My girlfriend took me here for my first restaurant to try in Florida. The service and food were perfect. Our server Sonja was super nice, fast and offered advice on dishes to try. The atmosphere and theme of the restaurant make me want to get drunk and go fishing all day! We will be coming back sometime again because we had a great time, thanks Pinchers!! read more

It's a little out of the way. We just had drinks and the claw appetizer. It was delicious! Casual sports bar atmosphere and good drink deals read more

Pinchers - Bar in main dining room - Seafood Near Me - Cape Coral, Florida

Got a grouper sandwich, awful, very strong, like it had been frozen and refrozen. Waitress was very good and attentive. read more

Great food!! Great service by Marli Great ambiance! Will be back and recommend to our family and friends! read more

The food is amazing. We love coming here and bring our friends when the come from out of town all the time. Heather was our server and she is amazing. Very friendly and attentive. The atmosphere is awesome and the view is stunning. Fun place great food! read more

The special was good, blackened mahi mahi with mashed potatoes. My colleague got the blackened flounder with mixed veggies. The buffalo shrimp appetizer was spicy but good! The service was excellent. The bar was very noisy. read more

My family and I have been coming here for years! It's my fav to indulge in a big helping of crab legs. I always get the snow crab or the stone crabs in season. They have the freshest seafood. The all day two for one happy hour ain't bad either. This place is a highlight for sure! Every visit to Cape Coral I ask my family to take me here so I can get my crab fix! read more

Pinchers - Seafood Near Me - Cape Coral, Florida

Great marina site bar and restaurant for American dishes. Large bar area with tall margaritas and amazing appetizers. With co vid there has been ample seating. I like the large sporting fish mounted on the walls - dream of catching some in the near future. Pictures included read more

Best drink specials by far. Buy one get one.. can't beat it. Plus it's on the water and has a great walking path around the water. Great sunset place and had a patio outdoors which is a great view. read more

We enjoyed our evening at Pinchers in Cape Coral! Our server Veronica was very welcoming and accommodating! Excellent Shrimp Scampi! Always a pleasure to dine at Pinchers, read more

Service was good, but food was average. The server was knowledgeable with menu items. Great location with beautiful views.

Terrible service from the person at the door to the non existent server. I felt invisible.

My husband's direct quote "this is sooo good!" What a fun place - located on the harbor surrounded by yachts and boats. The 40 minute wait was definitely worth it and we kept ourself busy by walking along the docks until our table was ready. Our waitress, Brittany, was friendly and happily explained the dishes to us. We started with conch fritters (to die for!) and I enjoyed mahi mahi with garlic bread and green beans. Mahi mahi flaked nicely and was well seasoned - very tasty. My husband enjoyed his king crab - he definitely looked like he had the biggest crab Pinchers could find! I wish we would have saved room for desert - I've always wanted to try FL Key Lime pie - maybe next trip down I will! read more

Pinchers - Mahi Mahi - Seafood Near Me - Cape Coral, Florida

See all

Great waterfront dining. Can't beat the 2 for 1 drink specials and fresh seafood. Grouper was delicious

Had two really good experiences at Pinchers. We had the two Jakes as servers. They were great! So appreciate the servers wearing masks and the attention the restaurant pays to COVID-19. The competition in town pays no attention to COVID-19. Kudos!! read more

Really great seafood, 2-4-1 happy hour and beautiful outdoor dining. The stone crabs were super tasty!

Fantastic food and excellent service!! We stay at the Westin and to be able to walk to a restaurant as tasty and tidy as Pinchers is a real treat! Great value!! #teampinchers read more

Pinchers - Buy one get one wine deals!! - Seafood Near Me - Cape Coral, Florida

As a lifelong lover of seafood, it's been a long time since I've enjoyed a meal at a seafood restaurant as much as I enjoyed my meal at Pinchers! You CANNOT pass up the blue crab claw appetizer... it's pre-cracked blue crab pinchers swimming in a garlic butter sauce. I've been dreaming about it and can't wait to get back to Cape Coral in December to eat it again! Oh, and get an order of the hush puppies too, and dip them in that butter sauce from the crab claws... you won't regret it sorry.. no pictures of the food, we were all too busy shoveling it down our throats!! read more

See all

Fish and chips not so good. Service was very good. Bam bam shrimp were good. Something is going on with the fish. Thin strips don't look like cod haddock etc. read more

It's loud that's all. On the water, wonderful people who can write upside down work there!! The food is also good, just watch out for the chocolate cake! It's ginormous!!! read more

Great food and service! Beautiful scenery by the marina! The hush puppies are fabulous and would highly recommend!

Omg all I can say is over seasoned overcooked and oily. If you go stick to the steamed dishes. Waitstaff a d managers tried to help and ultimately the manager comped us for the uneatable food that came from the kitchen. If you have ever been to a Joe's Crab Shack this would be a very bad downgraded version. I tried to give honest reviews and looking at the quality of the food I can not give it a worse review. Even one of the managers looked at our plate and said oh that looks bad. How the hell dis it leave the kitchen??? Good luck if you go. Much better spots around town if your looking for a view and a meal. read more

Good food and service. Only complaint is there was plastic in the green beans when served to me. I sent it back, the waitress apologized and the meal was recooked and brought out quickly, I just thought there should have been some sort of comp for the hassle. Other than that, our meal was good read more

I was staying at the Westin next door and food options were, shall I say, limited. I decided to try Pinchers and took a seat at the bar. From the get go, the bartender was super friendly and made me feel welcome. Pinchers definitely has a chain restaurant feel with nautical decorations plastered all over the wall, an exhaustive menu, and 2-for-1 drinks all day long. The food menu consists of about every seafood item under the sun, and I ended up ordering the crab cake plate which came with two sides. For me, those were green beans and fresh cut fries. I wasn't expecting much but will say I actually enjoyed my meal! The crab cake was full of lump crab meat and the fries were especially tasty. For the meal and a beer (well, two beers because of the all day "special"), my dinner came to $30 with tip. It was filling and an overall fine experience, hence the "A-OK" rating! read more

Pinchers - Crab cake with two sides - green beans and french fries! - Seafood Near Me - Cape Coral, Florida

Great service and great time with my family. Food was tasty. Wait time sucked but that just means the place is doing a good job and everyone wants to go there. read more

We love pinchers! The staff is always positive and helpful and the food is great. We appreciate the 30 minute reservation, too.

For those who have had Maryland crabs before, you may be disappointed. They are on the small to medium size, and one cluster (described by our server as one blue crab without a face), but is actually half of a blue crab--priced about the same as a whole blue crab at other places. Also, maybe since the crabs were in clusters, they seemed more cooked/dry than when served as a whole. The ambiance of the place is nice, casual crab/seafood place, but the crabs were just disappointing. read more

This place was great. We saw it was a chain and were concerned, but were really impressed! The food was great. I think our server was what made our experience over the top. She was on it!! Over the top great service; super friendly, always on top of any Refil, checked on us non stop. I tried the blackened grouper based on her recommendation and I was happy I did. Highly recommend! read more

Party of four and every one of us had an issue with our meal. One person got a burger and all he could taste was fish. The chef used the same utensils no matter what is being grilled. This is dangerous for those with fish allergies! The shrimp tacos were cold and tasteless. Not one meal had any flavor at all. Tried it twice and will never, ever be back. Sorry! read more

One great thing was Waitress was on her game , But the Guy that was the Hostess doesn't have a Clue ( nitwit) Setting up for party of 8 , puts in middle of floor around Full tables if People, as other End is nobody ( dummy) Ok FOOD was Over cooked fish was rubbery- terrible I wouldn't recommend at all , Plus Parking Sucks read more

Huge portions of super fresh seafood! The drink specials were great & the service was fantastic.

This is a chain restaurant, so you know what to expect in places like this. That said, the food rivaled that of the Westin hotel next-door and the waitstaff was very congenial; plus, the atmosphere was vibrant and fun. Great for families and a nice change of pace from the hotel food. read more

Casadi was a great server. She was friendly and efficient. Great black grouper and fried oysters too! Can't wait to come back!

This place is so good that, during my week in Florida, I came back multiple times. I tried other local seafood places, and none of them tasted as fresh or offered as big of portions for the price. Every time, the service was also good. I highly recommend the conch fritters as well as the softshell crab. Everything else I had was also good. And can you BELIEVE they have 2 for 1 draft beer deals on local craft brews even? Amazing. I'm going to miss this place for sure. My only knock is that they need a few more side options. Mac 'n' cheese would've been great to mix up with the fries or green beans. read more

To start out, I NEVER ask to send food back, or give anyone a hard time. Im also in the service industry so I understand the routine and daily issues. Pinchers was always a place to bring family or guests when they were in town. Ive also brought numerous business guests to Pinchers over the years. Recently, I decided to take my wife and our son out to dinner. Needless to say, I will be looking elsewhere to take guests. Service was non existent, the manager did his rounds before the food was brought out. No refills the entire order, I had to have the bartender nearby refill our drinks. Once the food was brought out, they never checked back. I ordered the Fish and Chips. Simple order, right? Fries were ice cold and the fish was pre-fried and then frozen. I could tell it was baked or reheated when the plate came out scalding hot. I took two bites and I was done. My wife had shrimp scampi. The noodles were mush and the shrimp was cold. My son had the chicken finger basket. They still managed to mess this up. The chicken fingers were pre fried and then frozen. Reheated then served. Easily tell by the ROCK hard breading and cold chicken underneath. Non of us ate but a couple bites and we were done. When we finally saw our server, she asked us if we would like to-go boxes? If none of us ate the food, that's a giveaway that something is wrong. I understand you get what you pay for and with $20-$30 a plate, one would think to expect decent food? In the end, $60 for some table crackers and water. Oh my son had Apple Juice. read more

I brought my kids in for dinner tonight. I need to give HUGE props to our server Sara, and the manager Ricky. Our service was amazing. We did have a small snafu with one of our meals coming out incorrectly, but the way it was handled was the example of how it should have been. I didn't ask for or expect any monetary compensation for the mistake-because they happen- but they ended up comping my son's meal anyway. So KUDOS to the staff here! And our food was excellent! read more

Good food n good service ! Seafood tower very good, chopped salad n shrimp were all good. Sat outside n enjoyed the view Waitress Chelsea read more

A little loud for me and my blackened grouper wasn't over the top good. The boys enjoyed it because during happy hour, beer is half priced and it's brought out two at a time. I know that some of the others in the group enjoyed their food so it may have just been my own thoughts on the food. I will say that the cheese dip appetizer is a must. Staff was nice and it sits on the water. Overall, a casual spot to fill your belly. read more

Seems like a decent place, great staff, crabs, shrimp and sides are very good. No complaints on any of that, but whatever you do, DO NOT sign up for their email list. See attached image. 10 emails in 10 minutes, and that's just today. read more

Pinchers - They WILL spam the heck out of you - Seafood Near Me - Cape Coral, Florida

Really wanted to try this place as it looked fun. Host service was clunky at best. Called for the 30-minute seating and they basicaly tried to talk us out of it. I explained we could be there in five and their tune changed. We walked their via the boardwalk -- don't do this. Makes getting seated rather a pain. Between the four people working host, they had about 2/3 of a clue. Table service was excellent (thanks, Codi!). Prompt, attentive, professional, and very pleasant. She was helpful with the menu. I ordered a couple of apps and some blue crab steamed in Old Bay. I would not have guessed they used no water for the latter, but that's what it tasted like. I like Old Bay, but HOLY SALT LICK, Batman! The fried apps were basic fried fish fare (even though they looked like more on the menu) and the dipping sauce looked much better on paper. Wife had a chicken caesar and all went well. Place is loud and it got croweded (Saturday night), particularly by rude, clueless vacationers from next door who clogged the walkway between the bar and our seat. They did not pick up on the social cues of EVERY member of the waitstaff saying, "'Scuse me." The bartender (who seemed to also be a manager) did not help matters. He could have easily asked them to pull up a bit, but did not. Pro tip: If you get charged extra for your flight, you probably need to be aware of the space you're occupying in a busy restaurant walkway... just sayin'. Skipped dessert because we were WAY full, but the key lime pie looked pretty epic. Beer selection was meh, but the sangria was tasty. Table service made this a passable experience, but of the dinner businesses on the boardwalk at Tarpon Point, this would be 4th of 4. read more