Harborside Grill — Restaurant in Atlantic Highlands

We had a very disappointing experience at this restaurant. Despite the place being nearly empty, it took about 30 minutes just to receive our appetizer, followed by another 20–30 minutes for our entrees to arrive. When the food finally came, my steak, which I asked for medium, was nearly raw. The crab and spinach artichoke dip had barely any crab, and another dish came without the sauce it was supposed to have.

To make things worse, our server never came back to check on us after bringing the food. Once we were done eating, we waited around 20 minutes for her to return so we could pay, only to find her sitting in a booth on her phone. Even after asking for the check, she returned to the booth and didn’t come back for another 10–15 minutes.

Between the slow service, poor attention to detail, and underwhelming food, this was easily one of the worst dining experiences I’ve had in a long time. Definitely won’t...

This place is good for first date situations. Its relatively cheap for two ppl to come here and eat. The atmosphere is relaxed (when i was there) and the place seems clean and well run. No complaints there. Our server was dope. She was attentive and had a bubbly personality. No complaints. Food. Oh, the food. My entrée picture says it all. Steak and shrimp with mashed and vegetables. Should be simple enough. Nope! There must be a shortage of shrimp in the ocean because I got one. One shrimp for a 40 dollar dish. Like, I'm not a complainer, really, but one shrimp ya'll? One? You ppl can do better than that. Plus, the steak tasted sour and old. It also smelled funny. I had one bite and left the rest on the plate. I had some of the mashed and most of the vegetables and at the one shrimp. Still charged me full price for that. All in all, you come for the atmosphere. Definitely not the food. Hope...

I really hoped this would have been a positive experience as it is local for my father. Food was not good at all. Crabcakes were very greasy - lots of oil on plate and the crab cakes (mostly breading) had a distinctive old oil taste. Crab cakes were covered with 'CaJan' tartar sauce which tasted like 90% corn syrup - really nothing of a Cajun flavor. Unsweetened Ice tea was sickly sweet. Short rib ravioli was swimming in a bowl of milky 'truffle' cream - no truffle taste. Staff was very young and unfortunately not attentive - pleasant but not trained in table service. Men's room was not clean - water or urine all over the floor. Besides the men's room the ambiance was ok except for the blasting sounds of the TVs. The only nice part was that we ate on the patio and the weather happened to be very pleasant and the waiter did lower the...