Point Royal - Hollywood

We couldn't eat. their information was wrong. there was no menu. only a “buffet” with rest and no choice. So we left the wheelchair and everyone.

We were excited to try out this restaurant as the website shows salad bar for lunch. They don’t have a salad bar here at all. The service was mediocre at best. We ordered the fish and chips and chicken avocado. Both tasted great. The fish and chips were embarrassing! It was 3 tiny tiny pieces that were enough for a toddler to eat. The rest was good however, not enough to recommend this place to friends or to ever go back.

We had calamari. It was nice and light, as was the accompanying aioli. My wife ordered the lobster roll. She thought it was excellent. It was dressed very well. Nothing accompanied it on the plate. Fries typically accompany a lobster roll. If the lobster roll had the same frites accompanying my steak it would have elevated the entree for sure. My son had the cheese pizza, and he ate the entire thing himself. I would say he enjoyed it quite a bit. I had steak frites. The steak was seasoned well, had a very tasty accompanying sauce, and the frites were excellent. If you put frites on the plate with the lobster roll you could bump the price a few bucks no problem. We shared the Nutella brownie sundae for dessert. The brownie was excellent and the Nutella proportioned very well. The sever was very polite and provided excellent service. A very nice experience!

We were so excited to book a reservation at a restaurant where it was advertised that Geoffery Zakarian was the chef because my son had actually competed as a contestant on one of the shows he judges. It started by a superb greeting by the hostess, but from there it either disappointed or was just pedestrian at best. We definitely had better meals during our time in Fort Lauderdale at lower prices. Once we were shown our table, they did not have enough menus available so we shared. My son's drink order was was wrong and it took 30 minutes from the time we sat down for them to deliver my drink from the bar. The food menu was just OK, but as noted above, we expected more complex offerings from Geoffrey not a heavy dose of pizza, burgers, and pasta that did not bring something new versus simpler and cheaper restaurants. The upside was we did find one gem my son's risotto was very good. However, the chicken look like it had been warmed up and just place on top rather than integrated into the dish. The tuna tartare was just really just cubed tuna over avocado, and while the snapper was good, it was just a nicely cooked fish with chopped vegetables on the side tossed with what seemed to be a bottled vinaigrette. We ordered the meatball as a starter, but it did not come out and was brought to the table after the fact. It did taste good, but again, wasn't anything different than we could get at any pizza place.

Parking to get to the restaurant was a serous challenge. The waitstaff seemed distracted and the good was well prepared, but instantly forgettable. That being said, the other diners seemed to be relaxed and having a good time. I am not sure Point Royal is worth the trip to get there and pay high prices for pizza, but most patrons didn’t seem to care.