Lilly's of Long Beach

I had a portabella sandwich with steaks, taste was so good.

The owner was a nice guy and looking for improvements to this place, adding WiFi to outside sitting area, definitely will come back again next time I'm around.

This was the second time we visited Lilly’s when visiting friends. Please note that the chocolate chip pancakes are in fact chocolate sprinkle pancakes. When we asked about this mistake our waitress said she thought the kitchen put sprinkles on the pancake and not chocolate chips. Pancake was still on the bill and there was no effort to fix this issue. We also never got a refill on our waters which sat empty for the second half of our meal. The rest of our food was good.

We got a burger, the chicken curry, the steak, brussel sprouts and the daily special fish. The burger was average kind of bland and too bready. The brussel sprouts were garbage. Seems like they boiled them. The chicken curry was interesting but just fine. Same for the steak and fish. The fries were actually pretty good just the only real good part. Also the bathroom was a porta potty

Big menus, big problems. Unless you have 200+ seats, there's no way to produce quality across a menu as big as this, and they don't. Getting corn cobs lukewarm is a special trick. Serving Irish beer cold and flat likewise. Poutine is somehow Irish, and is a handful of fries, not so much with fresh curd and gravy as much as smothered in a somewhat tasty meat stew. The flounder sandwich with hand cut fries is a disaster. So thin that it's boot leather dry by the time the crumbs are cooked..absent of the promised tartar sauce, and the closest these fries came to a hand was at the end of the fryer....and....cold. The pastry on the frozen veg and chook mix was a margarine based foodservice special. I cant begin to describe the crime scene of the cremated sausages, with mash potato "product " and tin baked beans.
But that's the thing when you have so many menu items. You'd need a team of ten to do the prep properly. At these prices, that's not possible. Be good at 3 things, offer each 3 or 4 different ways, and you won't be empty when the town is full, as this place was tonight. Great service though.