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    J Michael's

    3.0 (19 reviews)
    Closed • 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Skip. use to be a great place. service and food has gone downhill. not really interested in serving the customer anymore.

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    We sat at the bar on a very busy night but the 2 girls behind the bar were awesome and didn't miss a beat. Food was also great.

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    Drinks took 20 minutes to get. Steak over cooked. Gumbo was cold. Potatoes where cold. Please don't go here.

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    4 years ago

    .....always consistently good...great daily specials and seafood baskets....great service from the staff

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    “It was lacking seasoning and didn't taste like gumbo at all.”

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    Schooners - Cowboy bites

    Schooners

    4.2(1.3k reviews)
    0.8 mi
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    Schooners has a fun, beachy bar atmosphere with a beautiful view--you're paying for the beachfront…read moresetting as well as the food. The seating is outdoors, so dress for the weather! The air-conditioned bathrooms were a major bonus in my opinion. We ordered breaded grouper, fries, coleslaw, and salad. The coleslaw was okay, but everything else was great! Our server was awesome! After we ordered our drinks and food, we ran down to the beach for evening family pictures. Our food arrived while we were down there, and he covered it to help keep it hot until we returned. We really appreciated that thoughtful gesture! A great spot for a relaxed meal right on the beach.

    Schooners traces back to the late 1960s as "The Beach Party." In 1985, Jim Cannon bought it from…read moreKinney Strickland and renamed it Schooners -- the story goes he was in Australia sipping a "schooner" of beer when he heard his favorite bar back home was for sale. It's billed as the "Last Local Beach Club," a nod to being the last of the old-school open-air beach hangouts left on the Gulf Coast. It's picked up a Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence in 2016 and a Travelers' Choice award in 2025, and Men's Journal called it out in 2017 as the classic, much-imitated-but-never-duplicated beach town hangout. Had the fish, fresh and well prepared, and the mixed drinks were strong -- no watered-down beach bar pours here. The real draw, though, is sitting right on the sand with a good sunset in front of you -- few spots on the beach pair the setting with the food and drinks this well. A genuine local institution, and the sunset alone makes it worth a visit.

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    Hunt's Oyster Bar & Seafood Restaurant - Oyster Rockefeller

    Hunt's Oyster Bar & Seafood Restaurant

    4.2(1.2k reviews)
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    This place was hustling! We had a party of 6 and only waited 30 minutes. Live music upstairs (he…read morehad a great voice) and quick, efficient & friendly service. The food came out quickly and to say it was good is an understatement. The seafood was fresh and I paired my blackened grouper with their oyster bay Sauvignon blanc. Highly recommend!

    Panama City, FL , Sept. 2026 I would give less than one star…read moreif I could, but I needed to get this comment out there. Website has this at 4.6 stars.... Couldn't be further from the truth. First, the service was mediocre at best. Our server took our order, brought our drinks and took our food order. Two other runners brought our food.... One was a side order of hush puppies for my entrée. I ordered the hush puppies on the recommendation of my server and it was absolutely horrible. Nothing like she described and fried in very dark oil. Horrible! The runner who brought that out said, I'm sorry it was the last of the batch! This was at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Have they already run out of hush puppies before they close at 9 pm? Their seafood gumbo, advertised as "made daily" was mostly bay scallops and okra. I ordered the grilled grouper sandwich. It came out with absolutely no condiments for a grouper sandwich, such as mayo or tartar sauce. Our server took some time to come over to check how things were so I waited to eat until I could flag her over to ask for some mayo. Believe me good things are not worth the wait! The grilled grouper was so salty. I couldn't even finish it. To add insult to injury, our server added the cost of the inedible hush puppies, which was the side order to my entrée, separately on our bill. She apologized and confirmed that was in error. Never Again and their high rating must be bogus.

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