Salamanders - Kemptville

Great outdoor spot. Good choice of menu. Food very enjoyable. Our server, Joel was exceptional and friendly! Overall 5 star! We look forward to returning.

Nice patio and nice view of trees. We had the brocoli cheddar soup it was very tasty. The mushroom soup was ok. The burger we had was tasty but very greasy and to much sauce. The service was good even though it was busy. The French fries are good and the gravy is amazing. Bathroom are clean.

The restaurant was highly recommended by two separate businesses that my wife had shopped at that day (June 29th), so we were expecting a pretty great experience Wrong! First, no wheelchair access that we could see so you need to walk down stairs (outside) at the side of the building or down a flight of stairs in the building itself. Upon entering into the waiting area, we waited somewhere between 5 to 10 minutes before anyone even acknowledged our presence. The table at the booth we sat at was sticky. We wanted to ordered zucchini as a app only to be told there wasn 't any more this was on a Thursday at about 5 pm. Then we said we would try the fried ravioli only to be told they don 't serve that item anymore. My thought well (1) why is it still on your menu and (2) maybe somebody should have told us about the zucchini and ravioli when they gave us our menu. I ordered the Jambalaya (with shrimp, chicken sausage) house salad. The house salad was basically a bowl of greens with 2 small slices of tomato 2 small slices of cucumber. Not very impressive although the dill salad dressing was very good. Then the Jambalaya came and it was just as bad! Two shrimp, 4 or 5 small slices of sausage and the chicken had a weird taste and consistency. It took me a few minutes to place the taste of the chicken but I quickly realized the chicken had been boiled and then sliced. The portions of chicken were not bad but it was very bland with absolutely no seasoning. My Jambalaya mainly consisted of what we guessed were whole sliced green yellow peppers along with a bunch of tomato sauce. Given this dish cost $28, a customer should expect something better than boiled bland chicken and a few shrimp sausage. My wife had the Strawberry Walnut salad which she thoroughly enjoyed and a potato and leek soup which also tasted funny like one of the ingredients in the soup was burnt. Our server was extremely slow and not that friendly. She never even came back to see how we were enjoying (or not enjoying) our meals after she served them. Unfortunately, I would not recommend this establishment to anyone based on the food we received.

Went there the other day, and waited to be seated on the patio. No one bothered to address us to be seated. Waited ten minutes before going in to ask to be seated, and told someone would be with us. Waited another ten mins and had to ask again for a table. A server was quite rude, saying there were no available tables. Although, there were obvious, available tables, would’ve been nice to been told that by a host/hostess. Not a great experience, by any means.

Decided to try this place on a whim and we were not disappointed! Such a cute patio with blankets available if it gets a little cool, the food was amazing, portions were way bigger than expected (you get your money’s worth for sure! and the friendliest service.A special thank you to Glenda who made the evening quite memorable ?