Hometown Cafe — Restaurant in Town of Islip

I have no idea who is rating this place on here , maybe it’s friends and family of the owners or maybe not as of recent as I had went . I first went with my girlfriend about two weeks ago. I ordered the bacon cheddar bomber. It seemed it was some type of pressed chicken with not much chicken on the sandwich. My girlfriend had ordered one of the salads and said it was ok but three small strips of chicken on it. Not to be to discourage as we only were there once. We wanted to be fair and give it another try and order something else. We went again two days ago. I ordered there home town burger and my girlfriend ordered the fish and chips. My burger was a patty that tasted like it was one of those frozen patties , I’m sure many know what I’m talking about. It was horrible. When my girl friend got the fish and chips , as soon as I seen it I could see it was not going to be good. If you have had fish and chips before , most will come out kinda puffy . This was flat like a chicken nugget , which wouldnt have matter if it was good. After tasting it you could tell it was one of the cheaper brand already cooked , frozen product.. terrible. I do see someone responds to these reviews from hometown cafe . So my question is and would like your reply ... is your burger a frozen patty or not are there made there from scratch ,Do you think your fish in the fish and chips menu is of a good quality ? Is it kinda on the flat side when most have a nice puffy outside to it.. I’m sorry for the bad review and maybe it could be your quality has gone down for some reason. I wish you the best .. thank you though for taking the time to read and maybe responding. I would give a place at least two visits if the first was not good .. I did .. I would like to say on the other hand , I give your staff a A+ in their service and hospitality ,...

Very hometown! It is set back on the lot so much that I have past it almost daily for 3 months and didn't realize it was there. I ran in to try it out on a week day at lunchtime. There is plenty of free parking and upon entering I was greeted and seated right away. The inside is dark and has older wood paneling of some kind on the walls. The tables and chairs are a 1990's style and there are some old plaques hung on the walls. The lighting is also dim so it is not a bright sunny place. There is a flat screen TV hung where everyone could see it but not hear it and there was no closed captions so you could not really tell what was going on. It was a hot day but very comfortably air conditioned. The waitress took my order right away and it took only a few minutes to get my food. I ordered a BLT which came with a large pickle slice, wonderfully fresh, thick cut fries served nice and hot and the BLT on thick sliced toasted White bread. This was made with honest to goodness REAL bacon, not the microwave stuff. It had very thick cut slices of real summertime homegrown tomatoes a d cold, crispy fresh lettuce. My only dislike was that it was slathered in real mayo (which others may love). A great thick fresh sandwich! It was served with an icy cold coke..yummm. One thing they can Improve is the cleaning I would not say it was dirty, but as I picked up the salt & pepper glass shakers I felt as if they had not been run through the dishwasher in a very long time and the same with the ketsup glass bottle. When I left there was a couple pieces of crumpled papers and napkins right by the door. Food A+,...

Waked in on Saturday afternoon about 12:50. We sat down place was very empty. Waitress came by with dirty paper menus but fine No big deal. She asked what we wanted to drink my wife asked her what type of teas do they have and she said unsweetened or Snapple. My wife asked if they were any flavor snapples she said no just regular ok then instead of asking or saying what type of drinks they offer she said I’ll give you a few mins and walked away only taking my daughters drink order and mine. Mind you the menu has no drinks on it. So after 4 mins she came back dropped off our drinks and left again. About 7 mins after that she took our order it is not busy maybe 12 guest in total here. So we place our order and my wife asked for the regular Snapple ice tea. She finally came back with it and a glass of ice. About 14 mins later our food came ok great. I ordered a simple grilled chicken sandwich but what was on the bun was the thinnest grilled chicken I have ever seen put it this way the slice of tomato was thicker. My daughter orders chicken fingers and fries and the chicken was over cooked dried. My wife order the Philly cheesesteaks well one it had American cheese and too it was so watery and no flavor at all appears to be frozen slice meat not fresh. So to the point where my wife did not eat she it. You would think that someone would ask or say something since you have not touched your food is something wrong nope not a single peep from our waitress. Took our bill paid and left never going back again. I try to support local places but this is...