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The Cardinal Restaurant

4.5 (19 reviews)
Closed 4:00 pm - 10:00 PM
Updated 3 months ago

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Courtney W.

What a little gem!! So let me just be honest and tell you I am fresh out of New Jersey. NC food for me is challenging if not disappointing. However, The Cardinal brought me right back to those NJ restaurant feels and tastes. Andrew, bartender, amazing! Met the owner, extremely friendly! Seafood is fresh, well cooked with delicious spices and played beautifully! The Apple crumb for dessert is a must not miss!! Thank you for a great meal! ;)

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This is without any doubt the best place to eat anywhere near the area. Their owner is fantastic & it's exactly the type of experience you would hope for with the incredible ambiance.

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Thanks for the great review Robert.

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Nice atmosphere, great pizza and salads, yummy garlic butter shrimp app. Yay. And thoughtful service. Well done!

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5 years ago

Highly recommend. My wife & I had filets that were cooked perfectly. Nice atmosphere, good food & service. Our waitress, Chase was great

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3.3(8 reviews)
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This new restaurant used to be Halligan's Public House. They have plenty of seating inside as well…read moreas outdoor seating, where dogs are allowed. This would be a good place for groups. Menu items include burgers (beef, chicken or Beyond), tacos, sandwiches, salads, soups, flatbreads, and kid-friendly foods. You can change sandwiches to a wrap with a sun-dried tomato basil tortilla. Burgers and sandwiches usually come with kettle chips and tacos usually come with tortilla chips and fire roasted salsa, but you can pay an additional price for other sides, such as fries, onion rings, mac and cheese, slaw, side salad, chips and salsa. Desserts on the day I arrived were either chocolate cake or key lime pie. I ordered the Sweet Potato Totchos appetizer ($10), which were sweet potato tots with bite-sized pork belly, smothered in melted cheese and garnished with scallions. I ordered it to-go so the honey lime yogurt that is usually drizzled on the tots was put in a separate container. The appetizer definitely tasted a lot better with the honey lime yogurt. For the entree, I tried La's Meatloaf ($11) sandwich. The sandwich had slices of homestyle meatloaf with a sweet tomato herb sauce on grilled sourdough bread. It was good and very filling. I could only finish half of the sandwich. For the side, I changed the kettle chips to onion rings. The onion rings were your typical greasy onion rings and were fried well. Overall, the food was decent and reasonably priced.

So I went to what I thought was Halligans today, to see there is a nice new change. The menu does…read morehave variety, so I'm sure you can find something for everyone. Also the server/bartender was friendly and personable. They offer a good variety of seating, so I think this place would be great for larger groups. The food! There where a few things I saw that looked really good but honestly what sold me was tacos where on special! Yes, you had me at sale! They where really good! Perfect size and toppings and all around delicious! The bedded chips where a compliment to the taste as well! I'll be back to try many more items!!!

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Lazy Pirate Island Sports Grill

3.0(430 reviews)
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Ok, so I have a love hate with this one... I moved here 2 years ago and my youngest has wanted to…read morego here for the longest time. It's not like he craves crab legs it's the cookies, the atmosphere, the sounds of children and families having a great time... and the vibe and set up allows for all sorts of great times. There's an interior bar and exterior covered bar. The seating is a wide variety with more being exterior imo. Lots of space. The open yard out back allows for the children to run around and play while we adults throw a few back and reminisce about the days we could hold our liquor and hold ourselves upright at the same time lol. The service staff are very attentive and nice. Our waitress was very nice and we sat inside (because it was 500% humidity, plus we technically aren't tourists) so why take up space-- let the tourists have fun out there! Interior booths are HUGE. I'm talking. Seats ten lol. There are also tables. There are individual bathrooms inside but also a few sets outside as well. The set up also allows for those with disabilities to get around easily with ramps to the door to interior. There are t vs playing a variety of movies or shows even sports and there's an arcade room inside. It's not a quiet place to have convo but a place you go to hang with a group or meet for a drink. There was no outside entertainment tonight but you can easily fit some out back with a seated and standing audience. I also like how they created seating around the ramp and standing areas too. Like benches. You can have drinks and appetizers only outside whereas inside full meals. Each table inside is equipped with a full roll of paper towels because you'll need them if you get the messy meals like I did lol. They also supply individual packets of wipes if you ask. Drinks are large size. The sweet tea want fabulous and was watered down. No water was served which surpassed me but this is Wilmington so that may be a good thing lol. The food was ... ok. This is where the love hate comes in. While I know the place OSS great for a good time out with friends the food was subpar. The kids meal was one of those frozen individual sized deep dish pizza with these seasoned fries and a cookie wrapped in packing. My meal were individual size crab legs, came with fries, hush puppies (not a fan of HP btw!) and corn on the cob . Drinks aren't included in meals. All together the total with tip was $75-78. Very expensive. The taste of the butter was very... movie theater tasting of that's even a thing. The crab legs were not large or no king crab legs either. I have yet to be blown away by a restaurant with crab legs and miss SC a lot right now! I would go back with friends and family again but I didn't like feeling like a tourist and surely didn't like the tourist prices. However, the place is fun and worth a shot.

Waited 20 min for service outside of the bar. Was not busy. March of 2026…read more Lots of staff walking around and we got paired with a server working two sections. Bartender put his drink/ bottle opener in hit mouth when talking to other servers then proceeded to serve with said bottle opener behind the bar. The side salad came out with the burger which I asked to be served prior to entree. Burger was made wrong, asked for plain and it had garden on it. Fried pickles were good. The "wild things" chicken sandwich was absolutely horrible. Frozen patty thrown together with a faint stream of hot sauce.

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These are the chicken nuggets they serve here.

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