fisherman's corner

after reading reviews we thought we would try this place. waiter was very attentive but the food was average at best. not bad but nothing special. best to try something else.

hidden gem. i ate here with my family on july 12th, 3 adults and 2 children and we were astounded and blissfully satisfied at how delicious everything was. the atmosphere was chill and family friendly, our waitress was friendly, knowledgeable, and willing to accommodate to the 2 children at the table. we're all very critical of seafood and have high standards, we were not disappointed. i enjoyed the blackened drum and grilled shrimp with a side of fresh vegetables and sweet potato fries. yummy! the others at our table enjoyed the grilled platter with three seafood options; oysters, grilled drum, and grilled shrimp. instead of ordering off the children's menu for the girls, our server split the chicken, blueberries, and walnut salad, and the girls loved the blueberry yogurt dressing (and our server sent us home with extra). the entire meal was delicious and surprisingly quick prep-time. we will definitely go back again.

wow!! we will see you again!!. that was our comment leaving... just spent 11 days in gulf shores eating out most every night... we were tauted on the fc by locals and drove the 30 or so miles to get there.... as was suggested, it's not much to look at from the outside and we had to wait 30 minutes or more to get in but the food was the best we had on this trip... we had fried green tomatoes as a starter then shared an order of softshell crap with grouper and shrimp and grits... it was more than we could eat.... excellent food and service!!!

ate here for lunch on a sunday afternoon. start out with the negatives: the host was weird and downright rude. we had a short wait of about 5 minutes, so we grabbed menus while we waited. the host came to us and said "we are offering the brunch menu not the regular menu. here they are. give me back those menus.". first of all they were takeout menus so i don't know why he needed them back, plus why so rude. and we found out from our waiter that they did still offer the regular menu. we sat outside where only one other table was taken. the weird host, after seating us, proceeded to move another table right next to us, approx 2 feet away. zero privacy. he brought a couple out to sit there and they refused as did we. it made zero sense. the deck was practically empty but this host wanted to sit these two couples side by side? i would have left had he sat them there an i told our server that.

the server, ralf, was great. knowledgeble and very attentive. just a pleasure and overall a great waiter.

food: my girlfriend and i both got mahi tacos. very good, albeit salty. she got sweet potato fries and i got cajun mac and cheese. both great.

overall: the host's odd behavior (demanding back takeout menus and trying to seat a couple right next to us on an empty deck) masked pretty good food and a server.

this place is well worth it. super fresh ingredients and good service.

not what i expected! their chef is very talented. ask about the specials!!

best food in perdido key hands down!!! call ahead early and make a reservation because they stay busy, but well worth the wait! creole linguini was delicious and my husband loved the grilled shrimp and oysters.

omg! been coming to perdido for 15 years and always cooked bc there was never a good restaurant worth the money- this one sooooo is! best food by far even excellent by big city standards! make a reservation several days in advance though- this place is booked- and rightly so!

this restaurant has outgrown it's building. called ahead to get on the "list" only to find the attendee failed to write it down. we waited patiently on benches to finally be called two hours later. seated on hard booth benches giving two in our party lower back concerns. well after being out of bread we were told we had a party of twenty-five ahead of us and it would be a long time before getting our food. after asking the waiter kindly to rush ours ahead he did so. i will have to say the food was good but due to not serving fish on hot plates got cold quickly. our party did get instructions from the waiter that you need to eat when you receive your plate (although we were not served together). in summary, i have crossed this one off my list.

not what it used to be!. we have a condo just down the road from fisherman's corner, and we have frequented this establishment since it opened. we were celebrating my wife's birthday, so we saved this restaurant for her actual birthday, as we were expecting this to the pinnacle of our culinary experience. we were sorely disappointed!

we placed our names on the waiting list and were quoted 45 minutes for a table. that's right around the break-even time where it doesn't make sense to load up our two-year-old, choose a new restaurant, travel there and most likely have a wait at the new restaurant as well. one our and forty minutes later we finally got our table, after being told repeatedly "we were next."

since we had plenty of time to review the menu while waiting, we placed our order when our waitress first approached our table. two of our three meals came with salads which they forgot to bring out before the main course as they said they would do.

the main courses we ordered were the seafood platter with grilled oysters and some sort of whitefish. there was so much pepper on the meal you couldn't decipher any other flavor. wanting something that should have been good and easy, i ordered the fried seafood platter with shrimp and fish. i don't expect much from fried seafood, yet this meal was still disappointing. the shrimp was okay, but the fish had absolutely no flavor. we ordered the chicken fingers for my daughter as that's supposed to be a staple that's hard to mess up, yet they found a way to remove any semblance of flavor from both the chicken and the batter.

their signature dish, the shrimp and grits, was also not what it used to be. my wife thought she tasted sterno in the dish, and after all of their other failures with our dining experience, it wouldn't surprise me.

one of the main reasons my wife wanted to dine here was for their bread pudding dessert, yet they ran out of that very early in the evening. our waitress said they only made 25 of them, and they were gone sometime after lunch and before the dinner rush. they were also out of the only other dessert dish they offered. why couldn't they go next door to publix and buy some ice cream and cake so they'd have at least something to offer?

fisherman's corner could stand to learn the art of under-promising and over-delivering instead of the other way around. we enjoyed many good meals on the "key," and i'm sorry to say this wasn't one of them.

i mean no malice towards this restaurant. i only ope they can learn from our feedback and return to the sort of place they were when they opened.

there was a group of 11 of us both kids & adults & everything was fantastic!!! service was great, food was great & we loved the atmosphere. the cajun mac & cheese is to die for. highly recommend.

food review. absolutely the best seafood in the area!

had lunch there today, and it was great! they were a little under staffed, but managed to get our food out in a timely manner. crawfish po-boy was fantastic, and my wife loved her blfgt sandwhich. the best part though was the bread pudding! that stuff is legit. the place doesn't look like much from the outside, but it is well worth your time to try it!!

food was very good, but a bit disappointed that for a friday evening @ 5: 00 they were out of items and they just opened for the day! i think someone screwed up and forgot to place the order. out of 2 types of beer, and some of the appetizers were not available either. overall we were happy with our meal and the atmosphere.

fried green tomatoes awesome. had ladies lunch there today and want to go back real soon. great service, atmosphere, sweet tea, bread pudding and fried green tomatoes.