Fishtales Bar & Grill

I just returned from Fishtails and eager to FINALLY be able to write a good review for this establishment. I live so close and want to support local restaurants. I ordered the large sweet potato fries for an appetizer. It was big enough for three people. I have to say the best sweet potato fries I every tasted !! Perfectly cooked, fresh, and tasty. I ordered the 3 lobsters for 20 dollars and you need to order a drink with the special not included. The drink has free refills so that’s fine. The lobsters were excellent !! Fresh, perfectly cooked and needed to take one home because I was full. Liz was the server and she was attentive, welcoming, and informative. Overall experience so much better and will return.

This place is great. Awesome weekly lunch and dinner specials reasonably priced. Always have some left to take home. The lobster cobb salad is to die for! Keri is the best whether in the dining room or at the bar. She encourages to try new things and never disappoints. Also makes awesome frozen cocktails.

I love this place. I go at least 3 times a week.
Excellent food and a great value. The staff is efficient and friendly. I always feel appreciated as a customer. Its such a great place to meet and mingle with new and old friends.
Long live Fishtales !

I enjoy coming here for the specials and regular menu. The staff is very attentive and always
go the extra mile to ensure my dining experience is perfect ! Specialty drinks are always delicious as is the food. Keri, Kevin, Liz and Rose always are smiling and helpful .
Give Fishtales a try !!

I will NEVER. EVER, EVER go back here!
I attempted to order out…
I waited over 25 minutes just to place an order. The lady knew I was there the whole time but ignored me. When she came over FINALLY, she practically threw her breast across the counter. …like I don’t have my own boobs to maintain or look at… she was so rude and repulsed me so much… I placed my order and waited until the whole bar place, where you have to order from, just made me so mad, irritated, and truly repulsed… I had to just leave… I told her some unkind words as an awakening. …I think she was too stupid to understand what just happened or how nasty she is.
She was slutty and rude!
Tammy you are unbelievable!
I wouldn’t come back if anyone paid me… and I would NEVER recommend this place to anyone! !!!

Went there for the first time since we got a mailing with a $ 10 off coupon. Not a good reason to choose a restaurant! Was apprehensive due to the hit or miss quality I’ve experienced at Schermerhorns and the mixed Unilocal reviews. WOW, was this a miss. Lobster bisque was cold and the only thing that made it worse was how it tasted. Clam chowder was actually pretty good. Steamers, I’m hoping they were cooked (they were hot and open, so that’s a good sign…) as they were slimy and often gritty. The lobster was cooked well, though it took me a bit to get my appetite back after the sour cream came out WITH MOLD ON IT. The server was nice, took it back and brought out some new sour cream for us. There was an apology but no offer to comp anything or make up for this health code violation in any way. The server was nice, but that doesn’t make up for the rest. Now just hoping we don’t get sick…
UPDATE-​My wife and I have been sick all night.

DO NOT GO! Especially for dinner on a FRIDAY night! Karaōke, VERY BAD, LOUD even though we sat as far away as possible. Could not even hear each other talk, nor could the server hear us. Called «the manager» to speak with, she could have cared less! Could have eaten at the Whately Inn or Blue Heron for same price and a MUCH better atmosphere! Could not get out of there fast enough! Server was apologetic and tried. Manager could have changed this review if she cared. Will not be back, and we go out to eat… A LOT!

I really don’t understand why this place gets such bad reviews. We have been here twice and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly both times. Admittedly it is NOT GOURMET. But it is delicious comfort food, in good quantity, served by super-​friendly staff (that’s the part I really don’t get — both times we were there our servers were as nice, attentive, and friendly as could be). We’ve eaten steak and seafood there and it was delicious and enough for two meals. It probably does not come from local farms, so if that’s what you’re looking for, there are lots of other places to go (where you can spend more money too) (and we go to those too!). But, come on, was it really that terrible? I sort of find that hard to believe. We will go there regularly.

I’ve given this place many chances very very disappointed. I don’t know what they do with the French fries but every time there served black and soggy. Never have steak med rare served well done. In the summer there are fresh veggies everywhere in this farming community and they serve frozen or canned vegetables. Save your money Fishtales is a disappointment. New management

I have given this place a few chances and I am done. I will never return. Barely no one in the place and it took 15 minutes to have our drink order taken… And the bartender saw us the entire time. It was obvious she would have rather been anywhere else. After we ordered the drinks came (dripping over the sides and the waitresses hands) and then it took at least 30 minutes for the grinder. No exaggeration. And of course it was cold and the roll was rock hard when it arrived. I love to support local businesses but I wouldn’t return here if the food and drinks were free.

Ew… what happened here. Was here a couple of months ago service/​food was great. Now, I would go back if someone paid me. Is anyone running this place? Save your money, go somewhere else!

Not sure what everyone else is on about, but this place is great.
Great specials almost every day, attentive and experienced waitstaff.
Had a burger and shrimp poboy… best hot sandwiches I have had in a while.

I just stopped in tonight with a friend to have a couple glasses of wine — we sat at a little round table near the bar for 20 minutes and the waitress kept walking by us and never made eye contact or asked if we would like anything. So needless to say after 20 minutes we walked out with nothing. I would never go back there after that!

We ventured back and learned the establishment was under new management. It was fun, the food was good and our server, Nick, was great!

Just had an excruciatingly awful lunch at this place. We ordered fish and chips, mushrooms stuffed with crab, clam chowder, and salad. Awful, awful, awful. Mushrooms were stuffed with a soggy paste (not crabmeat), clam chowder was sour, salad was not fresh, and the chips were burnt. On top of that, they only hired one waitress who had to do everything, so service was so slow.
We were there for dinner last year and it was delicious. What happened?

It’s really unfortunate, this place used to be good and fun. (Like when they had karayoke) Now … 3 hours for dinner. Took an hour for one round of drinks. Steamers tasted like they were bad, no more dinner rolls (and marked on menu that there are rolls), nachos came out with very little an burnt cheese… not to mention a piece of plastic in them (tortilla bag?). And we got comped a bottle of wine and the bad food. what… with issues the actual manager hid in the kitchen, leaving the assistant manager and wait staff to handle all the issues that the kitchen and bar had. It’s really too bad, we won’t be back. Please note all other reviews dates, this place is no longer the place it once was.

Great restaurant. Friendly staff, great food. I got a lobster roll which was reasonably priced, my girlfriend got a salmon sandwich, which was also incredible. They have really good root beer. They also have a special for each night of the week. I think Thursday is 8.99 lobster and Friday was a cheap steak. Worth the trip!

Not really sure why Unilocal calls this an Italian restaurant. As its name indicates, seafood is what it does best. I live a lot closer to the ocean, but the fish here is better than anything we have at home.
There’s a very active bar scene, mostly locals. The adjacent dining room is plain and noisy. There’s nothing flashy about the menu either, but the food high quality, simply prepared, very fresh and extremely affordable. Hatfield is a potato growing town, and Fish Tales features the hometown product with pride.

Love the fish and chips! Portion sizes are large and prices very reasonable. Excellent place for a casual lunch or dinner with friends :)

My dinner last evening was freakishly good. The GF said not to say that, but having slept on it, and now having excitedly anticipated my leftovers all day, I’m sticking with «freakishly good.»
A little low lit, a little noisy, Fish Tales is an interesting place. Tucked in next to the post office in «downtown» Hatfield, with «downtown» basically being the post office and Fish Tales, I didn’t really expect much more than OK from this place. What kind of decent seafood can you expect a few hundred miles from the sea? What kind of decent other food can you expect at a place that appears to be a seafood joint? I was wrong.
With a gracious and cheery hostess (who held a booth for us when we called ahead) and a very attentive and friendly waiter, our experience last night from start to finish was top notch.
I ordered the «Crazy Alfredo,» and the GF had a vegetarian pasta. Each meal came with a salad and some garlic bread. The salad, though small, was freshly prepped and appointed with tomato, onion, lettuce snd not the best blue cheese dressing I’ve had (or even close — no chunks or lumps.)
We enjoyed crabmeat stuffed mushrooms with our Cosmopolitan cocktails. The ‘shrooms were served very hot with a very stretchy mozzarella cheese topping the crabmeat and breadcrumb stuffing. Yeah, coulda been more crab less bread, but I think that’s always the case. These were decent stuffed mushrooms. So, so far… so good. The place is… OK.
But then, out came the entrée’s. Crazy Alfredo is right. The creamy white sauce in this dish is loaded with fire! I didn’t expect this much flavor from this place. A giant bowl of ziti, tossed with, oh, I don’t know — a whole pig’s worth of ham, a whole chicken’s worth of chicken breast, and a whole helluva lot of nicely seasoned sausage to boot. I ate until I was more than full and took home one of the heaviest doggie bags in recent memory.
But, all through my freakishly good meal, I kept getting this tantalizing whiff of red wine and spices… it was the GF’s pasta sauce. I tried a forkful of pasta and vegetables… wow. Very nice sauce on this dish… very nice.
Our waiter maintained an excellent pace throughout the evening, refilling the water, clearing empty dishes as needed, and checking to make sure all was good, without ever being obtrusive.
If you’re looking for someplace new to try, where you can walk in and get a table on a Saturday evening, have a very good meal at a very reasonable price, then Fish Tales may be the place for you. Come hungry.