I have a soft spot in my heart for Islands. In college it's where we would go for lunch after a long night out on the town and piece together said long night from everyone's memories or lack thereof. We'd get cheese fries and salads or soft taco's and stay for hours it seemed like.
Now in my 30's and relatively settled down I wanted to go for lunch before a movie with my sweetie. Not quite the same. Different location but same college age servers and cutesy beach swag everywhere. No cheese fries for this rear end I am sporting now meant just chips and salsa (blah blah a thousand times blah) and a cobb salad. I ordered the both the creamy vinaigrette and greek dressings on the side and both were tart as sucking on a lemon wedge. The salad itself was good except for the pound of blue cheese it contained.
Oh Islands, I have wonderful memories of you, but I have since grown up and moved on.....Good luck.