs yet. He said he hadn't had much time to do anything, and that was that. We waited some more. The bartender eventually asked us if we wanted anything. Although there was a bottle of Aperol on the shelf behind the bar, the bartender didn't know what an Aperol Spritz was. It was clear there was no point in asking if she could make one. After seeing the manager make a glass if sangria with lots of diced fruit, red wine, cranberry juice and club soda, we decided to get a pitcher of the rosé sangria. The bartender put one slice of apple and one slice of orange in a pitcher, dumped in about half a bottle of rosé and filled the rest of it with 7up. This is not Sangria. Sangria has wine, fruit, brandy, and sometimes juice. This was pop and wine. For $28! Why the lack of quality control? Then we waited some more but said nothing. The manager saw we were still there and shrugged her shoulders and said "I'm doing the best I can, ladies. The table is just paying, hopefully they leave soon," in way that said "don't blame me". This was confusing because we were under the impression our table just needed cleaning when we showed up for our reservation...on time....which we had made more than a month ago. If you know you have a reservation coming at a certain time, you better make sure the prior guests are gone by that time. We waited some more while the manager avoided making any more eye contact with us. We were seated 45 minutes later at 8pm, at a completely different table on the bottom level. We were told by the manager a table was ready and we could go to it. She didn't take us to it. There was no acknowledgment that we waited so long, no apology, no offer to make it up to us whatsoever, which any decent place would do in order to provide good customer service. I've been offered apologies and comped menu items for far less. And to be clear, we did not complain. No one in our party is the type to put up a fuss, so there was absolutely no bad behaviour on our part to warrant the lack of customer service. Then we ordered our food. The dinner menu (which is apparently "new") is strangely dated and uninspired compared to the lovely, modern atmosphere of the space itself. We started with the calamari. It was good. Then we waited a long time for our mains, which were all the same - the seafood medley for $29. It was recommended by our server, who described the dish and said it was topped with a nice, cheesy cracker. I had hopes of savoury, garlicky, buttery seafood. What we got was seafood on a skillet, which was very possibly missing the garlic butter altogether. It had zero flavour. There was a dry piece of lobster sitting loose on top of it all...with crushed up Goldfish crackers all over it. That's right - store-bought toddler food was thrown on fresh Atlantic seafood and they charged $29 a plate. If it was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, it wasn't pulled off well at all. The rice pilaf (again, very dated) tasted heavily of thyme and the vegetables tasted like they were boiled for a 1970s Sunday dinner. There was really no point to any of it. None of us could finish our meals and it seemed wrong to have to pay through the roof for any part of the experience. I would like to say that our server was pleasant and likely had no idea we had been waiting so long. What we were extremely disappointed with was the lack of acknowledgment or apology from the manager, who knew they were not doing well that night. It would have gone a long way. We would not have felt compelled to write this review had she apologized or checked in with us. In retrospect we wish we had said something at the time, so that's on us - but the person in charge knew they messed up with our table and didn't acknowledge it. The bad food and drinks on top of it made for a disappointing experience all around. We cannot recommend The Quarterdeck Grill. Definitely stay there - the lofts are great! But order in from somewhere else or head down the road to Seaside Seafoods - we didn't try it but guaranteed it will be better bang for your buck! read more

The Quarterdeck Beachside Villas and Grill - Baked seafood medley. Don't order this. - Hotels Near Me

The Quarterdeck just re-opened after extensive renovations, and it is truly beautiful. Very modern décor is unique in the area. It has large windows overlooking the ocean , and a patio, although the patio was not yet open when I went, due to permit delays. There is a second floor with a dining are as well as an event room. I went for dinner with my family. I started with the arugula salad which was quite tasty. They brought a couple kinds of homemade breads to the table, which was just ok (I preferred the biscuits they used to make). I then had the baked haddock which came with asparagus and fingerling potatoes. The serving size was generous, and the dish was pretty good. My mom got a scallop linguini that looked delicious (and huge serving), but she said was extremely rich. Dad got mussels which he said were delicious, and fish cakes with fries (the fries needed to be fried again, or in hotter oil). For our almost 3-year old we ordered a cheeseburger and fries for about $8. The burger bun was incredibly good! They had a booster seat a colouring equipment for the kiddo. I'm not actually a fish eater, though I'm trying to be... There were only a couple of non-seafood items on the mains menu (chicken cordon bleu and a steak of some kind), and neither appealed to me which is why I decided -- "when in Rome!" -- to try out the fish. I also noted that there was no vegetarian main dish on the menu to which the waitress replied that I could have called ahead and the chef could have come up with something vegetarian -- "a pasta or something". I think they could do better... I found the prices to be a little on the expensive side. Gorgeous setting, and just down the road from a family home, I will be back to try it out again. read more

I was disappointed that the Quarterdeck tore down their beach shack restaurant, but the new restaurant is gorgeous. Food was good but pricey. Two story rooms with two beds and full kitchen are very nicely appointed. I return here often. It's a perfect day trip from Lunenburg. read more

Beautiful location. Restaurant is cute and has a nice atmosphere. Unfortunately the food is a bit bland and overpriced.

Major applause for the Grill and resort. Accommodations in the new building across the street are lovely and spacious. The dining experience was top notch - setting overlooking the beach and bay stunningly beautiful. Watching the hues of the sky as the sun set was magical. Food was scrumptious and service could not have been more friendly. The beef brisket with molasses BBQ sauce was delicious. Pork orecchiette with veggies also incredibly flavorful. Don't miss the maple wine as a top off to your dessert. Don't miss this Nova Scotia gem! read more

This review is for the restaurant. Very attractive room with large windows by the sea. Food was very good indeed with attentive service. We've already been back for more. read more

Ordered the Oven Baked Seafood Medley. It was tasty. Service was slow. We ate outside. If you have a dog, they can only seat you at the three picnic tables at the side of the restaurant, otherwise you are able to sit outside at the tables in the back of it. Nice view of the bay. read more

Just visited this nice little spot on a road trip. I had the chowder as a appy which was very stocked with full scallops, lobster chunks and fish though I found the taste a bit bland. The fish and chips had high and lows the fish was moist and crust was great, but the frozen fries were not much to be desired. The wife had grilled halibut which was dry but the potatoes and asparagus were cooked perfectly. For dessert it was the blueberry crisp although they used real blueberries not can. There was no crust, just oatmeal like powder on top with ice cream. Though for $8 it is huge and edible just not what you expect. read more

We ate at the quarterdeck twice during our vacation. The views and location were incredible but sadly the food was a miss. The charcuterie was very bland, though they make everything in house. The cuts of meat included beef tongue, head cheese, and chicken heart. It would've been nice if there was a better description on the menu as we were not expecting such an unusual selection of meats, especially for the price. We all found it to be bland. We also had mussels and they were decent. Cocktails were good but a bit overpriced. We wanted to give the grill another shot so we went for lunch. The prices were a bit better than dinner but still too much. The Benedict was bland and the eggs were overcooked (not runny). The best part of this dish was the garnish of some sort of green cooked in butter and salt (delicious!). The burger was also very bland and greasy. We really wanted to love this restaurant as we were staying nearby and the patio and view is spectacular. The restaurant itself is also gorgeous. The prices simply cannot be justified for the lacklustre taste of the food (everything tasted under seasoned). Have yet to try the canteen (which according to the website was scheduled to open on June 24) but did not get the chance as it is late opening this year. Perhaps they will offer some more reasonably priced food options for beach goers. 5 star view, 2 star food. read more

We went to The Quarterdeck Grill for our 27th anniversary. The setting is beautiful as we were on the porch overlooking the ocean. The staff were very friendly. The bill came to $144.00 and we were disappointed. It was 3:00 pm and there were 7 tables of people and 3 people looking after tables. There were two tables of people who were seated after us but received their appetizers and were part way through their entrees when our appetizers first arrived. Then our meals came out at 4:20. My potatoes and vegetables were room temperature but my halibut was hot which makes me think they had been sitting there a while while my halibut was being cooked. The halibut was not as moist or flavorful as it could be. It was nothing to write home about. My husband ordered the surf and turf which was $37.00. The steak was gristly and tough. When he complained they did offer to cook him another one but it was 4:25 and we had been there since 3:00. He was hungry so he declined. He also wasn't convinced that the next steak would be of any higher quality. They did comp his specialty coffee because they felt badly about the steak. We certainly won't go back for a special dinner there again. read more