Reviews for Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern in Sarasota, FL

Friendly staff!! Yummy food!! But... The men's restroom was disgusting. Paper towels all over the floor. Toilets not clean.... Trash cans over flowing. The awful smell of urine. Read more

Good food - Great service by Tanya. I had the Cuban. Could only eat half of the. huge sandwich . The mac & cheese was very... good. She had the fish & chips, also large portion. The strawberry shortcake dessert we had was also good. This was ourfirst visit here and we will go back soon ! Read more

Most confusing burger I have ever eaten. Visited on a Tuesday late afternoon. Not busy. Seated immediately. 10 min wait for... waitperson. Bacon Bucket Burger: this burger was a feat of flavor removal. It looked good. The textures were correct. I couldnot taste bacon. I removed some and it straight. Tasteless. I also did not taste meat. So I ate a chunk by itself. It tastedlike boiled bland burger. Zero flavor. Codwich: fried fish was crispy and and normal for bar food. They left off the tartarsauce. In all the sandwich was extremely average. Fries: looked crispy, but were squishy. Not sure what they intended. I enjoyedthe bright seasoning of aromatics (mostly onion), but mine was drowned in seasoning to the point that the salt burned my tongueas I ate. Read more

Very last minute decision to eat here tonight after being in another store for way too long with the family. We haven’t eaten... here in years, and so glad we decided to try it again. Our server was Nick, very cordial, polite, attentive, service was great.Our food was delicious! I got the Greek salad and it is the best, most fresh Greek salad I’ve had in really long time, and at8.49, a steal these days. The portion size was large, I could barely eat it all, plenty of lettuce and olives, feta, chick peas,red/green pepper, pickled onion, cauliflower, carrots, pepperoncini and the perfect amount of vinaigrette. Hubby got the turkeyburger, son got the bacon burger with cole slaw, daughter the Mac and cheese with fries. They each loved their meals, and I atethe Cole slaw which was yummy and the fries, Omg, was not expecting them to be worth posting about lol they were hot and freshand seasoned perfectly, then paired with ranch (of course), who doesn’t want a salad with a side of fries and ranch?? Overall,great last minute meal, we will be back sooner than later. Read more

There was about a 30 minute wait which wasn't too bad. Ended up sitting outside. Heaters, fans and screened in area. Anthony was... a great waiter. He didn't come by every 2 seconds and didn't ignore us either. The fried pork tenderloin sandwich was fantastic. Read more

Rusty is good place. Has its good and bad. “The beer wall” basically a menu on the wall is hardly impressive as 99% of the... list comprises of mass produced grocery store beers. (Greenbench, St. Pete was probably the only sought after brewery on thelist) . Apps were great. The sirloin chili was one of the best I have had. Perogi is great as well. For main course I orderedthe Cuban. It was good. I mean does not come close to Old’s Havana in Little Havana, Miami, but I was not expecting that.However, it’s definitely top 5 Cubans between Sarasota to Tampa. We also ordered the Power Bowl Chicky Chicky Bowl, let mejust say that the ingredients were great, but the bowl lacked flavor. Overall great ambience to the place. I will probablycome back for that Sirloin Chilli. Thank you. Read more

First stop after getting into the area. First person who sat us never came back with another menu or with answer to some of the... board items being available on a menu or having to go inside to read. Our server was very kind and good check ins Read more

I just had dinner at the location in Southfield, MI. I ordered baked rigatoni that was served in a tiny portion, it looked like... a side dish instead of a full dish. I'm an Italian food lover. I eat it everywhere. I told the waiter who talked to the managerand he said that that's the normal size. Unbelievable they charge $15.99 for a tiny portion. Picture attached. Netherless to sayit was not even good. Read more