The Sailfish restaurant, located at Marsh Creek at Scotts Hill Marina, is now open for its third season, with several new menu items and a summer concert series.
 
The restaurant has a 60-seat dining room as well as a deck with an additional 30 seats on the upper level, along with the Steamer Bar on the lower level, where food and drinks are also served.
 
General Manager Shannon Pitts describes the atmosphere as very casual and family friendly.
 
“It’s definitely the type of place you can come to in your flip-flops,” Pitts said.
 
Pitts said for the past two seasons, much of the restaurant’s business has come from patrons of the marina and boaters. With an expanded menu and a Thursday night concert series, he is hoping to bring in new customers from beyond Scotts Hill.
 
Pitts said the upstairs menu has been expanded, with the help of customer feedback, to include more entrée-style dishes such as steak, bone-in pork chops and crab cakes. In the past, the Steamer Bar served only steamed seafood, but will now also serve appetizers, sandwiches, burgers, salads and a children’s menu. The full Steamer Bar menu will be available April 6, according to The Sailfish's website.
 
“All of our seafood is local, and everything is made in house,” Pitts said. “We’re not reinventing the wheel, but our focus is on quality.”
 
Pitts said that the evenings of live music that were scheduled last summer were so popular that he has created the Live on the Loop Summer Concert Series for this season, where a different local act will perform every Thursday evening from May through September.

The upstairs dining room at The Sailfish is open 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and the Steamer Bar is open 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
 
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