We love this restaurant. Very local feel. Great food; especially the crab cakes.
The layout of the place separates into two main rooms. One side is sort of a family style picnic table eatery and the other side is the bar. We have experienced both sides and enjoyed them both. We prefer the bar side though since it feels a bit lighter, the mood is more fun and we enjoy watching the games.
I was surprised how much I enjoyed this place. Â This area of Pasadena isn't the greatest and I was just hoping to not walk into a dimly lit bar that happened to serve food. Â This place rocks! Â If you have kids, dine here. Â It is loud enough to drown them out without being too loud to talk. Â Plus they have a great kids menu. Â We sat on the right side of the restaurant at one of the many picnic tables. Â Our server was friendly and fun. Â I ordered one of their seafood platters with it steamed and broiled as opposed to fried. Â My sides were the fries and shrimp mac salad. Â Everything was good except for the piece of haddock on my platter. Â It was very dry. Â The crabcake for than made up for it. Â It wasn't full of jumbo lump meat or anything fancy. Â It was simple and delicious. Â There are tons of things on their menu, they offer all you can eat sun-thurs, and they have craft beer. Â My husband and parents enjoyed the beer as well as their meals. Â
Enjoy the local vibe in a casual atmosphere.
I LOVE THIS PLACE!! AYCE seafood and when I say seafood I mean TRUE SEAFOOD!! I've yet to eat here and be disappointed. I've had steamed crabs, crab legs, steamed shrimp, fries, hushpuppies, crawfish, fried clams, corn, soup and a few other good dishes I am forgetting. The staff is very friendly and helpful. It speaks volumes and is such a good look when you have been going to restaurant for over a year and the same staff is working there from the first day you walked in. It's like extended family here! The AYCE crabs are always a decent size and are very meaty. You can also order Medium, Jumbo Crabs by dozens. No worries if you're not a AYCE kinda person they have a menu just for you too! Beer, Mixed drinks, Full Bar...again I love this place. Try it out and I promise you will not be disappointed. OH!! There seafood seasoning is truly one of a kind and they sell it - grab some if you can! You can also order food to go!
Review Source:Fifer's is a solid casual dining seafood restaurant with a growing selection of good craft beer. It's one of those places that operates as both seafood market and restaurant ... the right side is the market, but also has picnic tables for diners to have a sit down/wait service meal. The right side is a bar that also offers full service dining.
The beer selection here is good. it's not a mind-blowing craft beer selection, but it's better than many of the local places (like Mike's, Green Turtle, or Two Rivers) and it's obvious that there is a work in progress. They offer a tasting flight option, but they don't have a beer menu on the tables. (Yet. they apologized for this and said they would be having them soon). My friend, who suggested Fifer's as his belated birthday dinner, said they also clean the taps far more regularly than other local places. And this is evident with their Fat Tire, a beer that I find can be VERY fickle and have a different taste with dirty tap lines. Their Fat Tire is ON POINT. They have about 20=25 beers overall on tap, many of them NASCAR brews, but also some nice options from local breweries. I started with a Raging Bitch (no, not my wife. ZING!) and then went over to inspect the taps myself. Three options from Sam Adams, a couple from New Belgium and Sierra, Dogfish, Flying Dog and ... oh MY is that Victory Golden Monkey? I know what I am having for the rest of the night!
As for the food, there were a couple of slight misses, but overall it was great. We started with three appetizers. My buddy's wife ordered the coconut shrimp, which she loved. My friend and I split an order of Chesapeake Wings and OH MY those are some great wings. Nice, plump, cooked perfectly. The crab pretzel was good but a bit odd - the entire pretzel was covered with a light smear of crab imperial, rather than lumping it on top of the pretzel. It was good, but not my favorite presentation of this staple of Maryland bar cuisine.
There's a couple of ways to do dinner here. You can order a traditional entree - with two sides - or buy seafood and sides a la carte. They have an ample selection of both sides and seafood a la carte, and I opted for this route, getting a pound of crawfish and a pound of dungeness crab steamed. There was a slight snafu here, as everyone else got their entrees, and I was told they forgot to put mine in. But again, they were apologetic, owned up to their mistakes, and brought me HUGE portions with extras to make up for it. The crawfish were good, but I have had better. Dungeness crab, though, was excellent. I don't know/remember if they offered dessert, and none of us really cared. Our tummies were full with high quality, well prepared seafood. (And for me, a few Golden Monkeys) I will definitely come here again when I am visiting my friends who live in the area.
I found this place by direction of a friend when I was looking to grab some food quickly. Â He recommended the wings for my scenario and it was a good choice. Â I can't comment on the eat-in atmosphere or the other food, but the wings are worth it and very affordable! Â I got traditional (mild) Buffalo and some Fifer's wings which were great. Â It seemed like Buffalo mixed with a little sweetness but in a good way. Â In fact, I'm a huge Buffalo wing fan, but am now craving more of their house wings. Â My friend said they have a good craft beer selection and are a good place for dinner. Â I'll be stopping back in soon to check out the rest of the service. Â From what I can tell, it's worth a trip here. Â You can also order online from their website and get 10% off! Â Nice!
Review Source:The weekday all you can eat meal for 38.95 (as of this date of publishing) was AMAZING. Â The crab legs were excellent and the steamed shrimp was equally amazing. Â The muscles and clams were just OK as they were simply steamed w/ old bay... boiled w/ beer, garlic, and lemons would be much more delicious. Â I didn't have any of the blue crabs but my girlfriend and her father had about a dozen and they said they were well seasoned and delicious, I would consider the crabs smalls to mediums. Â The staff was friendly but felt somewhat inexperienced as we had to wait around and ask for drink refills while she was passing by. Â One thing i liked about the experience was that they would bring you essentially as much as you wanted in the first round almost as though to save them additional trips to the table, which i prefer. Â I would much rather have tons of food, than a pre-measued 'eat what you ordered then ask for more' approach that you find at some buffets/all you can eats in order to prevent waste. Â One last comment, the food is NOT on a buffet/hot table, you place an order and all of the food is prepared to order, very nice. Â All in all, it was an amazing hometown experience and I would definitely go back! Â -1 star for requiring an 18% tip for parties of 3 or more. Â I usually tip 20% or more if service is excellent unless a tip is automatically included...
Review Source:i had friends visiting from NYC and they wanted seafood and a restaurant w outside seating by the water. Â I took them to Mike's Crab House on the water but the power was out : ( Â so i quickly got on Yelp to find another good seafood spot in the area. Â Fifers was horrible!!!! Â the crab cake sucked and i ordered the dinner with two, it was so bad that i didn't even take the second crab cake home, just left it. Â my friend's didn't want the crab cake either. Â service was horrible, we sat for over 15 minutes being ignored. Â they ordered BROILED seafood dishes, both came out FRIED!!! Â they ate it anyway because by the time the food came we were starving. Â will never return.
Review Source:Stepping into Fifers is like going to a local crab shack. Dark dimly lit, walls covered in wood paneling, and right in front a display of fresh caught fish, crabs and other seafood goodness.
Take a few steps down some stairs, and you're in a more of a suitable dining room, with long 6 person tables and a medium sized bar. On tap the normal beers and a good selection of micro-brewed ales, around 15 taps total. With a full bar and limited wine options there is something for everyone.
The food is affordable and plentiful, the fish and chips , is a great example. 3 large lightly beer battered boneless fillets of haddock deep fried and served with season all tossed fries.
At first bite the light and fluffy breading gives way to a piece of well prepared seasoned fish, excellent! The fries were okay, not too special, but the fish...yummm! No wonder the bartender said, " that's what everyone orders."
Lets talk about the bartender who was also my server. He was awesome, I didn't catch his name but he made the experience fun and spoke to everyone from the bar, it wasn't too busy when we st oped in but it got packed by the time we left, but this guy was an excellent friendly server ( need more people like him at bars).
I spent less than $30 on four beers and two orders of fish and chips, pretty good value. I will be returning in the future once crabs are fully running, but until then they have a ton more to eat so look for an updated review soon!
4 stars for awesome service and food!
We love going to this place when we have a hankering for seafood. Â They do a fantastic job with the fried seafood. Â We have never sat on the 'bar' side of the restaurant, so I can't provide any feedback on that, but the other side, where they have picnic tables is always a fun place to dine. Â The staff have always been friendly and attentive, and they are not stingy about piling the food on your plate. Â We will definitely be returning here again.
Review Source:Interesting, casual place. Â Half sports-bar-y and half picnic-tables/seafood shack-y.
We've only eaten in the bar side. Â Decent place, in the "seafood bar" way -- seafood is fresh and, if you stick to the deep-fried path well cooked. Â Haven't been too happy with the grilled options, so we go only when we're in the "Oh Man Do We Need A Deep-Fried Glutton Dinner" to heal our souls. Â Service is always friendly, but can be spotty / slow / inattentive... but that's ok, too, 'cuz it's a bar, you know?
Fair Warning: Â Not many choices outside fish, fish and more fish. Â They have wings (Old Bay = Delicious) and maybe a chicken wrap or two, but it's really all about the fish. Â Stick to deep-fried, expect a casual bar/pub feel and friendly-sincere-but-not-professional-service staff, and you're good to go. Â N.B.: Â The scallops have been consistently fantastic.
Similarly, not many choices for draft beer, which is a shame. Â Standard (crap) bulk domestics + Blue Moon. Â When Yuengling is the closest thing to quality (other than the Blue Moon, that is), ya' really need to expand your offerings, you know? Â Spoiled, I guess, by living in a part of the world that cares about beer for so long, but alas.
The menu mentions an all-you-can-eat option, and claim to have steamed crabs, but no prices and no real detail... but we tend to stick to platters and sandwiches as there are better crab options out there, anyway.
There are better seafood meals to be had, and better restaurant service to be had, but when you're in the fried-food-in-a-bar-easy-dinner, this place is hard to beat. Â Make the service a bit more consistent, make the non-fried stuff tastier, get some decent beer on tap, and you'd have yourselves a place worth recommending others make a special effort to try.
As it is, it's good enough, and we'll be back repeatedly, but just a reasonable 3 stars for now. Â May update later if we try the all-you-can-eat, or the menu improves. Â Or the beer list grows. Â Or the non-fried gets better.
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