The service was friendly but kinda shoddy. We ordered 2 cups of seafood chowder & one cup of the cream of tomato soup (with gin & cinnamon). They brought out one cup of chowder, the cream o' tomato, and a ceasar salad. (And no, my hubby didn't send back the ceasar, in favor of the chowder. He's too "nice" for that.) The chowder itself was VERY good, my daughter's tomato soup was very good. The ceasar salad was mediocre at best.

The half loaf of sour dough bread that was brought to our table was cut into four, 3-inch-thick, slices. Made it darned near impossible to butter and eat. The flavor of the bread was lovely, but the pieces were much too big. (And, with no knife with which to cut them smaller.)

Dinner: Daughter ordered Chicken Denali which came with a side of some yukon gold potatoes thinly sliced and layered and covered in some sort of cream sauce. This was also the "side" for Hubby's alder-wood grilled steak (ordered medium rare). Both Hubby and Daughter (neither of whom are picky eaters) said the potatoes were inedible, that the flavor was completely wrong and gross. Daughter's Chicken Denali was ok, but not great. Hubby's steak was over done, medium well instead of medium rare, and without much flavor. (Certainly not strong on the alder-smoke flavor as advertised in the menu.) I ordered proscuto-wrapped scallops with an orange glaze. The side this was served with was the "Chef's rice", which is to say a kinda bland rice pilaf with dried cranberries. It wasn't "bad" but it wasn't good either, and the rice was only partly cooked, still rather crisp. My scallops were simply ok. The scallops themselves were nicely cooked (not over-cooked & dried out) but the proscutto was burnt on the edges, giving the whole thing sort of a burnt taste. And there wasn't enough sauce to flavor all the scallops (4 large scallops in the dish), only about a Tbsp of sauce had been dribbled over the top of the scallops, which were sitting on top of the rice pilaf. The pilaf may have soaked up most of the sauce, if there was originally more. Either way, kind of bland.

We all ordered dessert as well. Daughter ordered the chocolate mousse, which she said was pretty good (light & fluffy, not too heavy on the chocolate, at least for the first half). She was unable to finish the mousse, because it was still more chocolate than she actually likes. I took a taste and it tasted more bitter-sweet than sweet, which is fine if you like bitter-sweet chocolate. Hubby ordred New York Cheesecake topped with a mixed-berry sauce. The piece he was brought was over an inch thinner than the piece on the example tray. (And, 7 bucks a piece, it should have been thicker cut.) Then the waitress proceeded to pour water all over it, as she refilled Hubby's water glass without picking it up off the table. *shaking head* My creme brulee was ok. The custard itself was reasonably flavored (plain vanilla, really), but it was very dense & not quite as light as a good custard should be. (I've made custard and creme brulee before, it shouldn't be THAT dense.) But the sugar on top was perfect! Nice & light, but a good solid layer of crispy "burnt" sugar. That's probably the hardest part to do "right" so I certainly appreciate the fact that it WAS done right.

All in all, dinner was a great disappointment. Oh, and it was $120 for the three of us, with no appetizers and Hubby and I each had a "drink" (me: Mike's Pom. lemonaid; Hubby: a warm MGD). Daughter had a "Shirley Temple". The service may have been friendly, but it was also rather shoddy (messed up order, "watered down" dessert.....).

I would strongly recommend NOT bothering with The Pump House unless all you're seeking is their sourdough Bread Bowl full of Seafood Chowder. The other items on the menu just aren't worth the cost.