I can honestly say that I hate being insulted. Â I really really do. Â I met a friend out for drinks waaaaay up here because he was already in Mattapoisett. Â I had:
4 beers
2 GLASSES OF WATER
Yes, two glasses of water. Â I was more sober than the bar staff I am pretty sure. Â I totally get where they have to protect their rears with the whole drunk driving thing. Â But I was there for hours and I didn't do anything but engage her in conversation, so I must be drunk. Â I got up to have a smoke, and that's when she asked my friend if I was ok. Â He stared at her and said "Um yeah, I think she's fine". Apparently, I wasn't pretty enough, or young enough, or possibly rich enough to have a couple of beers without being harassed. Â Ok, OK, I know, that's not fair, but like I said, I hate being insulted.
This restaurant must have changed hands, again. It used to be good food, decent service. It is TERRIBLE now. We went a few weeks ago for breakfast and got both the most disgusting food and the worst service ever. I mean EVER. So, tonight we decided to try again and do take out. We ordered a sub and a burger. Can't get much simpler than that. They completely messed up both orders. It even listed the order on the receipt attached to the boxes. Beyond that, the service was miserable again. The girl standing at the takeout counter was texting when we walked in, the food was ready and sitting on the counter, and she still told us to hold on and left to check in with 3 tables before she came back to take our money. No personality and no manners. Seriously, can't justify giving business to a place that blatantly doesn't care.
Review Source:I don't understand why this place is rated so poorly, I mean, I am giving it three stars which isn't bad, but also not outstanding, and I will tell you why.
Their outdoor patio is huge, and nice to sit in on a nice day. The service was nice, but kinda ditzy. Ok, not kinda, but flat out ditzy.
The menu was pretty standard, lots of burgers, sandwiches etc...Anyways, I got the cuban with a salad. The cuban was good, they still gave me fries which actually were very good even though I didn't want them and the salad which looked really sad. Just a small handful of what looked like dried out pre-packaged salad on a plate, but whatevs!
Would I go here again? Yes, if someone was dying to try it, but I probably wouldn't just go there for the heck of it.
Flew into Providence, and on the way home my mom suggested we stop and try the Wave. . . she'd heard good things about it. Â When we got in, no one seated us or acknowledged us, so we just took a couple of menus and seated ourselves. Â It must have been updated recently, because the decor was not as horrible as some are describing. Â
When I went to the ladies to wash my hands, the hand dryer fell off the wall -- scary. Â I'm glad I didn't have on open toed shoes, or a small child, because it could have been bad.
Our waitress finally came and was really sweet. Â She was the only one covering both the restaurant and bar that night, and was spread really thin. Â I felt badly for her, because she was quite literally running from table to bar to kitchen. Â One family left after waiting for about 10 minutes. . .
My mom and I both ordered a prime rib melt. Â It came with fries, and it was really good. Â Not at all greasy, freshly made. Â The fries were good as well. . . not overly greasy, and not too salty. Â For the price, it was a good meal, about $8.95 ea. Â We each had a beer, and they seem to have a pretty decent selection.
I'm not giving more stars based upon the hand dryer falling off when turned on; and on the fact that they had one waitress for both the restaurant and bar. Â She was awesome, but management was not doing her any favors.
I would go back, but we probably wouldn't go out of our way to go here, either. Â More like a place I'd go back to if I were hungry and in the neighborhood.
Ok, I read the reviews on Yelp and went anyway. It is my own fault. We arrived on Friday evening 6PM...starved. We were not greeted by a hostess but one of the bartenders yelled out sit anywhere. It appeared that the place was remodeled. No stained rugs anymore, but sound reverberated like crazy and the kids screaming did no favors. Anyway, we ordered the fish and chips, clam chowder, and the lump crab cakes for dinner...no drinks except water. The crab cakes tasted as though they were out of a frozen box, the chowder was watery and the fish and chips were really heavy with batter. I guess if you are starved and need food stop in...but there are many other better places to spend your money.
Review Source:Ouch. A friend from town weakly recommended this place. We found it filthy, old and in need of update and cleaning. Actually surprised the Health Dept. missed what was obvious in the bar. Fried seafood tasty but indicates cooked with old below temp oil. Tasted buttery because it was soaked in oil.
As to the drinks, water, water, water and the service was slow, slow, slow.
We will try again t least 2 more times and report the outcome!
I grew up going to this place. It was always fun. We haven;t been there for a couple years but stopped by tonight and what a bust. The ONLY server was the bartender and good thing it was relatively empty because there is no way this guy could have handled more than the 1/2 dozen of us there. The pizza was passable yet a little too greasy for my wife's liking. Such a disappointment, I can't ever imagine going back.
Review Source:I was instantly skeptical when we walked in on account of the age-old, stained floral carpets with cigarette holes in them (from back when you could smoke). Â Also, it smelled like bleach, which, although encouraging, is not appetizing, and, at 8 o'clock on a Friday night, there was no one there but a few dudes with mullets, and maybe a blue hair or two out for a night cap.
However, when they brought out the food, I was pleasantly surprised. Â Fish and chips had very fresh and tasty haddock; the swordfish special was small by the usual standards, but cooked just right and not dry. Â Nachos also hit the spot in all the right places.
This place is ginormous, and must have been the bomb in its day, but now it's kind of depressing to be in there despite the decent grub.
Anyway, I don't know if I'll go back because it just isn't a fun place, but the food was good. Â And they get an extra star from me for letting my kid crawl around (albeit, with me squeamishly looking on...) and under everything, thereby, saving him from going nuclear.
I ate here once and had a miserable experience so I would never return. I was served a stuffed quoahog (served in an Oyster shell) that was TERRIBLE. It was like it had been dropped in dirty water or something. The texture was like mush, it tasted like something was rotten or went bad and to top it off there were pieces of shell in it. I drowned it with lemon and tried to give it a shot but it was one of the worst things I've ever tasted in my life. I don't even remember what my husband ordered but he wasn't impressed either. This place is just no good.
Review Source:The eat in restaurant part of the Wave serves, what seems to me to be canned veggies, like you'd get in a chow line, small "main" portions, and my personal pièce de résistance: aluminum foil Wrapped Potato.
Now, I understand that the last couple of generations before me cooked potato wrapped in aluminum foil. Â However, it is now commonly known and widely accepted that potatos that have been wrapped in aluminum foil for baking, must be immediately removed from said foil upon completion of cooking because C. Botulism can grow between the potato and the foil. Â Now, it most likely will not happen from kitchen to table, but if someone were to bring home leftovers unknowingly and lef tthem out, there might be a problem. Â I was under the impression that all restaurants now unwrapped them before serving.
Potato and personal choice aside, the empty place, outdated decor and lack of quality and portions earn the restaurant one star.
Now the pizza however is ok and I have gotten it for take out or when eating at the bar, which has a fun, all-ages atmosphere depending on the evenings entertainment.
I'm giving the place a 2 overall.
I wouldn't really call The Wave a "Restaurant." I think it works better as a "Bar that Serves Food." This has been the meeting place for my boyfriend and his friends for years, and I must admit that I love hanging out here when I'm down in his neck of the woods.
Sporting a few widescreen TV's, a pool table, juke box, plenty of seating, and an outdoor patio with a full bar, I can see why The Wave is the place to be, especially in the summer.
The food is okay. Nothing spectacular, but definitely not bad. The buffalo wings are pretty yummy, and I like to consider myself very picky when it comes to buffalo wings, so that's saying something. Besides the wings, I've only tried the 4-triangle Turkey Club Sandwich, which was MASSIVE and pretty good as well.
Unfortunately, I hafta mention my disappointment in the beer selection. Being someone who LOATHES light beer, I don't get excited about the four varieties of watered-down garbage occupying all but one tap. The lone tap is in fact all I'm concerned with: they luckily save it for the appropriate Sam Seasonal, and usually Harpoon IPA in the awkward in-between months. It's okay though, that's all I need in a spot as delightful as this.
I'm looking forward to the inevitable (and hopefully sooner than later) approach of the warm months so I can hang on the patio in my Rainbow flip-flops and wet bathing suit and rack up a huge beer bill. Sounds a lot like the perfect interpretation of the American Dream to me.
Gracious service, but terrible food.
I've eaten dinner at The Wave in Marion a couple of times before but it never was ever very good. This evening, I'd planned on going to the House of Thai next door, but when finding them closed, decided to give The Wave another try.
The friend I dined with was having trouble deciding between the Chicken Pot Pie and the Steak Tips so we ordered both and split them. The lovely waitress, Katie, couldn't have been more attending or pleasant, but unfortunately, she was not the one cooking the food.
When Katie delivered my friend's drink, she said she wasn't certain it had been made exactly right and waited for him to taste it. Realizing it was indeed wrong, she immediately replaced it with one that he then said tasted very good.
Next, Katie placed on the table an impressive "looking" display of cold rolls and butter, accompanied by a bowl of what tasted like Crisco oil adorned with a shovel of tasteless powdered "cheese" and ring of pepper flakes. See photo I uploaded. (Please, just use some decent olive oil and cheese, etc. in shaker bottles; the large bowl of vegetable oil is disgusting!)
For the prices of these dinners I would expect soup and/or salad to be included, but there was none. There were a few choices of accompanying potato, but no vegetable choice.
The food arrived with appropriate timing, although the restaurant was deserted, so there'd be no excuse otherwise. It was edible and the Steak Tips were cooked as ordered, but the portions were sparse.
The $8.95 Chicken Pie was completely uninspired. Some tasteless chunks of chicken in a very salty, thin, canned-soup-flavored broth with some cheap frozen peas & carrots thrown into a casserole dish with a crust on top. Besides a baked potato, the same, cheap frozen peas & carrots were all that accompanied the $15.95 steak tips.
If it weren't for Katie, The Wave Restaurant and Bar in Marion would rate only one of my stars. Nonetheless, I don't plan on going there again. It was a very poor value for the prices charged.
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