The Fish Shack Bar & Restaurant

Great food and great people!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lobster Roll, Fish, Fish Tacos

Took a party of eight for lunch the day after Thanksgiving and it was the best decision. Sat at two high tops in bar to avoid dining room wait and service from bartender was great. Menu offered something for everyone and food was outstanding! We had several lobster dishes and fish dishes, everything hot, tasty and generous portions. Found it to be a great value too, with 20% tip it was $411 for eight with a round of cocktails.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: French Fries, Fish and Chips, Lobster Mac, Lobster Roll, Baked Haddock, Lobster Mac and Cheese, Fish Sandwich

Marie our server was fabulous. We’re British and on a road trip across NY/CT/MA/VT.
Food was amazing. Lifetime Bucket list to have lobster in New England and you delivered.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lobster Roll, New England Clam Chowder

Kid-friendliness: Kids menu

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Best seafood ever ! Always great good, great service, fantastic views, love it here, had the haddock recently, and it's the best ever ! This place is fabulous at any time of the year.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great food big servings and friendly staff

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food is very medicore for the price. Everything cost 25+. The employees are never coming back for refills or anything since the tip is already included with your receipt. This place is sketchy. The lady did not allow us free refills but the employee in the front said there is free refills.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The lady serving us, did not allow free refills even though the place says free refills. Sketchy place

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Food was excellent. I had fish and chips. It was delicious!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fish and Chips, Lobster Roll, Fish

Food was very bland. The service was enough to sustain the visit, but nothing more. Had to flag our server down to get water, much less anything else to drink. The cook on both the fish and scallops was great but they were so buried in crumb that you couldn't differentiate the flavor of the seafood from the crumb. The clam chowder was phenomenal, but was tepid at best. Definitely would have preferred that it be hot.
EDIT: we went back for a quick bite and beers. The chowder was piping hot! So that was much better than our previous experience!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 2

So cute! If you're looking for a restaurant with a quintessential ocean view this one is adorable !

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lobster Roll

Shrimp and fish

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Fish

Not much open in Rockport off-season do it is nice that a good,reasonably priced restaurant stays open. Very attentive server and decent menu choices.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Food was so good it could knock you off your seat!

Got the grilled salmon, scallops, and mac and cheese - all super delicious! Also, the butternut squash was probably the best butternut squash I have ever had!!

And the service was phenomenal!! Incredibly attentive and friendly!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Mac and Cheese, Scallops

Well... It must be rather easy to get a 5 star rating when your restaurant is located on Bear Skin Neck in the heart of Rockport Harbor. The 5-Star rating on the Food & Service on the other hand, that take a bit more effort. I was very happy with the courteous waitstaff during my visit. The seafood was outstanding as well.

Parking: My visit was during the off-season so there were plenty of meter spots.

Rockport has a satellite parking lot right off Route 127 in Rockport at 2 Blue Gate Lane which offers free parking. Visitors can ride the Cape Ann Transportation Authority (“CATA”) shuttle for $1.00 per person each way.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fish