Mangroves Grille

Reviews

• Adam F.

  star star star star star 28 July 2026

  This place is incredible.  The food is delicious.  The manager Leslie always has a big smile on her face and brightens my day.  The Bull burger is the best burger in town.  Definitely recommend dining there.

• Joni P.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 26 July 2026

  This restaurant in located inside Embassy Suites. Should be no stars. We had been flying all day from West coast didn't want to get in car to find a place to eat in University research area.
  
  The hostess sat us close to the open kitchen (which I enjoyed since I have a catering company & love to cook) with no menus & told us the waitress (who we soon discovered was the only one on duty) was very busy delivering room service & would take our order when she returned to dining room. The only other guests in dining room were 3 women seated at the same table.
  
  We sat for 15 minutes before the waitress came back. She gave us menus and water then stated she had another room service delivery & would be back to take our order. The poor girl ran to the kitchen counter picked up and delivered the meals that we could see sitting under heat lamps for the table with the 3 women. She ran back picked up several more room service meals put on a cart & headed to elevators. One of the only two elevators was not in use & filled with equipment during our 3 night stay.
  
  Mean while the hostess sat at a table near the entrance or stood by the open kitchen talking to the three cooks who were very busy. She was not doing a thing to help the waitress or us.
  
  Before our waitress returned the hostess sat an elderly couple. The waitress returned in 12 minutes gave them menus & water & took their order & turned it in. She then came to take our order. We felt bad for her, she was very pleasant & apologetic and exhausted. We didn't complain about how long we had been waiting or that she took care of the elderly couple first.
  
  She made several more room service deliveries. The elderly couple as well as our food sat under heat lamps. Our side salads were delivered the same time she brought our meals 25 minutes after we ordered.
  
  Our meal was not hot when it was delivered fish was dry and over cooked along with the veggies. Salads were warm. She delivered our bill when she set our meals down told us if we were staying @ hotel to charge it to our room. And ran back to pick up more room service orders. We had been in dining room an hour by the time our meal arrived.
  
  We finished what we could of the over cooked dried out meal & headed to our room. Our water was never refilled & we were not asked if we needed anything or how our meal was.
  
  We decided to we should have left the dining room went back to our room & ordered room service. We would have been eating sooner & food would have been hot.
  
  I'm not sure why the dining room pays for a useless hostess. Maybe no one has reported her. The poor waitress wasn't in dining room long enough to know hostess wasn't helping out.
  
  The next two nights we chose to eat out after site seeing before returning to hotel.

• Theresa M.

  star star star star star_border 14 July 2026

  Stayed at Embassy Suites and enjoyed a surprisingly good dinner there.  Kevin our server was delightful.  The chicken and rice dish served with plantains and black beans was enormous and delicious.  Equally tasty was an appetizer of crab cakes chuck full of crab meat.  My husband raved about the chicken cheesesteak he ordered.

• Coaster C.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 7 July 2026

  This restaurant is located in the Embassy Suites near USF/Busch Gardens. The only good part was that they serve Pepsi products to say the least. The burger I had here tasted like sugar instead of a regular bacon cheeseburger. I would never eat here again.

• Katye W.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 4 July 2026

  Disgusting restaurant. I should have read the reviews before i ate here. We had a steak and a burger. The steak was extremely over cooked and dry and the burger was raw. The manager was the only one there waiting tables. When we showed her the food she apologized and said "the cook doesn't know how to do temps" She advised us to come back later in the week because they will have a different cook. No thanks, at least she didn't charge us for the meal.