The Blue Marlin Restaurant is a seafood restuarant the lies right in between Harlingen and San Benito on Bus Hwy 77. The restaurants food is actually pretty good, the chips and salsa that they give you while you wait is usually warm and pretty awesome. The only thing that I have a problem with is the wait staff. They are the most unfriendly wait staff around in the area. I eat out alot and although they do their job, they hardly ever make you feel welcome. If it wasn't for the afordable prices that they offer for the seafood, this place would probably loose alot of business because of this. Once I walked in somewhat late in the evening when no one was there except for a few customers already eating. We noticed a "senior winter texan" couple standing around and so we decided to see if we could find a table. The waitress rudely told my fiancee that they were seating a big party and that they were probably not going to be able to help us. This made us mad because their whole party wasn't even there yet nor had they been seated (seating here is on your own by the way). And another thing isn't it a sign of good management to be able to handle big parties (10 people or so) and smaller parties (2 people) at the same time, I mean it is a big place. All the other times we have had that same waitress or any other waitress for that matter we have had lousy and slow service. Like I said....the food is really good.
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