Charlie's Seafood Restaurant
Virginia Beach, VA 23451-1120
Phone: (757) 481-9863
User Reviews for Charlie's Seafood Restaurant
05/04/2008 Posted by NorfolkNewby
If I could give this restaurant no stars I would!!! DO NOT GO HERE!!! First of all, I have no idea how this restaurant even passed the health inspection. It's filthy on the outside and even worse on the inside. We sat at 2 different tables and they were just filthy and sticky. The tables had not been cleaned in probably days, the floors needed to be vacuumed, the restroom was beyond disgusting! I've seen so many cleaner ones at rest stops and gas stations! Second, The food was over priced and fishy. The side dishes were NOT fresh, I'm sure they had been re-heated over and over. They boast they have won awards for their $4 "She Crab soup". It's nothing but Clam Chowder made with crab... 1oz of soup for $4? NOT WORTH IT!!! Third, I was completely baffled by the servers inability to answer our questions on what a particular dish was, or what something tasted like. Her excuse "I've only worked here for 2 weeks" or "It's not in season so no one's asked me that". My grandfather asked what Roe was... The server didn't even know they were fish eggs. Come on, you work their, you should at least know that. Fourth of all, they think WAY too highly of their stuff. We had a party of 6 and had a $103 bill. They're ridiculously expensive. We would have been MUCH better off going to Caption D's or Long John Silver's... Plus, what really got to my mother, they seriously charge 25 cents a hush puppy! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? You go to a Mexican restaurant and they give you free chips, or an Italian restaurant and they give you bread sticks... But they charge a quarter a hush puppy that they AUTOMATLICY put on your table and don't even ask you if you want them??? I have, honest to God, never been so disappointed in a restaurant visit before. Please do yourself a visit and avoid this place like the plague! There are so many better restaurants in the area. Please don't waist your time or money with them.
Pros: Decent local, right off of Shore Dr... And no waiting seeing how the place is dead.
Cons: Filthy resurant and restrooms... Horrible service... Blan, frozen, mushy, NASTY food!!!
11/14/2005 Posted by capricorn64
This place has the most over-hyped reputation that doesn't deliver at all. I took my wife out there and was very, very disappointed due to promising here a local treat! To begin with it was pathetic in its cleanliness and service was slow. The salad was bland and so was their featured seafood dishes. Now, the supposedly award-winning she-crab soup was a watery, cold and basically flavorless substance in a tiny bowl for an inflated price. I have had head and shoulders store bought b-grade canned she-crab soups-just add milk above their supposed award-winning she-crab soup!!!
Cons: gravel parking, dirty tables
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