ELA'S On the Water

We requested a table along the windows for the glorious water view and we got that even on Valentine’s Day. The service was superb. My Short Ribs meal was outstanding. My wife’s Filet was a little underdone but tasty. Highly recommended particularly for special occasions. In warm season request tables outside.

Good service. Great views of the waterway. Food was just okay. Limited lunch time menu.

Great meal. Good menu selection Overall nice experience

Excellent place for dinner. We took guests from NJ who thoroughly enjoyed the the food, wine and ambiance. Great place, Highly recommend.

Worth the walk. Bring your taste buds and your significant other for an evening of enjoyment away from the tourist crush.

The meal was excellent and worth the cost. The seafood selection was also excellent and the crab cake is outstanding.

We went for restaurant week and received more food than we could possibly eat.. an awesome value for what we paid! The food was excellent. We have eaten there many times before and will go again

Honey and I were in HH and it happened to be restaurant week. Looking at the menu online, ELA’S seemed to be the most interesting with a five course meal and wine pairing. First course was shrimp with a honey sriracha + a tuna tartare. My husband liked both but I skipped the tartare. The shrimp were wonderful, close to a bang bang style. From there it just got better- we loved it! The wine pairing was spot on and our server explained them as he served. We sat by the window overlooking the harbor and they had a guitarist/singer in the bar who was loud enough to enjoy but not obtrusive. Wonderful end to our day in the sun!!

I ordered the grouper entree. It was over cooked and dry.

Always delicious!
The lobster with lobster risotto was wonderful. A lot of good lobster meat!
My husband said his pork chop could not have been any better.
A glass of Sancerre, made a perfect evening.

Will not be going back any time soon

Had a lovely dinner during Restaurant Week. My filet was outstanding. We also enjoyed being able to have a lovely dinner, nice view, and were able to hear each other! Will definitely return!

Food and atmosphere make this one of top faves on HHI. Everything was sensational.

Great food, great service, great view! Perfect Friday night dinner!

Ela’s Is always a great experience and well worth the trip. Service, food atmosphere and staff are amazing. Can’t wait to go back!

This was our first visit to Ela’s! We went during restaurant week and was able to do a five course meal with wine pairings. Great price for this option! Very good food!! We opted for the short rib/grouper meal and the fish was a little dry and a tad fishy so it wasn’t perfect but the short rib and rest of the food was very good. Looking forward to trying it again!!

We had a fantastic Anniversary dinner at Ela's. The food and the presentation were outstanding, and our waiter; David, did a great job. The view of the harbor and wetlands was very nice. I would definitely recommend that you give this place a try.

We were a party of sux, and we were fortunate enough to eat on a night when they had the chef's tasting menu. Every bit of the food was outstanding and it was a great savings over ordering individually on the menu. It was quiet, we had the table overlooking the Marina and our server was incredible.

Claire's birthday, special tasting menu, cocktails.... All extremely good, ambience always a plus, couldn't ask for more. Always a hit!

Enjoyable and would return to Ela's again in future. Beautiful setting on the marina, nice ambience in restaurant. Appetizers included : Fried green tomatoes, beet salad, Caesar salad, and gumbo. Fried green tomatoes were excellent. Beet salad - while beets were very good, there were only a few. Fried goat cheese seemed to predominate. Did not enjoy as much. Caesar salad was fine. Gumbo was OK but mildly disappointing because I had anticipated it to be more spicy. Scallops entrée was very satisfying. Felt that waitress was attentive but a little overbearing, pressuring my wife to order a second glass of wine and urging us to order desserts to be packaged for home take-out (since we were too full to eat desserts in restaurant)

We were celebrating a birthday, anniversary and new baby. Elas didn’t offer a compliment dessert or anything! Too expensive 200+ for 4, just meals. Food wasn’t anything special. Service wasn’t great. Won’t recommend or be back. We were the only table occupied at 6:00 pm in the whole restaurant.

Moisee?(if the spelling is right) was an exceptionally good waitperson.
Her recommendations and service were spot on.
The only negative was the crab cakes had an odd flavor and not enjoyable.

Excellent service. Very good food.

5course meal with matching wines was great!

Vacation with my husband.

I always enjoy Ela’s and especially when they have live music. I also reserve as early as possible to enjoy seating in the corner table to view the sunset.

Our server was fantastic, very friendly and attentive. It was very quiet and the food was excellent. Great wine selection.

Upscale dining on the beautiful Shelter Cove Marina. The waiter was wonderful making lots os suggestions on the features of the night. Thank you for staying open in the winter months. It is always nice to drop in Ela's!

We enjoyed the food and view at ELA’S. Tuna steak was thick cut, and seared and seasoned right. Salmon also very good.

Here’s the huge downside...They make a ridiculous fuss over wheelchair seating (quiet whispers about where to seat us), even though the restaurant is fairly easy to navigate unless you’re sitting in the narrow step down balacony.

Manager deserves an enormous thumbs down for later approaching my husband (not me, whom he pretty much ignored when I spoke to him although I was sitting right there at the table!) to instruct my husband to specify wheelchair access in our open table reservation - “if we ever go out in a wheelchair again” omg!!! He said he only used two tables for wheelchairs (whyyyy???) - even though the restaurant has many easy access tables.

I’m in a high tech power chair and yes we go out - a lot, thank you very much. What an insulting remark. And I deliberately do not specify I’m coming in a wheelchair when I know the layout of the restaurant and don’t want to be treated like a third class citizen, e.g. the way the manager behaved. All I specify for known restaurants on open table is “please no tables near heavy foot traffic” (because I dislike being jostled).

After the hostess tried to put us at a busy entryway table, I made them move us to a quieter table. Duh. Like our reservation said. Sure it was New Years Eve and they were crowded, but there were two available tables when we arrived - one underfoot and one that was not.

You honor my reservation request, period.

Don’t ever ever tell us what to specify on open table, if you even bother to address the wheelchair user. I was so offended that I almost left, but my husband wanted to eat there. And like I said, the food was excellent.

Wonderful New Year’s Eve dinner and music. Our second year in a row. Server was a little stressed and was not willing to take separate drink orders. May have been because of second floor seating. But we love this place so I will give her a pass tonight

Great way to enjoy waterside NYE! Beautiful!

New Year’s Eve celebration

ELA's always has great food and fantastic views. Definitely one of our top 3 restaurants on the island.

Our first time there and very impressed. It was New Years Eve menu so it was limited but they did well and the food was exceptional. A great place for one of those special nights.

NYE 2018! Wonderful evening. We sat in an open area way over to the left that had a vaulted ceiling. I think this area was loud because of the ceiling. Beautiful outdoor space overlooking the water and boats. Food was amazing. Would HIGHLY recommend.

New Years Eve. Party of 8 and our meals were delicious. Felt a bit rushed and with automatic 20% gratuity the staff had no incentive to provide top quality attentive service.

We had an amazing dinner loved our table view and service was great .........it was just really beautiful for the holidays setting!

This was a repeat visit for us. We prefer the patio setting but it’s winter, so not possible. This was brunch—menu was okay. One of our guests ordered the basic breakfast and eggs were dry and the bacon was very ropy. I had bagel and lox. I prefer a thinner cut of lox. Server did not check on drink refills. This experience will not prevent me from returning, but I’ll stick to dinner.

Excellent menu with many choices. Right on the water.

We have been there numerous times and never disappointed. Great food, wine and service.