I specifically dined @ this restaurant because I was in town and wanted crab cakes. If you like crab cakes, don't order these. They were the filling that they use for deviled crabs. Although fresh out the fry grease, you could taste the refrigeration of the mixture if that makes sense. I was so disappointed. The hush puppies were bland. My brother enjoyed his broiled seafood and my mom enjoyed the fried flounder. My meal was a bust. :( read more

This restaurant has some great memories when my Mom and Dad were alive. We would go there and the food was as always delicious every time we went. Haven't been there is a couple of years but I plan to in the future. read more

Great service. Smells amazing when you walk in. Clean establishment. Fresh food for great prices. Great ambiance. Low light and great throwback music. I have not been to a Mayflower in over a decade or 2. read more

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Been going to this place every Friday for years I guess they have a new server she now brings the salad out with the main course by then I don't want to sound because I'm ready to start on the main course somebody should teach the server how to serve won't be going back read more

I was extremely disappointed with my meal. The seafood was disgusting, the fish and shrimp tasted old, refried, and were tough to chew. Everything was overly salty, and even the condiments came in little cups that were barely filled. We tried to eat what we could, but ended up throwing most of it away. For $60, this was a complete waste of money. I was told I'd be getting steak fries, but instead I got soggy, nasty shoestring looking fries that were clearly old and barely edible.I'll stick with Kemps at the Raleigh Farmers Market from now on. Mayflower in Smithfield seriously needs a new cook, or they need to shut the place down! ALSO, I DID NOT PICK UP MY FOOD A FAMILY MEMBER DID. WORSE SEAFOOD EVER! read more

Nice ambiance, what you would expect from a fried seafood house. Food: ordered three combination. Flounder, oysters, scallops. I'm not sure what the scallops were. They were not scallops, rubbery hard, freezer burnt . Maybe freezer burnt overcooked chunks of fish I could not eat after the first. Flounder was paperthin and overcooked. Oysters had good flavor and breading but were very small. Service: I did not even get a chance to complain, waitress dropped off food and ticket never came back. Person checking me out never asked how it was, so I'm leaving a review. Will not return. I was expecting to much from a fried fish house but this was sad. read more

Mayflower Seafood Restaurant - Ordered Scallops? It was Chicken? Fish? I'm not really sure what it was other than disgusting! Not scallops. - Seafood Near Me - Smithfield, North Carolina

Food was cold, and the service was very lame. Didn't come back to the table once to see if we needed anything like drink refills, nothing.

Ordered lunch inside at 1:15 on Saturday. Fish sandwich with fries and grouper with baked potato. Food wasn't served for 50 minutes. Other patrons were served and eating who arrived after us. Parking lot had few vehicles but we were told a large private party was reason for delay. Baked potato and fries served at room temperature. Very disappointing. We won't be back. read more

We eat at this location often and it's consistently a good experience. The food is always fresh, arrives hot and tastes delicious. The wait staff is friendly and attentive. Good menu options too and the daily specials are great. Mayflower is one of Smithfield's hidden gems, read more

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Smithfield, North Carolina. I've never regretted paying $50 for a meal more than I have at this place. Wow...not a good experience at all. I chose their alleged "flagship" entree, which is the $25 Broiled Mayflower Plate, or something to that effect. When I tell you that not ONE item on that plate had any flavor, I'm not even remotely exaggerating. Completely devoid of any seasoning. Here's the breakdown: Scallops: Zero flavor, over-cooked, and the texture was off. I honestly suspect these jumbo "scallops" were nothing but cookie-cut skate/ray wing pieces, due to the complete lack of chew and flavor. It was like eating a white, tasteless tofu. Jumbo shrimp: Overcooked and hard. Whitefish filets: Overcooked and hard. Dousing it with lemon had no effect! Stuffed crab: Zero flavor. Salt and a TON of Texas Pete couldn't even help it. Also had a bad previously-frozen taste to it, which I'm sure they are. Bottom line, properly BROILED seafood is supposed to be buttery, seasoned, moist and flaky. Not hard and needing a knife to break a piece off so you can chew it endlessly. Charging $25 for this monstrosity should land someone in the Johnston County Courthouse, because it's pure theft of customer money. Yeah...it was THAT bad. The Mayflower in Raleigh was always somewhat decent. This place just made my "Hard No" and "Never Again" lists. To the owners: Sorry for the brutal review, and maybe I caught your place on a bad day, but this was a really bad, overpriced experience. read more

Mayflower Seafood Restaurant - Broiled Mayflower Plate. $25 for overcooked, tasteless seafood... - Seafood Near Me - Smithfield, North Carolina

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Mayflower is your standard seafood restaurant. I wouldn't say the food is exceptional but ok. The portions are pretty big and I always have to take some home. The service has always been good when we have gone there. I personally do not like their hush puppies. They are round shaped and very dry. After one try I never ate any more. I heard another guest say he takes them home because his dog loves them! If you have a hankering for average seafood this is the place to go. I'd say it's fast food in a sit down restaurant. read more

What a joke... I brought my family for a nice seafood lunch hhhaaaaaaaa I got the capt. smith platter which has shrimp, fish, oysters, scallops, and crab cake.... The shrimp tasted like stale corn nuts tasted like the frying oil hadn't been changed since 1957. The oysters had a strange musty smell, the scallops were chewy and slimy I spit them into the napkin immediately.. the crab cake was obviously frozen and tasted like a bagged, freezer burnt piece of shit. Like the shopping center it inhabits its old, outdated, and decrepit deserving of complete demolition. Very nice staff though! read more

Mayflower serves up tastier seafood than many 5-star restaurants I've dined in, and at a far more affordable price! I get takeout more often than I dine in , but all my eat-in experiences have been extremely pleasant, and with nothing to complain about - service was friendly and fast. The food......wonderful! They have a very large menu, with a variety of ocean dwellers to please any palate! I prefer the combination plates, which allow you to select any two (or, for a bit more in cost, three) fish or seafood options. Catfish, oysters, fried jumbo shrimp, popcorn shrimp, oysters, deviled crabs, clam strips and scallops are only a few of the choices you can feast on! You also get hush puppies, fried or baked potatoes and cole slaw on the side. I can highly recommend all of the above! The fried catfish is always flaky and tender, and the fried oysters are a favorite of mine. Mayflower does not stint on portions, either! You will get a very large serving, and I always have enough to snack on later or eat for lunch the next day. Definitely a good value for the money! Take-away service is fast (generally about ten minutes) and they check each order as they give it to you so there are no goofs. The atmosphere may not look like much, but don't be fooled. Mayflower is worth your time and you won't go away unhappy - or hungry! I've eaten at this site, and the Raleigh and Garner stores. Experience at all three was the same - awesome. read more

Usually when we order to go, the food is good Tonight it seemed like the food had been sitting around for awhile. Both the broiled jumbo shrimp and the large fried shrimp were chewy and didn't have much of a taste. Disappointed read more

I typically do not take the time to share a poor experience when going out to eat however I feel our experience this afternoon should be expressed in hopes this information can be used to improve the dining and customer service experience going forward. Upon arrival we were not greeted. No one at the cash register or to be seen. My husband went to the restroom while I patiently waited to be greeted and seated. Upon my husband's return I was still waiting on someone. He noticed all the help was hanging out in the kitchen still no regards to us standing waiting to be seated. Finally a young fellow poked his head out and said someone would be out in a minute. Finally a young girl seated us she was very pleasant and got us seated. We placed our order and patiently waited for our order. After about 25 to 30 minutes we were brought our food. Mind you we have no issues waiting for fresh food to be cooked and served. Unfortunately, upon receiving our food my husbands food was warm at the very least. I had to send my sweet potato fries back as they were barely warm and under cooked. The flounder was cooked perfectly and was delicious. Obviously they had issues with timing on plating the food so that everything could be served hot. If I had to guess they cooked his food first as well as my sweet potato fries while they were cooking my flounder as I stated it was served hot and was delicious. My husband did not want to be a bother so he just ate a forth of what was on his plate while I finished eating my founder and fresh cooked sweet potato fries which were cooked perfect after the first set was returned. Now to the most surprising part of our unpleasant visit: as we were leaving I went to the restroom my husband went to pay the bill. The young man asked how was his meal and my husband told him it was not good. The guy said sorry to hear that and went about his way. As my husband was leaving he turned around the young guy was mocking him and making faces. As I was coming out of the bathroom having no idea that my husband had told him that his food wasn't great I heard the young guy talking with the others in the kitchen laughing and making fun that the poor guy didn't enjoy his meal. Totally unacceptable. From a customer perspective and spending $34.00 for two meals to have such an unpleasant experience and then to be made fun of just doesn't rest easy with me. It seemed as though there was no supervision and the young staff was just having a free for all "Let's just take our time, who cares if we serve cold food and then be disrespectful on top of that! I hope this information falls in the right hands so that management is aware of what has happened and hope it's addressed so no one else that patrons your established has this experience. Quick background: we typically eat at your establishment about one to two times a month although it's probably been a couple of months since our last visit and this is the first time we have ever had this experience! read more

The place is a decent size we got seated right away.The waiter was great, friendly and attentive as far as the food it has no taste to it at all. I had the shrimp alfredo with chicken and bread on the side the sauce was watery it had no flavor it taste similar to chicken soup in a can the garlic bread had more flavor than the pasta. We also ordered mozzarella stick which was lukewarm on the outside and the cheese was cold on the inside how do u mess that up? We had the jumbo shrimp which was the only thing I enjoyed 10 pieces for $10.99 very overpriced. We had crab clusters 2 pieces also overpriced hushpuppys was blah, pink lemonade taste like sugar water. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY. read more

I don't know what I was expecting but this was not it. My husband and I have driven by Mayflower for 4 years and finally had the chance to stop in for lunch. We both ordered the clam chowder, I had the fried grouper with hush puppies and a tossed salad and he had the Captains Smiths Platter (fried shrimp, oysters, scallops, flounder, and hush puppies). Everything was visibly unseasoned and flavorless and clearly not a single grain of salt, pepper or otherwise was used at any step of preparation. Even the hush puppies were dense, bland, when cracked open it, was easy to see that it was nothing more than cornmeal and too much binder. My husband's fried oysters had an off smell and were green hued and his scallops where so overcooked I'm pretty sure they would have bounced if dropped. The one positive I can give for the food, was the grouper was perfectly flaky however the shear lack of a spice rack in this kitchen did it zero justice.  The only redeeming quality of this establishment were the attentive and kind staff. It's just so unfortunate that they have to serve such underwhelming food. read more

The food was hot and crisp, the service was good. The prices were very reasonable.... $25 a person for huge plates of seafood. I could not finish it all. Very nice experience read more

So I think this place is actually called Neptune's, but I'll go ahead and review it nonetheless. I found this place when my 'rents were visiting from Canada, and we had to make the obligatory (and largely useless) trip to the Smithfield outlets. Hungry for something that wasn't a chain restaurant in the middle of that shrine to grossly excessive capitalism, we decided to give this place a try. They must get big crowds there because the dining room is deceptively large. And I can see why; the seafood is plentiful and pretty tasty. You can always opt for the typical bucket full of deep friend shrimp, but I've ventured beyond this to some of the more culinarily interesting items on the menu (like non-fried fish plates), and I've always been happy with the meals. Prices are very reasonable too. read more

Disappointed for the price and quality. Flavor was nonexistent and drenched in butter which are both signs of previously frozen. I'd bet most on the menu isn't from NC which again is a shame. If you have the option you might want to skip over this joint for seafood. read more

the service was amazing 10/10 ana garcía was my favorite she was so sweet and she complimented me

It's ok as fair as seafood , it doesn't seem all that fresh though. But we wanted to try it and now we can say we did

We had a party of 25, had reservations but when we got there had to wait 30 minutes to be seated, they never bought water to the table, we had to wait another 45 minutes for our food after ordering and the food was Cold, I called the next day to complain and was told that the manager was too busy to come to the phone, this is unacceptable and unprofessional, will not go again or recommend that anyone go there!!! read more

The waitress was terrible! She argued with me when she got my order wrong and everyone at my table heard me say oysters not clam strips. We're asked for ranch 3 time and finally got it after the 4th time. The food wasn't good and all tasted the same. When the waitress finally brought my fried oysters to the table there was only 4 and they weren't cooked thoroughly. The blooming onion was burnt. Terrible experience that wasn't worth 90 dollars. read more

Outstanding service (Kim), excellent food. Nothing but good things to say about this place.

Dinner here with my dad. Our waitress Kim was fabulous and friendly. Really enjoyed our dinner together. I had the broiled scallops, baked potato, slaw & hush puppies. I asked light butter & seasoning on scallops. They were good. Loved the hush puppies & potato was cooked fine. Dad had popcorn shrimp @ oysters. Tons of the popcorn shrimp but only 5 oysters. He said this tasted fine. read more

A true staple of smithfeild. Love the chicken tenders. The ranch is great. Hush puppies are gas.

Absolutely love them. Got there right before closing. They were awesome to us. The food was absolutely delicious. Very reasonable. Will definitely be back read more

Got the fried flounder special with onion rings, slaw, and hush puppies. Food is great for the price!

Stopped in with my family about a month ago and was seated very quickly for a party of six. Waitress was super friendly and quick. Food was excellent and got a bunch of it - but we did have a small wait due to a party in another part of the restaurant. Definitely going back again! read more

We ordered two combos, 1)fried popcorn shrimp and scallops, 2)fried popcorn shrimp and catfish. The scallops were so tough that they could not be cut with a fork. They were tough and chewy. There were only 4 scallops on the platter, which wasn't a problem because I was not able to eat even one. My dogs enjoyed them when I brought them home. The popcorn shrimp were average, they didn't have much flavor but seemed to be cooked correctly. There was only one small piece of fish on the platter. My husband requested it be cooked crispy. It was squishy and appeared to be raw inside. It was also very fishy tasting unlike typical catfish. The hush puppies and fries were good. If I were rating on the scallops or catfish, I would give a one star review. I do not recommend this place. We will not return. read more

Was so looking forward to some seafood and not having to cook. Should've stayed home. Our fries weren't cooked and scallops were left off of one meal all together. My plate was taken away 5 minutes into our meal with the uncooked fries and I never got it OR our cooked fries back! That WAS our side! What I ate of my meal was off of a saucer! Yeah. I had an $18 meal that fit on a saucer! !! (Minus fries) the fish was cooked to the point of crunching like pork rinds. No flavor even though we asked for salt and pepper on our fish. They season the flour, not the meat. Now I'm wondering if the 3 scallops were really scallops and not skates!!! Guess I'll never know. .. done with this place. read more

Always friendly and food hot and delicious. I will definitely be back. They gave us a shorter portion n we didn't complain but our waitress was upset and comped it off our bill. read more

Food made entire family sick. First and last time at that location. We've ate at other mayflower locations before (Charlotte region) and never had a problem. In general, a lot of food at mayflower restaurants and this one was no exception. Easily can share plates. Decent selection of seafood. read more

I was extremely pleased with the service and food at Mayflower. I came to town with a friend and we wanted a good place to go for lunch before shopping. We were greeted and sat immediately and Kim was our waitress. She was so pleasant and friendly and I could not have had a better experience. The food was amazing and Kim was very accommodating. This was true Southern hospitality that I have not received in a long time. Kim wins server of the year in my book. I will return the next time I am in town. read more

I added a review to the Raleigh restaurant by accident. It was just ok. I had the broiled shrimp (boiled popcorn shrimp with a dash of Cajun seasoning afterwards). The hush puppy rings are very good. My husband had the Captain Smith and said it was "just ok". He called the restaurant a glorified Long John Silver, I think just a step above it. My 3 year old did love the decor though. read more

Great food. They do charge 25¢ per box when you order take out. Just for the dang box. Other than that i have never had a problem here. Great for groups, good friendly service. Bring the whole family. read more

Ordered a shrimp and oyster plate today and recieved only 3 oysters with my shrimp.! The cashier said it wqs because i ordered shrimp too.. I told him I've been there a fee times and always received more oysters than what they have me.. I didn't pay $14.00 for just a bunch of popcorn shrimp... Don't tgink I'll be going back if this is what they are doing now. read more

Great tasting food at a very reasonable price, highly recommend the scallops, chicken tender & popcorn shrimp combo, and the bloomin onion petals, staff was more than nice and the place had a comfy, "sea-side" decor. read more

Me and my family ate at this wonderful restaurant. The food was fresh and the service was spectacular. Will go again soon