Chetco Seafood & Restaurant, Brookings

I tried this dump a couple times after it changed hands and will NECER go back. Dirty and smells like old fish. That's about what I was server too...... No Mo, Thanks

My vote: Past employees don't know everything. Insight, yes, but everyone has an opinion and things do change. Every eating establishment has off days, but this place is fairly consistent in excellence and the food is almost always fantastic. The only flaw IS certain employees. My family goes here often, and we're always pleased.

If you are in the mood for the worst grilled salmon and tri-tip burger of you life then I recommend this place. Everything from the service to especially the food was the very worst that I have ever experienced in my whole life. I will have to go to back to the ignorant thought of judge a restaurant by its cover. AT first glance chetco looks unkept; for example, the carpet did not look vacumed for several days and I should have thought twice when their was no one else in there at 6pm during the middle of dinner hour. But since they were a restaurant on the harbor, I figured to give it a try. I asked if the salmon was wild caught and it was. I thought that since the place was on the harbor that it would be reasonibly expected that it would be a quality dinner. Oh how I was wrong. My salmon was previously frozen-you could tell this, and they didnt tell me this. It was tough, overcooked and had a little stale lemon-mrs.dash on the top to try to cover up the god awful overcooked taste of it. It didnt even have the skin on the bottom. I would have been better going to the grocery store, buying a piece of frozen salmon and throwing it on top of some coals to cook it-it probably would have tasted better. Their was a baked potato on the side with a glob of butter and sour cream on the side, nothing more and then a little cup of previously frozen mixed vegetables with butter on top. One of the pieces of brocolli was still a little frozen. Oh yes and it gets better. My other half got a tri tip burger with beans. The meat looked like the left over scrappings on the bottom of a pot that was ready to be cleaned. It was on a white bread bun, like the kind you would get a mcdonalds, and the beans were definetly nothing more than out of a can. We called and complained about the food. They said they were sorry, and nothing more. Hey...please...their are much better restaurants out there! I am not a picky person and I have never written a review, but I felt compelled to tell everyone to stay clear away from this dinning experience.

JESUS this is the best clam chowder ever!!! My husband and I travel hundreds of miles every year just to have their chowder and crab sandwiches!!!