Disappointed by food and new high prices. They have new management and raised the food prices significantly. They have every right to do so, but they took away the salad with entree, made the portions smaller, AND decreased the quality of the food.
I had the Chicken Picatta and it wasn't great. Its supposed to be light and pounded down, or butterflied, and cooked in egg and flour with a lemin sauce.
What they serve is a thick chicken breast that looks like it came from a box at Costco, with a lemon sauce on it, and wayyyy too salty.
Maybe if it was $!2 that wouldbe ok, but its $18, and for $18 you should get more.
These new prices you could eat at J Alexander and have a FAR superior meal there than at Tropics.
I do notice the dining room is dead now. there were only 4 tables with people at them.
The waitstaff were attentive and friendly.
I have been a resident of Wilton Manors and a customer for over 7 years.  Tropics has a New owner who has made a vast improvement with the food, and has remodeled the inside and outside.  The place has always been nice, but the former owners had slipped in the areas of the food, as well as the interior was dated.  All of that has changed, the place now looks and feels like a nightclub.  The bar and wait staff has always been friendly and competent. We ate there several times in the past 2 weeks, and the food was tip top, vegatables cooked properly al dente, and the entrees prepared well.  We have also had the food at the main bar, and you can order either off of a bar menu, which is reasonable, or, the main menu, and the staff serves the food first class, complete with a white bar table cloth, and linens.  Several of the our friends have had a great brunch experience on Sunday.  The entertainment is live, and the piano bar was remodeled, and was  moved from an awkward location in a doorway between rooms, to a nice corner location in the room between the main bar, and the patio,  with plenty of seating.  The entertainers are first class, and regulars Tony & Gloria play there on the weekends.  Drink and food prices are reasonable. Valet parking is available. In my opinion, this is one of the nicer places, if not the nicest,  on Wilton Drive.
Review Source:My partner and I went for the Sunday Brunch last Sunday and was pleased as we could be on how good the food was.
It was by FAR the best brunch we've been to since moving here a year ago.
For the price ($17.00)....you can't go wrong............so many choices of breakfast foods not to mention regular stapes found on a hot buffet line........plus a great salad bar and multiple multiple desserts.
You also get either a Mermosa, Bloody Mary or a Screwdriver along with the price of your brunch. Â I'm not a fan of Horseradish in my B.M.'s so I'll skip that and just get the Mermosa the next time.
There is another Breakfast Buffet not too far away (at Portia's) and it was awful and more expensive.......can't even hold a candle or get near the quality and quantity of Tropics food.
Next time you're looking for a decent and delicious breakust buffet.......head to Tropics.......don't waste your money on the overpriced competition.
Since the first of the year (2012) there's been a change of ownership and with it some changes to this old standby of the gay Senior Citizen community. Gone are the frumpy gay reeking floral vases as well as the old mausoleum funeral home style of overly ornate décor. The entertainment stage has shifted to the north end and in keeping with typical gay traditional redecoration standards; all of the furniture has been rearranged.
The building front has been repainted in a brighter hue of yellow, the outside seating rearranged and the overly large potted palmy like plants removed.
I'm happy to say the food quality has remained good as has the table service.
The crowd, elderly as in really elderly gay, has remained the same and the place remains as popular and crowded as ever.
Rumor is that other changes are imminent, so stay tuned for further updates.
Nothing special about this local establishment that's been in Wicked Manors for about a hundred years, which would match up closely with the media age of most patrons. Â
The menu has several items on it, and nightly specials are also available. Â In my first visit there, I had the Grouper special. Â It was poached and served with a sauce which included some julianned peppers, mixed vegetables and a choice of baked potato or rice. Â It's hard to ruin fish when it's poached and that's probably why it's prepared that way. Â All of the diners in our group reported their meals were satisfactory.
My only complaint was our server, a delightful man, reported the credit card terminal was not working that evening and in order to use a credit card, they would require a telephone number and a drivers license. Â Now, no one in their right mind would ever hand over both those pieces of critical information to people in a restaurant where they can be exchanged numerous times. Â You are just asking for someone to steal your identity. Â I told our server it was lucky that I had enough cash on me to pay or I would have just got up and walked out. Â So, ask before going in this place.
For the value, I think it was pretty good.
Appetizers:
Brie was a decent choice. Savory and a good value.
Crab Cakes. Good rendition.
Entrees:
Meatloaf a bit sweet but a good choice. Vegetables decent. Mashed Potatoes were quite good.
Grouper: Very delicate. Perfect cooked. Rice done well. Over all very good for the price point.
Service was ok. They add gratuity to bill which is unusual for just two people.
I'd go again on a Tuesday. Felt good to be the youngest people within a cannon shot!
Never, Ever Again. Rudeness begins with the host and continues with the waiter. I was seated in a booth with vinyl bench that was torn on the seat - all it lacked was duct tape to cover the hole. The waiter wanted my order without asking first if I would like something from the bar - which I heard other waiters start with. The bar had no single malt scotches - "It's pretty basic here, " the waiter said. He said he'd check if they had any single malts, but he never reported back. The bread was two hamburger buns. I had to request butter. I was not offered pepper with the caesar salad, which I saw others get. The Black Angus strip was a terrible cut and full of tendons. The vegetable was carrots and green beans overcooked to mush. Throughout the evening the waiter constantly called me sweetheart and honey - something I'd expect at a diner, and the food would probably be a lot better at the diner.
Review Source:Hmmm... based on the review, it looks like you'll either love it or hate it! Â LOL. Â I'm falling into the 'love it' category. Â Went for the first time on Christmas Eve with some friends. Â The place was PACKED and very festive. Â I ordered the blackened salmon ($19) which was by the far one of the best pieces of fish I've had in Florida. Â Perfectly cooked, and the sauce that it came with was amazing.
Was the crowd a little on the older side? Â Sure. Â A little loud? Â Yup. Â But honey, don't hate the queens. Â You wouldn't have a gay leg to stand on if it weren't for them.
Everyone on Yelo who gave this decrepit catering hall a good review owes me for the dinner I endured here. There was nothing fresh in this overpriced, over decorated gastrointestinal mausoleum-- not the food, not the Golden Girls Gone Wild decor and certainly not the bejeweled and bejowled clientele. I had something misnomered as "pasta primavera"-- fettucini, Chef Boyardee sauce and frozen mixed vegetables fresh out of the steaming tray. You could eat better and have more entertaining company crashing a wake at the VFW hall.
Review Source:I'm a vegitarian and I looked over the menu there was almost nothing at all that I could eat. Â I informed the server as such and he offered us one of their dinner options (lunch was still being served at that time; dinner was still a few hours away). Â It was a penne pasta with alfredo sauce and veggies. Â A simple standard amongst us vegitarians. Â However it was the best! Â I've ate tons of alfedo noodle dishes in my life but this felt like home. Â Just yummy!
OMG $2 bloody mary's. Â I had two and had a pretty damn good buzz when I left. Â My gf got a rum punch. Â It was sweet but not syrupy and strong. Â This place knows how to make good drinks and cheap.
Brunch at Tropics seems to be a de rigueur experience for the GLBT visitor to Fort Lauderdale, second only to George's Alibi. Â We went there for Sunday Brunch and were not disappointed.
We wished we could have been seated in the al fresco veranda. Â But the weather didn't cooperate and a steady drizzle spoiled our wishes. Â So we sat inside near the brunch setup. Â Tropics has an extensive brunch setup which is so large that it has to be distributed throughout different parts of the restaurant. Â Near the front entrance is the "lunch" setup with salmon, roast beef, turkey, ham and vegetables. Â In the middle, taking almost half the bar, is the dessert center, and on the other side of the bar, several tables offer an extensive selection of quiche, eggs, potatoes and different breakfast meats.
The inside of the restaurant, though dated, reminds the guest of a pre-Prohibition speak-easy, with faux classical columns imposed over faux stones for an eclectic decor.
The price of the buffet included coupons for two mimosas a piece, which were generous on the champagne. Â Our waiter was a friendly young veterinary intern who also gave us tips about the area. Â
We got there early, about 1030, and the clientele was definitely older, including some patrons who even had to be assisted. Â I was impressed when one of them, an obviously frail elder gentleman, fell, spilling his food, and the staff was so totally accommodating to him that after an immediate cleanup, the manager himself got the food for him. Â As the time went on, the clientele got younger, obviously the bar population waking up for brunch. Â The total check for two including tip came out to $45.00
Overall, a friendly, accommodating, and obviously, well attended place. Â No attitude and good food. Â We will be back.
Tropics, on the Southern end of Wilton Manors, is a mainstay in the Ft.Lauderdale area. Â The food is tasty and well prepared, though it sometimes struggles to match the flavor of the former Chardees (once located across the street.) Â
Tropics, like Chardees once did, caters to a more "mature" crowd, but those of us in the younger set  would be well advised to give it a try.  Reservations are recommended.  If you show up on a weekend night without a reservation, expect a little un-due attitude from the front end host. Â
A full service bar (with pretty darn good bartenders) rounds off the experience. Â Groups of men can often be found singing at the piano to cheesy remakes of pop-hits by Madonna and the like. Â Depending on your taste, this will inspire you or totally turn you off. Â
Something to be aware of: Tropics sometimes has issues in maintaining a clean bathroom during the dinner hours.  After a busy rush, the bathrooms become a bit  "nasty".  Granted, guests often have issues in picking up after themselves, bowever, cleanliness of a restaurant overall is often based on the cleanliness of it's bathrooms.  I may behoov Tropics to look into doing a "pre-dinner touch-up" just to avoid turning off their more loyal patrons.  Â
Food: A-
Price: A -
Service: A to B+ (can be slow at times)
Atmosphere: B Â (an updated, slightly overdone decor with faux concrete treatments everywhere...bathroom cleanliness in question )
Location: A Â (2.3 miles from downtown Ft. Lauderdale)
Valet parking: Not available, and parking can sometimes be an issue later at night.
Overall: A-
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