Swordfish Grill

10 Reviews on “Swordfish Grill”

• Cjw.walters

  Over promise and under deliver. The Swordfish Grill menu over promises and under delivers on service and food. Therefore it will cost them a lost second visit next week. What started out to be a pleasant meal has us looking elsewhere for our next seafood meal. Fortunately there are plenty of other seafood restaurants in the Bradenton area.When it was pointed out the delivered food was not what was stated on the menu, the server agreed to remove the charge after we made it a point we were not paying for something that was included per the menu. The charge was removed but the server made it a point to bring another menu that supported his claim, which was not the menu we saw earlier. For a couple of dollars over a side, the end result and no future business from us..If you insist on eating at this average establishment, be sure to clarifying what is on the menu is what you will get, including all sides. Consistent with the menu/service issues, the promised music to start at 5 PM was a no show.

  June 30, 2015, 10:12 pm

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• M.B.

  Good food but don’t play bar games with live animals. Delicious food and right on the water.We had the fresh grouper sandwich with fries and the coconut shrimp. It was delicious, and the fries were fresh. The waitstaff was attentive and helpful, too, and there was good live music.One mildly disturbing thing: in the outside bar area, they had some kind of contest where live crabs were put in cups and given to people to carry around. They seemed to have colors painted onto them or some kind of colorful thing stuck to them.The DJ warned people not to pour drinks on them (so you know some fool would be bound to do just that). I was only at the restaurant for an hour and didn’t stay for the end of the contest, so I don’t know what happened to them. Maybe they were going to have a race with them.Now, while it’s true that the crabs were doubtless destined for the kitchen in any case, and I have no problem with that, it seemed cruel to drag them around and leave them out of water and in the hot sun or let them be covered in beer by some idiot. It detracted from the dining experience, that’s for sure.If you want to do games, don’t do them with living creatures. Use some of the plentiful shells on the beach or something.

  June 23, 2015, 2:32 am

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• Easibul

  Great Location but Food is Terrible. Pier side restaurant without fresh seafood. For appetizer we had greasy and bland wings and tasteless and tiny fish cakes. Entrees were bland and the sides were institutional foods from a can – yuck. Grouper was rubbery and had a yellow sauce that must have been favored with cat pee. Service was friendly but slow and disorganized. Bad value for the money – everything was overpriced. Great location, the view of the bay from the deck is great.

  April 5, 2015, 4:47 pm

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