Visited for the first time yesterday for a friends birthday. She was in the mood for crab boil for…read moreher birthday. She choose Kimkey since she hadn't been to this restaurant yet. Great choice birthday girl! We ordered the 4 person tray and it did not disappoint. The portion was fabulous for our celebration crew and not to mention the service! Servers were attentive, cheerful, and provided helpful tips on their menu options. 100% I will be back and share this feedback with friends and family! The flavor of the "HOT" cajon on our food was phenomenal. Not truly hot in my eyes but the flavor was delicious.

Seafood boil is everything you'd expect it to be after everything I heard about the Indio location…read more Good food and easy to follow menu with nice choices. However, service is extremely lousy. Servers walk past you and don't offer or ask anything. Expect to wait 10-15 minutes after you finish for them to acknowledge you and finally get your bill taken care of. If this is how it is in the Summer with no more than 20 people dining, I wonder how they'll do when season arrives and there's 60-80 people dining at once. Service is all about enthusiasm and making people feel invited to come back over and over again. Hope this gets fixed as I'd like to try this place and give it another shot.

Another great restaurant find in the Coachella Valley, this time in Palm Desert. We discovered…read moreOceana Restaurant on the Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week website -- the Pulpo Chicharrones caught our eye -- so we decided to check it out. Thank goodness we did. Our group started out with the above mentioned Pulpo Chicharrones. Crispy Octopus bites served with fresh pico de gallo, guacamole, and flour tortilla chips.The octopus had a charred crispy exterior that gave way to a buttery-tender interior. None of the rubbery texture that so often turns people off. For entrees, we selected the Whole Fried Huachinango (Red Snapper), 7 Oceanas (think "Spanish Chioppino"), and Pan Seared Halibut which was the special of the day. The halibut special featured a very generous pan seared filet on a bed of white wine risotto with a sesame seed veloute and asparagus. The 7 Oceanas consisted of perfectly cooked octopus, white fish, clams, mussels, shrimp, salmon, and scallop in a rich broth with tomato, onion, garlic, smoked paprika, oregano, and guajillo peppers. Served with housemade telera bread sticks to sop up the amazing broth. The snapper was deep fried to perfection leaving the skin super crispy and fleah moist and flaky. Drizzled with an adobo sauce and served with grilled sliced lemons, chayote squash and baby potatoes. Our only complaint was the snapper was not true red snapper as advertised, but rather porgy (we think). Red snapper is one of the most substituted fish and very few people in the world could tell them apart. My partner Ernie is a connoisseur, and he can. The dish was still excellent, we just wish it wasn't advertised as Huachinango. This hidden gem delivered fresh seafood, tasty cocktails with a nod to tequila and mezcal drinks crafted by owner Marco Castellanos, and friendly attentive service from Gina.

First time visit to Oceana, Loved it! Fish tacos were…read moreoutstanding & crab cake burger was as well. Beautiful ambiance & service. Highly recommend you give them a try!

5 stars on service, atmosphere and food. 6 stars on the margaritas!…read more Dined here for a late lunch/early dinner and were welcomed by Pablo, the multi-tasking bartender, who invited us to sit anywhere. We picked a corner window table and were served immediately with cold water and the complimentary chips and salsas. The chips are fresh and dusted with a paprika/salt powder. The salsas are outstanding. One a bit spicier than the other but nearly impossible to choose a favorite. We ordered the chicken and steak fajita combination with black beans and rice with corn tortillas. The fajita arrives on a sizzling cast iron skillet with generous amounts of grilled onions and carmelized red peppers. We rounded our order out with their house guacamole. The guacamole, itself, could have used a bit more salt but the perfectly salted chips helped solve that. The margaritas are dangerously good. And the mix they use tastes fresh and house made. I loved that these were served with dehydrated lemon wheels and a sprig of thyme. Pablo took excellent care of us and we will 100% return.

INCREDIBLE-DELICIOUS- A MUST Such a great find- authentic…read moreand tasty! Large portions, good prices. Friendly service. Casual relaxed atmosphere. Very happy and satisfied

Strange but true: this is THE place to come for a delicious steak. Nicely seasoned and always…read moreperfectly grilled, you can't go wrong coming to this fish house for a great steak! Early bird specials all summer starting now. Great deals on excellent food.

The service was acceptable but not great. The server was more interested in visiting with his boss?…read moreThen serving us. The fried fish was terrible and soggy and greasy fries. The restaurant was overly smelly, even for a fresh seafood restaurant. The cod was very chewy and tasteless like frozen fish usually is. The server told us it was fresh yesterday! It was not fresh or high quality. The restaurant was clean, soda machine did not have any ice for the drinks. We probably will not return since there are many choices in our area.

Far from amazing...I am sure there are amazing places in the surrounding areas but within fantasy…read moresprings along with other restaurants the bistro hits the spot for all fine dining and cuisine along with drinks. Talk about class and superb service! The attire can range from casual to business in many ways like the types of options on the menu from seafood to meat! Highly impressed and would go there again to try and venture off to other delicious meals. I had an event with the job i worked at and went to this restaurant and ordered a porterhouse steak and lobster mac and cheese along a side of an old fashioned. Talk about treating myself and as you should for your next trip to, "The Bistro"!

I'm honestly shocked it took me this long to discover this place. How a restaurant this good has…read morebeen here for 15 years without me knowing about it is beyond me. I ordered the 8 oz filet mignon with a baked potato and asparagus, and it was excellent. Perfectly cooked, flavorful, and exactly what you want from a proper steakhouse experience. My friend had the lamb chops and oysters Rockefeller and couldn't stop talking about how good both were. That alone says a lot. The ambiance is polished but comfortable, and the service was attentive without being overbearing. Even the small details stood out. They filter their water, and you can actually taste the difference, which is rare and says something about how much they care about the overall experience. There's clearly a level of consistency and quality here that's hard to find. This easily earns a spot on my top 10 list in the Coachella Valley.

We ordered 4 different things and everyone was extremely pleased with their meals. Bistec Rancho…read moredish was absolutely amazing and a must try dish. Thank you for being a new regular stop when visiting the desert.

Had the pleasure of coming here to try it out with a friend. From the moment we came in we was…read moregreeted and told to have a seat anywhere we'd like. Looked over the menu and started with some chips and salsa and a Chavela and a fountain drink that was really good. We placed our orders which my friend ordered the Chiles Rellanos dish and I ordered the Bistec Ranchero dish. Let me tell you when our food came out the food was seasoned well, every bite, I just keep going back for more. I also tried out my friends Chiles Rellenos and that was great as well. Don't hesitate coming here and trying out their authentic Mexican food. I'll be back to try out more of the menu very soon.

The location is interesting. Be careful on the stairs going up they were wet from the waterfall. We…read moredid not have a reservation but were seated promptly at a high top table near the bar. The server was fast and friendly. We ordered the stuffed dates and the burrata. The olive tapenade with the burrata was so tasty. We practically licked the bowl clean. We quickly ran out of the little toasts but ate the olives with the arugula from the medjool dates. For mains we order a half order of the short ribs and the prawn pasta. The prawns were pretty large. The pasta was a little too al dente for me and the sauce had a very strong wine taste that got old pretty quickly. The short rib was so tender and flavorful, but the Brussels were also just a tad too rare. Overall it was a nice meal but kinda pricey for two people for the dishes to not be perfect.

2.5 stars. La…read moreQuinta Cliffhouse was recommended to me for dinner, but I won't pass on the same bad advice. The Prawn Pasta ($39) I ordered was bland to the point of being inedible. I erroneously assumed spaghetti flavored with garlic, white wine, butter, herbs, & preserved lemon would be delicious. Large, tough (& again, tasteless) prawns topped the bowl of noodles that seem to stick together from a lack of sauce. Our gracious waitress removed the dish from our bill after seeing it had barely been touched. Her efforts did not go unnoticed; we generously tipped her for taking the initiative to rectify an unsatisfactory situation. We sat on the covered patio facing the giant rock formation; a unique dining experience, but one that felt Disney-ish rather than elegant. La Quinta Cliffhouse gets a hard pass from me.

Found out it's in the old (Catcus Jack-Indio) Menu is more…read morethan you can select from. My visits for breakfast and lunch have been delicious each time. Staff was more than helpful explaining the specials. The seating is wide open making it a nice flow throughout the restaurant.

I think the service is what made this place really special. I believe our server's name was Carlos…read moreP or T? He made us feel welcomed and made sure we were well taken care of. They have summer daily specials. I happened to go on Friday (pick any day special), and I chose Wednesday's Steak & Shrimp Molcajete accompanied by a Margarita. They also have daily live entertainment, featuring a guitarist who sings and brings a lively vibe!