Swain's Seafood and Cut Restaurant — Restaurant in Oak Island

Crowded usually and early. Great steak with one of the better baked potatoes around. You get 3 sides with a steak, and that makes a lot of food. They have homemade chips for the table start off. They were nice crisp and brown like i like them. Had a long list of dessert, and we took 2 home they also were top of their class. Its alittle pricey but a lot of good food. Give it a try 06/15/22 update. I guess I've been 4 or 5 times since this revie, andit'ss still great. I got the Mahi Mahi blackened with clam chowder and a Swains salad. All were grea, the Mah, as seasoned perfect and cooke, correct?. Clam chowder was outstanding. Wife got peel and eat shrimp and said they were prefect. Had to being some coconut cake home. One pc will feed 2 easy. I wanted Heath bar cake but it was the wifes brithday and she got to pick. The heath bar cake is great also. Didnt get a pic of the salads but did the rest 02/20/24 Tried to write a new review, but it wouldn't let me... Well, as normal .. It's a great place Lisa took very good care of us, and we didn't have to ask for anything. She kept our tea full, and that meant a lot. The chips for the table were great. I just put some pepper and salt on them. Next was clam chowder for soup of the day. And it was top-notch. I didn't know if I wanted steak or grouper because both are great here. Then, the early bird spaghetti with meatballs caught my eye. It was great. Of course we got coconut cake and pie. Each is 2 servings. If you haven't been...

Based on a recommendation from my sister, took her and our family of 8 for a Saturday night dinner. Had a reservation and we were quickly sat (+). My comments: We were sat tightly in a round table in the corner. Tough to get up if you needed to use the bathroom (-) Very slow getting drinks from the bar. Would have been a lot quicker to get up and get the drinks myself directly from the bartender (-) Clam soup was so salty it was inedible (-) (two people had this) Hushpuppies, potato chips, fried shrimp were hard, dark brown/ overcooked or the frying oil needed to be changed (-). I orderd the meat platter - the filet and the lamb chop were "sampler" sizes. Ridiculously small. (-) Smallest lamb chop I have ever seen. Seafood linguine was amazing - super large portion that was filled with fish, shrimp, scallops. Enough to easily feed two people. Best meal at our table (+) (my sister ordered this). Everything else we ordered was just "average." 3 x apps - fried pickles, fish bites, crab dip. Entrees - grilled shrimp. salmon. Nobody raved about any of these dishes. Just good, nothing really that special. As we were leaving I told my sister my thoughts, she agreed that it was just ok and said "maybe they just had a bad night." I don't mind spending $400 for a family meal, but don't believe this meal warranted my expenditure - again, just an average meal that cost a lot more...

We were shocked to see the positive reviews...maybe we caught them on an off night. Anyway, we were not happy with the trout (the sauce was sweet and not very complimenting with a savory trout) the blackened flounder my friend had was very dry, the chef basically didn't sear it and cooked all the juices out of the fish. The broccoli was listed as el dente but it was cool, and came in these very large florets, no butter and a bit harder than "el dente", so cool that the cold Pat of butter just stood on the vegetables in the container and didn't melt. The baked potatoes were also "el dente!", cool to the touch so much that the butter didn't melt on the crumbly insides, Needless to say we were very disappointed. In retrospect we should have returned all three meals as most of them remained uneaten. On the upside was that the server was very nice and good at her job as far as knowing what was detailed on their menu and the what specials were, being very attentive, and the place was clean The home made potato chips were also very good. A bit pricy for the quality of food this place had...and the chef did an awful job cooking and preparing the three entrees. That should never happen in any food service establishment. Sadly we do not recommend eating there. One of my friends in our party was an Oak Islander and was embarrassed that she...