I have been several times and enjoy this place a lot. They have a great seafood menu, and their portions are fairly large. They have a chowder sampler that is delicious, and their lobster mac and cheese was huge and much cheaper than other local areas. Good food at a good price, open and roomy dining areas as well.
Review Source:Chicken Piccatta using BOILED chicken swimming in an oily mess and using fake lemon juice?? Really?! Other entrees we fully expected to be fresh were frozen (sole and salmon, scallops) bland, and lukewarm; side dishes included off-tasting pickled beets , canned (!) green beans and rancid cole slaw. Ughh. My stomach turns even thinking of this dinner. Â This is supposed to be local, fresh seafood in this coastal tiny town. Something not very pretty must be happening in the kitchen here. SO DISAPPOINTED.
We live locally, and will make it a point to NEVER go here again. I'm surprised that they get away w/ serving such expensive CRAP except that perhaps they know they'll get drive by tourists who won't be back anyways.
The bisque was good and very creamy. The seafood chowder, which my boyfriend ordered, was also very tasty. The fish and chips were very good as well. I found the clam cakes bland, however.
The prices were fair and the service was good even though it was pretty busy. The waitress chatted with us a bit and was very pleasant. She was able to answer all of our questions about the food.
The decor was an old-looking, fisherman/Cap Cod theme with blue walls and hanging fish; not bad but not great. I have to say I am surprised by the other reviews, this place is pretty good!
Nasty place. The woman who setaed us was surly. She seated us in a booth with the seats all torn up with tape covering holes. Waitress was fine. The scrod and baked shrimp was swimming in uneeded butter and tastless. The squash was luke warn and bland. The only positive was the cole slaw. Fresh and crisp in a nice vinegrette . The place smelled moldy and damp. AVOID this place at all costs.
Review Source:This is a great family pace to go when in the area and I strongly recommend it. Our family has gone there for generations going back to the old place which was more limited in seating.
If you have kids who are just getting into fish they'll enjoy the fish and chips which are as good as you'll find.
I've never really had the desserts but the service and experience are great and well priced.
When my turkey club arrived it looked super tasty. Each side of the bread had been grilled with butter and the vegetables looked fresh.
I did notice the turkey was white and colorless - almost translucent, so I assumed it was just packaged junk.
As I finished, I saw that the outside of the bread was moldy. Kinda gross considering I'd finished the whole sandwich before I noticed.
I politely told the waitress it wasn't a big deal but she should let the kitchen know. I didn't ask for it to be comped but I was surprised when the check came that it wasn't.
I would avoid this place unless you want to pay for moldy food.
I went here a few years ago with my daughter while on vacation, and the chowder was great. While I was back here again this year, with a buddy from San Diego, we took a ride over for a quick cup of chowder, and it's still just as good as the last time. I have seafood allergies, and most places use fish stock in their chowder, but the Chowder House uses all clams & clam juice in theirs. My San Diegan friend absolutely loved it, and so did I. So if you're ever traveling down Route 6 to the Cape, stop in for a cup or bowl of their tasty clam chowder.
Review Source:I have eaten there a number of times. Mostly when a group of people needed someplace close to eat after a day of sailing.
The food is average. Sometimes a little above and sometimes a little below.
The only thing that is consistently great is the smoked seafood chowder. If it wasn't for that, I would likely not bother going there again.
Wow this place has consistently gone downhill. Over the past few years, I have become more and more disappointed with this place.
Last time dining there was mid afternoon in early October and we were the ONLY ones at the bar. My father was in a rush and asked the bartender to put in our meal before he got drinks as we knew what we wanted. However, he went to change the keg first...for about 8 minutes, no joke. When he came back, he was super flustered and didn't even ask us for our order. Once again, we were the only people at the bar. Once we ordered, he didn't know what went with the meals. My fiance and I had the lobster roll and he was asking us which sides we wanted but the special was the lobster roll and chowder, no sides. Then our meal came out and he forgot my fathers cole slaw, which he had to ask for and the bartender had no idea if it came with it. He apologize for getting 'all hung up' on the keg earlier on at one point but it didn't even matter, the whole experience was such a disaster that I will be quite hesitant to go back. Â
Also, avoid the coctail sauce there, it tastes more like marinara than coctail sauce...full of herbs and way to "Italian-ish" for the purpose.
Also, I emailed the restaurant to give feedback as our experience was so awful and didn't receive a response...
Um, it was not great, it was not good, service was, um, bad, food was ok, decor was wth were they thinking?
This place was considered as upscale, but I didn't see anything upscale about it. Our waitress has a hearing problem and does not know how to take jokes, oh, she doesn't know anything about the food either, because, in her own words "I don't know because I'm not the cook." Shouldn't a waitress/waiter know about the food she/he serves?
Their menu is mostly fish, instead of different kind of seafood, and a lot of dishes' price are not displayed on the menu.
We had a chowder sampler since this is a chowder house. Their clam chowder is very potato-y, it seemed like they did not simmer it long enough for the potato to soften. Their fisherman's chowder is the same thing, because it has potato in it. Their smoked seafood chowder was GREAT! It does not have potato, it's filled with pieces of clams, shrimp, crab and bacon. I had a lobster roll and my friend had blacked swordfish. My lobster roll was stuffed in a white toasted garlic white bread, that's covered with butter. It was good. The fries it came with wasn't that great, and I don't understand why I was giving vinegar for my fries. My friend's swordfish was interesting. Half of it was very tough, similar to tuna, the other half was very tender and tasty.
their desserts did not look appetizing at all, so we skipped it.
We were satisfied with the service so we left a 9% tip, and our waitress actually chased us out to the parking lot, holding the tip, and asked "was everything ok?"
I would not come  back here, and do not recommend it. If you want seafood? There are a lot of other places with a lot better food, cheaper price tag and better waiting staff.
This is a good old out-of-the-way New England chowder house; definitely a townie place with class charm. The spacious restaurant is in tune with its nautical menu; blue and green paint, nice chairs and tables, a few decorative fish on the wall, and a lobster tank where one can purchase live lobsters make it a perfect match for the area.
I got the grilled swordfish, with a baked potato and green beans; excellent, excellent grill job done of the swordfish--tender, still firm but fork-cuttable--Neptune must have blessed the fisherman. The green beans were also done surprisingly well and loaded up with melted butter :-). The only not-so-cool thing was that my baked potato (and my brother-in-law's) were both served warm, but nowhere near that piping hot/melt the butter & sour cream immediately temperature that I would have liked. I'm fastidiously picky about my swordfish though (the ONLY kind of seafood I like), and this place more than satisfied my nervousness, but my taste buds as well. Great place with what looks to be ample seating. More than affordable, they offer a great number of sides (3 veggies and 3 potato choices) that gives one utmost confidence that you WILL enjoy the meal you ordered.
When Mattapoisett Chowder House is good, it's 5 star good, in my opinion. Portions are reasonable, as are the prices, considering the fact that their fare is quality seafood. In fact, the Mattapoisett Chowder House only gets a one star deduction in my book because of how inconsistent it is. There have been a couple of times that I have ordered a dinner only to have the shrimp overcooked (which, you might as well eat rubber at that point) or to have something be lukewarm. However, their food is usually very good.
My husband usually orders the stuffed sole, and their seafood stuffing really is tasty. I actually got an angus burger there that was out of this world - possibly one of the best burgers I've ever had. Their clam cakes are yummy, but a little greasy, so don't order too many of them. Chowder is good stuff - pretty much your run-of-the-mill good New England clam chowder (nothing like Legal Seafood's chowder or Ansel Gurney house's chowder, but still, a decent concoction.)
The Chowder House also has a fried zucchini and mushroom appetizer that tastes great with malt vinegar.
Here's where Mattapoisett Chowder House gets "mad props": they are one of the few restaurants that proudly serve beets as a side dish. I wish more restaurants had the good sense to see the value in this delicious root vegetable. Of course, the people I go with usually don't understand my love of beets, so I eat theirs as well. I sometimes fill up a little too much on the beets. But anyways.
Location is clean, and sometimes very crowded, so proceed with caution on a Friday or Saturday night. They have a good wine and beer menu, full bar, good service. Ambiance is really nice. Basically, you feel like you're dining at a more upscale environment at a more reasonable price.
Take-out is also available, and is done well. I don't know anything about the "fish market" that they have in the front of the restaurant, so you're on your own there.
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