Visit this restaurant to taste nicely cooked fried chicken, fried prawns and coleslaw. Do not go away without tasting good banana pudding and tasty fruitcake. Great tea is among the best drinks to degust. Shrimp Boat is well known for its great service and friendly staff, that is always ready to help you. Average prices at this place are good news for its customers. When inside, the atmosphere is cozy. The overall rating of this spot on Google is 4.2.
Shrimp boat is always a great place for comfort food! Nothing healthy, but wonderful just the same!
Service
Take out
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Tartar Sauce
We absolutely love some Shrimp Boat
The owner and staff are amazing
I recently hosted a baby shower there
Our guest loved the food
Everyone was so accommodating
Thank you Shrimp Boat
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Absolutely amazing food and wonderful customer service. This was my first visit, and they definitely won a forever customer! Thank you!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$30–50
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Shrimp and Fish Dinner
This food was incredibly good to me. Not massively expensive at all and just great tastes.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Shrimpboat has been around for a very long time. During this particular visit, I invited 3 friends to join me here. All of us are from Gaston County; however, none of my 3 friends have visited Shrimpboat in ages. They arrived about 15 minutes before me and placed their orders. When I walked in, they were seated. Practically before I could get to the table, my friend from childhood, whom I've known for over 40 years, chewed me out. He's been living in Florida for over 10 years and must have forgotten Shrimpboat's cash only policy. He was jokingly livid. He said, "You should have told us they [Shrimpboat] only accepts cash!" I replied, "I assumed you knew. They have always ONLY accepted CASH." He said, and I paraphrase, "We almost had to leave. Who carries cash anymore? This place needs to get with the times!" He replied later that he would have been willing to pay credit card processing fees charged by the restaurant but that he wasn't willing to pay the ATM fees plus bank fees had he used the ATM to get cash from the machine that is inside the restaurant. Both my friends would reccount the horror of them digging in their wallets to come up with enough cash to pay for what they ordered for the 2 of them plus 1 teenager. My best friend said he had to change his drink order to water or else they would not have been able to pay the cost of their meals.
Foodwise, we all enjoyed the food. I ordered a combination shrimp and fish plate with a sweet tea. I wanted their banana pudding because it is very good. However, I, too, didn't have enough cash on hand for the $4.25 plus tax pudding.
We ate the meals there. I only managed to get through all of the shrimp, French fries, and some hush puppies. I took the fish and the remaining hush puppies with me. Shrimpboat makes all meals to go, and they are picked up at the counter in bags. If you are eating in, you open your bag at the table.
Anyway, As I settled in to eat with my friends, in between listening to them tell me of their uncomfortable experiences there, I whispered to them, that the place is under new management and the new owner has horrible people skills. I happened to have been in the restaurant on 2 previous occasions and had to endure the man just reeming out his employees and making up new policies on the spot based on his unhappiness with what was going on. On one of those occasions, he stopped full production of all food and counter service while I was placing my order just so he could b*tch and moan about something he just discovered. The resulting new policy is that NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER. Now, I can not tell you if that policy is still in place or not, but he yelled it LOUD and Clear enough from the kitchen that anyone anywhere in that restaurant that day could have heard it. So, I whispered to my friends, "If the new owner is in, we might be in for a dramatic show. He's a real hole that starts with a capital A (only I didn't say it the way I spelled it). [No one reading this should get too bent out of shape over this. I'm telling you the truth of my experiences there. Don't let this ruin your judgment of the place. As I said, I have continued to visit this restaurant many times long after the antics of the new owner. In fact, I was in there just a few days after the new owner took over. As a business owner myself, I asked to speak to the new owner, and I offered to discuss helping to set up a cash register system with a credit card processor. I'm sure I offered a few more suggestions as well. He wasn't very receptive to anything I mentioned, but the communications were cordial. I win some. I lose some. And some just rained out.
As we left the restaurant, one of my friends invited me over to his house. I accepted and mentioned that I would be there after seeing a client and running a few additional errands that I had to run within a couple blocks of Shrimpboat. I ran those errands, including getting some cash from Cash Points ATM and returning to Shrimpboat to get their banana pudding.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 4
Service: 3
Atmosphere: 3
Recommended dishes
Shrimp and Fish Dinner
