Last Update: May 20th, 2020

Mastro's Fort Lauderdale

Mastro's Ocean Club

3000 Northeast 32nd Avenue
Fort Lauderdale FL, 33310
954 561-4800

Details

Hours: Sun-Thu 5p-10p, Fri-Sat 5p-11p

Attire: Proper Attire: NO Beachwear, Gymwear, Sweats, Jerseys, hats, tank tops or baggy clothing. Also excessively revealing clothing is prohibited.

Parking: Valet, Metered Garage, Street Metered

CC: Yes

Alcohol: Full bar

Prices: Very Expensive

Outside Dining: Covered Open Air

Reservations: Yes

Delivery: No

Pros

Waterfront Location

Cons

NO HAPPY HOUR. EVER.

Description

Mastros has been touting their "28 day wet aged" steaks on their facebook page; It seemed curious since wet-aging isn't generally considered a high-end process; and I didn't recall them having this before. And Lo and Behold, it appears this is the marketing gimmick they're come up with to convince the stupid people that steaks they've had sitting in their refrigerator for 6 weeks because of the shutdown are somehow something worth paying extra for. I don't see that they ever mentioned "wet-aging" before April 12, which is curiously just about 28 days after the shutdown began.

A bit more research shows that while Mastro's is advertising "10% off takeout", it seems that they raised their prices 10% to make up for the discount. This is the menu before the shutdown (still on their website):

Mastro's Menu Before the Shutdown

This is the "To Go" menu you get if you go to order online:

Mastro's Current To Go Menu

Why would anyone pay $66 for a non USDA Prime Steak that's been sitting around for a month or more? Their takeout shrimp cocktail, with 4 shrimp, is $31. Can you hear me laughing?

Just HOW STUPID are you?

Calling out bad actors is something we do on this site; I previously questioned Morton's for seemingly moving away from USDA Prime beef while raising their prices; but raising prices and then offering a discount is the low bar of restaurant behavior. Landry's should be ashamed of itself, but I'm sure they don't care. If people are dumb enough to pay these prices they deserve what they get.

There's a reason I've never been to Mastro's and probably never will. As my Dad would say, this is a place for people with more money than Brains.

Previous Musings

After a long renovation, Mastro's has opened in the space previously occupied by Chart House and Charlie's Crab. All of these restaurants are owned by Landry's; Landry's owns Morton's, Bubba Gump's and Mastro's in Fort Lauderdale.

Basically Mastro's is a ritzy Morton's, with equally absurd prices. My review of Morton's might provide some insight as to the Landry's experience.

3 weeks ago we brought to their attention that the menu on OpenTable was not the menu for this restaurant, and they said they'd look into it. The wrong menu is still up. (We have the actual menu and the openTable menu here). The actual menu has more items and much higher prices for some items; sides are mostly $14. I'm now convinced that they are trying to deceive the public on purpose. OpenTable is their main business driver, and for the GM to not notice the wrong menu would be an incredibly show of incompetence.

They've move the chef from Miami Morton's to this location, so you can be sure they know how to cook a steak.

Mastro's makes no claim on their website or on the menu as to the grade or quality of the steaks; notice the menu doesn't mention "USDA Prime" or Dry Aged". It's just expensive meat. You "assume" it's good quality because it's expensive. My last 2 visits to Morton's didn't convince me that the meat was worth the price.

Question of the day:

Why does a high end restaurant have "Chilean" Sea Bass, which is basically a trick to fool stupid people? I expect Grille 401 to have Chilean Sea Bass. I expect a restaurant like this to have real Sea Bass.

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This is unbelievable. Restaurants could get away something like this 25 years ago, but how do they expect nobody to notice in this day and age?

This has to be the most incompetently managed restaurant in the city. Waterfront restaurant, not even open during the day on weekends, don't open til 5p in the Geriatric district (the avg clientele age at Chart House was like 70). Still have a fake menu on open table; no real menu on the mastro's site. Their Facebook page just has a general feed that goes to all of their restaurants and they can't answer questions about this restaurant on facebook.

In one online review, someone said they cut themselves and asked for a band-aid. Is it possible that a restaurant doesn't have a first aid kit? I hear they have knives in the kitchen?

They still have the wrong menu on open table. At this point it seems that they're just trying to deceive tourists. Either that or this restaurant has completely incompetent management.

Are you here to complain about Morton's or Mastro's. The latter is a supper club fish house and the other is irrelevant. If you're not a fan of Landry's, why spend on their highest concept? To complain about a different one? NEXT... so over food blogs and critiques these. How about focus on the food and sprinkle in the bad. Entice your readers. No more food critics, just restaurant gossips. Rant over, back to a different topic on here.

Supper Club Fish House? It's a Landry's Steakhouse; different decor, same deal. The critic hit it on the nose.

We welcome stupid people as well as the more enlightened here. Sorry to lose you, Marge

They won't accept a Landry's gift card even though the card says that it's good at any Landry's establishment!

All of the reviews so positive. The last 2 Landry restaurants here were terrible, how could it be so different?

People need to convince themselves that they didn't overpay. The standard is "I'm willing to pay for quailty"; this is what people say when they want to convince themselves that they're some sort of more highly evolved being. But Mastro's is just a brand. You're paying for the renovation. If you love the decor, great. But it's not like Mastro's is that much different than Chart House or any other of their so-called premium brands.

That’s an oddly specific dress code policy.

Guy on yelp reviewing his dinner for 2 for $500. That's a vacation.

A week after pointing out that their menu was wrong on open table; the wrong menu remains. I see why now; the prices on the real menu are higher. $48 for an 8oz Filet.

The menu they put on openTable is NOT the menu for this restaurant, and the menu on their web site has no prices. So until we see an actual menu, we'll leave up the openTable menu for reference. They should have corrected it before they opened; they probably just used a menu from another location.

They don't even bother to answer messages on Facebook. I've never liked Landry's as a company.

Mastro's is one of my all time fav restrnts....BUT, in this location??? This is on the water and with their dress codes, typical boaters will not be able to dine during the day or evening. Which on the water in So FL, formal dining isn't the best revenue generator, live music and super casual is what fits in the So FL lifestyle, for both locals and vacationers. Not to trying to be discouraging bc I will still go eat there, it just want be casual dress like we typically wear on our boat EVERY Saturday and Sunday. Good luck Mastro's see you soon, but I'll be sure to drive there.

They probably signed a 50 year lease; remember that the last 2 venues here; Charlie's Crab and Chart House (another wrong idea for this location) are both Landry's. Shooters went upscale and ruined the place; meanwhile Bokamper's serves some of the worst food in the city and it's the go-to place on the Water. The Chart House might have been OK if anyone knew about it and it if wasn't so damn ugly.

I agree on Shooter's "ruined for me" but I live and spend in that neighborhood and they are doing much better than John ever dreamed of.

For the amount they paid for the property I find it difficult to believe they're doing very well. Of course Chart House being closed for the entire season couldn't have hurt.

No tweets, facebook posts or real reviews from the opening. Probably nobody there under 70.

Landry's really does not get this town

They're taking reservations for July 19th.

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