Peter's Fishery — Restaurant in Matawan

We went to Petes Fishery for Dinner and was greeted by the chef who asked Do you know who I am? and then proceeded to tell us and brag about the famous chefs he knows. We ordered the Frutti Del Mar and while the fish was cooked perfectly the amount of garlic used so overwhelmed the dish that you couldn't enjoy the fish. THe fish itself was not seasoned, and if it was it was so overwhelmed by the garlic you wouldn't know it. 1 of my group ordered the whole snapper. Well again the fish itself was not seasoned, yet it was swimming in a garlic sauce. Now everyone in my group loves garlic, but the heavy handed use of it just drowned out any type of enjoyment of the dish. The snapper was served with a bruschetta like salad which again was more like a garlic salad with green leaves for color. We were told that the only 2 desserts available were bananas foster and Berry dessert. No more rice pudding or the pastachio dessert. No more cappochino. Our group was not impressed with the chef's culinary over use of garlic Next time we will stay with the tried and...

The Good: My son ordered chicken parm and he said it was delicious. His plate looked good, nice portion, was hot, and I’ll take his word about how delicious it was. He ate it all. Also, I order the stuffed shrimp for dinner and overall thought it was very good, better than average

The Bad: This was our families first visit. Place looks like a diner and could use some refreshing of the decor. However, that is not a deal breaker. More importantly: Waited a long time for our meals for 4 of us. My one son got cold French fries with his chicken tenders. Shrimp cocktail appetizer was dissapointing. Shrimp was tough and slightly warm. Not good. The Fried Calamari was not as good as I am accustomed to. Too many tentacles with the order and it was bland, a little greasy, and not crispy enough.

Overall about 3 stars I believe is a fair assessment. I wasn’t Impressed and probably wouldn’t go back. Unfortunately the negatives outweighed the positives this...

New ownership and new name, Pride of the Sea, they have a long way to go. Will try them again in 6 months to see if they've fixed their many issues. Greek salad way tooo much dressing on it. Bacon wrapped scallops tasted very good but they cut the sea scallops in half and wrapped them giving you 5 on the plate for $9, lobster bisque little lumps and no chunks of lobster at all and on the thin side, crab cakes all filler (had to search for chunks of crab), garlic shrimp tasted good but it was luke warm at best. We told the waitress bring everything out as it was ready, don't hold it waiting for everything else. We were never asked how everything was. I'm guessing waitress new at waiting tables. Aggravated that they want to charge a $2.00 service fee if you use a credit card. If you use your card as a debit card, it doesn't charge it. Not cool at all. Last restaurant that did that I never went back and they are now out...