Fairfield Harbor Food & Spirits

Located right on the water with a great view of the marina and water. Staff was friendly and food was good. Beers on tap were cold and the bartender was at keeping your drinks filled. The outside seating is nice and so is the view of the sunset.

Friendly service and large portions. Priced very well for the amount of food. Food was greasy and seemed to have a lot of processed ingredients (canned/​reconstituted). Very salty and the drinks tasted «off.»

Food was very good, portions quite large. Staff was very friendly, but service was a bit slow. Felt comfortable and welcomed with our 5 year old and 11 month old.

We have anxiously awaited this place to open. It was crowded with lots of people on Friday night. The special was fried fish and it was awesome! It came with a wonderful garden salad, a small coleslaw and french fries although you can substitute the french fries for something else. The fish was thick, plentiful and drop fried to perfection in a sweet batter fish and chips style for 11.99. Will be visiting here a lot! Seriously, best fish in a long time. We keep our sailboat at this marina and it will be our go-​to spot on Friday/​Saturday nights every weekend at the boat, which is most weekends! Glad you’re open!

Only been open about two weeks.
Lots of earnestly nice people, led – apparently – by a couple of guys overreaching. The menu is extensive to the point of being too extensive. There are probably 100+ items on the menu. That’s ill-​advised for a place that people flock to, and it’s almost always a signature of doom for a new place.
The setting is idyllic. On the water, within the marina, with well-​kept grounds, an exterior patio deck, and a clean, inviting interior. The sun sets orthogonally from both the entrance and deck, making for a great afternoon/​evening loiter. Or, it would make for that, if they could sell beer or booze. They can’t, yet.
My chicken-​fried steak dinner special ($ 10.95, usually $ 11.95 on the menu) was filling. It would have been a good deal for $ 2-​$ 3 less, but I am fairly sure that the cutlet was of the frozen variety. I have had better for half the price.
The mashed potatoes were above average and of the skin-​on sort. The «steamed fresh vegetables» was a mini-​ear of frozen corn on the cob. The attendant side salad was fresh and simple… romaine, tomato wedges, and shredded cheddar. Try the balsamic dressing, as it is quite good. The blue cheese tastes like Hidden Valley from a packet with not enough blue cheese.
I’m still in the south, right? Even though 80% of the people that I have met are from New Jersey or states near there, this is North Carolina… chicken-​fried steak is served with white milk gravy, not brown gravy. WTH?
As I said, very nice staff, clean establishment. I wish them success. If I ever get up this way again, I hope to be able to hang out at the bar with our excellent server, who was hired as a bartender, yet had no bar to tend. She rocked!