West 82 Bar And Grill — Restaurant in Crystal River

This was a very disappointing dining experience. We do not recommend it.

My wife and I had reservations for dinner here. There was no problem with being seated as we were one of three or four tables in the entire restaurant. I guess the locals knew to avoid the place?

The restaurant positions itself as fine dining, yet very little about the experience offered substance for that claim. Our server was nice, but a bit slow. I suspect she was the only person waiting on diners, so that would explain the relative slowness.

The appetizer was good, but the dinner rolls were cold. The entrees and sides were poor. My seafood platter had over-seasoned shrimp that was so salty, I could not finish them. On the other hand, the scallops had no seasoning at all. The scallops were a perfect match for the unflavored scalloped potatoes. My wife's filet was overcooked, but at least seasoned properly.

After dinner tea choices lacked any kind of English black or Early Greys, but they had an ample supply of Lipton(!) tea.

The dessert, a slice of cheesecake, took nearly 15 minutes to arrive at our table.

With one drink each for the two of us, our bill totaled about $150 before tip or tax. Frankly, we could have had a better meal for half the cost by finding a Longhorn or other chain restaurant. Based on this experience, we skipped breakfast the...

I made a reservation on Mothers Day. This was not a Mothers Day dinner it was a birthday celebration as I had missed my birthday dinner due to my daughter having an emergency c-section and my grand baby being in the NICU. The website stated that there was a Mothers Day Brunch up until 5pm. You weren’t able to make the reservation for brunch but there was availability at 5pm onwards for dinner. So I made a 6pm reservation. Upon arriving I was told they don’t have our reservation but no matter - they had a table that they could get us onto shortly. I said fine - sounds great. Upon being sat at our table we were told to help ourselves to the buffet. I told the waitress that I didn’t want the buffet, we wanted steak and appetizers etc. she said sorry that they were only serving buffet. We left very disappointed after I have been running around back and forth to the hospital for the past 3 days and just wanted a nice meal and to be waited on. The website was very deceiving and the fact that even though I have an email reservation, they didn’t have my reservation should have made me leave immediately, instead I wasted 30 minutes at bar and table before getting g up and leaving. The waitress didn’t offer any opportunity to speak to a member of management. I would not recommend this...

West 82 states they serve “fine American and seafood”. When looking at their limited menu, we were initially impressed. However, after entering the restaurant on a Friday night during what would be dinner rush we find a nearly empty dining room. Our waitress was very friendly. Staff was very kind. However upon ordering, our mwere quite the opposite. The filet that I ordered was clearly put under an iron on the flat top and was mostly over cooked. The quality of the steak itself was poor, apparent by the fact that the meat seemed to have been frozen prior, and was an unappealing grey color along the periphery of the cold red center. It tasted very bland, like there was no seasoning, not even on any of the surfaces that it touched. The mashed potatoes, which hadn’t been specified as garlic, were passable. But who can really mess up a potato? The broccolini was lukewarm and unpleasant. Very unfortunate experience considering that they charge fine dining prices for food that is...