3rd & Ferry Fish Market

I had gone here a few years ago and remembered I enjoyed it and had always wanted to go back since. This year for my birthday, I decided I wanted to go here. My boyfriend called 2 weeks before to make the reservations for 6 pm on a Saturday night. We arrived about 5 minutes before 6 and the host told us it would be a few minutes wait until they got the table cleared. For us, that’s no problem. Do whatever you have to do. While we are waiting there are several people also coming in for their 6 pm reservation and several walk ins coming in to see if they can be seated. All the walk ins mostly left because of the wait. Everyone that had 6 pm reservations had to wait 15-20 minutes for their tables. When my boyfriend and I were finally walked to our table, we were taken down to the basement that only had seven tables in it. Normally, that sounds great! Nice and intimate. This wasn’t the case… the room was as bright as a dentists office, the music being played was not the same music being played in the restaurant upstairs, and it wasn’t even the same vibe as the restaurant. It was so bizarre. They didn’t even try to make this separate place as part of the restaurant. If felt like we were in an overflow room where they didn’t care about the diner’s experience. We felt very excluded and were extremely disappointed.

We were very upset about our ambiance but our experience just kept getting worse as the night went on. Our waitress barely came to check on us and when she did she made it seem like a burden. Didn’t explain anything to us. My boyfriend and I love trying all sorts of oysters so we were looking forward to trying some here of course. The waitress didn’t explain how the ordering system worked for the oysters so it became confusing when we were trying to ask what to do. We ended up ordering 2 of three different varieties. When they came out, a bus boy dropped them off. No explanation about which oysters were which and our waitress never stopped over to ask if we had questions. We loved two of the varieties but couldn’t tell you which ones they were so that was really frustrating. We would have come back just for the oysters at the bar!

As for the entrees, my boyfriend ordered the filet with the imperial crab topping and I ordered the Alaskan King Crab legs. Both came with French beans and a carmalized shallot whipped potatoes. Neither side was seasoned and the potatoes certainly weren’t caramelized shallot enriched. My boyfriends steak wasn’t seasoned either and the crab on top was almost like a crab cake mix and not just crab meat. My crab was over cooked. Sweet but slightly chewy. Our appetizer were great though.

Our entire meal was over $200. Which is exactly what we expected to spend for our drinks and food. It’s just a shame that we spent all this money on a place that clearly doesn’t care about the diners experience. My boyfriend felt so bad for me that he actually said he wanted to take me out next weekend to make up for our night here. We usually indulge in dessert and after dinner drinks too but needed to get out of there we were so upset.

This is the first review I have ever written and never thought I would write one but this experience was beyond disappointing for us.