Mariscos Las Islitas

. Very kid and family friendly.
The service was terrible. We were sat and our order was takin and no one ever came back to our table. I had to flag people down. When I told the manager she just looked at me like She had no clue what I was saying. So disappointed that I’ll never go back. And I love this place.

First time here and love it. Best langostinos ever. Food was delicious. Try the maracuya water is very good. I will come back.

Placed sucked .they burned my kids meal n gave me raw shrimp. Waitress all they talk about is how much tips they just go.

Let’s start by saying that a random little girl came to the table able selling gum. I’m not used to people approaching the table while I’m eating to sell me things.
The food was average nothing out of this world. Almost everything came with spicy sauce and the had 3 different kinds of spicy sauce at the table. The waitress was horrible it took her 15 min to bring us lemon, it wasn’t busy at all there was no reason for her to take so long. I wouldn’t go back no reason to I’m sure you can get better Mexican food somewhere else.

My husband and I had visited this place once before, food wasn’t great but it wasn’t super bad so we decided to give it another try.
You guys, this is the first time that my husband and I, who are nice to our waiters/​waitresses, make conversation with them, and usually leave 15−20% tip, received such utterly SHITTY service and food that we walked out without leaving our server/​servers (cuz I don’t even know who the fuck our server was) a single penny sliced into 4 pieces. We started out asking if their Queso Fundido had a chorizo option because that’s what it usually comes with and this place serves meat too. Solid question, right? Wrong!!! Our first waitress, who appeared to be new, asked another waitress for the info who in turn gave us a sour look and snarky response. Bitch, GTFO! God forbid you’re a goddamn waitress and make a living off of tips! I’m the customer, I’m asking you a question, you plaster a smile on your 1000 pound makeup caked pace and answer it like I’m the Czar of Russia.
Hubby ordered Camarones a la diabla, I ordered Camarones al mojo de ajo, my little brother ordered 2 steak tacos, and our 1 year old son was ordered a kids meal which, if I remember correctly, was the chicken tenders with the fries. Can someone explain to me why it took at least 30 minutes for ANY food to come to our table when this place wasn’t even half full at about 2pm? And it was the adult food that came first, you know, the seafood that usually takes longer… So my son and brother who had ordered steak tacos and a goddamn chicken tender kids meal sat there for another 10 minutes until some other random waitress passed by and we demanded their food. My sons chicken tenders were fucking inedible and my brothers tortillas were soggy as hell probably from sitting on the counter waiting an eternity and a half for one of their idiot waitresses to snap back into reality and half ass their way to our table. Our water and soda glasses were not once refilled and we were never asked if we were doing okay or needed anything. My 1 year old ran out of water and I had to give him some of my brothers because no waitress ever came to us.
A couple and their 2 daughters sat next to our table. They ordered drinks that never made it to their table and no one ever came to take their food order. They walked out when we did with 2 starving children, a bill for 2 drinks they never drank because the staff decided that the best time to prepare said drinks was as these people were prepping to leave.
In conclusion, this place is a fucking joke. I swear that the only reason they’re open is because of all the drunk people who get so messed up they pass out on premises every Friday and Saturday nights. My first experience with them was okay, my second experience makes this the worst restaurant I’ve ever eaten at.

Stopped in for the first time last night. The complementary ceviche was wonderful, served with fresh limes and a large assortment of salsas, crackers, and tortillas.
I ordered shrimp with garlic. The serving was huge and generous, served with white rice (peas and corn mixed in), mexican lettuce salad without dressing, a wonderful slice of garlic bread.
The garlic shrimp tasted great, and again, it was a huge serving. The only fault is that the pieces were on the smallish size.
Service was OK, except that it took twenty minutes, after I was done and the table cleared, to get a check. The waitress had a complete disconnect about my presence — and it was slow, there were few other customers — and was both nibbling food and taking care of some small tasks and errands. When I made eye contact and pointed to my watch, she said «Oh, Check?» though I thought I’d made it obvious when she cleared the table that I was done. So, you have to work at it to get service.
It was good value for the money. The menu was attractive and interesting. I plan to go back to check out the other items. Would have been four stars if the waitress had paid attention and if I hadn’t had to sit there for so long waiting for something she’d forgotten about.

I had the worst experience here, I ordered takeout and my food was spoiled. I went to let them know and all they did was give me my money back and no apology or explanation as to why the food was spoiled. It really makes me wonder if they leave their food out from the day before and still serve it to customers like that.

Authentic, delicious Nayarit-​style mariscos food. Fun, nautical décor, intermittent mariachi and plentiful Univision.

We visited this place on 07÷20÷14, it was in the evening; we love seafood and have a developed a particular taste for this particular delicacy. Now going back to our experience, as soon as we walked in we were standing there for 5 minutes and not been approached, the place was not that busy 3 tables and in particular one was full of noisy drunken people, screaming loudly with a high pitch like the were at a rodeo.
I ordered a «ceviche Mixto» small; then we ordered a «Molkajete Kora» and «7 Mares».
When the ceviche arrived seemed like it had better days, tasted awful salty and plain.
The Molkajete arrived along the 7 mares after 15 minutes which was not bad on timing.
The Molkajete= Was AWFUL, NO taste and full of FAKE lobster. I mean it NO taste, full of butter, salty (I am concern of someone with high cholesterol) price $ 23 NOT worth a penny.
7 Mares Soup= AWFUL, it was filled with vegetables, NO seafood on sight. They used some other fish other than catfish, 2 shrimps and that was it, the taste was horrible taste like Maggie’s soup mixed with tomatoes and vegetables. price $ 14 NOT worth a penny.
For those who argue they are the best, I truly suggest they need to try other places and will know what they are missing. I will suggest few places where you can have a better experience on taste.
My closing statement: Small parking area, NOISY, won’t recommend kids they will experience profanity language and bad behaviour, drinks are ok, food is expensive and tasteless. I will stay away.

The place is huge, clean and airy. We went there for lunch and I couldn’t believe it wasn’t a full house. More people did start arriving after we left. I had a medium shrimp cocktail. I wish I had ordered the jumbo. My friends had the Camarones a la plancha dinner which they loved. The service was quick and friendly. Will definitely go back again!

Tried a few other mariscos places, failsauce. Never again will I leave you La Islitas! Only place that consistently delivers FLAVORFUL crabs and langostinos. Plus around 7 it gets crazy in there with the music. So no one can hear your fat*** smashing them crabs. Lol.
A typical bill for me is about $ 150 – 200. If you are El cheapo, then go elsewhere. That’s usually with double order of crabs and enough alcohol to get smashed enough to understand Spanish.

Me and my partner went to have dinner in here, and the food was good. However, we had 2 squirts with lime (not alcohol) in a 6 oz glass for $ 10 each, and each refill was another $ 10. I think our beverages were to expensive for what it had, we usually get the same beverage in other places for less than $ 3 dollars. Our total bill was $ 70 dollars in just 1 appetizer and 3 beverages. We did not complain, but we are just not going back anymore.

My shrimp fajitas were not good. They were bland with no taste. I also did not like the beans, they tasted horrible and I almost vomited when I took 1 bite. My husbands was not that great either. I would not recommend this place and suggest you save your gas & money

Since I haven’t been able to get the shrimp platter from Mariscos El Veneno out of my mind, I decided to try out Mariscos Las Islitas. Both these restaurants serve Nayarit style food and this place is closer to my house. We were greeted with the usual complimentary ceviche, 2 salsas (very spicy) and crackers & tostadas. The ceviche is fine, a little fishy for my taste, but it’s free and if you put the green salsa and lime on it, it’s pretty tasty.
We ordered a small plate of the Camarones Cucarachas and the Octopus A La Diablo entrée, a large michelada and a small margarita. The shrimp was very good, smaller than at El Veneo but it was only $ 13 and super flavorful, very spicy. The octopus was ok… very tender, but the sauce tasted more like a mixture of ketchup and hot sauce. Sweet, not very spicy, and overall just not very pleasing.
I didn’t fall in love with the food like I did at Mariscos El Veneno but I’m probably ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ on coming back here. If I go back, I would just split a large plate of the shrimp and order some extra rice and lots of micheladas. Actually… that sounds pretty good!

good foor, horrible service. if you don’t care about the type of service you will get theres a nice seafood dishes you can get here. full of flavor and cooked just right. where else can you get an entire fish for less than $ 15!!! i’d rather order the food to go

I’ve visited this location twice and my one problem with it is the waitress we had each time. Her assigned tables are the third row. She is of medium height, darker skin tone, black hair, a little thicker than the other girls.
On my first visit I had the ceviche mixto which was delicious, very fresh, tasty, just enough lime, just all around good. However out waitress was horrible, it was a packed Saturday night and I can understand things get hectic but I’m sure our table wasn’t the only one she was in charge of, and yet she was no where to be seen.
She took our drink order and food and then brought the check, it was another waitress brought the food and drinks and checked to see if we were fine.
Yesterday my boyfriend and I went back, and we were seated a table across from the one from last time and we got the same waitress. It was a slow Friday evening, not too many people, the Karaōke wasn’t even set up yet. But the service from this waitress was just the same. Other people brought our food and checked in on us to see if we needed anything else I don’t understand her deal.

HATE THE OBNOXIOUS LOUD MUSIC! Sorry guys, this will cost you two stars.
Levantamuerto…delicious
Langostinos…so good
Mango Juice… nom-​nom
Pina Colada… good

Seeing that Chicago’s superbowl was really two weeks prior to the official big game I decided to break the superbowl «house party» tradition and venture out. I was able to get seven other people to join me in my journey so onward we piled into two cars headed to Mariscos Las Islitas in Pilsen.
As we headed in we were greeted by a maître’d; mind you this place is not fancy and the dinning room, although quite large, appears more or less like that of a corner taco/​burrito joint. Seeing that we were a larger group, the host went ahead and prepared a table setting for us, complete with two sides of complementary cerviche, crispy corn tortillas, limes and salsa verde piccante (muy bueno, pero piccante, ¡Ten Cuidado!).
Our particular waitress only spoke spanish, but I speak some (granted I speak more Italian so at times that slipped out instead) and also there were fluent speakers amongst my group so we were able to get by just fine, however I suspect we would have been served by an English speaking waiter or waitress had it just been myself and a couple of my friends, so don’t let this detract you from trying this place.
Being that it was Superbowl Sunday all the TVs were tuned to the big game, which was a good thing considering at least half of us were somewhat interested in the outcome, also it’s good to know that this place will show big sporting events.
After scarfing down the cerviche we ordered drinks. I ordered a small michelada (the large comes with two beers!) while much of my party ordered Margaritas. I was pretty pleased with my michelada but still I feel it wasn’t the best I’ve had. I did manage to steal a sip of the Margaritas and they were pretty good, just know that if you decide to order a large, you’ll get fish bowl.
When it came time to order I decided to stick with the seafood theme of the restaurant (considering it’s in the restaurant’s title why not?). I decided to try one of their newer dishes, Piñas Rellenas, which is a cooked pineapple half, hallowed and stuffed with a mixture of shimp, squid and a medley of other seafood (basically seafood salad) in a creamy sort of baked cheese. Although it is a bit rich it was very tasty, one word of caution though, it’s quite big and it’s served piping hot so wait a good 5+ minutes before digging in otherwise you’ll scorch your tongue.
As for the rest of my group, most of them ordered Fajitas. Everyone was fairly pleased with their selection but one of my friends, who ordered the steak fajita. According to her, liver was used instead of the skirt steak she was expecting. My other friends also commented that they too tasted liver in their mixed fajitas, so if you don’t like liver meat stay way from the fajitas or stick to the chicken.
I came away happy with my dinning experience here, I’d say Mariscos Las Islitas is closer to a 3.5 star place but not quite a 4, then again I’ll have to experience more of the menu to see which way I sway. One other thing to note, which I was pleasantly surprised by, is that they gladly accepted multiple credit cards for dividing up our table’s check. There are still many mom and pop restaurants that have restrictions with regard to this, so if you only have plastic and a large group don’t worry!
Anyway, I plan on visiting again soon I’m very curious about the shrimp enchiladas, but until next time, hasta luego!

Phenomenal food, huge portions, and cheap prices?! That’s all a girl could ask for.
The only negative is the ridiculously loud music but who gives a damn, the food rocks!

So you walk in, and by the time you sit down there’s a big bowl of the freshest ceviche ever waiting for you. And it’s free.
Shall I go on?
I shall, but for me, they had me at the ceviche!
If you’re craving authentic Mexican food and seafood, this is your spot. Went here for a friend’s birthday with minimal expectations and left stuffed, happy and doing Spanish Karaōke!
I had the combo platter of fajitas and an order of fish tacos on the side and could not have been happier with my selections. Everything was fresh and grilled to perfection. Can’t remember what kind of fish they use in the fish tacos but it’s tender and flavorful, and the sauce they pair it with is perfection.
This is not a high-​end joint — it’s plastic plateware, big plastic cups — and I’m good with that. All of their effort and resources goes into the food, as it should.
I was first there on a Saturday night and if you stick around long enough, there’s Spanish Karaōke! I’ve been back several more times and there is always live entertainment, which is cool. But the consistent winner is the food.
All due respect to Rick Bayless, but if you want authentic Mexican, please skip his restaurant (s), come on down to Pilsen/​Little Village and spend the money with folks who really need it and are doing the food better for fraction of the cost.