Ocean Cafe

Very expensive for all food and drinks. $3.50 for a cup of water isn’t right. But Jason, the waiter, was awesome though! Very polite and professional.

TLDR: The service was ok, but the food was so, so bad.

We ordered 2 of the specials they had for the day. Lobster ravioli, and Seafood Scampi.

The first red flag came when our entrees came with salads... in paper bowls. For $25 an entree, you'd expect better quality.

The second red flag came when our entrees showed up not even 10 minutes after ordering. Everything was obviously frozen and not fresh.

The seafood scampi I ordered was pretty bad. The scampi sauce had no garlic or lemon in it, and was just so flavorless. It wasn't very appealing to look at either. In fact, my whole plate looked pretty gray. The scallops had no color at all. The shrimp were cooked nicely, and honestly, it's the only good thing I could say about that dish.

My guest had the lobster ravioli, which was a little better (the sauce actually had some flavor to it) but not by much. The ravioli were obviously frozen. The sauce had bits of crab meat (and crab shell...) in it.

Our 25$ a piece entrees also came on plastic plates. Keep in mind that this restaurant markets themselves as "Where Boardwalk meets Gourmet Eating ". on their website.

We left depressed and defeated. I think I would have been more satisfied if I had eaten my one of my flip-flops instead.

At least our waiter was nice and knowledgeable.

REALLY good breakfast food - my Spanish Omelette was delish, as were the home fries (those were EXTRA yummy), and everything was obviously cooked with care. I did takeout, and the server who took my order was so friendly and nice and accommodating. My order came out quickly and the whole transaction felt like I was a real restaurant, not like boardwalk walk-up quick service, if you know what I mean.

Plus she was apparently flabbergasted when I gave her a tip - so appreciative and not entitled, so I'll give an extra star for the nicest server I've encountered at Ocean City. Tip your servers, people, even if you feel it should be a little less for takeout. They work hard and are finding it difficult to maintain their solvency due to COVID.

My family and I came from the beach, went on some rides, & walked the boardwalk trying to find a nicer place to sit down, be able to use the restroom to wash our hands & just relax while we eat. This place looks presentable from the outside. The inside was not terrible. Upon being seated I tried to take my 5 year old into the restroom to wash up before we eat. 2 restrooms available, both with out of order signs. I asked the woman who sat us (possibly the owner not sure) if they had a restroom, she says “no, we don’t have one but you can walk down to the music pier” umm, you have a restaurant but you want to send people almost 2 blocks away to use the restroom? Then I noticed they had some tables with hand sanitizer bottles. So I sanitized our hands & decided we were too hungry & tired to leave & find another place. Now comes the waitress, although nice, seemed intoxicated or something was off. She runs over all the specials then asks if we are ready to order (we had just sat down). I said “we need a few minutes but would love to start with drinks” she explains that she can’t just take a drink order, she has to wait until we are completely ready to place our entire order together. I was speechless as I’ve never had this happen before. My child was thirsty but now we had to rush to look over the menu before we could even get drinks. I look down at the menu & every option was over $14. I’m not giving this people a dime is what I told my husband. They can’t even give us a restroom to wash our hands during a pandemic! Forget it! We walked out. Now after reading the reviews, I wish we never went in & waisted our time.

Coming here for lunch was annoying. The hostess doesn't prepare you for the fact that their 2 bathrooms are not operating. I had to walk in search of a restroom, which took me on a 10 minute search as I'm new to Ocean City.

My salad was fine. The tuna could have used more mayonnaise. For 3 lunches, it came out to over 50.00, super high priced for a simple wrap and 2 salads. The server didn't even ask about refilling our beverages. I wouldn't eat here again.

Beware. The restaurant seems like it needs a management shift. Ordered the “special” salad. Greek salad with shrimp. It came out on a dinner plate. One layer of mediocre iceberg lettuce, a few red onion rings, four olives, six small shrimp that were rubbery, oily dressing, pink tomatoes, three crumbs of feta. Drum roll! $20!!!!!! My son got kids pizza and he couldn’t eat it. $12. We walked out and went for pizza at the Promenade. I don’t know how they’re still in business. Sad meal.

I only give 1 star because I can't give anything less. The waiters were very nice and I most certainly do not blame them for the experience, but this place was an embarrassment. I was with my family and we all felt uncomfortable as we sat there and listened to the manager yell and berate her employees in front of everyone. We ordered the lobster ravioli and the pasta was undercooked, was cold and was all served in paper and styrofoam plates and extremely overpriced. Avoid this establishment at all cost, be warned... keep walking and get some boardwalk fries, trust me, you will enjoy it more.

We had a great meal, the salad, chicken parm and pasta was good. Not getting iced tea refills was a bit cheesy and it should be available given the food prices.

The experience was ok up until we had paid the bill. Our waitress was nice and we left her a tip. As we were leaving another waitress says "you know the bill doesn't include tip". We couldn't believe she said that to us even though we did leave a tip. Absolutely disgusted with that place.

The spaghetti was very watery the garlic bread was cold and there a/c was not working. The one thing that was good was there service and it was to expensive for how poor it was.