Garage Seafood and Steakhouse San Pedro Belize — Restaurant in San Pedro Town

Lipstick on a pig.

The place is a compound of 7 or so shipping containers. 3 form the dining room, another shipping container 20 feet away outside is the kitchen. Another yet is the customers bathroom (watch for falling toilet parts). The rest is a sort of shanty town with bunk beds, where the staff lives. A thin coat of paint with random hand painted words all but fails to spruce the place up.

Food-wise, the experience is very much priced undeservedly high. $90 steaks come in 6-8oz portions (allegedly 8oz). Out of our table of 10, everyone got steaks. Every single one of them was overcooked (ordered rare or medium rare and all showing up north of well done). The accoutrements are a joke; the most expensive steak comes without anything else but sauce. The others are served with beyond mediocre mashed potatoes, a wee chunk of steamed carrot, a small steamed cauliflower floret and a 1/3 of an asparagus. The special steak sauce was bland and somewhat unsavory, boring at best, funky tasting at worst. As though it’s trying to be the kind of steak sauce you’d find in a real steak house. It only succeeds to be barely acceptable - all at our table opted to eat their steak without using the sauce.

It’s fine dining portions and prices but without the fine-dining quality, leaving you both hungry, unsatisfied and feeling a bit conned. The veggies are not just near inexistent but also bland and boring. It could be a forgiveable experience if they didn’t charge Michelin 5-star prices.

The lipstick on a pig approach will fool most tourists once. After which only the sour taste of a massively overpriced and mediocre dining experience will remain, guaranteeing they won’t come back. It’s probably the idea,

My advice: Keep your money and enjoy the plethora of much cheaper and much tastier food options all...

The food is good. We arrived about 6 for a 630 reservation. We asked to sit upstairs but we were told it was closed. However, 20 minutes later a table for 6 who had a reservation, came ïn. They were seated for like 1 minute and one of them stood up and said, " we are going upstairs". They got up, refused to sit and then we heard them go upstairs.

Ok. Then the service. We ordered from the wine list a French Sauvignon Blanc. The waiter brought the bottle and just poured it. He didn't show the label or anything. I asked if this was the wine I ordered and he said yes. It wasn't cold so it had to be put in the freezer for a bit. When it came back, I took a look at the bottle. I pointed out to a second waiter that this was a Chilean sav, not the one on the list. He said, " oh yeah well, we don't have anymore of the one you ordered." And they charged the same price for the wine as for a French white Bordeaux? Go figure!

We had valet parked our golf cart. When we were arriving I asked if there was a ticket. They said it wasn't necessary. Then when we were ready to leave, they brought the wrong cart ( same color). Luckily, I checked the plate. It wasn't ours, ndd the Parking attendant said, "oops, that wasn't yours, it's theirs". Then a couple of women came out an said, "thanks for not taking ours".

All these issues and they weren't even busy.

Terrible service. Reasonably good food. I cannot recommend...

It is such a pleasure to write this review for Gicel and his team at Garage Seafood and Steakhouse in San Pedro, Belize. I am a tad hesitant to sing the praises this restaurant deserves for fear during my next visit, there will be no room for us at this outstanding and charming steakhouse. But, Garage truly deserves these words so I will have to risk what may happen to us "little guys" once the business takes off as warranted. Located "over the bridge" in San Pedro, it takes a small amount of perseverance to get there but it is every bit worth the journey. The service from our server, Ezekiel, was outstanding and the food was indeed the best we have eaten in our trip to San Pedro. The decor and theme of Gecil's great steakhouse is fun and eclectic with so many uses of car parts and automotive lore. Nevermind that the steaks live up to every expectation. I was a little concerned after having eaten some very overdone lobster the night before at another restaurant. Thinking that perhaps the palate of the San Pedro Belizean leaned a little well done, I was hesitent to order the beef. But, Gecil and his great team came through. The steaks were perfectly cooked and the sides were amazing. Everything about our meal was outstanding. I cannot recommend you visit Garage more highly. Gecil is special, his food is amazing and he is for sure on the start of a great...