Dalhousie Yacht Club Restaurant

The Sunset Dining Room and patio offer excellent value. The kitchen is the real star — consistently turning out very good food and clearly knowing its craft. The view is a close second, with the patio setting elevating the entire experience. Though it’s part of a private club, it opens to the public when space allows — and when it does, you’ll enjoy a relaxed, well-kept atmosphere without feeling out of place. Service is warm, attentive, and genuinely welcoming from the moment you arrive. Pro tip: grab a reservation when public spots open — it’s absolutely worth it.

This is open to the public and is one of our favorite lunch spots. The patio in the summer is epic, and the dining room at other times is very pleasant. Turkey Club and French Onion Soup were excellent.

Willow, our server, made our experience a very relaxed and positive one. We will certainly be back. The halibut was good, slaw excellent, fries ok. (The servings look small in the photo only because we shared one order.) The setting along the pier was phenomenal.

How do I put this..... AMAZING.... everything we ordered was a level above and reasonably priced (except the wings, they were, ehhh, sorry). I had a sample from everything that was ordered, and it was super delicious. Everyone thought the same thing, and we will definitely return. We ordered the rasta pasta, jumbo pesto penne, island chicken, oven roasted turkey club, and the monster buttermilk fried chicken sanwhich. EVERYTHING WAS JUST AMAZING Anyone giving negative reviews, doesn't know what they are talking about, and probably can't cook KD, but have the nerve to review food haha (unless there have been drastic changes between those reviews and my attendance)

It's pretty ridiculous how people are rating this place a five star and complaining about the food (spicy flat bread, steak gristle). My food experience was just as bad. I ordered two appetizers, shrimp cocktail and crab cakes, and a friend had the fish n chips. The menu says the crab cakes come from the East Coast so I questioned if that was Halifax and the server didn't know so she had to go in the back and ask and confirmed Halifax. To this day I'm not sure I believe that. Crab cakes were quite soggy and the first bite had bits of shell in it. It was also sitting on bland, watery coleslaw. That was the last bite I took. The shrimp cocktail? Well, look at my picture. Does that look like a shrimp cocktail? It was warm grilled peppery shrimp. When I questioned the waitress about the shrimp cocktail (as soon as she brought it) and how it's supposed to be served cold, she said This is How We Do It. Which is great.... just advertise it as grilled shrimp and not a shrimp cocktail, which is universally known to be cold shrimp 🙄 The server came back several times, saw I did not eat much of my food, but ignored it. All of it went into a box to go and a garbage on the way out. This restaurant obviously gets a free pass on food because of their Stellar location. But the 3 dishes cost $60 and I left a $20 tip because I'm local. But I would never recommend this place for food, and I will not be returning.