Rusty Pelican Reviews

Food was good but our Croatian waiter was better. Ask to sit outside terrace for great views.

Beautiful restaurant in the water with incredible view...elegant, cozy ,romantic for all occasions, price moderate in the delicious food,staff very friendly, great staff in the valet Parking and the restaurant too

Nice location and view. The lobster was way overcooked and the first two drinks we tried to order they said they were out of.

Beautiful places to have a drink on the terrace, or dinner I have not tested the restaurant, but just for the view you have to go.

Nice place to eat nice ocean view from the inside even better sitting outside.. but be careful for what you wish for. this place can be very expensive. Once you get that bill..lol

Location - location
View is just amazing
Service is good - just good
Pretty simple menu, shorter than expected.
Food is just ok, we ordered:
Calamari - 8 out of 10
Ceviche - 8 out of 10
Sea Bass - 8.5 out of 10
Salmon - 7 out of 10
Fried snapper 8.5 out of 10
Top sirloin with egg Benedict 8 out of 10
Side of fries - 5 out of 10
Food was just warm, not hot and although it was not bad we expected way more for this place.

Beautiful place with a wonderful view.
I loved the food, the attention of the staff and the atmosphere.

a wonderful fish! also the steak that my boyfriend ordered was dry ... wonderful restaurant

The view is awesome. Will recommend to reserve the outdoor table around sunset. Skyline and the sunset view is beautiful.
Food is good but over price.

3 Tiered Seafood Tower
Only have 1 lobster tail and maybe 2 king crab legs. The oyster is so small and all the others are just fine ( sushi roll, nigiri, sashimi, ceviche and shrimp) it doesn t make sense to me to pay that much money for it.

Rusty Pelican Board for two
It s good if you would like to try a little bit everything on their entrees menu. But my friend said the lobster in the Board for 2 is not that fresh. And when they serve the food is already cold.

But their drinks are good. We try serval cocktail and their tea and dessert. Great and satisfying. Recommend their Agave Sunset and Key Biscayne Pie. If you don t want liquors. You can ask for hot tea. I personally like their Camel milk tea.

Overall it is a great restaurant with great view. I will say it is good if you just want to have a great view with some cocktail and tapas. But I will not recommend this restaurant for dinner.

It is an amazing luxury and fancy restairant located in and island water front witn a fantastic view to down town Miami now the main thing is the attention by the staff and food deliceous if the score was 10 i will give them 11

go for the view - the food and service is just okay.

Went for happy hour and wow the prices were fabulous. We had a great time. Amazing view from the bar. Good drinks and food. The view is the best part of the rusty pelican.

Nice place, it is true that you have a beautiful view of the city, the food is also good. Highly recommended.

This is a beautiful place to eat with your spouse or family. It over looks Biscayne Bay. You see all the party boats. The best part is the amazing view of Miami Skyline. Go and enjoy!!!

Great atmosphere..view ...but food leaves a lot to be desired. I always take guest and business associates there but Saturday was the food ever..

The place is beautiful, the food is good, free parking and party music. Expensive food, bad waiters and dirty environment. Summary I'd be back for dinner about 18 to catch a beautiful sunset, ready to spend a couple $ 100 minimum.

Amazing service for all guests and vendors, delicious food and wonderful view.

Great food. Cocktails and oysters were a little small.

Ambience was great, food was great, view was amazing, and our server, Andrew, was fantastic. Can t wait to be back!

We have been eating here for years. You cannot beat the veiws! Also the brunches are fantastic as well as the normal dinning.

What a great recommendation. We spent a few days visiting the Virginia Key Outdoor Center on the other side of this island. The owner and staff made great recommendations including this fantastic spot. The service was first rate. Drinks at the bar were well prepared. Food was very tasty. The view was memorable. We watched the sunset from our dinner table. Highly recommended for Miami visitors. Stop by the Rusty Pelican for a great meal and great views.

Frankly, for the price, thia place is not worth all the hype. We visites for Father's day. Yes, they had an immaculate buffet with endless options. However, we were sat outside and in Miami this means lots of sun. So, we left with a satisfied tummy, but overheated.

Very different but it to awhile for simply dish orders to come

Price is a bit high but if you factor in the amazing views of Miami then it makes sense..incredible friendly staff

Amazing view of the Miami skyline from the outdoor seating! Excellent cuisine and our server was very friendly and professional.

the worst experience ever in a restaurant, the food was bad told the waitress he didn't care, will never ever go back to this place. was there 2/14/19

Loved the restaurant. Food is excellent and the waitress are very professional and polite. An excellent place to have a great time. And the view...the best.

A Fodor s choice, we stopped after visiting Key Biscayne. Lunch was really good we chose to eat light with Pelican salad, neiki roll and lobster poboy overall very satisfying lunch flavors are good and serving size just right. View of Miami is spectacular with ocienviews from window.

By far the worst restaurant we visited in Florida. We only had three starters but all of them were disgusting and we decided not to order any more food. Ceviche was tasteless, octopus extremely greasy and salty and tuna on the bread was ruined by what's accompanied it. If you add extremely long waiting time you will get a very bad experience. On top of it the food gave ny girlfriend a stomach ache. I'm giving it two stars solely for a great location and an amazing view.

Had a wonderful business luncheon Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019. Great location, fine food, and efficient service.
Certainly expensive, but it is a location driven business. Hands down the priciest lunch in my 65 years on this planet. The way one of the signature cocktails was prepared was artistic.
The gentleman who I took to lunch suggested eating outside. With the deluge of evil seagulls and my phobia of birds opted for an inside table by the window. I suggest a hawk or some sort of laser deterrent to keep the birds at bay.
However I noticed many guests outside were feeding the gulls or leaving plates of food for them.
Kept hoping for lunchtime entertainment of a gull flying into the fire pit and frying, but that s just me!

Really loved this place. Would've given 5 stars, however, they were understaffed when we went for lunch. We ended up walking to the bar to get our refills rather than waiting for our waiter, who was tasked with too many tables. The food was fresh and delicious, and what a beautiful view. Perhaps they aren't always in an understaffed situation, so we'll try again.

Didn't have any meal yet, but I've heard a lot of good comments from this place and I will come to try the menu, lunch or dinner look amazing see you next time. The view is outstanding and the pstio's sitting amazing.

It has the best view of Miami and the night view is the best, the food and the service very good

Awful experience poor service at the bar and at the table! Our waitress was impolite and seemed to be annoyed that we didn t ordered enough food, even though we ordered 4 entrees, cocktails and desert! The view can t buy everything sorry! Quality of Food, quality of service, and the view is an experience and for me as a Miamian R.Pelican didn t reach my expectation, there s many other beautiful places with stunning view too and the rest of the experience I m expecting!

Great, delicious food, spectacular view and excellent attention

I attended a brunch in the room on the side. Bottomless mimosas. Friendly staff. Room had natural sunlight from outside. Food was amazing. No complaints. Valet parking. Easy to find the location.

The staff was excellent, our server was Andrew and was a professional! Good was excellent and wine selection was top tier. On top of all that the view of downtown miami was gorgeous.

Nice view with okay food . Food seems over priced . Probably because of view.

Great view. Great food. Great service! The burgers are delicious. Just a very nice place.

Casual restaurant with perhaps one of the best views in Miami. Many years of tradition, delicious dishes with a good value for money.

Very good service and beautiful view but the food is not rich as for the price it has.

There is nothing bad to say about this place besides the parking situation but that's understandable. The food is always spot on, the views are incredible and very friendly staff. If you are ever visiting Key Biscayne, this is a must.

Excellent attention, exquisite food and very well presented, spectacular fried fish

Visnja was excellent , providing immaculate customer service . She provided 50% of the experience that included amazing seafood and the best views in Miami . I will drop by this restaurant whenever I visit Miami .

We were attended by Miss Cinthia. Very attentive and loving, a spectacular service with the best recommendations. We rate your work 5 stars. I definitely recommend it if you want the best service in the place.

The BEST view of Miami, happy hour , Monday-Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m .

We had to use valet although we'd gotten there 20 minutes before the restaurant opened, there were no self parking spaces left. By the time we left at around 1pm, the line to park was all the way out to the main road with no one moving. Parking is most certainly an issue and their valet should probably be run by another company. I don't know if they use their own valet people, but it is not working. The parking is the reason I am not giving it a 4 star.

The food portions are minimal. My husband ordered the crab cake as an appetizer. It ended up being one crab cake that could fit into the palm of my small hand. It was delicious, but expensive. We ended up paying $160 not including tip for 3 people. I came home and had a snack...still hungry. Today's special had $18 for unlimited mimosas. That was well worth it. I took full advantage of that.

The view was amazing.

If you don't care about your budget and don't mind no self parking, this is the place for you.

Low-end restaurant, the dishes are tasteless and ultra greasy.
The map is incomprehensible ... no explanation. The waiter just wants to fool you up for $ 175.
I chose a dish without really knowing what it was at $ 15
I had breaded fish !! disgusting!!!
When we asked for the bill we noticed an error on the price of my flat billed at $ 30. We noticed this difference in price ... and there, the server explains that he ordered another dish because mine was too spicy! Me who grows peppers in my garden !!
I do not recommend this thievery restaurent where the waiter took pleasure in robbing us.

Food was amazing service was choppy at the beginning due to it being very busy. We made our reservation through open table and were seated promptly. The spacing between tables created a safe environment and the all the staff wore masks. The jalapeno cornbread with maple butter was simply amazing.. The short rib empanadas were fresh and melted in your mouth. My wife ordered the coal fried snapper with coconut risotto smoked plantain mash. Texture was great fish was moist and flaky with spicy kick to it. I ordered the surf and turf for myself and the filet mignon was superb. The lobster was fresh and delicious will definitely be back soon

Let's start with the views. Beautiful views of the Bay and everyone out there on their boats. It's a cool atmosphere. They did a decent job of socially distancing everyone. We were concerned that it was going to rain, and due to the social distancing at the time, we wouldve had to take our food to go or wait for a table to open up inside.
The drinks are amazing. They've got one with passionfruit and wow. Just wow.
The food was... good. I ordered the risotto dish and while it wasn't bad, it was missing something. They provide complimentary bread with like a parmesan butter which is *chefs kiss* amazing and the presentation for all of their dishes was well done. Not a bad experience, but it didnt quite meet my expectations. HOWEVER, the waiter who helped to us was fantastic. Personable, funny, attentive. His name is Andrew. Kudos to him.

Food wasn't good. Service was even worse. It took 20 minutes to be greeted, then took another hour and half for the food. We had to get up and get our own drinks. Manager Devin was very nice and took charge. Beautiful view of downtown...but probably wouldn't go back

I've been here numerous times and have always loved this beautiful restaurant and unfortunatly talked it up way to much to my daughter. The views are the very best and sunset / Miami lights at night are worth the trip. Drinks were great but nothing we ordered to eat was very good and certainly not worth the cost. Sad to say I doubt I'll ever go back.

Great view and delicious food. Excellent combination

Just be on time for your reservation because if your are a minute late they will give your table away. Other than that they have tremendous happy hour and good food. Spectacular view.

Impressive view of the city. The food is very good, but with room to improve and refine. Our waiter was very polite and friendly.

Ambiance:
The place is very nice, especially the outside area.

The food:
The food was not too tasty, my husband didn't enjoy it and I think it was average, not good for the price they have. The presentation was excellent, the flavor was a bit plain, that's all, especially for a fish.

COVID safety
Inside the tables are a little bit close to each other. I didn t want to seat in there so we had to wait 30 min to be seated outside, which is not bad, but a lot of people are trying to get photos on the fire pit they have next to the tables so there is always people very close to the tables taking photos of the view.

The food took around an hour to come out and it wasn't even that good. I ordered sushi at a restaurant on the water... go figure

Beautiful view of Miami skyline, especially at sunset. Food is great but wine and cocktails are ridiculously priced; $60-$80 for a $12 bottle of wine, $25+ for a whisky. We were there during a busy night when we found the bar service understaffed and overwhelmed. It took 15 minutes to get a wine list at the bar. Food service was also very slow, obviously working the bar tab up.

If you have deep pockets and plenty of time to enjoy the view, you wont be disappointed.

Excellent comfortable and for a senna on the edge of the most with your partner is excellent

Can't wait to try it, been waiting for my daughter to come home,cause she's been craving Seafood. I also saw a review on YouTube and ever since then I've been telling people about it w/out even trying it yet for myself,lol!!! So as soon as I try it, I will for sure let y'all know.

Very good option to eat and have a nice time, I recommend making a reservation to eat watching the sunset! This time I went to an event and spoke with Rafael the manager and his receptivity was great! Thanks a lot!

Outstanding service and food. Amazing location for views of Miami and the bay. I'd recommend it!

The view was fabulous and the food was great. I has the lobster roll and fries and my husband had the crabcake. The roll was toasted in butter and the lobster was sweet.There was also a great tasting sauce. The fries arrived in their fry basket, were nicely flavored and crispy perfection.
Although the cost was a bit pricy it was worth it. It was a great way to celebrate getting our 2nd Covid shot and taking a road trip. I would definitely recommend this restaurant to all my friends.

Food was great. Drink was excellent.forcrd to valet $6.00. I don't think I should Pay for parking on a restaurant owned lot .who does tha

They were absolutely amazing here. Our flight got delayed for 6 hours and we were so late for our reservation, the restaurant was closing. Additionally, it was my husband s birthday and we really just wanted to have a good time. They were absolutely amazing and served us with smiles and genuine spirits. Keke was the most amazing server. To top it all off, the food was amazing and so was the dessert. I would most definitely come back here. Thank you Rusty Pelican!

One of the world's famous landmarks of Miami on the ocean side. Great skyline views. Underwent remodeling not long ago however the food offerings changed towards the wanna-be gourmet with small portions and exhorbitant pricing. Apparently not a smart move, patrons get a drink or two and leave.
Still great for pre arranged social gatherings!

Great food and unbeatable view of Miami! The bottomless mimosas are great too!