Laughing Gull Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Isle of Palms

First of all, the food comes in melamine trays with a lid that is genius for carrying them out and keeping everything contained! Coconut shrimp are a nice size and tasty, but watch out for the sauce to dip it in because it’s got quite a zippy kick! They are a kind of bland without something. I am not a fan of corn meal, breaded anything and the strips for the pickles is very different than anything I’ve seen, and even though the breading falls off very easily, between the sauce and the pickles, they are delicious! Chicken tenders were pretty big, but probaby just frozen kind and fries were good. Burger was good and fruit is fresh. Overall, what we ordered for the main meal was pretty standard beach/pool food. Our server, Patrick was very busy, but still on top...

The speed of service was good HOWEVER…A can of beer is $7 (that I can understand in a resort) but out our apps were served somewhat warm/somewhat ice cold. My issue is that when we asked our server where the Beachside Burger and Bar restaurant was located they could not direct us (or chose not to in order to keep us at their table). Not cool! Every employee working face to face with guests should know where to direct someone in the resort. We found the Beachside Bar by ourselves and it was the beautiful view we were...

My family of 5 waited 15 minutes to be seated. Upon being seated we waited another 15 with menus in front of us but we were never greeted and offered drinks. Frustrated, we left and ate at the taco truck. Inattentive and complacent waitstaff abound. This experience mirrors our last visit in May where we waited an exorbitant amount of time for a waitstaff member to surface and greet us. I’m sure there is a system in place for staff to pick up tables; but whatever it is- it’s...