Fantastic Food & Friendly Service! The Co-Op Grill in Arlington, AZ, is an absolute gem! This family-style restaurant and bar serves outstanding food that keeps you coming back for more. Every dish is made with care, full of flavor, and served hot and fresh. The portions are generous, and you can truly taste the quality in every bite. The atmosphere is warm and welcoming, making it the perfect spot for a casual meal with family or a fun night out with friends. But what truly sets this place apart is the staff--remarkable, fast, and incredibly friendly! From the moment you walk in, you feel like part of the family. If you're anywhere near Arlington, make sure to stop by The Co-Op Grill--you won't be disappointed! Highly recommend! read more

Admittedly, it's been a couple of years since I stopped in at AJ's Co-Op but the menu seems totally different. Looks like the name has reverted to Desert Rose too. Seems like the same ambiance though. Our server was friendly and took good care of us. But the food didn't measure up. The fried zucchini was excellent and the garlic fries were just ok. The real disappointment was the Arizona burger. Shoe leather with no flavor. Where is AJ? What changed? read more

Great local spot for some lunch or drinks. We came after a long ride out at Agua Caliente Staging Area. We arrived a few hours after opening to a pretty busy crowd. There's a bar side with pool tables etc as well as your grill side. Food was great and service friendly and efficient. We had a large group and she did awesome. The club sandwich was huge and I'm glad my husband and I decided to share it because with the fries etc I would not have been able to eat it all. Price was decent. There is even a camp sight behind the grill for RVs etc. Good spot. If you love history the historic Gillespie dam bridge and petroglyphs are nearby a well. A lot of history around here. read more

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Good food and I love the location when we go fishing we stop there to eat lots of motorcycles to look at

Loved this place! Food was excellent. We had chilli cheese fries and a Jake burger. The portion on the fries was more than generous. The hamburger was sooo good. Lots of locals in there. Fun people watching. The server was on it. Friendly and checked on us frequently. Would definitely go again. read more

Fun local spot. A mere detour on our way home to Ajo. Old Highway 80 to Gila Bend. Cold beer, full bar, and yummy food. Check the Specials Board(s) for daily goodies. read more

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Local favorite. Stephanie is a super duper bartender. Her friendliness and memory are great. Tuesday is Stephanie. We started with the fried pickles...FAB! My Sweetie had the chili dog with regular fries and loved it. I had the Dusty Burger with pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, and lots of Red Onions. Whoopee. With a side of salad.. what a large portion! Met lots of friendly peeps. We shall be BACK!! Lovely drive back to Ajo thru farm land, solar farms, and the Gillespie Dam Bridge with the remaining arched dam/damage from the 1993 high rainfall. Lots to see & drops you into Gila Bend. read more

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Fun food stop away from everything. Staff are always friendly and the food is delicious.

Great place to stop while playing in the desert or taking a bike ride out this way in Arlington. Jake burger is a half pound monster that you can get your way. Friendly service, outside dining and an amusing mix of people. Generally stop here when I'm in the area. read more

My entire family went there last night. It is a family friendly place to go. And we had a very good time. It is totally western atmosphere. They have a bar on one side and the restaurant on the other side, but it's all open. Everyone was friendly and welcoming, including all the regulars. They do offer karaoke if you like to sing. The food was amazing!!! We had Buffalo wings, taco', chili cheese fries, fried zucchini, fried pickles, fried mushrooms, salad with steak in it, chili cheese fries and chili cheese dogs and fried fish sandwich and burgers. Every one of us enjoyed our meal, very fresh, very tasty. Not undercooked or overcooked, but just right. We highly recommend going there!!! read more

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Great place. Amazing food and Great service. Bike friendly and nice ride for lunch or even just a quick snack. read more

Co-Op Grill - Chili cheese fries & Fried Mushrooms. Are amazing. - Steakhouses Near Me - Arlington, Arizona

This place on old highway 80 is worth driving a bit out of the way for!. Way better than stopping in buckeye or Gila Bend! Tracy is the sweetest server, good music on Juke box, good burgers! Beers on tap could use a little improvement, but we are not complaining - decent selection! See ya next year on our back to SD read more

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We visited the Co-op based on one posted review. It was good food and the restaurant was very clean. It is also a very nice alternative to driving east to grab a meal. We both had steak sandwiches which were cooked to order, soft drinks and shared a huge basket of fries. The tab came to $32 with tip. They have a dance floor, outdoor seating and an arena out back. Country music was playing on the jukebox and the bar area was full of local ranchers. I felt like I was back in Indiana except the patrons were wearing cowboy hats instead of John Deere ball hats. We will be back. read more

Co-Op Grill - Steak sandwich - Steakhouses Near Me - Arlington, Arizona

Great place, I ate lunch there weekly. Nice motorcycle ride out of traffic good roads. The staff at the grill are great and the food is top notch I highly recommend this place to everybody. read more

Love this place! My wife and I come hear at least once a month. Nice ride from surprise. Drinks are cold, food is great. Good people. Be there again soon! read more

This place is closed. The sign on the front says "For Sale"......don't drive to the middle of nowhere for this as there is nothing else out there! read more

Steak was delicious and cooked beautifully . The wait staff was highly attentive, friendly, and quick. The price was right for the portion served. The establishment was clean and a nice atmosphere with a bar, pool tables and a dance floor. The dinner menu was limited to steak but sandwiches are on the menu for lunch. I say this place is an oasis in the middle of nowhere with a great country spirt read more

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The food and service was good. Thry have kids options for $6, which is average price. My husband and I had steak. They were cooked perfect. Our meals came with salad bar. I would have given 5 stars on this review, but the salad bar only had lettuce, dressing and croutons. That to me is not a "salad bar". It could at least include cheese. Come on! read more

This place looks like an amazing joint and I want to go back and try it again because the atmosphere is amazing but the service was horrible. We waited about an hour for a waitress and they were not crazy busy. Then when we got our food we were not checked up on for drinks or anything. We had to keep going to the bar to get drinks. When it came to paying we had to ask for our checks and wait another hour to pay. The food was okay but it would have been nice to have good service. read more

Okay so the hours of this place change, SO CALL BEFORE YOU GO!! The burgers are good. Garlic fries NO! Garlic fries should not have raw garlic! However definitely worth going to for the burgers. It has a nice country town atmosphere. A juke box love it! Room to dance, they make fun allowed! :) read more

This is my old neighborhood (as in 100sq miles) bar .The old watering hole. I think they probably do really well for events, the roping arena in back is put to good use and that is probably a great time to enjoy this slice of old Arizona trying to make it into the new era. I think with blue highway travelers it should still be a good business to build. Weekday lunch and weekends until the evening seem to be the busy times. The menu is good and basic Arizona steakhouse, full bar, friendly workers. The old Desert Rose was a fixture dive bar; I hope that they can tap into some of that. edit: I've eaten here a couple of times recently. The cook is doing a good job. read more

Good customer service, on certain days really good. Food is good, menu is limited. Decent draft beer and all beer is cold. However, prices have got too high. Beverages and food. A hole in the wall bar in Arlington. Locals make up the majority of customers in the summer. Maybe consider dropping prices when temp go up and winter visitors leave. read more

I came with my husband, who grew up almost across the street from this bar and restaurant, back when it was called The Desert Rose, a run-down old bar favored by bikers, both the weekend 'hobby biker', and the less family friendly, full-time kind of biker. Many years ago this was a regular diner that serviced the numerous families and busloads of people passing through on US Highway 80, which was the road of choice for points south and southwest from the Phoenix Metropolitan area. They could stop here for soup, sandwiches, pie and yes, even beer. Eventually US 80 was replaced by bigger and faster highways and it became more of a scenic back road. The diner's business traffic dwindled and it became less of a stopping point for traveling families and more of a destination for bikers on road rallies and scenic rides. I also grew up not far from it over in the Town of Buckeye, so I was no stranger to this old bar and it's past. So THAT was how it came to be that my husband and I visited about 8 PM one Saturday night almost a month ago, desperately hungry and dead tired after a long day of remodeling work at a house we own in Buckeye. We left our toddler with grandma and grandpa and headed across the street to finally see the 'new' restaurant in Arlington. What's nice about the Co-Op Grill is that their menu is clear and simple, leaning towards basic grill fare: steaks, burgers and chicken, baked potatoes, French fries, cowboy beans and green salads. There are a few other offerings, but by and large this is the bulk of their menu. I firmly believe that a restaurant should find a few things they are really good at and just do those things well. The Co-Op Grill adheres to this adage and does these few menu items quite well. My husband ordered a grilled chicken sandwich and an iced tea. I ordered a petite steak with baked beans, garlic bread and salad and a margarita. Turned out they ran out of beans earlier that night so the waitress offered me a baked potato as a substitute, which was just fine. Also, that was the most delicious, softest garlic Texas Toast I've ever had. Damn, it was mouth wateringly good. My steak was also delicious and tender and flame grilled over the fire pit out back with just the right amount of charring on the sides. It was damn near perfect, *except* for the fact that I ordered it medium rare and got it VERY rare, almost blue throughout the center of the steak. But I was so hungry that I just devoured all the parts around the outer edges that were cooked through. I simply left the raw center untouched, not wanting to wait to eat any longer or to be a pain in the ass and have them re-heat the remains of a half-eaten steak. As a SOP the grill master should do a firmness test to make sure it's cooked correctly before they send it out to the customer though. My margarita was also delicious, except I forgot to specify, and the waitress forgot to ask, no salt. Yuck, I hate salted rims. (Is it weird that I despise salt on my margaritas? It probably is.) My husband had no complaints about his chicken sandwich, French fries or his iced tea. He devoured everything. The ambiance here is nice in a very relaxed kind of way. The tables are long picnic tables and you sit on simple benches, the condiments are housed in a repurposed Corona six-pack caddy and there is a tin bucket at the end of the table for a roll of paper towels; it's all very informal, which suits this location perfectly. The tables are all clustered at the end of an old fashioned dance floor and elevated stage and there seems to be a second, smaller, bar on the opposite side of the dining room too. Plus, there is covered patio seating all around the front and sides of the building. There was a jukebox playing music halfway between the main bar and the dining room and it was a teeny tiny bit too loud for my tastes, since it was just filling a large wooden room with music that noisily reverberated off of the wooden dance floors, but the music choice wasn't offensive and a few little kids were entertaining themselves, and everyone else, by dancing on the dance floor and stage area as their families dined. It was cute to see the children playing so happily, without scowls of disapproval, in such a casual, family environment. The weather is glorious right now and this whole area is very scenic, so pick a Saturday to drive out to the far southwestern part of Maricopa county and see the old Gillespie Dam just a few miles South of the Co-Op Grill, and take the family on a mini road trip, then stop back to enjoy a delicious steak or burger while your kids dance like little fools to the juke box. You won't regret it. read more

Ate lunch here with my lil' family. As we walked inside we walked thru bar area first & than the dining area, has wooden benches & wooden tables. You can feel this place has history. Very clean establishment, the food was excellent. The generosity of the server's made this place welcoming. Defintely will be back for some more great food. read more

Enjoying the AZ weather with a group of 7+ off road vehicles and planned for lunch at the Co-op Grill (formerly Desert Rose). Customer service was fantastic and burgers delicious!!! They were not phased by a large group coming in a once and all drinks & food came out perfectly. Yes it's a bit worn but is a place with lots of history and it adds to the charm and character. We will be back:) read more

After reading the reviews I thought I would give it a try . Sorry I did stopped by for lunch got a small cheese burger and fries Bar maid acted like she was to busy to help me. there were only two people in the place. the burger looked OK but tasted like the cheese was old tasted real funky. I tell you I don't feel to good after eating there. told the bar maid she said ok still paid full price she did not offer to fix it. wont try that again. this is not the first time we stopped by about two weeks ago me and a couple buddy on a bike ride stopped in played a couple games of pool had a few beers it was OK but we did not eat went on down to Gila Bend now I am glade we did. read more

Stopped last night on our way past. I get kid friendly but this is ridiculous! Waitress had her kids there they were out of control. Would like to eat my meal without the waitress arguing with them. read more

All the food is homemade best burger I've had in a long time. It's a little out-of-the-way but it's well worth the drive.

Good steak sandwich, great fries, nice nice waitress...Nice place for a ride stop!! If your going to Gillespie Dam, stop here, good place for a bite to eat & a beer read more

It would be Helpful to post your hours and days online and On building, We just drove 20+ miles to find closed and Today is Tuesday Oct 2nd at 11:15-11:30 am and NOT open but on line said Open????? Not Good Business practice!!! read more

Love this place!! Great food and atmosphere. Come out!! A family owned function that deserves the support.

Two years in a row I've gone on for a poker run. Were we start there to sign up and have a few drinks and food. The food is always good and the servers are always really nice. read more