Bombs Away deserves an update, and unfortunately it's not going to be a move in the positive direction. The Duck Chimichanga? Gone, as are most of the skilled-chef qualities that I used to associate with this place. Turns out, there was a change in ownership a few years back and there's not much evidence of the original business left. The food is not much more than watered down versions of "Am-Mex" cuisine. It seems like there's still hope for Bombs as a late night hangout or an occasional music venue. Unfortunately for them, I know of a bunch of other Corvallis haunts where I'd rather spend dinner time. read more

Oh Yes! Bombs Away is the Bomb! We come here 2-3 times a month. Just found a lunch special ticket... Get 1 Item from the $6-$7-$8 Lunch Menu for $5.00. Found it in the Advocate paper. We will be going next week for sure! Great place for vegetarian as well as regular items. The vegetarian wet burrito is our favorite. Many great selections. The Lemonade is wonderful and it comes with the entree. Can be crowded around lunch time but worth the crazy. If it's busy, may take time to get your food. However, that's what makes the eats great here. Food is fresh and local. read more

Bombs likely thrives due to it's location (It's one of only two semi-adult, non-take out lunch/dinner places across the street from the OSU campus). I suspect if it was downtown (or especially in a non-college town), it would have went under years ago. The food is mediocre. The ambiance is old and tired looking. The wait times for your food are often long and random (It's not uncommon to see tables sat long after you getting their food first.) And the prices ok-ish. Bombs is, in a word, convenient. Oh...and I've never gotten sick eating there....I guess that's a plus as well? read more

TL;DR - 3.5, tasty food with a decently spacious dining area, kind of pricey, and busy during the lunch hour! _____________________________ I was heading to get Thai food next door, but then realized they're cash only and I only had a card on me. Whoops. Anyway, I wasn't really feeling "Tex-Mex" and "seafood" like Bombs Away was labeled as on Yelp, but ended up going in anyway because I didn't want pizza. I ended up grabbing a burger with fries, which I ate while reading a book since it was relatively quiet at first, and then was on my way! FOOD Cajun Asado Burger - pretty good and decently sized! I was nice and full after eating the whole burger with the fries (I thought about a salad, but it just wasn't appealing since it was so cold outside). The burger wasn't amazing, but had good flavor with the peppers, onions, and cheese! I'm not sure the Asado sauce made much of an impact - I can't remember it. The fries were a tad too salty, but good. SPACE I got in around 11:30, and there were 3 other people inside. There are plenty of tables though, with an additional area in the back past the restroom (maybe more of the bar??), and by 12:00 or 12:15, the place was filling up so that it was full by the time I took off. SERVICE I didn't interact with them much, but they were friendly and quick! read more

GREAT Mac'n cheese! Awesome specialty menu items. Service is fairly good as well. They have a relaxed atmosphere during non-busy "(happy") hours. read more

Bombs Away Cafe - Baked Mac'n Cheese. Delicious. - Tex-Mex Near Me - Corvallis, Oregon

Food was good and reasonably priced. Took a while to get my food considering the lack of people eating at the time.

New management for a while. Too much has changed and not in a good way. Dang. It's sad. read more

My husband's family, and a lot of his friends, reside in Corvallis - and I had the pleasure of eating here during my most recent visit last week. DO NOT MISS IT if you are visiting Corvallis. The food is excellent, and the atmosphere is warm and inviting. They have an impressive selection of beers on tap, and lots of great specials throughout the week. When I was there they were having a $2.00 Margarita special. Yum! I ordered the goat cheese and spinach quesadilla - and it was to die for! Fresh and well prepared. My husband ordered the pulled pork sandwich, and it was amazing! Their house bbq sauce is some of the best I have EVER had. We also tried their potato - leek soup, and it was comforting and delicious. Definitely try it if they have it when you are there! Spread the word - Bombs Away is some of the best, if not THE best, food in Corvallis. read more

Bomb's Away Cafe is not your typical college dive bar, it has a surprisingly large menu and good rotating beer selection. Bomb's advertises itself as a Mexican restaurant, but this is misleading. It does have "Mexican" style food of taco's, burritos, and the typical rice and beans; but by far it has some of the best vegetarian food and burgers in the city. Bomb's has the BEST lunch special you can find in the city with a wide variety of items from their dinner menu but for only $5. Bomb's does have a full bar, and a decent Oregon wine selection, but if you're a beer nut, Bomb's has a good selection of hard to find regional beers. The front restaurant portion of Bomb's is also one of the only venues for live music in Corvallis. So look for bands to typically play on Wednesday through Saturday nights with both local and national talent stopping by. read more

The food was very good. Atmosphere was good but drafty on the evening we visited. Service was good. One thing stood between a solid 4 star review, it was that my family was assessed a 20% automatic gratuity. For a casual dining place, I feel pretty strongly that a family group of 6 (4 kids) should not be assessed an auto gratuity. I hope they change their policy. read more

I'm a student in Corvallis, but I hail from San Jose, California. Naturally, I'm used to super authentic mexican food and I was disappointed when I came to Corvallis and the only burrito places I knew about were Qdoba or Chipotle. Which to me, are shitty chains that can't get burrito wrapping or how to prepare their rice right. Bombs Away is different. It prides itself in cheap beer and dope food. I would walk past this place and pray that I could stumble upon a fake ID or that I could turn 21 faster because at night this place is bumping. They have really good sounding bands come through and play there at night. So one day my boyfriend and our friends decided to go try it out. They don't claim that they have authentic Mexican food, but so far this is the best I've had. The people at the register immediately gave us their 5 dollar lunch menu which includes and entree and a drink. My boyfriend got the chicken flautas, and our friends both got the blackened burger. For me, however, I was pleasently surprised to see a lot of items as vegetarian, as I am one myself. I got the wet veggie burrito. We all agreed that it was the best 5 dollars we've ever spent. The burger was served on an onion bun with a giant slice of tomato and onion. Both of them loved it. My boyfriends flautas looked like the most authentic dish and he said he'd never eaten better flautas. My burrito was by far the biggest, taking up the entire plate. And it was filling, however, I recommend asking them to put some guacamole in there because it was solely black beans, brown rice (which rocks), cheese and lettuce. A little sparse for what I'm used to. This is a great place to get 2 dollar margaritas and a 5 dollar lunch. This place was definitely all that it's cracked up to be. read more

Bomb's is awesome for 2 things: (1) $2.50 microbrews on Tuesday, and (2) $5 lunch menu. Since I work by this place, I take advantage of both a lot. That's not to say that's all they're limited to. Bomb's is what I like to call faux-Mex. Not in a bad way, it's just kinda the Americanized style of Mexican food. For $5, the food's well worth it. They also have a rotating dinner menu that has a whole host of other stuff of various styles. Almost everything from there has been pretty good from my experience. But I go more often for drinks than anything else. There's a small bar in the back, often it can be hard to find seating, but if there is, it's a nice place to hang out and drink. Bartenders are all very friendly, especially since I know most of em now, and they seem to have the same kinda rapport with a lot of customers which is always a good sign. On a whole, great place near campus, probably one of the better places to drink in Corvallis, even if it's not really a bar, and student-friendly prices. read more

Easily some of the best drink specials in Corvallis, they've also got decent food - there are better burgers elsewhere but theirs are ok. They often have live music which can be quite fun but its not my scene, if there's a cover I'll often move on further down Monroe Street. Servers and bartenders are nice and professional. The Tequila Club (25 tequilas and you get a shirt) is fun to do and can introduce you to a lot of great new tequilas. A long line can develop to be served at the back bar during busy hours. read more

I'm usually hesitate to give 5 stars but... I've been here for lunch a handful of times and it has been "good". Tonight I had dinner at the bar. I kept my expectations in check but took the bartender's advice and ordered the steak special, at 18.00, the most expensive thing on the menu. Tho she also recommend the 10.00 pasta just as enthusiastically. Having lived in Corvallis for about a year I discovered the a decent steak, properly cooked is rare Pokémon in this town. The steak was perfectly cooked medium rare and of a quality much higher than expected. I ate it all and felt excited about the next special I would try. Worth every nickel. read more

This used to be a nice lunch spot with good food at a reasonable price. It's now under new ownership and the food is a lot more expensive and the quality has plummeted. Some of the food arrived cold, none of it was tasty, and all of it overpriced. Not going back. read more

The huevos rancheros were average. The tortilla soup was pretty good. The beer was kinda warm. Seating awkward, we were basically in the doorway. Server was cool. TAD read more

They have good drink specials, especially $2.50 pints on Tuesdays. The food is good for the price and they have a good beer selection. If you go for margarita Monday get there early because seating is limited. read more

I really like Bomb's Away - the food and beer are usually spot on and the atmosphere is laid back and casual. The menu has the usual Mexican options but is enhanced by lots of great veggie options. The nightly specials are usually excellent and are often not Mexican at all. One warning - they are not shy on the spicy. The $5 week-day lunch special cannot be beat! Give Bomb's a chance!! read more

Bombs Away Cafe - $5 Lunch Special - Tex-Mex Near Me - Corvallis, Oregon

I love bombs. I rag on WC pizza, so here's my chance to even the playing field. The guacamole on the west coast is FAR better than anything on the east coast. I love the guac at bombs. I love the margaritas, the live music and the eclectic not-quite mexican menu. Easily one of my top 3 places in Corvallis. read more

Recently tried Bomb's Away, I was quite pleased! We ordered jalapeno fries as an app, my husband ordered a breakfast burrito, and I had the "appetizer" casado with chicken for my meal. The fries were a little misleading, more paprika fries than jalapeno. NOT spicy at all, but they were tasty. The Casado was way more than an appetizer, and at only $6 quite a nice dish. It was excellent, and I had the leftovers for lunch the next day. There were a lot of items on the menu that I'd like to try. The breakfast burrito was a little bland, with too many refried beans in it. My husband liked it anyway, though I think I'd rather make my own at home with turkey bacon! read more

The drinks at Bombs are BOMB and they have awesome drink specials throughout the week. Enough beer selection to keep my beer drinking friends happy. The mixed drinks are delicious and pack a punch - probably shouldn't expect to drive after 2 drinks. I've never had a full meal here but the chips and salsa and the nachos are tasty! read more

This is pretty much the best "Nightlife" bar that I know of in C-Town.. Always a great crowd, and a diverse variety of people, and enough has likely been said about how awesome the food and drink is here. 7/3/18 Edit: One of the last standing viable music venues in this city. I miss the local scene that used to gather and hang out outside in the alley with all my heart, though, and hope this bar can become the community hub I remember it as. read more

Wonderful place! As the center of the Corvallis music scene, this place has importance beyond their delicious food. Please support them

This place seems to get more raves then it deserves. The food is ok and the happy hour menu is fitting but the southwestern, hippy-style Mexican food is not exactly my favorite. If anything is going on around campus this place is usually more busy then is worth dealing with, but on a slow night its worth at least checking out once. read more

Great Food! The best thing they have isn't even on the menu... the fish burrito :)

I love going here for Margarita Monday!!! 2.50 for a margarita (single) and a double is $5. They have a min purchase of $5 if you wanna pay using your card. The margaritas are pretty strong here compared to other margaritas I've had in corvallis! Good place to go when you need to take a break from studying! Bring your friends here! Oh..seating may be hard to find. There are tables in front and in the back where the bar is at. read more

Wow, Chris F. you ordered a hamburger, the only "American" food item on the menu, at a "Mexican" restaurant and were upset? Next time, go to Block 15, Squirrel's, or even Peacock to eat a burger, then you can write a review on one of them. You only accomplished giving Bombs a lower rating, which they don't deserve. read more

New owners. Apparently Bombs Away is now owned by Cloud Davidson, the owner of quite a few other restaurants in town. The menu is much more limited, and the restaurant is now understaffed. We waited a long time for service, then a long time for drinks, then a long time for food, then a long time for our check, then a long time for the overworked waitress to pick up the check. Portions are smaller, and the cuts of meat are of a lower quality. The shredded chicken that is a filler for many of the dishes is primarily dark meat which is not good if you prefer white meat. I have been going to Bombs for 30 years now and will probably not go back. Gave it another try in January, 2018. Food still mediocre, and the new menu has even fewer options than before. The old favorites and the old quality is gone. Service is horrible, not because of a lack of trying on the one server's part, but because it is understaffed. read more

Decent atmosphere and drinks. But the food, well, bland would be an understatement. Neither me nor my date finished our food. Just seemed like it wouldn't be worth the effort of chewing read more

Pretty bland and uninspiring Mexican food. I guess that's what happens when you don't see Mexicans making the food in the back. Man oh man. You get decent deals for the lunch specials and that's when I go. But otherwise, I would just pass on this place. People seem to also like it for the music, but I'm into the metal scene and this place doesn't do it for me that way either. read more

Fantastic institution! One of the greatest bars in Oregon with the "Bac Bar" they have in the rear of the restaurant. One of the stops for touring bands on the west coast. Awesome specials. Great owner Jeff. Just an all around great place for locals & students across from Oregon State University. read more

Have eaten here 3 times since we discovered it a couple weeks ago. Pretty good food but not what I would refer to as New Mexican food- which is why we went. The burgers are very good (unless you accidentally order a Viking burger...how anyone can eat that 'veggieburger' is beyond me! The last time we went there, also the least busiest, it took 45 minutes just to get our drinks! So we will return, but not when we have a game to catch at OSU in a couple hours!!! read more

My husband and I visited Bombs Away and let me say it was a mixed review for us. Furst of all we ordered drinks. They were standard drinksarita and mojito, but they were terrible. So bad that if we hadn't ordered our food already we probably would have left. The food was very Tex Mex. My husband cleaned his plate and finished mine. If you like smoky flavor and don't mind ordering bottled beer to be safe then I would reccomending this place. read more

It's good. It's popular because it's close to campus, not necessarily because it's revolutionary in any way. The food is good, but sometimes not worth the wait to find a table. Drinks are also good, but service could take time depending on how busy they are. I will give them props for margarita Monday though. They showcase local bands which is cool, but I don't like how crowded the venue is and how close the tables are. read more

The food here is so good. And Courtney is an amazing waitress. We haven't been in there for at least a month and she remembered us from our one previous visit. The portions are huge and the prices are good. If you are looking for a place to relax have a good drink and a great meal with amazing service this is the place to go. read more

One of my favorites. Head into the BAC room for great service and a fun atmosphere. Their use of 'Seafood Watch' fish and locally grown vegetables and meats is a plus. Their Terminator Stew and Kick Ass Chili are must-haves! read more

I have enjoyed eating here for many years. My last experience on 2/21/2018 was a huge disappointment. The service was really slow, the enchiladas had very little sauce but lots of cabbage on top and the margarita tasted like water. I can't help but wonder if Cloud is getting stretched too thin. read more

Love this place. The daily specials tend to be really good. Also, pay attention to the daily drink deals. They always have one beer on special for $3.50. Happy hour is fantastic, one of the best in town. read more

Best day to go is on tuesdays. Pint night all ipas are just $2 and nachos are free at 10 pm.

Bombs has been a go-to for sure. Good beer on tap as a staple, and plenty of good menu options. Courtney and Reid are the best, you can definitely tell they invest a ton into the service they provide. Dallas and Graham make a serious effort to build a report with familiar faces. Definitely someplace to check or come back to for years. read more