The Shack

I’ll admit it. I haven’t been to the Shack in probably 15 or more years. Last time I, the food sucked! The crowd then looked like God’s waiting room. Last Friday night I was «forced» into going there as a group of friends from out of town were here and they set it up. I got there ahead of them so I sat at the bar, facing out at the water. Two stools down was a guy who apparently was the owner or one of them, he was drinking and complaining that one of the waiters he had hired was an absolute jerk. Hmmm. Who is the jerk… YOU hired him! Anyhow, my group finally showed up so we moved to a dining room. My fears grew… the decorations were early kisch! Tinsel hula skirts for curtains, A table along the wall with «stuff» … looked like a flea market. Dusty plastic flowers along the soffit with Christmas lights. What could be growing in there? Ordered the stuffed mushrooms for an appetizer and the NY strip. That’s when it hit me. like an Emeril BAM!!! The mushrooms were second to none and the strip was the size of a prime rib and cooked to perfection! The food was outstanding! The service was great. We had a waiter that was pushing 7 feet tall and he knew his stuff! I only took off 1 star because of the way outdated décor! I will go back …

Best shrimp I have had from anywhere. Simply amazing.

The food on Sunday was delicious. From the casual festive atmosphere, the perfectly prepared food, and the friendly, attentive wait staff, this was hands down the best dining out experience I’ve had for as long as I can remember. I had French Onion Soup and Fried Flounder. The soup was the best I’ve ever tasted. The fish was flaky and the breading was light and crisp and not greasy. I can’t wait to go back and try some of their other menu items.

My wife and I had a late lunch here while in the area on business. She has a different opinion but I’m the one with the Unilocal account so you’ll have to hear my review.
The location and ambiance is great. Views of the water are good, but unfortunately the weather was poor when we were there so I can only imagine. Word is you can see Dolphin pretty often.
Food. — the waitress was pretty informative and made some good suggestions. My wife just had the French onion soup which she thought was very good. I had the seafood sizzle which was good but not great. Price was very fair.
Probably won’t be in the area anytime soon but if I were I would eat there again.

This place is awesome! We arrived at 4 pm and were able to participate in the early bird menu 4pm to 6pm. The food was exceptional and great service and view of The intercoastal wasn’t bad

Pros: our server was attentive and the house salad dressing was pretty good.
Cons: food.
I had stuffed flounder. It was terrible. Whatever the gelatin looking material that my fish was stuffed with was terrible. Or it could have been the sauce that was drizzled on it. I attempted to eat the flounder at least and I ended up getting sick to my stomach with each bit. The green beans were fine but I don’t mind my green beans on the oily side. The rice was bland. Husband had fried captains plate. Scallops had 0 flavor. The fish that came with it gave him the same nauseating feeling I had with my flounder. The shrimp on the plate tasted fine but none of the breading stuck to anything so it was a flakey mess. Needless to say we won’t be going back to give anything a second chance.

Wonderful food, great porch views. We will be back. I especially love the scallops, and shrimp.

This is a quaint little seafood shack on the causeway over to Vero Beach.
It is what it is… fresh seafood, great coleslaw, good drinks.
It isn’t going to knock your socks off, but it’s on the water and you can eat seafood and drink. Sometimes that’s all you need.
A nice outdoor, covered patio although it was a bit windy and rainy the day I was there so I ate inside at the bar. I saw dolphins swim by as I was eating and that was a nice treat.

I would almost like to take back ½ a star and I’ll tell you why. I was looking forward to my birthday dinner (actually 430 pm). The coleslaw was A plus! My fried shrimp was big and tender and wonderfully fresh, however, when you bit into one all the beautiful light breading fell off. My «blue» cocktail was generously poured with vodka and was delicious, thus I scooped up the breading and ate it by itself. (I had had 2 of the blue cocktail as by then). There were only two tables of two at this point. The bread arrived (delicious but only 2 small rolls). The dinners were very good quality but a bit on the small size. We had to ask for more bread and an ice tea refill. A table of 12 came in and our poor waitress forgot about us. After about 15 minutes, a second waitress came in to help and things got better. I never got my asked for additional cocktail sauce. All in all, a pretty place right on the water… old building, but I think that adds to its charm. I would definitely go back… the food was really good and the waitress couldn’t really help being overwhelmed! Also they have a «help wanted» sign on the door!

Used to come here growing up as a kid and happen to drive by and try it since its been 10 years or so. It was not how I remember, maybe ownership changed. The seafood was Blan, lacked flavor, dry, and almost seem like it just came out a freezer. Sad to say not worth going back… What a disappointment.

First of all, I had big expectations for this restaurant, I really wanted to try the lobster roll and it had pretty good reviews, when we first got there, we were impressed for the view and the parking lot was pretty crowded, the waitress had a nice attitude but she wasn’t good about giving suggestions, we ordered the lobster roll and the captain’s platter, i didn’t like the lobster because it tasted like they took it from the fridge and mixed with a jar of mayo, nothing special, and my hubby tried the platter, all dipped in batter, and deep deep fried with old oil, he had two bites then he got nauseous, we had to ask for a refund because he couldn’t eat it at all, sorry but not coming back again.

Tried this place out at noon on a Tuesday afternoon during spring break season and it wasn’t busy at all. It was very laid back and relaxing. Great proximity right on the water with a decent amount of parking and outdoor, screened-​in seating.
We tried the lobster roll, fried softshell crab sandwich and fried shrimp. Everything was pretty good, but nothing that blew us away. The shrimp was in a beer batter breading which was unexpected, but still good and really big. The service was pleasant and the bar looked like a nice place to sit if dining alone.

Louisiana gumbo was very good and the baked scrod and sautéed seafood platter were very tasty! The baked potatoes were perfect, but the broccoli was very over cooked and mushy. The rolls and salad with the house dressing was awesome! Very pleasant experience especially our server Michelle ! Will go again and will tell our friends about our positive experience. You just can’t beat the view!

Not terrible, but not that good either. I ordered the stuffed shrimp with a side salad and onion rings. The salad with the house dressing was pretty good. Lettuce, cucumber, one cherry tomato. The garlic parmesan house dressing was good. The rolls and butter were good.
The shrimp came in a reasonable amount of time. The service was decent. Shrimp tasted like it was cooked hours earlier and heated up (and not very hot). You can tell when the food is cooked all the way through (well done) but isn’t hot, that it was not cooked fresh. The stuffing was ok, but again not too fresh. They dumped some kind of roumelade sauce all over the stuffing. The sauce did not taste good. I think it was there to try to conceal the poor taste of the food, and the fact that the entire meal was just warmed up leftovers.
I would recommend trying something else on the menu. When the check came it was for someone else’s dinner and I had to send it back to get the correct check. Just not much attention to detail here.

I had dinner here on New Years Day with my Grandmother and one of my cousins. The restaurant itself and the staff were wonderful.
But probably because it was New Years Day they were out of many items. Two of us wanted scallops but nope, we had to get shrimp dishes instead. I got the Shrimp Creole but I really didn’t like it. It tasted like a can of Ro-​Tel with a couple shrimp served over rice. On the other hand, the Crab Stuffed Mushrooms were fantastic and I tried my grandmother’s Stuffed Shrimp with Garlic Pasta and that was really good too.
The next time time I go back I hope everything will be in stock so I can try their Pan Seared Scallops served over Garlic Spinach which Is what I wanted to try in the first place.

Service was great and wonderful view. Seafood platter was everything expected and more. Burger was huge and yummy… coleslaw one of the best. Highly recommend!!!

I had lunch with my boss today and we both ordered the seafood medley which comes on pasta or rice or with any other side you choose. We chose on pasta. The meal was preceded with a basket of bread and salad with house salad. Cool, crisp and fresh but nothing over the top. The bread was served with little pre packaged butters that were hard to spread. A small pet peeve of mine. However, the entrée made up for all of that. The portion was large and each dish was perfectly cooked pasta topped with mushrooms, mahi mahi, bay scallops and shrimp in a creamy wine sauce. They serve it with a side of parmesan cheese. There was enough to take home leftovers. The service was friendly, timely and the view was amazing. Dolphins, fish jumping and all. I will be back soon!

After reading the Unilocal reviews and seeing the pictures we decided to try this location out. A Saturday night and the restaurant had 10 customers at most. The appetizers were good, Stuffed mushrooms needed to be larger, they were the size of dimes with a large scoop of crab flavored breading, The Seafood melt was good but a little wetter then I would have liked. The Seafood gumbo came out room temperature and after sending it back came out again room temperature? My dinner The Captains Platter which is pictured by other reviewers must have been a owners plant. The platter was swimming in a lake of fake butter, The Ciopinno was frozen cooked and poorly executed. The Lobster roll was ½ the size of the ones pictured in Unilocal???The Blacked chicken pasta was a uniformed brown color with the flavor of dehydrated mushroom powder.
The overall experience really really could be a candidate for the show Kitchen Nightmares. The fish on my plate must have been frozen for years before it ended up on my plate.
Another weird thing is the music they had piped in. It was a mix of ¼ OK dinner music and ¾ some «pre-​flower child» San Francisco early 60’s Peter Paul and Mary «B» side album music. Very weird.
The location has great potential but the food quality feel so far short, it was disappointing.

The best fried shrimp ever! Seriously! This place is the real deal. Sure, by no means is this place fancy, but, in my opinion, places don’t need to be fancy to be amazing… and that’s just what this place is – amazing!
This little gem, located near Melbourne, FL, is definitely worthy checking out. They offer a full menu of seafood goodness (both the fried variety and the healthier broiled variety). Now, when I splurge, I don’t usually go for healthy, so I can’t vouch for those items… but, everything I tried, was right on.
First off, I gotta mention those fried shrimp again! Wow! They were giant, plump, tasty and fried up just right! Seriously, I’m not lying when I say they were the best fried shrimp I’ve ever eaten! Other items I tried included the shrimp scampi and stuffed shrimp. All delicious! [I got the Shrimp Trio meal, which allowed me to try a sampling of their various shrimp dishes.]
Before the meal, I tried several apps including the fried calamari and appetizer sampler plate w/​various fried seafood goodies… again, all tasty. We also ordered a few different pre-​dinner drinks from their full-​service bar, and those were tasty and strong! Yum! And, to top it off, for their mojitos, they grow their own mint! How cool is that!!!
As for atmosphere, this place is not going to win any awards for ambiance. But, what do you expect for a place called The Shack? :) This place doesn’t need to be pretentious when it comes to ambiance because they do food right!
Check this place out if you’re nearby Melbourne. You will be glad you did.

I was trying to find a seafood restaurant in Melbourne and actually found the Shack Seafood Restaurant off of the Melbourne Visitor’s Map. From the second my group walked in, to when we left we had great service. We were able to sit outside in the screened in patio and basically had the entire patio to ourselves. The patio area is right on the river. I don’t know if it was the time I was there but there were no flies or bugs around.
The lunch menu had a wide selection of different choices and it was hard to decide what to choose. The waitress suggested her two favorite choices and everyone chose the lobster roll. There was a lot of fresh lobster. The only thing I would have liked was some more coleslaw. The waitress checked back on the table throughout lunch to make sure if we needed any refills or other anything else. Lunch was a nice experience and I definitely would come back again.