Eli's Island Deli — Restaurant in Avalon

They ripped me off and they'll rip you off.

I bought a pair of sunglasses here. The next day, I noticed that the frame was sliding off of the lens - one of the screws was missing. An easy fix, right? So I went back... and they refused to fix it, refund me, or do an exchange, claiming "I could have done something to it after I bought it." I later took it to an eyeglass shop. They looked at it... and showed me that the reason that there was no screw is because there was NO HOLE DRILLED ALL THE WAY THROUGH for a screw to go through. So, literally impossible for me to have "done something to it" - it never had a screw in the first place.

I learned a valuable lesson: NEVER buy sunglasses (or anything, really) from an island location that you can't easily get back to. They were well aware that I would almost certainly never be back, so they knew they could get away with taking my money and not selling me what I thought I was buying.

Catalina is a lovely island with lovely shops - this isn't one of them. You can go literally anywhere else, less than a hundred feet away, and get the exact same thing for less, and from a more...

If you get a sandwich, I suggest you get the tuna sandwich. I got mine on wheat bread and comes with lettuce and tomato. I requested pickles and relish too. Delicious. I think they might be using Claussen pickles because everything tasted so fresh and the pickles were very crispy. I requested sandwich without cheese and with no mayo, because I feel like the tuna already is mixed with mayo and the cheese would just distract from the tuna. The staff behind the counter are very kind and readily give great recommendations. I had asked about the turkey sandwich, and I sent that I was trying to decide between turkey and tuna, and they immediately said go for the tuna. I’m very glad that I did, because the turkey is not smoked turkey I only really like smoked turkey...

I went into this cute little deli and thought I’d get something off the menu because it’s a food establishment. I went to order and the rude man behind the counter told me “the kitchen is closed” at 10:30 in the morning??? I seen him literally just make something for someone else and he made me feel not welcome. In any industry you want to feel welcome, and this was not the case for this place. The man was rude and an experience like that is...