Fifi's on the Beach Seafood Restaurant — Restaurant in Miami Beach

Over-priced low quality rubbery seafood. I am local to the area and i LOVE my local restaurants with a passion and up till now haven't had a bad meal. I decided to save a pricier Fifi's 1st visit for a special occasion with my daughter in town (tonight). The ambiance, scenery and service were fine at Fifi's and that is probably the hook/line/sinker for out-of-towners on the strip but the seafood quality for the price was absolutely terrible. Our table of 4 (my treat) shared the $20 creamy scallops for an appetizer which has a mix of mushrooms creamy sauce and scallops and perhaps some other items. All of us at the table agreed the 1st bite tasted like someone dumped a salt shaker into our mouths. You couldn't taste anything other than table salt. Two of us had the $50 for two seafood medley for the main course and the other two smartly decided to switch gears to chicken and rice because of the lower quality of the appetizer. The texture of all the seafood from the appetizer to the entree was the same... extremely chewy/rubbery with everything except the baked fish which was just bland and little taste. Nothing truly tasted fresh, and even the shrimp was ok but had a fishy taste unlike most any ordinary restaurants or at home shrimp I could make myself. To be fair there was some squid which i just don't care for no matter where i go so i won't knock it but one of my dinner companions who normally likes squid once again got hung up on the extra chewy toughness and the way it was overly cooked. The salad, bread and mashed potato side were good nothing spectacular but good no complaints and unfortunately the highlights of the meal. I love good seafood and my normal similarly priced place i go to was closed today for the Holiday's so i decided to give Fifi's a chance and in the end it was unfortunately a terrible food quality experience. (Sorry i don't leave bad reviews or complain unless something is truly catastrophic and...

Highly disappointed and outraged, I’m pescatarian so I only eat seafood when it comes to meat. Despite the reviews my husband and I, decided to give this restaurant a try. Due to us hoping there will be a variety of seafood for me to choose from. The greeting outside, trying to enter the restaurant was so disrespectful. The employee stood in front of the door and didn’t move. We asked him if the restaurant was open and he answered yes and still stood in front of the door. My husband nicely ask if we can go in please, inside the restaurant the staff stood their looking at us giving us a weird look, we were well dressed, and wondered why the started. Passing the only group of people’s in the restaurant which were caucasian, they gave us dirty looks until we sat at our seats. Seated at a table, we were rushed to order the food, husband and I debated if we still should stay due to the improper treatment. When the food arrived, it was not appealing and tasted unappetizing. We just made the best of the night, no one really paid us any attention, at this point we were the only ones in the restaurant. Leaving no one said bye or showed us any type of respect. I WILL NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO WASTE THEIR TIME OR MONEY GOING HERE, horrible customer service, and food. I just cannot get over the looks we received upon entering the restaurant from the workers and Caucasian group, they made sure we knew that we entered the wrong restaurant, we belonged some where of lower standards. I am an African America woman and my husband is a Hispanic male. We feel very disrespected and no one should ever feel this way. When they are spending their hard earn money to have an wonderful night. We went to this restaurant Thursday, December 21,...

The seafood was very good and fresh. Our waiter, a lady, was very good and attentive, at least at the beginning; a little less at the end, but good. The place is pricey, which is fine and obvious from the menu. What is not transparent is the bill as it is purposefully made to scam tourists or people who do not pay attention. Most Miami places add a standard automatic 18% gratuity and then put an option for ADDITIONAL gratuity, usually at 3%, 5%, 7%. This is understood and clear in all restaurants and bars. In this place they bury the 18% automatic gratuity in a second page bill and do not call it gratuity but a fee, then they add a credit card fee (relatively steep), and then, in the general bill for the customers, they put a SUGGESTED (note: not called additional but SUGGESTED) tip at 15%, 20%, 25%, as intimating that this is not an additional one but the basic and only tip. If you do not pay attention and you like the food and tip 25% (as we almost did) this is calculated on the total bill that includes the "service" charge and the credit card charge, that, in our case, would have amounted to a staggering 60%+ on the bill... This is deceiving, very low class and cheap for a place that makes its name from high quality cuisine. Transparency is the key, NOBODY is afraid of tipping 25-30%, but EVERYONE is turned off by cheap tricks to get an extra few bucks. To top this, when we asked clarifications to a young waiter (a little boy, not our nice lady waiter) he was arrogant, rude and talking over us as he had a stake on this. In summary, you might have good and fresh seafood and a great cook, but this does not make it up for lack of transparency and low...