Coastal del Mar, Spanish Springs
 

Although not opened, I found their website with menus online. Looks like a great addition to SS. Located in the old Too Jays site

Coastal Del Mar | Seafood Restaurant | The Villages Florida

Great addition to Villages restaurants. A place for a nice dinner before going to The Sharon for a show.

Looks nice! I just wish the old digestive system could handle such dining any more! :(

Thanks for the link! The menu looks great. Can't wait to give them a try. FMK usually does a great job.

It sounds like a great place to go - once. It's beyond our budget even for anniversaries. Plus I can't EVER justify paying $8.50 for a bowl of clam chowder. The whole point of New England clam chowder, where I come from (in New England), is that it's filling, tasty, and inexpensive.

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Hope things get better for you.

Have been very much anticipating a good seafood restaurant in the SS area, but after reviewing the menu I am disappointed. Haddock, salmon, tuna, shrimp and scallops are available just about anywhere, including when we are up north. Was very much hoping for some good fresh Florida fish that’s not readily available in other places like red snapper, grouper, mahi mahi, redfish, etc…. I’m sure the food will be prepared very well like the other FMK run restaurants in the Villages, but the menu selection is very generic and certainly nothing special.

Things aren't bad for us. We just live within our means, and we have modest means. That means our "luxuries" have more bang for the buck.

Looks like a good menu to me. I too love fresh fish, and there is a "catch of the day" item on the menu. Hopefully the restaurant's buyer will be buying local fresh fish, like grouper and snapper to fill the catch of the day.

Jakes Seafood in Hull MA

Right on the water...$8.00 for a bowl of clam chowder.
https://irp.cdn-website.com/67a496a5...ALL%20Menu.pdf

That’s not too far from what most restaurants on the Cape charge for chowder.

Any idea of the opening date? I was in SS last night and they had “Staff In Training” signs in the windows, tables and umbrellas outside- must be soon!

They expect to open November 8th

It is a good thing that this is an FMK restaurant. They own so many places they can absorb the losses this place will take. Prices are too high for the Spanish Springs area.

We live just north of 44. We can’t wait for it to open. Spanish springs is not that far.

A Florida fish restaurant without Florida fish. Disappointing.

Bluefin with a different name. Not a bad thing

'Boston Globe' Finds Mislabeled Fish In Restaurants : NPR

I think they will do fine. The prices are fine for the quality of food. FMK has a huge following. There are a lot of people looking for quality dining not SYSCO out of the bag food.

Thanks, though I’d rather eat a hot pastrami sandwich and onion rings than seafood.

No thanks ...... I'm willing to pay $15.00 for good fish & chips (like Chelo's in R.I.), but I think that the new restaurant is a bit expensive for a retirement village.

Thanks!
The food looks great, but as others have said -- it is expensive.

Menu looks great, but the PRICES seem kind of high. Inflation is kicking butt.

The prices are same as any non-chain restaurant that has a chef and uses fresh ingredients. What do people think freshly prepared entree's should cost?

Looks good to me. We will eat there occasionally even though we live just north of 44.

Always the same when someone posts a new menu , the same people are all over it with the prices are so high , well then don’t go there . I was at Harvest last night ,the place was filled as was Blue Fin so obviously some people like to dine a little better.I don’t understand complaining about prices in places you aren’t going to visit . On another front , I had forgotten it was Halloween night at Brownwood , after we left Harvest it was great fun to walk around and listen to the music ,check out the stands , play some ski ball and best of all the people watching including all the young children that looked adorable, did we have to circle around in parking lot before we found a place in the back of parking lot , yes we did ,but at 83 I was able to make it without a walker , Fyi the mantra there’s no parking is usually made by people who the last time they exercised was high school gym class , I am not talking about disabled GO Patriots

There's no way they use fresh cold-water lobster. If they don't come already boiled and packaged frozen in vacuum-sealed bags, and they don't have an aquarium where you can pick your own live lobster, then their "cold water" lobsters are not going to be edible.

I have had their lobster at Harvest and it is delicious. You have made it clear that you will not dine there. No reason for your negative comments.

No argument. Just saying it's a bit over priced for some folks that are on a static income that's being chiseled down by inflation. I do not fault any business for how much they desire to charge. That's what you get with freedom and free enterprise. And that is a good thing. Everyone looks for a good deal, whether on meals or services.

Coastal Del Mar
 

Include Stone Crabs when in season.

If we want GOOD food, it will cost more. For you to go on here and infer that the prices are outrageous is unfair. Just go to places that you can afford and give a new business a chance to prove themselves.

I see that Coastal Platter in my future. 🍽

Also was hoping to see FRESH FLORIDA seafood on the menu! Grouper, snapper, mahi, flounder, shrimp, oysters, scallops, soft shell crab, stone crab, blue crab, clams, trout, redfish, Spanish mackerel - so much fresh available from our own state! And not just a repeat of other restaurant menus.

I was commenting about the claim that there was -fresh- cold-water lobster. There isn't. Cold-water lobster doesn't live in Florida, and when it gets to restaurants here, it isn't fresh; it's frozen. That's not a negative comment. It's correcting a mis-statement.

The menu states cold water lobster tail. Nothing about fresh.

If you take a trip back to New England you'll find that price is in line with what you will pay in New England.

I was responding to YOUR claim that they use fresh ingredients. They do not. They use thawed, pre-boiled, frozen lobster tails. You're the one who made the claim. I was correcting you.

I meant salads, vegetable, desserts etc. You would have to be very naive to think a cold-water lobster tail is fresh in FL.

Food fight!

Prices seem reasonable to me. Will definitely go there

Fresh cold-water lobster.
 

If any of you remember Cousins Maine Lobster truck, They had fresh lobsters flown in nightly to Tampa from Maine.