Meehan's on Matanzas

The best thing about this place is the location and the view. Although it is off a busier road, the view of the water and the activity is always entertaining!

The service here was terrible, although it wasn't 100% the servers fault. I feel like she is way overworked and just didn't have enough time to take care of everyone (or the skill/expertise). This place needs to hire more people. We constantly had to ask for things multiple times.

This place ALSO needs to learn how to shuck their oysters correctly. Terrible. I mean, awful. I almost broke a tooth with all the shell debris. Plus, they need to learn to also remove the oyster from it's muscle! argh!

We got the 6 oysters, mussels, Shrimp Floridian and Clams and Linguine. The oysters were just done wrong, the mussels were OK and the two pasta dishes were also just average. HUGE portions, but average.

I would have to say this place really deserves 2 stars because of the mediocre experience all around. mediocre service, mediocre food. But the location is fun, and that was what was most entertaining about it!

Will I return? Sure. But next time I'm going to stick with my gut and try the shepard's pie.

We stopped by on a Saturday evening about 9PM.  The place was pretty busy and we had to sit near the bar.  The evening started off ok, but went downhill quickly.  Once I finally got my burger, the bun was burnt, like near solid black on the burger sides.  The fries were ok, but portions were pretty small.  One person ordered a salad and it too almost 30 minutes to arrive.

The service was just horrid.  It took 10 min to order and probably 10 more to get our drinks though we were just feet from the bar.  My burger arrived while my drink simultaneously ran dry.  It stayed dry, though we tried staring down the wait staff, no one would look or acknowledge our presence.  To eat with no drink is a rule I do not break nor forgive.  It literally took almost 30 minutes to get a refill and that is after I got up and hunted someone down.

I've only been once and hope what I experienced was a fluke.  Good luck to those who try the place, you may want to pack bottled water.

We ate at the backyard.  The drinks were adequate.  The food was poor.  I had the seafood etouffee.  To start with it should have been just called shrimp etouffee, my whole plate was about 20 shrimp and just three crawfish.  The biggest problems were the shrimp tasted old and frozen and in a stew like dish the shrimp still had the tails on them, forcing me to have to remove them and then reintroduce them to the dish..  Frozen shrimp or shrimp that taste frozen should never be served so close to the ocean.  My wife had the Cajun pasta and had the same problems with the shrimp.  Our friend had the jerk chicken, which lacked either jerk rub or sauce.