Tiki Joe's at Captree Boat Basin — Restaurant in Town of Islip

Just returned home from this place and felt compelled to write a public review. The place is awful. It's Monday - Labor Day, people are out and the weather is beautiful. Went with a group of 5 (4 adults, 1 child).

There's one hostess working the entire restaurant on a holiday weekend, seating people, taking orders and serving food. So you're left waiting and waiting.

The food is terrible and not even cooked properly/safely! We ordered fried calamari for the table to share, a kids chicken finger meal, 2 burgers and a salad with grilled chicken to share.

The kids chicken fingers were still COMPLETELY RAW inside...if I hadn't cut them up, my child would have just eaten them and then found out. Fried calamari was cooked to a point where they were inedible, just an over-fried mess -- the jarred marinara sauce on the side was cold. The two burger were hockey pucks. The chicken in the salad was chewy and they forgot the salad dressing. We had to ask 3x for waters and the beers were served in tiny cups.

All in all, we spent over $100 for bad service (I don't blame the one person working all the tables) and for really really bad food. I wouldn't come back to this place if you paid me.

^ Message to the owners -- have some respect for your business and its patrons. You have no business charging the money you do for the small drinks, lack of service and miserable food. If you're charging that amount of money to stare at fishing boats, there are plenty of other places on the...

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