The Docks Restaurant + Raw Bar

This is hands down my favorite seafood restaurant and bar. The freshest most delicious seafood and the best service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Getting there you go through rough snd run down parts. Walking up I was apprehensive it looked sketchy. But you turn the corner and it is really nice. The service was great, food was so good and HUGE portions! The lobster ragoon was heaven! Glad I didn't decide to turn around.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food is ok, but the waitress ruined it. Let me tell my story. We have 8 people, including 2 kids. The waitress is Ana Maria. She starts off impatient and very rude to us. I think we did nothing wrong. We are professionals, polite, we are 4 professors working for the university in different field, well, one in food safety. We are with kids and the kids behave extremely well, making no noise. But one thing is, yes, we are Asian. Ana Maria rolls her eyes so many times. I feel extremely bad to be treated the most racist way in my life. The kids get water without a cap. We never get refills for water for the entire dinner. She refuses to separate the bills for us at the end, or is it a restaurant wide policy? Yes, we spend ~500 dollars on the food. And it is mandatory to pay close to 100 dollars for a tip, and I understand it because we are party of 8. And We are excited to try everything. We understand it might be a busy day for restaurant, even though we did not get food for a long time but we did not complain at all. But by the end of the day, she says we need space and a table for the others, so they kick us out right after paying the bill. We move out, but no one is using our table. We feel being treated very rudely, so we report to the manager. She is very nice and apologizes to us and waives some fees equal to the tips. But the waitress never shows up or apologizes. I understand she might have a tough day, but this is very unprofessional to do this or highly suspicious to be racist. I want to say, we are professionals, and this won't be the end of the story. We will do everything to make sure the restaurant pays the price, and we have the ability to do it.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

A+ food and cocktails! Staff are very friendly!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent food, all freshly prepared, outside seating with sunset view

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food is not good and expansive , no service and charge 20% tips.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Off the main trail in Key West, we took a golf cart to get there. Seafood was great!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I really liked everything about this restaurant: food, scenery, vibe. The food was excellent albeit on the pricey side. It’s a little bit inconvenient location to go to IMHO, and there was almost nobody here, definitely the quiet part of town. We were the only people in the restaurant (12pm on Friday) which kind of makes sense cause it’s on the complete opposite side from the busy side of the island. But we had swordfish bites appetizer - They were awesome. They were blackened And extremely tasty. The tartar sauce that they serve with it was like legendary, upscale tartar sauce we actually asked to keep it so we could eat some with our meal. It was so good. And then for entrées, we got the snapper “philly” sandwich and then I got a snapper sandwich which was just happened to be a lunch special of the day. All very excellent food and like I said the tartar sauce that was served on those sandwiches as well as on the side, absolute bomb tartar sauce. Another thing appealing about this place is its location - it’s right on the docks in a marina. So you get to watch fisherman come in and do stuff with their fresh caught fish loading up bins of ice, forklifts running around with big loads of fish. You have people fishing off the dock around the area plus there are massive barracudas and other fish that are swimming below the dock, absolutely enormous fish down there really cool to watch and just sit there right on the Dock to check out the boats and everything else that’s happening in the Marina. If I ever come back to Key West, I would definitely go out of my way to go to this place. It’s nice and quiet and really tasty food. It’s definitely worth the relatively high (typical key west) prices.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Great little spot to jump into a more local vibe,

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Seafood fresh and good.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Their Snapper is delicious! They also offer live lobster by the pound at $15/lb. They offer inside searing only during rainy days.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I had the yellowjack fish and chips. Wifey had the grouper dinner. Both were excellent! Highly recommend the ceviche which was fantastic!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Dinner this time. 3 different
Selections, fish and chips with fresh catch. Snapper special. Didn't like the calamari, not a fan of raw fish.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

View was lovely and fun to see dolphin in water and boats unloading seaffod from our table. Unfortunately red snapper and yellow tail were mushy and not fresh, do not appreciate staff arguing about it and disappointmenting to say the least. They did rebate 1 dinner but would have liked good food instead.

We had a party of 9 for my wife's 70th birthday. Overall excellent experience. Our server Josh was the BEST! He was fast, attentive, efficient and knowledgeable. The food was outstanding, there was something for us all, including our vegans, kids and picky old man (me). Very happy and will come back when we're in the area again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5