Spinnakers Cafe

As far as restaurants with incredible views of the shore/​beach this place is the place to go to in Jamestown. We tried and enjoyed their salads and from what we could see the portions and what other patrons were eating looked good.
We’re definitely coming back next year.

Terrible wait times and very unclean! 45 minutes to get lunch at 1:30 in the afternoon, we couldn’t believe it! When I threw away my trash, I found that underneath the paper my food was served on, inside the plastic serving basket was dried food that did not come from my meal, yuck! I went inside to turn in the basket, where the trash can was overflowing, and took a glance around the kitchen, and my lunch almost came back up… food stains in the wall, food on the floor, staff tripping over boxes and bags of trash, open food just sitting out on the counters, I was disgusted! The person in charge seemed very apologetic, but there is no excuse for this kind of service and no way to think that I would trust any food I eat to come out of that kitchen again!

Just got into town; looking for lunch. Nice menu. Friendly servers. Order at the front counter and the meal is delivered to your table. Gazpacho, the special soup of the day, was terrific. Blended, rather than chopped. Might offend purists, but I thought it was great.
My companion thought the clam stuffies had too much stuffing, and that the scallops in the scallop roll were watery. I thought my lobster BLT salad was just ok.
While we were having our lunch, we observed a big delivery of frozen seafood. Explains a lot.

Spinnaker’s Café offers the BEST ice cream anywhere; yes, even better than Brickley’s!!! .
Moose Tracks is fab! If you do not have nut allergies, getting your cone rolled in their large, assorted nuts is the bomb… or have a cup of these fab nuts on the side.
Cool location, too. No better location and ice cream in all R.I. If parking is tight, believe me, searching for a spot and trekking is worth every step!
I give this 5 stars for ice cream

Love Spinnikers Ice cream! Its a cute shop right on the waterfront in Jamestown. I’ve had the food here once. Wasn’t super amazing but you can always count on the delicious ice cream! I’ve always had big scoops. Lots of ice cream flavors to choose from. Its perfect any time of year and we’ve always had friendly service. Good luck parking though on a busy day in the summer!

The very smiley, nice people that (wo)man the counters doesn’t help the fried food – ghastly. So what you’d think would be a no-​fail was just plain tasteless: the clam cakes, clam strips – ugh. Do your tummy a favor and save your grease quota for a real clam shack and stick to the chowder or anything NOT fried – like ice cream –and you’ll be fine. that is all.

I want to love Spinnakers — the location is great for grabbing a sandwich before boating, and the owner is really nice, but the customer service is pretty poor when the owner isn’t there.
I ordered an «Island Rubbish» wrap, which is supposed to include hummus, spring mix, hot peppers, cucumbers, carrots, pickles, tomatoes, onions, roasted red peppers, and cheese on a wrap. I don’t know if they were out of ingredients, or just forgot what was supposed to be in it, but they omitted the carrots, spring mix, tomatoes, onions, and roasted red peppers. This left cheese, a small bit of hummus, a lot of pickles and cucumbers, and a few hot peppers and iceberg leaves. Very green and white. If they were out of the ingredients, they really should have told me so that I could make another choice, or save myself the $ 9, which is a crazy price for what I actually received. Instead they just sent the wrap as it was — a major disappointment when I opened it on the water.
The food would be totally adequate and satisfying if they would provide what they advertise, and some customer service would go a long way. The location is unbeatable, but I think next time I will walk across the street for my sandwich and give another place a try.

This is your typical small, local, coastal spot. It’s right off the pier so you can dock your boat and grab a bite to eat. Be prepared to wait a long time. It took our friends 40 minutes to get one tuna fish wrap (and not the tuna that you have to cook). The quality of the food is what you’d expect from a fast food place: It gets the job done. There are a lot of kids working here so management should be present to speed things along.

If I could give half of a star I would, for one I walked in and the waitress there was so unbelievably rude walking away as I’m asking a question and then later responds to another question of where the bathroom is– «it’s not physically here»… well someone must be having quite the menstrual day. Another thing it’s cash only which would be fine if they advertised that or even stated it upon ordering 10 of our ice creams! And then no bananas for the banana split like ok thanks for nothing! This is my first and last time ever going to this establishment and I did not want or buy anything after the complete lack of respect and unwelcomeness I had encountered although my boyfriend got a milky way ice cream and also said it was nothing to rave about. This is my first Unilocal review but I have always found them helpful upon my business searches hope this helps! If you have a choice do not choose this one!
Have a great day!

We love coming here for the grapenut custard ice cream. It’s delicious and not a lot of places carry it.
What we don’t love are the young girls wearing booty shorts, that are so short, when they bend their entire bodies inside the freezer, we see their butt cheeks.
What’s more disgusting is when they practically climb in the cooler to scoop the ice cream, their long hair gets all in the ice cream. I watched every single girls long hair graze the gallons of ice cream. It’s pretty gross and unsanitary.

Came across this little café over the weekend while driving through Jamestown. I would definitely say this review is more of a 3.5 star rating than just 3. It is a unique place in the sense that they have the whole ice cream shop vibe but also have a limited food menu with seafood, sandwiches and salads.
I of course had to go with the lobster roll when I saw it on the menu and the rest of the group went with one of their veggie sandwiches, and a fried seafood assortment of clams, calm cakes, french fries and a cup of chowder.
Overall, all the food ordered was quite tasty. My lobster roll was served on the typical hot dog bun but had a good amount of fresh claw meat in it (and it wasn’t over dressed with too much mayo which was nice). The veggie sandwich I had a bite of was very fresh and light. The fried clams were fresh and tasty as well but the real surprise was the clam cakes. They weren’t your typical round balls of dough but were instead looked more like fish cakes and were deceivingly good!
For the portion sizes, I thought the prices were a little bit high but the quality of the food definitely didn’t disappoint. The people running the place were very friendly and this is a nice spot to check out if you are down around Jamestown.

The only ice cream shop that stays open beyond 8:30 pm lol. I think this was the only ice cream shop in Jamestown. Went there labor day weekend and decided to get ice cream one of the nights. Found this place. Good enough ice cream. I have orange shebert with chocolate sprinklers. Like it.

I have been going to this place for a long as its been open. For ice cream… Hands down the place to go! I went for lunch the other day and I was not too impresses. I had a lobster roll. While their roll had a good amount of lobster in it, it had no flavor. It was just lobster in a toasted hot dog roll. It was bland. My friend had the cod. It was cold in the middle so we had to send it back. They were happy to warm it up and bring it back out to us but with the flavorless lobster roll I was already thinking I might just stick to getting ice cream.

Great ice cream, good portion size, lots of flavors, lots of places to sit, and plenty of parking. Your kids will like it and so will you.

Spinnakers Café is the sort of place you decide go when you’re stuck in Jamestown on a far too hot Tuesday afternoon in July and you don’t have more than a few bucks to spend on nutrition… or an air conditioner for that matter. But the real surprise is that the ice cream dished out by far too cranky high school students is shockingly creamy and terribly delicious — so much so that you might decide to brave the menacing, judgmental glares from the staff to buy another cone. The cookie dough is absolutely cooling and satisfying without being overly cloying. The Kahlua coffee topped with chocolate ants (or whatever the hip new name is for these brown sprinkles) is a sweet treat suitable for any toasty day.
And as if superb ice cream that isn’t too hard, or too airy, weren’t enough the lobster roll punched out by the kitchen is pretty scrumptious too. Large chunks of lobster dominate what little mayonnaise appears to fluff up this seafood salad. It’s quite a bargain for the price, so much so that I might just pay the $ 4 Pell Bridge fee just to come back and have another roll and another ice cream cone — after all, if this were on Thames in Newport, it’d be doubly expensive.

Located in Jamestown, my friend suggested that we visit Spinnakers for some quality hand made ice cream while I visit Rhode Island. Spinnakers did not disappoint.
Upon entry, you’ll note Spinnakers boasts what some Californian’s could compare to a beach café, or low key tropical hideaway. The furnishings and building are relatively old, but well kept. As I walked up to the counter I noted that the flavorings were not as experimental as some may expect, rather they were some of the common types such as vanilla, strawberry, rocky road, etc. Yet, they had a few flavors that went out to Scoops (LA), Humphrey Slocombe (San Francisco), or Molly Moons (Seattle) territory.
The staff were very helpful in giving me tastes for my final selection, which was for a chocolate chip ice cream sandwich. I opted to have my cookies on the side and ice cream in a cup, which was perfect considering I was really there to taste the ice cream and not cookie dough. The ice cream was delicious, creamy but not to the extent of a Coldstone Creamery mix. It still felt like ice cream, yet wasn’t soft enough to be gelato. It was delicious, and harder in texture simply because it wasn’t injected with tons of air (like most manufacturers do). At the cost of $ 4.76, I didn’t get a whole lot of cream cream. I suppose the premium pricing came with the location and novelty of having a hand made product. I would certainly visit here but avoid being a regular, whether it’s with friends or family.

Summertime on the bay = afternoon ice cream. So imagine the surprise when an order for a waffle cone with a scoop of vanilla gets rejected with an «um, we can’t do that.» So what’s the issue? Sadly, if a request is not on Spinnaker’s ice cream scooper rules and regulations, they can’t do it. Oh yoy yoy!
Well, although I settled for the sugar cone, we did get a laugh in. The teeny bopper helping us had to confer with another employee when we gave her an odd amount of currency. Subtraction hurts! Yowser!

The people who run this place are very nice. The food is tasty, though the menu is somewhat limited. My husband raved about the fish in his Fish & Chips. The ice cream is also quite good.
However, all of this comes with some negatives. First, it is a café system and the order counters (both inside and outside) are quite disorganized and claustrophobic… everyone in our party of 8 found it somewhat stressful and chaotic.
Second, the restroom is across the street in the Jamestown Recreation Center… quite inconvenient if you are dining with young ones who can’t cross a street on their own. I will say it is the nicest, cleanest public bathroom I have ever been in. I am quite sure it is cleaner than my bathroom at home! Lastly, it’s a cash only business. Boo.

I LOVE THIS PLACE! Great food, great service, and reasonably priced. The clam cakes are SOOO GOOD. Crunchy and loaded with clams. The breakfast sandwiches are served on flaky, buttery croissants (it really doesn’t get any better than that, does it?!?) and the regular lunch sandwiches are tasty too!
There is outdoor seating on the deck for the summer, and sun room seating for the colder months. Both provide great views of the little family beach next door and the marina.

I was just thinking of driving around Jamestown a bit before heading back to New York from Newport. Turn out I spent half of that afternoon in Jamestown. Very quiet. Very relaxing.
And the best part is Spinnaker’s. The owner is really nice. I was overhearing he interviewed a new staff. Very cool and easy going person. Staff are all nice. Great ice-​cream. And I got the lobster rolls to go and ate them at a rest area in CT.