Mainely Seafood Cafe - Punta Gorda

Fried scallops were as soft as warm butter and the soup was excellent. Fantastic New England style seafood

First time here, and I had the scallops. They were cooked perfectly and tasted great.

Spectacular!Whole belly fried clams are difficult to find in southwest Florida. Most places want to offer clam strips that are little slivers of clam with a heavy batter coating, then fried crisp. Mainely Seafood knows clams and how to make them. The full belly Ipswich bivalves have a very light coating and fried quickly to keep them tender. The flavor is clamolishious! They can be ordered either as a meal for $24 or $22 for the 'APP '. Both have a 1/2 pound of clams. My wife ordered the meal which includes cole slaw and french fries. The 'APP ' is just clams. I selected the Grouper Fingers Meal $16) which came with 3 very nice thick filets of grouper fried with the absolute thinnest batter ever that let the fish taste come through. Wow, they were great. And their fries! I 'm sure these are made using the double fry method as they were crispy on the outside, pillowy soft inside, served piping hot right out of the fryer seasoned just right. Clearly the cole slaw was just as good as we left nothing in our baskets when we were done. We did bring home a slice of Key Lime Pie $4.00) and found it to not have that good lime kick. It was more of a cheesecake with a thick buttery crust. Good, but not great. Fountain soft drinks run $2.50, bottled beer runs $3.25 to $4.50. No beers on tap. It 's a small place located in a strip mall in a quiet area and is very reminiscent of little seafood shops we 've visited in New England. Right at 6:00 on a Wednesday evening most of the tables were full and take out business seemed pretty brisk. A big shout out to Jenna our server. She steered us right on our first visit there and we 're looking forward to her smile and pleasantness on our return visits.

Delicious seafood, great service, convenient location, reasonably priced, authentic

Great fresh seafood. We had the scallops and shrimp. Delicious!