HOOKED ISLAND GRILL – Restaurant

Island-bar energy on a Cape Coral corner: coastal-casual room, porch tables, live music and a weekday happy hour worth timing your arrival for. The kitchen has fun with Gulf seafood — grouper bites, mahi-mahi under lump crab hollandaise, Pow Pow shrimp tacos, the Cowabunga seafood chimichanga, a sushi dog, pulled pork and mac egg rolls — with weekend brunch and raw oysters rounding things out. Diners come back for the creative specials and staff who look after a table properly. Tropical without the kitsch, and the cooking backs it up.

Cuisine: Restaurant