Sharkys On The Pier Reviews

Seating available didn't seat us. Told us to wait 45 minutes.

Good food...great beach & pier. Weekends can be a bit crowded tho.

Location on the sand is unbelievable. Food excellent. A fun place

Great food. Good service. Best place to sit, enjoy a meal and watch a beautiful sunset. .

We like this place for their location on the beach. They have a large menu and delicious frozen drinks. The bartenders are friendly and funny. Good service on all our visits, which are many.

Food great! Very pricey. No daily specials. Do not approve of house dogs able to come with owner, not a service dog. Wonderful tasting food & the most expensive piece of key lime pie that we shared. Poor communication amoungst staff. Service from the minute we walked in wasn't on task. Won't be back to pay huge prices. The ocean is beautiful but there are other restaurants with same beautiful surroundings same great food & much more affordable.
Especially with COVID tables are too close together. I'm a small person, my chair was pulled in with my chest against table & staff ran into my chair four times. What if I were a 230 lb man instead of a 130 lb woman? Too close...tables need to be spaced out!

Best atmosphere, gulf view and nice menu, good food, friendly staff. Love this place!

Nice but expensive place for lunch. The view makes up for the price

Happy staff, beautiful views of Gulf while you have a great meal

This beach is nice and clean. The restaurant near by has good food. Lots of seashells on this beach. There's a dog beach close by from here.

Sharkey's has indoor and outdoor seating available. Outdoor seating if further divided by list seating and "free-for-all" seating. If the table had a yellow umbrella the table is up for grabs.

The menu is ok. The food is ok. Nothing special but not fast food either.

The outdoor area needs a good cleaning - especially the bar area.

Wade was our server fantastic gentleman professional courteous and prompt to your needs. Food was fantastic served with presentation. But once again wade was the best. Will be asking for his area anytime we return.
Ben and polly

Food is excellent and view is amazing. Only problem I have with the place is the attitude of the servers. Ben several times, haven't had a pleasant server yet.

Good food, great atmosphere, awesome views of the gulf. We always sit outside!

I've been to Sharkys many times over the years. The food (overall) isn't amazing but the ambiance is. So, make sure you sit outside to max out the experience.

My favorite place on the beach, great food tropical drinks , beach is very clean

Go here for the atmosphere not the food. Way too bland for the $$$

My wife and her sister have been going here for 20 years. They said they had the worst experience and the manager never bothered to follow up after a complaint. The grouper tastes frozen BEWARE. The bun was hard as a BRICK and they changed waiters on then during the meal! Beware this place is terrible

Way too noisy inside Fins, but food is very good & pricey

Love sitting on tge patio watching the water while eating. Good food, pleasant employees, efficient

Taste ok but not a lot of meat on your plate. For the price.

Very unpolite welcome, for the second time... We are not coming back.
Ariving on a Tuesday around eleven and walking up to the bar (at the entrance of the restaurant). Behind the bar was somewone cleaning and 'not noticing' us. Upon my most polite and on a tone that implied a question 'hello', we got only one harsh reply "We're not open untill 11:30!". And he turned away. So did we.
Last year we had a similar experience. We won't be coming back.

Awesome food and lots of shark teeth here. Rent the sand scoops from the place at sharkys and go south of the pier about a football field. Get in right where the shells gather a couple feet in the water and scoop. Then lightly shake your scoop while it is in the water to get all the sand out and leave you with the shells and teeth. Next take it to shore and sift through it.

Really good food, excellent wait staff service & great views of sunsets and moonlight.

Had the "fresh" stone crab. Don't think so. It was bland and tasteless and you could tell it had been frozen. Beautiful area, great friends but bad food.

This Cafe is right on the beach and has really good food. My favorite part was actually their place mats which have a lot of historical information on the area as well as information about the types of shark teeth you'll find.

Wonderful weather partnered with delicious food and amazing company made for a beautiful afternoon.

November 2018. One of the few real beach bars. Right on the water and that has its price. Downstairs beach bar and Tikibar, above restaurant. Very friendly service, good food, drinks unfortunately in plastic cups. Go in and enjoy the sea view, we will definitely do it again.

Love Sharkey's
.great views.. atmosphere

Food is good too

Food is delicious with a beautiful view of the gulf! Great service as well!!

Always a pleasure to dine and drink here. Never disappoints.

This is a great place to check out if you are visiting Venice, FL. Some exciting things to look at and good food.

Amazing fish tacos. Amazing live music. Great view of the Gulf and Pier.

Good place to rest and have some good food. Good service.

Great place, although very touristy! I wish they expanded to accommodate more people.

Food was good. Perfect place to sit outside, enjoying the view.

Very good food. Friendly staff and the best view of sunset.

I'll confess, we are tourists. I called ahead in the morning and made reservations for 3 people for the outside later that evening. The lady on the phone was not very friendly. If you like watching the waiters scrape food off of the plates and into the garbage can next to your table with french fries all over the ground nearby, watery Coca-Cola, and a warm red sangria served in a plastic Dixie-sized cup while soaking in the beautiful sunset of the Gulf of Mexico then this is the place for you. Our food was good but not great. We had Sharky wings, Summer Salad, and a lobster roll. Our server was very plain with little personality. I can't help but think the wait staff is overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated by someone in the company. It was like being in The Twilight Zone. People were eating but no one around us (customers and staff) had smiles on their faces. Bummer! A small tweak with the food presentation and perhaps better working conditions for the staff (I'm guessing higher wages) would create a more festive atmosphere at a world class location.

Great service great food. Very busy but served within 10 minutes.

The food was fine, however the reason for this one star is because of the service. My mom has celiac disease, which means that if she has gluten, she will get very very sick. Our waitress, Helen, was completely dismissive of this fact. After my mom told her that she was celiac, she gave us bread (?) and then when she was told that my mom cannot eat bread because she is celiac, as aforementioned, she lectured my mom about food allergies. We were so floored that we would be chastised in such a rude way about something my mom can literally do nothing about. It made us incredibly uncomfortable. We will not be coming back.

Always have such a great time at sharkys. we come down every few months and can never not come here. the seafood nachos are a must! we were bummed to hear that Morgan was no longer there though. i would highly recommend sharkys for a fun quick bite with a beautiful view

We love Sharkey's. We go for a a late dinner and dancing. Key lime pie is bad, too.

I love Sharky's! The food is good. The staff is friendly and you can't beat the view!

Great beach restaurant... Seafood nachos are terrific

Sharky's is an awesome restaurant. Really laid back and fun to eat at. Great customer service. Very fun very enjoyable.

More of a Seafood Shack. Open air seating right on the Beach, you can literally walk in from the beach. It is connected to the a pier. They pier was damaged from Hurricane Irma last time I was there but that was months ago.

Finns? Over priced. Under valued. Terrace poorly organized between afternoon and evening dining.

Convient place to eat on the beach. Good food selections and drinks. Will be back in the future.

The Boathouse Salad was nice and fresh with a variety of ingredients, however, the grilled shrimp was so overcooked they were tough and not deviened - yuck! My husband had the fish and chips and was disappointed. Coming from the "great white north" we expected large pieces of fresh fish - turns out we have better fish and chips at home. Their Chocolate Trouble dessert was delicious, however, the mango bread pudding was a disappointment. It was rock hard on the bottom and had very little of the mango coconut flavour that was promised. It had more strawberries than any other fruit. The service was pleasant and location to watch the sunset is perfect.

Went to sharky's today expecting the same wonderful food, wonderful staff but boy oh boy was everyone in my party dissatisfied. The menu is completely different, the food is less than par i mean they even served my son kraft mac and cheese and a frozen pizza. Broccoli was definitely frozen the fish was not cooked properly the nachos was just thrown together. They put the pico de gallo on top of the guacamole, unheard of . To top it off the waiter was rude and didn't even know his menu. We spent 70 dollars on 2 kids meals 2 hot dogs and nachos. Insane absolutely insane. What happened to that place, coconut shrimp gone, specialty burgers gone, philly cheese steak gone, and the famous fish meals are revamped but definitely not in a good way. So disappointed

Seafood over cooked. Food lacked flavor. Over priced.

We ate upstairs at Finns, the food was fantastic. Get the lobster nachos!

Had a wonderful time enjoying the outdoor seating. There's a great selection of seafood! And we ended the night with a sunset walk on the pier :)

Always a fun time here with delicious food. The best part is you are right on the beach

Very good ocean view, really seaside. The food is delicious too. I ate fried shrimp for $ 16

Go to gift shop & rent a sifter for $7! Then go to the Gulf & find shark teeth!

Beautiful scenery to enjoy dinner or a day at the beach! Make sure to check out the pier shop.