We arrived at shift change. We paid cash to our first bartender who must have pocketed it. The second bartender charged us for both rounds. The manager never apologized and was just a piece of work. She apologized and then was caught rolling her eyes as we left. Go any place other than here!!
John Kofel
Great place, good food !
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rich Burnett
We had nachos and drinks all were very good and we will go back
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Nachos Appetizer
David Shibley
I live 4 minutes from Hectors and I feel lucky. My family eats here often, never fails. I get the steak tips with fries and cole slaw and it's the freakin best, every time. Service is nice and kind. It's just down home good normal food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Keith Murray
Great local restaurant. Get the Laconia Jack!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Caesar Salad, Chicken Fingers with Fries, Corn Chowder
Theodore Green
Marinated steak tips were beyond exceptional.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kellie McEvoy
Bartender Candy claims/thinks she is good , but she is the worst they have. She’s rude, slow and makes you feel bad to ask for anything! It feels like an inconvenience! Tonight we got a quesadilla and asked for jalapeños on the side. No salsa or sour cream and when I asked for salsa I got attitude, so forget the sour cream. I guess a warm body is better than nobody! All done going there! Hey Candy you get what you put in, and people get what they deserve!! ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
Brian LaFontaine
A great disappointment. Looking forward to some homemade clam chowder. It was canned product. All food we had was pre-packaged. All they did was heat it up. My chicken breast was tough, another's burger made of inferior beef. The Mac n cheese was clearly Kraft. The kids meal said it included a cookie - they said they were not serving them anymore because no one liked them and never took it off the menu. At least the waitress was kind enough to bring them a scoop of ice cream. Will never go back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 3
Kim T
Went in to grab a beverage and appetizers- party of two. Lots of open tables inside and out but barely got acknowledged when we walked in then it took 10 minutes to seat us. Ordered wine, soda, nachos and potato skins. Drinks were fine but had to cover my wine due to fruit flies. Apps not super great IMO. The beef on nachos was dry and flavorless and the cheese had everything stuck together like it had been sitting. The potato skins were really a potato sliced the long way with cheese and a little bit of bacon. Where’s the skins? It took about 30 minutes for the apps. The service was ok but I prefer someone taking initiative for drink refills and who does check backs. Probably not a place I’d pick again give their prices and knowing that they can get simple things right. Also it’s VERY loud in this restaurant but we felt lucky to sit up higher than main floor.
Great food great atmosphere with live piano definitely going back
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nancy Potter
Some one needs to tell the cook that clams are not good fried dark and to a crisp.. neither is the fish on the fish and chips.. so disappointed with what could have been great clams.. we looked forward to them.. not good at all. We come often. The waitress was excellent. Maybe you need another deep fry cook .. some one with experience..
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Nathaniel Abbott
Very friendly staff. Food is good with healthy portions. Building was part of the Laconia Car company, that made railroad cars before the turn of the last century.
Wheelchair accessibility: I met a friend here who is presently confined to a wheelchair. He parks and enters through the back of the restaurant. It is his favorite place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Shrimp Mediterranean, Italian Wedding Soup, Chicken Fajita Salad
paula davies
If you’re looking for a place to ruin your appetite, Hector’s is the perfect choice. The food here is nothing short of an abomination.
To start, the atmosphere was from “fine dining.” The decor was tacky and outdated, with a thick layer of dust on every surface, suggesting a severe lack of cleanliness.
The service was abysmal at best. Our server was inattentive, disappearing for long stretches and showing a complete lack of interest in our table. It took an unacceptable amount of time to place a drink order. When our drinks finally arrived, they were poorly made and tasted like dishwater.
The food was an absolute atrocity. For a restaurant touting itself as "fine dining," the quality was shockingly low. My steak, which I ordered medium-rare, arrived charred on the outside and completely raw in the middle—an impressive feat of incompetence. It was tough, flavorless, and impossible to chew. My partner's seafood pasta was a soggy mess, with overcooked noodles swimming in a watery, tasteless sauce. The shrimp were rubbery and clearly not fresh, likely defrosted minutes before hitting the plate.
The sides were uninspired, tasteless, and clearly reheated from frozen. Even the desserts couldn’t redeem this meal. The cheesecake was dense and dry, more like a brick than a dessert.
Every dish at Hector’s felt like a culinary disaster. To add insult to injury, the prices were outrageous. For the level of quality and service, Hector’s charges a premium that is entirely unjustified. This meal was a blatant rip-off, leaving us feeling swindled and deeply disappointed. The lack of quality, freshness, and basic cooking skills was shocking for a place with such high prices.
Save yourself the disappointment and find a restaurant that actually knows how to prepare a decent meal.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Jan Mustin
The people here are fantastic but the food is only so-so. Nice outdoor space but the interior needs updating.
We arrived at shift change. We paid cash to our first bartender who must have pocketed it. The second bartender charged us for both rounds. The manager never apologized and was just a piece of work. She apologized and then was caught rolling her eyes as we left. Go any place other than here!!
Great place, good food !
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We had nachos and drinks all were very good and we will go back
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Nachos Appetizer
I live 4 minutes from Hectors and I feel lucky. My family eats here often, never fails. I get the steak tips with fries and cole slaw and it's the freakin best, every time. Service is nice and kind. It's just down home good normal food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great local restaurant. Get the Laconia Jack!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Caesar Salad, Chicken Fingers with Fries, Corn Chowder
Marinated steak tips were beyond exceptional.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Bartender Candy claims/thinks she is good , but she is the worst they have. She’s rude, slow and makes you feel bad to ask for anything! It feels like an inconvenience! Tonight we got a quesadilla and asked for jalapeños on the side. No salsa or sour cream and when I asked for salsa I got attitude, so forget the sour cream. I guess a warm body is better than nobody! All done going there! Hey Candy you get what you put in, and people get what they deserve!! ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
A great disappointment. Looking forward to some homemade clam chowder. It was canned product. All food we had was pre-packaged. All they did was heat it up. My chicken breast was tough, another's burger made of inferior beef. The Mac n cheese was clearly Kraft. The kids meal said it included a cookie - they said they were not serving them anymore because no one liked them and never took it off the menu. At least the waitress was kind enough to bring them a scoop of ice cream. Will never go back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 3
Went in to grab a beverage and appetizers- party of two. Lots of open tables inside and out but barely got acknowledged when we walked in then it took 10 minutes to seat us. Ordered wine, soda, nachos and potato skins. Drinks were fine but had to cover my wine due to fruit flies. Apps not super great IMO. The beef on nachos was dry and flavorless and the cheese had everything stuck together like it had been sitting. The potato skins were really a potato sliced the long way with cheese and a little bit of bacon. Where’s the skins? It took about 30 minutes for the apps. The service was ok but I prefer someone taking initiative for drink refills and who does check backs. Probably not a place I’d pick again give their prices and knowing that they can get simple things right. Also it’s VERY loud in this restaurant but we felt lucky to sit up higher than main floor.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Great take out! Reasonable prices. ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Restaurantji Recommends
Great food great atmosphere with live piano definitely going back
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Some one needs to tell the cook that clams are not good fried dark and to a crisp.. neither is the fish on the fish and chips.. so disappointed with what could have been great clams.. we looked forward to them.. not good at all.
We come often.
The waitress was excellent.
Maybe you need another deep fry cook .. some one with experience..
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Very friendly staff. Food is good with healthy portions. Building was part of the Laconia Car company, that made railroad cars before the turn of the last century.
Wheelchair accessibility: I met a friend here who is presently confined to a wheelchair. He parks and enters through the back of the restaurant. It is his favorite place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Shrimp Mediterranean, Italian Wedding Soup, Chicken Fajita Salad
If you’re looking for a place to ruin your appetite, Hector’s is the perfect choice. The food here is nothing short of an abomination.
To start, the atmosphere was from “fine dining.” The decor was tacky and outdated, with a thick layer of dust on every surface, suggesting a severe lack of cleanliness.
The service was abysmal at best. Our server was inattentive, disappearing for long stretches and showing a complete lack of interest in our table. It took an unacceptable amount of time to place a drink order. When our drinks finally arrived, they were poorly made and tasted like dishwater.
The food was an absolute atrocity. For a restaurant touting itself as "fine dining," the quality was shockingly low. My steak, which I ordered medium-rare, arrived charred on the outside and completely raw in the middle—an impressive feat of incompetence. It was tough, flavorless, and impossible to chew. My partner's seafood pasta was a soggy mess, with overcooked noodles swimming in a watery, tasteless sauce. The shrimp were rubbery and clearly not fresh, likely defrosted minutes before hitting the plate.
The sides were uninspired, tasteless, and clearly reheated from frozen. Even the desserts couldn’t redeem this meal. The cheesecake was dense and dry, more like a brick than a dessert.
Every dish at Hector’s felt like a culinary disaster. To add insult to injury, the prices were outrageous. For the level of quality and service, Hector’s charges a premium that is entirely unjustified. This meal was a blatant rip-off, leaving us feeling swindled and deeply disappointed. The lack of quality, freshness, and basic cooking skills was shocking for a place with such high prices.
Save yourself the disappointment and find a restaurant that actually knows how to prepare a decent meal.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
The people here are fantastic but the food is only so-so. Nice outdoor space but the interior needs updating.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
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