Joe Muer Seafood

Had an enjoyable time here celebrating my sisters' birthdays. The food was delicious and the service awesome. One dish was slightly overcooked but still enjoyable. Long forward to coming again

Great ambiance; professional staff...white glove service. Food was delicious except the lamb chops, ordered medium but it just did not taste good and I've had lamb chops from all over. Al through my check was over $1400 I will go back to Joe Muer.

Wanted to have a nice dinner in downtown Detroit. This place was highly recommended to us by gentlemen at the cigar lounge. Fried Calamari was so tender and perfectly fried. I wish the sauce would have been a bit more on the spicy side. But overall was delicious. Lobster bisque was the best thing that I had at this restaurant. So creamy and full of seafood flavor. I would have ordered a second bowl if time would have allowed. Crab stuffed flounder was good. Not great. Crab was bland with some shell pieces in it. The flounder was cooked perfectly golden brown. The sauce was really good! Side dish was truffle fries. They were good just smaller shoestring cut. Carrot cake desert not pictures was amazing!" I took it to go. Icing was very creamy, and Candied walnuts were a nice topping. Location in the heart of downtown in the GM building was easy to get to. Right in the water! Nice view of our Canadian neighbors..Parking is across the street in public parking garage.

Stopped in for a happy hour dinner at the bar. The bartenders were attentive and knowledgeable. While the spicy tuna tartare isn't on the happy hour menu, 10/10 recommend it. The coconut cake is what they are known for. It was a delicious bite but I kept wondering about the carrot cake. I opted to order that one instead it was divine.

I would order their lobster tail again next time. It melts in your mouth and don't forget to dip it in the butter cause it tastes even better. They get really busy during dinner time so it took a while to wait for the food. But it's worth the wait

I recently went to Joe Muer Seafood for a group gathering in one of the private dining rooms. The first thing I noticed as I walked in was a large sign stating the restaurant's dress code. For this type of establishment, I thought it would be pretty obvious, but I guess they get a lot of people who need the reminder. I checked in at the front desk and was taken to the room quickly. Since the group was so big, there was a set menu ($115) in place with shared appetizers,a salad course, a choice of 4 different entrees, shared sides, and a choice of 3 different desserts. In total, the food consisted of: Shrimp Ilene - Well, they weren't lying about these being colossal. Huge shrimp covered in a nice savory and nutty brown butter sauce. Unfortunately, the shrimp were overcooked with tough and rubbery meat. Not a good start.Oysters Rockefeller - These oysters were served on a bed of sea salt - bad idea. These were not plated cleanly, resulting in the sea salt going over the top into the creamed spinach. Super salty.Roquefort Wedge - This is the laziest wedge salad I've ever seen. Everything needed to be cut and assembled by the diner. At least the French dressing was applied appropriately, with enough between each individual lettuce leaf.Oven Roasted Barramundi - Just look at the picture and tell me this is something you would be happy getting at a fine dining destination. This is the worst presentation for fish I have ever seen. Lobster/crab cake almost disintegrating, the fish looking as if chef was hungry and decided to sneak a few bites. I honestly can't believe they thought it was okay to bring out this dish. At least the Barramundi was nice and tender with only a hint of fishiness. The veggies were also fine - however, the waiters forgot to give me a knife to cut the haricot verts. The lobster/crab cake was complete mush but at least had a decent shellfish taste. Creamed Spinach - I'm normally not a fan of creamed spinach in the first place, so take this with a grain of salt. This tasted like spinach cooked in milk (super milky lactose flavor), with no aromatics and no cheese. At the end of the dinner, the serving dish was still 90% full, so I think that tells how much everyone liked this dish.Black Truffle Mac and Cheese - Taste-wise and presentation, this was fine. Nice cheese crust on top, Cheese sauce included visible specks of truffle with a strong truffle taste. Very one note truffle flavor: truffle salt + artificial truffle oil perhaps? The cavatappi pasta was severely overcooked and almost to the point of being mush. The pasta would fall apart as I spooned it onto my plate.Cheesecake - No complaints about this one. It's a cheesecake, hard to mess that up. Oh, one thing is they forgot to bring me a fork to eat this with. I had to take the fork from one of the guests who couldn't make it.Joe Muer Seafood has fine dining prices with presentation and construction worse than Applebees and service to match. I do not recommend eating here. The only reason they don't get a 1 is because at least some of the food was decent.

I came here as part of a large group with a bunch of friends. I had heard many good things about this place, but I was very disappointed.The dinner started with a bread basket with a variety of breads with a few sides: a small dollop of smoked salmon spread, cannellini beans, and "butter". It's in parenthesis because it was whipped and tasted oily on the tongue and so I highly doubt it was butter. It was a bad starting omen.They also had table "olive oil" and "basalmic vinegar". The olive oil tasted like slightly rancid neutral oil, without any peppery or grassy notes. The basalmic vinegar was more like red wine vinegar. The appetizers were somewhat unappetizing. The shrimp ilene was ok- the very large shrimp were slightly overcooked, but they served as a decent vehicle for the toasted almond lemon butter. The oysters Rockefeller was a dud. The presentation looked very nice and they were served on a bed of salt. The creamed spinach on top was gross and did not work at all with the dish. The Roquefort wedge salad was disappointing. I have never been to a place that serves wedge salad with a dull butter knife rather than a steak knife and expects you to saw away at the lettuce. It's a lot of work. The hard boiled egg (which still had a piece of egg shell on it that I had to pick off), tomato wedge, pile of bacon, and dollop of Roquefort cheese were all arranged to be segregated and in the most unappealing way possible. By the way, one of my friends has a dairy intolerance and asked for no cheese, and his plate had double the amount of Roquefort that mine had. Another one of my friends doesn't eat pork, and his plate had bacon. I guess that's why everything was separated so they don't have to listen to food restrictions and instead can have the diner pick them off. The surf and turf (Petit filet mignon with scallops) was the only decent part of the meal. When I ordered, the waiter didn't even ask me how I wanted my steak cooked; I had to flag him down and ask. Huge red flag for a fine dining establishment. The filet mignon was cooked to my specification (medium rare) and the scallops were seared perfectly with a sweet clean taste. The asparagus and mashed potatoes were forgettable and inoffensive. The entrees my companions got were also sad-sounding. My friend with the dairy intolerance was told that the Barramundi didn't contain any milk, but the pan sauce clearly had dairy in it. He sent it back and received it sans sauce, but he still took lactose pills as he didn't trust the establishment. His dish's stuffing looked like it would disintegrate into a pile of mush if you looked at it for too long-it was already falling apart by the time it made it to the table. The sides were inadequate. The creamed spinach was disgusting. The consistency reminded me of baby food. There wasn't much flavor. Ruth's Chris does it much, much better. There's a reason why there's a whole bunch of copy-cat recipies for RC and not for Joe Muer. The black truffle mac and cheese was overcooked to a mush, but did have a nice flavor. Usually the dessert is the saving grace of any meal, but the chocolate cake was a tragedy. In an attempt to make the plating look high end, they drizzled it with what tastes like Hershey's chocolate syrup. The frosting tasted like Betty Crocker. I am usually a huge dessert fan, but this just had me sad and dispirited.I have to reassess if the people who recommended this place to me have dentures or weak mouth muscles because half the dishes I tried seems to be catered towards people who like very, very soft foods, not at all what I was expecting from this place.

Top to bottom ineptitude. Walked into this restaurant for our 5pm reservation. The place was nearly empty except for a large group of about 16 people which included two very young children who were running around the table and a crying baby. We were seated immediately next to them, within 5 feet of the screaming baby. Very large very empty restaurant. No amount of anything, service, food, view can make up for that kind of incompetence. I almost asked to be moved but the mother was r.i.g.h.t. there and already looked distressed, so we sat down, sighed, and ordered drinks. I ordered a dry Negroni, timeless classic, and received some lurid pink thing over crushed ice. My husband only drinks beer, but even he laughed. We clinked glasses, toasted the view and spent way too much money for the "experience". I imagine this place thinks it's fine dining, but clearly they are in error.-Bread service slow.-Water glasses empty.-About the third time the waiter said your entrees are on the way my husband started quoting Princess Bride to me "I do not think that means what he thinks it means"-husbands side of scallops excellent, main entree fish special inedibly dry -my seafood pasta way way way overcooked and mushy, clams and mussels burned to a crisp-asked for dessert carryout and it was smashed beyond recognition into a too small container Funny, except it cost $$$, strongly advise to think twice about going to this restaurant. The view is free outside. Grab a nearby Panera sandwich and save yourself some expensive pain.

I visited here for the first time over the weekend. The seafood we had was great!!We had 2 different kinds of raw oysters. I had the lobster bisque, which was very rich and yummy:Rich broth with butter poached lobster infused with sherry and crèmeI followed that with the crab stuffed Atlantic flounder, which was really delicious, too:Oven-roasted with whole grain mustard beurre blancI really enjoyed the hit of nutmeg in the creamed spinach. We also got the sautéed mushroom blend to accompany our meal, too:Shitake, Button, and Beech with sliced garlic and zip sauce GFOverall, we had way too much food and had to take some home, but everything we had was so delicious, and I don't know what I would have skipped. I loved the view out the abundant windows as we ate. It's a really nice place for a celebration. While it's not my very favorite among the numerous options in Detroit, I really enjoyed myself and wouldn't be upset if we went back. Definitely worth a visit!!

Best of the best. I grew up in Maine where seafood is everywhere. I missed great seafood- now I know where it is!