The Fat Snook

We had a good dinner. The small, but upscale restaurant offered a variety of entrees with a Caribbean flair. We started with the corn bread, which was great - but different from any cornbread I have had. The same goes for the she crab soup, which was a tomato-based soup and slightly peppery. There were nice chunks of crab in the soup. I had the shrimp and scallop creole and my girlfriend had the MaiMai - both were excellent. She enjoyed the key lime pie with marangue for dessert. Meghan, our server did a fine job. The service was excellent. Price wise this is a higher end restaurant. The problem that I have is at this price point they should not be charging a credit card surcharge and the kitchen pool is tacky. Given their prices, they should cover the credit card fees and pay their kitchen staff a good salary. It is these two items why I did not give the Fat Snook a Excellent rating.

I will not ever trust a negative review on this restaurant. It will never be possible for this place to fail at excellence. Wife and I came to town as a stop on our anniversary adventure through Florida and we were told about this place from a family member who found it on google. Made a reservation and I am so glad we did. Even though Tori was an amazing waitress, everyone on staff there made sure we were taken care of. We had the wild crab feature, corn bread, and seared scallops (holy hell these were good) to start. I had creole shrimp and scallops and my wife had the fresh catch 2 which was triple tail. For dessert we couldn’t make up our minds so we had all three available. Key lime pie, chocolate mousse, and a lemon olive oil cake (please don’t let my limited description of the dishes fool you, all three were worth it). Thank you to everyone for making our anniversary special. We will be back.

We were really looking forward to dinner tonight. I’d been there about 6 months ago and it was great. We started with 2 apps - scallops on top of pyre and braised beef in a corn shell. Both were awesome! Unfortunately our dinners were not. We each had 1 of the fresh catch specials. Jess liked the one with vinegar (that I ordered) and neither of us liked the other. Our server was great, but told us the fish was buttery and light and we found it dense and dry. Also both were very high priced and not worth it at all. Again, our server was excellent and the place is nice inside, but not what we expected at all.

The food is excellent and well presented. But the staff takes the cake! I had to solo dine with my 4 week old this evening and it got a bit overwhelming! The entire staff was supportive, patient and charismatic. Would highly recommend stopping by for an upscale, delicious meal with excellent service!

Had our first meal at Fat Snook tonight. We had the blue crab, corn bread, and tenderloin appetizers, red snapper and pumpkin cheddar grits with shrimp for entrees, key lime pie and chocolate desert. I give this 5 stars as the service and food appeal was amazing. The taste of the food, I think was ok, but not really something I would generally order, so hard for me to have a fair opinion. The deserts and pumpkin cheddar grits with shrimp were extremely enjoyed. The appetizers and red snapper were not for us, but likely just our preference and not reflective of the restaurant. If you like Carribean flavors, I am guessing you will love this place.