Alternate Grounds Cafe & Dockside

Alternate Grounds Cafe & Dockside Waterfront dining with Sarnias only Water TOP patio Dockside Restaurant and Bar in the Sarnia Bay Marina is open seasonally from May -September
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☀️🥗 Monday called. It wants you on the patio.😎It’s hot,and sunny, and the waterfront breeze is doing its best work today...
06/08/2026

☀️🥗 Monday called. It wants you on the patio.😎
It’s hot,and sunny, and the waterfront breeze is doing its best work today. That means Chef Andrew’s lunch feature is exactly what you need.

🍉 Watermelon Salad
Fresh watermelon, cucumbers, spinach, onions, blueberries, mint, and feta, all tossed in a bright herb and feta vinaigrette that’s basically summer in a bowl.

Want to level it up? Add:
🍗 Chicken
🍤 Shrimp
🥓 Prosciutto

Light, refreshing, and patio-perfect for a day when turning on your oven feels like a personal attack.

Grab a table by the water, soak up the sunshine, and let us handle lunch. 🌊☀️

Dockside. Cold drinks, great views, and the kind of lunch that makes Monday a little easier. 🍉🥗🍹

Sunday’s dinner feature is a tropical-meets-Cajun masterpiece!🐟 Blackened salmon🦐 Garlic shrimp🥭 Mango lime fried rice🌱 ...
06/07/2026

Sunday’s dinner feature is a tropical-meets-Cajun masterpiece!
🐟 Blackened salmon
🦐 Garlic shrimp
🥭 Mango lime fried rice
🌱 Green beans
✨ Finished with Cajun cream sauce, fresh mango salsa, cilantro, and sprouts
It’s smoky, creamy, bright, a little spicy, and exactly the kind of dinner that tastes like summer by the water.

Yes. We can omit the cilantro for those of you with the soap gene.

Get it while it lasts!


06/07/2026

Cancel the chores.
Order the brunch at Dockside.
🌞🍳🥂🌊🥞☕️

Live music matinees are back at Dockside! Saturday and Sunday 2-430!
06/07/2026

Live music matinees are back at Dockside! Saturday and Sunday 2-430!

Sunny Sangria Saturday is calling…Today’s brunch feature is a Breakfast Chimichanga that’s not messing around:🌯 Shaved a...
06/06/2026

Sunny Sangria Saturday is calling…
Today’s brunch feature is a Breakfast Chimichanga that’s not messing around:
🌯 Shaved asada beef
🌯 Roasted peppers & onions
🌯 Rice, cheese & scrambled eggs
🌯 Wrapped up tight, fried to golden perfection
Then we pile on the good stuff: fresh guac, pico de gallo, jalapeños, and scallions.

Basically, it’s everything you love about brunch and everything you love about a burrito having a beautiful, crispy baby.

Pair it with a cold glass of sangria, grab a seat by the water, and soak up this sunshine while it lasts. ☀️🍷

Brunch starts at 9 AM. Sangria is flowing. The patio is shining. The Breakfast Chimichanga is waiting.

See you at Dockside. 🌊🍳🍹

The patio may have taken the night off, but the view is still unbeatable from inside, and Chef Andrew has given us a din...
06/05/2026

The patio may have taken the night off, but the view is still unbeatable from inside, and Chef Andrew has given us a dinner feature worth staying dry for.

Tonight’s special is Pork Belly Pineapple Fried Rice (confit pork belly over caramelized pineapple fried rice, loaded with green beans, roasted peppers, bean sprouts, and egg, then finished with fresh green onions and cilantro) Sweet, savoury, crispy, rich, and really, really good.

If you’re looking for comfort food with a little tropical attitude on a rainy evening, this is it.

Come watch the water, and let us do the cooking. 🌧️🍍🥢🐷

While it lasts.

☀️ Well look at that... the first Friday of June finally understood the assignment.The sun is out, the patio is packed, ...
06/05/2026

☀️ Well look at that... the first Friday of June finally understood the assignment.

The sun is out, the patio is packed, the bay is sparkling, and Chef Andrew has decided that a boring lunch simply isn't an option.

Today's feature is a Honey Gochujang Crispy Pork Belly Banh Mi loaded with crispy pork belly, fresh cucumbers, sriracha mayo, house-made kimchi, green onions, and cilantro on a toasted hoagie, served with your choice of side.

It's sweet. It's spicy. It's crunchy. It's messy in all the right ways.

If you've been waiting for the weather to cooperate, congratulations — your patience has been rewarded.

Grab a patio seat, order something cold, and kick off the weekend Dockside-style.

☀️ Sunshine.🍻 Patio drinks.🔥 Pork belly banh mi.

Available while it lasts.

06/05/2026

If this isn’t your view this beautiful Friday.. fix your lens and we’ll see you soon 🤭🍹🌮🥂

☀️ Patio weather: absolutely perfect. Dinner feature: absolutely dangerous.Chef Andrew has taken our famous buttermilk c...
06/04/2026

☀️ Patio weather: absolutely perfect. Dinner feature: absolutely dangerous.

Chef Andrew has taken our famous buttermilk chicken tenders and given them the full French onion treatment, and honestly, we’re not sure he’s playing fair anymore.

Crispy buttermilk chicken tenders topped with melted Swiss cheese and sweet caramelized onions, served over creamy mashed potatoes with green beans, all finished with a rich French onion broth that’ll have you wondering why every comfort food doesn’t come this way.

Staff review? Let’s just say the kitchen barely got a photo before everyone started circling like seagulls at the waterfront. If this had been a last meal, nobody would’ve complained.

The patio is sunny, the breeze is perfect, and this feature won’t last forever.

See you at Dockside. 🍻☀️🍗

Address

DOCKSIDE: 97 Seaway Road
Sarnia, ON
N7T8E6

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 2pm
Tuesday 11am - 2pm
4:30pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday 11am - 2pm
4:30pm - 7:30pm
Thursday 11am - 2pm
4:30pm - 7:30pm
Friday 11am - 2pm
4:30pm - 7:30pm
Saturday 9am - 8pm
Sunday 9am - 3pm

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