My spouse and I stopped at the bar outside of Council Oak
Fish for drinks on a Saturday evening in mid-July 2018. The bar is open daily
from 5:00 pm until 11:00 pm (nearly the same hours as the Council Rock Fish
restaurant). Reservations for the bar/lounge area are not accepted; however,
you can reserve at the regular restaurant using the Hard Rock Hotel’s website
(which uses the Seven Room system).
The Council Oak Fish restaurant and bar opened in July 2018
at Atlantic City’s Hard Hotel and Rock Casino (which replaced the Trump Taj
Mahal). It is located where the Old Hard Rock Café was positioned in the former
casino, so it benefits from a great location just off the boardwalk and off the hallway/pathway with many of the other
hotel restaurants (Kuro is the closest to Council Rock, but Il Mulino,
Song, YOUYU Noodle Bar, and Plum Lounge are not far away).
Council Oak
Fish is a spin on the Council Oak Steakhouse that is a trademark of most Hard
Rock Hotels. (The Atlantic City venue already had a steakhouse, so they had to
make an adjustment.) As its name implies, the chic nautical-themed restaurant
focuses on seafood (including a raw bar) and offers panoramic views of the
boardwalk, a wine tasting room, and an open wood fire-burning kitchen. Live
entertainment is available in the adjacent bar/lounge, which often features a
piano-bar atmosphere. You can sit at the large four-sided bar, at small
cocktail tables in front of the performance area (not a raised stage), and
high-top tables behind the bar next to the railing that fronts the
walkway/hallway that leads to other restaurants, the casino floor, and out to
the boardwalk.
We enjoyed our
drinks at the bar at Council Oak Fish; it was nice to see the contrast in
entertainment between this bar (Rachel Sunter/Arsoniste, a synthpop and piano singer-songwriter), the Hard Rock Café (Sonic 5, a party rock band), and the Lobby Bar
(Johnny O and the Classic Dogs of Love, a multi-piece R&B, pop, and funk dance band with a great brass section).
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