Mitchell's Fish Market - Rochester

Mitchell's Fish Market - Rochester reviews from people who’ve dined at this restaurant. Based on recent rating.

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   Leslie

   Detroit2 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 6 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Great food! Little expensive, but seems like most nice places are now. Very good service and excellent food!
   

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   Anthony VIP

   Detroit24 reviews

   3.0

   Dined 7 days ago

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   Took my wife, daughter and her finance out for dinner to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. Reservations were for Saturday at 7 pm. First, we asked about the specials. The waitress said we don’t have any specials tonight. So disappointing. We should have walked out then. Remember this is a fish house and it’s prime time dinner time, however it was not overly busy. On three separate occasions the waitress came back and told us what we ordered was “out of stock”. No swordfish. No Ahi Tuna. This is a fish house!! Then we ordered a drink and they didn’t have Apertif either. Talk about being disappointed and frustrated! The manager visited other tables but avoided ours. We had to ask to speak with a manager to voice our disappointment. A normal restaurant would not leave their waitress to deal with this, would send over a manager and the manager would offer some sort of discount or gift certificate as an apology and encourage you to visit again. We were offered nothing. I warn everyone to avoid this place. Very poor customer service.
   

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   Ray

   Detroit7 reviews

   3.0

   Dined 7 days ago

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   We dined at Mitchell's last Saturday evening. Our service was very good, however, my husband ordered the sea bass shanghai style and it was the worst sea bass entree he has ever had. It was a very thin cut and tasted old. For $48 it was sent back and a reorder was made of the same dish I had which was seafood shanghai combination. The shrimp and scallops were just average, the salmon was fine but the spinach was so chewy I didn't eat it. My dish was lukewarm. My husband's was at least hot when it was served but that was because he had to wait for the reorder. On the positive side, the lobster bisque was very tasty and the house salad was nice. But we were very disappointed in the quality of the fish and seafood.
   

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   Patti

   Detroit22 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on May 15, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   For a fish restaurant, the fish was sub-par. My “catch of the day” tasted like it was a frozen product from Gordon Foods, and the vegetables also tasted like they had been frozen. And not inexpensive. I won’t return.
   

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   Jason VIP

   Detroit5 reviews

   3.0

   Dined on May 11, 2025

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 5

   Mothers Day, offered limited menu which was disappointing to some in our party. Sat outside beautiful day! Long waits for service, told bread baskets are served first to large parties indoors and outdoors gets lower priority (what??). Then told entree ordered was out of supply- had to choose something else. Then told dessert choice (their normal house signature dessert) was unavailable on Mother’s Day. Then when ordered different desserts waitress mixed up order twice - even after coming back to check. She could’ve / should’ve thrown in an extra just for our trouble and to show good customer service- but she didn’t. Favorite restaurant but not a good look this time.
   

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   Jim VIP

   Detroit45 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on May 11, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Mother’s Day menu was fairly well put together and it included most of the popular dishes. Price was also reasonable.
   

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   Margaret

   Detroit1 review

   5.0

   Dined on May 11, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 5

   Great experience for Mother’s Day lunch. The food was wonderful. The servers were attentive would definitely go again.
   

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   Danica

   Hawaii13 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on May 10, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The server was very attentive with everything, but the food has gone terribly downhill since my last visit. I took my mom for Mother’s Day and she said her Sea Bass meal was awful after I told her how awful my crab cake was. It used to be so good. :( the Lobster was delicious but everything else was awful. I felt too bad to say anything because our server was fantastic. I won’t be back, though. $250 down the drain :(
   

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   Alexander

   Detroit11 reviews

   3.0

   Dined on May 4, 2025

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 5

   Motivation of service was low. Friendliness could be improved. Meat was burned.
   

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    Ross

    Detroit29 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on May 3, 2025

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5

    It was a nice anniversary dinner. Our server was very gracious to reseat us to get away from the noise. The manager came by and wished us a happy anniversary. She also made sure we took home a dessert. Well done!
    

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