Whitney's — Restaurant in Longboat Key

We decided to go here for dinner last night after looking over the menu online and thought the pictures of the place also looked unique and cool. I understand restaurants have good nights and bad, and I understand they also receive good reviews and bad. We were very disappointed with our visit. They weren't very busy but the service was extremely slow and frustrating. Our waiter was not terrible but I think he should have spent more time focusing and paying attention to the customer's orders rather that belting out odd sayings and trying to be funny. Took quite a long time to get our drinks, we placed our order around 6:45ish, not a very difficult order. We ordered the fish tacos, kids chicken bites with fries, 3 steak sandwich entree's one plain, one with only cheese and one with onions on the side. Took over an hour to receive our food, when it did finally come out the 3 steak sandwiches were all wrong. They took my wife's sandwich back and said they would make another one right away and offered a slight apology. They took so long to remake her sandwich everyone else at the table had already finished dinner, at one point the waiter came back to the table and asked if it had come out correctly this time, not realizing my wife still had not received her meal and was still waiting. We had to ask for it to be made to go. The waiter came back out and stated that the manager wanted to give us a free slice of key lime pie. When he came back out with my wife's meal packaged to go he stated " they cut you the biggest slice of key lime pie and it was on the house". We didn't get out of there until after 830. Service sucked, way too long to get food, side note the fish tacos were terrible. I figured an item on the menu with 7-8 different ingredients on the tacos like corn, salsa and cabbage would have had some flavor but i was wrong. The food had no taste, very bland and fries were still raw. Got home and burst out laughing at the size of the pie, massive glob of whipped cream and underneath a sliver of pie. which was also gross and tasted nothing like key lime pie. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time or money here because that's exactly what it will...

This place has so much potential. Really great location and ambiance. With much better food and better service could be really great. We were our servers in not table for the majority of our visit. My wife had a spicy margarita which had no flavor to it. Tasted like jalapeño water. Not a well concocted beverage. However I sat with an empty drink in front of me for at least 8 minutes. While he was very friendly, he didn’t know what a bourbon was and was more preoccupied with being social with the other staff than he was paying attention to the table. The charred oysters we had were not good. Never had anything like this before, so thought we would try. But the combination of burnt with cheese and oysters was not a good combination. But that may be something you enjoy. I had the burger for an entree. The flavor of the burger was good and it had fresh tomatoes. However, the burger was smaller than the bun it was served on (which also was not very big). It was also overcooked. I asked for medium and received it well done. Although, with a burger this small, good luck cooking it to any temp. The shoestring French fries that came with it were a poor choice. I can get the same a steak and shake, only better. And the ketchup was served in a plastic portion cup. My wife had some kind of bowl with steak. Also was not that good and steak came out well done when she asked for medium rare.

Needless to say, but we will not be returning to this location unless there is a drastic menu change. With that restaurant feel, you could really do well with a higher end menu and some unique offerings to go along with the beachy chic feel of...

This place is a vibe. From the moment you walk in through the main entrance until you are seated, everything looks so good. The decoration and color scheme throughout the space is on point. Website has a great design which extends into the decoration of the restaurant itself as well. There is a lot of attention to detail which I’m sure translates into the amount of people inside and waiting for a table. We had to wait about 30 min for our table as it is first come first served. There was a firepit at the entrance which was nice to sit by. After a few minutes we then headed to the back where they have a set of cornhole. Even the cornhole set itself had their design on it, again… the attention to detail is impressive! We were then sat next to the bar and I would say smack in the middle of the inside area of Whitney’s (the outdoor seating looked like so much fun too!). The inside is very open so there was great flow throughout. We started off with the donut holes, which were phenomenal, perfect sweet and cinnamon sprinkled all over. We then started working on the guac and chips. Chips were fine, not really hot, not cold, average. Guac was also fine, tastes good but nothing mind blowing about it. LBK Bowl was good. Simple yet great. Then finished it off with the cheeseburger. Fries were crunchy and tasted great, burger was also another great pick. They’re known for it. Patty was juicy and cheese was melted to perfection. Lettuce was crispy too which complimented the texture of the sand which as a whole. There was also live music which further added to the whole vibe. It was a great meal at a great place. Can’t...