Cobalt Restaurant

I love the location of Cobalt, and it is a great place to meet clients and impress. The food and service are consistently good, and of course the oceanfront location rocks. Excellent happy hour with inexpensive but delicious appetizers. Definitely check it out.

Went for dinner with four people. Sat outside with a wonderful view of the ocean. The service was excellent, but the food was not exceptional. The portions were very small including the salads. I had the "lamb" dish, but in reality the dish was more a pasta and not much  lamb. The lane snapper was overcooked, also. Mussels were good, but there was pork/chorizo that provide a bit too much salt flavor. Also the wine was well overpriced. I usually recognize that most restaurants charge double what one can purchase at the store, but they charged 3x and I think that is unreasonable.
Bottom line we had fun, but would go to other similarly priced restaurants in Vero Beach.

What a disappointment.  My folks brought me here while I was visiting town, and I was excited by the potential. You can come here to enjoy the beautiful view and architecture, but it's all downhill from there.  We came for their happy hour specials, which look good - on paper.  The reality is that the attitude of the wait staff varies somewhere between icy indifference and outright hostility.  No waiter or waitress should act like you are inconveniencing them when you are trying to place an order - but these people seem to take pride in it (I suppose at least they take pride in something).  Expect to hold your empty glass with a longing look on your face for at least 20 minutes before anyone notices.  Do not expect it to make a difference.

I've been to places all over the world.  I know what a busy place looks like, and I've worked in the service industry.  A polite request for patience gets nothing but sympathy and support from me.  But here, while waiting for my beverage, all I could do is wonder if the service here was an elaborate practical joke.  

The patio view of the ocean is great.  But if your group needs more chairs so everyone can enjoy it, no one here will care.  Nor will they care if you're waiting for service.  When a bar/restaurant seems annoyed to serve you drinks they theoretically are in business to sell, you know there's problems from management on down.

I am fairly easy to please and this is one of my first negative Yelp reviews.  But no one should be treated with contempt by staff - and contempt here was palpable.  If they didn't spit in our food, I'd be genuinely surprised.  That should tell you something.

Nature here is beautiful.  Everything else sucks.