My review becomes more and more dramatic, I would suggest reading the whole thing.
This one is the worst place I have ever tried, which I've tried dozens of times. It is consistently ultra-terrible, you know those people who are upset with their experience, but leave one star, and you ask yourself why they would give a sub-par experience one star? Very, very few places can meet the one star mark, those are for the super bad, the once or twice in a life-time experiences. What I'm trying to say, is that very, very few places should get a one star. I think sometimes people are simply black and white in their reviews. This is not the case with my review. I've eaten here about three dozen times, maybe four dozen times (sometimes twice in one day), for over four to five year, and this place ultimately gets one star. I would give them 0 if I could.
So how come the overall rating isn't so bad here, you might ask yourself. I feel pretty confident that I have the answer. This hole in the wall used to be good most of the time, not always (depended almost 100% on the cook working), but usually it was decent to pretty darn good. It also caters mostly to drunk people after 8 PM. Your odds are about 1 one 5 of getting something decent, and 4 out of five of getting something terrible (now days).
The last dozen or so trips I've made down there, all their classics have been complete, COMPLETE failures. Most of the time they are missing the majority of their meat. Almost every time to be exact, the time before my last visit, I found plastic in my food.
Tonight, the time after the plastic indecent, my large family ordered several burritos. Every single of them was bad. The Loko (one of their best Burritos, and the Oregon) was about half the size of normal, had hard cheese instead of melted cheese, and that was the best item out of the bunch - how pathetic. I ordered a Shrimp and Steak Burrito. There was not ONE SINGLE piece of shrimp, or steak on it.
It is nothing but rolled up mashed potato in a shell, there is nothing else on it, but for whole onion and some mashed beans, but mostly it's just Potato. That is pretty gross, huh? There was nothing...NOTHING else at all. No cheese, no meat, nothing, so why would I pay for two types of meat? The potatoes used to be fried, but these were more like mashed potato, extra thick.
Now you're probably finding this hard to believe, but it's true. I can tell you, that this place has gone down hill so bad. It must be on it's last legs. The whole town is angry, the residents here will warn you, the residents being those who have lived here for quite sometime. The college students don't know better though, because they're usually not from Corvallis, nor do the drunk people who rush in...and believe me there are tons of them. Well when you're drunk, everything tastes good!!! I believe some of the reviews on here might be from out of towners, people who went drinking, or they are old reviews from times that were good!
When I called, and politely spoke to the Red Head at the front tonight to inquire about our profoundly bad food, I asked to speak to someone, she hung up on, instantly. I've been nothing but nice, I barely got a word in. I think it's because I"m white, I'll tell you why after bit.
Avoid, If you don't, there is an 80% chance, plus or minus 3 percent, that you will regret it, and if you're looking online for a place to eat at with a bud, and you disregard this, you'll probably say later down the road, "I should have listened that guy online, he was right". It is mathematically improbable, that you will receive a decent meal. I know it and the locals know it too.
While we were in there, waiting for our food, we also noticed that they would treat white people with less respect. My wife is dark and looks Mexican (she's actually Native American) and SHE IS THE ONE who noticed it, they were nice to her, but once it came to me, and then later, two other white men, they're not so nice. About a year ago, I had a run in with a morbidly obese lady, who is nice to me now, but she called me a white fat *bleep* one time, in Mexican, and apparently she didn't know I could understand her. Guess what I did to upset her, I asked for more sauce (AKA "fat"), on the side, for a burrito, that's it. I was jolly until that happened, you should have seen the expression on her face when I spoke Spanish.
Either way, I see targeting, and I see victimization, and the customer service is super bad; and the food is at the lowest tier that is possible. I believe the targeting and victimization is purposeful too. Look at the other reviews, talk to people in town about RECENT visits, you'll see what I'm talking about... ... ... ... if you're White. I encourage you to write about your experience too.
Listen to me...do not do it, not even once.
EDIT: I see I'm not the only person having trouble with the plastic in their food or the lady at the counter! read more