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Caroline's Oyster

Caroline's Oyster

120 E Brooklyn Vlg Ave, Charlotte, United States Of America, 28202

Full • Wine • Seafood • American


"I celebrated my birthday at Carolinas oyster bar last night. The hostess advised a table for two wait time was about an hour. I said okay, she responded back do you want to be added to the wait list? I said okay. She said she didn’t know if I wanted to wait! As we waited we had drinks at the bar, the bartender made a strawberry lemon drop, the best! Calamari and oysters for appetizers. I also ordered a lobster and shrimp roll! It was so delicious second bite I had three pieces of a lobster shell! Anthony was our waiter, I called him over he was in shock and said let me get my manager. Manager came over, I showed him the three pieces of the shell. He said that’s a possibility when they take the lobster out of the shell. No apology was provided, no offer to compensate the experience I had. I didn’t request a manager the waiter thought his manager would resolve the matter. Even though the manager offered to get me something else. I was nervous to get another meal especially when I run a risk for this to happen again. He said happy birthday enjoy your night. The managers response lacked empathy, poor customer service, I don’t care you will not be the first or last customer that this will happen to. In the back of my mind I wondered if I was a different race besides black would his response be the same?! The food was a ten even though I wasn’t able to eat and enjoy the lobster roll."

Prawn Shop

Prawn Shop

669 Union Street, Brooklyn, United States

Fish • Meat • Curry • Seafood


"This place is called Prawn Shop and while there are other seafood options, I think sticking to the prawns is the best bet. The meat in the rock crab I had was hard and tasteless; my cocktail was abysmal a Mexican Mule that was ultimately mostly ginger beer over too much ice that melted quickly into a watered down mess . The oysters were good. The east coast style prawn pot I got was amazing. Plump prawns, cooked to perfection with two hunks of bread which was hearty and soaked up the 'sauce ' perfectly. The service was questionable; everyone was very nice, to be sure, but my oysters were forgotten at first I did get the three most expensive ones comped as a result and my drink had to be sent back the second one, as described above, was still awful . It 's a small place and it wasn 't terribly crowded so the fact that I had TWO servers who couldn 't keep it together was especially disappointing. I also got the impression that one just felt utterly over worked; again, given the size of the space and the small amount of customers, this made me annoyed rather than sympathetic. Interestingly, tip is added in across the board to ensure employees can be paid a livable wage an idea I completely embrace, in theory. Given the quality of service, though, I was not pleased with being forced to pay a gratuity I didn 't feel was earned. I 'd rather there be no gratuity and just have the costs incorporated into food prices. It would have felt less like a hijacking."