Le Dock — Restaurant in Town of Islip

I will never eat here ever again.

In short, I found a hair in my pasta, and the manager initially refused to take it off the check. I also had a grilled mahi far worse than any frozen microwaveable meal, all for a whopping 100$.

My girlfriend ordered the penne alla vodka with chicken. 29$. She had two bites before finding a short wiry hair in it. The manager argued that he wouldn’t take it off the check because no one in the kitchen had short blonde hair. He said that if it was a black hair, he would comp the dish. He then tried to argue that it was my girlfriends hair in the dish. Her hair, although blonde, goes below her shoulders. This hair was barely over an inch. After telling this to him, he said he still couldn’t comp it because he didn’t know where the hair came from. I actually had to ask him if it was ok to serve a dish with a random hair in it. After this, he finally took it off the check. Which still left me with a 70$ check for 2 bites of food.

Now, on the subject of the grilled mahi, with lobster rice and waffle vegetables. The fish itself was so dry and bland, it made the 3 week old filet o fish from under my couch look good. The “lobster rice” literally had no lobster. And was somehow nearly as dry and bland as the fish. The table next to me also ordered two grilled mahis, and they took fewer bites than I did. When they asked why there was no lobster in the rice, the servers responded that it was there, “it’s just a tiny bit so you can’t see it.” On top of all that, while there was nothing “wrong” with the waffle vegetables, like the rice and the fish, it sucked. All for a grand total of 33$.

In total, including my coffee, an aperol spritz, and a small salad (for 13$), the check came out to 99$. After the pasta was comped, the total came out to 68$. 68$ for approximately 6 bites of food.

I really can not recommend this place enough if you are trying to starve yourself or eat food worse blander than the cardboard box I’ll find myself sleeping in if I continue...

We had our wedding at Le Dock on June 18, 2022! It was the perfect day! We worked with Michael at Le Dock for over a year to plan our perfect wedding day. He was amazing! He was genuinely excited for us, and happy to accommodate in any/every way he could. Leading up to the wedding, we met on zoom each month to discuss the details, any changes, and finalize everything.

Michael & his team set up the chairs on the beach for our beautiful wedding ceremony (you can see in the pictures below). Then we had a happy hour at Le Dock, and the drinks and food were delicious! We had an amazing local band (thanks Howie Tichler and band!!) play during our happy hour. It was a particularly windy & cold day in June, and Michael and his team transitioned smoothly to more of an indoor reception than we had anticipated. Afterward, we had dinner & speeches outside as the sun set. Then, it was cake cutting and dancing! Michael recommended a local DJ (thanks DJ Brian!), and we all had so much fun!

What I appreciate the most about Michael & Le Dock was that our wedding was so personalized and so perfect for who we are as a couple. So many other wedding venues we looked at had a "cookie cutter" wedding package, where every wedding seemed the same, and it was almost industrial & entirely financial in how they churned out weddings. Our wedding was ours. Every detail, every moment, was special and was planned only for our wedding by us & by Michael.

If you are looking for a place to have your wedding, definitely consider Le Dock! Not only is Fire Island maybe the most beautiful place ever to get married, but Michael will work with you more than any other venue to make sure your day is perfect! (And if you're just looking for dinner, definitely go check them out...

Really disappointed with this place and had such high hopes given the look of the place and the clientele that you would expect they would want to cater to. We went with a party of 8, reserved in advance. It was our friends’ first time in fire island and we thought it would be nice to go out for a nice meal, this is not the place. Generally the food was lackluster, no one at the table really enjoyed the meal. One friend ordered the lobster roll which was really just a buttered roll with 2 tablespoons of lobster. If it’s a matter of pricing, don’t have it on the menu if you can’t provide a legitimate amount of meat. The salmon was fine, overcooked, in my opinion. The folks that got burgers were not impressed. The calamari did not appear to actually be calamari and instead were probably the pig rectum The NY Times spoke about. Service was lacking. One of the party asked for Parmesan and got it when they were basically done eating. We had to chase the waiter down for the check to leave. There are better options if you have time to go to Kismet, like the Dive. Would not...