The Pantry Restaurant - Nanaimo

What a horrible place to eat! The waitress seemed to think her friendliness would make up for the greasy, nasty, tasteless food. Wrong.

We had 8 people needing a place to eat Downtown Nanaimo on a Saturday night.... Our group consisted of 4 adults (60-65) 2 adults (40) and 2 children (5 and 9) Because it was getting late we did not want to eat at something too fancy, we were looking for quality food, that had good service. We found it! The Pantry was an easy walk from our hotel, and it offered some great specials. Every single dish was great! (with a group of 8 usually something is not great! lol) Every diner enjoyed our meals. The portions were large, and the service was very attentive! We really enjoyed our meal, and they had this really nice private room (perfect for 8) that kept us somewhat apart from the rest of the restaurant, It was perfect! Would definitely recommend for everyday Canadian type food with lots of variety.

Menu hanging in window was 3-5$ cheaper than the menu at the table. My husband got up to take a picture of it because the turkey dinner went from 12.50 to $17.50!!! When we asked the server she said "oh dear our prices have changed recently" she went to get the manager and the manager ran to remove the window menu.....when she returned she told us we were misinformed and must have read the seniors menu......but then why did you remove it from the window I asked???? They just stared blankly at us so we got up and left. Nice way to treat locals!!!

Had the Wednesday evening special - soup or salad, entree, dessert.Meal was substantial and well cooked - deliciousService was quick and our server was attentive.Was thoroughly surprised by the size of the entree orders - way too much food for what we had to pay - a good value meal.Will visit again.

I had a Stir-fried Teriaki Chicken dish, including coffee and dessert for $11.99. I was there at 4:45 pm last Wednesday, May 3 and I had most of the place to myself. It was peaceful with a nice view out onto the wet day's parking lot and across to the burnt and removed building just outside of Nanaimo's Park Place Mall.