Saltair Pub - Chemainus

The food and atmosphere under the new ownership/management at the Saltair Pub is excellent. We like to arrive around 5pm... we are the early birds. Tonight we had their featured special, the halibut burger and fries. The best ever!!! They have a new chef and we are so impressed. We also like that they have Riot Beer, a local brewery, on tap. We are locals, supporting locals, who are supporting locals!!

We have been to the Saltair pub on numerous occasions but I think the chef or owners have changed... Quite bland, food not the usual quality and our guests that we had taken were very disappointed in our choice, although the servers were very obliging. We will be giving it a wide berth for quite some time.

This is our 'local' and on Friday nights has live music, so pop along enjoy good food in an 'English' pub setting.

After visiting the Chemainus Theatre for the production of A Christmas Story we stopped off at the Saltair pub for dinner and a couple of libations :)The beer was above average and seemed to compliment the food we chose, I had the house burger (fully loaded) and my wife had the steak which she said was cooked to her liking so we gave the place a two thumbs up!!!

We have been to this pub and over the last three years have seen it change hands and menus, stories abound about the why's and where fors of failures. Last night we went again with two other couples from the area, specifically to see the entertainer who was great as usual, he played for two and a half hours with only 1 fifteen minute break,great sense of humour and a songs that just were non stop.So having said that we arrived at six and decided to make a night of it. we ordered supper off the scant choices offered, no appetizers.Asked if the cod that was served with french fries was fresh, the answer was it was frozen but now its thawed, unacceptable! living in a coastal village they serve up frozen fish.Come on. Calamari was over cooked and mostly batter, the salad came but the lettuce was rusty, we listened intently to a man at the table next to us complain about his meal the server just listened and didn't offer to make it better or change it to something more edible.The drinks were ,drinks, can't mess with that. The place is set beautifully in an off the road location ,however doesn't overcome the bad taste we left with....all in all the entertainer was great ,company was great and the patrons as friendly as you would ever meet.However the food was sub par...choose carefully, there are lots of places around to eat, Bottom line the six of us decided that we would not eat there again....but never say never.