My wife and I were visiting the area and looking for a place for our anniversary dinner. At first we were unsure of Horn Harbor Restaurant due to the mixed reviews. But with it being one of the few places open on Sunday in the area we decided to give it a go. I am so glad we did! The staff were very friendly and helpful and made sure we had everything we needed. All of the food was delicious and well cooked. Both dinner and dessert. The prices were very reasonable for the items we purchased too! Also the harbor views were really gorgeous especially at night with the rising moon. Not to mention they have a neat gift shop that keeps going and going further back into the building. We would definitely recommend this to anyone who is local or visiting! read more

This is one of our favorite restaurants in the northern neck area. As you can see by the number of pictures I have posted. We love bringing our friends and family to this place. They have a very nice outdoor space. I highly recommend calling in advance to make a reservation on a nice day. This place gets packed. They have a nice selection of sea food and a couple of choices for meat lovers. Definitely checkout their specials. They often have steak and flounder stuffed with shrimp and crab in their specials. Service can be on the slower side on a busy day. Price is nominal as well. Never had issues with any food. Stuffed flounder is my favorite. Lots of shrimp and crab on the flounder makes it very delicious. I love hush puppies as my side. It's nice and crispy on the outside but soft on the inside. Parking is easy to find as well. read more

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Love this restaurant. It is consistently good. They have plenty of options on the menu. The food is delicious. They have multiple indoor and outdoor seating options. The new addition is well done, bright and modern. The servers are great. They have an amazing gift shop and a tiki bar. read more

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Service was subpar , food was below average . Got the Maui on the special menu and it was terrible . Dry as cardboard. Friend got the same thing and hers was just as bad. Martini was good once we got them. read more

Ambience is very nice. Food is average at best. Service was good however. Been there twice once for dinner once for breakfast crabcakes were marginal. breakfast was as well marginal read more

We had a great lunch at Horn Harbor Restaurant and the service was just amazing! The marina is beautiful and it has a cute little beach area as well. We will be back for sure ;) read more

Horn Harbor Restaurant - Out in the front just hanging out - American Near Me - Burgess, Virginia

It was a very disappointing Saturday lunch. Due to the heat, we opted to eat in the bar rather than outside. Service was slow and inattentive. The restaurant was not full, and there was plenty of staff, so that was not an excuse. Other tables around us with a different waitress were served and refilled throughout their meal. It took 20 minutes to get our drinks, and water was never refilled. It took an hour to get the food, and the waitress never checked on us during the wait. The salads were made with lettuce that had browned and canned corn (in August when fresh is readily available). The hot shrimp dip arrived at room temperature. No apologies or acknowledgment were made for the long wait, and at one point we had to search for the waitress to get an update (after 45 minutes). read more

(4) ~ very good overall food & service MENU: ** Water (tap) = (4) very good, must be filtered;) ** Steamed Shrimp (1/2 pound) = (4) very good, w. cocktail sauce ** Sirloin (medium-rare) = (4) very good with a parmesan shrimp sauce ** Twice-baked Potato (side) = (4) very good ** Key Lime Pie = (4) very good read more

After waiting over an hour for a hamburger, I gave up, spoke to the owner, and paid for my beer. Horn Harbor needs to take better care of their customers. read more

Great waterfront atmosphere with a totally casual vibe. Friendly, efficient service, a tasty menu and creative cocktails. Hope to visit again! read more

We went there yesterday. Waited almost 10 mins at the host table with no one around. i had to go kitchen area to get someone to seat us. I should have listened to my gut and left at this point. It took them ONE HOUR TWENTY MINUTES to get our food out. We asked multiple times with same response of they are working on it. And worse the food was mediocre at best. $250 tab, no one even offered to give us a drink or an appetizer on the house. Nothing from anyone to apologize or acknowledge. Our waiter was great personally. But this restaurant, the management and food sucks. What a waste of our time and money. read more

Last Friday, I had another spectacular meal at Horn Harbor. There are 3 or 4 seafood dishes I typically get, but you want to watch their specials. One special I watch for is a nice slab of rockfish with their crab imperial on it, convincing the diner that "crab imperial" is a perfect name for it. They've tweaked their crab imperial recipe over the years and it is outstanding. So anyway, this time I got a new special I hadn't seen before, They fix sea scallops with shrimp and have crab imperial over that, and it comes with rice and very fresh vegetables. It's just one bite of heaven after the other. I hope they put this on the regular menu. I dined on the new party deck, with its marvelous view of the sun setting on the Great Wicomico. The young man serving me was nice, efficient, professional and motivated to put forth an extra effort to make one's dining experience pleasant. Danny, the owner, has poured so much back into the restaurant and he is also always there keeping an eye on things. Besides the party deck is a whole new dining area and bar. This restaurant keeps just getting better. It has a really good gift shop that has also been expanded. It has all kinds of nautical items from statuettes of Poseidon to Horn Harbor hoodies and everything in between. They can get pretty busy at dinnertime, so it's a good idea to call ahead for reservations. ALSO, please note that Horn Harbor Restaurant is open all winter. Make a note of that. read more

What a fantastic little restaurant, a bit out of the way, but quaint with nice views, amazing service, and quite tasty food! We were having our dogs groomed and had some time to kill, so we decided to check out this place which is usually a bit out of our way for lunch, and we were not disappointed! Apparently they have several daily specials, as well as a good variety of choices on their menu. We will definitely return here during future grooming appointments! read more

Last night was our first experience and it was wonderful. The food was delicious, the staff was truely friendly and the setting was very memorable. We will be back! read more

Alyssa Not surprised They call themselves a "world class" restaurant Hah Dirty and low end food read more

Website says to call for a reservation and when trying to call no one answered. Once we got there after not being able to get a reservation, waited 20 minutes or so standing at the front waiting to talk to someone while I watched him roam around the restaurant not even seating anyone. Once he finally came back to the front he said that he needed us to move aside so he could get all the reservations sat. Someone I guess who was a regular there just slid to the front of the line and was sat immediately. When I asked how long he thought it would be because we didn't want to wait for him to get through all the reservations to not even been able to be sat, he said he didn't know. Ive worked in the restaurant business for almost 10 years and this was crazy to me. He could have atleast worked with us and gave us information on timing. Was very rude and won't be going there to eat. read more

WOW! I just had a spectacular meal at Horn Harbor Restaurant. The dinners are consistently good. Normally I'll get the Seafood Delight, Captain's Platter or, if I am really hungry and deserve a special reward - the Admiral's Platter. Tonight they had a baked rockfish special which I went for. A nice, thick, perfectly cooked slab of rockfish arrived on a bed of rice and covered with shrimp and crab imperial. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! I swear, it couldn't have been any better. It came with a side of fresh vegetables - fresh green beans, onion, squash, carrots and maybe something else. It was really good, too, and cooked just right. With the house salad, I came out of their stuffed, as usual. I am a big eater and take it from me, they'll fill you up and you'll walk out with a smile. They had another special that looked intriguing, which I may try next time - one of their very good crab cakes with a soft-shell crab in a sandwich. Maybe next time, if they don't have this fantastic baked rockfish dish. Super head hostess Hannah was there, keeping things going smoothly and they were about half full on a Wednesday evening. It's generally a good idea to call ahead to get a reservation so you can be sure of getting a window seat to watch the sun go down peacefully over the Great Wicomico River. Take your time getting there on the winding road that takes you there because there's lots of deer. Another good thing I noticed was a couple of big potholes at the top of the hill coming out of there have been filled in. read more

I hate to rain on a restaurant with a bad review. It's a tough business. But seeing the five star reviews for Horn Harbor Restaurant forced my hand because maybe it indicates that the restaurant can and should do better and a bad review has value. In this case, from stem to stern, it was a zero star experience. We waited 20 minutes to be seated. Parking lot was full, so I get it, but no "we'll be right with you" or apology from what appeared to be a manager. We waited an hour and a half for our entree. No apology from our waitress, despite me saying "I'm sure you're having a bad night, but can you check on our entree?" It's a Sunday, tough day to expect full staff, and the servers aren't always responsible for subpar service, but.... And orders came out randomly with recent diners receiving plates well before my hungry trio. Finally, the food was not five stars. Rock fish special was over cooked and rubbery, salmon was overdone and order came with tomatoes on salad when none requested, and shrimp fettuccini was just ok, not much bite. Hate to compare, but we dined the night before at Adrift in White Stone. That's five stars. I'm always willing to give a restaurant a pass for a bad night. But this felt like a systems failure on all fronts at a restaurant that maybe should shut a room or two to address the labor shortage, tighten training and culture, get in the kitchen and quality assure the product, and right the ship. read more

After visiting a nearby winery, my husband and I were looking for a good (yet not stuffy) seafood spot for our anniversary. After hearing about this spot on Yelp and again from the folks at the winery, we had to check it out. We are certainly glad we did!!! Now, let me say... We almost missed the small sign off of Old Glebe Pt Rd (on the right) and I thought I saw a few children of the corn on the drive back as they danced to dueling banjos... But all worry subsided once a mountain of perfectly steamed crab legs beckoned me. My husband ordered the small (cough cough 28oz?!?) mouthwatering prime rib. (Needless to say we had prime rib omelets the next morning!) Get there early, as there was already a bit of a line before they opened on Saturday night. Service was friendly and efficient. It's for sure that we will be back when we are in town! read more

Cool spot on the water if you're visiting the area. The reason for not giving 5 stars was because the food seems really salty but overall was good. We got the admiral platter, shrimp dinner, crab cakes, fish and chips and was impressed. If you're on the deck in the summer it's HOT. The server was great - cocktails and mocktails were good. There aren't a ton of restaurants in the area, so we were happy that it was good! We're from New England and the seafood is unbelievable, so we're a little hard to please when it comes to southern seafood, but we were happy. read more

A few years ago, the reviews on this place were not very good at all but was one of the better places in the Reedville area. Shortly thereafter, I heard there was new ownership and things were better so we decided to try it again. We visited a few times with the new owners and things were really good for a year or two. We've been back a couple times and each time, service and quality have slowly declined. Wait times have increased considerably. White staff seems to always be shortstaffed. One of the items on the menu is a grilled chicken salad. When we received the salad, it was clear the chicken was processed from a food vendor and had grilled marks on it but not actually fresh grilled as the menu suggested. The shrimp was no longer fresh and battered in house. It looked like it was again from a good vendor, was pre-battered and frozen. It even had a line where the batter stopped on the tail. We complained to the manager, and all he said was that both of these dishes are very popular dishes but nothing in regard to our complaints, apologies or offers to remediate. Despite all this, we decided to try it one more time. Earlier that day we made reservations for 6 PM on a Saturday and arrived shortly before six. We requested to be sat outside which they accommodated. As they were taking us outside, we saw they were taking us down the stairs to the back. My mother has mobility issues and could not use the stairs so they directed us around the entire building to the back and sat us at our table. We waited 15 minutes to be greeted by a server. It took about 15 minutes to get our drinks which was a water and soda. It wasn't the waitress's fault. It was clear that they were understaffed. Probably to save money. Causing the waitress to be overwhelmed with too many tables. I think I counted 10 at once while we were waiting. We ended up waiting for over an hour and still hadn't received our food. We notified the server to give us our bill for the drinks that we drink and she said she would talk to her manager about the wait, cancelling our order and comping what we did have if needed. We were told that there was no cost by the waitress but received no explanation or apologies from the manager for the restaurant being short staffed on a Saturday and wait time. Unfortunately, this , we probably will not be back. This is a shame because it's such a nice location. I can also understand that it's hard because this town seems to be a seasonal town and much slower in the winter months. read more

Had a great meal here visiting family. Our server Michael was awesome...attentive, friendly and had great suggestions. Inside seating looked nice, but we couldn't turn down the waterfront view. Among the four of us, we sampled a little of everything: crab cake, prime rib, fried oysters, crab dip, soft shells and fish & chips (rockfish). Prime rib was just okay but everything else was above average. All the seafood was fresh and well-seasoned. Collard greens, the vegetable of the day, were great. Highly recommend this spot of if you're in the area. read more

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Nice casual mostly seafood restaurant. Everything our party ordered was fresh and delicious. Would recommend having more fresh fish selections and non fried items added to menu. Will definitely be back for more. read more

It's me again, what a change in service, great to see a little shop open as before. We were there last month and all enjoyed their meal. Always room for improvement and you have catered well read more

Such a long & winding road to get there but worth it! Nice menu, good service, friendly staff.

This restaurant is located waterfront with 3 great outdoor seating areas. The view is beautiful. Upon arrival we were asked if we had reservations, "no this is our first time here." We were seated outside by the hostess, also our waitress. She told us reservations were recommended so that the appropriate number of staff could be scheduled. Got it!! Needless to say our service was slow. Our meal came out warm, sides & condiments forgotten and then the wrong salad came out still forgetting the other side. when the sides did come out we were reminded, "this is why we recommend reservations." We did get our to-go boxes quickly!! My husband is a generous tipper, with the exception of tonight!! I'm curious to know how the service would be with reservations! It seemed to be good around is! read more

Awesome Good food!! Drive your car OR your boat there! Fun eating out on the pier and inside dining is nice, too.

Quick service. Good drinks. Excellent fish and chips. Lovely view. A little bit of a drive but worth the entertainment as we were there during a fishing tournamen. Someone caught a 42 pounder:) read more

Amazing burgers some of the best seafood around and amazing fries great seating perfect of the Great Wicomico amazing service and Hannah was our waitress read more

Great location. The view was amazing. Got three great drinks from the bar abs really enjoyed their fall special cocktails. My meal was great and my husband enjoyed the prime rib. Server was great and very attentive. Can't wait to go back and enjoy waterfront dining! read more

Horn Harbor Restaurant - Outdoor dining table - American Near Me - Burgess, Virginia

The food is great and the staff are very pleasant and efficient. It is definitely a very welcoming atmosphere.

Beautiful location. Friendly staff. Cold beer and good food. All adds up to a terrific visit.

The food in this restaurant was poor as was the service. They sat us at. Table that was filthy and falling apart. The view of the lake was nice. Might be an ok place to have drinks read more

Horn Harbor is great. They continue to bring great food and entertainment to the area. Can't say we've ever had a bad meal. The views outside are amazing with plenty of boat slips. Every time we come there is a new improvement. read more

Horn Harbor Restaurant - Deep fried lobster. - American Near Me - Burgess, Virginia

Only one star because you can't do none. Went in with moderate expectations, it's the Northern Neck, but was was even less impressed. Ridiculously limited menu, no local caught seafood, not even Rockfish or raw oysters. Seems like if Cisco doesn't deliver it pre-made, they don't serve it. We live there and won't ever be back. Don't eat here. read more

Hopefully the new owners will take reviews seriously. Some of us want to be good customers and some of us have been in the restaurant business. It's obvious the new owners want to succeed. They don't understand they need help. The food quality can change with a good chef. The front of the house really tries to do a good job... the owners need to learn. There are plenty of customers that notice good training. Ask for help! read more

We went to this restaurant (Summer 2018) as a special outing with family. We were a party of 6 and no one was satisfied with their food. I might mention, my family was brought up with seafood, as my grandfather had a successful seafood restaurant for years. We don't expect EXCELLENCE, HOWEVER for the prices we expect good, and whats listed on the menu. My parents frequented this place many times before and was happy with it, that's why they selected this place for our special occasion. Not only will they never go back, but we wouldn't think about it. I ordered the crab cakes meal. The crab cakes were TINY. I do not eat much and i could finish both of them with room to spare. Another ordered shrimp scampi and it tasted like nothing but lemon. It was gross. When we asked to have something else, the waitress wasn't very happy. My fathers shrimp tasted like shoe leather. The service was not great by a long stretch. We told her of our complaints and i also told the manager. No one seemed to care our night was much less than expected. Drinks weren't even kept full or a fresh one brought. If you want a good seafood meal, this isn't the place for you. Expensive mistake. Beware!!! read more

My wife and I took a day trip from Richmond to enjoy a beautiful autumn day in the Northern Neck. Horn Harbor Restaurant was on our short list, and we are so glad we checked it out. Driving along a narrow country road through farm fields, one has to feel relaxed. Turn right at the end of the lane through a farm gate and down a small lane, and you're asking is this the right place? Turn the curve and a nice building on the water (dock and marina) lies before you. You've arrived, and you'll be glad you have. It's Covid-19 times. The facility was clean, they sanitized the tables, masks are required when walking to your table. There was a choice of bottled and draft cold beer, and the local Glouchester beers were good. My wife ordered the crab cake sandwich and I ordered the fish 'n chips. The french fries (flat and wide) were very good, and the crab cakes were also good. But the Fish 'n Chips...Excellent! My wife exclaimed "they were the best she ever had" and I had to agree they were excellent - fresh and moist and firm inside with a perfectly fried outer cover. The waitress was friendly and did a fine job of taking care of us without intruding. We sat outside on the deck over the water, listening to the lapping of the river against the pilings and sea wall. The setting was perfect. Total cost $62 including 3 beers, fish 'n chips, crab cakes, taxes and tip. All in all, a very good lunch in a relaxing setting. Thank you! read more

If you plan to go to Horn Harbor for lunch during the week, think twice. I recently was there with some friends, one of whom has gluten allergies. He asked for the rockfish sandwich with out the bun and the fish broiled or pan seared. It was explained to us that there is no cook in the kitchen during lunch and they don't turn on the cooktop. The menu is very limited and the seafood is fried, whether or not you like it that way. If you are going out to lunch, find a restaurant that has a cook in the kitchen! read more

Best water front restaurant we've found close to us! Was so happy to find this spot during our spring break stay. Great views and food.