Desposito's Seafood

We were looking for a low-key, off-the-beaten-path option for fresh seafood between Tybee Island and Savannah, and Desposito's hit the mark! Very unpretentious. No long list of oyster options to choose from (you get what you get), no hint of fanciness --- just good food. Recommend the lobster mac and cheese.

Our food was great. Place was easy to find and had a nice view of the water. . We got drinks at the bar, which were ok. I got flounder and succotash which were very tasty and fresh. My wife had lobster mac and cheese which we both loved. We sat at the bar but ordered our meal which was fun.

My time at Desposito’s Seafood was amazing! They have helped the organization that I serve on Shelter From The Rain a few times whenever we’ve had a fundraiser or simply for their support. Tonight we had a bingo night, where Desposito’s generously allowed us to use their outdoor bar area. The atmosphere was amazing along with the weather! The food was also delicious. I ordered their crispy chicken sandwich and a side of fries. I can’t wait to eat there again!

4.5 Stars for the total experience. We had great service and a great view of the water. The smoked fish dip was good, but not very fish forward. If you like the taste of fish, it might not be what you expect. The shrimp boil was good with the shrimp and Conecuh making the dish. Family enjoyed the shrimp tacos and fried shrimp.

Great service, Food, and vibe. Loved the fish tacos. And Let's talk about that Peach Cobbler! So delicious 😋. We were there at 7 and it was crowded. By 9 we had our food and eating. We did have to wait for a table too. Come Early!!! They also cook your fish you catch that day! We will definitely be taking advantage of that next time!

The food was amazing! 100% recommend this place. My niece thought this was one of the best places she’s had seafood.!! We had Raw Oysters-1/2 Dozen raw oysters on the half shell served with cocktail and mignonette. Old Bay Crabby Chips. Snow Crab Basket-A pound and a half of snow crab served with drawn butter and your choice of side. Shrimp Scampi-Sautéed shrimp with garlic and lemon butter sauce, served over house pasta. Side Baguette-5-6 Slices of Baguette grilled to perfection.

A most enjoyable experience in all areas. Our host and waut staff were perfect. The option of semi outdoor seating or indoors was nice . Super clean quaint out of the way restaurant was worth the trip. My partners fish basket with fries was delicious and fresh. My She crab soup was not exactly the low country style you'd normally expect. Albeit I would highly recommend this take on a classic. My shrimp scampi was fresh and ample. Portions and price were appropriate. Btw... the history of this place is interesting. I took a little time to write this review because I encourage you to pin this as a detour for a great family owned restaurant.

Was seated immediately and all the staff were welcoming. Food was out quick and was delicious. Easy parking. Great menu.

The food and service were very good. I had the Low Country Boil. It was good. Oysters Rockafella was also very good. I will definitely go back again.

Enjoyed this place over the weekend, great ambiance, quick service and everything we ordered was decent, a bit salty but great portions and flavors. We will definitely come back for the crabby chips

Great is the best way to describe this restaurant! Staff was kind and helpful. The outdoor space is beautiful although we opted to sit inside and enjoy the ac. Everything was delish and cooked perfectly

We were very pleasantly surprised. We picked the restaurant based on reviews and that it was by the water. Everything we ordered was delicious and we wished we could go back another day, but we were there because we evacuated for the Hurricane in Florida and it was our last night. We will definitely go back next time we are in the area.

The food was awful. The "prawn" tacos were nickel size shrimp in a mess of cabbage. No chili lime sauce. The 2 deviled crabs were inedible, $24.95 to boot! The smoked fish dip was good. The homemade potato salad was a soupy mess of potatoes and watery mayo. The greasy chips gave me indigestion. Most everything on the menu is battered and deepfried and looks the same. Other customers couldn't tell their meals apart when the waitress brought their plates out. It was one of the worst $100.00 meals I've had in a long time. I don't think the waitress would have cared if I mentioned the poor food, and she didn't notice that most of my meal was uneaten when I asked for the check. Don't waste your money.

I had the opportunity to join the Eat It and Like It Supper Club at Desposito's. For someone who has never been here...it was 100% AMAZING! The food, the staff, and the history were perfect in every way! We ended up having a four-course meal. For starters, we had Raw Oysters topped with a Bloody Mary Granita. The second Course was Desposito's original recipe, crab soup, which I licked the bowl. I wanted more! For the third Course, we had pan-seared black grouper over tarragon cream pappardelle Pasta, and the best was saved for last! The fourth Course was a mini three-layer red velvet cake with a chocolate ganache! I loved every bite, and the wine paring was terrific! I can't recommend this place enough!

We had a great experience here. We visited on a Saturday night expect a wait but it's worth it . We were delighted to find out they could make me a non alcoholic mock-tail. The egg rolls are a must my boyfriend is still raving about them. He enjoyed his shrimp scampi . I would pass on their mac n cheese and explore something else next time. They have an outdoor bar with live music which looked really nice . Parking can be a little tricky on weekends.

Food was great, service amazing! We met friends for dinner and loved sitting on the outside patio! We had the low country shrimp boil, Oysters Rockerfeller and the crab egg rolls - delicious and filling. The only complaint was the corn was frozen not fresh. We will go back again.

Ventured away drink Savannah to Tybee Island found this Restaurant. Nice place at the boat ramp. Service was fast and place is very clean. Ordered the Fish Dip Mahi and Halibut, with baguette it was DELICIOUS! I ordered the Shrimp Basket Broiled with Cajun Butter shrimp was a little over done and not deveined Please Devein your shrimp for your customers, my lady ordered the Shrimp Scampi she said it was good with a little bit of kick in the sauce. Overall it was good

Awesome place nestled in a side street in Thunderbolt - staff is very helpful - space is new & looks awesome - went with fish sandwich w/ mac & enjoyed it tremendously

LOVED the hard to find "gluten free" She Crab soup stocked with crab!!! Will drive back from McDonough GA just for another bowl!!! Service was good!

We had a wonderful and fun dining experience at Deposito's -excellent food, live music, and a friendly server. Drinks and food arrived quickly, and my shrimp salad was delicious and my husband really enjoyed is blackened fish entree. Our server was very attentive and provided great service. The live band was awesome, we had a great time and we will be back soon!

What a neat little restaurant that's sorta off to the wayside on Thunderbolt Island, but worth the effort to find it. Great fish sandwich and my wife's shrimp topped salad was excellent, too. Great hushpuppies as an appetizer. Plenty of them with good honey/butter sauce. Extremely nice waitress, so polite. We'll be back, for sure!!!

The shrimp were very good, large and lightly breaded. The coleslaw was not very good and we didn't eat it. They should go get Cracker Barrel recipe there coleslaw is the best. Both the service and ambience we're good

I hardly ever leave reviews unless I am thoroughly impressed. Was craving seafood but didn't feel like driving all the way to tybee for AJs so decided to give this place a try and I'm SO glad I did! The fried shrimp basket and hush puppies were so yummy and my husband liked his shrimp po boy. I feel like food + seafood is such a hit or miss in Savannah but this definitely stood out. We'll be back!

The bartenders are extremly slow, they cost this business 100s a day due to guest sitting around waiting for the bartneder to pay attention or stop talking to each other. They drop the jiggers on the ground and do not sanitizer them after and use them on the next drink, being outside in the elements I am sure wildlife visit and walks around on the floor at night. The food has been decent each time we visit but it really takes a lot for us to stop by, because we know the service is going to be extermly slow and non attentive. If you have time to wait and do not care about customer service then this is your spot, the food is good just really bad service.

The Fried Grouper Sandwich was recommended by one of the very friendly bartenders. "It's two fillets" is an understatement! Dagwood would be impressed. want a grouper sandwich and a huge fillet to take home for another meal? Order this sandwich. The standard bun was hardly noticeable with two monstrous fillets stacked in between. My reaction was "do I have to unhinge my jaw to take a bite"?! I immediately asked for a "to go box" and tried to squeeze one of the fillets into one. Impressive! Today, the rule seems to jack up price and shrink the portion. Desposito's does follow those sad trends, it's like going to grandmas and she got a whole fish and you and your friends are going to eat until you're stuffed! Just fine with this Cajun. The batter was fried crispy. The fillet was still very moist. Could have had a little less salt in the batter. Gotta watch my sodium intake with high blood pressure. But this sandwich took me back decades to spearing grouper on the Gulf coast and cooking it fresh. Wide smiles required to eat half of this sandwich! Check out the pics. Don't be fooled, those are platters, not plates! The whole restaurant is immaculate. There's plenty of tables inside and when you want that outside ambience, there's a huge bar area on the covered porch with clear retractable awnings to flick a switch and open for a fresh breeze. Tables are spaced around the bar so everyone has a view on the edge. You can even enter from the parking lot directly to this porch area. The bar is stone topped all around and has giant TV screens with sports. This rectangular bar in the back has live music on Wednesday. The acoustic group LAX is our favorite. Great open view of the harbor area. Put it on the weekly schedule!

We ate outside at the bar at this unassuming local restaurant. The food isn't top notch, but the ambiance and staff and fun drinks are great. I would definitely come back here. The location is really nice, and it gets you away from the savannah tourist scene. I know if I lived in Savannah I'd be a regular at Despositos.

Not bad. Fish was fried to perfection. Hush puppies were good also. Service was good. My guest said the chicken egg rolls were good.

We just walked through the indoor dining area on the way to the outside area, so can't say a lot about it. Didn't look that large of an area but did look clean. The outside area was great. There is a huge bar with seats around it. Several large screen TVs and a lot of high top tables. Service was good. We went for lunch and arrived around 11:45. They open at 11:30 and when we arrived there were already several people there. By 12:30, it was getting full. The food was good. Our table had crab stew, Pirate Popcorn Shrimp (popcorn shrimp in a spicy sauce) and the Chile Lime Prawn Tacos. The crab stew was different than the normal cream based crab stew. It seemed more of a tomato base. It was very tasty with plenty of crab meat. The popcorn shrimp were not very spicy, but I'm sure that's a personal preference. For someone who doesn't like spicy, it would be acceptable. I would prefer them to have been spicier. The shrimp tacos were good. Nothing great about them, but they were enjoyable. All in all, it was a good experience and we will definitely be back!

One of the best seafood restaurants on the Georgia coast, we have eaten here a half dozen times and every meal is spot on. Not sure where the negative reviews come from, probably bots, but this place is definitely worth trying out and seeing for yourself.

We were burned out on fancy restaurants and this was just what we needed to get back to simple, delicious comfort food. The crabby chips were an amazing appetizer. I'd rank the fried shrimp right up there with McKinney's Pond in Midville, GA and that's a really high honor. We finished with the key lime pie and it was sublime.

Pluses -Beautiful venue. -outside area is very nice and is very park. -This is happening spot. -plenty of gluten-free and seafood-based carnivore options -The Fumé blanc white wine is a solid choice. - Bacon, wrapped shrimp are solid. -there were no bad smells, no bad seafood smells. Minuses -You get the crab legs for $37 but they don't have appropriate tools so that you can get all the crab meat out you have to take it home to finish eating it. -Margarita is terrible. -deviled crab does not come on a crab shell, but comes on a piece of metal shaped like a crab. -husband says the hush puppies were good but they did not come with the honey butter and we had to ask for it. -The margarita is terrible. It's pretty mixed and taste more like Mountain Dew or Mellow Yellow. -Service when sitting at the bar outside is a bit slow but to be fair they are very busy.

A cute little restaurant off the main road. Nice, clean with a seaside feel to it. Attentive waitress. Not a huge menu but what they have is excellent. Amazing huge dessert portions. My husbands chocolate cake was the size of two servings at most restaurants. Great cheesecake and key lime pie also. Everyone at our table ordered a different dessert and got to sample each others with lots left over. Two people can easily share one dessert. The side orders of what I thought would be French fries turned out to be homemade potato chips. Very crispy with a great dipping sauce. It was a really great option from the usual plain French fries you always get elsewhere. We will definitely go back!

Food was great, service was awesome! We got the po boy sandwiches with side salad, they were spot on. Kids got fried shrimp and they were very pleased as well!

Better than expected. Great atmosphere and tasty food. Large portions also. Came here for restaurant week. Happy I did. Their fried "bang bang-ish" shrimp appetizer is delicious!

A wrong turn evolved into a great discovery when we found this restaurant! The service was fast, friendly and very helpful and the food was delicious. The shrimp tacos were some of the best we have ever had, and the cocktails were tasty too. We especially recommend the watermelon one! We will be back for sure.

Soooo good. It was packed when we arrived, so we got a bottle of rose and sat out on the dock watching the sunset until our table was ready. The river was gorgeous. For dinner we had the grilled shrimp basket with old bay chips (homemade potato chips), the crab basket with fries, and the the smoked fish dip with baguette. The shrimp was some of the best we've ever had, came right off the boat that morning. The crab was delicious (but a bit hard to eat - worth the effort). Nothing but good things to say about the smoked fish dip, which was just Smokey enough and kind of like a whitefish salad. Our server Maggie was excellent and took great care of us. Note - this was the soft open, so they were out of a lot of menu items and the wait was a bit longer than usual, but everyone was so friendly it didn't matter. Fantastic place, would definitely come again.

Ate there last weekend. The food was good. The service was just right. The noise level was over the top. We were in the patio area. It was surrounded by plastic screens so the temperature was comfortable. Voices were strained by the end of the meal just trying to hear each other.

Absolutely fantastic! Great place to relax and have Georgia style sit down meal! Definitely worth the money,and we'll worth the trip here!

The place is very nice inside w a super nice outdoor area with lots of TV. The service was also fast and all workers were kind. However the food and drinks were not amazing and isn't anything like how it used to be. The watermelon cocktail wasn't the best. The crab legs were cold when they came out. We also got bay chips/ bacon wrapped shrimp which was just alright. I will rave about the macoroni though it was very creamy and the hush puppies / deviled crab were good!

Not impressed at all. Not what I expected. I had higher hopes because of the seafood but I would not recommend

Popcorn shrimp appetizer was very good. Pork chops was overcooked and dry. Coke/pepsi was good.

Had an incredible experience. Calhoun was tremendous I recommend the oyster Rockefeller

Amazing restaurant! Service, staff, and food are all incredible. The location is great! Good scenery, people, food, and vibes!

A Hidden Treasure! We stumbled on getting fishing bait from across the street. Just the restaurant look just drew you in. The next day, my wife and brother/sister in law decided to check it out. Over all just a loss for words from a great selection of menu choices to the best waitress on the east coast. We mean everything we're saying, not paid or know no one. We just stumbled on not knowing or ever hearing. If you don't give it a try you won't know what you ever missed.

Really poor meals two separate visits, more bar than restaurant...enjoy a drink at outdoor bar but DONT order the food.

Ugh. If you can get past the parking mess and horrible selection of incompetent hostesses, the ambiance is nice and the wait staff is lovely. The food is the definition of meh. I'm sure there are some highlights if you sample enough dishes but what I've had so far is not enough to get me to come back. Bartenders were good, if you wait outside for a table, don't forget your bug spay, it gets nasty down there.

2nd time to this restaurant and it didn't disappoint!! The atmosphere is great and so is the food! We will be back!

Service was average and food a bit sub par. The tiny bacon wrapped shrimp dish was dry and tasteless!

What a great first visit! Super friendly, super fast, and delicious. Can't wait for the full menu to unfold. Great addition/revival to thunderbolt.

Delicious lobster Mac and cheese, great view, good service and nice drinks. What more could you expect?

Shrimp well prepared and timely Beverage prepared appropriately Staff pleasant and attentive. Environment appropriate for food service area. Comfortable and welcoming. Would recommend, and return again. The food items we ordered were tasty and presented nicely. We have recommended them to friends and have since returned and experienced the same level of service and product as before . 3.8 star rating for casual dining

Food was fresh and service was good, popcorn shrimp was a good one. Was also busy on a Monday. So should tell you something.

The staff are wonderful, the outside bar was very cool. The menu is limited and more for families with kids, I was expecting fish on the menu but went with the shrimp basket.

Put our name on the list and headed to the fantastic outside bar where the bartenders quickly took and prepared our order of margaritas. After being called inside to be seated much faster then expected really enjoyed the Loaded "Old Bay" Crabby Chips appetizer, which was almost enough for a meal. Ordered some shrimp taco's and a Savannah traditional Deviled Crab both were well done and enough to have some to take home. Service both at the Bar and inside with the wait staff was fast, friendly and efficient. Quickly will become a "go to" for family dinners as it was very coastal in atmosphere.

We went the second week so I am empathetic to restaurant roll out and soft opening. The smoked fish dip just ok, oysters not great and shrimp overcooked. I wanted to love this place because we are planning on making this our happy hour neighborhood spot. Beer prices were reasonable which was the best part. I wish they had thought about the placement of the beer taps which block the peek a boo view of the water when you sit on that of the bar. Bartenders not horribly attentive but acceptable. We'll give them a week and try again. It looks like the popcorn shrimp is the star of the menu.

Over priced and small portions / service was bad and help had bad attitude. Also seen a FAT RAT come out kitchen area

I would give the atmosphere and building the highest rating. The food gets mixed reviews - some good things, some that need some work. Maggie was our server and she was the absolute best!! She was so pleasant and attentive - the best!