We have stopped in here a few times now and are always pleased with our food, drinks, and service. On this most recent visit, we had a friend visiting from out of state and he owns a large and successful sports restaurant in Oregon. Our friend is very selective in his food choices and isn't easily impressed but he loved his seafood boil as well as the oysters my husband ordered and we both loved the shrip pesto flatbread that I ordered. We highly recommend The Boil Yard! read more

I've been there several times now and each time it's been great. Between the different groups I've gone with we have had a large variety of menu items. Friendly staff. Tasty drinks. Corn hole tournaments on Thursday nights which I haven't done yet but when I drive by it looks like fun! read more

First time dinner at The Boil Yard, a great boil with shrimp and corn on the cob. There is seating at the bar outside or go inside for drinks. the price is reasonable and will definitely go back read more

We didn't have to wait long and food was good. I had the boil and it was pretty good. Service overall was good. Not a must eat at but will definitely do when there is a long wait everywhere else. read more

Don't even waist your time! Unless you just want alcohol...the food was the WORST food I've ever had in Crystal River! This is a newer restaurant and I was excited to try it. I had gone prior when it was Claw Daddy's. The fixed the inside up nice and the service was spot on but the FOOD was HORRIBLE! We ordered the Lobster Roll - mushy, frozen and made the roll soggy! I ordered the steak Baja Tacos. When I asked to get it cooked rare/med rare the waitress just looked at me. She said I don't think they do that...I should have known then to change my order (or pass completely on any food). When it came you could tell the meat was precooked prior to any orders (meat that takes less than 3 mins to cook when cut that size) and it tasted like it sat under heat lamps until an order was placed. Tough and dry! My granddaughter ordered a quesadilla and wouldn't even eat it and she LOVES them! She ate her fries and we ended up having to stop and get her something else to eat later. My son ordered Conch Fritters and they came out almost burnt and ALL FILLER he wouldn't eat them and he eats everything (even choked down that mushy Lobster Roll). I sent back the fritters. Save your money...I really don't get how you can serve FROZEN EVERYTHING when you are in the middle of the freshest seafood in the world! read more

Great food, great service and reasonable prices. The waitress recommended the rice bowl and it was delicious. I will certainly be back.

Last evening we visited the boil yard for the very first time. Have been curious and finally decided to take a risk. Trust me it was a risk after getting seated, being served a drink we ordered an appetizer. It was lobster bites. It's a good thing we read the name or we would not even know that is until I picked up and put in my mouth and bit down on one of the most nasty, somethings I ever ate. The only thing is I didn't eat it I was shocked enough. I picked up my napkin and put it back in my napkin. The server came about that time when you know if we wanted to order. I explained to her about the food, the lobster bites she just served us. She looked at me as if I had insulted her. Which I could have but I didn't. She didn't make the meal. She said she'd go talk to her manager. She came back and said the manager said there'd been no other compliance, so he didn't think it was bad, are you kidding me? What does someone have to do die or have stomach poisoning? She ask I'd like to speak to the manager and I said yes I would love to speak to the manager. She came back and told me the manager would be over soon. It's time to pass by, I realize we've been waiting over seven minutes for the manager to come over to explain to a customer that he was sorry that it was a once in a lifetime thing I don't know what manager say when they have to explain how someone got hold of a bad lobster bite.so needless to say we came home after an hour or so we had a grilled cheese. Because it took that long for the smell and taste to get out of my mouth. I'm warning you run from the lobster bites never again. read more

Four stars for what 'could be'. Quality remodel, chill vibe. Noisy, busy on a monday night. $7 for a pint of craft beer. Only IPA was Elysian Space Dust (a Budweiser owned brand). Server was attentive, but took dinner order without writing it down, then took orders from two more tables before entering into register. Ah oh. Forgot one side. Two incorrect sides. Shrimp alfredo dinner was satisfying. Crab cake dinner was tasty. Sadly, shrimp entree came with just 8 shrimp. Side containers were only half full. Overall, it was a negative experience, but all are correctable issues and we wish the best for Boil Yard's future. We will try it again in a month or so. Fingers crossed. read more

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Food is just okay, nothing too special. Maybe I just ordered the wrong thing but I was not impressed.

Went to The Boil Yard today for a quick bite and it's so unfortunate that we have a local business that has gone downhill so quickly.... I ordered (from the menu) bay scallops.... What came were SUPPOSED TO BE SEA SCALLOPS, if these were any kind of scallop I would be shocked. These were the worst tasting and I cut several in half to just see if the first bite was wrong BUT NO! They were the worst tasting ? Pieces of supposed scallops I have ever put in my mouth. Now to be fare I ate their bay scallops in the past and they were great! I loved them. I also had 6 oysters Rockefeller and they are totally unacceptable, go back to what you did when you opened. Please! read more

It was awesome. Just came in to check it out and we loved the food and service. Letting my friends know about the best seafood around.... read more

The Boil Yard - Seafood Near Me - Crystal River, Florida

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This place has the worst seafood I ordered crawfish bake 1lb it came with 2 corn and 2 red potatoes and it sat in a white cream sauce I don't ever remember crawfish bake served this way horrible! My girlfriend ordered a fried red snapper with red potatoes and dirty rice fish was bland with no seasoning 2 small potatoes and dirty rice with CORN! Really? That place will never get our business and it will never be recommended! read more

Great restaurant, the owner is so sweet! You should definitely get the fried pickles :)

The Friday Prime Rib special is incredible. The Ahi tuna appetizer was 5 star, the oysters were excellent. The service was on point and timely. The music was very enjoyable. Yes, I recommend the Boil Yard. read more

Went in for the first time. Ordered the Pasta with Shrimp and Chicken. It is absolutely the worst past dish I've ever had! The pasta was swimming in grease, there were only 4 Shrimp in the entire plate and the chicken was obviously not fresh. It tasted like chicken that had been precooked and left in the refrigerator to be used when needed. The bacon was non existent read more

I kept seeing The Boil Yard advertisements and the online menu looked great. We tried it out and we'll go back to try some other menu items, but we weren't too impressed with the blackened grouper sandwich, and worse was my crab cake. It looked and tasted like mush. There were zero crab flakes and it tasted mostly like the filler. Definitely wouldn't order that again. The fries were great but the French's ketchup didn't taste good. I never thought there was much of a difference between brands, but yuck on French's. The server was attentive and the meals came quickly and very hot. read more

Went for the first time and really enjoyed it. Very laid back and the food was really good. I've lived in FL my whole life and I know how to make a good seafood boil, so I am super picky about it but I'd say it was a pretty good boil. Crab and crawfish were cooked perfectly. We had Melissa as our server and she was awesome. Very friendly and kind. We all left saying that we will be returning again. read more

Jodi, our server was great! The food however was superrrrrrrrrrrr disappointing. I ordered a boil with crab, crawfish, shrimp, and muscles. Got a crab that reeked and had black and brown meat. Jodi was great made me feel at ease and got my boil remade, only to get another crab that was spoiled. After over an hour of waiting for edible food I decided to have them just remove the crab and i ate the rest. Mussles was meh, sweet creole sauce was decent. If u decide to go here just stick to the shrimp for the boil imo. read more

Staff had no masks on and the food was absolutely disgusting. The fish was beyond fishy and they have the greasiest onion rings. Staff wasn't welcoming and was really rude as if we were an inconvenience. Unfortunate being that we were wanting to try the restaurant chain out. Would avoid. read more

Don't go wasn't worth the drive I went there for my birthday and got sick when I got home what a great birthday

The first night we arrived in Crystal River we decided to come to The Boil Yard. We had so much fun and the food was amazing! Jen was our waitress and she was so much fun Chad came out and chatted with us as well, which was great! Happy New Year to you all, and time you want to come to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan let's us know read more

Went here specifically for the lobster bites as they came highly recommended! They definitely lived up to the hype...get them with the "Mama's butter". Also had the best grouper sandwich I've ever had! Fun atmosphere and we had great service. We will be back! read more

We ordered 12 pieces wings, oct. taco and calamari. Wings are little not fresh enough. The bread-fired calamari was wet and disassemble from calamari when it was served. Consider the quality, we would not think $48 before tax is a reasonable price. Prefer go Chili's instead. Tho, waitress are very friendly and professional. Only the food can be improved. read more

My husband had the burger which was overcooked. I had the Caesar salad with shrimp, very stingy with only 5 shrimp on the salad. The craft beer from a local brewery was more expensive than a Tito's cocktail. No specials and they were out of a lot of regular items. There are much better options in the area like The Crab Plant, Seafood Seller, The Freezer, Katch 22, Nauti time etc. read more

Went with a friend for early Sunday dinner, and was struck by loud Karaoke going on, sloppy tables and a noticeable wait despite many clean tables in back 2/3rds of place. Waitress was prompt, fairly knowledgeable but kept getting things wrong. Desppite asking twice for our food, I was told it was on its way. Food was grossly overcooked, burger asked for rare, got shoe leather brown and friends chicken in the sandwich was rock hard. Appetizer was tasteless and greasy. Do not waste your time here unless you want beer and Karaoke. read more

ASK FOR TINA! food was amazing, drinks were amazing, & Tina made our visit SO fun. she joked around with us the entire time, & made us feel so welcome. 10/10 WILL be back, especially for her. read more

Can't recommend this place. Took one hour to get our food, and it was barely warm. Waitress kept apologizing.

expensive for what you get. My husband and friend ordered broccoli and it was cold when they received it. Scallops were cold also. My chicken kabob was good but one kabob for 15.99! We won't go back read more

This is my third time eating here . 3 to 4 to 5 stars now you have become one of my favorites. Had the shrimp and sausage Boil with old Bay. You got the shrimp perfect. read more

Nightmare, four orders nothing good. Steak burned. Scallops not sure real, crab cakes really a cake where was the crab, seafood Alfredo with chicken? They need an intervention. Someone help them. They get a one because they order was quick. read more

Blue crabs were pretty small. Potatoes and corn were not boiled long enough. Frankly potatoes just were not finished. Drinks too expensive 7 bucks for a draft. Appetizers were good and they had live entertainment. read more

We decided to give them a try. Not going back, atmosphere was crappy, the benches were so uncomfortable! The girls were dressed as if it was Hooters. Our waitress was the only one that didn't have her boobs or butt hanging out, her service was good. Hubby had the burger, he said it was ok, I had catfish dinner, I know what catfish taste like and it WAS NOT CATFISH! The prices were way too high! Sorry, you don't have a returning customer from us. read more

Terrible service. Waited 10 mins for drinks. Waited another 10 mins to place an order. still waiting on the food. Bartender says shes the only one working but theres several waitresses walking around. And everyone's looking around to be helped and from the looks of it have been waiting just as long as us. Not what we expected for a holiday. read more

the seafood was beyond delicious and we had the best waitress. thank you for a wonderful experience and meal. my husband hummed as he at way too much seafood thst was amazing read more

To start our experience we were greeted by an young lady who offered us children's menus for our 4 kids only to find out although the menus have activities there are no crayons to do them with. Once seated our server came over and took our drink orders and darted away before I could order the appetizer. Upon her return she stuck her finger in one of the kids drinks and handed it to them anyways and once again went to dart away. I stopped her because we had some questions on the menu and also wanted to order the appetizer. She returned about 5 minutes later and we ordered the Soft Shell Crab dinner, The pork chop'S dinner and the kids food. This is when we found out that the side salads were an extra $5 with the already $15 and $28 dinners but we opted to get the salad anyways because we were still hoping it would be good. My daughters pizza was burnt, on of my pork chop'S must have fallen off the plate because there was only one there upon arrival. The only plate the even looked right was my wife's. My daughter took one bite and told us she did not like it but hey it's a seafood place not a kids pizza place. I took bite one of my remaining pork chop and choked on the charred taste thinking maybe I got a piece of burnt fat or something I went in for a second bite this time making sure it was in fact not burnt and again the taste was horrible. All this before the server could come back to ask how it was so once I saw her again I handed her my card and asked for a box because the crab was not awful and my wife was hungry. She did not even look down or break her stride as she ran off to charge my card. When she returned and asked how everything was I pointed to our plates and asked her what she thought. I was then told I should have told her. I replied if you had only looked you should have known. This is not even the worse part. Since I suffer from sever PTSD and don't handle conflicts in a socially accepting manor I opted to leave and call the manager to let him know hopping that we could save someone else from the same experience. The owner came to the phone and when I told him I just wanted to tell him about our experience he proceeded to offer me free food and would not stop talking long enough to listen to my story about the service. I ended up hanging up and having the best Mc Donald's I ever ate. So if your looking for good food and good atmosphere I suggest you Pass on this place. read more

I recently went to the Boil Yard. Was a total let down. My wife and I decided to go there instead of Cody's, big mistake. When we sat down at a table near the bar it took about 5 minutes for a waitress to bring us a menu and take our drink order. Another waitress brought out beers, both in a bottle, were barely cold enough to drink. We ordered the Calamari, it was ok but was served with marinanra sauce, not a good combination. My wife ordered the seafood pasta, the shrimp and scallops were way overcooked and tough, it also looked like it had about 2-3 sticks of butter melted on top of the pasta, I took one bite and could not eat anymore of it, she choked a fair amount of it down, she was starving and had not eaten all day, it was around 4:00pm, she still feels terrible 4 hours later after eating there. I ordered the boneless hot wings, had a really bad flavor to them, I ate 3-4 of the small ones, I had ordered 12 of them. Also, the waitress did not bring silverware, I had to go to the bar to ask for it. She also did not bother to ask if we wanted another beer until we were ready to leave, was empty for about 10 minutes. It was obvious we were not too pleased with our food and she asked if we wanted to go boxes, we obviously decided. She did not ask if the food was ok or if there was a problem, she could have cared less. Long story short, don't waste your time or money at this place. If you want good service and food there are plenty of better options in Crystal River and Homosassa. read more