Corky Bell's Seafood at Gator Landing in East Palatka - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Fantastic Seafood on the river. The quality and quantity of what you get is beyond comparison. Great place. We really enjoy this restaurant. Also, the frozen drinks are to die for.

The gator trail is pretty good. The fried shrimp and fries were okay. You get a lot but not worth the price. My friend’s food arrived really late, way after we had gotten ours, and then it was cold. They also don’t accommodate allergies (everything is cooked together). I’d been wanting to try this place for a long time. Not worth the price at all

One of the duggars got engaged here

We went for an afternoon lunch and the outside Patio dining was just beautiful with a wonderful view of the St John River. Zero things to complain about ... The food was SCRUMPTIOUS, the drinks were DELICIOUS, the service was EXCELLENT, and the atmosphere was PERFECT!! We even got to see a little gator sunning.

Best crab cakes ever wow wow amazing can’t say enough how good the food is here! Also chicken Alfredo comes with sides and delicious!

Typical fish camp type food. Great prices.

This is the best place for seafood. Excellent service, great prices and your choice of inside or outside dining with views of the river. Well worth the 70 mile trip one way.

We LOVE Corky Bells! We drive over from Gainesville and are never disappointed. Today, we had RJ as our server, and I’m being very honest here, he was one of, if not the best, servers we have ever had anywhere, not just at Corky Bells. The restaurant was busy, but he was so attentive. He continually checked on us and kept our glasses full. We are in our sixties, and it is so refreshing to see someone so young being so responsible and attentive. This wasn’t just a good meal, it was a good experience and made so by RJ!!

Heard about this gem a few times, and we decided to make the trip to check it out. Phenomenal.

The hotel suggested Corky Bell’s for a work trip dinner and it didn’t disappoint. It has a pretty view of the river with an ample deck and bar outside as well as indoor seating. We had a couple of regular menu items and the shrimp and grits. The shrimp and grits were some of the best I’ve had. My co-worker said the same of the mahi mahi. Our server was very attentive and friendly. It was a great experience! I’d highly recommend it if you’re ever in Palatka.

We have been coming to Corky Bells for many years now, but this was the worst experience we had there, what a pity that Amber (manager on duty) was so rude by saying if we didn't like the wait we can go and eat somewhere else! Really? You need to work on your customer service skills lady and be more curtious next time to your guests.

First time visiting here and went because we had heard it was worth the over an hour drive it took us to get there. I will say the view of the river is very pretty. That is about the only good thing I can say. We arrived at around 330pm on a Saturday afternoon. There seemed to be alot of people waiting to be seated, but many open and dirty tables. Everything seemed sticky. We were seated at roughly 530pm. Yes. TWO hours later. After finally sitting down, the service was incredibly slow. The drinks tasted like chemicals and the food was not good. I ordered a medium rare steak that came out raw, stringy, and cold. Everything fried (fish, shrimp, vegetables, etc) tasted exactly the same. Which I can imagine all tasted like the same fryer oil. I was really surprised and disappointed. We left feeling sick and greasy.

Had a wonderful shrimp dinner it's Corky's They do them very well ! Always wonderful view of the lake with some outside seating, full bar ,cold beer. Staff friendly and helpful.

Food not as good as expected. Took forever to get out dinner. And food was terrible. They were not busy either

My son took me out to eat at Corky Bells before going to church Sunday night and we ordered a platter for two although there was three of us as adults ate off the same platter with plenty of food left over for two more people to eat the shrimp the oysters the clam strips the scallops the fish everything was excellent me and my family are going to start making that our Sunday place to eat after Sunday morning service at church

Love This place New to area and We Love everything about this place

Have been able to go there about once a year for many years and always received good service and excellent food.

Very good - service, food and atmosphere.

Food was amazing and alot of it. Be definitely going back there.

We stumbled into this place and couldn't be happier. It might look like Grandma's favorite place, but you get a decent meal at a great price in an environment that's sedated and calm. If you know, you know. If you don't, stop in and check it out.

Stopped Saturday 7/27/24 for lunch Great spot! Right on the water We opted to sit outside, large deck with cool Tiki bar. A typical afternoon rain storm came thru but we were under a text do no problems! The inside looked very large either lots of seating We shared the very large cheeseburger ($14.25) & filet of fish sandwich ($13.75) Cheeseburger was huge cooked correctly Fish sandwich was pretty light on the fish Server was fantastic! Very friendly & efficient! We don’t live in the area but if we did this would fast become our favorite spot!

It's nice when you can sit outside but when it's super hot it was hard to find shade

Excellent food and friendly staff. The wait time between ordering and getting your food is way too long. We ordered and waited an hour and five minutes. But food was hot and delicious.

My wife and I visit Corky Bell's at least once a month. We've always gone to the East Palatka location. This is a large restaurant with a huge parking lot located on the St. Johns river. You can choose to dine inside or out or by the bar. Corky Bell's is known for their many decorated Gators throughout the restaurant. Normally, we have seafood. On this trip, my wife had the blackened cobia and shrimp dinner. It was very good along with a side of a loaded baked potato and coleslaw. I tried the 14oz Prime Rib Special with a baked potato and string beans. It was OK not the best Prime Rib I've ever had. I will stick with the seafood in the future. We always enjoy the cheerful atmosphere of Corky's. Most of the servers are top notch. On this visit, we had Taylor as our waitress. She was great. She worked hard and had a great attitude and personality. We will be back.

My wife and I visit Corky Bell's at least once a month. We've always gone to the East Palatka location. This is a large restaurant with a huge parking lot located on the St. Johns river. You can choose to dine inside or out or by the bar. Corky Bell's is known for their many decorated Gators throughout the restaurant. Normally, we have seafood. On this trip, my wife had the blackened cobia and shrimp dinner. It was very good along with a side of a loaded baked potato and coleslaw. I tried the 14oz Prime Rib Special with a baked potato and green beans. Their coleslaw and green beans are always first class. The meat was OK not the best Prime Rib I've ever had. I will stick with the seafood in the future. We always enjoy the cheerful atmosphere of Corky's. Most of the servers are top notch. On this visit, we had Taylor as our waitress. She was great. She worked hard and had a great attitude and personality. We will be back.

My family & i came here for dinner for my brothers birthday, as we eating, i notice a table complaining about their fried shrimp, the man was being extremely rude to the server, Heather (who is also ours, & was AMAZING), i watched him take the plate from his wife & physically walk into the kitchen with the plate of shrimp to complain AFTER he just complained to the server. The manager (Gabe) kindly walked out their new plate of shrimp, apologizing, being respectful. The man continued being rude & even told the manager to tell his wife happy birthday while talking over hi, would just like to THANK Gabe for handling this situation so amazing. This man was being extremely, disrespectful, disruptive, just about all the dinings room attention was on them. He kindly let them know that, they were happy to fix the issue, (which was wanting extra shrimp because they were complaint on size) but let them know this is how it comes & to keep that mind next time they come. Mind you i watched this lady, wrap most of the shrimp in the napkin, or in ziplock bags she brought, to put it in the togo box. As the manager was trying to stay respectful the man was just yelling over him, he said Happy Birthday to the wife & walked away. As someone in the restaurant industry HE ATE. stayed respectful with grace! Food was amazing!! Thank you Gabe & Heather for not letting that man ruin your night with his bad attitude!!!!! Also would like to add this man also followed the manager into the kitchen area just to scream at him after he walked away.

Cold crab legs ,no seasoning , half the food came had to ask waitress to go get the rest,steak was no where near rare, just Medicare for the 89 $ spent on me and my 5 year old daughter, she didn't eat the crab and she usually can't get enough , probably won't go back

Used to love here. But last 2 times, we were eating inside and got ate up by flies. Smell in parking lot horrid. Need to clean up.

We are from New Orleans so it's tough to top that. The food was greasy and bland. The service wasn't good at all. Will not be going back.

Today at 2pm we had a table of 7 seven, (2 kids) served by Lauren. She was wonderful! Food was great as always.Thank you for a great experience again! Lauren is a keeper!!!

We had a large party & it was very busy but we only had to wait maybe 15 minutes to be seated. Our server Lauren was AMAZING! As always the food was great & came out surprisingly fast. We had a great variety ordered! Thank you to everyone involved today! Y'all are the BEST!

Arrived at 5:30, seated at 6:08 Left at 7:10 with no food 😣 Waitress nice but really 🤷🏼‍♀️

In town on a work assignment and someone told me to try it. Great food I went two nights in a row.

Do you want to dine or out ? You got it! You will still have the best view of the river. It’s mostly seafood with “Very Good” sides. Lunch is the best! You can have a great healthy meal for less than 15 a person. You can’t bet that. You can dock your boat, park your RV or just tow your boat. Lots of parking is available. Service is outstanding! My only complaint is that it gets pretty full in the weekend. But of course you can always pack a book and read as you wait next to the water.

Ate outside...it had more flys than the dump. They could screen in the area, fly strips do anything but they chose to let the customer suffer. The cheese burger was ordered well, the center was uncooked. Gross

This was a cool place with amazing drinks. Ask for the coconut mojito and the strawberry coloda...you won't be disappointed. We sat outside under the tent so get a table by the fan with a breeze. Staff is super friendly and food is great. Make sure you get the fried crab fingers... so good with the special house sauce. Fried shrimp dinner was amazing just needed to be cooked a Lil longer for me but the sides were awesome and the waiter Heather was such a sweet girl make it known that she is a asset to this company for her service. The views here are great with the dockside setting. Best seafood spot in Palatka.

Took an hour to seat two people, then another hour to get our food. Not to mention the amount of files inside the building and AC units not working. The best part of our experience was the waitress we had Taylor. It is a shame as this place use to be the best spot in town.

The food was excellent, more than i could eat and the service was on point

We went with our car club and there were 25 of us. Everyone got their food quickly and all I heard was compliments on both the food and the service. We are all going back again next month!

Great seafood on the st John's river

Food was delicious! Service was excellent! Will definitely be back! 💕😊

Stopped by Corky Bell’s on one of our weekend drives and it didn’t disappoint, the food was great, the atmosphere was nice and the view of the lake was nice touch.

It's a very quaint place for a great bite to eat. The atmosphere is pleasant, but it is a little bit on the franchise side. The day we ate there, the A/C must’ve not been working well as it was a bit hot and muggy inside. The food was excellent and came out quickly—a great place to try if you want seafood dining.

Went to corky bells on my way home, sat outside, never again, there were so many flies in my life, they were all over the food and drink, it was outrageous, waited approximately 35 minutes for the food, the clam strips were over cooked, really disappointed.

Their green beans are very good

Chicken tenders were hard. Grilled chicken sandwich tasted like the chicken came frozen from a bad and they just put it on the grill for a split second on each side. The middle was like warm at best. Waitress was very good. She removed chicken sandwich off our bill.

Great food. Great atmosphere. Good prices.

Love it always. Hoping yall can accommodate my mommas birthday family get together [n the 13th.

Really love the restaurant and staff .enjoy the veiw .

Great. Seafood. Pretty surroundings on the water

Food was good. Not amazing, but pretty good. Hard to be appetized when the blinds have dust bunnies that look like they might fall off onto the table, the pile of dead bugs on the window still has an occasional buzz, and the still alive flies and gnats have to constantly be batted away. Service was great, but I noticed our server and I believe others had 4 and 5 tables a each. It's hard to be great at that level.

Macy our waitress made us feel like royalty. Corky bells has a great person to represent the restaurant. The food was great and again Macy was great. Thanks Corky Bells for a great experience Ron Robinson

The food was good, Large portions.

The food and atmosphere is great!

What a great experience we had at Corky Bells! We always love coming here for the fresh fish options and the stuffed flounder. Today we had Lisa V and she was hands down the best server we’ve had anywhere in a very long time! Keep up the good work guys! Always a pleasure!

I had a half rack of ribs with some shrimp and a baked potato and salad it was out of this world

We love going here. Always a good visit.

I loved the food and the drinks the waiter was amazing

Crummy fish and chips thi. Looked like bait , snapper lunch was so so nothing to write about

Great seafood place where they care Bout your experience. Not a white table cloth restaurant but solid meal. HD the cobia and shrimp. Will return.

Very good services all the way around

Have been wanting to try Corky Bell's for awhile now and finally made the trip. Got there early and the place does fill up fast. The servers were busy running around but attentive. We had fried shrimp and fried flounder. Both were very good and cooked just right and not greasy. The hush puppies are the star here though! Finished with what they call key Lime Pie but more like a mini cake which was tasty but not my preference for key Lime. Views are excellent and would be fun for happy hour out by tbe river.

I had driven by many times but was invited to dine by some friends and just loved the place. Tried the Shrimp Alfredo and fell in love with it. My wife and I try and arrange our schedules to be able to stop in for a bite while we travel through Palatka. Love sitting outside and the menu options meet many tastes. Prices are great too.

Little wait but, food was delicious.

We ate indoors due to the heat but we still had a nice view. The lunch portions were huge. A very enjoyable experience.

Awesome food sit in or outside on the deck. Boat access from St John's river.

It very nice but the food was not to my best of liking . I ordered a new York strip an got a rib eye my girl ordered the same so by the time they fixed it the party we were with was done with there food . An the 8 oz new York strip are very thin . An it was over cooked An my 12 oz new York was a good sized but under cooked. I order them med/ Rare.i wish it tasted good but not to my liking. 105.00 dollars was the bill I guess that's why you don't go to a seafood restaurant ordering steak

Corky Bells food is always delicious. The service we received was excellent The atmosphere was not too loud. I would suggest arriving early, it is a very busy restaurant.

Great food as always, great service. It would be nice if staff at reception, when not busy, could look out for people, older or otherwise, who are on crutches, walkers or wheelchairs and help them with opening the front doors entering and leaving. Oftentimes, the people who they came with are busy parking the car,

Could not believe how some of the girl employees SQEEEZZED into their pants. Not a good look.

A great place to eat with friendly staff. Dee and Jacob really take care of the customers in the bar area. Wonderful views of the river.

Corky's is one of the best seafood restaurants around. Palm Coast needs to take note and learn a few things. Keep up the great work, guys!

Corky Bells had consistently good food and service. First time visiting by water and the docks were well maintained with friendly assistance from staff for lines. We skipped the wait and ate at the bar, it was great 👍.

Good food and a wonderful waitress.

Went there as a group on a Saturday afternoon. Service was good considering the size of the group. The salad was good. The hushpuppies were good. The "prime rib" special, which was ordered RARE, came as a well done, thin, fatty piece of meat. The broiled flounder was not dry, but was tasteless.

I am definitely not a fan. I took my fiancé there and we got our drinks. I had got a soda in the water and I drank both of them and I waited about 30 minutes for a refill. The waiter walked around my table twice just looked at me and went back to the bar did not attempt to ask me if I needed anything, I put my cups to where they could see them and they still didn’t do anything so I left I didn’t even eat

Food is great!! Tasty, prepared to perfection, good size portions. My waitress Macy Leigh was Great! Professional, friendly, anticipating my needs.

Great views on the outside deck. Good seafood. Bonus: you can come by boat and dock there.

Food was good 👍🏼 very busy as to the long wait and servers seemed stressed and not so friendly. But I will go back and give it another try.

Get the crab stuffed shrimp and have them fried. Delish!

New to the area, this has become one of our favorite places! Good food and atmosphere!

Had a party of 11, the place was amazing!! I’m glad we went there while we were on Vacation!

Food is ok, service is SLOW. Not worth the wait.

We have Bern waiting 1.75 hours for our order that was ordered..not acceptable..would never come back

Food was excellent! Our server, Paula, was awesome and had a great attitude.

Nice outdoor atmosphere that feels like a home away from home and the food is amazing! Also have you ever tried Gator because it's on the menu

Very disappointed in the quote , FRESH SEAFOOD that was frozen according to our server. When made the server aware of under cook cod and all she could say Sorry . No manger and now they lost my business

Arrived at 4 pm. Waited an hour for our table which we were advised of when we arrived. Ok. This place had been recommended by several friends. Waited an hour and ten minutes for our food at which time we asked for the Manager. Anna was flippant and not helpful at all. Thank goodness for our Waitress. We got our food boxed after it finally arrived. Our Waitress was tipped handsomely. The Manager was full of excuses and lies. Won’t be back.

Waited over an hour and half for dinner. Everyone after us got their food. We were still waiting. I advised at this point we just want to pay our beer tab and go. Asked for the manager and she said I'm checking on your food now. I said thanks, but we just want to pay our tab and leave. Bartender came over very cocky. Explained the order was lost. Look we have been here since 9 am. Okay? (It is now 5:38 pm) I'm g I'm glad you are leaving and don't come back. Yes I did raise my voice due to frustration. I called the manager back and of course it is all my fault. I'm informed by mgr Hannah was in the back crying because of how I talked to her. I'm sorry but at this the four of us didn't want to eat. she asked if I could give the tip to the bartenders and she (Hannah) ould get it. NO! I I want you AS MGR give her this tip $10. So I'm blamed. It's okay. Your male Bartender is the rudest. I have a bartender, worked in retail. But you have 3-4 bartenders and NONE OF Them checked on our food. Hannah explained because the couple next to us ordered a chef salad, then went ahead and cooked the shrimp scampi so it would be hot. Now we were there way before them. And they said "Are you still waiting on your food? Thank you Corky Belles. I will NOT be coming back per your bartender's request. I'm sure no one will miss us. But worst customer service we have EVER experienced.

Everything was great!! Atmosphere was relaxing.

My sister-in-law was in from Texas. Food and service was great! Especially the lemon drop shot, the bartender is from Heaven! Lol

Love their conch fritters an appetizer. Always go with a group and they order different dishes. My son likes their mixed platter with the lobster. I love their oysters and scallops. The best hush puppies I have ever eaten. Many in our group order the shrimp dishes.

Food and service really good; only issue was table beside us talked on phone with speaker on for 15 - 20 minutes. A little annoying; But hey, what’s the rule with that anyways? People do it everywhere. Maybe staff could address that in future.

Great service, awesome views, and heaping plates of delicious food

We travel 100 miles one way, and always stop at Corkies. I always get shrimp and I don't think anywhere compares with the slaw, love it. Prices are reasonable and staff is always polite and helpful. My husband loved the salmon patties.

They charged us for a very expensive fish without the price being on the menu. Menu is not clear on the sides for main courses The service is too slow. The food was ok.

I ordered the scallops n the were horrible. Fishy tasting

Great place to eat. Great sea food.

The male waiter we had didn't have a personality at all. He never smiled, told us his name, or acted like he wanted to be working at all. The food was delicious, and this was our first time going here. We will be back as our family liked it here.

Great food their Corky Bells seafood boil is so good you can get it Cajun or regular I had Cajun and ohh my goodness it is so good