AND Fish Kitchen + Bar

Arrived at the hotel at 8pm from Fort Lauderdale airport after a 3 hour flight with our 3 year old son. Unfortunately, we didn't plan well and only ate a lunch so we were all famished by the time we arrived having eaten nothing since noon. I'm not a gourmet eater and neither is my wife. We ordered the soup, hamburger, ceviche, and fish tacos.

The soup was tasty and nice and warm, but not exceptional. The ceviche had good flavor but the fish was firm and over-cooked. It was not the experience I recalled when we first had ceviche in Santa Barbara, although possibly this was a different fish. The fish tacos were slightly bitter from charred fish and the tacos themselves were hard at places reminiscent of microwaved bread. The taco was otherwise bland and the best tasting part would probably be the tartar sauce, of which there was sparingly little.

The hamburger looked delicious, and had a generous portion of meat, but again the hamburger buns tasted stale or were microwaved, making the entire burger somewhat lackluster.

I've yet in my life to send back a dish, and tonight was the closest I've ever come with the fish tacos. I was very surprised at this because we were all very hungry, and usually that means whatever is placed in front of us would be tasty if not delicious. Hard to imagine how bad the food would have to get before we wouldn't eat it. I was still sightly hungry but couldn't stomach the idea of another stale burger so I just didn't eat. We ended up ordering 3 soups, the tacos, ceviche, and hamburger and total came out to a bit over $70.

I was very disappointed to say the least in terms of the quality of the food and the price. I wasn't surprised to see later the same items were on the menu for room service, available "anytime". This reinforced my suspicion that the food was simply reheated or microwaved.

If we had ordered room service, I could understand the quality but not for a sit down restaurant.

My wife really liked the French fries since they were not too salty unlike the burger. And finally, the staff were all very nice although it did take quite a while for the food to arrive (don't think this was related to service, suspect more food "preparation"). The bar seemed lively so maybe it's a good place to drink and snack, but not really dine.

UPDATE: My wife later suffered a sun burn and we lacked a car, so we ended up eating multiple times at this place. The second time I believe it was closer to typical dinner time (5 or 6pm) and I think the food tasted better, almost fresh and not microwaved. It's very possibly, then, that it depends on the time of day when you order your meal. I have to say, however, there was a long discussion and even investigation into local pizza joints that would deliver before we opted to eat here again.