Brine Seafood & Raw Bar

I always love grabbing a bite at Brine, great place for weekend brunch too! The best oysters in town; a new selection with great descriptions so you know what you're getting and never disappointed gets updated often. The drinks are also great with some fun beer options on rotation as well. Friendly and attentive staff are always available and will make sure your visit is thoroughly enjoyable.

I am a born and bread Marylander and when I stumbled upon the Brine for take out I noticed "Maryland" style crab cakes and then found out the owner was from Townsend so being from Maryland and living in Sarasota now for four-months, I was excited to feel a little taste from home. I ordered the 1-crab cake entree with chard broccolini and garlic mashed potatoes. I also asked if I could order a sweet tea while I waited and the server obliged. I waited quite a while and I went up to ask for my tea and the server said we don’t have sweet tea but we have simple syrup and I agreed and asked to put a lot of the syrup in the tea so he came back with my tea and said he could put in only what the bartender allowed him too because the simple syrup was made in house well it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know anyone can make it with sugar and water. Then he handed me my meal and he brought me a sandwich with chips and I explained that wasn’t my order so the owner Mike took it back to make it right so I had to wait longer for my meal. When I got home and took the cover off my meal, I was totally shocked on just how small the crab cake was when you put it on a roll. Then became more frustrating that this meal cost me $34 for what really was appetizer size flavorless crab cakes. I didn’t taste any Old Bay but what I did taste was some other spice that made the crab cake very spicy and difficult to eat. The same spice was also in the paste like mash potatoes. The potatoes had the look of potatoes that had set in water way too long and they were like eating paste. This was my first and last time frequenting this establishment. Maryland would be so disappointed for having its name on such an item..

My friends took me to Brine for my birthday! We ordered a variety of food. Everything we tried was absolutely delicious! The owners are fantastic people. I would highly recommend if you are in the mood for seafood. My favorite was the Oyster Rockefellers!

Can't say enough great things about this restaurant. Great atmosphere, the outside dining is nice, and the food was phenomenal. All the seafood is perfectly cooked with nice flavor combinations that aren't over powering. Lastly, the service was spot on. This is a great option for a date night or special occasion.

Uffff...A very nice restaurant with a good vibes and great atmosphere, awesome food and drinks. Excellent customer service great outdoor area. We will recommend it, you need to try it.

We dined here during our vacation and everything was wonderful. I made a reservation for a Saturday night and we arrived about 15 minutes early and were seated right away. Our waiter was friendly, personable, and very attentive. The oysters were probably the best we had of the entire trip. The cocktails were creative and well-made. I enjoyed the cherry smash and the grilled pineapple spicy margarita. I had the snapper with risotto, which was wonderful and well seasoned, and came with a nice arugula salad, which I was too full to eat by the end. My husband’s stuffed shrimp were well-prepared and tasty and the accompanying grits were cheesy & delicious. Even my son‘s chicken tenders were well-made and didn’t look/taste like frozen tenders. Overall, we had a very good meal and it felt casual enough to bring our seven-year-old but was still a nicer restaurant but not stuffy.

We stopped in for an early dinner, after a day at the beach. David was great and provided fantastic service. We would highly recommend the calamari, it was delicious! All of the food was fabulous ... the roasted veggies that came with the stuffed shrimp, were the perfect side dish. And don't hesitate to splurge on dessert! They said the carrot cake is their most popular, but we went for the Key Lime pie and it did NOT disappoint! We've already decided we have to go back, to try their famous crab cakes.