Gator’s Dockside

Unlike my experience at the subway down road. I have feel a sense of hospitable redemption from gators dockside in Saint Cloud, Florida. Our server was absolutely terrific, and very understanding of my service husky Zane. The wings were outstanding, the deep fried Oreos superb, and the atmosphere was welcoming. If I don’t go back there in the next two weeks I would ashamed of myself. Thank you gators dockside family for the splendid experience.

Amazing food! The 27oz margaritas are the best deal for drinks! Make sure to check their daily specials. Wednesdays are all you can eat wings!

My second time here and their floor was so filthy, I had to experience the manager or supervisor being stern with her employees to clean it up asap. It took them about 10 mins to do so but other than that the place was fine. But their service is usually slow and I understand it’s more on the American side but they Definitely need More diverse workers. Overall their food has always been great! :)

A much needed addition to the area. A wonderful combination of restaurant and sports bar. They just introduced a new seafood many to the regular menu. I’ve tried the seafood combo and the lobster roll so far. Both dishes we very good. It was a great place to watch Sunday football. Staff is always friendly and ready to help. Of it’s busy when you check in, have a seat at one of their 2 bars. In my opinion, it’s worth the weight. Enjoy!

Awesome place. We just randonly picked this restaurant in route to Fort Lauderdale. The staff and our server were fantastic. I can’t remember the waitress’ name but she was amazing! We only got bar food but it was very good. I think our bill was only $ 32 – 33. So we left $ 50.
Great job.

We ordered 6 wings and the cheeseburger sliders. I ordered Blue cheese to go with the wings and they charge you for the blue cheese to go with the wings. I have never been charged for the blue cheese with wings. I asked for the spicy mayo on the side for the burgers. The food runner, delivered our food and said enjoy and left. There was no spicy mayo and there was no blue cheese salad dressing. I waited about 5 minutes for our waiter to check up on us and he didn’t. We were sitting outside so I asked the bartender if she could get our waiter. Another 10 minutes goes by. At this point our food is cold and I asked for a manager. The manager states he will have new food made and brought out to us right away. The wings were extremely greasy (I think they might have just threw our wings back in the fryer) and the hamburger buns were stale. The blue cheese was watery and nothing like a home made blue cheese that they should be charging extra for.

I am so happy that they built a Gators in St. Cloud! This is a great place to go to if you want to watch the game, have lunch or dinner. It family friendly, yet has two bars and high tops in the bar area. There are TV’s located everywhere, so there is not a bad seat in the house. Food is consistently good and so is the service. They have specials every night such as all-​you-​can-​eat wings, 2−4−1 drinks, etc… Parking can be touch at times as the parking lot is tiny, but it is connected to the Gold’s Gym plaza’s parking lot… so you can always park in there and walk over.

Let me start off by saying I loved this place. My hubby not so much. Its not that he didn’t like it but, being a vegan/​vegetarian the menu is not great. We were seated as soon as we arrived no wait. That was nice for a Saturday afternoon with college football on. The place is huge inside and outside. We were shown to our booth which was nice since I had a boot on my foot and was able to put it up. Our Waitress Jen came right over and asked about our drink order. I excused myself to use the restroom and by the time I returned my ice tea with lime was watching for me. Nice. I was not sure if I wanted wings or the burger and went with the burger on Jen’s advice and I was so glad I did. I got the most perfectly cooked med. rare perfectly seasoned burger of my life. I choose to add bacon, mushrooms and blue cheese crumbles and boy did that just go great with the burger. I ordered the onion petals instead of fries which just topped off my meal amazingly. My hubby on the other hand could only really have the cesar salad. I am sure if they would have had say a black bean burger he would have enjoyed that. Jen our waitress had great service skills and you could tell that she knew what she was doing. She knew the menu inside and outside. She is good. She even brought me new ice tea when she thought it had been seating too long and that the ice melted and it would be to watered down. That was a very very nice touch. The place has more T.V.‘s than best buy and every sporting event you could think of was on one. The food came out very quickly and hot. The restaurant was very clean and looked like they cared to keep it looking that way. The bathrooms was large and well kept. The only thing if I had to say was the menu needed some more options for vegetarians. But it is bar food. I will for sure be back. F.Y.I. they have free valet service.

Was an excellent experience! Sam was very attentive and had amazing personality. The food was divine, and the drink specials were pretty reasonable as well! I’ll definitely return!

The food is good. But the portion of Buffalo shrimp is so little for $ 10. Expected way more

Great new spot in STC. Perfect for watching games, since there are tons of screens inside. Try the scooter wings grilled with blue cheese (my fav). Only complaint is the service is typically a little slow.

Service speed leaves much to be desired. We tried this location when it first opened and had an extremely long wait for our entrees to arrive. We decided to give it another try and experienced the same long wait time for our food to arrive. Dining here turns into an hour ordeal while other sports bars are running circles around these tickets times.
The food is average quality, high calorie fare. There are better sports bars if you are up to venturing into Orlando or Kissimmee.

Greasy, greasy, really greasy. I had a buffalo chicken wrap, had to give up after a few bites cause the grease was dripping out and turning my stomach. My husband’s burger was «all right», nothing special. Menu choices are mostly fried and yes, greasy. Probably won’t return.

The should only stick to what they know. Do not eat anything that is not wings or fry.

Great casual «bar food» that would have received a «5 star» from me had the atmosphere been a little less «corporate». Prefer the hometown feeling that you get from the other «local» spots.

Was a little sketchy about coming here after reading Foursquare reviews off my boyfriends phone, but I’m so glad we ignored them & came in and on a Tuesday.
Apparently on Tuesday, it is buy one get one free (alcohol drinks) My boyfriend and I got draft beers (yuengling and Sam Adams summer ale), and margaritas with patron, ($ 10 for two 27 ounce margaritas)!
We also did appetizers, the ahi tuna and gator tators, they were so delicious! We saw reviews that said otherwise, but we experienced it and definitely enjoyed every bite.
Our server, Zion, made our first experience great! He was attentive, personable, and pleasant.
Will definitely come back with friends and family!

Gator Dockside, Saint Cloud, FL
Visited this establishment Monday, May 11 around dinner time. Ever since the place opened, it’s been pretty packed and busy. So yesterday was the perfect day to stop by.
They have free valet parking and plenty of parking spots. We were greeted and seated promptly. Our drink order was taken and a different waitress came to assist us. I think her name is Jen. She was friendly, polite and very professional. She gave us a few suggestions to try. we ordered Ahi tuna, gator tail fritters, baked potato soup and a blue n bacon burger.
The food was brought to our table in less than 20 minutes! Big portions too. Our waitress was super attentive, on top of our drink orders and asking if we needed any help.
The food: it was just ok. There was nothing special. Theand pricey. Those few things we ordered were about $ 50 no tip included.
Would we go back? Not really.

Stopped in for an impromptu Saint Patrick’s Day dinner. I probably shouldn’t have but I had the fried pickles and OMG, amazeballs! I ordered the Turkey Muffaletta, gators homemade spinach and artichoke dip, grilled turkey breast and tomato pressed with swiss and parmesan on pita bread and the onion petals. It was ok, I think I expected it to be cheesier. I only had a quarter of it because I filled up on everything fried. I will have the rest of it for lunch tomorrow. We also ordered a pitcher of Bud Light for $ 6.99 and since it was Tuesday 2 for 1, it was only $ 3.50! Whaaaaa?! Score! It was also kids eat free night’ so my son’s hot dog was free. I appreciated that they had the hot dog on the menu, which my son actually ate! Whoop whoop! My husband had the mac and cheese burger, which he devoured! I think it was good, he didn’t even offer me a bite, so rude! It was a cool and comfortable atmosphere. Lots of TV’s, a few arcade games, awesome bar, awesome deals on adult beverages. The service was good too. I’d go back.

This is a good addition to St. Cloud’s limited choices of restaurants. My first visit here was two weeks ago. It was packed on a Thursday, after 1PM. I guess everyone was excited to try out the newest addition to town, and that was the first week of opening. Our food came out late, but it was good, and our server was very attentive and made sure we received all the modifications (or add-​ons) we wanted.
Then I went back to this restaurant yesterday evening with co-​workers for happy hour. We got there before 5pm, and was able to be seated right away. Our drinks and food arrived in a reasonable amount of time, but still rather slow. Our server was pretty pleasant, but the young man who delivered our entrees definitely needed more training on good customer service. I ordered 10pcs of grilled wings in Scooter Sauce, Extra Wet. When my food arrived, it didn’t look «Extra Wet» to me. So I asked the young man who delivered my food for extra sauce. He said my wings already looked very wet to him. OH NO!!! First rule of great customer service in a restaurant: Ensure your customers are happy with how their food look upon delivery! And acknowledge your customer’s requests!
There are a couple of other restaurants in St. Cloud that serve good chicken wings and drinks. I’m still gonna come back to Gators next time. Perhaps they would’ve trained ALL their staff members well by then. Don’t let me down then, Gators!!! Perhaps you’ll earn your 5^th star next time.

It’s a Gators Dockside. It is a chain. That doesn’t mean that you will be dissappointed. Saint Cloud has a pluthera of Sports Bars to choose from, but this will be my favorite of the bunch for the foreseeable future. The menu has variety, the place has an open clean feel, there are T.V.s everywhere, awesome drink specials! (my margarita for happy hour was less than 4 $), and some arcade games with the requisite claw machine for the kids. They have two bars, one inside and then one with an indoor side and outdoor side that has a patio too! Some of the servers are new to the profession as far as I could tell, but they were trying very hard. The food came out quick and the drinks were cold :) They opened this past Tuesday. We’ll be back!