Seabreeze Restaurant & Tiki Bar

It was our first time visiting the restaurant and we were exploring food places, so we looked online and found this restaurant. So we drove over there and we were excited to see the views, which are beautiful. Yet, once we entered the restaurant, the evil looks and states of some of the customers and energy as going there as an Army Veteran and my University professor friend ( we both are Muslim women)- it felt so uncomfortable. Some people were friendly and not brainwashed by seeing what kind of cloth we wear. My faith is an affirmation of my way of life that I worship God and cover my hair out of my own choice. They gave us the runaround when we got there to get a table and after being directed three times, we got finally a table. I was actually amazed by the size of the food. The view is beautiful there, it reminded me of the hotel my aunt had when she had the restaurant over her hotel and we were always overlooking the ocean when we were eating when I was a kid.
The waitress talked too long to other customers when we were waiting for her when we were ready to go. She was nice and deserves help. We both are educated women and her children have special needs, the people in the back where we sat and dined in as well were kind. It really feels uncomfortable to try to go to a place because of this, but we still go because she is a taxpaying citizen and has a right to go wherever she wants and is never frugal when she goes out to eat. The toilet smelled so badly and it looked really old Considering the experience, we may visit or not visit again. I love Southern Maryland and bought my house here after I retired from the Army, not knowing anything. So I will continue to explore the places where I go and I truly pray to God that some of these people learn more about diversity and tolerance.
Most of the people in Southern Maryland are friendlier than the people in DC and of course the few who look at you weird for being Muslim, who probably have just have watched too much CNN and Fox News, consumed misinformation about people of different lives and do not know anything about this life. Compare us to the Amish we are in a sense similar with a dress code and religious way of life. That is quite simple.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

0 stars

9/10/24, 6pm Met my granddaughter, her husband and new baby at Seabreeze at 6. I was excited to show my family this , what use to be, a really cool crab house on the Patuxent River in Mechanicsville, MD....they had never been to Seabreeze.
IT took 10 minutes to find anybody to seat us. Not ONE employee in sight. I walked around to find anybody working, nobody in sight.
Finally an employee noticed we were waiting and seated us. We got ignored for 45 minutes, managed to get 3 sodas. Waitress never asked us what we wanted to eat, she was rude. Threw 2 menus on table (for 3 adults) and ran away. She walked past us 15-20 times. I told my family, she walks past again, we are out of here. She was only interested in serving big party of 15-20 outside.
Apparently, only people seated OUTSIDE are allowed to order food. Waitress ignored 2 other tables inside completely, they at least had food, but we heard them complaining about not having waitress stop by their tables. What a waste of time.
If we stayed at Seabreeze, it would have taken another hour for food. I told waitress she ignored us for 45 minutes and we left to fund a real restaurant that is able to take food orders and deliver food to the table.
There are too any other crab houses in Southern Maryland to ever return to Seabreeze again, only to be ignored and watch servers walk past you 15 times and not say ONE WORD to you.
Why did you bother opening today?
Where is a manager?
Where is the owner?
Do they even care?
We felt like we were in the waitress' way, we we a bother to her.
Nobody cares about you, that's for sure. They must already make too much money to care about customers waiting to be served and fed.
Isn't that the reason you opened the restaurant? To serve actual food and drinks, not to ignore good paying customers and be rude about it?
I could have never left a tip to a server that ignored me for 45 minutes, walking past us 15+ times.
I generally over tip, because MOST servers work hard .

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 1

Everything was great. We did have undercooked chicken which the server immediately replaced with a new basket. The manger even took the entire meal off the bill. Seafood was great and seasoned very well. Would recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Crab Balls, Maryland Crab

Not impressed too pricey.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Baked Potato

Couldn't wait to get back to Maryland to get some best of both crab soup.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Way too nosy and warm but the hard crabs are delicious.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 5

Service: 4

Crabs most expensive around and #2s being sold as #1s

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 5

While in the area I usually go to Foxy Fish or Captain Leonard's but both were closed on a Tuesday evening. I decided to give Sea breeze a try as I have never been there and it was close. My husband,daughter and I went for dinner at around 6:15 and hostess told us to pick a table. We waited at minimum 15 minutes for a server to greet us. One server walked by several times noticing that we had nothing and hadn't been helped yet. She proceeded to go to her parents table who got sat after us and took drink and food order. Finally, we get a girl server who we told our drink order to and said we were ready for food too. She didn't know any prices on the fish so she left and never came back with drinks or anything. A few minutes later a guy greets us and retakes our drink and food order. Husband got a rockfish sandwich and us girls split crabs. Crabs came out 25 minutes later with no sandwich. The guy told us The sandwich was almost ready.The server cake again 10 minutes later with the sandwich. He never asked if we needed refills on drinks and brought the fish sandwich out mushy and uncooked. My daughter had a side of fruit and it looked like it was expired and not edible. We ended up getting the sandwich taken off after we sent it back so that was a plus. The server never came back after the card sat on the table the entire time I finished my last few crabs. I finally went to the server stand and asked the girl who walked passed our table multiple times looking at our check to please cash us out.

This place couldn't move any slower if they tried. Food was horrible besides the crabs. I think your best bet is captain Leonard's where the crabs are cheaper and bigger.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Great food and Hate the Toy!!! Loved my MD crabs and listened to ine of my favorite bands. Great night.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Crab Dip, Maryland Crab, Steamed Crabs and Snow Crab Legs

They were out of crabballs . This item was served with every entry. We traveled from Georgia. Was totally disappointed

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

Well the food was okay but the owner is horrible and very rude and unprofessional. We we're very curious about the snake bite appetizers so we asked what snake bites are and the nice waitress who was NEW and TRAINING went and asked the OWNER and came back and said,"I'm sorry, I don't know what they are when I went back she didn't tell me she just said" "we're all out of them so they don't need to know what it is.". .. like for real lady

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

Great food great service. Get there early and stay late.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great view, nice restaurant atmosphere, good food, good prices. We'll be back!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Overpriced for no 2 crabs..not what is shown on facebook pics
.not a good birthday...Will stay on my side of bridge in the future

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 4

The bartender at the outside bar is rude. We walked up and she was saying some things that was very unprofessional in a restaurant/business environment to some customers.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 1