Capone’s Flicker Lite

When we travel we like to support small businesses and Capone’s Flicker Lite sounded great! They have a great menu (front page dedicated to the late founder), late hours, friendly staff, ample parking spaces and most important homemade Italian food made from scratch.
Unfortunately, they weren’t able to properly cook most of the items we ordered that day. My wife ordered the New England Clam Chowder and it was extremely salty. My daughter, niece and brother-​in-​law ordered the bake ziti. All three were greatly disappointed. In fact, my brother-​in-​law gave up after eating two forkfuls. My sister-​in-​law and her son ordered the large pizza and only ate one slice each. We took the rest of the pizza with us but it ended up in the trash.
While we talking about the lack of food quality we overheard the heavyset waitress comment to the younger waitress, «You better get used to the summer crowd!» You figure she would have been more concern about her customers. It didn’t matter since most of us lost our appetites.
You might ask why the pizza ended up in the garbage. After we paid the bill (with the automatic 18% gratuity) and left we noticed that the pizza maker was cleaning the ceiling tiles above the counter with the pizza ingredients exposed. Hopefully he doesn’t do that in front of a health inspector.
Maybe Capone’s Flicker Lite only wants to serve the local crowd. If you are a tourist, save your money and go someplace else.

Live in the neighborhood and thought I would give them a try. Ordered 2 pizzas, stromboli and an antipasto salad. The $ 10.95 salad was a bunch of antipasto salad ingredients with only one meat and one cheese with no lettuce. I had to cut up lettuce to eat it. Luck for me, it was a delivery. The stromboli was over cooked, it was actually burnt (see picture). The $ 18 large veggie speciality pizza was the size of every other pizza places’ medium and the veggies were not fresh. Either canned or frozen toppings. The second pizza was spinach and sausage. It lacked sausage and again the spinach was globs of frozen spinach. I ordered $ 70 worth of food and got below dominio’s level pizzas.

Today turned out to be a beautiful day, weather-​wise, and we we’re celebrating Father’s Day a week early as my fantastic sister-​in-​law and her amazing husband were in town for a brief visit. As Father-​in-​law is originally from Chicago, I introduced him to Capone’s years ago, and it quickly became his favorite, despite the distance from home.
So when it came time to take him out for «his day», there was no question where we were going.
We arrived as a party of six, and were offered a table outside, waterfront. We placed our order with our waitress, and it felt like we were abandoned. Brother-​in-​law ordered escargot, and peel & eat shrimp, I had a salad with grilled mahi, wife ordered summer salad with olive oil, father-​in-​law ordered his favorite Italian beef sandwich, mother-​in-​law ordered sausage sandwich with a side of fries, sister-​in-​law ordered naked wings.
For starters, the escargot came out rancid. They were sent back. Almost the rest of the order came out next, with dad getting his sandwich, mom getting hers, sis getting wings, wife’s salad and my salad arrives. Drink order was messed up, and eventually corrected.
My salad was ok, but the mahi had a strong smell to it. The wife’s salad was good, but she wanted no part of the mahi due to the strong smell. Moms sausage sandwich was good, but the waitress forgot her fries. The wings were ok, dry/​overcooked. The peel & eat shrimp were bad, so mushy, soft, impossible to peel, and like old, when we threw them into the intracoastal to feed the fish, they didn’t even bite them.
We finally got mom’s fries after repeated requests, I got my ice tea replaced after three requests, we were done with the insufficient service and substandard food offerings, paid the $ 100+ check with automatically added 18% gratuity for abhorrent service, and as a family together swore we’d never return.
This was not the first time we had such an experience here, dad’s birthday last year was an equal horror story. But unfortunately it was our last.
Sis and bro proceeded across the street to the Margaritaville hotel for some real food, while we took mom & dad home.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. It hurts to leave this review, but the truth needs to be told.

My calamari was so so, but my husband enjoyed his fish and chips. I thought the back deck was outdated and dingy. It is in a great location and I am glad I tried it, but I will not be back

We were at Hollywood Beach for the first time and asked a local for a restaurant recommendation. We sat in back with a bay view. Our server was extremely slow. It seemed like it may have been her first solo shift. We got our entrees after an hour and half after ordering. The meals were inaccurate and incomplete. We ordered pasta and it didn’t come, veggies should have been with grilled chicken and we didn’t get them. Mahi Mahi was cold, and baked potatoes were too tough to cut. The server never refilled our water glasses even though we asked. When we asked for the manager, he cut us off mid sentence because he was assisting with a large group and told us to quickly just tell him what was wrong. He brought over pasta and we didn’t have patience for veggies as we had been there for 2 hours at this point. We tried to order dessert, but it never came so we just asked for our check to get out if there. This could have been quickly solved by checking in on us that first hour. Clearly we were an inconvenience. Will never go back.

Really on the fence here as I’ve been a customer here for the past 20 plus years and have not been in here for some time but stopped in the other night with some out of town friends for a drink quick bite etc. With Margarittaville now across the street they did a major overhaul of the front façade of the building making it very attractive as you drive by. Parking in front or side valet lot is a plus and they have tables out front for smokers. Inside to be honest hasn’t changed much whatever overhauls they did outside they didn’t do a thing inside. Same Bar, tables chairs, outside seating is the same small narrow corridor with great views of the Intracoastal. Bathrooms absolutely terrible, old dirty, and need of a re-​model. OK Enough about the décor.
Advertising a «Chicago Sports Bar» obviously any Chicago team will get 1^st preference to the TV’s but their TV’s aside from a couple that are upgraded are also behind the Sports Bar Times. Asking for a particular game you would think I asked for free food or Liquor, don’t be gruff with me.
The Good:
Servers and bartenders still very nice, efficient knowledgeable and swift. Plenty of Beers on tap and by bottle, even some good wines by the glass here. Prices for drinks etc are decent compared to across the street.
The Bad:
The food was not very good and that is a shame. The «Italian Beef» if anyone has been to Chicago they dip the entire sandwich in Au Jus load it with peppers and you have a delicious gooey mess. Here its just a simple sandwich with AU JUS on the side the peppers are canned and the flavor was simple pedestrian.
Deep Dish Sauce on Top Chicago Pizza well in short was Disappointing. A Gooey tasteless mess that could not be salvaged.
The Philly Steak was passable as were the fried Zucchini and the bear battered mushrooms
All and All I’d call the experience a disappointment. Food prices are not cheap yet the overall presentation across the board was failing. Servers and bartenders still get top marks but when they overhauled the façade they should have kept right on going.

All I am going to say is… they have the by far and away the best pizza in South Florida. Especially their Chicago style pizza. Fresh ingredients, nice thick crust. And outdoor dining overlooking the intracoastal. It’s a sports bar so go and have a drink at the indoor or outdoor bar.

I give 1 star, because it doesnt allow me to give no stars. I thought my babe and I would be having a nice Italian dinner of the boardwalk in Hollywood. Unfortunately, this restaurant doesn’t care if there customers are thirsty or hungry. It took over a half hour to order a drink. Once the drinks and dinner was ordered, we had good conversation and were ready for another order of drinks, we waited over a half hour again. Plus after our dinner arrived, the waitress never returned to ask how our meal was, by the way the food is disgusting, hard hot dog roll, alla vodka sauce, didn’t taste like alla vokda sauce instead it was a dish of salt. We told waitress how bad food was, she didnt seem to care, and didn’t ask why it wasn’t good. We called the night manager to experience our dining experience and he was very unprofessional and didn’t even apologize. I would never come back nor would I suggest it to anyone, plus i would let everyone know how bad food and service is at this restaurant.

Will never visit this place again! What happened to it? It used to be decent place for food. Horrible, horrible service, food took FOREVER to come out and the place was not even crowded! We were 8 of us and no one could say they left pleased and satisfied. Our chicken wings came out after pizza and that was supposed to be our appetizer. My family had finished their 2 large pizzas before our meals had even come. My chicken was like rubber and tasted bad. My sister never got her iced tea, my nephew never got his glass of water and my husband never got the French fries he had ordered as part of his meal. Waitress was very forgetful and lacked simple details that waitresses normally do such as refill our water glasses and bring out the items we ordered. When we questioned her about our bill she became argumentative and unprofessional, grabbed the bill and walked away saying something like you don’t have to tip me if you don’t want to. My husband had to get up to find a manager to see why she left with bill and wasn’t coming back. Management was poor as well. Weren’t very apologetic or professional. Never came to our table to apologize. I cannot believe the crap this place has turned into! Owners need to wake up and do something before they have to close bc of their lack of! Looking at the other poor reviews makes me validate my experience even more.

Probably one of the worst meals I’ve had. If you like Ragu pasta sauce on your pizza then you’ll be delighted. Horrible service — server literally left every person’s meals sitting in the window until we requested one by one … she actually forgot what we ordered. Never even took our drink order when we sat, nor gave us utensils, plates etc. after we got a few entrees. Sad that a restaurant in such a prime location is wasted on this establishment. I’m surprised they are even in business. Skip this restaurant & go elsewhere no matter how hungry you are.

I ordered the broccoli and garlic over angel hair pasta.
The pasta was drowned under about a cup of oil and I had to take an extra plate to literally drain my food. It was bland and not worth the money I spent. we also ordered raspberry tea and it didn’t taste anything like raspberry. The server disappeared for long periods of time but was pleasant and accommodating when she finally made an appearance. This was on ⁴⁄₁₈ exactly midnight.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HERE
I wish I could give this place 0 stars but I’ll have to settle for 1. Came here around 12:30am and the first thing that was unacceptable was there was NO SOAP IN THE MENS BATHROOM. I understand that it was towards the end of the night and all but listen to this… After using the bathroom and not being able to wash my hands I sat down at my table. I waited for my waitress to bring our drinks and then I politely asked her if there is someone that can restock the soap, if not just give me enough soap to wash up, very simple. She was nice enough and told one of the black bussers about it I believe and that’s that… So I thought. After about 10 minutes I decided to go back into the bathroom to finally wash my hands, with soap, and to my surprise the soap wasn’t restocked. I didn’t want to cause any trouble and ask my waitress again so I took it upon myself to open up the random doors in the bathroom and finally find a bag of soap. Squirted the soap onto my hands and tossed the bag onto the sink and walked out. Now it’s time to order food, we got a Chicago style pizza which was pretty decent actually. Then I ordered myself eggplant parmesan, despite the fact that they keep the skin on which is very simple to peel. I told my waitress I wanted a side of penne ala vodka with my eggplant, she said okay but there will be an extra charge, which wasn’t a problem for me. Two minutes later she came back and said the cooks refuse to make me penne ala vodka despite the extra charge. Okay whatever I settled for the spaghetti. Long story short my eggplant came out burned and very greasy, my spaghetti with meat sauce had no flavor & both of the people I was eating with had ordered chicken parm and they also said their food was burned and pasta the was horrible. It’s one thing to come into a restaurant at the end of the night but it’s another thing to fail at every single thing you do. Won’t be coming back here. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HERE

Remember when this place was great! Food was terrible. BUT, what was worse was the filth. Needs a good cleaning outside and in. Outside view on ICW IS SO NICE– BUT THE RAT TRAP IN FULL VIEW OF MY DINNER WAS A GREAT WEIGHT REDUCER– I literally lost my appetite. I would take a pressure cleaner and start at the front door and stop at the ICW. Maybe they are waiting for a buyout from Margaritaville. Whatever… Sad– very sad!!!

Good food and nice environment but a very limited menu before 5 pm! I enjoyed a chicken Parmesan sandwich but I had my heart set on chicken Francis! Service was great, music a little loud on the inside so conversation was rough amongst us unable to scream but I had a great time! Great view of the intercostal and the nice boats going by!

I ordered an Italian beef and they asked me if I wanted it dipped in au jus. This is the first place I’ve been across the country (I travel frequently) offering Italian beef that if you order it dry they don’t cook it.
If you are bold enough to order an Italian beef at this establishment be sure to specify you want it cooked, or as they say it, dipped, unless you want a raw Italian beef sandwich.
Perhaps it could just be I’m a Chicago native and this place falls short of my expectations.
I raised my concern to the waitress and rather than take it back and dip it in au jus (to cook the sandwich) she called the manager. Couldn’t quite resolve the issue with the wait staff, be advised.

I’ve been sitting here one hour. My first Italian Beef was a sodium bomb. Sent it back and ordered a cheeseburger that I could have gotten in LA with a fraction of the wait. If you’re a Chicagoan like myself, don’t waste your time on the food or the service in this place. Just keep driving.
I wish I had read the other reviews before going to this place. The worst dining experience ever. Not even an apology from the waitress, all she said was ‘yeah the cook said it was salty too’. Least of all she could have asked the most important question of all, ‘can I get you something else’? I was appalled all the way around.

Just plain awful!!! Don’t bother going in this place!!! Only ended up there b/​c Le tube next door was full. Went to the beach on Jan 1^st for a walk and was hungry but the food places on the broadwalk were busy.
Sat inside at a high top table with 2 people. One waiter came over cleaned table took our drink order. Then came another waitress 10 mins later asking for drink order. I told her the other girl had already taken it. She said no sorry I am your waitress. Well it all went down hill from there.
Order one cup of clam chowder and a small pizza. After 30 – 40 we finally got the pizza and the soup. The soup should of been given way before that. It shouldn’t have taken that long to serve soup. The pizza looked like shit and didnt really look cooked.
As we sat there we over heard 2 other tables near us complain about their food as well. One table of 8 people had the manager called to their table. Food was cold, some of plates were over cooked and the meat was to tough to cut is what they were saying.
Our waitress looked high. They sure were understaffed and you could tell as they ran everywhere.
The bathroom was so disgusting. I wish I would of taken a picture of it but I didnt have my phone. The toliet was clogged and wont flush.
So like I said Don’t Waste YourTime!!!

We came here last night for dinner. We sat outside by the water. It wasn’t what we were hoping for. We had some little issues with sitting outside near the back. Flying tarp whipping my friend’s back! All they could say was «Sorry, we can’t do Anything about the tarp.» Then it started to drizzle, we requested for them to roll down this tarp looking curtain, well the guy tried but the thing was stuck. I can only say our waiter, Taylor was very polite, friendly and tried his best to accommodate us. Through and through I would think twice if you want to sit outside towards the back. Food was okay. I can’t say it was the best. But. Again I could be wrong. I would say try it for yourselves. Lol

Went on date night with my husband on Saturday night. My husband loves this place as it is one of few that carry Michelob Light his favorite. We sat outside on the water. Same table that we sat at over a month ago with our sons. The waiter remembered us which was nice. We ordered the Mexican Pizza which was amazing. Very generous size and we ordered a medium. For starters we had Fried Zucchini Stick very lightly battered and very fresh.
Great atmosphere and love that they have parking. That alone gives them a star for the convenience. Will be back again soon.

Pizza was blah. Eggplant & mozzarella sticks were yum!