Newport Shores

I love coming to this place. It is pretty dated, but the food is always good so that does not bother me. I don’t understand why people are complaining about the food being greasy. If you order deep-​fried food, it’s going to be greasy. If you’re willing to shell out a couple extra bucks, you have many broiled options avaliable on their menu. I do not order deep fried food here, and have never gotten anything that is greasy. Just sayin.
If you are looking for a dish that is always good here. try the salmon, the seared scallops, or the Bengali shrimp. They usually have a fish of the day that is broiled, and in my experience is always seasoned nicely. The seafood chowder is super flavorful and is filled with different seafood. The French onion soup is great, too!
One complaint I have is that there is fluorescent strip lighting (without fixture covers) directly 3 feet above your head at your table. It sucks feeling like you are in the spotlight. There should be some kind of mood lighting… or even just different lighting. It’s kind of like the brightness of George Webbs. Please change this!

Four meals ordered, nothing special. The Beer cheese soup was good but the rest of the meal was average. It’s too bad, nice location on the water. Nice little downtown, Try another place.

Always busy but the wait is never for very long and the food is always good. The fish fry’s are awesome, especially the blue gill. I’ve had a few things that were a little off, last time I got the NY Strip and ordered it medium and it came at barely more than rare. I’ll stick with the fish fry’s from now on.

Service was good and if you could sit outside it would have been nice. This was incredibly noisy and crowded inside. Terrible acoustics and tables shoved togethet and we could not see the view as bar was on the way!
The perch sandwich was tasty Snd French fries were good. We had excellent service but I had Bengali shrimp that had no flavor and I only received 4 and gave one away as so bland. Cheese curds were fried too hard. Seafood chowder also lacked flavor tasted like chunky glue. My friend raved about his prime rib snd they did have horseradish. If you want to eat healthy … Pick another restaurant! If you want to have conversation pick another restaurant. If you ate a 70 year old geezer sit at the bar and enjoy the drinks probably a good place for you

I was referred to this restaurant by our hotel Banquet Manager. He said that it was about 20 miles from our hotel. Now he did not have to refer us to a hotel that far away but he did. He knew we wanted to eat near Lake Michigan because our group had never seen the Lake. So off we went to Port Washington, the cutest little town. It reminded me of a city I spent my summers in.
Anyways, back to the restaurant. It sits on the Lake Michigan Marina and is located so that you can see out to the marina and its beautiful lights and boat slips. The place is casual, the food is not pretentious. This place is just plain yummy seafood comfort food. As in my prior reviews I have to confess my distaste for seafood. One of my co-​workers wanted a sea food restaurant since we were going to be on the lake. Several of my coworkers ordered the Bengali Shrimp. The shrimp were huge, bigger than Tiger Shrimp. They all raved about them. I had the French Onion soup which was absolutely freaking delicious. Then I had the pork medallions with Spatzle, but when my food arrived, they were not pork medallions. They were some sort of pork that shredded like a pot roast. They were delicious so I decided I didn’t need to split hairs. The Spatzle was all buttery goodness.
Our waitress was absolutely phenomenal and I had nothing to complain about. There were 7 of us and we all agreed that we loved this place.

My brother and I were in town with a couple of friends to go fishing with Nicky Boy Charters, and this restaurant was recommended by Captain Chris. Nice variety of comfort food, seafood and steaks. Service was good and it was nice being able to eat on the patio. The Schaum Torte is a must! Reminded my brother and I of mom’s Schaum torte growing up.

Newport Shores is the typical place that does not update with the times.
The view from the bar and main dining area is the best you’ll find in Port. Located right on the lake, giving you great views while you dine.
There is a trade-​off for the view though and that is that the main dining room is VERY loud. The large bar is located right on top of the tables, giving you a bar atmosphere to accompany your dinner experience. They do offer a backroom which has some additional dining tables for those not wanting to be in the bar. It is small and cramped though and you also lose the great views.
The interior is badly in need of a remodeling. Everything looks old and dated and really affects the feel and ambiance of the place.
The food is fairly good though. The prime rib is outstanding and a dish I would highly recommend making the trip for on Saturday nights. They also have a nice patio area which is great for outdoor dining and even better as a nightly hangout on the weekends.
Overall, Newport Shores could use some updating but it is fairly good minus the atmosphere. Worth checking out if you’re a fan of prime rib.

Good portions, very tasty fish and seafood, good service. Very loud ambiance and hard to carry on a conversation! Jeff the bartender is very good and remembers everyone’s name and drink!

C– Service was nice although rather clueless and food was subpar. Prime rib was well done when I asked for medium rare and was told that’s all they had. Rice was very dry and crunchy. App fried pickles were fun.

Whitefish was excellent! Friendly staff — people having a blast out on the patio enjoying live music. Great views on a beautiful day!

Love this place — in the summer on their patio listening to top rated bands is the place to be!

I have dined in my share of restaurants from coast to coast and while I have seen a few better, this is among the best working class seafood establishments I have seen. The staff was prompt and friendly possessing good humor and cheer. The décor is a bit dated, but comfortable. The dining area could use a bit more space between tables. wall to wall windows on the east side of the dining area give a great view of the marina, the parking lot and the lake. Our lunch was appetizing and flavorful. China by Homer Laughlin (made in USA), but flatware is Cisco stamped steel of lighter stock than we make our automobiles of.
Give me a little more elbow room, better flatware, and a cloth napkin and I would consider adding a fifth star to my rating.

I really don’t understand the bad reviews for this place. My wife and I were treated very well and the food was really good. We didn’t wait long at all, the waitress was friendly and the food came out quickly.
It’s not a large restaurant and yes, the bar pretty much fills the place so it can get kinda loud. If you’re looking for a dining «experience» forget it but if you want a good meal at a reasonable price in what I’d describe as a friendly local place don’t hesitate to try it out.

Very disappointing! We were here a few years ago, had a wonderful time. Tried to order food many, many times. Place mats set in front of us but no waitress came to take our order. Waited 40 minutes and finally left. Apparently they only cater to locales.

Poor service. Listened to specials as another server have them to the table next to us. Our bad food was already in front of us. I would highly recommend skipping this place. My three kids, wife and I found nothing worth stopping in. Completely not memorable.

Wow, for a restaurant right on the shore of Lake Michigan, clearly nothing is fresh. All the fish is frozen and over cooked. Such a great location, such terrible food. If this restaurant could just use local, fresh fish, it would be great. Except for the huge bar that takes up about 80% of the dining area. Bizarre.

The French onion soup deserves 5 stars but the rest is pretty much pedestrian. I got the Friday fish fry and it was no better than anything I could fry up at home. The cole slaw didn’t have enough dressing and the rye bread was dried out. The french fries were straight out of the frozen foods aisle. The restaurant itself is stuck in another era– and not in a quirky/​vintage way. They also apparently don’t have air conditioning. I would suggest going somewhere else.

General experience can be summed up pretty simply. Grumby service borderline hostile felt really like we shoulda just paid her for inconvenience the waitress to take our order. The food was only ok I have had better and surprising not many «fish» choices for being a fish restaurant and its all in oil no blackened, no baked, nothing. I dont know between the mediocre food and the service i’d be perfectly happy not coming back honestly wont remember this place a month from now most likely.

So, a group of 6 of us ate here on Saturday night. We had just disembarked our sailboat and were staying at the marina overnight, so naturally we headed into town for dinner. When we arrived, the place was hopping, and our wait for a table was an hour and a half. (Understandable) so, we bellied up to the weird bar which takes up half the space in the main room, and decided to eat there.
Usually, places like this are really good. 2 middle aged bartenders who have definitely poured a manhattan or 2, cheesy old school furnishings, live music, great view, packed house– I was especially excited to see an $ 18 petite filet on the menu. I live in Chicago, so any time I can pay non-​Chicago filet prices, I jump on it.
Let me tell you– it was the worst filet I’ve ever had. In fact, I didn’t finish it, and I’d been on a boat all day eating nothing but finger foods and drinking beer. I was hungry. Normally, a petite filet is almost TOO small for me– I love steak. But this– I should have sent it back. It was overcooked and chewy. Thank goodness it came with some fairly decent french onion soup and a potato.
Finally, they had a prime rib special happening that night. My friend ordered one– it wasn’t the greatest I’ve tasted, but man– it was much, much better than my filet. Bummer.
Do yourself a favor– skip this spot. As far as I can tell, it’s main draw is the patio/​live music and the old school atmosphere.

Ohhhh kay. My dining companion and I arrived here at 6:00 p.m. last night (Sunday). After hanging out on their admittedly adorable and fun patio for 20 minutes, a sympathetic bus-​girl brought us water and food menus and said there was only one wait staff for the whole patio, but she would send her our way. There were seven other occupied tables on the patio. I observed the waitress pause and glare at us twice, obviously checking us out, and then go into the building. I also observed two other parties that arrived well after us get service right away. The bus-​girl checked on us again, saying she had told the waitress to come to us, but seemed a little surprised that she hadn’t. A couple of other waitresses from inside came in and did who knows what business with other tables, but never us. We left at 6:40 p.m. pretty upset.
This is heartbreaking to me and my biking friends. We love to bike the Ozaukee Interurban trail from Milwaukee to Port Washington, and have this place be the end-​point/​mid ride break place. Its location is smashing, and we’ve enjoyed drinks or dinner here before heading back. The service has always been slow, and I’ve been given the shpiel before about there only being one waitstaff assigned for the large patio, but this experience felt downright insulting. A fellow reviewer said they were treated like lepers-​yes! That was the feeling exactly. And it cost us precious time on the bike ride, causing us to have to ride back to Milwaukee in the dark. We drowned our sorrows in margaritas at Beanie’s, a nearby Mexican Restaurant, which was a nice respite to the disaster that apparently is currently Newport Shores. I’ll never go back there unless they go under new management.