Dockside Restaurant

A local favorite. The new location in Chelsea is clean and big. Love the huge island bar and the outdoor seating. A good place to drink with friends or have a casual dinner. The fish and chips are one of my favs. The pizza is so/so. Drinks are decently priced for being so close to the city.

We really, really want to like this place. It's so close to our condo, and yet the past 3 times we've gone, it's been terrible - one time we didn't even go in for dinner, because they tried to charge us a $20 cover for some fight that was on (no thanks). I will say that they've got some cool cocktails that are worth trying.

We went here on Friday to grab some dinner - the Bruins game was on, so it was pretty packed.(They did have the patio open with a band playing outside, so that looked pretty cool) - we grabbed a booth inside. Our waitress took a little too long to take our orders, and our food took a while to come out. My boyfriend got the buffalo mac and cheese, and I got the salmon. His mac and cheese was definitely some watered-down easy-mac, and he had to send it back (I don't think he's ever sent anything back before...). My salmon was also nothing special, no flavor and kind of cold by the time I got it, but I was pretty starving.

After we were finished, we sat there staring at our plates for about 45 minutes without   our waitress checking up on us, or offering us the bill. And we didn't even see her anywhere to flag her down - even the manager / hostess seemed to have disappeared.

If the food was somewhat decent, we'd probably suck it up and go back again - but I'm thinking three strikes is out for us. Maybe this place is good when it's slow, but the food and the service definitely needs to take it up a notch.

I got a gift card to go here and it was terrible, their gift card system was down so I was not able to use the gift card and the management were not too friendly about it, they had to write down my card information which I was not too happy about so they could run my card later because  did not have cash on me..