The Beach - Tampa

Mother's Day reservation, overall, just okay. For the price of the buffet, $50 with groundless mimoses, it is not worth it. Not even a flower that I have to offer to the mother that I even got in an average diner. Hard coal claws were overboiled and the restaurant was definitely NOT prepared as they could not even find crimps. There was a lot of confusion on the Hostess stand regarding breakfast vs. Brunch Buffet reservations and were not very pleasant to explain the details. Ashley, our waitress, was the one who saved the day to make our experience somewhat pleasant despite confusion and moderate food.

Terrible service. We had to turn off our waiter every step on the way to drinks, food order, refills and the check.

Three of us met out there for a girl's night. We had reservations and sat out immediately. Our server, Angelina, reminded me of an earlier evening there and greeted me cordially. Our wine was quickly served, our appetizers of coconut shrimp with Mango Salsa were delicious. We ordered grouper sandwiches and fish tacos that quickly came out and were excellent. We finished dinner by sharing a lush brownie. The ambience was as relaxing as on holiday. Seeing the sun was great. After the darkness they illuminated the fire pits and the gas lights. So beautiful and took the cold from the night air. We stayed for 3 hours just talking and relaxing. A 5 star evening.

Food and service were great, but as other reviewers have mentioned, don't make a Sunday reservation before 11:00 if you want to have brunch, even on a holiday. On the plus side, our 10:30 breakfast was excellent and cost less than half what brunch would have.

Service was excellent. Food was good, drinks were okay. They need to upgrade the outside tables; wobbly, deteriorating. Overall good experience, will be back!