Vailhouse Oyster Bar & Grille

Great local fresh seafood right from the NC Coast! Tommy Vail does a great job at ensuring a family-friendly environment with high-quality product. There is also live entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Went for lunch, shrimp were wonderful, cooked perfectly, sides were great

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Slaw, House Salad, Fried Shrimp Platter

Oysters are excellent, very tasty tuna sandwich

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Raw Oysters

I am a native Floridian and so I’m always comparing seafood to what I’m accustomed to eating.

We ordered half a dozen oysters as an appetizer, the parmesan and garlic bread ones. I requested that they were well done but when I received them, they were in fact NOT well done. They had a good flavor but were not the texture I prefer.

I ordered fried flounder with grilled shrimp, baked potato and a side salad. The fish is definitely not fresh. The batter on the fish was thin and had a nice crisp. The shrimp, also not fresh, was well-seasoned. The salad was forgotten and I had to ask my server for it. There was a rotten piece of lettuce in the center but otherwise it was fine. Baked potato- you can’t really mess that up but they served it with margarine. Who’s using margarine these days? Where’s the BUTTA?

My husband ordered the crab cakes with okra and collards. The crab cakes were the only seafood item that was not fishy. It seemed like its meat from a can, I wish it had a crisp on it, but the flavor profile was good. I don’t like okra because it’s slimy- but I tried it anyway and I can appreciate the batter and the crunch on the exterior. Highly do not recommend the greens. They were soggy, butter seemed like they were from a can.

Halfway into our meal, the server remembered to drop the hush puppies. These were hands down the best part of the entire meal. I actually took more to-go.

Other than forgetting a few things and not being too knowledgeable about the menu, the server was fine. She did plenty of check backs and drink refills.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Steamed Oysters, Hush Puppies

Enjoyable experience. Lettuce not as fresh as it should be.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Grilled Shrimp, Flounder

Charged me $95 for frozen food. For all of this I could’ve just went to ocean bay seafood in Clinton nc

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Great food and service!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Steamed Oysters, Crab Dip, Hush Puppies

Should have listened to the people that left bad reviews! The food was NOT cooked.. We told the waitress we were not in a hurry. She brought out the crab & shrimp dip, which would have been good, if they hadn't tried to hide the flavor with so much salt. It was ruined. Before we could finish that, here comes the entree! The shrimp was still frozen, & the flounder was not done. The owner was very loud when we told him, even though we were the only people in the place. We wanted to pay for our 2 beers & get out of there! But he made us pay for the dip we couldn't even eat.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

Had a great dinner here Monday night with my family. My wife's mom was visiting us from Florida and she said Vailhouse had better seafood than she can find in Florida! She complimented the crab cakes, scallops, and grouper bites saying they're some of the best she's ever had. Lexi served us. She was very helpful and made the experience fun for us and all of our kids. Thank you! We will be back

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great customer service. The food was delicious and the price was very fair. Overall just a great vibe and experience

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great food and atmosphere!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lobster Roll

Very clean place and food was good. Our waitress Sofia was excellent very attentive and well manner definitely made the experience great. Excellent excellent

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Best seafood spot in Goldsboro!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Raw Oysters

The food is good but I wouldn't order online here. They have messed up with online orders multiple times for me. One time they had the food on a counter and a person took it and I felt like it should have been behind a counter. Another time I showed up at pick up time and the waitress never accepted the order so I had to wait around for another 20 minutes. It's first world problems but little things like this matter.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 2

We were in Goldsboro for my husbands job and didn't want to go to a chain restaurant. This place was AMAZING! The oysters were delicious and the staff was great. My husband shocked them by doing there oyster ghost challenge twice!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5