A former Boat Builder’s Shop Now Serves Up Locally Inspired Cuisine with a Harbour View from Every Table!
Land and sea share our tables at The Boat Shop Steak & Seafood Restaurant. Savour our creative dishes featuring seasonally available local products.
Our licensed dining room caters to a wide range of tastes at reasonable prices. Appetizers range from a garden salad created from local market gardens, to our famous Island Blue Mussels, and oysters fished from the bay you can see from our windows. Lunch can be as familiar as a Hamburger Platter or as unique as a Havarti Chicken Wrap or as local as Lobster and Crab Cakes.
Dinner could be fresh Island beef like Rib Eye Steak for the landlubbers or Atlantic Lobster for the seafood fanciers. Desserts ranging from Blueberry Bread Pudding, to seasonal Strawberry Lemon Mousse, to our terrific Brownie Delight are made in our kitchens daily using local egg and dairy products and seasonal fruit.
Our collection of flavourful menus show our many other choice offerings. The menus have been carefully assembled to offer tasty traditional fare and palate- pleasing specialties using as much local produce as is available and served with a huge helping of our own local hospitality.
Group Bookings / Weddings
The Boat Shop Steak Seafood Restaurant has seating for up to 115 guests, with the ability to accommodate bus tours. Please book in advance. We also offer special menus and meeting rooms for smaller groups. Please view our Wedding Package listing under Northport Pier Inn/Packages.
Spectacular View Outside and a Casual Ambiance Inside
Two walls of very large windows allow diners to gaze at the breathtaking view of Cascumpec Bay and the harbour, home to one of the Island’s finest fishing fleets. This busy fishing port offers ever-changing scenes of fishers bringing in and unloading the day’s catch. Watch fishing vessels and sailboats as they enter the mouth of the harbour and dock at the wharf or in the Marina. Magnificent Great Blue Herons come close to shore by the hundreds at low tide. Photo opportunities abound and some guests have been known to get up from their table and go outside to get the perfect shot of anything from a double rainbow to a Giant Blue Fin tuna being landed on the wharf.
The restaurant is housed in an authentic boat-building shop. The building was renovated to convert it to a relaxing dining facility but retained its character and heritage look. Shipbuilding in the area can be traced back to 1790, when one of the first vessels built on PEI was crafted in Northport. Boat building remains a key industry in the community.
Our decor features aged wood, walls thick with memorabilia, 18-foot ceilings, a multi-level dining area and eclectic furnishings. Local antiques, flea market finds, plank floors and Maritime pieces create a unique atmosphere. Outdoor dining is available on our patio facing the harbour for those who savour fresh ocean air and the sounds of the sea.