Tim’s II At Fairview

DO NOT EAT HERE. I knew we were in trouble when we ordered the crab dip and it came out with ritz crackers. Worst restaurant meal ever in my 54 years on this planet. And we were charged $ 70 for the privilege.
View is great. Drinks are standard fare.

Food was disgusting. Ordered the fried seafood platter $ 29, it came with two sides. None of sides were too impressive. If I tell u only thing good in that platter was the French fries and the free hush puppies, that is pretty disappointing. Different items in that platter was either over cooked or inferior in quality. Also ordered the crab cake dip, which was nothing but sour cream. We barely nibbled it. These people really need to come down to the DC area and try food here. Things they overcharge there being on the sea, should be better in quality. I did share my experience with them before my check arrived, to my surprise I was charged for every single item.
Anyway please go there for a great view, although they have a bar there, when I saw one of the manager or owner getting drunk there I got a pretty good idea of summing that place. Don’t waste your money on food. There are other places there that you might have a better food experience.
Service staffs over there are really really really awesome, except the hostess. They acted like they were held hostage there or you are an alien walking in for some food there…

Terrible service slow and unassuming staff. Clams burnt, crab cakes were missing the crab and the crab soup just cream soup. The manager was unprofessional and didn’t care. Didn’t try to do anything to make the situation better. I will never return.

Awesome crab legs and mussels in garlic sauce. Yummmm!!! Great and friendly service. Fun atmosphere. Hopefully I’ll visit again.

i went to this old restaurant by the harbor… place is designed to look like an old tropical stink bomb… The menus are like old newspaper… and the food looked bad… It was like they tried to make it taste like someone made it a hundred years ago… looked really stale… not appetizing at all… they always host this forth of July party bash by the harbor… but they canceled it this year and thought it would be cooler to do an after forth of July bash… Makes no sense to me… So your going to celebrate something that is over… Does it make it cooler… no! The food Quality sucked and was overpriced for sucky food… the décor was tacky… they really need to redecorate… Many boats and water actives to do by the restaurant… such as fishing… Lost of parking… I won’t go back there…

Love to take friends here during the summer! Good atmosphere, good prices, and good food. The crab soup is delicious!

We called at 8:30pm on Sunday to make sure they were open. Lady on phone said they serve food until 2am or volume. We headed over and got a table outside. Ordered a salad but the waiter said they already shut down the salad bar and I couldn’t get the salad. Then he let us know we only had 20 minutes to eat because they were closing. The food came out over cooked and it took a really long time. Instead of offering more drinks he asked if we minded if he stacked the chairs all around us. I had to drink my friends water because I never got a refill. About ten minutes after he stacked the chairs another couple came and sat down. After unstacking the chairs. They ordered food. Not sure where the miscommunication was but apparently this waiter had decided to close everything but the rest of the restaurant and staff didn’t get his memo. Horrible service.

We ordered broiled seafood and by the time it got to us, it was cold! Last time coming to this joint! Wouldn’t expect to spend twenty bucks per entrée for cold broiled food. And the manager didn’t seem upset! We had seven folks with cold food and warm Draft beer. Happy Father’s Day.

It has been a few years since we ate here and I have to say the crabs were great! Steamed shrimp and crab balls were cooked to perfection. Service was wonderful. The place has really cleaned up since the last time we were here. Very impressed by the cleanliness and the food has improved greatly. We were very happy and will return. A hole from Spotsy should have gone to Capt D’s in the burg! He’s mad cause he couldn’t steal any utensils!

OMG, what an awful experience. We had a party of seven which threw the place for a loop. They said it would be a thirty-​minute wait — after an hour and fifteen minutes, they seated us in 3 tables, a two, a two and a three top. Although annoying at the seating, decent food and service could have salvaged the night. Well, that didn’t happen. I ordered the stuffed rockfish and it was severely overcooked — dry as hell. My wife ordered the broiled seafood platter and it arrived with 4 shrimp and 6 clams and a mountain of previously frozen, rubbery vegetables. Two in our party ordered the king crab legs and they arrived with a hammer, not a nut cracker as usual. When we asked for the crackers we were told they only had about 10 of them and none were available. Due to the combination of issues at this place we asked to speak with the manager. He said they aren’t ordering additional nut crackers because people steal them. I told him to buy disposable ones and he complained they are too expensive and don’t last long. I told him then he should remove king crab legs from his menu. Another staffer told us that the owners were cheap. If they’re cutting corners and being cheap in the front of the house, can you imagine the corners they cut in the kitchen? Overall — the food and service are horrible. They do have location and a nice patio working for them. If they weren’t on the water they would have failed by now. If you’re looking for place to just have some drinks and listen to live music, then this place would work for you. If you want to eat go somewhere else.

Food has gone downhill somewhat.

I went there after being told it had great food and was a great place to swim .I should have checked out the reviews first and I would have saved my money and not gone there at all. We were seated and we had a trainee as a waitress along with a real waitress. NOT SO GOOD the real waitress had to come back to get our order straight .And then they both came back way too many times (how is everything ?) cant a person just eat and not be bothered everyother min? We should have left then .My husband ordered a cup of coffee it was like drinking a cup of mud Yuk. The Corn Nuggets, and Calamari were good. Fried Shrimp dinner was Okay but over priced for what came with it .I had a fried combo Oysters and cod with 2 sidesalso over priced I was supposed to get hushpuppies so I asked for some and they brought me a plate of twice fried oil soaked rocks. YUCKY ! The fish didnt even like them ! 3 sodas 1 beer 101.83 later what a waste Eek! Methinks not never again. :(I almost forgot my son wanted to go swimming after dinner .The water was not very clean and their beach had 2 Pipes draining I dont know what into the water and a Concrete pipe sticking up out of the sand that smelled of sewer? So we passed on swimming. I guess I should have drank lots of beer then I wouldn’t have cared what the water looked like Lol

Wow, where to start?! We were the only people in the place, besides a few customers at the bar, and I think our server wished we had gone somewhere else. There were 12 of us, having beers and lunch. One of the table was wobbly to the point of falling over, and the «manager» I guess came over, stuck a magazine under the leg and pronounced it fixed. Did I mention we were the only people in the place? My husband switched out the table for one that was not falling over. When I say «manager» in quotes, it’s because I’m not sure if he was the manager or just another unhappy employee (perhaps his beard keeps his lips from tilting upwards). Now, the food… hmmm…we came because they used to have these great and i mean GREAT fried clams. Four of us ordered the clams. They were AWFUL. They were NOT clams, but minced clam batter fried in the shape of fried clams. OMG, for $ 16.95, expect to get the real thing. We complained about them. They wouldn’t take them off the bill, but replaced them with a different meal. Excuse me, but shouldn’t I be given the choice? The soft shell crab was so tiny, not even sure if it was legal. The crab cake sandwich was fairly tasty though. That’s all I have to say about Tim’s II and we will definitely not be going back.

We came here on a Sunday by boat and took the boat taxi that Tim’s provides. We had a great experience… the appetizers we had were good (crabs, crab dip and hushpuppies) and the frozen drinks were great. We moved out to the deck which is right on the water and listened to live music… sing along stuff to songs you know. All in all, it was a great way to take a break from the boat and get some food and drinks. It’s nothing fancy, but when you’re on a boat on the river, who wants fancy?

Love it on the river under some of the coolest palm on the Potomac… and the food was pretty damn good too! I will def return only next visit will be via the boat!
Almost forgot the service was great too quick and friendly!

Are your crabs itchin’ or are you itchin’ for crabs?
Ok carpet baggers and Northern VA yuppie pukes in your BMW’s… go to Tysons Corner and order a fucking lobster at The Palm. This is a friggin crab house. You come here to get stinky fingers, a solid beer buzz and non stop people watching entertainment. The crabs are not bad (they are not «spiked» i.e. look at the belly of a crab and see if it has a puncture hole), the rest of the food is ok. The prices are typical. The air conditioning is only cold in the restroom (dude…don’t hang out in the restroom… thats creepy).
The whole building and floor are not level (6+ beers make it a real «fun house»). This joint is like a club house Spanky and the gang would have made when they grew up.
Then…there’s the people. Picture a hodge podge of Rolex sporting middle age crisis guys with their 22 year old girl friends with $ 150,000 go fast boats. Over dressed suburban soccer moms in conservative shoes with their «yes man» subserviant hubbies that drove their mini van adorned with window stick figure people. Leather skinned, prison tattooed, toothless mouth breather local river boys with their muffin topped, chain smoking, Ill fitting bikini clad baby’s mommas.
Its like
, you cant stop looking.
Bottom line: This place is like your girlfriend… don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed. See you at Tims!

Sweet jesus my goddamn christ, this place is my own personal version of hell. Do you want to know where douchebags go to die? Well, it’s Tim’s 2. You’ll find it in one of the few remaining places in the United States actively combating civilization.
I knew we were in for a treat when we were directed to park in a field in the middle of a trailer park. Charlie, the lovable meth-​head, was directing cars into their spaces. Remember this because it will come up later.
Upon schlepping to the establishment, the first sight that awaited us was a 250lbs woman in a bikini. If that’s not enough to destroy any appetite that you may have upon arriving, just wait. There’s more of the same once you get past the hostess who’s busy chatting up the guido cockblight that’s staring at her tits.
The layout of the place is a complete goddamn disaster. The entire outside area is a series of bottlenecks that are passable only if you happen to be packing a machete. Charlie Allnut would have thrown his hands up in disgust. Naturally, these bottlenecks are where all the drunken idiots congregate turning an inconvenient situation into a complete clusterfuck.
I’d love to talk about the service, but frankly, I didn’t fucking see any. Here’s a tip: if it takes you a hour to deliver something as simple as a coke, you might want to consider ending yourself because it hard to imagine a higher level of incompetence than not being able to fill a goddamn glass. Additionally, if you come back three times to tell me that you’re out of the beer I ordered, you might want to contemplate doing violence to whoever runs your inventory (note, this was early evening, far, far from closing time). It’s for these reasons that I can’t speak to the food; I didn’t particularly relish the idea of waiting for them to hunt down and kill whatever I wound up ordering.
And oh god, the clientele. I didn’t think I’d ever meet a redneck guido but I’ll be damned if they’re not right here in VA. After spending an evening surrounded by duck-​lipped, fake-​tanned, coke junkies with awful boob-​jobs and the shirtless, tattooed, spiky-​haired Jersey Shore rejects, the only thing I could think of was contacting a Hollywood suit and pitching an idea for a new reality series. It would make a goddamn killing.
The only saving grace of this place is that while you wait upwards of an hour and a half for a plastic table with a mix of plastic and metal chairs, you can at least marvel at the parade of amazingly terrible tattoos. Ask the guy with «Bad Ass» written across his back where he got his.
I would say that the best part of our experience at Tim’s 2 was leaving, but even that was a complete nightmare. Remember Charlie? Apparently, he wandered off to do some more meth because when we got back to our car, we found that we were completely boxed in. Apparently, someone neglected to rope off the way out, and someone had parked his suped up Pontiac in the middle of the goddamn exit. Thankfully, someone had apparently gotten as fed up as we had and moved their car to make an escape route.
In closing, if you’re thinking about dining at this establishment, consider killing yourself instead. You’ll probably have a more enjoyable experience.

After reading the other reviews I had to double check the location i was getting ready to write about. My sister, her husband and I had the completely opposite experience than all the other reviewers.
We arrived on a beautiful late afternoon for an early dinner and was promptly seated at a nice location with water view. This combination bar/​restaurant is located right on the water smack in the middle of no where but that was perfect. Some of the fun was finding it. Tim’s II was definitely a casual dining experience, don’t look for linens and candlelight. It had a very local pitstop feel but with light mix of tourist and plenty of brown paper. They had their tshirts and trinkets for sale and the bar next door décor.
We went for the crabs! We really weren’t interested in anything else since this was a Crab House known for its Crabs. We ordered the all you can eat mediums and lovely chilled Coronas with lime. The beverages were brought quickly, lime remembered AND she brought us water without us asking.
Crabs were brought out soon after along with a second round of beer. The crabs were steaming hot and very good size. When my sisters hands were elbow deep in crabs and beer and her long hair was getting in the way the lovely waitress offered a hair band and then proceeded to help my sister put her hair back into a pony tail ~ that’s service and then some.
We dined and drank until we felt we were going to bust laughing and enjoying ourselves immensely. Service was attentive and the tab was about average. Great place that we hope to visit again.

I’ve been to Tim’s a few times, which is why I’m giving it 3 stars… because my last experience there was definitely a two, if not one star experience. So Tims, this is your lucky day.
A brief summary: Our server got way too busy for his britches and forgot about us. Or disappeared. Either way, he completely vanished for a good hour, if not longer, to the point where we ran a separate tab at the bar. This guy was awful. I wish I knew his name. On top of that, he told my friend that they were out of crabs, and then two or three tables surrounding us got crabs! Whats up with that?!
More people joined our party later and we all ordered food from this guy, when he got a little less busy. The food took FOREVER. I mean, over 45 minutes. Some one got a burger that was supposed to be well, and it was bleeding. I had soup, and it was disgustingly thick. It tasted good, but it was like a dip. However, my brother loved it. He actually engulfed it. The food was seriously lacking this day, except for my corn nuggets, which were amazing. They’re so good. One star for the corn nuggets.
I think the biggest problem was that it was a Monday, don’t come here on a Monday, I think they would be better off being closed.
However, I have had the food here before and it’s been ok. It’s definitely not great, but people don’t come here for the food, they come here for the drinks, which are good. They are cheap, and cold, and delicious. Get a pitcher of beer during happy hour and you are good to go. The best part about Tims is that if you’re on a boat, they have a boat taxi that will come pick you up and bring you to Tims, and then back to your boat. I’m definitely more of a Pirate’s Den girl though.

I heard quite a bit about Tim’s and finally was down in the area to check it out. The restaurant sits right on the water and there were lots of people in their swimsuits, doing water sports, swimming or relaxing on the beach. It reminded me instantly of those ocean city restaurants by the water — even the people look the same lol. We had a big group and ordered a bunch of food and drinks — they were not served all at the same time. While most people got their food– I waited for the wings which came after everyone else finished their food. Their hot wings were lame, whole with the lil baby tip which was weird. I got really sick afterwards. One guy who was starving never got his food till the very end when we were ready to leave. They took it out of the cheque though. The crowd was definitely interesting…