The Cove Seaside Deck - CAPE MAY

Wonderful location, but that 's pretty much all that they seemed to have to offer. The Cove feels outdated and stale. There is no AC, and the decor looks like it hasn 't been updated in decades. The front of the restaurant is a mess of tables, junk in the window, and written signs everywhere explaining that they do not accept credit cards (Printers do exist you know! TThere is a small attachment with a few tables on the side of the building, it smelled stale in the room, and there were flies EVERYWHERE. The table cloth had stains all over it, and looks like it hadn 't been replaced in years. Another point about the venue, so much of that main building seems to be taken up by a station for the servers to wrap napkins and plate food. The entire staff were back there sitting in different parts of it in silence. I don 't know if we just made it there at a weird time, but it felt like everyone is in timeout. It gave off a We all hate our job vibe The food was subpar. My sandwich was cold, and felt like it was premade and just sat there for a bit. My friend 's breakfast looked lovely, but the prices made what we ordered questionable. Upon our exiting, it seemed that the owners were having a verbal altercation with either another employee, or somebody who was dressed well enough to not be a beach goer. It made things a bit awkward trying to pay. The moment he saw us he tried to brush it off as nothing, but the first impression was already done. The service was lovely. I feel awful for our server though, we went to tip them, and the owner very loudly goes Oh give me the money! I 'll give it to them I hope they received our tip. That was the best part of our visit. The service we received is what saved this place from getting a one star. That and, I don 't need a passive aggressive message from the owner on here about how I probably wasn 't a patreon, as many of the other 1 star reviews on here seem to get. There are plenty of restaurants within walking distance of the beach. Please try them instead. This is not the one.

Enjoyed brunch here. The pineapple coconut French toast was delicious. French fries were so crispy and light. Sorry we haven’t been coming here more. Handicapped parking and small lot was easy to access. Parking: Handicapped parking spot right in front. One step up to get into restaurant.

I ordered a fish sandwich tasted like shoe leather and a crab sandwich that tasted like fake crab. When our bill came they overcharged us luckily we caught that. I would not recommend this place for lunch or breakfast. View was ok.... mostly looking at a parking lot. We will not go back.

Waiting for a table was long when they were not busy. Once seated service was extremely slow. Order came out wrong and when questioned the owner came out and debated with us. Made us feel extremely uncomfortable and embarrassed like we were children getting a lecture. Will never go back to this establishment.

Owner was very bothered by the mere fact that I paid to be married on the beach and my guests paid the city of cape may to park near the Pavillion as if thousands of people every year don't also pay to park and never spend a penny in this mediocre hole in the wall tourist trap this complaint is about the owners conduct and how they treat people while they are operating the restaurant