Reviews of Barb's Family Diner (Fish Shop)

Curtis Cullen

Great place for a home style meal, prices are reasonable and portions are great. Fishcakes are yummy as are other menu items.

cp

Amazing food and wonderful staff.

Henry Grady

Homemade food is always good and good portions .The best fish and chips .

Hein Low

Excellent fish and chips.

William Chace

Would be great to eat if they would answer there phone to take orders

Bruce Young

Tasted as good as it looks

85redgal

Five out of five! Fist time here corned beef and cabage was great.

Dawn Matheson

Amazing fish & chips but should not have to hunt for ketchup and tartar sauce. No follow up (which is not a big deal) I will happily go again

Arnold Dykstra

fish tips were excellent

Guy Johnson

Fabulous breakfast food from and old fashioned diner. Just a little tight for seating but the prices were fair and the service was friendly and quick.

Lisa Sutt

One of the best small restaurants in Canada. The food was fresh, place was spotless, staff friendly. True Nova Scotia hospitality. I had fried clams and chips. OMG, had not had them in years Bd I was blown away.

Devin Babb (thatguybabb)

Great food and lots of it! Delicious fish & chips, a great favourite.

Kate Strong

The one and only place where you can get great service and cheap great tasting fish along with other great choice of foods ..

Blythe

Quick service clean and awesome food

Family Fun Channel

Excellent fish and chips

Mark Kmill

Chowder is second to none

Bruce M

Busy place with friendly staff and good food

marlene MacGrath

The fish and chips fish is amazing one if not the best in Nova Scotia

James Murphy

Excellent food and service

Jenson Vaughan

Smal,cozy,friendly dinner. Best fish & chips and Clubhouse sandwich in town.

Liz Bradshaw (pezliz)

Always excellent service! Great home cooked food, whether it’s breakfast or lunch! Friendly staff!

Mia Desormeaux

Great food at reasonable prices

Gavin Stewart

The staff are always so warm and friendly with attentive service. The homestyle meals are delicious.....especially the fish cakes and fish tips! Better save room for the coconut cream pie too!!

Jason Yeomans

Great family Diner. Recommend the fish and chips!!

ASSASSIN_QUEENX

Amazing Food

Tristan Grant

Literally always the best. Turkey dinner is to die for

Vida Talebian

Consistant great food and exceptional service always!

Cathy Seward

Barbs diner has the best club house in Pictou County!! Great service and amazing food

Orry Noel

Always great

George Fulton

Home cooked meal. wonderful

Edith Irving

Amazing little spot had supper with my girlfriend. Service was great and the fish in chips were excellent. I think it was the largest order of fish and chips I ever seen . Recommend giving it a try.

Abdullah Abdullsalam

We went there for breakfast on Friday morning and ordered the three cheese vegetarian omelet. This thing was HUGE! For real ! Tasted like fresh eggs. Very generous portion. Paid 10.95+tax. Family/home-style cooking oriental. Would recommend and will go back when Hungry

Matthew Brown

The atmosphere was relaxing. The food was delicious. The cost was very reasonable. Most importantly, the staff were so welcoming and friendly. it was my first time at this diner and I will certainly return and speak about this place.

kim

The food is good, people are friendly and the price is half decent, but I found some of the staff tend to get orders wrong and that is NOT the least bit feasible to me!

JcCameron93

Excellent service and the food is yummy

Chuck Maloney

Was very diappointed. Wanted me to pay $2.00 to have mashed potatoes instead of fries with my fish. Outrageous. Did not order dessert or leave tip. Fish was great but poor service.

Jay Baillie

Great meal! Great service!

Heather d'Entremont

T Bone steaks top notch what a great experience

Karen Boyles

Great place to eat

Melissa Fanning

Best tasting fish and chips. Good friendly service.

Clem DeCoste

Great home cooked style food , large portions ,and very friendly service. Breakfast is amazing and often requires a wait for a table.

Susie Reeves

Good quick service

Tanya Skelton

Good service good food great experience

Keith MacNeil

Excellent Fish and Chips.

Pat Askeland

Good food

Robert MacKenzie

Best restaurant to have a home cooked meal. Small place so you don't want to tie up tables just drinking coffee, go to Tim's if you want to do that.

Heather Macdonald

Great home style food, very reasonable prices and the best people!

Catherine Wende

Service

Brendan Woodward

Great home made meals

Dennis Delorey

Good food Great fish

RONALD JEFFERY

Always the best!!

David Callahan

Perfect fish and chips, charming environment. Lovely little gem.

Glenn Petrie

Best place to eat in Westville. I got fish tips. There was way too much to finish. I took the rest home for supper. Service was awesome and the food was awesome. This is definitely my go to restaurant when in New Glasgow. I highly recommend this place to anyone.

John Spears

If you're looking for a home cooked meal, even Turkey dinner, you have to make your way to Barb's!

Denise Newell

Great

Ken Cantley

Lunch

Tristin Mabey

It was very good rate to the last Bit

Go Away

Was excited about the reopening. That ended quickly. Ordered the turkey dinner and they gave me a turkey burger. Sent back and given a real turkey dinner. Meat was previously frozen after being cooked. It was very tough and hard to chew. No turnips as advertised.

Charlie Fraser

Awesome food Great prices.

Kyle McIsaac

Never had a bad meal! Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Friendly staff!!!

Bee E

Fantastic old school family dinner! Clean restaurant with friendly staff and simple home cooked style food! Great spot to take a friend or family member.

Chris Halliday

Friendly staff and a nice little spot to get some classic dishes.

Angélie McCarron

My favorite place for an awesome chicken salad sandwich. Excellent service and delicious food.

Kayla Muir

Excellent service and incredible food.

Chance

Meal type

Cyenna Link

Really great fish and chips. Excellent service.

faye hamilton

I would say, the best fish and chips around here. Excellent with a salad too. Coconut cream pie is lovely as well. Good comfort food. Straight up family restaurant atmosphere.

TC Attic Finds

We are not family but they sure made us feel like we were! Can't wait till you reopen. The food is fabulous. Your tastebuds will clap. Cheers!

Sharon Wright

The seafood platter was perfect with the mashed potatoes :)

Robert Stevenson

Closed Sunday and Monday. Open at 11 a.m. No breakfast. Service was excellent but the limitations set by inspector was a little over the top. Masks on til you were served the food. Breakfast all day may bring back customers. Until then we will wait.

Andrew Gillis

Best fresh haddock and chips around. You must try the fish cakes. Very reasonable and service was excellent.

EJ Beausoleil

If you are around do your self a favor and try their food, it is amazing. Atmosphere and staff are warm,nice and welcoming. Price is also very reasonable.

rob fraser

I really wish a person didn't have to drive all the way to Westville to find out they're closed permanently. Tried calling many times but not even enough care for the customer to leave a message they're closed.

Randall Brittain

Haddock was so fresh, flake and cooked perfect!

Ryan Smith

Service was terrible... We sat for 20 min. And when a large crowd of 10 came in they were served drinks and then the waitress proceeded to take there order when a person at our table still had not been asked about a drink...

Ron Steffensen

A small family resturant..good food and large servings Wont go away hungry and reasonably priced

Vanessa Campbell

Awesome food, great prices, friendly staff!

Ali Nikdel

Had fish tips . Very good and lots of food . The waitress were very friendly. Was not the first time there and won't be last time. Price was good also.

Dave T

Good service, good food, excellent prices

Kim Hawboldt

Visiting friends in Caribou River, we decided to go out for breakfast. They found this gem in an ad in a local paper. As they had been there several times, we decided to go there and arrived around 9:30am. We managed to get the second last table in the small and very popular restaurant. Our server was very patient with us, as the breakfast menu had a good assortment, which made it hard to choose. The coffee was just the way I like it, hot but not bitter. The meals arrived promptly and were too good to share. Fish cakes were a good size and very flavourful. Don't forget to order some chow! Cheese omelette and scrambled eggs were nice and fluffy! Home fries and toast just the way they should be. They are only open Wednesday to Sunday. Check their website for their hours. If there other menu is as good as the breakfast menu, it is well worth paying them a visit.

Ashley Coady-Deagle

Dine in

Patt Mack

Great

Brenda Scully

Good food, good prices, and the staff really keep the place clean.

Carlene Del Mastro

Good food. Friendly service.

Lisa DiPersio

Great fish chips

Ray Crosby

Good place for a old fashioned breakfast

John Zobaric

Great food, great service

Ken MacDougall

Awesome seafood platter

Tanya Macleod

Awesome meal

Angus Timmons

Best Seafood here! The seafood chowder is so full of all the good things! Highly recommend!

Valerie Bates

Great food and service

Violet Watkins

Barb's is awesome! Great food and awesome friendly fast service! Everyone should go and enjoy an awesome meal there!

Dave Cummings

Absolutely fantastic, especially for the price. Their pies are a little bit too sweet for me, but that's a personal preference not a quality thing.

Danielle Macculloch

Stopped there for lunch when we visit Nova Scotia. This is an excellent, nice , clean and warm place . Staffs were very welcoming and nice . Ordered fish cake and fish n chips , both were very testy and proportion of food is justified with the price .

Kaylee Cameron

Friendly staff, good food

Samapti Patra

Took my husband and mother for supper on Sunday to Barb's Family Diner. Although it is a busy spot, the food was fast, hot and delicious. Wait staff was pleasant and attentive. I got the cheeseburger and it was a generous (read HUGE) homemade patty, with a toasted bun. My mother got the fish tips and ended up sharing them with my husband, they both agreed that it was the best fish they'd had in a while. We finished with some Sticky Toffee cake (can't remember the exact name), but it was to die for. A large portion that we were able to split, it was warm and so tasty. No pictures this time, it was too good to stop for. A great little diner that holds a special place in my heart, as my aunts all ran it under the MacLeods banner in the 1990s. Just as good now as it was then! I will be back for sure!

Wayne Redmond

I took my mother out for mother's day to Barb's Family Diner. The food was fantastic everyone really enjoyed everything they had. The price was very affordable $46 for four people to eat. The service was fantastic I have never had such a friendly server in my life. I highly recommend this establishment if you are looking for a casual dining experience that just doesn't seem to exist anymore in our "go, go, go, world".

Tracey Snider

The absolute best lobster chowder we ever had yesterday...it was so good we took one home and had it for lunch today...great food and wobderful staff.

Bill Stewart

Food was great. The scallop platter and fish and chips were perfectly done and the quantity was perfect. Staff was very pleasant and helpful. There was a short wait to be seated due to the high volume of patrons... Indicative of its popularity.

Shelley Harrison

Hi , just had some awesome fish & chips .They were some tasty and the staff are great . We will be back ????????????

Dell Butler

Staff is so friendly!! Food was amazing.

mike winters

Very good. Large portions with a friendly, family kind of atmosphere.

Danny Bourgeois

I go for the large portion of pan fried you get, and go back because it is absolutely delicious!

Janelle Dorey

Good size portions, friendly service. The best fish & chips! Sometimes you have to wait for a table. But the wait is worth it!????

David Coady

Great food and value.

Ken 'MacDawg'

Great food, good prices, friendly service

Matthew McLeod

Good food but bad PR.Not very curtious

Bev Cashin

Best fish and chips around

Trudy Mackay

Excellent

Karen MacKay

I really love this restaurant..... from the yummy homemade food to the wonderful group of people that keep the place hummming. Go visit and see for yourself.!!

Heather Stewart

Very good service good food makes you feel like you're at home

Bill Gordon

Best food in the county

Hector Cameron

Great food

Bev Campbell

Great food. Friendly service. Worth the drive off the highway!

stephen johnson

Best breakfast around

cest moi

Tried out the fish and chips today. Amazing!

Ronald Jeffery

Fresh home cooked food with generous portions. Can be a bit crowded at times, but that's a sign the locals love the place.

Junior Matthews

Fish and chips were excellent !

Dan Lang

Very good restaurant to eat Friendly and helpful Staff very clean

George Dempsey

The fish tips are good and filling ???? and pie

Jenn Ann

Great food, great staff, friendly atmosphere

Gadjet Ramjet

We have been twice, Good both times, we will go back again! "Soon"!

Carol Holt

Great food and service, any meal of the day!

Jim Moriarity

Their fish and chip are so good

Lisa Tucker

Barbs is one excellent. There's a great selection of food to choose from and the service was very good. It's homemade food with real taste that makes you want to forget about the fast food restaurants nearby. This is what dining out used to be like. I will go back next time I'm in the area.

Ian Campbell

Nice diner, seemingly in the middle of nowhere

Shelly Surette

Great food at good prices.

Juanita Bezanson

The staff are super friendly and the food is great.

Karen Hart

Best fish and chips!

Sailinggirl39

Old fashion Mom and Pop restaurant with good portions. Food is delicious and reasonably priced. Had service is so prompt that we accidentally got two until confusion was cleared up.

Justin Poulain

The food is always good, but I wanted breakfast this morning. I was told "breakfast ends at 11.". It was exactly 11am. A diner just ordered eggs and bacon just before the waitress approached me. As a small business, I think they could've stopped the clock to keep me happy.

Bernadette MacDonald

Great food great service great people

Cory Chester

Excellent food. Excellent prices. Excellent service. Had fish tips w fries and homemade tartar sauce. Four pieces of fish. $10. Tea in a real tea pot. Best restaraunt near New Glasgow.

Daniel Avery

Amazing club sandwhiches

Heidi Mazerolle-Gay

Amazing food

Earle Reid

Huge portions!

Tim Robichaud

Excellent food and excellent service always!

Steve Bompas

Loved this restaurant! A little off the highway but for fresh food, totally worth it!

Steven Prosper

Great little spot. nice atmosphere, good food, good people.

Tom K

Great place. Stopped for breakfast and the prices are fantastic and the meals are large. Parking was a bit tricky, we parked in the large parking lot across from the Tim Hortons. Short walk into Barb's from there. I will go back again.

G Muir

Was Papa's favourite

Bill White

Awesome food

Sharon MacKenzie Fancey

Probably the best fish and chips in the county.

James Morrison

Wonderful staff and the food

Greg Hatchard

Great food and huge servings! Can't wait to get back out on the east coast to get more!

gerry oregan

Always delicious!

Bill MacDonald

Nice clean cosy restaurant. Great food and large portions. Prices are very reasonable. Staff and service are awesome. I am sure you will have a great dining experience like l did.

Shaun H

Awesome service and the fish was amazing! Best and biggest fish I've eaten in a long time. Definitely worth stopping in if you are in town.

Mik Roma

Fish cakes are awesome

Fezanne Carroll

One of the best places for fish and chips in Nova Scotia

Matthew Cummings

Everyone should try Barb's great home cooked meals and lots of food great service

Tanya Canning

Had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at barbs

Bernadette Edmond

They asked how i wanted eggs said over easy but when i got them they were way overcooked ,i still finished my meal however will not return for breakfast ,not sure where the breakdown was but i feel its important enough to ask why not comply with requeat simply isnt it?

Lynda Stevenson

Great fish and and large servings for the price.

Rocky Langille

Enjoyed the family friendly atmosphere here! Food is great!

Doug Muir

Love it....

Craig Christison

Great food, great prices!!

Shawn Ripley

Great food great fish dishes

Sandy Pearson-Reed

Miss this place. Pictou County is not the same without it and nothing can compare to the excellent service, amazing food, and downhome atmosphere. I’d die for the famous fish tips rn.

Terry Dryden

Great food!

tjrbear

Best fish n chips around but small and often busy or closed

Sam Darroch

Love love love their food and staff

Tanya Burke

Best food hands down ????

JohnD Hawley

It is a compact, quaint, homestyle diner. The food is prepared with care. It was great. The server was top notch

Linton Worrall

Love the breakfast!!! Best omelettes and huge!!! (3 cheese veggie omelette is awesome!!). Lovely staff, clean and busy. Wish Barb's had breakfast all day!!! Not sure who makes the omelettes but I call them the "omelette whisperer". French toast and home fries excellent too!!! Highly recommend!! (Please consider all day breakfast ????)

April Fortune

The fish and chips were great.

Jennifer Johnson

Awesome fish and great food at reasonable prices

Don Thomas Jr

This is a fantastic small-town diner. The fish was lovely, and the atmosphere was perfect. The photos of historic Westville and of diner patrons over the years really add to this room's charm, and the staff were wonderfully friendly.

Donna Crossman

Lovely place with delicious local food.

Derek White

Enjoyed my cheeseburger and fries very polite staff