Fish Tales Bar and Grille

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  It's really unfortunate, this place used to be good and fun.. ( Like when they had karayoke)Now ... 3 hours for dinner.. Took an hour for one round of drinks. Steamers tasted like they were bad, no more dinner rolls ( and marked on menu that there are rolls), nachos came out with very little an burnt cheese...not to mention a piece of plastic in them( tortilla bag?).. And we got comped a bottle of wine and the bad food..what...  with issues the actual manager hid in the kitchen, leaving the assistant manager and wait staff to handle all the issues that the kitchen and bar had. It's really too bad, we won't be back.  Please note all other reviews dates, this place is no longer the place it once was.

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  Posted on 06.12.13 Brigette L.

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  Great restaurant. Friendly staff, great food. I got a lobster roll which was reasonably priced, my girlfriend got a salmon sandwich, which was also incredible. They have really good root beer. They also have a special for each night of the week. I think Thursday is 8.99 lobster and Friday was a cheap steak. Worth the trip!

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  Posted on 08.16.12 Evan M.

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  Not really sure why Yelp calls this an Italian restaurant.  As its name indicates, seafood is what it does best.  I live a lot closer to the ocean, but the fish here is better than anything we have at home.
  
  There's a very active bar scene, mostly locals. The adjacent dining room is plain and noisy. There's nothing flashy about the menu either, but the food high quality, simply prepared, very fresh and extremely affordable.  Hatfield is a potato growing town, and Fish Tales features the hometown product with pride.

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  Posted on 09.08.11 Ken W.

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  Love the fish and chips! Portion sizes are large and prices very reasonable. Excellent place for a casual lunch or dinner with friends :)

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  Posted on 12.25.10 Rick L.

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  My dinner last evening was freakishly good. The GF said not to say that, but having slept on it, and now having excitedly anticipated my leftovers all day, I'm sticking with "freakishly good."
  
  A little low lit, a little noisy, Fish Tales is an interesting place. Tucked in next to the post office in "downtown" Hatfield, with "downtown" basically being the post office and Fish Tales, I didn't really expect much more than OK from this place. What kind of decent seafood can you expect a few hundred miles from the sea? What kind of decent other food can you expect at a place that appears to be a seafood joint? I was wrong.
  
  With a gracious and cheery hostess (who held a booth for us when we called ahead) and a very attentive and friendly waiter, our experience last night from start to finish was top notch.
  
  I ordered the "Crazy Alfredo," and the GF had a vegetarian pasta. Each meal came with a salad and some garlic bread. The salad, though small, was freshly prepped and appointed with tomato, onion, lettuce snd not the best blue cheese dressing I've had (or even close - no chunks or lumps.)
  
  We enjoyed crabmeat stuffed mushrooms with our Cosmopolitan cocktails. The 'shrooms were served very hot with a very stretchy mozzarella cheese topping the crabmeat and breadcrumb stuffing. Yeah, coulda been more crab less bread, but I think that's always the case. These were decent stuffed mushrooms. So, so far... so good. The place is... OK.
  
  But then, out came the entree's. Crazy Alfredo is right. The creamy white sauce in this dish is loaded with fire! I didn't expect this much flavor from this place. A giant bowl of ziti, tossed with, oh, I don't know - a whole pig's worth of ham, a whole chicken's worth of chicken breast, and a whole helluva lot of nicely seasoned sausage to boot. I ate until I was more than full and took home one of the heaviest doggie bags in recent memory.
  
  But, all through my freakishly good meal, I kept getting this tantalizing whiff of red wine and spices... it was the GF's pasta sauce. I tried a forkful of pasta and vegetables... wow. Very nice sauce on this dish... very nice.
  
  Our waiter maintained an excellent pace throughout the evening, refilling the water, clearing empty dishes as needed, and checking to make sure all was good, without ever being obtrusive.
  
  If you're looking for someplace new to try, where you can walk in and get a table on a Saturday evening, have a very good meal at a very reasonable price, then Fish Tales may be the place for you. Come hungry.

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  Posted on 11.14.10 Rob F.

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