Shuckers Raleigh Priority Seating

I enjoyed my visit. the service was good when we had set ourselves first, but after the restorer was full, the service became slower. that was great.

The food at Shuckers (which, let's face it, is the most important thing was very good. I had the wasabi encrusted tuna and it was FABULOUS and my husband had the huge steam pot and loved it. We had call-ahead seating and didn't have to wait long, but when they seated our party of four, the table was so small our knees hit together. We asked the waitress and she wasn't too concerned (about that or anything that happened the entire night but we flagged down a manager and he moved us to a booth. The wait staff was not pleased when they realized we had been moved and made sure we knew about it. There would have literally been no room on the table for plates, so make sure you request a booth! The service wasn't poor, but asking for a glass of water took longer than waiting for mixed drinks from the bar. I also thought the wait staff was generally disinterested and extremely unfriendly, although a manager (maybe the owner? did stop by to check on us at one point and the other manager did move us when we asked. Bottom line, however, I would go back just for that tuna!

How can a wait of 45 minutes be considered priority seating? Still looked to be first in first seated! I would not recommend using this type of reservation here. It has no meaning and does not get you anything. It should NOT be an option on OpenTable since there is no table available for you. Feel free to check it out to see if they have changed their procedures.

Our dinner was OK but nothing special. We had the New Orleans baked oysters and their restaurant week special of bacon wrapped scallops and an order of crab cake. The scallops were good but the oysters were fair. The crab cakes had several good pieces of crab but really had way too much breading. Service was very slow and we had to ask for our waitress several times and she apologized each time.

We arrived and were seated early. Our appetizers were quick to arrive the salad course quickly followed. Both were excellent. Then our waitress disappeared we finally flagged another server to find out why we were still waiting for the main course for almost an hour. Arrived cold. Taken back to the kitchen warmed in an oven not freshly cooked. Didn't comp anything not even a glass of wine. Were given vouchers why would we go back?