Rum River Bar & Grille

Horrible experience. If I could give them no stars that is what they deserve. We arrived at 7:12p weekday with being the only ones waiting. It would be a 30 min wait. 3 other couples of two came after us and was seated before us at a 4 top table. Hostess stated, they had large parties back there and they could not handle a table of 4. Another couple, the hostess accepted a tip to seat them before us. Hostess was unprofessional and nasty when I inquired why others kept being seated before us. Another group of 5 came after us. The hostess sat them too before us. No, they were not coming back after waiting like the manager stated as we spoke to the table of 5 arrived after us. We never left and stood by the door in sight of the hostess the entire time. No time was placed by our name on the back the hostess sheet of paper. Asked to speak the Manager and the Manager was no better. She showed how the hostess later added a time next to our names of 7:25p and the group after us as 7:20p. I explained the hostess wrote those in later and that was not true. She dismissed us and said the hostess was doing her job. We finally left at 7:49p after not being seated. We are local and won't be back. Thank you to the nice waitress on our way out of the restaurant to leave that said, she would seat us in her section if we were still waiting as there were lots of empty tables.

The atmosphere is very Florida! Perfect view of boats going up and down the river, with breezes blowing through the open restaurant. The food and drinks were fantastic at a mid range cost. The service however is very slow. It took 20 minutes for a server to approach our table and not without asking the hostess who our sever was. The food was just as slow coming out, but was well the worth the wait. Be prepared to have a 2-2 1/2 hour meal time if you come here, but plenty to look at and live music to listen to on a Saturday night. Enjoy the Florida breezes and unique atmosphere. We will be back!

We shared a captain's platter with fried flounder, shrimp, and scallops and also added on a crab cake! Everything was delicious. Fresh seafood for sure. The fries and coleslaw was good as well! My mango daiquiri was the bomb! Service was good as well, would definitely return!!

This place has gone way down hill,not up to any par .... everything was is poor consideration,will not recommend.....

The food was great, but that's the only positive thing I can say about it. We waited in the parking lot for 30 minutes before being seated even though there were multiple tables open. Once we sat down We waited 15 minutes for a waitress, before having to ask for a waitress. We placed our drink orders, and got those relatively quick. However we had wait another 15 to get our food order in and waited another 45 minutes for the food to show up. I understand Saturday nights can get really busy, but roughly an hour and a half between arriving there and receiving our order for a party of 4 is inexcusable. Only reason I gave 2 stars is because the food was good.