The Shelburne Restaurant & Pub

I had high hopes for this restaurant just from reading other reviews. But, my husband and I dined here our last night in Longbeach and just thought it was ok. The place is awesome inside as far as history and ambience. The staff very friendly and attentive. But, the food was very mediocre for the price you pay. I had oysters, the french onion soup and crab ravioli. The oysters we baked with spinach and some type of white sauce. The sauce overpowered the beautiful oysters. The french onion soup was very good but came out SO hot it would take half an hour to cool down enough to eat it. And the crab ravioli were good but nothing special. My husband had the muscle app which was very good. The clam chowder which was also good and then the ciopioli? Seafood stew which he also liked. It’s not bad food it’s just not the upscale restaurant it tries to be. Maybe the pub fare would have been better.

The meal was fantastic from start to finish. We had a romantic little booth, and some wonderful conversation with the chef and his evil twin. :)

I just have to give this place 5 stars because the service, while not exactly impeccable, is pretty darn good, but the food is out of this world and there is no 4−½, so didn’t want to short-​change them. Tonight (October 13^th), I’m having the French Onion soup, aka «Five Onion soup Au Gratin» and the «pan fried Willapa Bay Oysters.
The soup arrived *extremely* hot, which is as it should be. The bowl was also situated on a ring of raw onion (see photo). The purpose is twofold: 1) aroma (nailed it!) & 2) so the aforementioned extremely hot bowl doesn’t crack the not-​so-​hot plate. Makes sense to me!
The oysters arrived on a bed of greens (spinach and a reddish lettuce) with the white-​skinned «new» (fingerling) potatoes, a few slices of carrots, and grilled cauliflower (not my favorite veggie, but, oh well), a lemon wedge, and of course, tartar sauce. The oysters were delicately tender and not a whit of sand, either. Brent had the ciopinno, one of his favorite dishes. He thought it was good, but didn’t much care for the green and Kalamata olives in the dish (he’s not all that crazy about those kinds of olives…) Ger, short for Gerald, was our server and explained that the seafood ingredients changed slightly according to what was in season at the particular time of year you happen to come in. If you like ciopinno, you should like theirs.

The whole place is just lovely and the ambiance is great. The building is old and the windows are beautiful. It created a great atmosphere.
The prices are a bit high but they are a fancier restaurant. We ate in the pub side for dinner. The special was 3 albacore tacos, which my husband ordered. My husband and I agree, they were a little dry and needed a bit more flavor. Crab Ravioli was a bit on the fishy side of flavor, even for crab, which can mean a bit older meat. It was good but a little bland in flavor too. Not sure what it needed exactly but it felt like it was missing something. We also ordered the Poutine and that was just amazingly perfect. Our server was amazing and very knowledgeable as far as the dishes went and what drinks to suggest.
Their breakfast was pretty good though. I ordered the omelette and it was the best omelette I’ve ever had (sorry, honey, Shelburne’s is better than yours!). My husband ordered the French toast and he said it was pretty good. The fruit was pretty well set up. The coffee was strong. The service was prompt and done with a smile. My one complaint is not enough butter on my toast and no option to butter my own toast.
Overall, we think they were trying too hard to be more five star restaurant in a tiny town and could try to be a little more home comforts.

Pretty nice, casual setting. Couldn’t go in the bar area since I was underage but that’s alright-I’m not going to drink anything anyway. The steal was cooked perfectly, but there was a little too much peppercorn for my taste. Fries are home cooked and delicious

Our first time here. Atmosphere was decent. Old world charm. Staff was very good. Food was good to very good.
My wife had a spinach salad. She thought it was good. I had the mushroom soup. Is was good also. It was very chunky from various types of mushrooms. So it was different in that sense. It needed a bit of salt that I added. It had several herbs in the light cream sauce.
My wife had the salmon and pasta. The salmon was very good. Pasta and sauce was decent. It did have some olives in it and that wasn’t in the menu description. She hates olives and dishes/​sauces cooked with olives do take on some olive flavor. So it’s not as simple as removing them. Still a decent dish.
I had the Cioppino. It was very good. It too had black and green olives and this was disclosed in the menu description. I like olives, so it worked for me. For $ 28, I’ve never had so much seafood in a Cioppino! It was really generous and it was served with a nice slice of grilled crusty bread — as it should be :) I added a mound of fettuccini from my wife’s dish to my Cioppino. Perfect!
We ordered our meals as 3-​course meals. Better deal if you’re considering dessert. We took carrot cake to go. Not sure how good it is.
I would return to this place if in the area again.
WhiIe this place is listed as $$, per person, I’d say this is on the high side (~$ 30) of $$.

My fiancé and I came here for brunch 4^th of July morning and was impressed with not only the quality of food, but the quantity as well! I always order eggs benedict when I go out to eat for brunch, so of course I ordered the eggs benedict here. AWESOME! They give you plenty of hollandaise sauce over the eggs, whereas many places I go to leave a small amount of sauce. Something small that they also provided with the dish was some fruit. Some people may not care, but I personally LOVE fruit and thought that was a wonderful addition to a satisfied dish. I look forward to coming here again the next time we’re in Long Beach!

We had a fantastic meal at this restaurant inn. The atmosphere was great with a fantastic piano player and very nice wine. The food was superb. We had the razor clams, spinach salad, cauliflower and cioppino. The cioppino was the best we’ve ever had with great shellfish and nice spicy taste. Try this place. You’ll love it.

Fish (and Chips) were so soggy and under cooked that there was a layer of a soft, wet substance between the fish and the bredding for $ 18! The Kid’s mac n’ cheese was a vat of noodles drenched in oil with a bit of some hard cheese shredded on top. No side of fruit or veg. Beautiful, old place with terrible food. Too bad!

We had breakfast here 3 times over our long weekend and loved it! The eggs were wonderful and the bacon was fabulous! Everything was fresh and the service was friendly and great.

Stopped for a late lunch, Sunday afternoon after walking along the beach and exploring lighthouses. We were craving a crab-​louie type meal, the chef graciously made us a crab-​topped caesar that was perfect! Served with herbed bread and ice tea, it was perfect for our mid-​day re-​fuel. Good price, friendly service and a nice quantity of crab. We ate in the bar and felt like we were locals, not tourists.

Stopped in for lunch. First class food and service. Mostly seafood dishes, we went with chicken pot pies and French onion soup, all of which was excellent. I enjoyed the refined pub atmosphere. Expensive but not overly for the quality.

We always enjoy The Shelburne! They have a new menu! Had great fish & chips and steak. Excellent caesar salad! The Pan Fried Ekone Oysters were super fresh and fantastic!

The owners promptly replied with a very nice letter of apology, a check for the soup, and a generous gift certificate with a request to please give them another try to get it right. I must say I’m impressed. Thanks to the owners for making us feel heard and valued!

Maybe it was because we came here for Valentines Day but we will never come here again. There was one menu and if you were serving a limited menu you’d think you would knock it out of the park… not so much. The seafood stew was bland and the only steak (Wellington beef) which I ordered medium came served very well done. At a price of $ 55 a dinner we were extremely disappointed.

An evening of deeply contrasting experiences at the Pub, Can’t speak for the restaurant, where we had a great dining experience 10 years ago.
We popped into the pub around 6pm with my wife and daughter during an extremely busy Kite Festival Weekend (which we hadn’t planned for), so we figured it would be really tough finding a place for dinner and were surprised when we found them to have several openings.
The pub itself is mostly suited for 2 folks at a table, so the 3 of us were ushered to an adjoining section separate from the pub, in between pub and the fine dining area. Which got to the first stark contrast. It was a nice area of well appointed, neat tables in an otherwise hushed, warm, intimate seating, but 15 feet away from us, a bunch of nice, earnest guys in their 60s were playing «hits from the 60s» on acoustic guitars in the lobby area next to us. Don’t get me wrong. I will be 60 next year, but it was just… odd in this otherwise intimate dining spot to have guys playing and singing (I kid you not) «Margaritaville» as we attempted to order while keeping a straight face. It was just a bit much. But that is me and Margaritaville, I guess. And Knockin on Heaven’s Door and on an on. It just felt inappropriate to the venue, I guess.
Orders were taken by a very sweet, but noticeably slightly green server, who described the special, Pesto pasta with mussels and oyster mushrooms with little elaboration. But in fairness, her service was very prompt and friendly the entire seating.
Sold. Now in fairness, my wife and daughters’s orders of Salmon burger and Spinach salad seemed attractive and good, I sampled the salad and it was really tasty, with a smoky bacon tone to it. And their signature chowders are great. My cup of chanterelle chowder was rich and full of that signature wild mushroom flavor. Kudos. It’s generally a great looking menu and they pulled off everything except…
…my dish, which was a train wreck.. 6 sad mussels on an utterly overcooked, over-​sauced and poorly presented plate. It truly was glop, like something my untrained hands would make. Worse yet, of the 6 sad mussels, (of which there are an abundance of on In Washington and Oregon) 3 of the mussels were those frozen mussels imported from New Zealand. The sauce was just a mess of overcooked noodles and one could never detect a trace of basil, garlic or SALT. I can handle a disappointing meal, but charging $ 20 for it was most disappointing.
I am not a serial whiner and pisser and moaner, but it was the closest I have ever come to asking the server to take the dish back. Bland, sloppy, overpriced and an insult to fresh shellfish, who deserve better treatment.
In a harsh light, this place could almost use a douchebag like Gordon Ramsey to come in and shake the foundation down a bit for a place that seems conflicted on what sort of establishment it is. It’s a very, very quiet B&B style hotel in one corner, a formal dining room in a another, a middle dining room and then a pub and yes, an earnest group of musicians swatting out the hits in the middle of it all… while a beautiful grand piano sat silent. I watched two sets of diners come in, not be greeted, peek in the pub, peek in the B&B entrance, and peek in the dining area where the hits just kept on coming. Both parties walked out with puzzled looks on their faces.
I am sorry for the harsh assessment, but I visit the area often and always hope this place keeps going, as they have a great setting, but they appear confused in what they want to be. In the midst of that, Long Beach Peninsula has gradually grown some fine dining spots in the Depot, Pickled Fish, even solid mid-​range options in 42^nd St Bistro, Lost Roo, Castaways, etc, so it just feels like the Shelbourne is struggling to find their mojo when they can least afford to. That could only explain why they were far less than full on a Saturday night when every other place in town was packed. Do they want to be a fine dining spot as they have traditionally been? Or open to a less formal dining experience? Or a live music venue? I am confused.
I wish them the best. As I said, the menu is creative and in many cases, very, very good, but my meal was likely the most disappointing dish I have ordered all year.

The Shelburne is a fine cuisine experience we look forward to every year! My son loves seafood and had his first oysters here several years ago, a fabulous experience. I love the ambiance of the place — I find it an excellent value for my money. Less «trendy» than some of the other eateries that aim for the high end diner, this is my favorite place for a wonderfully prepared meal. They grow herbs in the beautiful gardens surrounding the building. I highly recommend this place to anyone who appreciates fine dining.

We were looking for a burger and started googling all of the burger joints in town.
We thought about the greasy spoons, but the menu at the Pub intrigued us.
It was a beautiful, sunny day and we sat outside on the deck near the garden.
I had the prawn Caesar and fries and my wife had the kobe burger.
Wow. Way beyond our expectations.
The kobe burger was by far the best burger on the peninsula. Hand formed, super crisp bacon, and a homemade bun. It wasn’t cheap, but it was well worth the $$.
My salad was great. The prawns were perfectly cooked and seasoned.
Their fries are really, really good and finally a restaurant realizes that I need more than a dime sized amount of ketchup for a big basked of fries.
The Shelburne has moved to the top of my list for dinning in Long Beach, which is pretty good, considering the competition gets better every day.
Thanks for a great meal.
Mike C

My husband and I went here for breakfast one morning during the offseason because it was one of the only places we could find open on a weekday, and were intrigued by the outward appearance of this historic B & B.
The restaurant was open, but the chef was… out. A very nice and apologetic waitress let us know he would be back any minute (she hoped). It was about 20 minutes, but he did in fact return.
I ordered the wild mushroom scramble. It was okay. It would have been better if the cream-​type sauce hadn’t been zig-​zagged all over the plate, as it was a bit sour and ruined some of the savory flavors of the egg and mushroom dish. Portions are smallish, but the jam is homemade. The couple little potato fingers on the plate were really good.
For the money you don’t get a ton of food, but the ingredients are fresh and interesting. Unfortunately the breakfast menu only consists of maybe 5 choices. I would definitely not return, at least for breakfast.

This is not my first rodeo with Shelburne Restaurant & Pub. Before I stopped drinking liquor, it was a favorite spot in summer to enjoy a glass out back on their gorgeous patio off the pub. This time, it was breakfast — now open to the general public — and I ventured out on my 57^th birthday.
The ambiance in this gorgeous place is so calm and soothing. There was another couple, and we started talking and joking together. It’s that kind of a place, where you are suddenly friends with strangers, all the while picking over their fine menu of breakfast offerings. I had the mushroom omelet, made in the traditional style, with a deep sauce napping the firm, fresh mushrooms, that actually had taste! Some of the ones you get in the store have no flavor, but I definitely knew I was having delicate, but delectable, mushrooms. The potatoes were done and delicious, crispy edges and soft inside. Fruit came with, and enjoyed the grapes, the orange and the melon. Coffee is outstanding! I forgot to ask David (owner David Campiche) where he gets his coffee.
I felt like a queen there — they pampered me so! I was incredibly lucky to have chosen this place for my birthday breakfast. Husband loved his Benedict, with a biscuit and a mushroom cream sauce, perfectly cooked eggs and meat (can’t remember what meat he had). He raved!!!
I’ll definitely be back. I work locally and we love all the restaurants in town, but this one is just a nick above the rest, in my humble opinion. Probably more than a nick.