"I cannot recommend this place in good conscience. I hope someone else reads this and it saves them, since we way overpaid for this mediocre food. It 's been about 10 years since I 've been to the Nautical Mile and I had spots that are still there that I would still recommend. I had never been here before and friends that stayed in the area the night before wanted to try somewhere new so we gave it a shot without looking online. Let me say I live in Manhattan and am used to high cost food, but usually at a premium quality. All the specials do NOT have prices listed on them, nor do the Crabs or Lobster, or drink specials. Our fault we didn 't ask but you would not expect reading the menu to get assaulted on the price this badly. Onto the food; 1: As I saw another reviewer mention, we ordered Paella, it was 65$, though we asked if it was a single portion or family style and was told it was a single portion. Importantly, it wasn 't Paella. It was a big seafood platter with Marinara sauce and a little rice soaking at the bottom. Nothing even close resembling Paella. 2: The lobster was 85$. I 'm struggling to think of another restaurant in LI that charges that much for just a steamed lobster, which came with steamed veggies/yellow rice which were absolutely unflavored. Extremely deceptive and cannot recommend ever. 3: Skirt Steak was 40$, and again overpriced for what you get. Also on the menu it listed it came with a Chimichurri sauce, which was not what I got, just some brown sauce that they probably use for every steak. 4: 21$ 'Blue Rasberry Frose. Give me a break here, the most overpriced least flavor Frose I 've ever seen. Again no price for it on the menu. 5: As others mentioned, 20% non-optional 'Gratuity ', which was for a party of 4. That is not what the word Gratuity means. We were also told we 'd get a discount for using cash instead of credit which for a restaurant charging almost 350$ for a meal for 4 people, and only 1 drink besides water was ordered is insulting. I will say the staff (we did not deal with management) was pleasant. I am not going to complain to management, just recommend others do not waste their time here, as they may get my money for their tactics, but lose much more from others learning from my mistake. The view on the canal was good, but you can get this without the pain at literally any of the other amazing establishments in the area. Try somewhere else, even if it doesn 't look like your vibe, and you 'll probably have a better time than here."
