Magnolia Pointe Grille

I love coming down to the clubhouse to eat on the back deck and look at the lake it’s so pretty to come down here and eat in the food is consistently good.

Food is excellent! Always fresh and delicious! If you live in LOP and want to go out to dinner why go anywhere else? The views cannot be beat! Service is always good and it’s always clean and comfortable too.
My husband, a huge steak snob, says the filet mignon at Magnolia Point Grill is as good as Jack’s in Redding (although not as giant a portion as Jacks)
Brunch/​breakfasts are incredible too! Best eggs benny’s!

If I could give this place zero stars I would. This review is not about the food, service or atmosphere because unfortunately, I didn’t get to experience any of those. Magnolia Pointe Grille is located inside of Lake Of The Pines (LOP) which is a gated community. However they advertise as being open to the public. My wife and I do not live in LOP and are not members. We decided that we wanted to try their Sunday Brunch. I called them one Sunday morning to make sure they were open and see if we needed reservations. The woman I spoke to (whos name I didn’t get unfortunately) said just come on in.
So we hop in the car and arrive at guard shack at the gate. The guard came out and asked us for the name of the person (member) sponsoring us. I said that we were there to have brunch. She said well you need the name of someone sponsoring you. I said we weren’t given a name. She said, «yeah they are really bad at that». She called down to the restaurant and was on the phone for like 5 minutes while traffic backed up behind me. She came back and asked the name of the person that I spoke to when I called. I said that unfortunately I didn’t get a name. So she’s on the phone for another 5 minutes and finally came back and said the person she talked to at the restaurant had spoken to the other employees and no one remembered talking to me so she couldn’t let me in.
So this restaurant failed twice. First, because the person I spoke to on the phone didn’t give me a name to get past the guard shack. Second, and most importantly, why didn’t the restaurant give the guard a name that would get me in while I was waiting at the gate?

Wonderful staff, good food. It’s where friends come to eat.