Laishley Crab House

Busy Tuesday evening. We had reservations and good thing. Nicely seated with no waiting and then no service for 20 minutes until we flagged down a hostess. We hadn’t been assigned a wait person and no one noticed. Waitress was very nice and competent. Fresh Tuna Salad looked nice but had little flavor. Caesar Grouper wrap was good but fries were wilted. The Sirloin Tip Salad was plentiful with good meat and too much iceberg lettuce. All in all, food ok.
If seated outside to enjoy the view, it might have seemed worth it. Better for lunch and beer.

Great place! Been here twice in less than 2 weeks. The view is pretty over looking the water and the bridge. First time I had the lobster roll. Yum and second time the grouper sandwich. Pretty darn good. Trust me, not a lot of places can make a good grouper sandwich. Sweet potato fries are tasty. The avocado salad is yummy too. Beer is super cold as it should be.

Went for lunch today. Had mussels as an appetizer and blackened catfish on jambalaya for my meal and it was really good. Great setting on the water and the inside is really neat, great woodwork, well kept and clean. I recommend it.

The food was average. Nice atmosphere. Attentive servers. Average prices.

Extremely popular place good food and drinks. They have a full sushi menu seafood menus regular hamburgers quite a selection

Beautiful view of the Harbor! The crab stack had fresh and generous portions of crab and avocado. The sushi is def fresh and on point!

Very good past experience but sadly, I will not be recommending the Laishley Crab House again. We met some old friends there this afternoon who were staying in Naples. We hadn’t seen them in 20 years.
We suggested Laishley Crabhouse as it was the perfect in between place. We enjoyed cocktails, and everyone was happy with their meal. We had after dinner drinks. Apparently the manager thought we overstayed our welcome after we spent hundreds of dollars, he came and asked us to leave as he was expecting a large party soon and needed to use our table to push together with another table… We still had drinks on the table. The place was half empty, did he offer us another table? No. Very rude inexcusable behavior likely from an inexperienced manager. I was so disappointed with this visit. There were at least 20 empty tables, it was insulting.

Great food went during a busy lunch time. I had the blue crab sandwich found some shell in it. (Which means its real!) Crab dip was good great and yummy peta chips. Awesome service and not a bad price.

Went back again
Eh, its lost a lot of the luster
Servers seem a little slow on their game
Had sushi and salads
Sushi was OK but the salads, what’s up with the yellow iceberg??? Blaaaaa

Great service, great appetizers, great drinks. Wonderful service. Must have the raw oysters with a Bloody Mary!

Slooooow service, mediocre, bland food, servers don’t clear your table off, but are quick to process your check. Up side good beer selection & a nice view of the harbor to watch a sunset. Have to be better choices for seafood in this fishing town!

say 2 ½, but could be 3 if we had a seat with a view
We have not been here in previous trips to PG, not sure why, but probably should have read the Unilocal reviews this time instead of the local recommendation — i think the recommendation must have been because of the GREAT view, but even though there were indoor tables facing the windows, we got one on the other side (didnt realize there had been openings when we came in)
but lets talk food
wife had lobster SALAD roll. — she said it was good, but salad not chunks of lobster. note: I waited to post this a few days to compare vs others in the area. check out my others reviews for real lobster rolls not far away
daughter had the volcano sushi roll — «she enjoyed the tempura part more than the rest and she didn’t realize there would be spicy sauce, which she doesn’t like.» i had one piece of it and it was heavy but boring.
son had shrimp po boy. no sauce. waitress was trying (she was very nice) by asking if we wanted some sauce. roll was dry so we got some pre=made sauces. How can it be called a po boy without po boy flavors?
I had: Laishley Cobb Salad (Mixture of baby shrimp, blue crab & bay scallops with tomato wedges, cucumbers, avocado & hard boiled eggs over greens.) VERY disappointed. the salad mix of shrimp, tiny crab pieces and bay scallops was a little vinegary but otherwise not tasty. A seafood place should be able to ace this.
editing with help from daughter

Loved this place! They treated my family well, great server good food! My husband and I enjoyed the crab buckets, snow crab came with potatoes corn and hush puppies (OMG so good) for $ 35, my hubby had the king crab which varies from $ 45-​$ 75 on type of King crab. The portion is one HUGE crab leg, with corn and potatoes. The butter was okay, but the crab was the star. This place also has sushi! We tried the volcano roll, it was fantastic! They had fried mac and cheese but my kid wanted Mac and cheese so they made her some with penne noodles and cheese sauce. All kids menu items are SpongeBob themed. Super cute. So great place, cool atmosphere, great service, good for kids and adults. Make sure to check out the homemade sugar scrubs in the bathroom too!

I try to be fair in all my reviews so how does one rate a restaurant that serves one acceptable meal and one that is totally unacceptable? We went for dinner tonight for a birthday celebration. I ordered the house special, a blackened redfish dish. Guess what? No redfish! Oh well… So, I asked what local fish was fresh and was told mahi, so I substituted that into the dish. It was well prepared and presented and turned out to be delicious.
My wife ordered the broiled seafood platter, something any seafood restaurant should ace. The dish was horrendous and should have never been served by anyone with a conscience. The grouper was bad, inexcusable considering it’s a readily available local fish. The scallops and shrimp were tasteless. We returned the dish, replacing it with the same one I got, not wanting to take any further chances.
I’m still trying to juxtapose these two dishes and don’t know if I’ll chance it again. How can a SEAFOOD restaurant serve a dish like this?

Amazing view & service. Wife & I enjoyed. Excellent food presentation on sushi & sea food. Amazing decorations… Probably what I enjoyed the most.

Driving up to PG from Pine Island for sushi did not end as we anticipated for a combination of reasons! The Perfect Storm– we had reservations and were seated inside and given menues and our wait staffer, new to the job, asked for drink order. My date asked for a glass of Sauvignon Blanc, me a warm sake. Waitress returned w a wine list. Picked out the Blosser Evolution. Waitress returned, old wine list… don’t have that wine. Pick another? And about 35 min later we successfully had our beverages. Exhausting tedious, every conversation paused because the entire meal was like this. Ordered 4 pc sushi and a salad. Date ordered a Cobb. No soy sauce, chopsticks, dipping dish. The pesto dressing w Cobb was watery w no discernible flavor. I went to find the items we didn’t have. It was not a comfortable or relaxing experience. The kicker!!!
I blame management. How could you put a new waitress out with no training or help??! We had a poor exp n won’t be back. And hey, your food isn’t that good.
The other victim? The poor waitress who kept her smile fixed n persevered. At no time did we blame the staff. Mgt yes, u need to do better.

Great view good sushi too. Charlotte Harbor breezes a d the best sunsets. Go early for a good seat outside.

I had a very nice lunch here. It was midweek and rather slow as all the snowbirds are gone for the summer. I had a table overlooking the marina, which was pretty cool. They had a special of crab and shrimp stuffed Halibut topped with a lobster sherry sauce for just $ 13. It was excellent and very fresh. The piece of Halibut was huge, baked perfectly, and just lovely. I tried the clam chowder as a starter, which was good but not the best. I thought a small cup for $ 6 was very overpriced. $ 4 would be fair for a lunch cup of soup. Service was good. They should list out a price list with their cocktail menu. I will return.

3 stars for food, 4 for service. I ordered the special diablo– it was too tomatoey and sweet– but the fish was really good and cooked perfectly.
Service was great, they forgot to put calamari in the diablo so the server brought out a whole plate of it! That was nice.

Have been here twice the past week.
What I like:
— Great view of the marina if you are dining on the back patio.
— The second time we were there we had a great attentive server.
— After food is ordered it’s delivered fairly quickly and it’s fresh.
— The food here is pretty good. We’ve had the Caesar salad, calamari, ahi salad, and the squid salad. Calamari was a tad rubbery.
What I didn’t like:
We asked to be seated outside and were shown to a table against the restaurant wall vs. one overlooking the water. Since there were two available tables overlooking the water we asked if we could switch. We were told both tables were reserved and if they gave us one they’d be «screwing» (the hostesses word not mine) the folks who had taken the time to make a reservation out of a table. OK I get that and while one of the parties showed up within 15 minutes the other was a no show for the whole 90 minutes we were there.