Sunday, October 24, 2010

Restaurant Review: Rhineheart's Oyster Bar

The location of last night's dinner and today's lunch, but I managed to snag some pictures this time.  Last time I visited Augusta, GA I ate here as well.  For some reason people keep insisting we go back despite plenty of other interesting looking restaurants we haven't tried nearby.  I'm always the type that likes to go with the new and different rather than sticking to the same thing over and over.  Especially for two days in a row.

Apparently this place started mostly as a oyster bar for people who didn't want to dress up fancy to eat seafood.  The restaurant itself reflects that.  The tables are those wooden picnic benches where people have covered every visible surface with stupid marker messages and it has expanded all over the walls as well.  The entire restaurant feels kinda dirty and gross but apparently that's the atmosphere they're trying to promote.




The food is decent and reasonably priced for what it is.  The lunch specials are plenty of food without making you leave hungry.  However I wasn't particularly hungry to begin with having just eaten some fruit back in the hotel room, so I just ate off my parents' plates.

I tried to take some pictures of the food but my cellphone camera isn't the best and the restaurant itself is so dark that it was impossible to get decent lighting.

My mother ordered some fried fish with french fries.  The fish was rather tender and juicy, but the french fries were far too mushy and soggy. 

My father ordered some jambalaya.  The rice was good and so was the meat, but overall it just lacked flavor.  However my personal preferences lean toward food having plenty of spices.  The shrimp was also decent but nothing special.

Overall it was an okay experience, the food was decent and decently priced.  It just didn't justify going back two days in a row.

15 comments:

  1. I spent ten years of my life working in kitchens. I couldn't handle the stress.

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  2. Haha, sounds like a completely average place. Put me in the mood for fried fish, though, odd as that craving is.

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  3. Man, I effin' LOOOVE SEAFOOODD OMNOMNOM I'm sorry the seafood was meh :(

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  4. Well judging by the review, I'd probably only go IF I were really hungry.

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  5. i'm sure, that i can find something more interesting to eat

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  6. Shame the food wasn't up to scratch.

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  7. i love seafood shacks like this, there's a greek place by my friends house that does amazing fish kabobs

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  8. This is pretty cool. I rarely ever eat in restaurants so seeing stuff like this is interesting.

    >Apparently this place started mostly as a oyster bar for people who didn't want to dress up fancy to eat seafood

    Sounds like my kind of place.

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  9. I've always loved stuff like this, keep it coming!

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  10. Oh my goodness, you've been there too?
    I go every year, I have family living in Harlem and Thompson. I write my name and draw on the walls, too! I normally get the shrimp, though...

    I can agree the most of my family likes routine and doesn't like to break it, also. Kinda silly, but it doesn't bother me too much.

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  11. We have a place like that here too. It does cajun food though. Great post!

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  12. huh, interesting. doesn't sound too bad.

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  13. I can imagine it would be super delicious if made properly :P

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  14. It's kinda sad that mega-corp. restaurants are better than mom+pop ones...

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