Clearwater Restaurant

Reviews about Clearwater Restaurant

• 3 / 5

  By Brendan Clark
  I've read other reviews that gave 4 stars because they compared it to other coast restaurants. Mine will be based on all of my experiences as a whole.
  
  The food saved our experience. The restaurant is clean and new, seems recently updated. The hostess didn't keep things straight and had to go check upstairs and downstairs each time someone came in (it wasn't busy...) and the service was sub par. Within 5 minutes of being there I watched a food runner spill an entire drink on a table then just stand there awkwardly, heard staff members call each other names (and not in a joking way), and saw a full staff find a way to ignore the few tables that were there. We ordered only to find out 10 minutes later they were out of the entree - how is that not figured out faster? We heard 5 or more glasses break behind the bar with subsequent swearing or jeering which is not what we came for. The food was the saving grace. It was cooked and seasoned well and was perfect temperature; compliments to the chef. When the server came back to the table she had a full mouth of food - the entire staff left the floor and were clearly eating in a back room. I'm all for them eating too, but probably not everyone all at once when they are clearly not washing their hands when they go back to tables - she wiped her mouth with her fingers, licked them clean, then served another table calamari. Gross.
  
  Overall this place had a long way to go to operate effectively, and if I were the manager I would have some serious conversations with my staff about a professional environment.
  August 14, 2016