The 15 best bars and drinks in Whidbey Island (2024)

Amazing place, wonderful staff, fun clean restaurant atmosphere, huge seating areas so great place for groups and parties. Nice fireplace inside, large cute outdoor seating area now too. Love the taquitos, enchiladas, street tacos, all food I've had there has been amazing! Been getting curbside a lot since covid and its always fast and hot and delicious. We always bring visiting family here for at least one of our eat out nights!

This place has gone down hill extremely fast.I gave this three separate chances (ordering for 6 people each time.) All three orders (curb side pick up) something was forgotten in the order. This last time we literally through out $60 worth of food. The chicken fajitas- the chicken is terrible, the sauce is meh….The chicken Cesar salad- take it off your menu. The dressing was so bad we debated if it was even “good” as in serve-able good.This place is really hard to gauge due to the 5 star reviews, mixed with the 1&3’s…. This is a solid 1 star. It appears it makes enough money though as there isn’t any change in service. Reading through the negative comments- they are all stating the same thing. Someone needs to get on board with this place and help bring it back to how it used to be 10-5+ years ago….

*** Each person has a different taste ***We went there on Thursday for dinner, the restaurant is not too crowded. The waitress was nice and friendly. They serve chip with dip which not spicy while we were waitting. I tried the combos with 3 items : Taco, Echilada, and Chimichaga with ground beef. But only Taco had a good taste, 2 others were too salty. My husband ordered Burrito Verde. The taste was quite strange to us, but not bad.

Our server was the redeeming quality of this place. She was kind, charming and provided perfect service.The food looked amazing, but the chicken and veggies were very bland, but the steak was amazing.The atmosphere was good, not very loud.What I absolutely didn't like was that the table was very sticky and dirty. I wiped it with a towelette I had, and I posted the photo of how dirty it was.To summarize, it would be better if the food was seasoned just a bit more and the tables were cleaned, otherwise it was enjoyable.

The enchiladas suiza were good, and the added on deep fried jalapeños were a nice addition. I also added garlic shrimp on the side but they were flavorless and cold. While the serving staff was friendly they really didn't check on me much.

I ordered the enchiladas. They no longer come with a side of rice and beans. You have to order them separately. The lettuce was low quality. The salsa was low quality. It was more of a sauce instead of salsa.The waitress and hostess were very friendly.Edit: I had to pick several pieces of “rusted” (old) wilted lettuce from my meal. A majority of the lettuce was fine. Maybe just a one off this time?

Yhall need a new hostess. The hostess is the first impression for the restaurant, the hostess on Friday, February 23, was very rude. However the rest of the staff for the night was amazing. Very attentive and nice. The food was mediocre at best. We will come back but just for drinks. Their drink menu here did not disappoint and the atmosphere is nice.

We were happy to find a place which is open after 7pm, as many places close early in this town. We are also limited by gluten allergies. Tacos are a safe go-to anywhere we travel with that limitation. I expected more I guess from a mom and pop Mexican joint. The chicken and pork tacos were just ok...nothing special. The pork in particular was dry, but we were hungry so we scarfed them down anyway. As it gets cold quick on the island, once the sun starts getting low, I was chilly and ordered a coffee with whiskey and whipped cream. I'm a whimp, so it was too strong alcohol tasting for my like. I should have said make it weak...that's on me. The seats look good but collapse and are hard. I hope they look at fixing that sometime. The server we had was friendly, helpful (actually brought a pitcher of water when I stated I would need a pitcher...more rare than it should be) and he made our visit better.

There were six in our party. The waitress was super sweet. Three of us asked for our meals made slightly different. Two of us vegan (they have jack fruit tacos). They were really accommodating and remembered everyone's orders.The food was excellent.

We came in as a party of five. We were seated quickly, the hostess was polite. The waitress we were seated with was dismissive and rude. When asked about dietary restrictions, they essentially said, "sorry, everything is cross contaminated, and fried in canola oil, you're out of luck."The dietary restriction is soy and dairy, so we don't really know why the canola oil was mentioned. I went up to the hostess to ask for some clarification, stating that I was looking for an allergy menu, and that the dietary restrictions were soy and dairy. Her first response was that everything is fried in peanut oil, so soy should be fine. Regardless of who is right, the other person is wrong, and both of them just immediately responding is incredibly suspect.The hostess said she would go to the back and check with the kitchen staff, and came back to the table to share that the only thing available was the vegetables. There was no protein options mentioned, meat or beans, or even the impossible meat (which I now know is soy free).She said that they weren't able to use a separate pan to prepare anything, which makes me wonder if they are using the same pans over and over again? Are they not washing the pans between uses?Also, she recommend that our party member with the dietary restriction order a veggie quesadilla. Last I checked, the very base of a quesadilla is cheese, which they can't order because it's dairy...The restaurant is busy, but not full. There are 5 unbussed/cleaned tables, and 3 employees standing at the hostess stand hanging around doing nothingWe placed an order for 5 entrees at 7:36The food arrived at 7:55We ordered 2 carne asada, 1 mole enchilada, 1 burrito, and then a dietary salad.The dietary salad came kinda sad, but the hostess brought out additional avocado and a vinaigrette that had been double checked by the kitchen as being okay. On a scale of 1-5, our party member rated it as a 4The carne asada was good. The rice was kinda dry, but that happens with rice under a heat lamp even for half a minute.The burrito was good.The mole enchiladas were good, but a little cold.About halfway through the meal, they switched our server. Our replacement server was very nice.