The Palm Tree — Restaurant in Beach Haven

I wanted to love this place but it just came up short. And I think there are a lot of restaurants to explore in LBI. We were a party of 8 and tried many different items. I had the Jersey Shore Spaghetti and Crab balls, it came with 10 little neck clams along with mini crab cake balls and they were both just ok. The pasta was unseasoned. I was so excited to try this dish and it had the potential but just wasn’t it, was disappointing. We had the full crab cake and it was also just ok, too much breading in my opinion. I’m being genuine when I say we had the best crab cake at Terrace Tavern (a bar) and we were on a crab cake quest to see if there was a better one..unfortunately it wasn’t here. Also had the snow crab legs and they were kinda dry. For apps we had the pork belly as well as Philly cheese steak apps and they were good. To drink we had the Key Lime martini and it was good as was the coconut martini and the Spicy pineapple Margarita was really good. So I should’ve mentioned first, we had a reservation and our hostess didn’t seat us bc she had said our table was still occupied and didn’t know how long the current party would be seated but there were two empty tables right next to it and after waiting 20 min past our reservation we just asked that they push those two empty tables together and that’s what they finally did. Side note the group that had “our table” ended up being there as long as we were and pretty sure they had just sat down before we arrived. If we waited for them to leave we never would’ve ate. Other than that snafu the Servers were wonderful and someone at our table actually had a shellfish allergy and they took that extremely serious. But that’s the best I can say about the place so not sure I’d recommend or return. The food needs to be better, it’s not horrible but it’s just needs to be better than “ok”. The outside beach bar looked fun though and the...

Sat quickly but we’re ignored for 17 minutes, drink was super sugary but fine, waiter had to come back twice but still got our order wrong, over 30 mins to get 1 wrong dish & 1 “surf n turf” that was ground up meat mixed with lobster served in a novelty martini glass, with a brown sauce over it that looked like something I would feed my dog. Manager was unbelievably rude when I immediately told the waiter I don’t want to eat or pay for a $45 dish that looks like dog food. Literally shoved the menu in my face & told me I was rude for complaining. Been going to the shell for 20 years but the foods gone incredibly down hill as a restaurant, only go here for lunch. 0 stars for how incredibly rude their manager Younes is....

Nice looking place with a good menu. Was planning to order the surf and turf. We were quickly seated on the beach then completely ignored for 27 minutes. After we noticed the tables seated after us were being served, we let the hostess know nobody had come to help us yet. Waited another 5 minutes and watched another table that came after us have their order taken. Got up and left after 32 minutes of nothing. Will not...