Blue Marlin Seafood Restaurant — Restaurant in Brandenton Beach

Not worth your money one bit!! The host was an older gentleman who was a very rude guy. We were seated outside it was more empty tables than full same for the inside. DO NOT SIT OUTSIDE! We had ants crawling on us my girlfriend spotted one on me and it wasn't a small one. I then later spotted one on her to have ants crawling on us wasn't okay. We wanted to enjoy the food so any time we spotted one we did our best to hurry and smack it off of us

For an appetizer we had a fish paste that still had bones and some fish scales which is dangerous girlfriend took a cranker added the paste onto it and ended up getting poked by a fish bone. Dinner at this point already seemed like it wasn't worth it.

I had the Grouper Fulford on one side it was nicely cooked on the other just seemed under cooked and very soggy. burpee carrots on the side which were just cut once long way and thats about i didn't taste any seasoning on them. Also came with rice and beans which just didn't taste good very bland no spices or seasoning.

Girlfriend had a burger for $18 nothing special at all about it or worth $18. meat wasn't some high end or anything along those line just a burger.

The waiteress was a sweet and nice girl just very pleasing to be greeted by after coming across the rude host. She definitely did her best to be a good waitress. The other waiters around us came off the same way greeting people and welcoming them and being very helpful with the menu.

Overall felt as if the owner gave a random person all the right ingredients but this person isn't a chef so the food is very bland but the price isn't. While writing the review still itching away. (Note to owner don't waste your time trying to reach out just fix the issues you have on your hands you have the right ingredients just need to use spices and seasoning and DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR OUTSIDE AREA!! mainly...

absolutely terrible experience at this place. we came in during the evening, we asked for a table for 4 outside. they came back asking us if 2 2-tables would be ok, of course it isn't, why would they ask that? once we were seated we had a great view of the live music, that part was nice. One person asked for a radler, half beer half sprite, no ice. waiter comes back with a drink that was 3/4 ice, very little beer, but we were still charged 7 for it. online prices do not match store prices, expect to add $10 to each menu option. I ordered shrimp and grits, my brother ordered amazing shrimp and grits from The Waterfront the day before, and for them being several dollars more I was expecting something similar or better. I would go with mediocre, especially for the price. One person asked for a spoon to help eat pasta, the waiter brought out a comical dessert spoon at first, then laughed when he realized what it was supposed to be used for. I'm pretty sure everyone working was drunk, it is the only excuse for their behavior. Food took 45 minutes to come out after ordering, they gave us a bowl of complementary edamame, but still unacceptable. After ordering my second beer, took another 25 minutes for them to bring it. Once we asked for our check they brought it out very quickly, but also made a mistake on one of them. Once we paid and had signed the waiter immediately came back and checked what we had written saying "just wanted to make sure everything looked good", it just felt very odd. The live band was really great, but that was not due to this restaurant. Unless something huge changes I know I will never come back here. There are tons of amazing places to go on the island, go...

The restaurant was almost empty, the sat us right next to the only other diners and right next to the front door. We asked to be moved and requested a table away from the front door, in the traffic area and not under the only vent in the restaurant. "Ronnie" one of the owners lied to us and said he had reservation for that table, if fact he had reservation for ALL the tables in that section all at 6:00pm! Then he put us in the back by the waiters station at a table so small we had to put the salt n pepper shaker and flower vase on the floor so we had room for our small dinner plates! When there were several other 2 person tables available that were bigger. We both feel he sat us there intentionally for requesting a different table. The food was good but to salty for my taste oh and my friend found a hair in his steamed clams and the portions were very small. Our waitress was very good and we gave her a great tip. All other staff was polite. Ronnie however is going to scare off return customers. Kinda spoils the dining experience when your spending $150.00 for 2 people to dine when one of the owners is a liar, rude and punishing you for requesting a different table. Oh when we left, it was 7:15pm, well after ALL the 6:00pm reservations were and not ONE table was occupied. I guess Ronnie is single handedly scaring off his customers! If your party is a party of 2 go somewhere else to dine. This restaurant is not a 2-party place to eat unless you want to eat in the corner by the wait station or right next to the front door and have the owner Ronnie be a rude prick...