Cheeseburger in Paradise

Food was not good at all. Burger I had tasted like week old meat and the same thing with my girlfriends chicken quesadilla. The quesadilla was just awful!

I really like this restaurant! It just makes me happy. They play Island music and serve delicious tropical concoctions. When I’m in need of a vacation we stop in and I’m transported to somewhere in the Caribbean.

They have a Kobe option which is nice — fried pickles to appease a pregnant wife in the quest for a burger.

This place is alright. They have their «beach» style burgers that are cooked a little differently, they have live music (I recall the 10-​minute rendition of «Free Bird» that was akin to the way Skynyrd played it back in the day), it’s a mix of older and younger folks, and they have a wide array of tropical drinks.
The problem is, for a place that has «cheeseburgers» in its business title, I’ve had better cheeseburgers elsewhere. That is kind of the disappointing part of it all.

I love this restaurant. It is a fun place to visit. I always order the St Barts chicken. It is great. They offer a great drink menu. The CIP cocktail is my favorite drink.
The appetizers are great. They offer a huge selection of nonalcoholic drinks such as soda, tea and water that you can add flavor too.
They sometimes have live entertainment on the weekends. Overall, it is great place to have a couple of drinks and good food.

This place better pick it up a notch. Average food and worse service. Ugh.

My wife and I were famished. We happened to be in the area of Lakeside Mall. Cheeseburger in Paradise was an obvious choice for us. We’ve been to this location a few times and we do enjoy the atmosphere and the food. This is sort of a mixed review as it adds my wife’s opinion to the mix.
This time around I had the Grilled Pressed Burger and my wife ordered the fish tacos. She normally raves about them, but this time she was not blown away. I, on the other hand, was totally im’pressed’ with my burger. It was a hearty sandwich that was grilled to perfection. The hamburger patty was well formed and very juicy. The sauce on the burger was a delight to my taste buds. All in all, a fabulous meal (and very large). I washed this monsterous meaty mammoth down with the Paradise Beach Ale (on tap). Great combo as the ale was not too hoppy and went down like more of a red. Pretty good stuff.
Now on to the service. We had a young trainee by the name of Liz (who was pretty good at her job). Her trainer was incredibly nice as well (but I can’t remember her name… whoops). Anyway, we were well looked after and I left this establishment feeling quite full and very happy. My wife liked the service as well as the atmosphere because it differs from the cookie cutter steak places that have taken over the area. She wasn’t blown away by the food this time, but I gave it 4 stars because I loved mine :)
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I like the atmosphere but the menu and food is nothing special. Prices are fair and it was clean — waitress was a little pushy for us to order. We started with some «mixed» sodas they have an extensive list of soda, tea and water that you can add flavors too. We then ordered some «frickles» or fried pickles they were perfect — not too greasy, nice breading and a fair amount. We moved to our dinner options and opted for a blackened shrimp salad, dragon wings, and burgers — they were basic nothing to go out of the way for.

Don’t quite understand the hype. Chips and salsa is good.

Expensive, and not that great of a place really.
Ordered our burgers medium rare… came out well well.
Our friends recommended this place because of the atmosphere. and they were right to an extent.
Bathrooms were nasty, and It looked like the last person in their was building a nest with toilet paper. Mirror was all splattered up and disgusting as well… should be more attentive to that.
Overall food was okay, if you consider a hockey puck to be good, I feel though for the price we paid the hockey puck should have been autographed… won’t be back.

The food was over priced, over rated, and a complete disappointed.
First time visiting and I was looking forward to a great burger, I got ripped off instead. The juicey lucy had no cheese in it! That’s the whole point of the juicey lucy! All I could taste was the onion and grease which wasn’t even as bad as the service. The waitress was slow, a little rude, and acted like we didn’t exist.
First visit and last as well.

Cheeseburger in Paradise. Your basic chain restaurant I guess you could say.
First of all the place is extremely loud, like beyond the norm more like a bar then a restaurant granted it was Friday but still. The menu is pretty much your standard burger menu with some fresh seafood options. I actually read a review on here about the seafood, but I figured I eat a burger once or twice a year I’m at a «Cheeseburger» in Paradise so I went and got the burger. .
I ordered the basic burger cooked medium and upgraded with Kobe beef on a wheat bun; and this is where all goes wrong. I got my burger it was actually almost cold like barley warm, it was over cooked probably more like well done and no wheat bun! :(
My friend’s burger the Stuffed Lucky I think it was? came with grilled onions so he ordered no onions, so right when it got to the table with onions he sent it back. So after I realized mine was cold not cooked right and it had the wrong bun, I didn’t send it BACK! and this is against everything I believe in. I just didn’t want everyone to have to wait for me so I ate it!
So after my friend finally got his burger with no onions my other friend realized her burger was like medium and wayy to pink to be cooked well done the way she ordered it. She wasn’t going to send it back but I had to say something I couldn’t take it. So they gave her a free burger to go.
So we went to a «Burger» joint that out of the 4 burgers we ordered only 1 was done correctly so I think they might want to reconsider changing the name of the place! … $ 14 with tip for a burger no drink definitely not worth it to me!

Oh how you have changed! Just went there the other day, and much to my disappointment, a lot of the menu has changed… They no longer carry their onion straws, island BBQ burger, and other tasty items on their menu…
The waitress told me that they are the first cheeseburger restaurant that has changed from their normal menu, and it all stemmed from a decision in corporate… and here they are…
They still make one hell of a piña colada. I’ll even put my pinky in the air for that one.

I couldn’t squeeze more grease out of my car. If you fancy overloaded burgers slobbing your arms up to your elbows, here’s the place to be.
Cheeseburgers are a sinful food that occupy three layers of the food pyramid: meat, dairy, and ooey-​gooey. Americans are recommended to get at least two servings of ooey-​gooey for their daily recommended intake, and a good cheeseburger can fulfill 1.75 of the RDI, leaving just enough room for a bonbon of choice. I use this highly scientific scale to measure all restaurant burger offerings, including Cheeseburger in Paradise.
No points are earned for a piece of vinyl cheese scared by a match around the corners. I feel like I am eating Curious George’s yellow rain slicker. The huge leaf of iceberg lettuce sort of flopped there, and I should have taken heart from the rest of the scanty veggies trying to leap to their deaths off the pale green cliff. The burger ordered medium was blackened in places and suspiciously innards-​pink in the middle. Ewwy gooey is not the same as ooey-​gooey; there’s a distinct difference, like sloppy joe crumbles to prime rib. All I know is, I want a yummy steak on a fresh bun that hasn’t been coupling with an English fisherman’s salty slicker like there’s no tomorrow.
CiP has taken to dousing in raw hamburger in oil, and then frying it in a bath of more grease and fat to maintain squishy purity. That’s my only explanation for how the patty could soak up that much clotted, bubbly juice. I ran out of napkins blotting up the excess, and then wrung them out until they were a gloppy mess on the side of the plate. Perhaps something went terribly wrong that day, but the abundance of grease didn’t even enhance the taste. Heart-​blocking meat products can be done wonderfully (see also: Russian and German cuisine), but the preparation here wasn’t even tasty. I didn’t get much flavour to the burger; I could’ve rolled my own patty through the canola pits of Kansas for much the same effect.
Drinks here didn’t save the day as they sometimes can. Standard pop comes at a 4 parts ice to 1 part pop ratio. The frozen drinks sport a huge raft of pineapple that I was ready to leap over the bar away from my congealed mess on soggy buns to have for my own. I didn’t go for the piña colada I so richly deserved, trying to say on caloric and financial budget unlike the bigwigs down in Detroit City Council, and perhaps I should’ve just let my resolve go to the wind.
Those drinks are monstrous. More than monstrous, they’re a curacao confection in a massive glass. Slushies swept by in sunset hues that sang of Caribbean destinations and carefree resorts surrounded by sharks in the waters and vacant-​eyed cruise passengers moaning and… wait, I think I’ve mistaken that allusion for a zombie video game. Fishbowl sized glasses are sure to take your cares away the way Jimmy Buffet intended.
For what it’s worth, I’m no parrothead and the Buffet music in the background gets intrusive and agonizing after a while. I have great sympathy for the people who work there, as it has to be like Key West Christmas 365 days a year without the eminently glorious sunshine or clear waters. Swimming in Lake St. Clair doesn’t strike me as a beachy moment.
Don’t bother with the food, and come strictly for the booze.

I’ve been to Cheeseburger in Paradise on several occasions. I’ve always had OK experiences… nothing so great I felt like Unilocaling about it or so horrible I felt like boycotting the place.
However, the last time I visited, I was very disappointed. Some friends and I wanted to go for dinner and drinks. We’d been ordering drinks and by the time we got around to ordering dinner, we were getting hungry. I ordered a burger so I could get the never-​ending fries. I asked the waitress to bring out some fries before our food came out so we could have some snacks to much on while we enjoyed our drinks. She didn’t get around to it. When our meals came, to say I had a handful of fries would be generous… I asked the waitress to bring out more. She brought out a basket of them– but not until she brought out the check.

Hello my darlings!
Went to Cheeseburger with one of my best friends just before Christmas and I was really excited!
I LOVE cheeseburgers, you see. If you have read my reviews than you. know. this. MAN!!!
We walked in around 5 on a Saturday and it wasn’t busy at all. This kinda worried me, as usually ALL restaurants on M-​59 are busy at 5pm on Saturday.
The place is all tropical and whatnot, just like Jimmy Buffet’s music which I SO don’t care for. I should have heeded this as warning.
Server was geeky-​cute, in a cutey-​geek sort of way. He was pleasant, but not enough that I remember his name or anything.
I ordered a Pina Colada and they didn’t disappoint there. It was HUGE and yummy! Lots of flavor and they even made a parrot out of pinapple and strawberries!!!
Too bad I wasn’t really hungry for fruit.
We got some chips and salsa and that was pretty good! Hot chips = winning!
My bf ordered some squished sammie with cheez whiz on it. Even if she loved it, she didn’t tell me, and I didn’t ask. Cheez whiz?
Fucking gross ya’ll.
I was very excited to see a Kobe burger on the menu, and in my silly burger-​craving haste, didn’t really read anything after the Kobe part.
My bad.
It tasted really weird. The meat I mean, and that’s because it was raw in the middle.
I didn’t order it that way, but that’s what I got. That and some nasty dried out shoestring fries.
On top of the burger being horribly undercooked, they had american cheese on it, and grilled onions, and pickles, and ketchup and mustard… and it goes on and on!
This is when I grabbed my menu and realized the terrible error of my ways.
WHY they would give you a Kobe burger, and then top it with a bunch of welfare toppings is completely beyond my realm of understanding.
So, although it was, in a sense, my fault, I would never go back there for anything more than yummy Pina Coladas, fruit parrots, or chips and salsa.
It’s a glorified bar. Take it for what it is.
/​Fruity!

Cheeseburger in Paradise is pretty much in the same category as a Chili’s or T.G.I. Friday’s or even heaven forbid an Applebee’s. But for whatever reason I prefer it t any of those other places.
The décor is better. Partly because there isn’t random junk hanging all over the walls but also because they have a tropical theme and who doesn’t love listening to Jimmy Buffet (relax its not all JB), drinking cold beer and margaritas, and having a good old’ cheeseburger, right?
The menu here is pretty good and they always seem to have new specials. I think the burgers are good but also the fish tacos, the Cuban, the shrimp po’ boy, and everything else was tasty as well. Plus they have the best cole slaw around.

It’s a chain, a tropical-​themed TGIFriday’s from Jimmy Buffett, whom you may know from the famous Margaritaville — the song as well as the restaurant.
While tasty, Cheeseburger in Paradise’s burgers are on the smallish side, (7oz.) and come in several different styles. They all look particularly good, though I’ve only tried the Gouda burger to date.
Beyond burgers, they have several wraps and sandwiches, and a few entrée-​type dishes as well, that sound more or less pretty good.
Ultimately though, while it’s pretty decent, I wasn’t blown away. Cheeseburger in Paradise is exactly what you’d expect. It’s predictable and steady — not really anything new, but what they do, they do a good job of it.

I have never been a big Jimmy Buffett fan. However, I’m a sucker for a good veggie burger. When I heard that this place could do any of their burgers veggie, I decided to try it.
I was pleasantly surprised by my experience. The veggie burger, which I had «beach» style (lettuce, tomato and onion) had a nice browned, fried flavor. My salad had a mix of iceberg and some greener lettuce but was improved by punctuations of baby asparagus, chopped celery and wonton strips. My wife’s gumbo was better than she expected (she used to live in Louisiana) with big chunks of chicken, tasty bits of endouille sausage, spiced nicely enough to make her throat and ears burn, albeit that it was not made with a roux. Tortilla chips had a touch of salt but not too much and came a queso with some bite and a tomato salsa with dill (I think).
In addition to the food, there was a guy playing guitar, singing songs from the sixties through the eighties (including «Cheeseburger in Paradise»). This, in addition to the mixture of oldsters and families with young kids, made for a pleasant atmosphere.
I wouldn’t say that CIP reaches greatness. As chains go, though, this is one of the best I’ve been to. Next time, I’ll try one of the yummy-​sounding desserts.

I come here at least once a year. Even though the name outside says Cheeseburger in Paradise, I come here for the pina coladas ! The house piña colada is just classic.
The burgers here are good as well but I can’t really review the burgers since I usually end up having one too many pina coladas to really remember what I eat !!
The staff are extremely friendly and if its your birthday you get a 3 second birthday song (which is not catchy) and a piece of cake on the house !
Indeed, it is a mini paradise on Hall Rd.
YAY, anything free buys my heart !!