Come taste a delectable creation at Bobby C's Dockside Restaurant. Explore a menu featuring a variety of fishes and seafood, priced at 11$ to 25$ and can get there by public transit and bicycle. The neighboring location is notable for its merchants and parks. Payments by Discover, American Express, Visa, MasterCard and jcb are accepted.more...See more text
With my family, visited this venue on a whim trying to find a hidden gem. We went on a Friday night where it was moderately busy - 60% occupancy. My wife and I had the steak and lobster entree with salad. Also tried the calamari appetizer to start. My 10 year old daughter had the chicken nuggets meal from the kids menu. Calamari was good but nothing special. Salads were also average in both quality and quantity. 8oz Steak was done to our specification, but was of average quality and texture. Lobster tail was good and looked to be a 2-3oz size.
Kids eat free on Wednesdays so if you want to save $6 for the child, try this place mid week.
Service was friendly, but average as well.
Overall impression is average...no gem here, but not a flop either.
We have held our annual family reunion at Bobby C's for a few years and until this year had been satisfied with the food & service. Unfortunately this year we were subjected to the worst conditions ever.
There were 32 of us seated at the largest, most requested table there with a view of the boats & water. What should have been a happy occasion was not. The temperature was in the 30's and the air conditioning was not working.
We tried to open the windows but they were without handles and would not open. We complained to our servers numerous times but they just said that the A/C was not working and had not been for a while. They did nothing to help us open the windows. We complained each time the servers came to our table and a few of us went searching for them to see if they could do something about it. We were mostly dismissed, they were too busy they said and they would see what they could do later, after they did this or that or ....
It took about an hour and a half for the staff to do something to ease our discomfort. Finally they fetched the window handles. We suffered for all that time, fanning ourselves, melting from the unbearable heat, blotting sweat off our bodies and going outside to cool down. A few family members had to go outside numerous times because they had breathing problems and a few almost passed out from the heat.
I had been in communications with the manager a number of times and was upset that he did not inform me in advance of the problem with the air conditioning. Had I known, I could have made reservations somewhere.else.
Although the manager wrote that he didn't know about the AC problem it is hard to believe that the staff knew that the problem had existed for some time ... but he didn't.
The majority of us are not young, most of us are retired , many of us have health problems and the excessive heat was extremely hard on us. We were in great discomfort and as a result we could hardly eat nor enjoy our reunion.
We had driven from great distances to attend this reunion. As I said there were 32 of us there that day and a lot of money was spent on lunch and tips. We feel we deserved better. After a letter of complaint we were offered a complimentary drink, appetizer or dessert but none of us wanted to travel the immense distance to accept this offer.
What could have been a lovely reunion was spoiled. We had been looking forward to this reunion for a year. None of us would ever go to Bobby C's again nor recommend it to anyone.
We are now on the hunt for another restaurant where we can hold our reunions. What a shame, they could have had a long standing reservation for many years but their lack of attention to detail & customer satisfaction ended that.
Never again ... !
First visit, sat on the patio, it was nice but once we had ordered the service was slow despite the place not being too busy. I got the Steak and Shrimp for $23.99 added Garlic Mushrooms for an extra $3.99 and chose mashed potatoes as a side.
The appetizers were very small and over priced, Three "2-bite" crab cakes with a cheap mayo dip for $12.99, as with any other restaurant the Spinach dip was very small and covered in processed cheese, totally not worth the $8.99 that it cost.
I ordered the steak medium, it came well done(charred black on the outside and brown on the inside), it was very tough. The mashed potatoes were lumpy and obviously prepared hastily well in advance. The Shrimp was terrible, very over cooked, very rubbery. This was disappointing because I LOVE shrimp. The meal came with a tomato oven-baked with basil and feta, the tomato wasn't ripe and was very hard in texture and bitter in taste. The four dollar extra mushrooms were small but decent, definitely the best part of the meal. I could only eat half of the meal before a large spider dropped from an overhanging tree onto my plate.
Everyone else with me enjoyed their meals, so I may go back for a burger or pasta, but I will not get steak or seafood again.
The waitress was attentive to my concerns with the quality of the meal, and she spoke with the manager who kindly removed my dinner from the bill, but there was no apology or offer to replace the meal or get me anything else. Based on that alone I will not return unless I'm socially obliged to do so, and if that is the case I'll probably just order a burger.
I am not sure what happened with the previous review but we had an exceptional dinner as well as service.
They were more than accomadating. The meal was awesome. The salad was a nice change from the ordinary.
I am looking forward to going back in the summer and sitting on the patio.
Worth the try.
This place is going downhill so fast. Service is questionable. Staff seem more interested in joking around with each other. Portion sizes are pathetic for the price. ($20 for a tiny piece of fish). I hate leaving a restaurant hungry, but we all did. Will definitely NOT be back.
