fontaine's oyster house

good food - mussels, oysters,crablegs, scampi, and key lime pie - all good. good service and fun eve.

go for the soups. fontaine’s is an oyster bar in the popular virginia-highlands area. they have different food specials most nights of the week.

we were there on the night that half price snowcrabis offered. we had the snowcrabwhich was fine and seemed very fresh.

the cocktails were good, but not remarkable enough to get the recipe.

the highlights were the soups. the lobster bisque and the oyster stew were both wonderful and great on a cold day.

pros: unbelievablecrable.... pros:
unbelievablecrablegs! not usually an oyster fan but they are great here too. service is good.

cons:
drinks are hit or miss (as it relates to potency) and the tables are too small for the copious amount ofcrablegs i like to enjoy here. the wait for setting can be tough too

solid seafood & great atmosphere. this place was once again satisfying. the seafood was fresh and tasty, the happy hour prices were great (50% off snowcrablegs & raw oysters) and the atmosphere was alive and well. always a solid spot around the emory neighborhood

enjoyable. got there in time for some decent drink prices and half ofcrablegs for an appetizer. gumbo was tasty, raw oysters were good and my cajun catfish po boy was very good. i came in with minimal expectations but was pleasently suprised.

on the fence.... ok, the service was great...the food was good...but some things scared me as a person in the restaurant business...having a group of 4 guys standing over and talking to the guy shucking your fresh oysters while all were chain smoking and blowing it out directly over your food is a bit alarming. if there was a barrier or they were more than two feet away...maybe..or if i was wasted, then who cares...right? calamari was good but the dipping sauce was like a watery soup...i had the poboy and it had 2 shrimp and three small scallops...but was good. the other half had steamedcraband if you screwed that up then you shouldn't be in business...if it wasn't for the server we might of made it a quicker bite. would we go back...sure, but for drinks at the bar or on the deck...after all it is what it is...a bar!

used to be our favorite thursday night joint. they used to have half offcrablegs and 2 dollar 420 brews every thursday. life hasn't been the same without it. try their jambalaya and peanut butter pie. verry nice.