The Wharf Concerts

When I saw this restaurant from the museum across the river, it looked to be a nice little place that ought to have a nice fish and chips platter. But, I was very disappointed when I saw that it was not a seafood joint, but just another lousy bar. I would expect a place called “The WHARF” would have a decent selection of seafood. No whitefish? No cod? That’s one big missed opportunity in my opinion. That being said, I was expecting a lousy bar to have lousy bar food. However, to my surprise, the food was actually very pleasant. The homemade chips were very good, super crunchy and flavorful. The fries were also decent but did have the taste of old oil, almost a carnival food type of flavor. The mushroom and Swiss burger I ordered was overall enjoyable, the toasted bun was tasty and the cheese was melty. The burger itself wasn’t the biggest or juiciest and was far from the best burger I’d ever had but it was also far from the worst. In conclusion, the food was surprisingly appetizing and something I might recommend, especially the chips, but the place has a deceivingly oceanic theme that I believe should be reflected in the food. It’s a restaurant with a lost identity. I would recommend getting rid of the oversized bar in the middle and adding more tables, making the place largely a seafood oriented sit-down restaurant experience that happens to have a bar, rather than a bar that happens to have a couple of stereotypical bar food menu options.

I'm giving this restaurant two stars because it has beautiful views of the Manitowoc River and it's a very nice looking place. I ordered a mushroom and Swiss burger with fries, a side of cheese curds, and a soda. $30. No refills on the soda. I waited about 40 minutes for my food and in my opinion, the place wasn't busy enough to justify the wait. My burger was not good. The burger patty was low grade meat, very thin, unseasoned, and had a slimy texture. No flavor to the Swiss cheese. The bun was hard as a rock and was not toasted. The burger was loaded with fresh mushrooms but they were also unseasoned and tasted like they had been soaking in water. The fries were decent but unsalted. The cheese curds were cheap frozen out-of-the-bag curds served with a raspberry sauce. I don’t think raspberry sauce goes well with cheese curds. No ranch sauce option. Overall I was unhappy with my experience here and will not be returning.

Cool place. Great view. Great food. We had cheese curds for appetizer & shrimp tacos for our meal. The food was excellent. I would high recommend this place & will return if I’m ever up this way again.

Nice restaurant by the water. The place was clean and nicely set up, including having astroturf. The food was pretty delicious but the drinks were mid and they were out of a lot of stuff… however the staff was very friendly and accommodating. They also had corn hole which brought the atmosphere up for sure. 6/10 I think.

The scenery wonderful the Bar itself topnotch.The food was subpar .The spinach dip was bland no flavor besides cream cheese..the pita chips that came with it was good...Tried the salmon taco .....it was smoked salmon and ice cold and hard.Next time we will eat before coming here and just enjoy view with a drink.