Southside Restaurant, Commack

I went there for lunch over the weekend in your commack location. I have seen any ads for this restaurant and wanted to give it a try. I feel it was hit or miss. Your menu says your shrimp cocktail is jumbo. There was nothing jumbo about it. It was little shrimp stuffed into a tiny bowl and it wasn't cleaned very well. The veins were hanging out of it. I could forgive that if it was served with real cocktail sauce. Those Kraft packets of cocktail sauce are disgusting, so I ate the shrimp with no cocktail sauce. We also ordered mussels for app, and fish and chipe and chilean seabass for entrees. When we picked up our orders the mussels were with the entress and the mussels were cold. I think the order taker should have known well enough to serve the mussels first. And I figure they were cold because of her oversight to alert us that they were ready before our entrees were ready. The order taker seemed busy with doing side work rather than makeing sure each order is done right. The restaurant at that point was not busy...so maybe more attention could have been paid to the customers and still get side work done. The mussels were decicious though and so were our entress. The portion size is generous and delicious but it gets killed by the packaged tar tar sauce. The restaurant is nice and clean...so is the bathroom. But Like I said it is a hit or miss. If the kinks get worked out, I think it would be a great for me, my family and friends to become regulars. I would like to see it get better since next time we would like to try the blue crab.

Slow service, went to commack location 6/17/10, waited in line forever, took other customer's that arrived after us. Went to catfish annies better service and food.

I also was not planninng on going after I saw a review after they first opened up, but then saw a new one a week or so ago in the islander and wish that I never listened to the first one, the food was excellent and the service was great alittle confusing the first time there but have been back 4 times in the last week and a half and always start off with some fresh clams on the half shell.. The post on the chopped baked clams they are chopped... Try the whole baked clams they are great whole and in the shell... Talking about southside just got me hungry and think i'm gonna go there for dinner...

I will only go back if they have full waitress service. I go out to eat and relax, not stand around with a vibrating devise. This concept may work on the Southshore but not on the Northshore. The food is just OK. Avoid the mashed potatoes, they taste like something that is artificially created. What's the deal with the aluminum clam shells? I guess they buy the clams in the big can. It would be nice to have fresh clams in your stuffed clams. As for there fresh fish market, it's the best around.