This place is a dive bar with a great vibe. Â If you are a J Alexander or Hillstone type, this may not be for you! Â The menu is simple bar food, but it is well executed and good.... Â my friend had the fish and chips on two visits we made there... I tasted it and it really was some of the best fish I've had. Â The first visit, I tried the Shepard's Pie...very good with a rich gravy and lots of fresh vegetables (not canned or frozen) and ample meat. Â The next visit I had the chicken quesadilla... filled with chunks of zesty chicken and loads of cheese... I had to take half of it home. Â It is a locals place... and there's lot's of interesting people here. Â Every social strata and occupation. Â Reminded me slightly of the crowds at Mack's Club Duece on Miami Beach back in the day. The decor is full of nautical memorabilia and momentos. Â The only negative is the smoking... it is a bar and people light up. Â If that is a concern tell the waitress and she'll put you at a table along the wall. Â Oh--- and Wayward is a good value... we were hard pressed to spend more than $20 on two entrees... drinks extra... but cheap. Â Love this place!
Review Source:When I first saw the pub, my first thought was cheesy themed and once inside it was more or less the same. Despite that the small pub was very welcoming. You can tell that they cater to locals but as a newbie, I was given equal respect. It is not the kind of place I usually go to, but I was attending a show at the Culture Room and both are located in the same shopping plaza so I decided to go there. I was looking for a place to pregame before the show and with great happy hour specials ($2.50 domestic draft and well drinks), I couldn't deny that. Most bars offer the same typical foods but at Wayward they have a full menu that includes Tex-Mex dishes, sandwiches and burgers, and also the usual pub favorites such as homemade shepherd's pie and fish and chips. I hadn't eaten before leaving home, so our group ordered the flautas and buffalo chicken strips. For bar food, both were pretty good since I was not expecting that. They also have a few flat-screen TVs broadcasting most sporting events so it is also a great place to go and watch your favorite team play although there is a bias to Pittsburgh.
Review Source:My boyfriend and I went to The Wayward Sailor for a drink and dinner. Â We like to try new places and I try to keep an open mind. Â After walking in and finding a table, we were a bit overwhelmed by the group of extremely foul mouthed patrons at the bar. Â Not to mention all the smoke. Â I thought there was a law prohibiting smoking in establishments that served food. Â Deciding to ignore those indiscretions, we both ordered a beer and something to eat. Â I ordered the Fish & Chips and my boyfriend ordered a sandwich.
The beers were warm and it took over 45 minutes for the food to come out. Â Once the food finally arrived, the Fish & Chips was barely warm. Â It was also soggy and made out of flour batter. Â Because the menu described the Fish & Chips as "British", I expected it to be beer battered. Â Or at the very least, crispy.
We won't be going back. Â I can't forgive the food for being so bad and certainly can't forgive a bar for serving me warm beer. Â I also don't need to finish my dinner smelling of smoke when I don't.
Got an Italian burger,,way way off,,overcooked and had provolone or some stinky cheese.thought it would be topped with mozzerella...tasted like charbroiled feet..and a ton of fries that were cooked hours before and cold. Live and learn,,Bartender was nice though,forgot her name. Smoking in bars sucks too when Im trying to eat,,wait a min!! maybe that charbroiled taste was the twenty cigarettes I was inhaling!?...yeech
Review Source:The Wayward Sailor is a wonderful little laid back place that I have been coming to for years. The odd thing about it is that, at least every time I have been there, it hasn't been all that crowded. That brings me to the question, as one would say in Pittsburghese: "How's come?"** It certainly offers everything one could desire in a novel little bar scene.
For drinks, it is full liquor along with a good selection of beers. I happen to be particular fond of various craft beers and ales. Though the craft selection isn't large, it's adequate.
As for food, they have great Shepherd's Pie, fish and chips, soups, bangers and mash as well as daily specials. The foods tend toward the Irish side of the food scale, though the place doesn't really bill itself as being an Irish Bar. Instead, the ambiance of the place is clearly that of a sailor/fisherman type of hang. There I all kinds of various fishing and boating memorable covering the walls as well as the ceilings. Pictures fishing adventures coat the walls and the lighting is rather dark, giving a sort of dive-y sailor hang out feeling to it, but it is spotlessly clean and neither seedy nor dive-y.
Oh, and now as to those ** (asterisks) and Pittsburgh comment above. The Wayward Sailor is clearly a Pittsburgh fan club place, though I never hear anyone speak using a "yenz," a "nebbie" a "how's come," a "jag off" or any of the other phrases or words so commonly used by a true Pittsburgher. I guess I'll have to go to the Wayward when there is a Pittsburgh Steeler's (in Pittsburgh Steeler's is pronounced "Stelher's") game, because I'm sure that I will hear some of it then. There is even a large sign on the front of the Wayward clearly indicating it to be a Pittsburgher venue. So, leave your Dolphin shirt at home.
Food & people here are great. Would've given the extra star if there was no smoking. And for some odd reason our food was sooo salty we woke up dying of thirst. But tasted great at the time we ate it. Wish they had better ventilation for those of us that have bad reactions to smoke cause I loved the vibe here.
Review Source:My office is across the street from the pub. It has the look of a dive but the people and the bartenders are very cool. It's a pretty cozy hangout spot. Â Bartenders are very good and seasoned.
They also have a very good menu. Great wings. tried their Grilled Chicken Sandwich and it's seasoned just right. Burgers are realy good (just make sure to ask  them to cook it medium if you want it medium rare if you know what I mean. )
Full Bar, a happening place, and a very friendly mix of people.
Great little salty pub in Fort Lauderdale. Â They're a few doors down from the Culture Room, so the Wayward Sailor makes for a great pit stop before a show.
They're also a Pittsburgh Steelers bar, so if you're a fan, you can go there and watch Pittsburgh play with your Steele City brethren.
This bar was everything I look for. Mostly spotless while still dark and slightly seedy... The bartender was excellent with a nice accent and a nice attitude. Enough beer variety to keep a snob interested but common enough to bring anyone with you. The mixed drinks I had were incredible. The Irish coffee we had was perfect.
  We also ate lunch while were there and it was amazing. Food was perfectly prepared, not one complaint about it. This bar was perfect!
Another of Ft Liquordale's little secrets, Wayward Sailor is a beautifully unhip little neighborhood watering hole that offers a couple of things bars like this around here just don't usually have. Like nice people who make eye contact and act like they're glad to see you, even if you've never been there before. It's just lively enough to stay interesting without being too jammed and loud to enjoy your company or personal space. Food is great, and the kitchen obviously cares.
And another thing: it's freaking clean. There's no musty bar stink [ok, maybe a little, but it would be weird if there wasn't *any*], the floor is swept, your arms don't stick to the tables, and the bathrooms are not only spotless -- but there are actually soap, paper towels, and toilet paper in there! Amazing.
The beer selection is very good, offering the usual favorites plus just enough to keep a beer snob interested -- and is also one of the few places in town that was able to come up with John Power's whiskey.
Food is excellent bar fare with the occasional creative surprise occasionally thrown in. Excellent source of burgers. This sounds mundane, but I'm always surprised by how hard it is to find a decent burger around here. "Medium" comes out medium. Toppings are fresh, and the cook had the Burger Spirit to know that you put the toppings on first, then the cheese, then put it up in the broiler. That way all your junk doesn't fall off. Burger Ninja!
The place gets nice and peppy when there's a show at the Culture Room. So check the show, that's the crowd you'll be drinking with. But the neighborly, civil vibe usually stays in place whether it's bikers, aging hippies, or yuppies.
Wow this place is a nice little find. Â I stopped in here sorta lost and ordered a Guinness and the bartender poured it for me and asked my name which at the time I thought was weird, but after I told him he told me his name and was just being friendly.
Pretty down home crowd here of locals which is always nice and they serve food as well, which from watching the guy in the Tapout shirt next to me looked pretty good as he cleaned his plate up pretty well.
Decent drink selections including a lot of more obscure beers which is always nice!
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