Blue Water Bar & Grill

I actually found the food and service to be great. Maybe I was just really hungry, but I really thought their hamburgers and fish n chips were delicious. Also, our server was nice and checked on us frequently. The only thing I didn’t like was having to sit in the back corner of the restaurant on a beautiful day.

I love the staff here. They are awesome, but the food leaves something to be desired. I ate there several times. The chicken friend steak is frozen and the fish and chips lacked seasoning. The fries were just OK. Salads, glad they have them. The place is often packed, especially during the season. I wish I could say they had better food, but the staff was great and if you’re hungry they have food and will almost always serve you.

Wow. This place gets a bad wrap! We came with 5 people and two dogs and sat on the patio. (Extra points for being dog friendly.) We ordered 4 fish and chips and 1 blackened fish burger and all were excellent. In fact, the fish and chips were incredibly delicious and the fries were my favorite style (moderately thin and extra crispy). The tartar sauce was tasty and the coleslaw was fresh and not overly overly runny. It was a great hit with the group.

Dinner for 3 around 7:30 pm on 9÷15÷15, no reservations, and no waiting for a table in the bar.
The owner was working, she let us know that her hostess and one of the bussers were MIA, and the joint was packed!
I had the Parmesan Crusted Chicken, sub’d mashed potatoes instead of pasta and the sauteed vegetables were perfect.
Blue Water Bar & Grill continues to set a bar of excellent service and food in Friday Harbor. Try it, and you are unlikely to have a complaint… and if you do, you likely have emotional/​mental issues!

Great location, great view, very friendly staff. Food was great and didn’t even wait long! Price was surprisingly reasonable as well. We loved it!

Location. Location. Location.
The food was OK — which is all the server asked of it, «Is it ok?», as we were ¾ done. She never even asked how I wanted my burger cooked. Burgers & fish & chips were served in baskets — indoors.
It was OK. No value but dinner if you’re hungry and the wait at Cask & Schooner is too long.

They are conveniently located right by the ferry drop off. They’ve got great views of the waterfront, but that’s pretty much it. Their menu is so small and the food is very mediocre. They don’t do substitutions (or just don’t have the means to), asked for fruit instead of potatoes, said they could only do sliced tomatoes instead :-/​. No thanks.
My Bloody Mary was nothing special, but my gf got their Bloody Ceasar and said it was tasty. Prices are pretty high, but to be expected in such a touristy place. Our server was very nice, but I doubt I’d have to come back here any time soon.

Came here for lunch Wednesday afternoon. Ordered the Hawaiian chicken sandwich and fries and my friend ordered the friend sushi roll. The chicken sandwich was pretty tasty although not worth the $ 16 or whatever it was. My friend liked the fried sushi roll a lot I thought it looked kinda unappetizing. Food came out super fast and IPA and cider was cold .
Service was friendly I really liked that you could have dogs on the patio. It was super overpriced though but I guess it does have view of the harbor. Overall 3.5 stars …

If we hadn’t ordered the ahi sushi I probably would have given this place more stars because the fish tacos were great. But these guys have no business making sushi. Well, they can try all they want, but let’s just say they have no business selling sushi for money. For fourteen bucks there was a tiny sliver of ahi and tons of poorly-​seasoned rice. I think all of their sushi rolls are «tempura style» because they think that by breading and deep frying these sloppy monstrosities they can hide how bad they really are. But the breading was heavy and cakey and while good on the fish in my tacos, was awful on sushi. We feel pretty ripped off.

We were in Friday Harbor for the afternoon and my husband had a recommendation from a coworker to stop in here. I will say after reading the Unilocal reviews I was a bit apprehensive about eating here. My husband ordered a side Caesar salad and a bowl of clam chowder. I had the fish and chips. The clam chowder was very good, very peppery. The fish and chips were ok, but nothing that really set it apart from fish and chips anywhere else…
Overall I can see where other reviewers might have had some lackluster service, but our waitress followed through with refills on our drinks and only seemed border line irritated. Haha. We will probably go elsewhere next time we are visiting the island, but just to see what else we can get for a $ 40 lunch for 2 people…

This place was not worth the $. Overpriced and not that good. We spend $ 80 here for what we thought would be a good seafood dinner, instead we got this nasty after taste in our mouths which we desperately tried to look for coffee to rinse out the taste. The halibut special had this weird orange sauce which threw off everything else and it was so over powering. The ahi tuna taco dinner had too much sugar but they did fries the tacos which was unique. Overall, their food was too sweet. Even the barbecue spicy chicken which is not hard to make. They made it like Korean chicken which is good if it said Korean chicken on the menu. The sauce was tasted 20% spicy and 80% sweet. If there is a next time, I would stick to burgers and fries.

Crab Benedict was terrible, hollandaise was like butter mud and the crab cake was tastless. Southwest omlette was made with day old burgers and fried toppings from old burgers. Stay away.