Islands Restaurant Clairemont Mesa

9-18-19. My husband and I just stopped in for the salad and tortilla soup lunch special. Inexpensive and delicious! Theo is one of the best servers we have ever had. June 2019. They have the best hamburgers and the tortilla soup is excellent also.

Food is so good. Anything you order from here is good. Service is great and staff is friendly. Very affordable. Family friendly.

Good food, fast service, helpful wait staff. Crisp French fries.

Service das great. Today my burger wasn't that good it was missing flavor and jalapeño peppers. The French fries didn't feel fresh. I'll still go back it's a good place just a bad day

They made me a couple of gluten free burgers by getting gluten free buns for my daughter n i and toasting them perfectly. I cant eat flour and I dont like protein burgers, so this was amazing for me EDIT 11-6-2019 . I wanted to share a new updated experience. Today my daughter and I went to eat at Islands. Because she has a gluten allergy she (and I) doesnt eat much when we go there. We share a burger on a gluten free bun, and she gets a few cucumbers and tomatoes. Today the tomatoes were soft, rotten and a bit smelly. I complained and they of course went to the kitchen, and got new ones. They were fine. The new experience that happened was there was a "veggie dipper" charge of $1.05. It was the first time ever in the years I've been going there that's been charged to me. I'm fine with it, but after serving rotten ones, which I'm pretty sure they have abundances of, they charged us.i paid, didn't really complain about the $1.05, although with the gluten free bun it's now over $2. Ive always disagreed with a bun charge. If you want customers with allergies to be patrons, comprises by the resturants must be made. But that's clearly another debate. So this ISLANDS on Balboa has a new manager, Bobby is no longer at this Islands. Hes at a diff one.. anyway, on the way out, she came over to me and handed me a $15 complimentary gift card for our next visit there. The significance of this is it was unsolicited and above and beyond anything I deemed necessary. So way to go Islands! Thanks...

Outstanding fish tacos, and the service was great.

It was a nice little burger place. The burgers were really good.

We came in as a terribly difficult family of 7 - with 3 little children. The service was just perfect - welcoming, incredibly attentive and friendly. Our waiter just always knew exactly what we needed before we could finish our sentence. The burgers and the soup we had were great and came fast. The fries were fantastically crispy. We ate here with our american Friends. Loved the burger. Great place, lots of locals instead of tourists. Would go here more often if I could