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“Wonderful seafood, great service at the bar”
Review of Fishbones

Fishbones
Ranked #1 of 75 Restaurants in Chelmsford
Cuisines: Seafood
Dining options: Lunch, After-hours, Dinner, Reservations
Restaurant details
Dining options: Lunch, After-hours, Dinner, Reservations
Reviewed 5 February 2024

We enjoyed a great dinner on Feb 3. It was packed at 7 pm on a Saturday but we found two seats at the bar. Good thing because the wait was over an hour for a table. I see why: The food was outstanding. We started with Cuttyhunk oysters - fresh, briny, out of this world. I had the parmesan- crusted flounder and it was delicious. My husband got the blackened swordfish and it was cooked perfectly. Service from behind the bar was excellent - everything timed perfectly, even with the place so full. Well done. We’ll be back.

Date of visit: February 2024
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Reviewed 5 November 2023 via mobile

This has become our go to place for anything fish.
The “reservation” and seating policies are somewhat annoying but, if one can overlook that, the quality of all of the dishes we’ve tried has been consistently top notch!
Service has also been consistently good.
Prices are fair given the quality and adequate portion size.
There is a parking lot but, it can fill early on a weekend. There is also some street parking.
Favorite dishes include (but are not limited to) the sesame (ahi style) tuna, the fish n chips, calamari app, spinach dip app, seafood casserole and fried fish platter.

Date of visit: November 2023
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Reviewed 17 October 2023 via mobile

Clam chowder was outstanding, as were the truffle fries. The Seafood Sauté was excellent, but was missing the advertised lobster meat component. Same thing for the Seafood Mediterranean - great dish, but no lobster meat. The grilled swordfish was excellent, although the side mashed potatoes were cold, lumpy and dry. The Lazy Man’s Lobster was also very good, but it was advertised as having meat from a 1.25 lb lobster. This should have translated to around 4 ounces of lobster meat. It had about half that amount. Four of our requested cocktails were unavailable. For $250 for a party of 4, none of the above “negative issues” should have happened.

Date of visit: October 2023
1  Thank John B
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Reviewed 4 September 2023 via mobile

The quality of the seafood fare is excellent. We tried a whole bunch of dishes, and each one was fresh and flawless. The service, too, was friendly and attentive. A superb restaurant all round.

Date of visit: September 2023
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Reviewed 5 August 2023 via mobile

We’ve been here twice; lunch & dinner.
Both times, the food was excellent and the service was very good.

However, while they do not take reservations, they will take “call ahead” which, fro this place, is defined as calling the morning of for that evening… a reservation at most places. This created a big problem for us the first time that we tried to find there.
Also, the second time, we arrived a few minutes before the other couple…our table was ready but they would not seat us until the other couple arrived. The bar was full. We would probably ordered one additional cocktail that evening had we been seated when we arrived.
Made zero sense!

Suggest they smooth out these rough edges while maintaining excellent food and VG service to achieve a 5 star rating.

Date of visit: August 2023
Thank OG1010
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