Finz Waterfront Grille
Stuart, FL 34997 (772) 283-1929
- Price Range: $$$
2 Reviews for Finz Waterfront Grille
Finz is located across the inlet from Shrimper's in Stuart.
It is by far the more elegant of the two seafood houses.
The architecture and artwork of Finz really sets it apart from most waterfront eateries.
Finz has a large and assorted wine list.
They have multiple levels of dining from the "waters edge" to the open air upper deck and very formal dining room upstairs.
The service is excellent.
We ate at Finz for lunch and I sampled the freshly made tuna salad in an outstanding tuna melt.
The presentation of the tuna melt is somewhat unique.
It is served open face style on an english muffin with two piles of tuna covered with hot melting cheddar cheese.
We tried the salmon, very pink and flavorful.
The shrimp salad was outstanding..... and was not lacking in shrimp - an excellent portion.
Once again I tried a rum punch and found it to be super sweet, so I washed it down with a $2.00 draft lunch special - a Yingling!!
Amazing selections of beer...
Excellent food, super fresh seafood.
Finz is an excellent choice for fine dining on the waterfront.
Finz is overpriced to extreme, sometimes one could get away with that because of the location or a better chef or a some other attribute but in case of Finz it simply doesn't work. There is Shrimpers right across that has much more reasonable prices and is normally packed with people, the chef at Finz is mediocre, the food is so so at best and general attitude seems to be - well, we don't really care.
Lets look at a concrete example: a prominent item on a menu is escargot offered at I think $10 or so.
Now, for the uninitiated escargot is a fancy word for a snail. Without passing a judgment on having snails on the menu year round lets look at the economics: One buys those snails in huge cans, real fancy ones go for about $20 for a can of 72 snails. There are cheaper ones to be had.
Simple math is 20/72 = .27, so a snail could be had for 27 cents. A plate has what, 4 snails may be ? So total snail cost is 4x.27=1.10.
Add another buck or so for the pastry, garlic, butter, water, labor, electricity, everything you want, you come up with a food cost of $2, may be $2.50
Selling a plate that cost $2.50 to put on a plate and presented to a customer for $10 is a markup of 250 percent. Actually more because I assumed better quality snails, as I said they could be had for less.
And so it goes, you can take any item on a menu and see markups that just don't make sense.
There are few things that are good, blackened swordfish is excellent for example and dolphin is always good.
But the prices need to come down, for the place to be taken seriously.
