Dad's Of Niantic - East Lyme

I wish the new owners the best and hopefully they can make it the seafood restaurant it used to be. Dad's just really went from a great place to eat to a place I wouldn't recommend anymore and it had been a favorite of my family for years. Last meal there 2023 was terrible sadly.

Bathroom 4 ladies is very low to the floor. The steps are also steep...Thank You.

Great hot lobster rolls. The main problem is that it is not open all year long.

This review has been a long work in progress. In the beginning I started out with 5 stars and became increasingly disappointed as time went on, to which I am now down to a 2 star rating.Let me start with, this past year 2023 they stayed open an extra week to just get rid of the food no new orders or anything, can 't imagine how fresh the food was at that point.My husband and I looked forward to their opening every year, but this past year things just seemed to have taken a turn drastically for the worse. Everytime I tried to order take out they never had certain foods, for example their clam Fritters, each time I was always and I mean ALWAYS given a different excuse, either the batter was too difficult to make (you can 't make this up) and they didn 't have enough time, or oh we are only doing them on the weekends (check on the weekends and told oh sorry next weekend we ran into an issue), check randomly and told oh we haven 't started making them yet we will be doing that tomorrow and I check the next day oh we don 't have a cook that is familiar with making them. Sadly this was only one issue with them, their food was soggy when we would finally break down and eat, not to mention the clotted New England clam chowder that looked like paste from elementary school they tried to pass off. Then constantly being told the credit card machine was down so you had to pay cash, however wouldn 't be informed of that until after you order.I wish I could say something better about this place as they have been around for some time now, but it is appearing that the only thing they are truly interested in, is storing boats for the winter in their parking lot!

It has been many many years since I have been there, 30+ whole belly clams. Dinner was very rubbery. Could not hardly eat had to throw most of it away. Onion rings were very hard they were not batter dipped like I was told pretty much the two dinners, one in the trash but like I said, I have not been there for 30 years so a whole different people had owned it just wanted to check it out see if it was the same good food and it definitely was not. Parking: I ordered the whole belly clams dinner. My daughter had ordered vegetarian hamburger. She said it was very over cooked dried would not go there again.