Island View Restaurant

Fort Myers Beach, United States

4.3

Closed now

20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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Telephone:
+1 239-463-5550
Website:
www.islandviewfmb.com
Address:
1400 Estero Blvd, Fort Myers Beach, FL, 33931
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Accepts Bitcoin
No
Good For
Dinner
Parking
Valet, Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Divey
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
Full Bar
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
Yes
Dogs Allowed
No
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Fort Myers Beach) 07:58 Sunday, 1 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tuesday 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Wednesday 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Thursday 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Friday 3:00 pm – 12:00 am
Saturday 3:00 pm – 12:00 am
Sunday 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Description

Specialties

It’s a hidden gem, a diamond in the rough and it’s situated on the sixth floor of Lani Kai Island Resort, high above the sand and sea. Over looking the Gulf of Mexico, you truly have to see it to believe it. With breathtaking views, a completely reworked top-​notch menu, and a half a million dollar renovation, The Island View Restaurant is ready to shock tourists and locals who laugh at the thought of the Lani Kai offering ‘fine dining’ and a new look.

History

Established in 2014.

Following a half million-​dollar renovation and hiring of a new executive chef from Chicago, the Island View Restaurant opened its doors on April 1, 2014. The fine dining restaurant sits on the sixth floor of the Lani Kai and offers a twist of Italian specialties, a raw bar, and Asian and American influenced seafood dishes.

The interior of the restaurant is designed to show off its best feature-​aside from the delicious food-​the view! It’s nothing short of spectacular. Whether you are seated at the bar, at a table or in a booth, you can see the vast expanse of water and the white sugar sands of Fort Myers Beach.

The restaurant is the brain-​child of three very different men who collectively have decades of experience-​Bob Conidaris, affectionately known by many as Mr. C, owner of the Lani Kai for nearly 40 years; Larry Puccia, General Manager of the resort for the past 13 years; and the youngest and most recent addition to the Lani Kai family, Executive Chef Jason Smith-​Agate.

Meet the Manager

Jason A.

Manager

Born and raised in Chicago, Jason Smith-​Agate started cooking when he was 8-​years-​old. He graduated from Washburn Culinary School in 1997. At just 18 years old, he won the Auguste Escoffier Dinner, the highest award one can win as a junior league chef. Chef Jason began his career working as Executive Chef/​Partner at Papa Joes in Chicago, a family-​owned restaurant named after his grandfather.

Chef Jason and his wife moved to Fort Myers Beach in November of 2013 after he was offered the executive chef job at Island View. As one of 15,000 applicants from around the world, it was Chef Jason’s family background and unique homemade dishes that made him stand out from the crowd. Chef Jason brings his homemade family Italian specialties with a twist of Asian and American influenced seafood dishes to Island View, which opened its doors on April 1, 2014.

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20 reviews of Island View Restaurant

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Place rating: 4
Easton, MD
Great view, great food. Worth checking out!
Place rating: 5
Ancienne-Lorette, Canada
Stunning view! This was a lovely hidden gem. The happy hours specials on food and drinks were great. It was so nice to spend the day on the beach and then have a relaxing lunch looking at the views. I would highly recommend this place. Also David, our server was superb.
Place rating: 5
Jackson, MN
Hidden gem. Understated and delightfully kitchy. Great breakfast special! Amazing view of the Gulf. Servers were attentive and quick. Drinks are reasonably priced and quite tasty. Fun place to visit! Fun outdoor seating. Felt bad for our server when someone got upset about the birds… when you are by the Gulf and outside, understand there will be birds.
Place rating: 4
Silverdale, WA
Outstanding value… unlike Pinchers, this place is all reality and not marketing. We had Lobster flatbread as an appetizer… awesome with real chunks of lobster. Dinner was a wood fire calzone, awesome! I had the grilled shrimp… awesome! Lastly, was the lobster bisque… yes real lobster. The only weakness was the slow bar. Great view over looking the Gulf. Great job
Place rating: 2
Denver, CO
Where do I begin? We chose this place because my 12 year old daughter has celiac and not many places on the beach offer gluten free meals. We’re not fancy people but when you advertise that you just hired a great chef from Chicago I would hope that the food is at least not raw. We went during happy hour to watch the sunset. The view is amazing but much better if you are at the casual restaurant outside rather than the «fancier» restaurant inside. The side salad and rolls were the only part of the meal that I actually enjoyed. The salad was very fresh and the rolls are nice and hot. My dinner on the other hand was totally gross! I tried the eggplant calzone and it was completely raw. My father had the grouper and he said it tasted like a sponge. My boyfriend had the ½ roasted chicken and it was burnt and dried out. My mother and daughter are the only two people that enjoyed their meals. My mother had the shrimp cocktail & eggplant rotolo and said it was good. The biggest surprise was that my daughter had the GLUTEN FREE pasta with chicken and said it was delicious! They did take our meals off the bill and tried to make us happy. But who wants to order something else when you were so disappointed the first time? Overall I would say go for the view and cocktails, then leave and have dinner somewhere else. Good for gluten free/​celiac, my daughter did not get sick eating here. That’s saying a lot because she usually gets sick every time we eat out. So they must have good food prep in place. I hope they improve the food because the view is so pretty.
Place rating: 2
Chatham, MA
Food decent, awful slow service despite well meaning waiter. Very loud over 50 crowd at bar, in no way a hip place. We had to ask to be moved despite a wide open dining room. When I made the reservation, I had made it clear we had two kids and despite that we were seated in incredibly loud bar with obnoxious elderly crowd. Only go if you can’t get a reservation anywhere else. Really wanted to like the place but couldn’t force it, really below average.
Place rating: 3
Davison, MI
Our server was such a sweet older gentlemen very attentive and genuine. Him and the rolls were the best part of our dinner. We had L&V meatballs, manicotti with shrimp and chicken Parmesan. Meatballs were good. Chicken parm was average. Avoid the house salad it’s unimpressive.
Place rating: 5
Mechanicsburg, PA
Great bar service! Outstanding service at the bar from Sarah! Food was fantastic. Blue cheese flatbread and grouper taco appetizer are incredible. Great Martinis also. Love this place. Great.
Place rating: 5
Columbus, OH
Great Anniversary Sunset Dinner ! And «hidden» is the key word … Hard to find but yet well worth the search! Great Food!
Place rating: 5
Fenton, MO
Best happy hour!!! My husband and i were in search for a great happy hour and we found it. Everything is only five dollars! This includes a multitude of pizzas which are large enough for two! Ceviche and grilled tuna wontons. We enjoyed everything. The mixed drinks are only 5 dollars for a huge list of options. The best part was the view! This is a steal of a deal with a beautiful setting! We will be back!
Place rating: 5
Fort Myers, FL
Best hidden gem on Fort Myers Beach. Best view of the gulf (like eating on a cruise ship surrounded by water) best food and best service. Chef Jason has created an amazing culinary experience. Happy hour is the best on the beach. If you haven’t had happy hour yet here check it out! Best restaurant on fort Myers beach in my opinion. Eat here often and always enjoy it!
Place rating: 4
Carpentersville, IL
If you’re a happy hour kind of person, you should come here. It’s from 3pm to 6pm in the dining room, but last until 8pm at the bar. $ 5 food and drinks, you can’t really beat it. Great service, nice atmosphere. If you’re on FMB for at least a few days, make the time to come out and watch a sunset and have some cocktails.
Place rating: 5
Bonita Springs, FL
Wow! From a local Bonita resident who never went to the Lani Kai, this place was an unexpected treat. We thought we would give it a try based on earlier reviews and the photos we saw. It didn’t disappoint. The panoramic views are beautiful. You can sit at the bar or almost any table and see the gulf; from Naples to Sanibel. The food was excellent. We tried about 5 different appetizers from oysters rockefeller to the calamari to the octopus. All were exceptional. The bartender was very attentive and the rest of the staff was upbeat and friendly. We are planning a dinner trip there again soon. Give this place a try and I am sure you’ll be glad you did.
Place rating: 5
Bailey, CO
6th or 7th time going back for the food — BEST Happy Hour on the beach — the new thin crust wood fired pizza is EXCELLENT! For happy hour we tried a variety of pizzas and also had an excellent shrimp appetizer and stuffer artichoke. We have tried many restaurants on Fort Myers Beach (hard to find a consistently good restaurant!) and IslandView always goes above and beyond. Thanks Chef Jason and everyone at Island View, we’re glad you’re here!
Place rating: 5
South Saint Paul, MN
Would recommend to anybody in Fort Meyers for dinner! Me and my mom were looking for a place to eat at 10 and they were more than accommodating. Our waitress attended to all of our questions with no problem, and checked on us and served us when needed. The bread was the best I’ve ever had in a restaurant, buttery rolls with asiago cheese in the middle and a melted butter with basil on the side, AMAZING! I had the crab claws, mashed potatoes, and the clam chowder. When they say crab class they mean JUST THE CLAWS, but were still amazing. Wouldn’t recommend the mashed potatoes but would highly recommend the clam chowder soup. Mom got the seafood salad, very recommended but beware that there were some pieces of seafood we weren’t sure about (never seen such big calamari). Very accepting of families and any new comer, all welcome!
Place rating: 5
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Amazing view great service great food five-​star recommend for the whole family friendly restaurant for kids
Place rating: 5
Fort Myers Beach, FL
Amazing view, great food, bartender was very friendly & attentive. Don’t let the looks of the hotel stop you from dining here. I had the meatballs in marinara that were outstanding! My friend had the bacon wrapped shrimp atop guacamole, phenomenal! There was a good band playing as well. Will highly recommend this place & will def be back!
Place rating: 4
Fort Lauderdale, FL
First of all the view is spectacular. You are literally on the top floor of a hotel overlooking the beach. It’s beautiful and while we were there, we saw a dolphin jumping in and out of the ocean. Plus, if you are here during happy hour when people are still on the beach, then it is great people watching!
So let’s talk about their happy hour… Five dollar wines and five dollar martinis… Including the humongous and delicious five dollar Coronito (A hugemargarita with a full-​size Corona in it). And the food on happy hour includes five dollar flatbread, five dollar calzone, and a five dollar eggplant Rolatini. The Rolatini was huge and really good. My husband says the calzone (which had meat in it) was delicious. Both were huge and those two items were sufficient to fill us up as a meal. We weren’t as big fans of the flatbread; we thought the toppings were good, but thought they were rather thick on the bottom (think way too much dough). As for the service, our waiter was great. He provided 5 star service, great recommendations and was very personable. The lady that greeted us, however (a younger asian woman) was just rude and unfriendly. If she wasn’t working there, this place would be 5 stars.
Oh, and at first we had trouble finding this place. On the top floor of the Lani Kai are two restaurants… one is outside and is more low key. This one is inside and is a classier, fancier restaurant. Despite the rude hostess, we will be back.
Place rating: 3
Brickell, Miami, FL
Our waitress was in the weeds. It was off season, so I suppose they weren’t anticipating the crowd, but it is mdw, so they should have been better prepared for the crowd. The food was mediocre. The view is gorgeous (8pm sunset). Our favorite part of the meal was the rolls – they were awesome. Our waitress knew the service wasn’t that great due to the unanticipated crowd, so she threw in a free drink – I’ll take it, but likely won’t return as it wasn’t that great. Zushi-​Zushi/​House of Brews was way better the night before…
Place rating: 4
Victoria, MN
We actually just went to go to lani kai but it was really hot and wanted to sit inside, we happened upon island view a high end restaurant on top of lani kai. The elevator to get up to the restaurant was hot and disgusting bit the restaurant was nice with an amazing view.
They have a large menu with an amazing happy hour. Seriously do not miss their happy hour! We had good friendly service and the food was very good! I would recommend!