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    Castaway Grill

    3.4 (101 reviews)
    Closed 6:00 am - 3:00 pm

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    An egg - scrambled with cheese, homestyle potatoes, crispy bacon, biscuit and pancake.
    Jazzi J.

    Good stuff and super inexpensive. Wonderful wait staff and awesome location. Close to everything!

    Side salad
    Tricia W.

    Ate here for lunch with 4 adults and 4 children. Our server was very nice and the food came out quickly. I had the country fried steak with mashed potatoes and a salad. The salad was nothing special. Iceberg lettuce with a cucumber, tomato and shredded cheese. It was fresh and the tomato was ripe. The country fried steak was greasy, it could have done with a quick drain before they put it on the plate. The food came out so hot, you had to wait for it to cool down. That is never a bad thing. The kids had chicken tenders, burgers and grilled cheese. No one was complaining. One person got the seafood platter. It was giant and everything was good. The Patty Melt was also good. This is a clean little diner with a good choice of sides. Good value for the price. Give them a try if you are in OIB.

    Erik V.

    We love going to eat here. I always get the fried popcorn shrimp, or a cheeseburger. The food always seems to be really good. There's always 2 meals in one order, so, you will have lunch the next day, if you know how to eat in portions! I wanted to give this place 5 stars but the hostesses can sometimes seem to forget to bring something out, and when they do, it's wrong and have to bring out the right thing again. I'm really not one of those people that are wound so tight that I go off the deep end over small stuff like that. It can take a few minutes to get your drink, but, we're never in that much of a hurry when we go in there. The fried dill pickles are really good. They're probably the 2nd best I've ever eaten (the number one fried dill pickle being at the Pik N Pig in Carthage, NC. I've eaten that family's fried pickles since I was a small child in the 1970s). Oh yeah, Castaway Grill uses pickle chips and NOT those pickle spears. I despise going somewhere and getting excited about fried pickles being on the menu only to be served fried pickle spears! These are crispy and delicious. Dip them and ranch and Texas Pete and WOOOO WEEEE!! Prices are good, too, since you get two meals out of it!

    Fried pickles! So delicious
    Andrea T.

    The food here is definitely delicious! We came here for breakfast, I ordered an omelette with potatoes. The omelette was made with real eggs, not the powdered eggs you get at most breakfast places. And it had real cheddar! Breakfast was so good we decided to come back the next day for lunch. At lunch my mom and I shared a cheese burger (made with real meat not those frozen patties) and an order of fried pickles. The Pickles! Omg the pickles were so good! We ate half the order then our burger came, when I finished I decided to try them again and they were still crispy! How is that even possible!? Also it is very reasonably priced!

    Barbecue plate, fries, okra, Castaway Grille, Ocean Isle Beach, NC
    Zane C.

    This is a great little place for average food, nothing special. Service (wait-staff) was prompt and friendly but the wait for food (and there was only one other table seated, employees of the place, it appeared) is overly long, about 25 minutes; this was probably due to the massive number of phoned-in take-out orders stacking up on the cook. All in all, average food, prices in line for same, nothing fancy or special about it. We had: Barbecue plate with fries (not on menu) - Barbecue is, of course, pot/crockpot cooked but the sauce, made in-house, and the volume of the serving make it a great value (photo shown). Fries - The fries were served lukewarm, after a 25-minute wait, so perhaps you'll want to ask for hotter food if you visit. Calabash Shrimp (on menu) - Shrimp breading is mushy and shrimp are popcorn-sized and fragments, not the crispy medium shrimp for which this Gullah region is famous, but there were plenty of them. Fried Okra - it's the frozen kind, no seasoning of any kind, so you'll want a bit of salt Coleslaw - NO seasoning whatsoever other than mayo, no ingredients other than green cabbage. No salt, no pepper, no nothing. Dining room staff were extremely friendly, place was busy as a beehive later during our visit and apparently this place is filling a tourist-need niche here in Ocean Isle Beach. I did not try the ten-dollar Reuben (I've got to see this thing and I was tempted) but I'll probably give it a try if I visit again. Oh, and my barbecue, fries and okra were served on three plates, styrofoam, so don't expect anything fancy. I understand they're putting in beer and wine once they get their dishwasher water up to commercial standards and they have a small bar that appears as though it will seat about six folks, so you'll have that to look forward to soon.

    Chicken salad sandwhich
    Brennan B.

    This is a seat yourself style restaurant. Standard fare at a low price served in large portions and cooked well! The wait staff is very friendly and happy to help you with the menu. I got the chicken slouvaki plate that came with a Greek salad, French fries, and pita slices. It was enough food for me to easily take half to go for dinner later (I typically eat all of my food so this was BIG) and it was very tasty with all of the sauces. My friend got the chicken salad sandwich and it was standard pulled chicken salad with not too much mayo, also a lot of food and yummy.

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    Great food (grilled pork chops), great service with a smile. Laid back environment. Win Win when you're vacationing on the beach.

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    Had breakfast there; food was ok but I probably wouldn't go there again. Service was ok, just nothing special at all.

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    Very good food, huge omelets, delicious! Must be patience with the service. Slow and disorganized

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    This popular little coffee joint was indeed bustling the June morning that my wife and I dropped by…read morefor coffee and breakfast. The food menu is somewhat limited, however, we enjoyed our house made delicious Chia Cup ($9) and ham and egg sandwich ($8). Our lattes were tasty and served up pretty quickly despite the endless line of caffeine crazed patrons. Service was friendly and attentive. This place is obviously well-managed. We will return.

    We chose Drift based on Yelp reviews and the menu choices available…read more It's a little coffe shop with a limited, but thoughtful, menu. The coffee was a good, bold brew. Mr. And I both ordered the market bowl. Quinoa, sweet potatoes, avocado, tomato, and a spring mix w a fried egg on top. It was beautiful! Then we bit into it. The sweet potato was barely on the brink of being frozen. The Quinoa was also cold...not just room temperature, but ice-cold! Avocado was way too cold as well. So, you can imagine what this did to the beautifully cooked egg... yep - turned it cold in a heartbeat. Really off-putting to bit into. Mr. went back inside and asked if they had a microwave to heat it up and the 'workers' just said that was they way it was supposed to be. Mr. tossed the entire thing in the trash and simply said "well, it's disgusting". You would think there would be a simple offer to heat it up, or some kind of remedy for the situation. They didn't give a crap. I'm pretty sure they flipped us the bird on the way out. Nice.

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    I had breakfast at Toasted a few times and was always impressed with the quality of their food…read morealong with the creativity of their dishes. I had seen a tv spot about their new offerings of dinner, I knew I had to try them. We played golf up near Calabash, we had the opportunity to stop at Toast. Their menu offered a wide variety of their creative options. I chose the Shrimp Cherie, my wife chose the Slammin Salmon which was prepared with a couple of ingredients she couldn't have. They made suggestions on how they could alter the dish to satisfy her dietary needs. We both thought our meals were over the top. The service was fantastic our server was attentive but not a pain. The owner was very friendly stopping by a couple of times. The patrons were mainly local, the owner knew them well. His warmth radiated through the restaurant as the evening went on. My only regret was it took me so long to try Toast. It may be a bit of a drive for us but it's well worth the trip, we will be back very soon.

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    I've been driving by this spot for years and it's always been packed... not regular packed but…read morepeople parked in the street and the road trying to get in packed. This Thursday I was heading up with the wife to buy some fish and we decided to go for it. Of course there was zero parking with a parade of cars in the parking lot waiting to pick up food, when my wife noticed a pick up truck right in front of the place about to exit. She sped right next to the spot and jumped in before anyone realized it. We're in...or so I thought. We strolled up and there were about 35 people sitting on benches and rocking chairs under a tent right in front of the place all waiting to get in. I figured this is not going to be easy. I went up to the hostess station and asked how long for a table for two and she said 35 minutes or so. I looked at my wife and gave her my name. I had to find out what all the hub bub was about. In about 30 minutes they shouted my name and I sprinted to the front door...I wasn't about to lose my table. In we went and we're shown a nice size table in the middle of the place. It kinda reminded me of a beachy mom and pop diner. The friendly waitress came to the table right away, gave us our menus, showed us the specials board and took a drink order. The menu was simple but had some choices on it. While we were thinking, she came back with our drinks and we quickly ordered an appetizer. In this case, onion rings. A few minutes later my wife settled on a crab cake app and a salad which she asked to be combined. I went for the soup of the day(NE clam chowder) and one of the specials...pork chops(I took my grilled not fried) with 3 sides, Lima beans, okra & tomatoes stewed and green beans. The meal came with a choice of cornbread or roll. I opted for the cornbread. In a flash, the onion rings came out followed by the soup. Now I do love me some onion rings and these were fantastic. Crispy, flavorful and not stringy. The soup was home made. Creamy with bits of clam and chunks of potato. No salt or pepper was needed as it came out steaming hot and perfect. It was a meal in itself and I ended up taking 3/4 home with me(something rarely do). After a few minutes, the main course came out. My wife dug into a very large homemade crab cake, chock full of crab meat and very flavorful. She loved it. The salad was fresh and crisp. My pork chops came out and the size of the plate shocked me. Now, I almost never talk about price but my plate was $12.49 and I got two large perfectly prepared, juicy pork chops with a healthy helping of the best okra and stewed tomatoes I ever had plus absolutely delicious green beans and tasty lima beans. What a deal! The only thing that wasn't above average was the corn bread which was a tad dry and plain. Most of the regulars opted for the home made roll(and the fried chicken which was being served at every table!). I was stuffed and had trouble finishing my plate. My wife who said she was full, managed to save enough room for dessert. Now everyone was eating the homemade peach cobbler so I suggested that. My wife never had it before and was thinking about the Oreo pie, but I persuaded her and she was glad I did. Instead of the usual whip cream she wanted vanilla ice cream with it and it was a fantastic combo. The cobbler came out piping hot and crumbly with sweet chunks of peaches that paired well with the cold vanilla ice cream. She attacked it so fast that I couldn't get a picture. I broke my own rules and dipped in for a few spoonfuls and I'm glad I did. It was heavenly. The bill came and I couldn't believe how reasonable it was. Now I know why you can't get into the joint. We paid our bill and gave the super friendly waitress a nice tip and were on our way. We will absolutely be back and will try to time it a bit better so we can find parking...or we'll take an Uber...it was that good.

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