Upgrading my previous review from 2 stars to 3.
The service is still horrible. My fiancee (she's been upgraded as well) and I went there with another couple to celebrate a birthday.
The food, however, was fabulous! I can't complain about any of the entrees or appetizers we had. Great stuff.
But the service is still atrocious. Miserably bad.
So, I think the LC Seafood & Prime Rib is just 1 or 2 competent servers away from being a 4-star restaurant. But if you're in a hurry - or just want to be served in a reasonable amount of time - it's still painful to dine there.
Note: Always check Yelp's 'Filtered Reviews.' One of the businesses I reviewed has a 1-star rating with only 1 review, but there are 5 'filtered' (hidden) reviews averaging 4.8 stars!
I had a great time here, my burger was just awesome, I just wish it lasted longer. My french-fries were hot and very crispy/crunchy just the way I like. The bread and butter were on the mark to boot, tasty sourdough bread. We split some chowder that was just so-so, but dip the bread in it and everything was all better. GF got the rock cod with rice pilaf, the fish portion was a little small but we both left full. Our waiter, Luke, was on the ball, helpful and accommodating, he gets five stars. I will most assuredly return for another burger.
Review Source:I'll start off by saying that I read the other reviews and the only thing that I could say that was different was that we went to the 1890's Lounge and not the restaurant.
We went to La Conner with my parents for a day trip from Seattle. We walked around the town which is super adorable and eventually worked up an appetite. There are a string of restaurants down the main street so you are not limited in choices. We decided to go to the 1890's Lounge because we were hitting happy hour time and their menu sounded good and was cheap at $5 an item.
We went in and because it was a beautiful day wanted one of the outdoor tables. We let the waitress know and she was like, "no worries, I'll keep an eye out for you." Well, the first table that freed up was snatched up by another couple and she said, "No, need to worry I'll get you the next free table." We tried to be ever vigilant but someone else almost stole our table but the waitress (thank goodness for her) let the other person know that the table was reserved and we were able to get an awesome table outside. (Also, she hooked up the other person w/ the next available outdoor table.)
So service in this case = outstanding!
Onto the food, we decided to order two sets of the bacon, blue cheese sliders, the mussels and the calamari. All delicious! Honestly the sliders were fantastic. The beef was the good stuff (not the nasty reheated patties), the bacon was perfectly crispy and the blue cheese...perfectly melty. The mussels were cooked to perfection and the calamari was perfectly breaded, seasoned. We had to resist the temptation to order another round of everything because it was so delicious. I'm glad we ended up at this place because it ended a perfect day in La Conner.
This is a wonderful restaurant for lunch in a small tourist town--it's not gourmet--but it's got a sun deck over the water (a small river) has great Oyster Shooters  2 @ only $1.50 a piece-- that's $3 for both--good fish and chips @ $12.95--a tasty special or two--had Rockfish @ $14.95--a great Bloody Mary @ $7 and this seafood restaurant won't break the bank--don't know about dinner--try the lunch--al
Review Source:Took my parents who were visiting here on the way to the Tulip Festival. Â We walked in here blindly not knowing a thing. Â it was ok .. but the decor could use some updating.
We were at a four person table. Â All the chairs have wheels which can be a bit challenging when you have older people who need to stable themselves when they sit/stand. Â
We started with some calamari which good. My parents ordered fried oyster burger which they seemed to enjoy. Â I ordered Chicken Burger and my husband had the Prime Rib Dip - it was all just ok.
Service was a bit non-attentive, our ice tea glasses ran dry a few times - but we were all busy visiting so it didn't matter to us much at the time, but this could be an issue for others.
If we went back to La Conner we would probably try another lunch/dinner spot. Â I suspect this place is really hopping in the summer time when they have the patio open and it's warm out and folks are enjoying afternoon cocktails. Â This place struck me as being known more for its location than its food.
Waitress was terrible. Starters and Entrees were lukewarm at best and sub par. The bill was a slap in the face.($15 for a Caesar Salad with Chicken?!?) Â I wish that I had checked yelp before going into this establishment. After seeing the reviews, I would not have gone in there. And now I don't have plans on being a return customer.
Review Source:My rating is solely for their catering. We had them cater our wedding in April (at the end of tulip festival season) and they did a phenomenal job! It's been almost 5 months since our wedding and we're still getting compliments on the food from our guests. We haven't yet been into the restaurant to eat, but if it's anything like the catering we will definitely be in soon. Kari was a delight to work with and definitely made me feel at ease about everything. I would definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for a caterer in the area!
Review Source:I ate here with my mother and sister last weekend, and got food poisoning. Â I'm certain that this is the place that I got food poisoning from, as prior to that, we'd all eaten the exact same things all day. Â The only thing that differed in our diets was that when we ate at this restaurant, they had salmon, and I had halibut (my sister had a few bites of my halibut as well).
By four in the morning, I was in a truly wretched condition. Â Being stuck in a hotel room for a six hour marathon vomiting session is not my idea of a good time.
My mom called the next day to inform them of what had happened. Â She was polite and indicated right up front that her motivation had nothing to do with wanting a refund and everything to do with wanting them to know about their tainted food making people sick, so that they wouldn't serve it to anyone else.
The person she spoke with cut her off and reeled off a robotic response about how it couldn't possibly be their fault, because food poisoning always takes 24 - 48 hours to present.
It's not the FLU, people. Â It's called FOOD POISONING. Â It starts to present as soon as you begin to digest the tainted food. Â People don't take 24 - 48 hours to digest food.
My mom said his response was so flat and rehearsed it almost felt like it's something they're used to telling people. Â I wouldn't be shocked.
Oh, I forgot to mention that another thing that makes it apparent I got food poisoning from their halibut is that my sister was mildly sick to her stomach in the middle of the night after having shared a few bites of my entree. Â
On top of the fact that I experienced one of the most brutal periods of physical illness in my life, the service at this place was awful. Â At one point, rather than apologizing for the slowness of their service, our waitress simply snapped at us, "I warned you!" Â She also came over to our table with three glasses of wine, informing my mom that she couldn't remember which was which, and making her taste them to figure out if it was what she ordered. Â When my mom tasted it and said it wasn't what she ordered, the waitress made her take it anyway.
$150 for meals for three people, and that's what we got! Â Don't go here.
We went here for my soon to be sister-in-laws 35th birthday party. Being from the area my family has been here many times before and it has always been fantastic. Â Im not sure what happened but it was the most expensive horrible dinner I've ever had. Â My boyfriend and I both had the rib-eyes, his with fried oysters and mine with mushrooms and onions. Â The mushrooms and onions were the only good thing on this plate. Â His steak was so fatty and had so much grisle that he had a pile of it on his plate when finished. Â His oysters were giant and tasted just so-so. Â I ordered my steak medium-well and it was beyond well done. Â No pink. Â I did not have the grisle problem but I might as well be eating cardboard smothered in onions and mushrooms. Â The vegetables were hardly cooked. Â The only good thing was the Hef I was drinking but that pretty much could not be screwed up. Â My boyfriend ordered a glass of wine with his meal and it came in the smallest wine glass known to man. Â Our bill for the two of us was over $100. We has no apps or desserts, just 3 beers, 1 glass of wine and our dinners. Â Unreal. Will never be back until they are what they used to be again.
Review Source:This place is just horrible. We came here after a long day walking around the Tulip Festival and then La Conner. We were so starving and this was the only place that said they had a 10 minute wait. Well, 10 minutes turned into 20 then turned into 30. After finally being seated and ordering, we waitied another 30 minutes for our food. I ordered the crab sliders and my boyfriend ordered the fish and chips. Both were disgusting. The crab sliders had close to absolutely no crab on them, the fries were soggy and the pricing is ridiculous for what we got. The Fish and Chips were just OK. Nothing special and definetly NOT worth 15.95. I would have rather waited the 30 minutes and gone somehwere else. This place is just not worth anyones time or money.
Review Source:This past saturday was a very sunny day that we decided to spend out at the tulip festival. Wandering around we decided to head to la conner and search out some late lunch around 2pm. This place had deck seating so we decided to do the 10-15 minute wait, even though we could have been seated inside immediately. Other restraunts on the strip had just as long if not longer waits. We were seated outside within our wait time and then the catastrophe began. It took quite a bit of time to get just water and we decided to place our food order as soon as possible.
We picked two appetizers and a main dish to share. The woman seemed very hurried and busy but seemed to find time to chat it up with eevverryyy one about evverrryy random thing she could. We saw tons of waiters and waitresses either taking orders or bringing food and no one seemed to know which table anything was supposed to go to. Our appetizers showed up with a question, "diiiidddd you guys order the firecracker prawns and calamari?" Â It seemed that everyone getting their food on the deck was given the same confused looks and questions that we were. Really? I see signs posted everywhere in this place labelling tables and sectioning off waiter and waitress sections. There is ONE woman running around with an earpiece in supposedly guiding the "madness." I've seen busier at a red robin on a tuesday afternoon. The calamari had a real mucky sort of taste to it thought my girlfriend thought they were fine. The firecracker prawns were AWESOME! They also came with this sweet salsa. YUM.
Our waitress picked up the remains of the appetizers and said "i'll take these and be back with the check!" and hurried off before I could even raise a finger in protest. We hadnt even had our main dish yet. I decided to leave it to chance, if the main dish made it on the receipt we would ask for it.. if it hadnt.. then forget this place, we're leaving. Receipt showed up and nope. No main dish. I know she heard me order it because she corrected me on the name when I ordered it.
A little more than pissed I gave her my card and she was quite quick to pick that up on her way off the deck, but when she came back there was no customer receipt to sign or add tip to!
I'm starting to wonder if she had even run my card at all?! I scribbled in my own lines and signed the receipt and gave it back. I actually wrote in a tip on my receipt because I was worried the woman would jack up my credit card otherwise, seeing as she didnt even bring me the correct receipt to write on. And I regret giving that place any extra dollars because they didnt even deserve what I owed them to begin with. We left.
As we were leaving I noticed that inside the restraunt had almost emptied out and no one was waiting to be seated.
What was all the bustle and confusion for??
I felt hustled out of the place prematurely and really?! How do you just NOT get your food. Thats never happened to me until this past saturday. The menu is a little more on the expensive side and if I want to spend my money here they should have brought me my food and let me take my time eating. I left pretty offended and will NEVER go back again.
This place only gets one star because I can't give it a zero. The food was inedible it was so bad. The place looks nice from the entrance but is dingy further in. I returned my entire plate uneaten for the first time in my life, and the waitress didn't even notice. We ordered four different dishes (mussels and clams, chicken, cheeseburger, and prime rib sandwich) and three were gross. The fourth was just ok, and that was the prime rib sandwich. The bill for such poor quality food was the final insult on the way out. Beware.
Review Source:I've eaten here twice and both times was not at all impressed. Â I don't know, in this economy, why the place is still open. Â both times my food was overcooked (I detest overcooked food!!) and the service was only so-so. Â the meal wasn't even interesting. Really, garlic mashed potatoes? Â Sounds like Outback, except there they are good. Â For a dining experience like Applebees but with a view, check them out.
Review Source:My wife wanted to visit La Conner after looking at the tulips in Skagit Valley. Â When we got there we noticed a sign and the words "Prime Rib" stuck out. Â My dad and I said that we'd have to go there when it's dinnertime. Â Little did I know that would be the one event that ruined a perfect weekend.
We walked in and put our name down they said it was going to be 15-20 minutes. Â If people were willing to wait that long this place must be good. Â As we prepare to sit at our table my dad notices some chairs have crumbs on it and swept it off. Â The host knows that there is a five year old with us but doesn't provide a kid's menu, I know there has to be a kid's menu because it's advertised on the front window. Â No prob, my daughter can order from the appetizer section and she'll be happy as a clam. Â Our water comes and two glasses have ice and two do not, strange. Â What's even more strange is some of the glasses were only filled half way, it's wasn't that hot and I doubt water evaporates that fast. Â There are four of us but there is place settings for two. Â The waitress asks us if we wanted anything to drink and my dad orders ice tea, the rest of us have the half filled glasses of water. Â The ice tea comes and there's no ice, my dad takes a sip and it's warm tea so the waitress puts some ice in it.
The view is great and the sun was going down.  I look out at the outside dining and I notice one server wearing tennis shoes wit no socks and another with Crocs?  We ordered our food.  My dad and I ordered the prime rib both with garlic mashed potatoes, his with a side Caesar and mine with clam chowder.  At the last moment I upgrade my prime rib from a  1/2 pound to a 3/4 pound.  My wife ordered the steamed clam dinner and clam chowder.  The little one ordered fried oysters.  The waitress told us normally there's bread but it's in the oven, no problem.  The side Caesar and one clam chowder come.  Being the gentleman I give my clam chowder to my wife.  We had to ask about the second chowder.  Oh wait, not everybody can eat since we only have two settings.  We finally get the rest of the settings and my chowder, I unroll my cloth napkin, and I notice fuzz pills all over it.  My dad's napkin had the wash care tag still hanging on it; I don't think people want to read how to wash a napkin while they eat.  The clam chowder is the loaded of bacon.  I hate when places can't formulate a good clam chowder and have to load it with bacon or liquid smoke.  The bread finally makes it and the middle is frozen.  Didn't the waitress say it was in the oven?  I look up and my daughter is blowing into the bread like you would blow into your hands on a cold day.  With the salads and clam chowders out of the way the table next to us gets their food.  The waiter sets down a couple of Shrimp Louis and notices something about the shrimp and says, "Let me get some better shrimp on these".  Wow, what's going on here?
The food was just warm, kind of like that first batch of ice tea.  My daughter takes a bite into the fried oysters, spits it out, and said it was bitter so my wife trades dishes with her.  A woman fills my glass with water and I say thank you, the response I get was, "Um".  What kind of word is that?  I'm not done eating yet and the people start taking plates off the table over my head and in front of my face as I'm eating.  I'm ducking, dodging, and rushing to finish my last few bites.  As I'm done I look at my plate and see a big pile of fat that I had trimmed off the prime rib.  I should have stuck to the  1/2 pound order and saved four bucks, almost a third of the prime rib was complete fat.
We're done and we can now finish the 45-minute drive back home. Â As we walk in the door my wife rushes to the bathroom with an upset stomach, repeats after another 5 minutes, and repeats one more time but starts gagging. Â My dad is fine, my daughter is fine, and I'm fine. Â The uncommon factor? Â The oysters. Â Hmmm, remember when my daughter said they were bitter? Â Six hours after dinner my wife is in and out of bed as she rushes to the bathroom.
The only reason why I give this place two stars is because of their steamed vegetables. Â They were done correctly and weren't like the mixed vegetable mush you got in grade school. Â As for the restaurant, what a classy place. Â Dirty seats, servers in tennis shoes with no socks, servers with Crocs, ice tea that was warm, napkins covered with fuzz pills, frozen bread, workers that speak cave talk, workers that pull dirty dishes in front of your face as you're eating, one refill on free water, and nobody was at the host station as we left to even say thanks for coming in. Â As I'm finishing this review, before I tend to my sick wife, I just remembered that they never came to our table with the pepper cracker, the other tables had that service. Â Stay away from this place unless you have money burning a hole in your wallet or want to pay for the view/outdoor dining.
This place is not fabulous, but it is not a dive either. Â Supposedly the food is pretty good, but I find it very so-so. Â It is not the amazing hole in the wall mom and pop find, nor the 4+ star restaurant. Â
Granted, they made us lobster when it wasn't on the menu which is what saved it from a single star. Â We had lobster, a good salad, ok mussels, ok salmon, and they don't offer a potato for lunch with salmon but fries (this is a pet peeve of mine.) Â Nothing said wow, you have to come back.
The views are okay, the dining room is pretty shabby, the chairs are roll out chairs (kinda weird.), and the service can vary from horrible, to ok.
So my opinion? Save your cash and dine elsewhere. Â Palmer's (I believe that's the name) has better food for a similar price. Â Yet neither are true winners of my affection.
We just went here for Valentines Day and the food was delicious. Â Very large portions (the crab cakes were more the size of burgers!) and they were probably the best crab cakes I have ever had! Â There isn't much in the way of ambience, but the food and service more than makes up for it. Â We would go here again!
Review Source:Essentially, I give this place four stars just because the clam chowder is so good. I wish I could just bottle up some of that stuff and bring it back home with me. I came here with my mom as a last meal before I take off from my visit, and was pleasantly surprised with the view we had as we ate. The outside seating is great, complete with a nice breeze, boats coming in and out, and the incredible landscape of small-town Washington. The only thing that stinks is the fact that once the sun started to set, it got freezing outside; but I couldn't expect them to have outdoor heat lamps given that long streaks of rainless weather are few and far between, meaning not as much of a need for outdoor seating. Anyway, I was freezing pretty quick, but hot chocolate solved that problem mighty quick.
The food is really good, and the portions of prime rib are very generous, including the fat that comes on each slice, but no matter, it's still good prime rib. Again, I give it up for the clam chowder, which was super tasty.
I wasn't too impressed with our service, although the staff seemed to get it together by half-way through our dinner. It seemed at the end that people were tag teaming our table, and at the end of the meal at least three people were helping us out at different times. It's definitely one of the nicer restaurants in LaConner, and seriously the water scene ran it home for me.
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