Habourside Seafood Bar and Grill Reviews

Place was amazing! High class restaurant with an Ocean side view.

Restaurant is old looking in my opinion but the food was great. Try the Salmon bites!

Beautiful restaurant in a scenic location. Food was delicious. Service was outstanding.

Wonderful service and amazing food. The staff and servers bend over backwards to please.

Decent Happy Hour at the Bar. I liked my crab cake and the sauces it came with. My fish taco was fine, but less interesting. The calamari was nothing special. My wife's margarita was weak. The happy hour beer selection is very limited and uninteresting. We liked our view. They gave the kids free refills on their drinks.

Fantastic appetizers and prices during happy hour great service. Nice tasting plates.Wait can get long so arrive early.

Our family has been coming to Newport and Balboa for years but this is the first time we tried Harborside Restaurant after a strong recommendation from a good friend who loves the place. Boy do we see why! Everything was outstanding from the terrific harbor views to our waiter Manny's professional yet very comfortable service. Our appetizer, dinners, and desserts were very well prepared in a classic style but with many small careful touches that set them apart and pleasantly surprised us. It was such a nice surprise to find a restaurant that is so much better then the typical "Just OK" places all over Orange County and we will absolutely be back soon.

Great food landmark at Balboa Pavillion
You get 15 % off with your (Davey's Locker Whale watching ticket stub !! )
Great service friendly servers great view of harbor and sometime a few sealions. Your welcome!

We were there last year and plan on going with our girls this year as it s great. Great bloody Mary s as well as super Calamari

We love hanging out. Yesterday we arrived in this fine restaurant which friends recommended to us. We spent a beautiful experience there with exceptional meal and an efficient team and a professional chef. We put this place in our phone list and we will no doubt visit again very soon. Highly recommended.

Food terrific, staff attentive and nice. Shout out to Kyle - he went extra mile to make made sure we made our Whale Watching tour time. Highly recommended by my entire family. Would definitely visit again if I'm in the area. I had the Fish and Chips...delicious.

They have the perfect happy hour menu, harbor views and great servers. We enjoyed the sliders here.

Portion is small and its over priced. Food was just alright. The only good thing was the service.

Halibut dish was prepared perfect. Great waitress and very knowledgeable.

I got really bad food poisoning from here. I was sick for about 2-3 days. Scenery was great food tasted great, but the after effects were not good.

Thanksgiving buffet. Enormous variety, all delicious. Thanks so much for this special thanksgiving treat.

Stopped here on a food crawl and shared a few appetizers and entrees. The food and service were both excellent.

Great views and food. We took the ferry to Balboa Island.

They offer an all day happy hour menu in the bar area.

Full bar. Not sure about parking options.

We had a large family gathering for lunch this past Sunday & we were pleasantly delighted. The food was exceptional, the service was wonderful and the views were spectacular. There wasn t any food item in our large party that was under cooked or overcooked or tasted badly. Everything was delicious and was cooked perfectly. The children also enjoyed their meals. Thank you for a wonderful experience and we will definitely be back.

We went for an event. The setting was beautiful but there wasn't enough food to feed everyone.

Had a relaxing meal, enjoyed the lunch special (Mahi-Mahi) and the view of the harbor. Thought the clam chowder was delicious!

Was there for an event - great views. Beautiful location.

So we made a reservation and showed up 15 mins early and they were still able to seat us almost immediately the server was very nice and got anything we asked for very quickly although after ordering the food it took almost 30 minutes until it arrived, we ordered the lamb rack and chicken piccata the lamb was quite bland and was not very filling or worth the price, the chicken was extremely tasty and filling, in all honestly the prices seem like you are paying for the Oceanside view and the fancy look of the place.

Mediocre drinks and mediocre food. Only reason it's not a 1 is because of the view and the food portions

Jason, Mgr is awesome! Great food, priced well. Good Happy Hour all day!

Beautiful Atmosphere and menu a great and quiet place for a nice dinner

Ordered the blackened Mahi- Mahi which was sitting in a sauce that was much to spicy for fish. It was also a little dry, which was disappointing.

This restaurant has delicious meals. I am planning on a return trip very soon

Clam chowder bread bowls are soo good and perfect beach food

Great place to stop in for a Happy Hour treat. Superb view of Newport Bay and excellent Happy Hour from 11:00 am to 7:00pm

I adore this place! They serve awesome dishes, they have a nice menu, The chief cook in that place is well trained, I love a lot tasting all their food. The food is consistently tasty, the service towards the clients is good. I often eat in this place and I was never disappointed. I recommend it with no hesitation.

Wonderful meal in a vintage setting. I hesitated to go and I am so glad I did. The food and service were excellent. We had a very creative and yummi ahi nachos with avocado and Wonton crackers with sesame. Followed by crabcakes like I see less and less goed with nice dressing, light mango salad. Just a pleasure to go with good friendly service and a nice view of the water

Too posh for me and it was deserted when we were there. We felt like intruders

The place serves large portions and for fair prices. very nice staff members. Fantastic work.

Nice place to sit and see the bay, prices are good. Happy Hour good.

We love Harborside, but we want to see the "First Seating" menu return, it offered a 3 course meal for $20 for early birds on weekdays and this was a big draw. You don't have to sit in the window to get a good harbor view, and the view is equally nice day or night. We have enjoyed a nice dinner there for the past 3 Christmas Eve's, and go there for birthdays. It is nice to take a walk in the area after dinner to work off some of that Mudd Pie. The food is usually well prepared and the staff has always been very nice. We haven't partaken in the Happy Hour menu but it looks very enticing. I recommend it for Romantic Dates, Families, guests from out of town and any occasion in between.

Delicious food and an amazing view into the harbor. We came here after taking a whale watching cruise and ordered the calamari, fish tacos, and a club sandwich. The calamari was probably the best I ever had. Definitely recommend this restaurant!

Fast service. Delicious food. Great location. Friendly staff.

Great for our Indian princess sock hop...right on ocean..historical building with photos of the 20s and 30s

Perfect family holiday spot. the food is fantastic, the people lovely, and the buffet is massive and fresh hot delicious. I do not know what that review is about regarding the service. Its a BUFFET.
The wait staff ive ever experienced was delightful attentive and kind. Newport Beach and the surrounding area Costa Mesa and
Corona Del Mar have great spots to eat with great service.

Gotta try the Orange Coconut Salmon of you haven't yet! Yummy

Love the harborside, great place to hang out, great view &food !

Amazing amazing food. The special of the day on Memorial Day 2019 was a mixed seafood Thai curry. Mussels, crab legs, halibut, clams, salmon, shrimp with some toasted bread for dipping and jasmine rice. This is one of the best dishes I have had in a while! Come in and enjoy!

Excellent and accommodating restaurant. Food quality and wine selection is far above average for the surrounding area. A frequent choice, providing you demonstrate some patience with traffic and parking.

Services are great and food is fresh... lastly, u can t beat the view!!!

Good service, big glass of wine, the shrimp wasn't fresh, but the lettuce wraps we're good.

The food was good however, the service sucked they are very slow. I would not recommend this place for the service.

Halibut fish tacos were great. Salmon was mediocre. Club sandwich was fair; bread was way over toasted. Food is overpeiced. Service was okay. Decor feels outdated.

I had not been here for a long time and forgot how good it was. I came back again because of Orange County restaurant week. We choose the 40 dollar special menu for Orange county restaurant week. It was serve with Pinot Noir or chardonney, which would be $9 if ordered seperate. Since my boy was under age they were willing to give him a smootie instead of the wine, I appreiciate that. The appetizer we had tried the salad, New England Clam Chowder and the crispy coconut fried shrimp. We especially like the Clam Chowder.
Our entree would be Alaskan Halibut, which was mild and good portion. We also had Cioppino which was like a seafood bowl. It did had a lot of good stuff in there. The New Zealand Rack of Lamb was good too.

After all those food and wine it would be nice to head down to Balboa Pier to take a walk.

Surf and turf style restaurant right on the water with a harbor view. Decent but not amazing food. Lobster Bisque is ok, King Crab Legs are ok, Fillet is ok. Orange Crusted Salmon (Asian style) is very good. The banana bunuelos dessert is amazing. The sever named Manny is the best server in all of Orange County!

Had a great dinner meeting.... But the waiter forgot to take our dinner order after serving appies. Food was great.

I was on the Taste of Newport Beach food tour recently, and this place was one of the stops. The group had a sample of the ahi "nachos", which were really just wantons covered in ahi tuna and avocado. Well, it was so good that some of us decided to go there for a late lunch a few hours after the tour. We went during happy hour (which, incidentally, goes from 11am - 6pm *every day*), which is a great time to go because not only is the restaurant not overly-crowded yet, but everything on the Happy Hour menu was $4.

So, we got around to trying the following from their HH menu: salmon cake, foot of onion rings, chicken lettuce wraps, clam chowder, black mussels, and of course, the ahi "nachos".

The clam chowder, onion rings, mussels, and ahi nachos were all winners. These apetizers were all delicious, and I wouldn't hesitate to order any of them (again) if I am every back at Harborside. A note about the onion rings: it is literally a foot of ring! They coming steaming hot on a skewer tower!

The salmon cakes and lettuce wraps, in contrast, did not impress. Despite this, we didn't leave feeling too bad, since $4 is a damn good price for decent sized appetizers in a restaurant with a water view.

Best happy hour in town. Amazing chicken quesadilla.

Great food, fair priced and fantastic view...love it!

Great local spot, we love stopping by for a quick drink or appetizers. When we're on the the boat they are always friendly to help with a quick refill . The staff is hardworking and nice.

Had the crab and filet. with salad. my girl had the halibut both very good. our waitress alison was the best

i order a fish and chip, calmari and it's delicious

We went for my husband's birthday dinner, the service was excellent, the atmosphere and views were lovely.
Most of all the food was absolutely delicious!

Great value for food, cooks and staff are very nice and accommodating

I know you're supposed to eat seafood at a seafood restaurant, but I decided to try something else. I ordered the pot roast with fingerling potatoes and green beans... it was the best I'd ever had! The roast was tender and juicy and the au jus was so flavorful. I was blown away! The fish and chips was also spectacular.