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Islands Restaurant

3.4 (359 reviews)
Open 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Updated over 3 months ago

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ISLANDS RESTAURANT ATMOSPHERE

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Casual
Moderate noise
Good for kids
Happy hour specials

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Tony J.

Daughter's birthday, she wanted to eat here with the family. It was moderately busy, unfortunately, we didn't have the greatest waitress, we kept asking other waitresses for assistance. The food was good, prices good, the reason why there's two stars missing, is because our waitress and the staff, dropped off the birthday cake, ignored us, and gave us the impression that they didn't want to sing happy birthday to our special-needs family member!

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Terrence Y.

Mostly come here for happy hour and sit in the bar area. Great central location with the typical set-up with the bar in the center. The place is often packed with a wait so as long as there's a spot at the bar we get to seat ourselves. Even though they're busy, the service is usually fairly prompt. They're always friendly and polite. While we alternate among the various happy hour options, we always get cheddar fries with ranch dressing. My regular dinner order is the Hawaiian burger, cut in half, on a plate and pineapple on the side. Delicious

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Charrise L.

Celebrating a child's birthday today. Guess Islands doesn't do anything to recognize the celebration. Oh well. Food was hot and fresh. Forgot to ask for flour tortillas for the fish tacos. Corn tortillas were thick. The 2 tacos I took home to enjoy for dinner, the corn tortillas were too tough to eat. Enjoyed the battered fish by themselves. Ok, bye.

George U.

Stopped in for lunch today. We sat at a high top in the bar area. Dillon was our amazing server and was professional, kind and knowledgeable. We started with drinks and the nachos. Very good . I had a chicken bowl and my wife had a chicken salad. The food was good and service great. Highly recommended

Double patty melt lunch
Jason T.

Came in while Christmas shopping as I was craving a toucan chicken sandwich. I saw they had a patty melt on the lunch menu which never had here. The deal seemed great so gave it a try. It was ok as the patty was dry not juicy. Bread was good and beer was cold . They have good specials during lunch and would recommend going then. Bartender was sweet.

Grilled chicken burger
Chris P.

Not the best location I've been to. Here in Lake Forest our server never came back to our table or even acknowledge our existence she always had her back turned. I waited 10 minutes for more Ranch dressing and i asked two different people because our server wouldn't come back to our table. I ordered the Beach Bowl with chicken but there wasn't much chicken at all and the vegetables were hard and not cooked enough to be in a rice bowl. The amount of rice was about 3-4 small tablespoons and not worth the money. I finally got to speak to a Supervisor and he very nicely removed the Beach Bowl from our bill. My salad had a lot of inedible stock. My wife loved her grilled chicken sandwich so she was happy at least.

Fish tacos
Vinitha V.

Great spot to watch the game. Great service and lots of good choices of menu items. The fish tacos were very filling and had really great toppings. They also have a lot of great cocktail options. They are so delicious and flavorful.

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Always consistent. Bar area has good deals for happy hour too. Need to add more words to complete review so........

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11 months ago

The food was delicious,Good seasoning. Server was very friendly. For shure ill be back definitely

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A quick west coast lunch. The chips and salsa was the start and the Big Wave with cheese was the main course.

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