Spinnakers Waterfront Restaurant and The  Mermaid Bar

The decor is out-dated but kinda reminds me of my childhood, it isn't offensive. You can see stained-glass mermaid side-boob here and there are lots of little costal souvenir-type things on the walls.

A family member keeps their sailboat at the marina here, so we ended up at Spinnaker's for brunch when we were visiting them. Service was ok, but just ok. We ate the breakfast buffet and it was also just ok. Nothing amazing but nothing gross either. Everything was hot and the eggs were fluffy. Considering we rolled in 30-40 deep (there was a wedding the night before) they did a nice job accommodating us. About half of the group sat together at 2 long tables, and the rest of us filled in the space around at the 4-tops on either side of the big tables. This is a large restaurant and seating capacity can handle a large group, but I can't really speak to the kitchen's abilities to push food out.

There is a large patio and we were able to see some osprey out over the water.

Fantastic!! We showed up 30 minutes before closing, whoops forgot everything in St. Mary's County closes by 9pm except for bars and liquor stores on a Saturday night. Nevertheless, the seafood was fresh and the sweet tea was great. They have gained a few new customers we will be back.

Beautiful location.  We spent a lovely day in Historic St. Mary's City, followed by reservations at Spinnakers.  This was an afternoon/evening we had planned with another couple for several weeks.  We sat for over ten minutes and were never greeted  by any staff.  I finally had to ask if we should just get our drinks at the bar.  When were were finally acknowledged we placed our order and they were missing two beverage selections we had chosen.  Then we  received our appetizers before our drink order.  It was about a half hour after being sat that our drinks arrived.  We felt very unwelcome.  The food was mediocre, for about $25.00 a plate, my expectations were higher.  Two of our party never received their baked potatoes, due to a shortage this particular night.  The side salad looked like my eight year old made it.  Other tables had bread baskets but not us.  The restaurant was not crowded.  Each of these situations could have been avoided. It is a good thing we were with close friends because all we had were each others company.  I guess that is all we needed!  WILL NOT RECOMMEND AND WILL NOT GO  BACK.