Although I've only been to Bahama Breeze in Las Vegas once, I've been plenty of times in Jacksonville Florida when I used to live there, even celebrated my birthday there. So I think due time for a review.
This restaurant is actually one of my favorite places to dine; it's not "fine" dining, but it's not cheap casual. It's a nice in between kinda place, affordable but definitely appropriate for special occasions
They have awesome fruity speciality drinks but also a full bar so your dark liquors as well and standard type drinks. They have HH from 9pm-close Sunday thru Thursday which is great for Vegas! Love reserve HH!! And their HH includes food items as well.
This BB is way bigger here in Vegas than the one in Jacksonville. Bigger restaurant means bigger decor and displays inside. Pretty standard dim lighting and Caribbean decor. We came on a Friday and surprisingly it was not busy at all. They had a small dj at the outside patio playing hip hop music that did not seem to fit the theme for the restaurant but the inside music was more fitting and appropriate to the island theme.
They have a wide variety menu all incorporating an island type theme and taste, but I love how their menu is separated and really makes selection an easy task.
I'm a sucker for their establishment favorite the Coconut Shrimp. I think I get it every time as an appetizer! The crispy coconut batter on the butterfly shrimps are fried to perfection and that citrus mustard dipping sauce is almost like a marmalade glaze. Not too sweet tho and that mustard almost like a Dijon flavor gives it a nice kick! Definitely one of my fav dishes here.
My family was having seafood this night (we refrain from meat on Fridays during Lent) and this place has lots of seafood options, well lots of options period. We had the Key West Shrimp and Grits, Calypso Shrimp Linguine, the Fish Tacos, and the Island Hopper (it comes with jerk chicken but we just saved it to bring home).
The shrimp and grits was good, but I wish there was more grits that came with the dish. But the garlic light cream sauce on the shrimp was good and not too heavy, just right. The green beans at accompanied the dish were good, just needed a dab on pepper.
The calypso shrimp linguine was the best tasting of the 4 main dishes we ordered. My sisters dish so I can only comment on that I tried a little bit of it, but it was enough and tasted good enough that when I go back I want that to be my order!! It's like a light pink sorta sauce, white cream sauce but with the Caribbean flavors and spices it turns it sorta pink ish. Every good and sauce was not too heavy at all.
My dad had fish tacos accompanied by fries and guacamole. The guc was really good but the tacos shells were a bit too hard.
The island hopper actually is listed as an appetizer, but mom got it as a main entreè. Comes with coconut shrimp, coconut batter covered onion rings, shrimp stuffed hush puppies and jerk chicken. The onion rings were good and the coconut batter adds a nice twist of flavor. The hush puppies also very good. I like that they were not too dense, and nice a light almost fluffy. The dish also comes with the citrus mustard and a pineapple chutney - which also tasted like a sweet with a kick pineapple marmalade or glaze!! You can eat the chutney straight, it's so yummy.
Also the bathrooms are big and nice and I like how the have little mouthwash cups and mouthwash available at the sink so if you're going out straight after dinner, that least you good on the breath check
The place is a chain restaurant, so you get what you expect, but it's great food, reasonable pricing, appropriate for special occasions but not going to blow your wallet like if you were to eat somewhere on strip in Las Vegas and probably get less quantity. It's a good vibes sorta place and the service is good!! S/O to our server Matt for taking good care of us!!
Solid good dining restaurant and I will be back! Yay