Creekside Oyster House and Grill — Restaurant in Sylva

Honestly, I rarely leave reviews unless the experience is spectacular. This time I am making an exception. My mom and I were in town for her birthday and we had been hearing great things about this place. We get there at 6 pm on a Saturday so they were busy. Building is nice outside and inside. The host takes my name and says it will be 20 to 25 minutes. We were waiting patiently, but at 45 minutes the host says we can't seat you yet because our kitchen is behind due to a cook cutting his finger "the other day". First Im not sure why that was our problem and second why is a cut from the other day affecting us at that moment? An hour later, we were sat at our table. Our server, Melanie, was actually the best part of our experience and is the only reason I gave 2 stars for service. We order apps and then food. Takes 15 minutes for our apps to come out and they were the best part about the meal. Another 30 minutes goes bye, our sweet server kept checking on us and made sure we had plenty to drink, but we noticed everyone that was seated after us was getting their food. She kept saying your food is coming. After 10 more minutes, a guy comes to our table and says, "I'm sorry we had to go across the street and get ingredients for your ravioli and we are cooking it now." 🤯 another 10 minutes goes bye and they bring out my tuna and duck. ANOTHER 10 MINUTES goes bye and they bring out my mom's Ravioli. So over two hours after we walked in the door, we have our food which was very disappointing. Mom's Ravioli was not completely cooked, my sweet potatoes were cold, and my Tuna was very dry. However, the duck was very good! We told the server about the food. She came to us with the bill and I asked her if the manager was coming out. She said she had spoken with two different people about our food and they had nothing to come talk to us about! The manger didn't even think our experience was important enough to come out and talk to us. We paid full price just to get out of there! Needless to say, we will not be going back and I would NOT recommend the...

This restaurant had been recommended to as being one of the best in the area. It had the highest reviews. We arrived at 6 pm and were told there was a 20 to 25 minute At 45 minutes we were told they could not seat us because the kitchen was behind and the hostess had been instructed to seat no one else until the kitchen had a chance to catch up. The hostess stated the cut had cut his finger badly the other day. Not sure what that had to do with our being seated. After an hour we were seated. We ordered appetizers and in about 15 minutes they were served . We ordered the main course . After awhile we noticed others arriving after us had their food. After another hour my daughter’s food was served . She had roasted duck and tuna with swettpotato and okra black eyed pea succotash. She said the roasted duck was delicious but the tuna was too dry to consume. Ten minutes after her food was served I received mine. Prior to my food arriving one of the kitchen personnel came to the table stating they exhausted their ravioli supply so they had to go across the street to purchase ingrediants for my order. When my plate arrived, the food was Luke warm and the ravioli was aldente. It was a very disappointing meal. Our server was very attentive and apologetic for the sorry service we received. She stated she asked two different people, managers I suppose to provide a discount because of the sad food but she was told no. We paid full price of right at 100 dollars for a disgusting meal. Obviously the manager didn’t care about the customer or he/she would have been at our table early on . This restaurant will never serve us again and I would recommend it to NO ONE. I hope this manager is pleased with himself. He ripped a honest customer off. We should have left prior to being seated . This was our poor judgement!!!!! Don’t believe the reviews of this restaurant. They do not take care of their...

Found this place as was recommended by cabin rental company. We love seafood and menu looked good and prices reasonable for what they offer. Arrived early afternoon, after normal lunch rush so restaurant wasn't busy. We asked to be seated outside since it was a beautiful day. We waited just a bit to be seated. Alicia was our server, she started by going over the menu with us which was very helpful. We ordered drinks, which she always kept filled, and then ordered lunch of cups of soup and mains.

I had the clam chowder and hubs had french onion, which was the soup of the day. My chowder was amazing, probably the best I ever had. He liked the soup but the baguette slice with somewhat melted cheese on top was just ok to him.

For mains, I had the seafood platter and he had surf and turf with shrimp. Along with sides, it was a lot of food. I had shrimp, oysters, and calamari all fried. But the fry was very light and not at all greasy. Maple glazed carrots were so good, hubs kept eating them too. I also had fried okra which was good but due to amount of everything thing else something had to be sacrificed and not be finished.

His shrimp, like mine were all large gulf coast shrimp and perfectly cooked. His steak was a bit more "done" than he would have liked but he still said it was tender and good. He also had fries and hush puppies. Fries looked hand cut and were slightly crispy yet not overcooked. And the hush puppies were different than others I have had. When we come back, definitely may order those as an appetizer.

After all that food, and it was a lot, hubs had to have dessert because they had key lime pie. Generous slice with dollop of fresh whipped cream. Yum!

So, TLDR: food is amazing, our server Alicia was amazing, and if you eat lunch there you probably won't eat much...