The Water Street Grill

503 Water St, Santa Cruz - 95060
452 reviews
American Seafood
(831) 332-6122

Appetizers excellent. Rest of the meal, less than outstanding burger. Fried ice cream was way too much. Serving was huge and unappealing in presentation. Friendly but sometimes very slow service. Dining chairs very cool but uncomfortable after one hour. Tomatoes and watermelon were however excellent.

The best part of the evening was the staff. Their energy was very sincere. Food for 6 was not cheap but all very good dishes and worth it.

Service from Dena was terrific and the food was great! We will be back!

The food was fabulous and the service was great. Wonderful casual place to dine

This place showed high on yelp but it was not up to par. The place is nice with very friendly staff intent on making you dinner good. The only problem was the food was less than adequate. The hamburger was tasteless and tough How can you make hamburger tough. The chicken piccata was also tasteless. Dessert was fried ice cream. The ice cream was frozen inside a gritty crumb crust which also was tasteless. Overall a really forgettable meal.

The staff is amazing! The food is amazingly fresh and flavorful. Hands down this Restaurant was a huge highlight of our vacation. Thank you for an awesome dinner, and making us feel right at home!

Amazing food & great ambiance!

The staff was amazing. Great place to take children. Dinner was very pleasant and delicious. The prices were great!!

My husband and I were in town for a day & found this gem on Yelp. It had great reviews so we decided to check it out. We had dinner here. Our waitress was friendly, lovely & very considerate. I had the ribeye & lobster tail. It came with mashed potatoes & asparagus. Our waitress offered red potatoes, broccoli or broccolini instead. I chose red potatoes & broccolini. I didn’t know you had a choice. My ribeye was cooked in perfection & so was everything else. My husband had the NY steak with Cajun shrimp which came with mashed potatoes & asparagus. He, too was very satisfied with his dinner. We were very impressed overall with the customer service, our dining experience and the price! We’re definitely coming back next time we’re in town.

To be fair it was Fathers Day but the restaurant was not full. In fact there were only 3 other tables with people seated. From the time we ordered to the time we got our entrees was 75 minutes! We did see several Door Dash orders go out during that time. We, and the other tables, did get appetizers in about 20 minutes after ordering. The staff is very friendly but our server rarely checked with us during the very Iong wait. Drink refills would have been nice during the wait. The food was fine except for the clam chowder which was a very thick congealed potato soup with no clams in. The value for the $$$ was very good. Would I go back? Probably not but it just might have been a bad day for them.