Hurricane Grill & Wings-Fort Pierce — Restaurant in Fort Pierce

Hurricane at Jetty Beach again earns the coveted number one rating as Top Restaurant On The Treasure Coast in the 2025-2026 edition, just as it did in the previous one (2023-2024); I am the food reviewer for both. The quality and consistency of their food remains untouchable, which is quite impressive given the number of menu items. Head Chef Rich executes every dish that he makes with quality, technique, promptness, and love. Hurricane is a very casual dining establishment and does not in any way have the menu items or décor of a fine dining restaurant, yet the food is always of fine dining quality in taste and execution every time that Rich is in the kitchen, and fortunately, he is in the kitchen the vast majority of the time (when he is not, the food is still good, just not as remarkable). The quality of dining is unique to this Hurricane location only; if you eat at any other Hurricane, you will not get the same experience. Food always comes down, anywhere, to the chef who makes it, the quality of ingredients they prioritize, and their talent, hard work, passion, time commitment, and technical ability. The Baja Fish Tacos are the best tacos I have had anywhere; the cilantro lime crema that comes on it is just amazing every time, so I always ask for extra on the side as well. The Garlic Parmesan Wings pair so well with blue cheese (and they use the best blue cheese); I usually can’t eat much fried food, but the fries and wings at this restaurant are the best tasting that I’ve had anywhere, and I still feel great afterwards. They change their oil regularly, where too many restaurants in general unfortunately don’t. The Mexican Street Corn is great too.

Server Spotlight: I have dined at restaurants in different parts of the country and some internationally, and I have never seen a better server than Hannah; only one other waitress working today would even compare to her (she is on this list). Hannah brings a calm, friendly, and confident yet very humble energy and demeanor, with the best memory I have ever seen a server have. She will remember your entire order off the top of her head if you get something regularly, even with special additions like an extra side, and even after a long period of time has elapsed; her memory is remarkable, as is the care shown to her customers by making the effort to remember what they prefer. She is also an incredibly hard worker. What impressed me the most, though, is once seeing her deal with a person who was being very impolite in his tone, and who seemed intent on complaining rudely no matter how nice anyone was going to be to him; he would have exhausted the patience and resolve of any other server with the way he kept going on, but Hannah kept speaking to him so calmly and nicely, even more calm and nice than he was being the opposite of, that his tone eventually changed and he stopped. Nothing he said was able to change her tone, until her tone changed his; I’ve never seen that kind of graceful patience before or since. There is no server at Hurricane whose work I could say a negative thing about, but Hannah is the server who has by far been the one that has earned Hurricane’s five star service rating in our reviews, and for the second time.

Owner Spotlight: Co-owners Phyllis (also lead bartender) and Rich (head chef) work in the restaurant while co-owner Jeff does not. Phyllis is a great bartender with a loyal following of customers who appreciate her and speak highly of her, and she also sets the tone for all the servers as the manager of the front of house, as well as stepping in and being a server herself when needed. I observed last month an instance where a server had called out, the restaurant got full inside and outside, and it was just Phyllis and Rich working in the whole restaurant. The quality stayed as high as ever, and all the customers were very happy. It was a genuinely impressive feat.

Food: 5.0 Service: 5.0 Live Music: 5.0 Atmosphere:...

Started out great. Husband ordered blackened mahi sandwich and I ordered Chimichurri steak plus appetizers. Mahi came out grilled with zero seasoning. Phyllis our Waitress only offered to bring Cajun seasoning to sprinkle on it and this in when the problems started as it seemed to be such a huge inconvenience to her. I ordered steak medium rare but it came well done. She never came back to the table so I brought it inside and she told me at 5:30pm on a Saturday that there is no more steak to make a new one. We were starving so ate it anyway. It’s just very insulting that when the food comes wrong, nothing is done to make it right, no ‘I apoligize’ nothing and you get an I don’t care attitude. I am a very nice person and apologized to inconvenience her but it didn’t matter. Funny 2 other customers who came in after this happened and I was told they were out of , ordered the same steak I ordered and got it. I thought they were out of it? Out of a $84 bill we wrote down/were going to tip $30. Waitresses normally work too hard for their money to tip anything less. She then offered a desert to make up for it but we don’t eat sweets. Husband told me to get it anyway and she billed for it. Now you offered a desert or side ‘to make things right’ but billed for it? So that insulted me like why bother offering in the first place? Dropped the tip down to $20 but then decided by the end and saw being billed for the desert we didn’t even want In the first place, to take it off her tip and left a generous $10. And trust me. That was generous. Besides that though, the wings were phenomenal. Mahi was still juicy. The street corn came with no elote sauce on it and 5 pieces of cilantro on the bowl not stuck to the corn. I smeared whatever sauce they brought for my husband’s mahi onto the corn, which made it really good. The steak was very flavorful although dried out. Broccoli was delish. Iced tea was on point. Hurricanes is usually great just not this time with the I don’t care mentality we received. That’s why I didn’t give one star. The four times I had to walk in to ask for drink refills and problems with the food because she never came back, There were always two waitresses standing in there With their backs leaning against the wall on their phones while Phyllis was the only one who seemed to be keeping busy. That is the only reason she got $10. (As far as his mahi, you know that you have to cook it with Cajun seasoning to make it taste right and blackened, not just sprinkle some seasoning.) Bar was empty But it’s not like they were super busy to warrant this. FTR- When we go out to eat, we spare no expense and normally never have a bill under $100 and like to help out our servers and tip 50% but always tip generously even if it’s not 50%. This was not one of those...

Good Food. Good Service. I come here once a year to celebrate my son's birthday. (For 2yrs now). The only issue I've faced not once, but twice. When I got ready to pay the bill. (my bank automatically sends me a text of what gets charged to my card) The waitress automatically added a 20% gratuity to my bill and had already charged it. She denied this just like the server did last year. When I told her the same thing happened last year. And showed her the text on my phone from my bank. She looked shocked and proceeded to tell the other co worker "oh my God her bank automatically adds it in." Yeah because my "all seeing" bank knows where I'm at, what i ordered and how much tip I was going to add. Mind you, I didn't mind paying the 20% gratuity. However I do mind them taking it upon themselves to go ahead and charge my card at that rate on top of my bill. The thing is I tip BIG on such occasions. Especially if we get great service and we did. But the young lady that did this I have a tip for you.. Had you of not done this you'd of gotten more than $14 and some change tip. It would have been more. But since you felt entitled to just swipe my card for it anyway you lucked out. Word of advice for the tourists bring cash if you wanna control...