02/24/09

warning...dont waste your money or time

by kymommy

I love seafood. I also love nice restaurants. Well this one thinks its a nice restaurant, charges high prices, but thats it, its not. I had better food at ihop. This place is WAY overpriced!!! I ordered flounder, $28.00, and comes with NO sides. For that much money, i expect perfection. I received it on the cold side and overcooked! the waitress even "warned" that they tend to undercook fish, since it is so fresh, but not in my case. They have sooo many customers they turn around, they absolutely do not care about you. My husbands overpriced steak was tuff, he had to send it back, 12 TINY oysters were $27.00 and we weren't allowed to have crackers cause the "chef" doesn't believe in them, they were not anything special, they sucked!

We were thinking we might be overreacting until another couple walking out at the same time said their food was horrible and terribly overpriced. All the servers have their noses in the air like they are the best. There are so many other restaurants, eat somewhere else. Oh yeah, i ordered a ceaser salad too, you get better at Wendys! and i love homemade dressing, this was the worst, certainly did not taste like homemade.

no manager ever comes around to check on you. they dont care.

• Pros: location
• Cons: terrible food, terrible service, way overpriced

02/13/09

Horrible tourist trap!

by dedet

Horrible tourist trap! We were hoping to find a great seafood restaurant or at least a decent crab shack. It was neither. Even with the 10% discount for annual passholders, it was not worth it. The average entree was $40.00. The calamari appetizer was inedible(you could get better and fresher calamari at Carrabbas or Red Lobster) and looked like it came out of a frozen bag. The house salads were wilted and had obviously been sitting around too long. The soups were ok, but nothing to write home about. The tuna appetizer was dry and bland (you could get better tuna at Cheesecake Factory). Kids meals were nothing special (runny mac n'cheese), and when my husband asked for a refill on his lemonade, we were told they were not complimentary, and then no one bothered to show up to fill our waters. Although we requested lemon wedges, they never came. Stuffed shrimp entree was try and tasteless and accompanied by a large untrimmed hunk of broccoli. We will never go back and do not recommend it to anyone, unless they just want to pay for overpriced food and consider it an admission fee to step on a fake theme boat overlooking the water.

• Pros: none
• Cons: too many to list!

10/14/08

Not worth the price

by fishbutt

I ordered a sampling of raw oysters, the lobster and crab bisque, and the snow crab legs. Total cost was $55, which would have been worth it had the dishes been prepared correctly. The oysters unfortunately had chunks of shell in them, and were served in multiple smaller pieces instead of as an intact oyster. Looks like the oyster-shucker needs more practice. The lobster bisque was not bad, but was rather flavorless and bland. After the bisque, I had to wait another 30 minutes before the main course. The snow crabs were the worst - incredibly over-salted, to the point of almost inedible. Overall, the experience was definitely well below expectations. On a positive note, the waiter and hostess were all very pleasant, and the view on the deck was wonderful.

• Pros: great staff, convenient location
• Cons: food is not worth the price

06/16/08

Avoid at all cost, McDonald's would be a better dining experience

by LalaMorgan

There are few things I hate more than eating at an expensive restaurant and coming home hungry. Fulton's was 3 steps below Red Lobster. My family and I dined there while on vacation and were disgusted with our dinner. The waitress tried to sell us our dinners like we were shopping for a used car. The time it took to get our drinks and place our order was unacceptable considering the place was fairly empty. We waited 25 minutes to eat our calamari; which ended up being "fishy french fries". I've eaten my share of calamari, and this was nothing like I've ever had. Each piece was actually shaped like a french fry and had the consistency of rubber. After that we tried the Seafood Tower, which at almost $20 per person I expected to be good. It was a cold tower of old seafood. The clams and mussels were dry and rubbery, the tuna was over-seasoned with basil and the shrimp tasted like it had sat in the sun all day. To be fair, the crab and scallops on the tower were not bad. Our entrees were passable, but given the time we had to wait (40 minutes after our appetizers) we were not happy. The place smelled funny, the server was too pushy and the food wasn't worth the inflated prices. Tourist or not, nobody should settle for this dismal excuse for a "crab house".

• Pros: No wait time
• Cons: Foul food, Pushy service, Inflated prices

04/05/08

Decent food, Poor value, a madhouse!

by Roboat

Living in Orlando, we have been to Fulton's several times, and never have any major complaints about the food or service, but I always feel slightly silly paying the these prices, even with 10% off for season passholders. This time, the noise and table location was especially intrusive.

Absolute madhouse upon arrival, jammed, hectic, noisy. Our party of six had "reservations" for 8:50 on a Friday and we were seated earlier, which was nice. Tables are too close together. Our chairs bumped the folks behind us; large folks can actually become completely trapped! The noise continued throughout our stay.

Average entree is $50, including NO side dishes (which run $6-10) . With the automatic 18% gratuity, you can easily pay $90-100 per person for a basic meal with a beer. If you add appetizers, wine and dessert, you should expect $130-150 per person - and this is just NOT that level of dining experience.

I had an 8oz filet Oscar. Filet was good and done as ordered. My wife had a combo of wahoo (like swordfish), crab cake and grilled shrimp. I love crabcakes, and hers was somewhat dry, and had way too much filler for my taste.

The service was good, and our waitress was kind enough to point out that the gratuity was already included in the bill.

Given a choice, the next time I will opt for Flying Fish at the Boardwalk.

[For comparison - some of our favories Disney World restaurants are Spoodles, Kona Cafe, O'Hanas, Victoria and Albert's)

12/09/07

(Not a good experience)

by ritzer

Not a good place at all. The food was served at room temperature. We ordered calamari as an appetizer and it took a 30 minutes to arrive cold. The main course arrive 30 minutes later and it was cold as well. Olive Garden and Red Lobster serve better food at a better price. This was a bummer!!! High Price not good at all.

11/11/07

the best seafood!!!

by qteegurl

I loved this place.. Located in Downtown Disney, it has a great view, friendly service, and the Alaskan Crab Leg was AMAZING... although it can get quite packed because of the tourist location, it's well worth the wait...

• Pros: Service was excellent

11/07/07

What an awful experience!

by redskinrex

Words can not express how lousy this dinning experience is. I love places like Bern's, Peter Lugers, Del Frisco's, Sparks, etc. all expensive, but classy, elegant dinning experiences. The only thing Fulton's has in common with those wonderful places... is the price.

The atmosphere is pretty much the same of any cafeteria found at Disney World: Crowded, loud and tacky. The waiters stand at your table and yammer on forever about nearly every-single-thing on the menu, when all you want them to do is tell you the specials, shut up and leave you alone to decide what you want. Instead you?ll have to listen to how every-darned-dish is the ?best ever.? (Boy was that waiter clueless!)

Personally, I think $40 for a fried seafood platter with french fries and coleslaw is ridiculous. But hey, it?s better than the $43 we paid for a modest tuna steak that, although tasty, came with absolutely nothing else. C?mon, for $43 you can throw on some green beans and a potato for cryin? out loud.

The ONE thing they did get right was that the food came out quickly. Since the noise, waiter and atmosphere all made our skin crawl, we couldn?t have been more thankful than to get out of there as quickly as possible.

I have, literally, had better meals at Red Lobster where the atmosphere was exponentially superior and the bill was a fraction of the cost of this place.

Fulton?s is nothing short of a scam.

• Pros: Your overpriced food comes quickly
• Cons: Atmosphere, noise, crowding and extreme prices

05/31/07

SOOO DISAPPOINTED!! PLS READ IF YOU ARE THINKING OF GOING.

by ckat01

I have wanted to eat at Fulton's for about 2 years, so when my husband and I went to Disney in May 2007, we decided to do Fulton's on our first night there. From the outside the boat was beautiful, and allures a great deal of people, but the inside is much different. It is very lowly lit with dark wood everywhere; it is very much in need of an update. It almost reminded me of Friday's. We made reservations, and even we had to wait 15 mins. People also came in without reservations, and they were turned away. It was only a Wednesday night for goodness sake! Meanwhile we got 2 very $$$$ vodka and tonics. Our Waiter finally took us back to our table, but it wasn't ready so he made us stand in the crowded room while everyone was eating and watching us stand around. He then (apologetically) took us back to the lobby where we waited a bit more until the stressed out waiters got another table. Unfortunately when we went back again the SAME thing happened, and we returned to the lobby. When we finally did get our table it was not clean. I put my hand on the menu and got a gob of cream cheese all over it. When the waitress came she did not care in the least, but she did bring me a wet cloth. How wonderful. We were seated extremely close to another table; it was almost like they were part of our party. When they left a huge LOUD Puerta Rican family arrived, and overpower everything I tried to talk to my husband about. Our meals took FOREVER, and they forgot to bring the claws. I thought our waitress was a Bitc#, as did my husband; I am only a 27 yr old teacher so please don't think I am this rich thing who expects everything. I got a less expensive meal, as did my husband and it came to $90; normally I wouldn't complain, but this place was not a great restaurant.

We did tip the normal 15%, but she sooo didn't deserve it. I would suggest The House of Blues if your looking for a good meal! FULTON'S was LOW CLASS service. :(....

• Pros: Great Snow Crab!
• Cons: OK martinis, Extremely overpriced! Horrible atmosphere, OVERCROWDED, stressed out waiters, bad service.

04/02/07

cold, overcooked food and high prices, nice view

by edwardcunningham

Ate here with the family while in town on Spring Break. Food was cold and overcooked, service was slow. Kids commented that Red Lobster would have been better. A real disappointment especially considering the price. Highly recommend Bonefish Grill for seafood. View of Lake Buena Vista was nice.

I had the crab/lobster bisque and grilled shrimp w/ lobster ravioli. My wife had the gilled shrimp. The bisque was very below average in flavor with almost no crab or lobster and it is supposedly their specialty. All food was cold. Shrimp were like rubber and the lobster ravioli was almost inedible. Vegetables tasted fishy - like raw fish.

• Pros: beautiful view of Disney's Marketplace and Lake Buena Vista
• Cons: Food was terrible, service was slow