Islands Restaurant Northridge — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Islands has become a place where my friends and I come together to celebrate wether it's a birthday or graduation. I always look foward to coming here because it's filled with happy memories. Everytime we come here our waitress/ waiter is absolutely amazing, which is a major reason why we keep coming, they are all very welcoming and friendly. Sadly today has been my worst experience at this Islands. Today was my girlfriend's graduation celebration and it was all ruined by the horrible service we got from our waiter Jason. From the moment we all sat down his unwelcoming gestures and downright rude tone made it clear he did not like us. Which I can't even begin to understand seeing as to how we hadn't even been at the table for 2 minutes. He was completely unprofessional and made us all feel extremely uncomfortable. I have to say I work in the food industry and I know how hard the job can be especially when you are waiting on a big group. That being said there is no reason why Jason needed to act so hostile towards our group. And yet even after all this was going on we still tried to be nice to Jason. Funny thing is towards the end of our meal when we made it clear to him we weren't happy, he started to be a "nice" guy. Nice try Jason, but you are tad too late. Thank you for this disastrous experience. I still think the rest of the staff is great; Alex the manager was very understanding when we told him about our experience I feel like he took everything I said into deep consideration and this is the only reason why I would even consider coming back to this Islands in particular. My only advice is to Jason and that is that I get it if you had a bad day and maybe we got the worse end of the stick but keep it together sir or look for...

This Islands is what you typically expect from the chain. It's a surf themed restaurant, burgers and fish taco thing going on.

Take it or leave it, that's why I gave them three stars.

During the lunch crowd you'll get a lot of office workers that come in here in the neighboring area. Early dinner crowd is more of a family place, couples date night vibe.

The Bar: Don't expect any kind of singles scene here. It could happen, total fluke kind of thing, like if it was somebody's birthday party???

Came in today for the Happy Hour specials. Nice choices both for food and beverages.

Beachside Sliders: if you took all three of them and can bind them together, it would be about the size of a regular burger. You do have to specify if you want cheese or not, which cost about a dollar extra. I do like the crunch of the fried onions, and the burger was tasty. Problem here is that they are really thin, so they cook too fast. One of them was medium, and the other two were probably closer to well done.

Island Nachos: Need to specify if you want chicken added for $2 more. They we're like buying tortilla chips at the market, then throwing sliced processed cheese on top. Nothing fancy. It does come with a dollop of sour cream and a dollop of guacamole.

Service: Our bartender was on point, really helpful, made a few suggestions. Nachos and Sliders took about 20 minutes to serve though, and the place was at 40% capacity. So does it really take that long to throw food on the plate that's probably already precooked anyway????

Parking lot is free and Big.

Might come back here, might not. It would have to be for some birthday party or...

I had a good, comfort food AND vegetarian experience at Islands in Porter Ranch where the staff is super, super friendly.

They’ve got lots of beer options on tap and in bottles, plus margaritas. I had a Blue Moon which was served in a proper beer stein with a handle. (Sometimes serving a beverage in its proper glass make all the difference.

You can get a veggie burger on any of their many burger options, and they’re happy to customize it anyway you want. They also have gluten-free buns available in case that’s your diet…an there are other vegetarian options including a "Beach Bowl” with rice, and various vegetables, along with “no blame” grilled veggie tacos.

I had the Mavericks burger which comes with barbecue sauce, Island reds (crispy onions) lettuce, tomato and pickles. I had them take out the mayo and sub cheddar for the American cheese, with a veggie patty. My waitress wanted me to pay special note to the volume of the burger when ot came out, and it was quite large which we both found exciting. It tasted great too. It’s a standard Garden Burger variety veggie burger. I wonder when more restaurants will start to offer a default veggie burger option like the “Impossible Burger and/or “Beyond Meat”, both of which better simulates an actual burger.?) I really enjoyed it.

They also offer “endless” fries which honestly felt like too much of a commitment for me but they also tasted great. Islands is a great place to go for a vegetarian comfort...