fontaine's oyster house

wonderful 21st birthday!. we had 12 guest for dinner last night where all had a great time from 10 years to mid 50's. the 21 year old enjoyed all the rawoysters(which were huge) he could eat, on to the shrimp bisque (still craving 1 more bite) to the muffaletta sandwich. oh i forgot the creamy peanut butter pie the waitress surprised him with. oops did i mention the very reasonable priced beer???
awesome time by all. and my bill was less than $150.. remember there were 12 eating.. we will be back very soon!

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 4oysterswithout a side is not good. i rather take my money to bay breeze when you can get a big platter of food and sides for the same price.

hubby and i stopped here just for drinks andoysterson 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 the food far exceeded expectations, my sides (even the kale greens ) were to die for! highly recommend!!!

even though the po’ boy here at fontaine’s oyster house are fantastic, theoystershere comes with a fantastic price tag but the uncleanliness of it is a major turnoff. hopefully they will do a better job at cleaningoystersin the future.

undecided.... stopped in for a quick and early lunch and had the place to myself. even on a bright and sunny day, the inside is somehow dark and smelling of smoke... maybe not a bad thing, just not expected.
i went out back to the absolutely fabulous deck that i could probably spend hours drinking and eating on if i lived close by.
for lunch went with the oyster poboy and chose the red beans & rice as my side.oysterswere very good, fried just the right amount of time... crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside and dressed with a nicely spicy remoulade. also very good was the beans and rice, very nice spice level and depth of flavor... not something i take for granted with this sometime very plain dish.
about my only concern was the lack of a crusty french roll for this poboy... the hoagie roll was a substitution embarrassing to anyplace trying to be cajun or creole. finally, on the fence about if 5 of these tastyoysterson a poboy constitutes a reasonable value or not... if the bread had been decent i'd have probably let the oyster count slide...

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

where to get good rawoystersin town?. when eating rawoystersyou want to keep a few things in mind. probably the most important is volume. do they do enough volume to keep theoystersalways coming in and going out the door, or do they keep them around for a while? at fontaine's, this clearly isn't an issue. they do a tremendous business in oysters, and the price is right!

in addition to oysters, the do a solid version of the po-boy, as well as a good red beans and rice. the nightly beer specials are also an excellent deal.

...a steaming hot plate ofoystersrockefeller a martini! sounds snobby to you? it isn't. cozy up to the bar and order a martini nice dirtydirty (you know that's how we roll) and some hotoystersrock:oysterson the half-shell topped with creamed spinach, three cheeses bread crumbs . so freaking delicious, it isn't. even. funny! here's a snapshot of slick my order from chops in buckhead on tuesday night:oystersrockefeller @ chops um yum! they are always amazingly delicious no matter where you get them (i mean, how could you go

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 disappointing food was in the entrees. i ordered an oyster po boy. theoysterswere 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.

good food, loved the lobster bisque and fried scallop poboy.oysterssampler was good. service was so-so

dirtyyy oysters!. i went there with my roommate this past weekend and to start off we each ordered salads! they were both very yummy! we decided to split the rockafellaoystersand with every bit there was a crunch...either the spinach they use or theoystersjust weren't clean it was disgusting! i still cant believe we actually paid $11 dollars for those...never again!

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 freshoysterswhile 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 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!

bloody mary's with oysters!!. great bloody mary's and any styleoystersyou want. came in on a hungover sunday brunch crowd, and left prepped for another night of fun. it was superbowl sunday too so the place was kind of dead. went in another sunday a few weeks later and it was packed to the gills.

i recommend highly!!!!!!!!