GT Fish & Oyster Review

Decent spot, kinda pricey. Beer selection is decent.

Fish tacos were excellent as well as the service. When they say that the food is shareable they mean get like 2-4 to get a little of each. And I would suggest that you do that.

Oysters good. High price for extremely small portions. Food mediocre at best. Save your money and go somewhere better.

Fabulous food and service. Try the daily special of fresh sushi tray. 5 star service!

Very positive experience here. Took advantage of the half price oysters and bar drinks at happy hour and then took a table for dinner. The small plates are a fun way to share and try a lot of dishes. Three of us shared 6 plates and it was plenty. Recommend the smoked fish plate, octopus and the lobster roll.

Very strange service experience and so-so food. The servers hover without being helpful and they don't volunteer any information or help with ordering. For example a colleague suggests, in front of the waiter, that 3 people share a shrimp cocktail as one of our appetizers. The waiter brings it without saying anything and it consists of ONE shrimp.
On top of this the wine list, which is weak, is consistently an issue. I've been here 3 times and every time there's an issue with the vintage or type of wine listed on the menu vs what they have. Managers and servers offer no recourse for these mistakes.
After 3 chances for them to get this right we will be looking for a better seafood place close to work to go to.

The lomo was delicious. We also got the fried chicken. Oh. My. Gawd. Bone in chicken cut into small pieces battered and fried. I could dream about it. We also order the mixed seafood fried and another insanely good dish. Incredibly good. Don't miss Mario's.

Enjoyed a wonderful meal here with my friend. We were seated in a timely fashion with a nice table overlooking Wells St. Our server Scott was terrific - attentive, helpful in suggestions, and friendly. The bill was not as high as prior reviews suggested given 5 delicious dishes shared and two yummy drinks. Will definitely plan a future visit and highly recommend!

Amazing food and great staff! Best clam chowder I've ever had!!

We came during happy hour. Tried all the different oysters on the cheap then had the lobster roll, which was phenominal. Staff here are knowledgeable and top notch.

I don t write perfect review lightly, but What a great place! Absolutely perfect! Very delicious food served in the most perfect way. All food came out fresh and hot, not oily ( a lot of places do that to make food taste better). Perfect temperature, as in just made for you now. Drinks were yummy- we had four different ones. We loved all the food we ordered. eggplant, monk fish, sliders were great. Service was very attentive, and there was lotion for your hands in the bathroom. Well done!

A bit pricey for what you get, but delicious seafood

Best new seafood restaurant in town. A group of us came here on a Thursday evening to celebrate a birthday. We had a reservation but still had to wait at the bar for around 20 minutes. Once we were seated our waiter apologized for the wait and offered us two complimentary appetizers which was much appreciated. Two of our diners have dietary restrictions and the kitchen was more than helpful with outlining what could be ordered as is and what could be modified. The oysters are fantastic (we tried three kinds), the clam chowder should be sold in vats because I want to eat it for the rest of my life and the overall dining experience was superb. It is a little spendy but I highly recommend for a special occasion.

If you go, you must try the carrot cake. Fantastic restaurant.

Love this place for seafood, particularly the oysters.

Shrimp and grits, oysters, lobster roll - warm and cold, crab cake Benedict, lobster burrito. Not much else to say.

My husband and I had this restaurant on our list of places to dine in Chicago. We heard good reviews about this place and chose this eatery to celebrate our 9yr wedding anniversary.

This was the best decision we made!!! For starters we shared the bruschetta shrimp/avocado, clam chowder soup and a garden of fresh/charred broccoli. For dinner we had crabcake, fish tacos and the lobster roll. For dessert we shared the pb & jelly panna cotta and the carrot cake.

The fish tacos were ok but everything else was divine, delicious, scrumptious...i never had a meal where every dish raise the bar!!!

You've to eat here..even if you live out of state, buy a ticket and just fly into Chicago to only eat @ this restaurant.

As for the service, our waiter was warm, friendly and he made our dining experience even more special..

I will be back..

Best place you will ever go to.

no need to say anything else.

Just go!

Place was great. Wonderful food, helpful and very friendly staff and servers. Will go again next time I'm in Chicago

Phenomenal!

I was at GT Fish & Oyster recently with a bunch of girlfriends and the service, food, and experience was superb. Patrick, our waiter, was so helpful in helping us choice menu items (I'm gluten free) and the food was divine. The clam chowder is simply out of this world and I will be back again and again just for that dish alone.

I also had the fish tacos, which were equally delicious. Everyone I was with thoroughly enjoyed their meals. Basically you can't go wrong with anything on the menu.

Everything was delicious. Beware of the amounts; due to family style plates we thought the servings would be smaller, so we ordered a bit too much.

Hamachi is really good and so is the tuna tarte, and oyster kimchi bite! Will give 5 star for food.
Just one thing, my friend and i had to yell at each other in order to let the other hear us talking, not a place for gentle chat apparently.

Great seafood here, would definitely recommend the mussels with the garlic sourdough and oyster poboys!

Great raw bar selection and the brunch is not to be missed!

Very disappointing

My wife and I went there for brunch today and she asked for a seafood platter and she got 2 oysters, 4 mussels, 1 crab leg, 2 clams, and 2 shrimps for... $50!!!

Never again!

Great happy hour oysters! Wish there were more happy hour cocktail options but overall great experience.

Oysters are fresh, service is cheerful, food presentation is quite good. Higher prices of course, not unexpectedly

Jerrod at the bar is great. The food was amazing and the drinks were too. I will definitely be taking a trip back.

This is officially one of my favorite restaurants in the city. The food is fabulous, the atmosphere sophisticated yet chill and the service is to die for. I would highly recommend the fish tacos, the sliders and, of course, the oysters! Great for girls' night out or a romantic date.

Great food well cooked, great service well executed, overall, a great experience.

Good location for quality seafood. definitely worth a return visit. prices are appropriate.

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Great seafood. Great brunch. Very well crafted cocktails and a great ambiance. Get some oysters, mussels and a lobster roll. They won't let you down.

Excellent bruch. Very ( borderline overly) attentive staff. Food was delicious and prompt. Overall very pleasant experience.

What an amazing start to our vacation in Chicago! The service was impeccable from start to finish. Our server, Joseph, was attentive, friendly, and made great suggestions. We appreciated the attention to detail by all the staff. They surprised us with a complimentary fish of the day. The fish was moist. We had the mussels which were plump and juicy, the smoked fish platter that had a nice selection of fish and garnishes, the broccoli (recommended by Joseph) which was light and refreshing, and the soba had a good contrast in textures and flavors. For dessert, we had the brownie that was evenly balanced between the marshmallows, raspberry sorbet, and honeycomb.

I love this place for my seafood cravings. The deviled egg is one of a kind.

Great quality seafood, cool vibes and great service. Portions were great and everything the table ordered was delicious (minus the weird "deviled egg". Would highly recommend the carrot cake for dessert!

I've been here many times before and loved it. Brought my sister in law here for her bday with our husbands and was just embarrassed! We had to wait 30 minutes for our reservation, which we would have been ok with but they weren't that busy. Than the manager kept apologizing for the wait, told us he'd be sending food to our table bc of the wait. Specifically told us, and I quote, "order light, I'll send food". One bruschetta app. 6 pieces for 4 people...not even two each. That's it. The waiter added a side to our meal order and then billed us for it. The whole situation with the manager was embarrassing. He shouldn't have said anything about sending food to our table if he couldn't back his word. By the end of our meal, he was nowhere to be seen. Coward.

I think GT Fish and Oyster is pricey and decent quality. I ordered two oysters, a cerviche, chowder, 2 oyster shooters, and a whole fish. The oysters are fresh and I can't tell the difference between this one and Chicago Oyster House. The cerviche was ok. The clam chowder was pretty good. I liked how the potatoes are cooked just right. I think the presentation of food matters here because everything looked so fancy. Overall, I spent way more than I should have.

Love this place! Try the clam chowder and the mussels! Great service and attentive staff!

THis is the best sea food in chicago. I had my 21st birthday in the private room in the basement. The service was phenomenal and the people where nice. The tuna dishes were my favorite. We had a special tasting menu. It is the perfect spot for a 16 person dinner in the basement. The upstairs is perfect for a romantic dinner or just drinks/oysters!

I came here for Valentine's day. Staff was amazing and everything was flavorful and just enough to fill your appetite. This spot is very romantic, but still a perfect recommendation for out-of-town friends for a nice dinner.

GT has amazing oysters and inventive cocktails! The lobster roll is fantastic as is the clam chowder. Fun place to go with friends, love the communal table as well.

my absolute favorite, amazing food, great beer list, beautiful room, LOVE IT!

I went for brunch and had a very nice meal. The portion sizes were a little small, but the quality of ingredients and the taste was amazing. The cocktails were also delicious.

A little too much fashion, not enough form. Great place to go if you want something sceney, but pricey and service was super slow despite not being terribly crowded (almost 20 min from time we ordered drinks to when they arrived at table).

Food excellent, but portions small for the price. Who wants to share the shrimp plate when there are only 3 on it? Service uneven. The buzz is good, but there are plenty of places where I did not feel taken advantage of....

Every Wednesday at 10:30PM they have 1/2 price Oysters. It's a good deal for Chicago, you'll pay about what you'd expect at a coastal city, between $1 to $1.75 an oyster (as of this writing.)

The oysters varieties were diverse, east coast, west coast, and overseas. There are oyster sommeliers on hand, ready to tell you about the notes of cucumber in your Penn Cove. They are master shuckers, leaving no shell fragments in any of my 20-some oysters.

My partner and I ordered several dishes, and while good (glazed cod was the highlight) they all covered up the taste of the fish. I suspect all the seafood is as good as the oysters, real sashimi grade stuff, so it makes me upset that they'd dress it up so much.

At any rate, I'm glad a place exists in Chicago where I can get diverse, well shucked oysters. I could do without all the pomp, but beggars can't be choosers. Consider me a Wednesday regular.

The restaurant week menu was amazing though it's bit pricy. Highly recommend the tuna poke and the duck ! Also check the red wine that listed in the restaurant week menu. Very good taste.

A great spot for fresh tasting and well executed simple seafood

This is definitely an upscale, date night kind of place. Be wary, this is a small plate restaurant, so to be full you should order 2-3 plates! The Oyster slides were my favorite, recommend!

Everything we had was great! Especially loved the key lime pie

I've been to GT many times while living in Chicago and had a very poor experience with their service (and subsequently their manager Dana) this morning. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be coming back. I felt the manager was not equipped to handle my request and could have simply said "I'm sorry for the confusion." Instead, the manager became agitated at the situation and yelled at us. This is a shame since I've been a loyal customer for several years.

Oysters and lobster roll were tasty. Alcohol is priced very high - a bottle of Rex Hill is $72 at GT, $51 at Blackbird, and $42 at Davanti Enoteca.

seafood at this spot - yummy. good place to relax and unwind. looking forward to coming back with my relatives. menu is like a cafe in boston i liked.

Always have a wonderful night out for oyster's when we go here. Friendly, clean and delicious! Will be returning soon.

Made a reservation thru Google maps and was not seated because the hosts seated a couple without a reservation while we stood right there. Ask them about it and git a nasty look. Decided to go elsewhere.

Wow. I'm from Boston and we know our seafood. GT was as good or better than some Seafoods places I've been in Boston. Great vibe and design.

Great service and delicious tapas style seafood. Celebrated our 25th anniversary and had a great time. Highly recommend!

The branzino was out of this world. Eclipsed even the really good oysters. Thoroughly enjoyed the meal here.

Great service, great food, great atmosphere. We ordered a huge selection of the menu and everything was wonderful.
The only thing we weren't impressed with were the cocktails. We ordered three of them from the menu and all three were mediocre at best. Ended up getting an old fashioned, which I highly recommend.

Great selection of oysters even during brunch, lived the modern atmosphere as well

Really enjoyed the oysters. Went twice while in Chicago to happy hour for half price oysters. Staff was very friendly and service was great at the bar.

Visited here before heading out of the country from O'hare because of the great reviews. The reviews were right and the GT oyster delivered. Very nice ambiance, oysters were pristine. Was a moron and left one of my devices here, Jen the manager communicated well with me and sent the package to my home. Wonderful service! Will be back the next time I visit!

GReat place to go for a quick lunch have a beer and head back to the office. The mussels have a great tomato base and the service at the bar was nice. The waiters are not that friendly but then they try their best to be helpful. Loved the poboy oyster sandwich.

We dined with some international guest who wanted Great Seafood. They raved about GTFO and their delicious seafood! What did we NOT have is the Question? Crab Cake,Ceviche,Lobster Rolls all very flavorful with the Crab Cake the Very Best! The Tuna Poke needs work the texture was poor and The Big Island rules when it comes to fresh Poke.
Hawaiians make their Poke every way and mixed with everything like all Hawaiian Food.
Oysters were very tasty so mix up your oyster plate with a variety from the West Coast Oysters are Hip, Sounds like the start of a Song!
The tacos were good but tiny,tiny,tiny and soggy, better left off this great menu!
The trout was great and their service was outstanding!
If you want good seafood without the busy atmosphere and less expensive than Joe s this is your place. GTFO IS A DEFINITE Do AGAIN and Again!
Great Atmosphere. A must Try!!!!

Had a great meal here by myself at the bar. Highly recommended.

Great service, our waitress was very helpful in advising us on how much food to order. Most of the dishes are meant to share.

Super small portions for the price, but the food was really good.

I really like this restaurant. They have an appetizer called deviled egg. This is a wonderful appetizer. The skillful craftsmanship that had gone into the preparation is unbelievable. The crab cakes here are also delicious. The hostess and waitresses always makes us feel welcomed and well attended to. I look forward to my next visit.