The place is a nice location that is tucked away. The bartender was kinda snappy and inpatient. Snapping his fingers at you if you did have your order ready for him a second later. The host said we were gonna sit inside which I said great cuz it is quite hot outside and then immediately proceeded to say oh hey I'll put you outside. After seeing the table we were gonna be seated at. I found nothing to be wrong with that table btw. The flounder I had was amazing in regards to taste and so we're the sides. However the portions where in my eyes small for 20 bucks . More over the waitress checked in on us 2 times for the hour we were there.
Good food & atmosphere. Our table was waterside and we enjoyed the birds swimming below us and a large gator swam in the late afternoon.
Lovely restaurant on a lake. Very spacious and clean with outdoor dock sitting on a tiki style patio. Perfect environment if you want something that screams Florida. Will make you feel like you’ve been transported to key west. The food was good and in good portions. I had the fish tacos. Filled me up without making me feel overstuffed. The drinks were good too. The food was overall good but not overly impressive however the environment made up for it. Will be going back if in the area. The wait staff was running a bit slow (restaurant wasn’t over crowded went on a Monday) so make sure you don’t go if you’re already starving. Overall a pleasant experience and a a great place if you have company and want to take them to a restaurant that says “welcome to Florida”.
Came here for dinner and ordered threeappetizers, 2 out of 3 ran out at 7:30pm, which is not good business practice for a restaurant. Waitresses were not informed by the kitchen when things run out till the customers placed their orders and had to come back and tell the customers. Over heard another table when waitress had to come and told the customers the bad news after placing their order as well.The fish and chips were greasy, and lack flavor.The chicken nachos were flavorful. Too bad for a restaurant like this on the water to have mediocre foods.Beautiful view though of Lake Tarpon
Very pleasant atmosphere! Wish I was told the soup cup was a tester. I would have ordered the bowl!Crab cake was good. Although prices seem to be getting out of hand.$19.00 for one not so big crab cake.I hope we navigate well through this Super-Inflatiom. Enjoy!
Today we celebrated a birthday during lunch time at The Tarpon Turtle. It was our first time here and we all enjoyed it very much. The Bloody Mary's are to die for. Robust, smoked salted rims, full slice of bacon, olives and a celery stick!! Awesome!! We had the Cobb and Wedge Salads. They were both fine dining quality at a reasonable price. The views are priceless! Their chicken wings are grilled to perfection. The Jerk and garlic parmesan were our favorites. We were able to score one of their individual Tiki Huts to dine in and it was waterside. Just fabulous with all the wildlife just beneath us. We even saw turtles ? and alot of them! Our server was ⭐️ Yolanda ⭐️ and she was top notch! Ask for her, you will not be disappointed. She even surprised us with a beautiful birthday dessert on the house❤️ We are excited to return here and hope to spend a little more time hanging out and enjoying the sights, sounds and cocktails?
Our son was married on Clearwater Beach, and the officiant recommended this restaurant. We were not disappointed. We were greated very professionally and kindly stating there would be a short wait. After 10 minutes we were brought to a lovely shaded table, overlooking the water. The waitress was wonderful, kind and professional. I or6a Mai Tai that was huge and yummy. We had a blue Heron in the water right below us, and another large bird on the dock. ( I love birds). I ordered chicken wings and a Ceaser salad. One of the best dressings for the salad, I have ever had! The grilled wings were good too. Every one had a different entree and all enjoyed them. Great service, food, and setting. Highly recommend this restaurant.
I would rate this restaurant a 0 if I could!!! The SUPPOSED Fresh Fish was grouper and I decided to order it even tho it was $33 for an 8 oz portion size with 2 sides… because it was SUPPOSED to be fresh but it was NASTY, RUBBERY, FLAVORLESS and FROZEN!!!! I am a Florida native and a fisherwoman and I know the difference between fresh and frozen fish!!!!!! Plus the sides were terrible!!! I will NEVER go there again and tell anyone I can NOT TO WASTE THEIR $$$!!!!
6 of us were brought to a table with a large fireplace in the middle of our table. When we asked the hostess if we could get just a regular table without the fire feature, she said no, dropped the menus and walked away. Ok, bad news over. From there on out our experience was fabulous. A waiter/server took the initiative to find us another table. Our waitress, Nikita, was possibly the best server I have ever had, and the other 5 people in my group agreed. The food was excellent as well, but Nikita absolutely made our experience!!!!!
The food used to be really good and the prices couldn’t be beat. I’ve been going there for almost 4 years. I hadn’t been there since December. Tonight I ordered my usual crab cake dinner. I found shells all throughout my one crab cake, the crab wasn’t cleaned properly, and they charged me $37 for two little crab cakes. That dinner used to cost men $22. I’m horrified! Not to mention, their boneless wing recipe changed and not for the better. Not worth the time and definitely not worth the price I was charged. Will not be returning because of the prices alone. I could have had a much nicer dinner somewhere else.