Coastal Grill - Virginia Beach

Very nice dinner with excellent food, service, and ambiance. Started the meal with nice selection of cocktails. Our table split a soft shell crab appetizer. For dinner I got the blackened mahi mahi that was very good. Others got grilled tuna, fried shrimp, and fried scallops. Everyone enjoyed their meal. The acorn squash was very good. Nice selection of vegetables with the meal. Good wine selection.

Coastal Grill is the place to go for a nice dinner, away from the oceanfront for a special occasion or if your wallet is bigger than mine you can eat there more often. This was definitely a special treat. Simply decorated and beachy but not too much. Classy. White table clothes. Quiet. I went with a friend and we sat at the bar. They do have valet parking so bring cash. We had wonderful service from Ryan and Windsor. Very attentive and made great recommendations. We drank some wine and ate the delicious bread with homemade butter. We decided on the tuna bites and my friend got the pan fried trout and I got the mussels. One thing they told us is you can turn an entree into an appetizer and an appetizer into an entree. I love that!!!! Honestly I did not love the tuna bites. I found them bland and so was the sauce. My mussels were delicious, especially with the broth. The portion was HUGE! I think I got every mussel in the sea. My friends trout was absolutely amazing!!! There were so many things I wanted to try on the menu that I will have to go back. Definitely a 1st class experience.

I wanted to love my experience but I just couldn 't. This place is very pretty inside but the service needs a lot of work and ruined my experience. For starters, every table next to us got bread upon seating, not us. And every time we asked for bread or watched other people get bread we kept getting told by our server that it takes a long time or it 's cooking in the oven. So by the time we got appetizers (30 minutes after being seated) I finally asked for the third time for bread and we finally got it. Then, I ordered the Mediterranean Branzino from the menu, and it doesn 't mentioned that it 's a FRIED fish, so when a whole fried fish came to the table, I sent it back because I did not want to eat a $40 fried fish as my entree. So now, I couldn 't enjoy my entree with my boyfriend and had to wait another 20+ minutes for a new entree. The final straw was being charged for a more expensive Chardonnay, instead of the house wine that I ordered when I got the check. The server did apologize for the lack of service and mistakes and took care of the wine that I was incorrectly charged, but I definitely wouldn 't recommend this place and won 't come back. The food was subpar overall anyways, the ambiance is what you 're paying for it seems.

Boss took my coworker and I out for an appreciation treat to this place and wow!!! It was a great experience overall, 10/10 rating (rare for me) and I will have to be back with family First the atmosphere is clean, classy but still casual, and a great place to eat and chat. The bar looked very inviting and the servers/bartenders were very knowledgeable of the menu as well as their seasonal menu. Everyone was completely satisfied with their meals. The homemade mozzarella lived up to the hype- almost as good as the real deal I've had in Italy before! My steak was delicious, they cooked it perfectly medium and I cleaned the plate. My boss had their branzino and picked that clean, though her all time fav is their salmon and their fried shrimp app. My coworker had their Homemade pasta with shrimp and she loved it too. Their seasonal watermelon feta salad was surprisingly good, and I don't like kale like that. Literally nothing bad, wrong, or even imperfect about our visit today and though it seemed like there weren't enough servers on the clock, we had a fantastic time. Valet was super sweet and everyone seemed to know my boss as she's a regular. Glad we choose Coastal Grill to socialize together outside of work

This was our first time here. The hostess was friendly and the wait staff was superb. Erica was our server and she was fantastic. She made my wife and I feel special even though she had many larger tables. The atmosphere was exactly what you would expect, coastal. The food was all superb. We have blackened scallops, crab cakes and pork loin. This is a must go for normal and special occasions. Love this past. Well done.