. . "3"^^ . "To pay or not to pay...that was the question for the day. The deal for me was this, I had a birthday coupon for a free lunch at Tony Romas, or pay for lunch at this new restaurant. Since, I'm doing a review of this place, you got the message.\n\nUsually during this month, I would take one of my friends to lunch a bunch of times, because we have birthdays a few days apart, and have a bunch of birthday hooks up. So I picked her up, and asked her what's for lunch, Tony's or this new place? Surprisingly she said...Chicken Katsu. Since Chicken Katsu is one of the staples of a Hawaiian plate lunch, I knew she would be happy. We headed to Water street in Henderson, and made the right turn to Islander Grill.\n\nThe restaurant has a rather large interior, and when we got there at 11:30 am there was three booth of people. The food selection was pretty good, but not overwhelming huge, and I got my order in before the lunch rush from the City of Henderson employees, who were making their lunch charge around the area. I ended up ordering a mix plate of Teriyaki beef, and a house special chicken (which was a grilled chicken with a sweet and very spicy sauce, I had a feeling it was a variation of a Thai chicken recipe), and of course my friend got her Chicken Katsu. \n\nOur orders took some time, because from what I notice. There was only son and father working the entire restaurant, and when I got my food, the restaurant was getting packed. \n\nThe teriyaki beef was very good, and they use a very good quality rib eye steak. The house special chicken was okay, but I should have ordered it mild...yes, it was pretty spicy. As for the Katsu, it was good, and she was smiling on her first bite.\n\nI would have given this place four stars for the Hawaiian style food, but they need to hire a couple of people for quicker service, and because of that I had to cut off a star. One more thing, since it was at the start of lunch rush, both me and my friend offered to give them a hand in the kitchen,, but the waiter just smiled and said it's all good....if he only knew what we could done for them in a few minutes :) Other than that, I'm very happy with my visit with them and will be back soon."^^ . "2"^^ . "7"^^ . . "2012-01-31T00:00:00"^^ . "5"^^ .