Celeste Coastal Cuisine

Go here! We wanted to treat my parents, who live on the island, to a nice dinner while we were staying with them. This would be a perfect spot for a fancy date or an anniversary dinner or other special event. Tash, our server, was fantastic! You could really tell she understood the menu, including the specials, and we ended up ordering not only the special cocktail, but entree as well. We never waited for anything, and she managed that perfect balance of unobtrusive, while also showing up exactly when we needed something. She did not steer us wrong, up to and including the bread pudding we ordered for desert. (We almost never order desert!) Celeste has a clearly New Orleans-inspired menu, and while food snobs (an epithet some might aim at me) love to hate on restaurants that try to repli

Really nice meal with friends. Good selection of classic cocktails plus some inventive additions. Nice wine selection. Food - oysters, crab soup, short rib, crab cakes, pork chop and fish - was all delicious & well presented. Service was good quality and friendly. Did ding them 1 * because they were a little slow for a quiet weeknight.

Although the service was slightly slow, the food was delectable. The bartenders were exceptional, expertly crafting my wife’s drinks. Given our proximity, I am confident that we will return in the future.

We had a fabulous meal. A very creative take on the trinity wedge and my gumbo soup was the best I ever had. My wife had the delicious diver scallops with lemon risotto and crabmeat salad and I enjoyed the savory blackened red fish with crab etouffee with gouda stone ground grits. The desserts, chocolate mouse pie and key lime pie were fresh and delectable. Our server Nadia was excellent and we were very impressed with the very warm and attractive restaurant ambiance and the very comfortable soft leather chairs. This was our first visit and now on our list of must do HHI restaurants. Rudy & Susan Jones

I had higher hopes for this one as I know it’s the sister restaurant of the pearl. The food was ok. Nothing to really write home about. However our server was fantastic and the atmosphere was great. Maybe just caught them on an off night.