Lighthouse Cafe Inc — Restaurant in Key Biscayne

I always wanted to go to this place and I had high expectations. Lighthouse Cafe is not what I expected.

SERVICE Terrible. The waitress look at me when I arrive and asked me: "do you need something?". Well, I guess a table -I thought-. The waitress was not friendly and attentive. She never came to me during the mealtime to ask me if I need something else. I actually needed more water. I asked her to please bring first the appetizer, then the main dish. She brought everything at the same time.

QUALITY The appetizer was Lobster Bisque with a lot of salt. Not meat and little pieces of lobster at all, very greasy. The main dish was mahi mahi and rice with beans. She told me there were only one side and it came with two sides, so could pick my second choice of side. The other side was a salad: a lot of onion and lettuce and olive oil, that's it! The fish was tremendously salty and it terrible, not fresh. It was like a piece of rubber. The rice was ok.

PRICE Well, considering that the restaurant is located by the beach and it must be expensive to transport all the food, the price should be ok. But, for this quality and the terrible service it doesn't worth a penny.

LOCATION The restaurant is located at the end of Key Biscayne, you need to drive a lot from the beginning of the bridge. It's behind the beach, so you can walk from the sand to this restaurant.

SUGGESTION I ate long time ago in a restaurant by the marina that is close to this place. It was good and nice. If you are really hungry you have this option near to the beach. It's a long walk, you might want to take the car.

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I visited for the first time today. The beach was very lovely and beautiful. For the most part it was peaceful. It got a bit crowded at some point but it’s a Sunday on a pretty weekend so that’s to be expected. While it was an enjoyable place to be I have to say the food was terribly disappointing quality for the prices. I paid just over 60 dollars for 2 orders of chicken fingers (3 pieces of chicken and a handful of fries) and one side of mozzarella sticks which was 4 sticks and a small side of marinera sauce. The same food quality and amount you could pay 20 dollars for at basically any other place. At the time to pay the bill I paid the total for the meal and returned the receipt to the lady at the counter because we hadn’t even sat down to eat it was a plastic bag with takeaway boxes. I put down no tip and the lady came back asking why I wasn’t going to leave a tip. Because I wanted to be left alone I put down 2 dollars for the tip and left. Building up a 60 dollar tab by ordering 6 chicken fingers some fries and 5 mozzarella sticks all in a plastic bag is pretty lame. Even lamer is handing me said plastic bag over a counter and demanding a tip for the “service” of handing me it. As beautiful as the beach was I don’t think I will be returning at any time. Fairly unprofessional ladies work the nearby restaurant and it’s just not worth what the prices are set at for what you receive service and food wise. If you’re bringing your own food you’ll probably have a...

Besides being overpriced (fish sandwich with a small piece of mahi mahi) for approx $16-17, the staff was rude and only a few barely speak english. After they served my small sandwich that came with tomatoes and lettuce, I asked if I could replace my tomatoes as they gave me the ends of the tomato with a couple slices of the middle of the tomato. I put the ends on a plate and returned them. They finally brought out a couple slices about 10 minutes later.

When I got the bill, they charged me for extra tomatoes. I told them I didn't order extra tomatoes as they were replacements of the end of the tomatoes. They continued to argue with me (how cheap) instead of just taking the $2.50 charge off. I was also there scouting locations for a future event as they have a few venue spots in the park. However, the way the staff handled that and the very unprofessional follow up made my decision easy to plan my event somewhere else. If they are arguing with me over something so easy, it shows you the lack of customer service and most probable issues and over charging for a private event. My friend who I was there with ended up just giving them $2.50 to get us out of there and to enjoy the rest of our day instead of dealing with this petty place and staff.

My suggestion is to avoid and stay away from this place and their other venues at the park in...