The servers are wonderful, but the food is terrible. We stopped here for a quick bite to eat. It felt like an upscale fast food joint. The mashed potatoes were awful. The smoked tuna dip was horrific- soooooo salty! I do not recommend this place!...They better call upon Chef Ramsay to help or it will not make it!More

Food was not great. Specialty cocktails even worse and it's expensive. Think chain restaurant quality with fine dining pricesMore

well where do we start. ordered octopus aopetizer. really small for $22. almost overdone. ordered mahi. was like what you get from Costco. underwhelming at best. no veggies or potatoes or bread. everything is a la carte. baked potato only gets drawn butter period no...options. service was great. location was great. James Beard chef wow. expected a lot more than we got for the cost.More

We had a great dinner at Rivertail. We both had the snapper and shared asparagus and mashed potatoes. The fish and sides were very tasty. We shared the key lime pie for dessert and it was excellent. The service was excellent.

To begin with almost impossible to contact them as they don't open until 4 pm and then good luck trying to get someone on the phone. Upon arrival they have no idea how to great a guest. The tables and chairs are ridiculous, and the...chairs are very uncomfortable. appetizers are too expensive for what little you get. Peel and eat shrimp, $18.00 for 5 miserable shrimp. $15.00 for smoked fish dip which was very bland and had zero fish taste. The garlic Parmesan crusted Trout was so over done with cheese and broiled to death you couldn't enjoy the tout. Clams carbonara with hardly any claims and over cooked pasta. A Branzino Grenobloise that was so small you would have thought it was a filet instead of a whole fish. Manhattan cocktails that were terrible and instead of getting Band B for an after-dinner drink we got some concoction made from Guniess.More

💵📈Price point rip-off💵📈 Help me understand $42.00 for twelve of the smallest oysters ever..."MP"? 💵📈No way...not for those oysters🦪And no attempt by the server to make any sort of adjustment because of the this POOR value💵📉The ambience doesn't justify the price point...a VERY disappointing first...visit...🤦🏻‍♂️More

We stumbled upon this restaurant on our river walk stroll. We sat at the bar to avoid any wait. The bartenders Doug and Jay were so welcoming and provided excellent service, cocktails and friendly conversation. They made great food recommendations - the fish chowder was...to die for, the new york strip was mouthwatering, and the fish sandwich was the best I have had. The cocktails were all delicious including the Espresso Martini shots. We would go back to eat there any time for the food, but the service by Doug and Jay made our night memorable!More

Ray was an excellent waiter. He was very knowledgeable and gave us each individual recommendations. We tried many of the appetizers and highly recommend the dates. We had all of the deserts and would come back for the chocolate cake. There isn’t a bad table...in the restaurant for environment- inside or out!More

OK, let me start by saying that I have been here once before. My husband and I came with our youngest for brunch and it was absolutely amazing!!! We enjoyed it so much that two weeks before my husbands birthday I called to make a...reservation for a Tuesday night dinner. I would have used open table but for whatever reason it was not working. I spoke to a women who took my reservation over the phone. I had requested a table outside for 6 and stated we would have a large stroller with us as we had an infant coming. (hence wanting to sit outside) As this was two weeks away I was told no problem and we were all set. The day of dinner, 15 minutes before our reservation I received a text that our table was ready and waiting for us. I thought great! wow they on top of things. Once there, the hostess informed me that we were sitting inside and not outside. I stated I made this reservation 2 weeks ago specifically to sit outside, she flipped her tablet to me with attitude and stated you didn't request to sit outside. I looked at her and said I most certainly did request it and I didn't book online I spoke to an individual on the phone. She proceeded to tell me well we only have tables inside. Fine.... we get to the booth and to not block the way for the wait staff we had to wedge the baby carrier awkwardly in the booth, it barely fit and made the sitting and family dinner uncomfortable. Fine, we are here for the food so whatever. We ordered our food. My youngest had fried chicken and was decent. The fries and mac and cheese were good. However, everything else was quite awful. The hot lobster roll sauce was s gross. I took one bite and send it back. My other daughter had trout which had so much garlic you couldn't even taste the fish just garlic. She literally took one bite that's it. My husband had the whole snapper and again the fish was ok but the sauce was awful. So basically we spent over $200 on this fabulously horrible Birthday dinner. Margaritas were very sweet even though we asked for the drinks to be made not as sweet. The waitress saw we didn't eat most of our food and did ask me if I wanted to kitchen to make me a different dish which I did saw no at that point after tasting everyone's dishes. No one took left overs home and I was surprised the wait staff didn't try to make the experience better. I wasn't expecting free meals but I would have thought they would have comped an appetizer or a drink or at least one meal as they could see we were not happy. It was such a disappointment. We had such a great breakfast but dinner was just a disaster.More

Great location on the river. The food was fantastic. Drinks are small. But good. Service is fast and efficient . I had the shrimp and grits, very yummy. My better half had the N 6. A cod fish sandwich very large wonderful shoe string fries...great meal. Young vibe, good musicMore

This week we went to Fort Lauderdale at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts to see the Broadway Musical COME FROM AWAY which was really great, before the show we were looking for a bite to eat, something quick and close by so we...opted for RIVERTAIL restaurant, the menu is curated by chef Jose Mendin, we have been to a few of the restaurants where he curates the menu and it has always been great, therefore we decide to try it. The restaurant is very close to the Theatre, it is 5 minutes’ walk on the Riverwalk, it is a beautiful stroll and location, because of the time we got there we decided to try Happy Hour. When we look for Happy Hour we don’t just want drinks, we really care about the food too so when we looked at the menu it only had oysters (GREAT) and 4 things on it, we were a bit disappointed but, we were totally wrong, we had the SEAFOOD CHEVICHE and the BROILED OYSTER CONCHA and these were soooooooooooo good ! We also had a dozen Oysters, $ 0.99 each, these were also great and we also ordered a couple of other things from the regular menu, the CORNBREAD (cotija cheese, sesame and honey butter) this was so delicious that we ordered it twice ;-) and then the CRAB DONUTS also very good, all with the wine from the HH which was $ 5 a glass. This was absolutely great and I think I would love to go back for lunch or dinner and try some of the other dishes they have on the regular menu, if what we had is a small taste of what these are like, I am sure it will be great ! Definitely a place to keep on the list of favorites and to go back again @rivertailftl @chefmendin For more of my favorite restaurants, places and more, like my Facebook page Naddia’s Favorites or follow me on Instagram @naddias_favoritesMore

Doug was absolutely amazing, so so sweet. The food and drinks are amazing will definitely be coming back !