fontaine's oyster house

great experience. goodfoodand great service. i was pleased with the dining experience. we had a tremendous young lady as a server who was great with my grandsons.

goodfood- mussels, oysters, crab legs, scampi, and key lime pie - all good. good service and fun eve.

not what i expected. we viewed the menu online and had decided on what to get, but when we get there, some of the items were not on there. then when you order a seafood basket, it does'nt come with fries. for $14 for 3 shrimps and 4 oysters without a side is not good. i rather take my money to bay breeze when you can get a big platter offoodand sides for the same price.

hubby and i stopped here just for drinks and oysters on the padio, planning to get dinner after -somewhere a little less casual. as we gawked at others entrees going by, we decided to stay for our main course. omg thefoodfar exceeded expectations, my sides (even the kale greens ) were to die for! highly recommend!!!

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

we were there on the night that half price snow crab is offered. we had the snow crab which 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.

lousy : weak service, very small half shell oysters.fried seafood taste frozen.foodvery pricey, very small portions.

ripoff. thefoodis good but don't order mixed drink without exactly what you want as the liquor in the drink. they water down the drinks & claim they gave us "crown royal". it wasn't crown as neither of us like crown as it is too sweet. very little whiskey in the drink & it sure wasn't crown royal.

terrible, terrible, terrible. wow, this is the worst meal i've eaten out in awhile. we can here because i was craving oysters, which we started off with. these were fine.
the really disappointingfoodwas in the entrees. i ordered an oyster po boy. the oysters were fine, but the bread was cheap and flavorless, the lettuce was watery and the "remoulade" basically tasted like mayonnaise. my husband's dish was even worse. he ordered creole. for $14.50 he received a plate of white rice, poured over with canned tomato sauce, 2 shrimp and 2 scallops. no spice, no peppers, nothing else. it was god-awful. not to mention insulting.
also ordered a manhattan. i'm pretty sure the bartender put grenadine in it. wow. wow is really all i can say.

on the fence.... ok, the service was great...thefoodwas 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 yourfoodis 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 steamed crab and 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!