Fiddlefish Seafood Cafe

Wonderful food. Great and friendly service. The batter on the fried shrimp was amazing. My daughter loves the hamburger and my wife’s wine pour was generous. Atmosphere was relaxed and fun. A great place to come for lunch or dinner and really enjoy yourself.

We enjoyed this little place. The seafood stuffed potato was very good. The staff was very pleasant. I wouldn’t say the food was «over the top“but it was decent little place to eat.

We enjoyed this place a lot. The server was great and the restaurant accommodated our order of grilled oysters and fried oysters. Note that the fried oysters seemed to be in pieces, not all fresh oysters probably, but we’re still delicious. The grilled oysters, which we had with just seasoning, no cheese, Were outstanding. We will definitely be back.

Wonderful! We had a rum and Coke. Not overly strong, but not watered down. Perfectly made. My friend got the steak and said it was perfect. I got the shrimp alfredo. Wow! So yummy. Be forewarned though, it’s a very heavy sauce. This was not a problem, as I like mine like that. Very reasonably priced as well. Would definitely return!

GREAT FOOD and an extremely friendly staff! I most definitely recommend. Also great for the kids!

We were worried right when we arrived and only saw 1 other table taken. The food and service definitely deserved more patrons. I had shrimp and grits and will be back again to order the same soon.

The food here is adequate to good and fairly priced for most items. The menus here are terribly garish and hurt my eyes to look at them. They have a very small selection of items on the menu here if you can bring yourself to look at it. Service was decent but fell flat in some areas as the waitress would disappear for long periods of time and then made a huge mess of splitting up our bill. Management was on top of things and made a point to check up on us about our food and took care of the bill mistakes that were made. Overall this is a good place to grab a quick meal in the area.

Ate here for lunch on a Friday, in town for vacation. We had the fish tacos, seafood stuffed baked potato, kids popcorn shrimp. It was very average. Nothing memorable. Service was good. Probably wouldn’t come back though. It wasn’t bad, just wasn’t great.

The food was good but not the best. Our beers were hot and our waitress couldn’t get our orders correct either. It was a cute little local café though!

Great food so so service, had a group of 10 no wait to be seated but long delays between seeing our server. The grilled shrimp was very good and I would get it again. The key lime pie was great too.

Typical beach cuisine. Not an extravagant menu. My brother (oyster fanatic) said they were «some of the best he’s ever had.» I had fish. It was ok. Not the best, but good. Decent service.
My wife had this creole pasta with shrimp. I don’t remember the exact name of the dish, but it was U-​N-​B-​E-​L-​I-​E-​V-​A-​B-​L-​E-​! I would go back again just for that. If you have a Cajun sweet tooth, order it. Without question. Hush puppies were above average. I just wish after trying my wife’s food I could’ve reordered.
I probably would go back, but not the «it spot» for orange beach. Better places out there for sure.

My family was visiting the area for the July 4^th weekend. We arrived around 4:30 to find only one other table occupied. No wait, at least! The waiter seemed a bit disinterested. The table had dried food on it. We ordered some char-​grilled oysters with lemon and Parmesan. They were excellent but set us back $ 20 for a dozen. I got a burger with bacon and fried egg. It arrived without the egg, which was later served separately on another plate. The patty and bread were tasty. Fries were above average.

This a jewel in a cute shopping square! Had great live music out doors. Stephanie, our server, was awesome. I had the ‘special’ blacken amberjack topped with crab served with potatoes. Awesome! my husband had a couple of appetizers. Fried shrimp, which was wonderful, and crab cakes. Those were delicious!
This place is a must if your in town!

My least favorite meal while via Orange Beach.
I ordered the ‘Shrimp Baked Potato’ since I was told it was one of their specialties. It was not special — it was really just a baked potato with shrimp. Could’ve been a side and not a meal. Not to mention the shrimp were so small and may have come from a frozen bag at Kroger. I expected big fresh shrimp since we were only steps away from the gulf.
I also ordered the hush puppies with cheese as an appetizer. They came out with my meal — I hate that. But what was worse is that the cheese had a film on top, which means it had been sitting out for a while. Also, it seemed like cheese from a Tostitos jar.
However, my husband got the raw oysters & friend fish, which were very good.

Delicious food! Very down to earth people working in this place. The owner was extremely friendly and working his tail off to make sure everyone was happy. We went on a Friday night and a local band was playing in the restaraunt – great music with a great meal! The oysters were incredible, coming from a Louisiana native.
This place is a nice getaway from the party atmosphere places. It’s more of a relaxed, down-​home place to enjoy a meal.

I first went to Fiddle Fish back in September 2014 and loved my experience there. I had the blackened fish tacos and my friends had the fried fish basket. Both were amazing, as was the bread pudding and key lime pie we ordered for dessert. I was incredibly pleased and back then would have given a full five star review. On top of that, the service was excellent.
Fast forward to May 2015. I came to the beach with my siblings and decided to take them to dinner here. I had the fish tacos which were, again, amazing. My brother had the Fiddle Burger, which he loved.
But my sister’s dish, the shrimp marsala, was absolutely awful! The angel hair pasta was big mushy clump and the sauce was over salted, gooey, and there was way too much of it. Luckily, she was able to eat the shrimp while leaving the rest of the inedible dish.
My brother also got the key lime pie, but it was nowhere near as good as last time. Not sure if they switched recipes or suppliers, but the pie was way too sweet with barely any hint of lime in it. The crust was also off.
Not to mention, it seemed like our servers were in a huge rush to really attend to us – understandable that service wouldn’t be as attentive during the dinner rush, but we felt completely rushed out.
So sad! I don’t want to give up on this place because I do like the food, but I do hope they improve their service during rush and learn how to properly boil pasta (or don’t offer seafood pasta dishes and stick to what you know).

The fried shrimp and oysters were really good. Not over battered and fried. We liked the fried corn and cheese grits are great sides

Outside dining was nice with the weather, but too close to the road so not quite relaxing.
We had chicken Alfredo, kids Mac n cheese, burger, and shrimp and grits. It was all good, but nothing to write home about. Service was slow, but they were all super friendly.

Heard good things about Fiddlefish so we tried it for dinner one evening. The food and service were very forgettable. My wife’s fish was very dry and my shrimp was very fishy tasting. Even though we left most of our food on our dishes and we did not take it home with us, our waiter didn’t bother to ask how our meal was so we can only assume he really didn’t care.
Needless to say we will not be returning.

In the spirit of full disclosure: my maternal grandmother is French Creole from New Orleans. so I know good, southern, Cajun & Creole food when I taste it.
Yup: this place is it. Some folks say: «hey if you fry it then of course it will taste awesome.» NO. You can fry bad food and bad food will still be bad. You really can fry food improperly. But here they did it right.
The fried shrimp was delightfully light. The okra — yum fried okra — that’s right — was perfection.
Just go here. Just go.