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    Commander's Shellfish Camp

    4.1 (299 reviews)
    Open 11:30 am - 8:30 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Outdoor seating

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    Husband's tiny oysters
    Debbie R.

    Stopped by with a party of six for dinner and was not impressed. The piece of fish I ordered was the size of my cell phone along with a bowl of grits for 35.00. Beware the "market price" pricing, which is on most items on the menu. My husband ordered a dozen oysters. I've never seen oysters that small. And you would think being a fresh shrimp town that they would have fresh St Augustine shrimp - nope - they serve Argentinian (red) shrimp, which are sold at Walmart. But I'm sure they'll get enough unknowing tourist traffic to keep them going. Me being a local, won't be back.

    Oysters
    Shannon R.

    Stopped for the outdoor seating and some cold beers and messy seafood- it hit the mark with each of those. My group sat at the picnic tables in the waaaay back and our waitress/bartender was wonderful. Super woman, actually, because she was understaffed and was bartending, bussing, serving and taking orders all by herself! Seafood was a tad underwhelming, I was craving good crab and peel-and-eat shrimp, but both were unfortunately overdone. I'm not an oyster fan, but my group seemed to enjoy them. Po-boys were all delicious and sides were as expected

    VA oysters
    Rich G.

    Forgot to do my Yelp review for Wednesday 12.28. After a trip to JAX to drop off our daughter four of us thought it was time for some seafood at Commander's. Apparently lots of others had the same idea. We started with some beers and wine. For appetizers a dozen raw oysters (from Virginia). Excellent. Now the sad news. No seafood left. Yep all gone. Well good for them in today's market it's good to see a restaurant doing well. We will be back.

    Lieutenant boil
    Jama M.

    This place is very quaint real beachy feel and delicious. It has the beachy ambience., The food was amazing, the Lieutenant boil could use some more sauce options the potatoes were slightly dry, but overall, it was delicious. . The service was impeccable., Mia was our server., She was very bubbly and fun and personable.. I would absolutely recommend this place. We had three options of where to sit we could sit inside or outside or outside by the water. We chose just to sit outside, not by the water because it was hot and we saw there was more shade. It was recommended we try it out up here in Georgia, before we even went on vacation and I highly recommend it

    Bucket of steamed oysters
    Diane S.

    If you want fresh and local, this is the spot. We stopped for lunch, had the smoked fish dip and a bucket of oysters. Delicious!

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    Awesome food loved eating on the water! Crab cake was fresh crab, the fritters were delicious too.

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    Always great seafood and very fresh!! Prices are not out of line for the type of seafood they sell.

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    Ask the Community - Commander's Shellfish Camp

    Accessible by boat?

    I saw boats drive by, but I didn't see any docking area at the restaurant for boats.

    Are they on the water - with boat parking?

    Yes, they are absolutely on the water (their shellfish cultivation requires it), but I do not believe they have boat slips available to the public.

    Would like to see the menu?

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