They never stop at being there for their Hungry clients
They provide excellent service and food .. the Fish and chips are the best in town.
Plus Thursday wing night special in awesome!
Margaret Case
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March 10, 2024
Just STOP at the Whistle Stop! This under-rated, 80% locals nice-little-pub has some CRAZY hidden gems. We had the steak-n-prawns special ($15 đŻ) and the (youâll need to sit down for this) STONEGRILL halibut. I canât even. This seemed like an item that would be comfortable in any upscale urban restaurant. Pardon me going in and on about this menu item⌠it is a hot stone, 6âx6â (or maybe 6âx4â?) at 800 degrees, with lemons and then the halibut (raw) that cooks as you get oriented to your meal. You get salad or soup, an entire potato with fixins, and veggies. Add your butter to your veggies and then put them on the stone too! It is the freshest, hottest food youâll have in a long time. 100% recommend this and there are steak options too.
We had some good Guinness/ Kilkenny and hope the pub will feature even some cans of very local beer. Vancouver Island draft choices are good, but as always more would be better.
Our server has been with the pub for 17 years and pretty much knows everyone which is saying something good.
Itâs down home, not fancy, keep your decor expectations low, but the menu and smiling faces mights surprise you in a good way. đ
Sorry I ate all the food before I took the pictures. Also not sorry.
Alicia Sam
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August 11, 2024
First time at the whistle stop! heard great things about this place ! Foood was excellent! Cant complain about the prices either ! Service on the other hand....Our original waitress was very short with us. Our orders got confused, long wait times, and felt like an inconvenience. If our waitress had taken more time to check in and talk to us it would have been a much better experience.
Tracey Robere
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July 28, 2024
If I could I would leave a -100 stars for service today, I understand at times they are short staffed and our servers before today have been amazing apologizing if their service is slow and are always friendly no matter how crazy busy it is. Today it was fairly slow far less people than usual we had to go order our own drinks from the bar, get our own menus and in the 25 minutes we were there no sign of a server, when she finally came she looked at us and said oh everythingâs okay at your table, did not ask if we would like to order breakfast. At that point I asked for our bill, the server Lisa actually got snotty and rude with my husband when he mentioned that we were there for breakfast but were ignored. We usually frequent this establishment weekly because the Sunday breakfast are delicious and inexpensive we like supporting local business especially in our neighborhood, next time we will go somewhere else. Very disappointing.
alexei haws
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September 24, 2024
Google makes this really simple, I cannot in good faith leave any review beyond 1 star because i arrived a little after 1 to closed tills and nobody inside. Iâm disappointed thatâs all. pics taken while I was writing this.
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They never stop at being there for their Hungry clients They provide excellent service and food .. the Fish and chips are the best in town. Plus Thursday wing night special in awesome!
Just STOP at the Whistle Stop! This under-rated, 80% locals nice-little-pub has some CRAZY hidden gems. We had the steak-n-prawns special ($15 đŻ) and the (youâll need to sit down for this) STONEGRILL halibut. I canât even. This seemed like an item that would be comfortable in any upscale urban restaurant. Pardon me going in and on about this menu item⌠it is a hot stone, 6âx6â (or maybe 6âx4â?) at 800 degrees, with lemons and then the halibut (raw) that cooks as you get oriented to your meal. You get salad or soup, an entire potato with fixins, and veggies. Add your butter to your veggies and then put them on the stone too! It is the freshest, hottest food youâll have in a long time. 100% recommend this and there are steak options too. We had some good Guinness/ Kilkenny and hope the pub will feature even some cans of very local beer. Vancouver Island draft choices are good, but as always more would be better. Our server has been with the pub for 17 years and pretty much knows everyone which is saying something good. Itâs down home, not fancy, keep your decor expectations low, but the menu and smiling faces mights surprise you in a good way. đ Sorry I ate all the food before I took the pictures. Also not sorry.
First time at the whistle stop! heard great things about this place ! Foood was excellent! Cant complain about the prices either ! Service on the other hand....Our original waitress was very short with us. Our orders got confused, long wait times, and felt like an inconvenience. If our waitress had taken more time to check in and talk to us it would have been a much better experience.
If I could I would leave a -100 stars for service today, I understand at times they are short staffed and our servers before today have been amazing apologizing if their service is slow and are always friendly no matter how crazy busy it is. Today it was fairly slow far less people than usual we had to go order our own drinks from the bar, get our own menus and in the 25 minutes we were there no sign of a server, when she finally came she looked at us and said oh everythingâs okay at your table, did not ask if we would like to order breakfast. At that point I asked for our bill, the server Lisa actually got snotty and rude with my husband when he mentioned that we were there for breakfast but were ignored. We usually frequent this establishment weekly because the Sunday breakfast are delicious and inexpensive we like supporting local business especially in our neighborhood, next time we will go somewhere else. Very disappointing.
Google makes this really simple, I cannot in good faith leave any review beyond 1 star because i arrived a little after 1 to closed tills and nobody inside. Iâm disappointed thatâs all. pics taken while I was writing this.