Tuckerton Beach Grille

Food is fine for a «beach» place. Prices for lunch are fair.
The entire place needs a good cleaning.
«White» exterior door to the Ladies Room is black with grime.

Good isn’t that good but cheap mugs during happy hour. Food is below mediocre and during the summer the place is filled
With obnoxious rude shoobies and Bennys

Don’t waste your time!
My husband & I had the worst meal ever at the Tuckerton Beach Grille.
For an appetizer, I ordered Fried Calamari. The meager serving arrived on a huge charger plate. The Calamari had a horrible breading and was completely dried out. At $ 9.99, I can go to my local pizza joint and get better. Giving credit where it’s due, my husband had clams on the ½ shell. They were good, but how can you mess that up?
We ordered (2) drinks, a tall double rum & coke and a tall double scotch & water. Both arrived in Sam Adams pilsner glasses (how strange).
Then, our entrees arrived.
My husband ordered Seafood Au Gratin ($ 24.99) and I ordered Crab Penne ($ 24.99). My entrée was fair, certainly not worthy of the $ 24.99 price tag; they did not use the good lump crabmeat – it was finely shredded throughout the dish.
My husband’s Seafood Au Gratin contained (2) shrimp & (2) scallops and the same «shredded» crab meat (certainly NOT lump).
My husband at first made a comment to our waitress; she just shrugged and commented «that’s the way they make it».
As my husband was eating, he became more furious, as the entrée was simply not as described and not very good.
He called the waitress over again and asked for the Manager.
Well, the «Manager”/Hostess (she never provided her name) came over to our table and began arguing with my husband, scolding him for eating a portion of the entrée. Finally, after several minutes of this, the «Manager» agreed to credit us ½ the cost of the entrée, as he ate some of it! Can you imagine? My husband asked for the check and paid the entire amount.
In closing, I want to add that we are «weekenders» and have owned a house in nearby Mystic Island for nearly 10 years. Not only will we not return, but we have a lot of friends and neighbors in the area. We will certainly spread the word.

I am finished with this place. We live just down the road and we used to stop in frequently, in past years, for lunch and sometimes for dinner. We used to like the specials they had. They no longer offer them. The food this year has just been terrible and the prices are high for the food and the drinks.
I will only review my last two experiences just so you can get the point. Last night my wife, my brother in law, his wife, and I decided to pop in for a drink and then decide what to do for dinner. So we we ordered drinks and waited and waited for our drinks to come. We could see they were sitting on the bar. We were watching the ice melt. My sister in law finally had enough and got up, took the drinks off the bar, and served us. We decided we would order another round of drinks and order some food. We had to flag down our waitress since she repeatedly walked by our table without bothering to make any eye contact or ask us if we needed another drink or wanted to order food.
We get our drinks and lo and behold this man starts doing one arm push ups right in the middle of the floor while his drunken entourage cheers him on. This is all done in front of the owner and wait staff without a word being said. Are you kidding me? Then came the how many regular push ups can we do session. Customers had to walk around the guy and the owner and wait staff watched and again never said a thing. Fortunately they got tired and sat down at their table and drank. I was impressed however that the guy could do about 25 push ups without losing his dinner That was a fine dining experience.
My sister in law requested bread and we ordered steamers to share for starters The streamers came, the bread did not, and they were placed in the middle of the table by someone in the kitchen staff who abruptly turned and left without saying a word We had no plates or napkins and I was calling and calling for him to stop. He finally did and got our waitress for the bread and plates, but no napkins. When the entrees came later and we were able to get napkins.
My brother in law got the daily special, liver and onions. The liver was so over cooked you could use it for soles on your shoe. The burnt nasty flavor was an additional bonus. My wife ordered shrimp and broccoli. Hers came with 4 shrimp, mushy broccoli, and the noodles were swimming in a very salty garlic sauce. I ordered linguini with clam sauce. the linguini was way overlooked and the meal was unbelievably salty. It looked like it sat under a heat lamp for a half an hour since the top was dried out. My sister in law got something over egg noodles and the noodles were latterly swimming in butter. We all hated our meals. I have had less salt eating salt cured country ham. My wife and I were up all night drinking water.
A few days prior we stopped in and I ordered the German pork chop and my wife ordered the chicken milanese. My pork chop was way overlooked and resembled a hockey puck with grill marks. When my wife’s plate came I was shocked at the presentation. The dish looked exactly like the fake vomit you get at a joke store. I was going to take a picture of it, but I did not want to ruin her meal. When she stopped eating she said it was ok but she actually thought the same thing. I swear it looked just like it. Unbelievable.
Anyway, we are not going back again. We had enough of the bad food and high prices. My brother in law has had enough too. He related that his last few experiences were bad too and when he got his check for $ 90.00 for 4 drinks and 2 lousy specials he was pissed. He also was tired of the higher prices, lousy food, and apathetic service by an untrained wait staff that does not know the menu. Ask a waiter at Scojos about anything on the menu and you will see the difference.
Gone are the nightly specials, the 2 for twenty, any fresh food, etc, etc. Everything tastes frozen It is a shame you can not get fresh local seafood and produce being in a shore town where these ingredients are plentiful.

Let me start by saying some of the food I‘ve had such as the Chicken Parm is very good compared to other places nearby. This is Romeos formerly of Romeo on LBI. They use that on their website & menu as some sort of moniker as quality & good.
Why? It‘s not like the former chef at Le Cirque is now in town is it?
The service from the waitstaff on the occassions I went is usually very pleasant and there is no knock on anytime we had waiter/​tress service.
I agree with others that the host/​greeting area should be more on top of things, ready to seat you. Several times we had to peeek around a corner to find someone to sit us or a busy waitress passed by and acknowledged us and summoned a host.
Anytime we‘ve eaten there, we were mostly satisfied with the food quality, and as others said, I agree that the food out of the freezer (mostly appetizers) is off putting.
The ONLY reason we‘ve gone back multiple times is usually it was our only option in the area on a given night.
I feel it is expensive for the area. The drinks & food are too pricey for what the area warrants. I‘m sure they aren‘t paying midtown rents so why charge midtown prices?
(seems to be a family business-​so probably the family management team is overpaid and needs to charge higher would be my guess). Even on some buy one get one ½ off nights our bill was $ 75 – 90 for dinner for 2 no wine and a few beers. chicken parm?
They have a few areas the sit down rest, the ‘bar‘ rest side. They have anice facility could /​should do more to attract more people in. It is usually slow/​dead. SOmetimes we were willing to go and were off put by the 1 or 2 patron cars we saw we just don‘t vibe when its really slow. I think if they did some research or hired a consultant they would learn about demographics, trim some fat and get realistic. Maybe Ramsay or Levime should film Kitchen Nightmares here and turn it around!
It‘s off the beaten path and my advice is stay off that path until they stop living on some prior self imposed greatness elsewhere.

This place should be a gold mine. Nice space. Fantastic location. But then unfortunately, eventually the food arrives.
Having given this place a few shots, the service is apathetic and very slow. Plus, the food thoroughly sucks. Nothing is even close to fresh. They do have a nice bar with decent bartenders.
It’s a shame in better hands, given the lack of formidable competition in the area, this should be a booming, go-​to place. But unfortunately its more like a «stay-​away from» place.
Just generally an unfortunately lousy dining experience!

I absolutely love this restaurant. My dad lives down the street and we go every visit. The staff is very friendly and welcoming, the location doesn’t get any better, and the food is wonderful. My son loves the fried shrimp, and their crabcakes are hands down the best I have ever had. I’ve tried a lot of things on their menu over the years and am never disappointed. Wonderful place.

We had about 26 people after a funeral. We were easily accommodated. The place seems like it’s hopping in the Summer, but as it was Winter, there was only 1 other small party.
The waitress was very nice and ran around helping everyone. She did a fantastic job. The place itself is very nice. Large dining area in one room and the other rooms houses a large bar and booth seating.
The food was very good. I had the broiled basa with mashed potatoes. The fish was fresh and the potatoes were very good. I also had the split pea soup which was very good. For dessert we were given a warm apple crisp, this went over very well. It was enjoyed by all.

For starters, we walked in this place for the first time and we were not greeted. The gentleman just asked how many people in the party. The waitress is nice and took our drink order. They have kid menus to keep the kids entertained which is good. Since I am with my family, I am in the dining area which is spacious and the lighting is dim which is nice. The specialty drink «mango mai tai» was very good. The appetizer of shrimp, oysters were good. The fried mozzarella were ok. The portions for the kids dinner were large. (they had burgers with fries). The rib eye steak was bland not flavorful (it was masked by an overload of onions and mushroom). In the end, this place has good seafood but steaks are not their specialty. 3 appetizers, 2 adult entrees, 3 kids meals, 4 drinks and the tip came out to $ 172.00. You decide if it’s pricey or not.