Blue Wave Bar & Grill — Restaurant in San Diego

The view of the Yacht Harbor is excellent and relaxing. The bar staff is excellent. You can have a drink and appetizers and watch the shore birds hunt for their next meal and the kids learning to sail out of San Diego Yacht Club out in the channel. Wonderful! Under the previous Chef the food was traditional happy hour faire in the bar area and it was excellent. Everyone loved it. Recently, however, the Chef has been changed and I guess his goal and Bartell's goal is to take all us "sailors" kicking and screaming begrudgingly into the new contemporary world of Nouvelle Cuisine and it does not work for me or anyone else I polled for this review. For example, the prior chicken wings were great and just what you would expect from chicken wings at any good bar. Now they are served saute'd, not fried, and with an unpalatable sauce of yogurt and cilantro, ughh. Please go back to the...

This is the second time my wife and I have eaten at Blue Wave. We had a late lunch and sat outside on the balcony overlooking the pool and marina. My wife had the Mushroom Flatbread w/Pina Colada Margarita and I had the California Club w/ice tea. Both of these items were amazing. Everything was very fresh and very well put together. All you have are reviews to go off of. You can the flatbread and it not be good. Nothing is ever perfect, but I would recommend Blue Wave Bar & Grill. This was our experience so I hope it helps to decide. The hostess was very nice and also recommended some places for coffee and pastries when asked. We also had a burger one evening which was good, but I do have to say the bread was a little over seasond. They are located inside the Best Western Plus Island...

It was ok. I went for happy hour. One ginger beer was $6- would have been cheaper to get it w booze. The clam strips looked frozen and they were over cooked and dry. I asked for ranch which i never got. The clam chowder fries were interesting. A bowl of fries with clam chowder poured on top then some bacon crumbles and green onions. It was just ok. The chowder tasted like they took a can of Campbell's and added some bacon and cheese. I ordered the crab guacamole. The chips were good but the description said paprika dusted. Mine had zero. Also no lime. The dip was disappointing. It felt and looked lazy. It was a tiny scoop of a bland guacamole covered by a ton of crab chunks and cilantro, a few onion chunks thrown in there too. I was expecting something more incorporated. Won't...