Food was only decent. And they gave me some mystery sauce. It was hands down the worst sauce I've eaten. I was told it was theirvoo doo sauce. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with taste buds. Ribs were ok though.
John harris
Ive always had a great experience across the board with Gator Dockside.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Gary
Great service. Food was good. Great atmosphere
Bob
Hands down the best service We’ve had at Gators Dockside
I don’t usually leave reviews, but I had to after the experience we had tonight. Our waitress, Lily, was absolutely incredible from start to finish. She was so polite, genuinely kind, and made us feel welcomed and taken care of the entire time.
Every recommendation Lily gave us, we loved. She clearly knows the menu inside and out and actually listens to what you’re in the mood for before suggesting anything. Everything she recommended was spot-on and made the meal even better.
She was attentive without hovering, checked in at just the right times, kept our drinks full, and made sure we were happy throughout the night. Even when it got busy, she stayed calm, helpful, and upbeat, which really stood out.
The food was great, but Lily’s service is what truly made the experience. Employees like her are a huge asset, and it’s clear she takes a lot of pride in what she does.
She went above and beyond for our family, turning on our football game, keeping the kids entertained, and keeping everybody happy. Lily took excellent care of us our whole visit!
We’ll definitely be back and we’ll absolutely be asking for Lily again. 👏👏👏
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kim Evans
Good food good service very busy atmosphere
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jeff
We attended a gathering at the Eustis location. Food is normally good, but this experience, not so much. We ordered pretzel bits as an appetizer, if you didn't know any better, you would have thought they were crotons. The pretzel was cut into bit size pieced then toasted, so dry, the salt wouldn't stick. We also ordered 10 grilled wings, 4 of which were BURNT. Our plate should have never left the kitchen. Fortunately our server was very responsive and took care of the situation. Gators Dockside needs to step up their game if they want to stay competitive with the new restaurants moving into there area.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Jakob Vonwald
Terrible! This place was a very expensive mistake.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Mike Tenenbaum
Horrible experience. Wait to be acknowledged when walked in. Hostess on the ph taking order no one else. Finally got seating in a booth. One server in area with four full table. We were just wife and I. Server was nice. We ordered French Onion Soup and nachos. Both came out same time. Usually soup first. Soup was ok. Nachos had spicy chili, wife can not have spice and did not say spice on the menu. Took server good 15 min before getting her attention. Explain situation, no worries what we get. I ordered monte Cristo. Wife wanted fish and chip but wanted it as a sandwich with onion pedals NO spice. 25 min later and still no food. Restaurantwas not that busy except for poker player. When server came over finally said make it to go. Then got the bill,charged $19 as a fish n chips. Asked for manager, looked like he didn't want to deal. Listened us but acted like he didn't care. Credit he took off for the fish (never requested it). As we were leaving made a mention would not come back and manager needed to be somewhere else. Manager followed us to our car,terrible move. Then when we got home the onion pedals were spicy. Never going there again.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 4
Ben Sanchez
Good food, service was ok but could have been better
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Resort18599613514
My family was on vacation and decided to try Gator's Dockside. Atmosphere was nice and food was excellent. I had Gator Voodoo Pasta was amazing. Husband said the Sweet and Spicy Jalapeno burger was one of the best burgers he had. Son said Monte Cristo sandwich was very good. Daughter loved Gator's own sweet BBQ wings(bone-in) was delicious. I would recommend this restaurant.
Good food but the same food you see in all the other restaurants
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Kayla Shaffer
So me and my man came here the other night Js for some late night eats. We ordered a few cocktails one featured on the menu. Our cocktails literally tasted like they had no alcohol in them like literally tasted like a 1/2 ounce of liquor. Since the cocktails were a flop we did a pitcher of mango cart, the pitcher of mango cart was 22$ 😭 no one let me know I figured a pitcher is usually a better deal than ordering sometimes two beers. Then our food came, everything was so smothered in oil and I understand fried food, there’s gonna be grease. But I work in a restaurant, nothing had time to strain at all. It seemed like it came right out the fryer onto the plate, the onion petals had so much grease it soaked the cardboard. I couldn’t even eat much Js be of how heavy everything was, Monte Crisco coated in oil. The cornbread sliders were okay but they come with two sliders really thin cornbread and 1 chicken finger on each sandwich for around 15$. Honestly I’m not usually someone to complain ever but I just really didn’t see the value here. I was disappointed and I would never pick this place for casual eats moving forward. I really really disappointed, if we could do it over we would’ve just went to sonics and kept the 72$ we spent on bad food and worse cocktails here.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
Erik Gaulin
Went for a late lunch got grilled medium wings with fries, and my companion got a Nashville chicken sandwich with pickle chips. The grilled wings were practically burnt and chared and not very good or tasty, I had to drown them in blue cheese to make them somewhat bearable. The Nashville hot chicken sandwich was not hot or spicy and was covered in flavorless mac and cheese, also no pickle chips were provided instead we got tater tots. Also the restaurant was hardley busy and it took forever to get drinks, just sweet teas, and then our waitress disappeared and after a while another waitress showed up and finally took our order. We finally got our food served and my companion ate about 2 bites of the sandwich and I ate half the wings before we gave up and said let's get out of here, because we don't send food back to the kitchen were not like that. The best thing we're the fries and tater tots. We had not been in a while and probably won't go back for a while after this experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Avery Batchelor
Our server nick was super cool and super helpful with our special accommodations! We really appreciated his patience and kindness! 10/10 give nick a raise!
Food was only decent. And they gave me some mystery sauce. It was hands down the worst sauce I've eaten. I was told it was theirvoo doo sauce. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with taste buds. Ribs were ok though.
Ive always had a great experience across the board with Gator Dockside.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great service. Food was good. Great atmosphere
Hands down the best service We’ve had at Gators Dockside
I don’t usually leave reviews, but I had to after the experience we had tonight. Our waitress, Lily, was absolutely incredible from start to finish. She was so polite, genuinely kind, and made us feel welcomed and taken care of the entire time.
Every recommendation Lily gave us, we loved. She clearly knows the menu inside and out and actually listens to what you’re in the mood for before suggesting anything. Everything she recommended was spot-on and made the meal even better.
She was attentive without hovering, checked in at just the right times, kept our drinks full, and made sure we were happy throughout the night. Even when it got busy, she stayed calm, helpful, and upbeat, which really stood out.
The food was great, but Lily’s service is what truly made the experience. Employees like her are a huge asset, and it’s clear she takes a lot of pride in what she does.
She went above and beyond for our family, turning on our football game, keeping the kids entertained, and keeping everybody happy. Lily took excellent care of us our whole visit!
We’ll definitely be back and we’ll absolutely be asking for Lily again. 👏👏👏
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good food good service very busy atmosphere
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
We attended a gathering at the Eustis location. Food is normally good, but this experience, not so much. We ordered pretzel bits as an appetizer, if you didn't know any better, you would have thought they were crotons. The pretzel was cut into bit size pieced then toasted, so dry, the salt wouldn't stick. We also ordered 10 grilled wings, 4 of which were BURNT. Our plate should have never left the kitchen. Fortunately our server was very responsive and took care of the situation.
Gators Dockside needs to step up their game if they want to stay competitive with the new restaurants moving into there area.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Terrible! This place was a very expensive mistake.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Horrible experience. Wait to be acknowledged when walked in. Hostess on the ph taking order no one else. Finally got seating in a booth. One server in area with four full table. We were just wife and I. Server was nice. We ordered French Onion Soup and nachos. Both came out same time. Usually soup first. Soup was ok. Nachos had spicy chili, wife can not have spice and did not say spice on the menu. Took server good 15 min before getting her attention. Explain situation, no worries what we get. I ordered monte Cristo. Wife wanted fish and chip but wanted it as a sandwich with onion pedals NO spice. 25 min later and still no food. Restaurantwas not that busy except for poker player. When server came over finally said make it to go. Then got the bill,charged $19 as a fish n chips. Asked for manager, looked like he didn't want to deal. Listened us but acted like he didn't care. Credit he took off for the fish (never requested it). As we were leaving made a mention would not come back and manager needed to be somewhere else. Manager followed us to our car,terrible move. Then when we got home the onion pedals were spicy. Never going there again.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 4
Good food, service was ok but could have been better
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
My family was on vacation and decided to try Gator's Dockside. Atmosphere was nice and food was excellent. I had Gator Voodoo Pasta was amazing. Husband said the Sweet and Spicy Jalapeno burger was one of the best burgers he had. Son said Monte Cristo sandwich was very good. Daughter loved Gator's own sweet BBQ wings(bone-in) was delicious. I would recommend this restaurant.
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The boneless and bone in wings weren't good.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 3
Good food but the same food you see in all the other restaurants
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
So me and my man came here the other night Js for some late night eats. We ordered a few cocktails one featured on the menu. Our cocktails literally tasted like they had no alcohol in them like literally tasted like a 1/2 ounce of liquor. Since the cocktails were a flop we did a pitcher of mango cart, the pitcher of mango cart was 22$ 😭 no one let me know I figured a pitcher is usually a better deal than ordering sometimes two beers. Then our food came, everything was so smothered in oil and I understand fried food, there’s gonna be grease. But I work in a restaurant, nothing had time to strain at all. It seemed like it came right out the fryer onto the plate, the onion petals had so much grease it soaked the cardboard. I couldn’t even eat much Js be of how heavy everything was, Monte Crisco coated in oil. The cornbread sliders were okay but they come with two sliders really thin cornbread and 1 chicken finger on each sandwich for around 15$. Honestly I’m not usually someone to complain ever but I just really didn’t see the value here. I was disappointed and I would never pick this place for casual eats moving forward. I really really disappointed, if we could do it over we would’ve just went to sonics and kept the 72$ we spent on bad food and worse cocktails here.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
Went for a late lunch got grilled medium wings with fries, and my companion got a Nashville chicken sandwich with pickle chips. The grilled wings were practically burnt and chared and not very good or tasty, I had to drown them in blue cheese to make them somewhat bearable. The Nashville hot chicken sandwich was not hot or spicy and was covered in flavorless mac and cheese, also no pickle chips were provided instead we got tater tots. Also the restaurant was hardley busy and it took forever to get drinks, just sweet teas, and then our waitress disappeared and after a while another waitress showed up and finally took our order. We finally got our food served and my companion ate about 2 bites of the sandwich and I ate half the wings before we gave up and said let's get out of here, because we don't send food back to the kitchen were not like that. The best thing we're the fries and tater tots. We had not been in a while and probably won't go back for a while after this experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Our server nick was super cool and super helpful with our special accommodations! We really appreciated his patience and kindness! 10/10 give nick a raise!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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