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Smiling Fish closing was one of the only businesses ever shutting down that has really bothered me..our entire family sent E-Mails to Gulf Place Management complaining about their running off a quality tenant like George

Whiskey Bravo New Menu is great if you want to pay 2 times what they used to charge for the same dishes at Smiling Fish...absolutely a rip-off:pissed:

The "ya owe me a tip attitude" by the servers posting in this thread reeks of entitlement and is an obnoxious attitude..and i am one who tips generously and also can only recall a few bad experiences in The 30A Area ever..as for the poster who was complaining about Tip Jars popping up elsewhere...

^^^..Are you saying overpriced for 30A..or overpriced for the rest of the area?..theres a big difference

I think most people are fully aware when they work in Hospitality that it is not 9 to 5 and that you will be working most weekends and Holidays as well

Well I can tell ya from firsthand experience Stinky's was a 2+ Hour wait Saturday Night...Elmo's was mobbed as was the Vue...many of us were commenting all weekend it was by far the most crowded we had ever seen the 30A Area..it was like Destin itself which it is normally much quieter than

Really was not remarking on whether it indicated laziness....was more surprised that food and beverage businesses in this economy could afford to be closed any days during a rocking Holiday Weekend...I mean there are 7-8 months a year in SoWal where you could close for the season and nobody may...

were closed last Sunday and Monday in SoWal..Destin..and FWB...For an area that businesses have a 4 month window to make their money for the year in to be closed 1 or for some 2 days on one of the most crowded weekends I have seen in SoWal in years this makes little sense to me at all....The...

Everyone has a differing Opinion on whether to Tip on To-Go Orders...I am in the No Category because they are doing nothing that Popeyes..Chick-Fil-A..Wendy's did not do and you don't tip them...This is more of an Owners being Cheap and trying to pay as many people as possible The Server Wage...

Thanks for the heads up....that 3 Dollar Change Fee alone for them microwaving your cheese for all of 10 seconds will make me never go there...that's borderline offensive

Never even heard of it much less eaten there...where the heck is it in SRB??

IMO With so many Owners posting on this Board alot of people are reluctant to leave Negative Reviews as well...It makes it frustrating for us that are only down there a few glorious weeks a year that we "waste" one of our days or nights out on a Bad Meal....fortunately I have gotten to know alot...

Appreciate it Merbel....I also would like to point out I am just as quick to hype up a place when it is good...Stinky's..Louis Louis...Smiling Fish Cafe...Late Great Criollas..Borago..Great Southern...etc..etc...

This thought process is why this board has become "useless" for whats good or not so good in the Area...that's why I trust Yelp...Urban Spoon...and other sites more for actual true reviews....It seems like anytime you say anything bad about a place on here you get attacked for being unpatriotic...

Not trashing it anywhere as far as I can tell...nowhere did I say anything bad about the Place...I am just giving you my opinion on Tapas Concept and "Price Point Pressure" at this Date and Time....If I had been advising them I would have told them to do a "GastroPub" which is a really hot...

If you are referring to the Applebees Incident...I would think it's the old Employee was drinking on the clock trick....putting an alcoholic beverage in a coke or juice cup while you are working to fool the manager-boss-owner has been done from Day 1 of Restaurants Opening and will be done till...

Think I proved my point rather well....my statement was when Tapas start getting over a price point of 10 Bucks you are getting into a territory where you can get a full meal at another venue for the same price...I did NOT say it was going to be Flemings or Ruth Chris type place for my...

Coincidentally enough..walk out the door of The Naked Grape....turn right...proceed around 20 yards...turn right....go 3 yards....turn right...proceed through glass doors and go 5 yards and you are in The Smiling Fish Cafe...great salads..burgers....fish sandwiches..wraps...seafood baskets etc...

16 Bucks is pretty pricey for a Tapas cause normally you don't get that much.....personally I think anytime you start getting over a 10 Dollar Price Point for a Tapas it is to high cause there are many places you can eat an entire meal for that amount...I will check it out before judging...

Having lived in Los Angeles when Tapas were the in thing in the early to mid 90's I am not a Fan....a friend of mine used to say Tapas in Spanish means...."not much food for alot of money"...we used to go as a group of 4 spend about 200 dollars on Tapas and Drinks....leave all still fairly...

I like the Bar but those Food Prices are ridiculous IMO...It's like the wife always says though "It's 30-A"....What happened to The Old Management by the way?

And why would you??....I don't even think to do it...all the employee has done is throw a few styrofoam cartons in a plastic bag along with maybe a few Sysco Set- Ups...like someone said earlier it is no different then a drive thru at Popeyes...In N Out Burger...etc etc...Tipping is getting...

Went with a group the other night...general consensus was pretty average...and like mentioned earlier in the thread it's almost like they are trying to be too unique....thats a food fad that I thought had fortunately died out but it appears to be still be attempted here...Clearly the Owners have...

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Would love to see a copy of the menu and the price points...what could have changed the members mind this quick??...find it hard to believe the new menu would not have been cleared before the opening

That's really strange...That's alot of money down the drain for a Club that has been struggling to say afloat the last several years...I mean they did not even give the place a few months to see if it worked...Seems like there has to be more to this than what we are hearing for them to change...

That dude has more lives than a cat!!...Why would any supplier or vendor give that man anything without cash up front??..He stuck a Family Friend of mine with an unpaid plumbing bill of about 3 grand from his last bankruptcy

My favorite Lunch Spot on 30A...Panko Shrimp Ceasar Salad and The Burgers are always awesome

Don't really think there is fine dining on The Emerald Coast..We have some excellent Upscale Casual Places but nothing what I would consider fine dining...Pano and Pauls in Atlanta back in the day was Fine Dining..The French Laundry in Napa....Inn at Little Washington outside DC... are the type...

Nice Read...It hurts to read how poor Harbor Docks is now cause that's one of the places that I used to go to back in the 1970's....Sadly I have to agree with you...the last time I went Everyone's Fish smelled like an old shoe...As for your bread complaint I totally agree with you...The South...

JC'S was not open when I was down at Thanksgiving so it has been closed for almost a month and a half now...

I live in Tally and never even got to the new Stinky's..I always give a place a month before I go so they can get the Openeing kinks out...this was a rather large kink around the three week mark that prevented me from getting there!!...hope they return to town

This thread only reinforces me and my families opinion that everything at Seaside SUCKS and is overpriced anyway...have not spent a cent there in years and will continue to abide by that...give me Red Bar..Smiling Fish..Stinkys...etc..etc..etc..they actually are happy to see us at those places...

Uggghh....wish it was not coming...I also did not see the need for the newest Publix either.....I was fine with the Publix at Grande Boulevard....the new one is closer to my Beach House in Blue Mountain but I did not feel it was needed...in fact I still go the one at Grand Boulevard...It will be...

Probably no one..maybe a few bars but not a big restaurant day

Publix is the best Supermarket in the country IMO.....Kind of shocked about this store opening though..I mean you have The Grand Boulevard Store at one end of 30A...the PCB Store at the other end of 30A and in the middle of it all you had "The Baby Publix" as we call it at Watercolor...was this...

Is this even a serious question??...This is the South..We call it Coke down here for a reason...heck Coke is the word most Southerners use to describe all soda...I don't even go to restaurants that serve Pepsi Products is how fierce my loyalty is to the Coca-Cola Company

Publix has the best Cuban by far cause their Cuban Bread is second to none outside Miami

I never was referring to free refills on cans and bottles...just fountain drinks and tea....believe me as a former owner of several fast food franchises ;fountain drinks was one of our most profitable areas...Coke gives you the hardware for free and sets it up....than depending on the Corporate...

Because there is a huge difference in the price of cans and bottles Vs Syrup Costs..When you are charging 2.00 for a fountain Coke the Patron has to drink 20 of them before you lose money...that's why free refills are the norm....and don't even get me started on paying for Tea Refills....It is...

Never heard of it...details please

WOW...Charging for every Coke and Iced Tea Refill is a quick way to get people upset..they won't be around long with that policy....I know I will never set foot in the place with my Family..last thing I need is 25 Dollars in Coke and Tea on a Check!!

Should have read some previous threads about the OFFH and you would have saved yourself alot of trouble...Place is a flat out embarassment to 30A and only stays open cause of tourists who don't know better...I have never talked to anyone locally who has anything nice to say about it...Sorry for...

What this poster said.....Amore is great...I loved Gugleiamo's Pizza but unfortunately they closed the SoWal Location a few years ago....The Daughter runs Ciao Bella but I tend to avoid going to SSO at all costs...

If you don't want to mosey out to 30A I think The Marina Cafe is still the best in Destin...as for The Commanders Palace it is a pale imitation of the original in New Orleans

No local would ever eat Crab Legs at a restaurant since we have some of the best fresh seafood here and we don't need to order something caught and frozen in Alaska...We usually just do a boil at the house...Go to Publix and get King Crab clusters which are on sale quite often for 7.99 a pound...

I highly recommend Shorty's...real nice place the whole family can go

Agreed....I have no idea why some of the "Pollyanna's" on here want to hide the fact some restaurants on 30A are not good..I appreciate the negative reviews on here so I can avoid wasting my hard earned money and also wasting one of the nights eating out when I am down in the area...I tend to...

In Post 24 you emphatically stated you are not the owner or manager of JC'S...now in Post 40 you are saying you are one of the owners.....I don't think you are doing much good in generating goodwill or trust in your place when the owner is lying on a public message board than backtracking a day...

I know it's not quite on 30A but The Donut Hole is a damn good greasy spoon....and by the hordes trying to get in there during the Summer it seems most agree with me....As for Mexican Food once you get East of Texas I find it all pretty bland....may as just save a little money and stuff your...