Half Shell Dockside - Apalachicola, Florida

Luis C.

El mejor lugar de mariscos qué hay. La gente que trabaja ahí hacen todavía mejor la experiencia

Danette K.

This was our second visit in a Year's time. We were traveling and enjoy stopping here. We sat at the outside bar with very friendly bartenders. They happen to have a band playing that night which was excellent. The food is always good we ended up having oysters that evening

Kevin M.

Wasn’t much open in town on a Sunday evening. There were two options we looked at before we headed out and chose this place because the salad sounded good. We got there and sat down and ordered drinks. I asked for one of the 4 local beers they had on tap and the server had to come back because the one I asked for and another they were out of, should’ve known that ahead of time, but no big deal I tried a different one and it was good. Wife ordered half un-sweet tea and lemonade and when they came to re-fill her glass during appetizer they just topped it off with sweet tea… I guess our server forgot what she ordered. We got fried pickles for appetizer and they were good.

I asked about the plate vs the basket for the dinner items and was told the plate has larger portion of the main protein and you get two sides vs one. Basket $21 Plate $35. Ordered fried grouper plate with coleslaw and french fries. There was one hush puppy and equivalent of one small kids meal french fries on the plate that you could count just looking at it. There was one sandwich size piece of fish and a very small bowl of coleslaw. I did not feel like this was a dinner plate and certainly was not $14 worth over a basket. It felt like a normal lunch size portion fish basket you would get at any other seafood place. The fish was cooked well but batter was very greasy and a little over done. Fries and coleslaw were good though.

Wife ordered the steak salad and asked for the poblano avocado ranch (reason why we picked this place) and of course they do not have that dressing anymore… So she gets her $24 salad and it’s a lunch size salad with a handful of small chunks of steak. Portion was not adequate for the price in my opinion but the salad overall was decent.

Meal overall was $80 before tip and we were fairly disappointed overall. It wasn’t a terrible meal. Atmosphere was decent, nice view on the water, but place is definitely an overpriced and under-portioned average seafood lunch spot and not a nice sit down dinner place.

R. K. C.

OPEN ON SUNDAY.
We were here on a Friday night. The noise was too much, but everything else was very good. On Sunday night at 7 the place was empty at first, got busy later, but never full or noisy.
The grouper was a small portion, but good to perfection and tasted great. The peel and eat shrimp was more shrimp than I have seen in a seafood restaurant in a long time. That was on 'Friday.

On Sunday same with the grouper. Again more fried shrimp that usual.

The service could be a bit better, but that's being picky on my part.

The price? Well from what we have seen in Apalachicola they are no more than most places and far and away cheaper than the horrible "fancy" place downtown. We paid a lot for bad service and bad food on Saturday night downtown.

Don R.

Stopped in while traveling old 98. Was seated immediately great menu options. Great fresh oysters and seafood. Great personable service food was served fast hot and delicious.

captrix00

The reuben grouper sandwich and their french fries were very good! And my bloody mary was an appetizer in itself and very tasty as well!

Gary W.

Had wings, grouper sandwich, shrimp poboy and fried jumbo shrimp. Well we found another great place to eat here in apalachiola. Right on the water. Great food sweet little lady took care of us. Must eat place when here.

Greg C.

Great place to eat at if you’re passing through or staying for a while. The beers were cold, food was delicious, and everyone was friendly. We had the grouper nuggets and fried shrimp for our meals and the fish spread for an appetizer. We topped it off with bourbon pecan pie and key lime pie. Everything was amazing.