FINS Seafood & Dive Bar — Restaurant in Cape Coral

My friend and I went to dinner at Fins on Del Prado. It was a place I heard that the owners were from Baltimore. I was too. I grew up in MD. I haven't been there so when we decided to go out to eat, I chose fins. First off, I ordered the buffalo chicken dip. I had it before from other restaurants, so I was expecting the same. I was hoping for the same might I say. Well got the dip, it cane in a bread bowl, which some places do. It was ok. Had a few tortilla chips along the side. $12.99 . Price was too high for what I received. The buffalo chicken dip had no chunks of chicken, was greasy, and was mostly cheese it looked like. Very disappointed. When I asked the waiter about the dip, he got the manager, who was nice, but said they puree it together( chicken, cheese and sauce) now who in their right minds does that to chicken dip. Maybe because they really don't use chicken at all. Or put any chicken in it. Very disappointed in that appetizer. Then I ordered the bacon, bacon jam burger. Haven't had one in a while, so I ordered it. As to the pictures below.it said to have bacon jam sauce on the burger. I ordered it just for that. We're from Maryland, brother has a food truck and uses the bacon jam on some of his food. This burger did not have it,had something they may have called bacon jam, but was just bacon. Then was supposed to have arioli sauce. Very minimal sauce. Very disappointed with the food. I will never go back there again. After spending $45.00 that's $9 something for tip. He didn't deserve that, but I felt bad and not sure he knew about the food. If he did, shame on him. My brother makes way better buffalo chicken dip and burgers than this place. If you want good food, I recommend finding a better place to eat for the price and quality. I don't mean to be harsh. But when we go out to eat, we want good food, quality food for the price, not misleading items on the menu. The pasta my friend ordered. Not sure it had what the menu said. It was Some sort of white fish. Check around for better...

March 2019

Fins Seafood & Dive Bar, Del Prado Blvd., Cape Coral, Fl., Here is my 2 cents on the food and chatter.

Well lets start by saying this is not a dive bar unless you talk about ocean diving.

This place is too expensive and too new to be a dive bar.

But food first. They make one of the best clam chowder around. Lots of clams, taters great flavor... Though adding chives on top is a unusual topping for chowder. A small bowl is 6 bucks.

My pink lemonade was 3 bucks. See where I am going,dives are usually a poor man joint.

I was feeling hungry. So I got the seafood platter. 18 Big smackaroos. At other eateries I would have leftovers for a doggie bag.

I will say food was good...Just not enough for what you should pay in a "dive".

I got 4 shrimp, 1 piece of cod & 4 fried clams. See my photograph with the fork for comparison of the size of this so call "platter'.

If you want a real seafood platter go to Skip 1 in Ft. Myers. Much more bang for your bucks.

Service was good food was good. Not so much good for your hard earned money.

Fins Seafood & Dive Bar, Del Prado Ave., Cape Coral, FL. Here is a bit of chatter and my 2 cents on my meal. I was en-route to a Cape restaurant Institute when Fin caught my eye. So lets see what the new kid on the block has to offer. I was coming off at carnivore binge , so seafood had my eye. My meal. A bowl of new England style soup & seafood enchiladas. Well the soup was excellent. Hot creamy & lots of taters with clams. A sprinkle of green chives on top. For my sides I got corn with roasted peppers. Pretty good. Then a Caribbean fab of black beans and rice. Add some hot sauce good to go. Now for the Star of the show. Seafood enchiladas. 3 warm tortillas filled to the brim with lobster, scallops and shrimp. Stuff with a wonderful cheese concoction. I was in nirvana . It was perfectly season for me as it was served. I did a big boo boo and added some hot sauce to a bite. I was so wrong. So when I am in the mood for seafood enchilada this is where I will go. My server was...

So our experience at fins was a little odd. We decided to try this place after friends of ours said their food was good at first the service was a little slow due to staff being out with hurricane preparations or having left town...which is fine we understood had no problem ordered a bottle of wine was going to sit back and relax and enjoy the $24 bottle of Riesling we ordered off their menu.... the only Riesling they had on their menu..... it was a wine we are familiar with so great ....enjoy! Our food came and we were pleasantly surprised it was tasty and we enjoyed it very much. Now for the bad part. Our check arrives and during the course of the meal we had noticed it was not the Chateau Saint Michelle we ordered but it tasted good so okay I wondered why no one had mentioned it and thought to myself I'm sure it's only going to be a $24 bottle of wine right? or else somebody would have mentioned it right? Wrong when the check arrived we had a $39.62 bottle of wine and also on the bottom of the check their tip calculations are incorrect and quite high I noticed this while we waited (quite a long time) to have the check corrected, with no manager ever approaching the table. I began to sign my corrected check and leave a 20% tip, my husband said well, that's not 20%, I said of course it is, but he was looking at the calculations on the bottom.... those helpful tips suggestions at Fins are off by about 5%....have pics... So in conclusion not sure if this is just an honest mistake or a little bit of a hustle after the wine it feels like a bit of a hustle so I'm not real comfortable about going back watch your checks folks just an FYI hopefully it's a mistake. Either way I think it's a bad policy to not come to the table after the mistake. I was pretty shocked that a manager never approached our table, which makes me think that maybe it wasn't a mistake. And that it was...