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Beachside Bar Cafe
5905 Sandspit Rd, Goleta
Phone: (805) 964-7881
- Category: American
- Hours: Sun-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat 11am-10pm, Sun 11am-9:30pm
- Price: $20+
- Serving: Lunch & Dinner
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Reviews by the General Public
Food and service excellent. Margaritas very subpar., 3/19/2013
Reviewer: Stan
from Santa Barbara, CA
Have been here several times and always enjoyed food, drinks and service. This time (3/11/2013) the service was supberb, food excellent, but the margaritas were very bland almost tasteless. When pointing this out, we were given more tequila (so they tried) but that was not the answer. No flavor at all. Will not order margaritas again.
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Owner needs to try their own food and service, 10/14/2012
Reviewer: Marsha
from Goleta, CA
I too have been going to Beachside for close to 20 years as the only restaurant in Goleta with a view. Every time I go, I tell myself I won't go back. This last time was the worst. Food was horrible, presentation was horrible, service was horrible. It really wasn't the waiter's fault but the fault of management. It looked like there was one busboy for the entire restaurant?! The waiter couldn't possibly serve us in a timely manner. We sat for 1/2 hour before anyone even came to the table to ask for drink orders or to give us water. I had the Halibut. The plate came with rice (off white) with the fish (off white) with no color at all, very unappealing. The fish wasn't cooked in parts and the flavor was horrible. My husband's steak was tough and almost inedible. Over a hundred dollars for a nice view and good bread. Not worth it! Fool me twice, shame on me...finally learned my lesson...never going back!!
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Horrific, 8/11/2012
Reviewer: Lesli
from Santa Barbara, CA
Worst service ever! Our waitress was a total "B"
She got mad at us when she only brought 2 ice teas
We ordered 4.. 3 mango 1 regular. She brought 1 of each and then
Ignored us for a good 20 minutes before bringing the correct drinks.
She was horrible, bottom line. Lunch took 2.5 hours it's was all gross and cold and seriously over priced. To top it off my car was hit in the parking lot. What a lovely afternoon.. Not!!
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suddenly going downhill, 8/7/2012
Reviewer: peter
from Vandenberg village
Been going her for over ten years . Once a week on the average.
Loved to take my out of town friends here. All was great until the last few months. Is it under new management??
The service has now become slow. The front desk person acted like she was doing me a favor.
The tast quality of the food has been disappointing.
And worst of all they have substituted my favorite oysters on the half shell from the tasty pacific oysters to totally tastless bluepoints. Believe me I know seafood and these oysters are totally blah. The cook said that they were only trying them for awhile, but they have not changed in a month.
Even the free popcorn has changed from perfectly crisp and tasty to something that seems like it was soaked in motor oil.
These changes have been a big disapointment to me as I used to really look forward to driving the 50 miles from my home to this restaurant.Even the mediocre rating I gave it was high . Six months ago I would have rated it 5. My last 3 visits were maybe a 2.
I hope they get their act together.
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Nice location, food OK
Reviewer: biljana
from Santa Barbara, CA
I like the location of this restaurant and the ocean view.
The service was OK, but food was too expensive and not very delicious.
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NO service and LOUSY food!
Reviewer: Miranda
from Santa Barbara, CA
Our first - and LAST time here!
It took 45 minutes for them to TAKE our order, and another 40 minutes to get our food. I am not sure what the servers are actually doing as they pass by your table so many times without even giving you a nod. The food was not good, and very pricey. The servers offer no SERVICE. They just dump (after the long wait to order and the long wait to get the food)and dash off. But I loved how they grabbed the paid check RIGHT IN FRONT OF US to see how much of a tip they got. What a waste of a nice location!
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My favorite restaurant in SB!
Reviewer: Leanne Race
from Santa Barbara, CA
I have been enjoying the food and view for special occasions for the past 29 years, ever since I moved to SB for college at UCSB! It was the restaurant that my parents would take me to when they came to visit, it has been the restaurant of choice for special graduation events, anniversary's etc... My kids just went there for homecoming dinner before their High School dance. Today, I am choosing The Beachside for our 23 Wedding Anniversary Dinner! Thank you Beachside for being there year after year, as a place we can all enjoy through the years! I just ate an artichoke appetizer last week and it was grilled to perfection! YUM !
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YUM!
Reviewer: Megan
from Santa Barbara, CA
The service was great and great food, we've been coming here for years and always loved it! good job beachside (: we love your bread
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go ONLY for the view!
Reviewer: charlotte klein
from goleta
Why is it that practically every restaurant I've been to with a great view has terrible food? BECAUSE THEY CAN! Location, location, location! It would be too much to ask to have both! We started off to a rocky start when my $12.00 Mango Absolute Martini had a damn olive in it! and when I called my server out on it, I just got the blankest stare I've ever seen?? The food......We started with the fried calamari. What calamari we got was good but was such an insignificant amount of calamari, it seemed more of a garnish for the salad greens with glops of some kind of AIoli (it should have been sold as a salad for half the price!) The grilled artichoke was undercooked and had no char marks on it, so there really was no evidence that it was ever grilled!!! And then there was the $30.00 Grilled Halibut with Goat cheese Crust...sounds great! Well again, it WAS NOT GRILLED! In fact it was barely warm??? AND it was served RICE-A-RONI......REALLY? YEAH,REALLY! We told our server that the food was terrible and he said something like, "I could take it back but it would take a long time!" I flipped my wig! After dismissing the hopelessly moronic waiter and got the manager involved, we got it comped.....TRAIN YOUR STAFF!!!
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horrible experience
Reviewer: Cory
from Santa Barbara, CA
My girlfriend and I went to the Beachside to enjoy a nice dinner on the sand. The server took our drink orders and brought me my lemonade. After that we sat for 25 minutes while our server slowly brought plates out and made rounds to all the other tables. We walked out. All of a sudden the server comes running out saying i didnt pay for the lemonade that I didn't even drink. I informed her that I left $5.00 on the table. My girlfriend and I are both servers here in town and we were disgusted by how we were being treated. The manager needs to get his staff in order.
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Good Experience
Reviewer: Steve K.
from Santa Barbara, CA
My companion and I had a very pleasant experience at the Beachside Cafe last night. Summer evening, window table, sun setting beyond UCSB. The right companion. Can't get better. We both ordered the Atlantic salmon. Though that night the menu item said prepared with a hollandaise, we asked instead for a simple charbroil. No problem. It couldn't have been better. The fish was so fresh, moist, and delicious to the last bite. The steamed veggies, so so. The rice, a little heavy on the scallion garnish. But the fish took center stage. We both enjoyed our dinners. As for price, it was up there with fresh salmon at other eateries around town. A very upbeat and accommodating waitperson, Joey.
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Much improved restaurant
Reviewer: Ron
from Santa Barbara, CA
I also disagree with the individual who has complained. I would say that in the past this restaurant was not always organized in their service and was inconsistent with food preparation and presentation. However, I have not had that experience in the last two years. It is one of our family's favorites at this time. Portions are generous, well presented with above average service and attention to the customer.
- Ron - Santa Barbara
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