Whales Tale Fish House - Mt Dora (FL)

3 /5 B Phi: Staff was great. I ordered the trio platter and cup of crab soup. It was all okay ...nothing I would return for. Soup- nothing special ..just tasted like canned soup. Fried seafood was okay...very bland..some seasoning would help. Pasta salad side was served warm in some red sauce...never have seen that and definitely not good. Hush puppies - these were the winner of all the items I ordered. Pricing was reasonable for what was ordered.

5 /5 Cheryl Yaeger: Love this place! Its quaint and the food is good! I had the shrimp with their special crumb topping and my brother had blackened catfish and we both would order them again!

5 /5 Crystal Haas: This is a little diner in a shopping plaza which seemed odd for a seafood place, but hey it works! There were 3 of us. One ordered the haddock fish sandwich basket with grits & cheese & an upcharge of sweet potato fries. It came with 2 hushpuppies & coleslaw. The sandwich bread was really too thick, but all was good, no complaints. Another ordered the catfish basket with fries and it came with hushpuppies & coleslaw, he ordered fries and baked beans for sides. He didnt personally care for the beans, but nothing was really wrong with them, just personal preference. I ordered the trio platter with fish, oysters & shrimp. They came with several onion rings, perfectly cooked, hush puppies & coleslaw. I ordered grits & cheese & apple juice steamed carrots. I am a carrot lover, never met a carrot I didnt like, until today. They would be a pass for me in the future. The shrimp was just a minute(ish) overcooked giving it a tougher chew but had good flavor. The fish & oysters were totally on point, delicious & cooked perfectly. The oysters were decent size & plump. I enjoyed them. Both of us who had grits & cheese really liked them, they were perfect. We had no coleslaw eaters in the group, thus we have no rating on that. I was the only one who eats hushpuppies, they were really good. I didnt care for the sweet tea, at all, compared to most southern style sweet tea, it just wasnt good. So, overall we liked everything but it wasnt anything to make us run back for more. Still, if we were in the area, I would go back. It felt a bit pricey for lunch & the atmosphere, but they have rent and other bills to pay, too. Overall it was a solid meal, not perfect, but good. Important to note, we came in pretty late for a lunch and way too early for dinner. We were seated and tended to immediately. No one else was dining at the time. Drinks were brought very fast. She offered to take orders right away, yet gave us time to review the menu instead, and she answered several questions for us. The server was excellent, accommodating and had a good sense of humor. She tolerated my husbands sarcastic the spirit intended and she was funny, too. They have plenty of great parking & werent in the messy mix of the walking parts of Mt Dora. Check them out if you are in the area.

5 /5 Don Lef: We discovered the whale tail fish house in Mount Dora while watching a YouTuber going to different restaurants, and this was one of them. So we decided to give it a try it, not a very big place inside, but quaint. We were greeted by our waitress. She was very friendly and polite we. Ordered. Broiled Haddock, fried clams, and oysters. Along with a couple of appetizers, One order of Hush Puppies 1 order of their awesome onion rings We will return you can bet on that. Definitely give this location a try.we returned 6-22 for another great meal , we ordered the full belly clams, and the clam strips again. They were both very good. We had the same waitress. I dont know if shes the only one that works there, but she does an excellent job. Thank you. If youre wondering, we drive a little bit over an hour to get to this location but its definitely worth it .

4 /5 Bruce S: Family-owned & -operated venue specializing in fried whole-belly clams & Maryland crab cakes. I had, what I believe to be, scallop medallions within their seafood duo meal. Scallop medallions are made by binding small sea scallops together with natural protein binder and molding them into an organic shape. These were mushy inside of their heavy breading with very little scallop taste. We also had their whole belly clams, a dish popular in the New England region of America, are ordered two main ways; either as clam strips or whole belly clams. Both are fried, and the strips are simply the clam with the belly removed. A whole belly clams refers to an entire clam that has been breaded and fried. We were disappointed in these as well. Perhaps their mixed reviews are in part to various personnel in the kitchen.