Boondocks Grille and Draft House — Restaurant in Ramrod Key

Don’t let the reviews fool you. This was our first and will be our last time that we’ll ever come here. Our server, Ashley N. was very antisocial and seriously lacked social skills. After we found a place to sit, she came to our table and brought us our menu and four waters. She never greeted us or addressed who she was or anything, she just walked up to the table and stood there. After a few moments of standing there she said, do you want anything to drink or are you going to drink the water that was brought to you. We ordered two beers and an appetizer she took that order and just walked away. When she came back to the table to get our order, she just stood there again and not saying anything for a moment and then she abruptly said “are you ordering appetizers or are you going to order off the main menu”. We asked her if she could give just give us a moment because we’re still looking at the menu. She just walked away not saying anything like sure , take your time or let me know if you have any questions. When we were ready to order, my husband asked her how was the Gouda Bacon Ranch Chips and she looked at him dumbfounded and said “It’s chips with Gouda Cheese and bacon”.

Our appetizer and food order was correct, but she only checked on us one time and that was as soon as our food was brought to our table. The food was mediocre nothing spectacular.

When she brought us the check we brought it to her attention that we weren’t charged the “happy hour” prices for the items we got, she said “ok, I’ll get it fixed” and acted like it was such a huge inconvenience and just walked away. She came back with the corrected check and my husband was looking at it to make sure it was correct she just stood there looking annoyed. My husband asked her about a charge on it and she literally looked at him as if he was stupid and pointed on the check and didn’t say anything. After we paid and tipped we left. Again, no apologies for the mistakes or acknowledgment that we were leaving.

Because of her attitude and lack of socialization skills we will not come back. I could understand if it was busy when we came and she was wide open with waiting on tables, but it was dead in there. If the service had been better and the food was still mediocre there would be a chance that we might have came back because the “happy hour” specials weren’t bad at all, but that won’t...

The food here was fairly good for the most part. Service was nice and the atmosphere was very nice and open. Very unique!

The food: The loaded waffle fries appetizer - hard pass. Barely had any toppings and for the price very underwhelming. The waffle fries as a side, not bad and made in house.

The Chopped Salad: Tasty but for $16, it is basically a large side salad. For a single dollar more you can have the Cobb Salad. 2.5/5

The Cobb salad: easily twice the size of the chopped salad, but also includes a whole egg, chicken, bacon and cheese. Highly recommended this option for someone wanting a good salad. $17. 5/5

The Ruben sandwich: Greasy, hot and melty. You definitely don't want to have your cholesterol checked after this one. Although tasty, your hands turn into a drip tray of grease. I went through 3 napkins eating this sandwich. My only wish was that it had more sauerkraut, the (what seemed to be) 1oz portion of sauerkraut was lackluster. So much potential here. 3.5/5

The keylime pie: Bad. Seriously bad. One of the worst I have had. It is below frozen food grade. The only way to describe how bad this pie is this: Marie Callender's key lime pie (frozen) Burger Kings Hershey Chocolate pie (mass produced and slightly tastes like chocolate chemicals) Boondocks Keylime Pie. The pie itself does not taste like much, barely has a crust and is VERY disappointing. Embarrassing actually. .5/5

3 layer mint ice-cream dessert: it was HUGE! The flavors are good but I am pretty sure it is Hershey mint chocolate chip ice-cream. If it is not, it is VERY close. It is ice-cream, chocolate, crumbled (oreo) cookies whipped cream and a few cherries. Definitely something 2 -3 people can share. Flavor was good. Nothing exciting about it aside from the size. 3/5

Overall I would recommend at least a stop in during your stay. Food was good, staff was friendly and the environment was very unique. Lots of TVs up for all kinds of sports coverage. Come here with average expectations and they...

Okay so we’ve ate at almost every restaurant in the keys. We all work in restaurants/ bars and oh my god ignore the billboards on the way to it. This is the most mid restaurant I’ve ever been to. Maybe if the owners spent more money on food quality and less on aesthetics they’d be more successful.

We ordered Mac and cheese, lobster Mac, and a double bacon burger. For starters the entire lobster tail is just thrown on room temperature Mac and cheese noodles with all the sauce pooled on the bottom. Not to mention the price for having to essentially prepare your own food is ridiculous. We had to pull the lobster out of the tail (whatever) and mix the noodles with the cheese sauce ourselves. For 45$ could of done something different there. Secondly the burger was over cooked on dry bread. Grease dripping all over the plate, and running into the fries making them soggy. To top it off when the server refilled our water she refilled it with water that had been sitting out all day and it was WARM. warm water that melted our ice so to wash down the driest Mac n cheese and burgers you had warm water. Very expensive for the quality. Again we work as servers, food runners, bartenders and back of house people and everything could of prevented with better care and quality food. I would not waste your time or money here. Maybe don’t let the food sit under the lamp for that long? Make sure the water your serving is cold? Let the burgers drip before slapping on bread? And don’t just throw a whole lobster tail on top of dried out Mac and cheese that’s been sitting there waiting for the other food… mind you it was dead. There was nobody even there so I’d excuse this if it was dinner rush but it was 3pm on...