Bluewater Grill Seafood Restaurant Santa Barbara

Good cocktails and food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My husband and I had a lovely dinner here. We started with a cup of clam chowder, a wedge salad. Both were excellent and I LOVE that they don’t put bacon in their clam chowder. I ordered the prawn linguine and my husband ordered the seared ahi tuna. All of the fish was cooked perfectly and both dishes were seasoned well. We’d happily come here again for lunch or with my parents for dinner. Mellow atmosphere overall but very pleasant!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

For a Santa Barbara location, I was expecting a little more on the food side. The fish and chips and blackened tacos came out dry when I specifically requested to cook it medium to medium well.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

We had a sushi roll and the swordfish. The roll was ok and the fish was not very good. I wouldn't go back. Nothing special about the ambience. Good service, nice wait staff.

Very nice restaurant, spacious tables and friendly staff. The salmon dinner came with large piles of plain spinach, mushrooms and potatoes au gratin that were average. The salmon was a bit overcooked and no seasoning or flavor. The seared tuna was good but very small dinner portion.

Great food we came in early. They were accommodating service was exceptional, and the outdoor views were amazing.

Great food and service. A bit noise but sometimes that cannot be avoided with families dining.

The food and service were excellent.I would highly recommend this restaurant.I will mention that the parking situation is not good at all. I had to park at the train station, a 10 minute walk away

We were really looking forward to this meal but the service absolutely ruined the experience. We started with a very attentive waiter but he introduced us a different server after taking our drink order. It took 15 minutes to get our drinks, which the initial waiter ended up bringing. It only got worse from there. The new waitress did not return to our table to take our order. Another 20 minutes went by. We had watched her visit with another table most of that time. She then, in passing, asked if we were doing ok. I said ‘no' and that we'd like to get our order in. Our food was brought out. It was average but would have been much better with more seasoning. Similar to other comments made in reviews. At no time did the waitress come back by to check in, take another drink order or fill water. We had been done watering for 15 minutes before she walked by after visiting with the other table for quite some time. She didn't stop. I had to stop her and ask for our bill. Unfortunately, we would not return when visiting again.

Really an amazing meal. Was not expecting much from a clam chowder and shrimp salad. Boy, was I surprised. 10/10. Such charming architecture too

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was good BUT we found not 1 but 2 hairs in our food. Completely incompetent to food preparation.

Food is a meh, particular the oysters. Pretty expensive.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 4

Fresh seafood and good service.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great food! Service was a little slow but they were busy so I can't fault them for that. Will definitely return though.

The atmosphere is very nice and the service was attentive and prompt. Unfortunately my tuna salad was not up to par: the bed of humus was old and sour and the greens were wilted. Luckily the rest of my party enjoyed their food.