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(916) 922-3524
2232 Fair Oaks Blvd
Sacramento,
CA
95825
38.574
-121.4129
Neighborhoods: Sierra Oaks, Central Sacramento
What People Are Saying About Bandera Restaurant
The Editor
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Citysearch
The Scene – Waiters heave mighty plates of ribs, steaks and mile-high mashed potatoes past 30-somethings looking for love at the crowded bar. Dim lights accommodate soul-mate searchers, while mahogany booths shelter the meat-loving masses. Unless your appetite rivals that of Paul Bunyan, expect to take half your plate home. Empty tables are scarce on weekends, so arrive early and come hungry. – – The Food – Start with the deeply satisfying roasted artichoke. Its smoky flavor and creamy aioli will likely win over the most ardent vegetable-hater. Pass on the cheese dip…
12/20/08
the BBQ Pork Tenderloin it was delicious
by DBrose69 at Citysearch
Order the corn bread or the grilled artichoke appetizer or the hot queso cheese dip. Ever appetizer there is fab.
I had the BBQ Pork Tenderloin it was delicious. So was the Rotisserie Chicken I had the first time I went to Bandera's. Oh Yeah, The Oreo Ice Cream Sandwich is the best.
04/27/08
What's with the little table cleaners??????
by madelaineg at Citysearch
What a truly godawful place, and excuse the blasphemy, but sometimes it has its uses. Overpriced would be a vast understatement for this restaurant. I echo so many here, with the paramount complaint being the stratospheric prices. Reprehensible, and shame on this place!!! What sealed it for me were the servers (this place must be a commune, no one server!) with their little scraper things to flash across the paper table covering to herd food onto, I think, the floor (done so adeptly and swiftly, I couldn't tell!). How phony and hoidy toidy and excuse my French!!!!! And that, I suppose, is supposed to make up for the obscene prices. What a cheat of a joint, belied by its exterior which advertises American food, as if it's reasonably priced and/or even good. This place's fourteen to twenty five dollar entries could have been better prepared at the Baker's Square next door. What a place, and again, it should be ashamed.
04/27/08
PRETENTIOUSLY Expensive!
by holden822 at Citysearch
What a ripoff of the first caliber, horrifically pretentious, with a menu of nearly no selections that made you feel trapped and desperate to choose something cheaper (which wasn't there!). Trapped is right: sure, my two teenage sons and I could have walked out, and in retrospect should have. We were in the area from out of town for a sleep study for one of my sons, and thought, ok, good, solid American food (as it advertises itself). We were in a dungeon after that. The menus have to be slanted to catch sparse rays of light to be read, and then what a proverbial ticket shock. Wow! I didn't want to complain or whine to my boys, so we persevered. I even ordered two appetizers. Get this: a plate with fewer than twelve chips with two little piles of dip for five bucks, and that was the cheapest thing on the menu. Whoops, a mistake: the sodas were THREE DOLLARS AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS each! Pretentiousness permeated the place, and I walked out nearly one hundred dollars lighter (yes, I tipped at the prevailing rate: I at least at some honor). A RIPOFF. The food was anything (or worse) you could pick up at any restaurant for far fewer bucks. Why isn't there a choice here for NO STARS? And the Angela Somebody here whose headline review for this restaurant raves about it: what universe do you live in?
- Pros: Drawing a real blank here
- Cons: Dark, exorbitant and extortionist prices, pretentious
The Details on Bandera Restaurant
What to Drink:
The drinks aren't cheap, but they do the trick. Try the Dean Martin martini or one of the best cosmopolitans in Sac.
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