Fisherman’s Wharf Lobster Suppers

Went with a bus group, so we were immediately seated, bypassing a long line at the door. Nice size buffet of salads, mussels, chowder, and dessert. Ordered the lobster (hot), which came out to me at luke warm and a tad dry. Getting service was like pulling teeth. Took forever to find our waiter to get water, shell crackers, and a few shell buckets. I think we might have seen him at the most of three times.

Great food. Everything you could want except they don’t have juice.

Second rate seafood dished up on-​the-​cheap for tourists.
Despite being 20 metres from the wharf, the seafood is frozen and tasteless. The lobster had some taste, but the scallops, crab, and everything else are to be avoided. The chowder is thickened with corn starch — an old joke in the Maritimes.
As far as atmosphere, I think they were shooting for the «Sunday church supper» approach, but hit the «get the Chinese tourists in and out as fast as possible» approach.
Good salad/​mussels bar. If you are really stuck going here, do order that, then smile and act nice for your companions. The mussel dip is rapeseed oil, so bring your own butter!
Yeh. Not much good to say here.

Very disappointed during our last visit. Came in as a group 8 to the non-​buffet side. We were told that we would have to wait to be seated as they didn’t have room right then. No worries, this was expected. The host was very short with us but I wasn’t concerned. He proceeded to make a few comments while we waited that were, let’s just say unnecessary and annoying. I was just about done. Then a husband and wife came in behind us. We offered to let them go ahead of us, for which they were very thankful. When we told the host to seat them first he told he couldn’t possibly do that and I felt like we were being berated as he went on and on about how people needed to be seated as they came in. At this point, we had had enough. We left and went across the street to another restaurant for dinner and came back afterwards for the wonderful gift shop. Definitely not the way to treat your customers if you want them to stay and eat at your establishment.

This place gets three stars for the seafood. I had the crab legs and my boyfriend had the 2 pound lobster. Both were delicious.
The service was very slow. The silverware and glasses were filthy, and the «60 foot salad» buffet was mediocre at best.
Three choices of dressings, everything looked old.
The gift shop in the front was nice. Very big. Tons of cute little things to look at.
I would have given it less stars but the seafood was so delightful and fresh. I wish the buffet had been better.

Tried the buffet side of the restaurant, since the 60-​foot designation seemed to make it stand out more. They said the basic buffet was ~$ 20-​ish, with a lobster add on for ~$ 10-​ish, but it really feels like it should’ve been the other way around (lobster for ~$ 20-​ish, buffet bar for ~$ 10-​ish).
The buffet bar was long… 60 feet long… (Wait, don’t they use metric in Canada?)
At the beginning of it you had lots of veggies and salad type items, and at the end of it you had lots of dessert items (pies, cakes, cookies, etc). But in the middle of it, there wasn’t a lot of hot foods, so if you only had the buffet bar, it wouldn’t really be a complete meal… Besides the unlimited mussels, there was a definite lack of proteins in the buffet bar. But, they had PEI potatoes, which were delicious. And also the seafood chowder, which can’t be beat. (Make sure you ladle from the bottom of the pot to get more seafood bits instead of just chowder)
The mussels were delicious, however, and you could feast on as many as you could hold while waiting for your lobster (or other entrée add on). You get buckets at your table for all the shells. They were very attentive to the buffet bar and kept refilling all the items which were running low. Soda was also complimentary and you could refill for yourself at the soda machine. The desserts didn’t seem to be very popular as some of them looked as if they had been sitting there for a while, with their whipped cream toppings sliding off the top of the slice.
It was a very large dining area and they can seat a large number of diners. It also seems to be a tourist bus stop (after they visit the Anne of Green Gables house?) as there were buses parked nearby and tourists milling about the gift shop and bathroom areas.
If you’ve ever been to an Asian buffet restaurant, you might be disappointed by the selection offered in their buffet. If you’re primarily here for lobster and want a large variety of side dishes added on for ~$ 10 (see first paragraph), then this is the place for you!

Ich habe einmal in meinem Leben Hummer gegessen.
Dieses Erlebnis werde ich nicht so schnell vergessen, denn es hatte überhaupt nichts mit dem Hauch von Luxus zu tun, den Hummeressen bei uns in Europa hat.
Nein. Ich habe in Kanada (Prince Edward Island, P.E.I.) Hummer gegessen. All-​you-​can-​eat und mit ca. 200 anderen Touristen in einer riesigen Speisehalle mit noch riesigerem Büffet. Hummer als Fast Food.
Es beginnt zunächst ganz harmlos. Der Gast betritt den Raum und muss sich an der Kasse für eine Hummergröße entscheiden, was wiederum Auswirkungen auf den Preis hat. Musterhummer sind an der Wand angebracht, um die Auswahl zu erleichtern.
Dann betritt man die Halle. An unzähligen Tisch sitzen laute Menschen, viele laute Menschen. Ich verstehe nun auch die stattliche Anzahl Reisebusse vor der Tür.
Das System ist einfach: Jeder bekommt ein putziges Lätzchen aus Plastik umgehängt und den bestellten (bereits geknackten) Hummer. Alles andere besorgt man sich am Büffet, das wirklich eine Riesenauswahl hat: Suppe, Muscheln, Salate, Kuchen, Nachspeisen. Oh Mann — so viel, das kann man unmöglich alles probieren.
Wir versuchen uns an dem Hummer, der sehr gut schmeckt und kosten auch einiges vom Büffet. Hier gibt es eindeutig mehr Masse als Klasse. Für verwöhnte Großstädter wie uns ist das alles nix. Viel zu pappig, zu süß, zu lappig, zu fastfoodartig. eben einfach nicht gut.
Innerhalb von recht kurzer Zeit (1,5 Stunden) leert sich der riesige Saal übrigens schlagartig. Die Reisegruppen haben innerhalb von 1 Stunde das gesamte Büffet durchprobiert und dann Plastikhummer im Souvenirshop gekauft, um schließlich glücklich zurück in ihre Motels zu rollen.
Wir bleiben als einzige Gäste übrig. Das ganze war wirklich eine Schlacht am kalten Büffet. Unheimlich, diese plötzliche Stille.
Wir gehen schnell rüber zum Souvenir-​Hummershop — da läuft wenigstens das Radio.

Seriously the best lobster I’ve ever had.
Located in a large space, fisherman’s warf didn’t have the feel of a restaurant that you’d pay upwards of $ 40 for a 2lb lobster. We were seated quickly and stayed in the salad bar. The lobsters were ready before we’d finished.
I’ve had lobster in fancy restaurants, Canoe in Toronto for example, but I’m now ruined. The lobster meat was soft like butter, the freshness came out in its taste.
Delicious flaked buns too. Hardly touched the salad bar, will have to go back and try it next time.