Reinero’s Restaurant

Loved the food, but didn’t like the excuse for not having the AC on in the restaurant. Came with one other adult and two kids. The waitress told us that we can eat in the bar area. And of course, it was significantly cooler in there. Another couple came in, sat down, and they didn’t even order. They left. After the waitress told them the same thing. Go to the bar area? Really? Was disappointed.

This place truly sucks ass! Any positive reviews they get are obviously being made by the owner. I went here once and 40% of their menu was not available for order. Plus the place has some musty stank to it that smells of an unclean horse stable. I wouldn’t recommend my worst enemy to this place.

Food is always off the hook. Been trying all the lunch menu and never been disappointed!

This is the worst businesa I ever worked for. It is a joke. It is dirty and you get sexually harassed by the nazi. Its a disgusting enviroment. And by far the dirtiest place I have ever worked. Nooo stars. I just had to choose one in order to post.

First time coming here and the last.
I ordered the $ 12 Manicotti and my husband ordered the $ 12 Carbonara with soup and «salad bar.»
Manicotti is supposed to be plump and round pasta. Mine was completely flat on the plate. It literally was as thin as a pancake and a parmesan cream sauce dumped over the top to where it filled to the edges of the plate with a ring of yellow/​orange grease around the entire outer edge of the sauce. It was disgusting. Could not distinguish when I was eating the pasta whatsoever.
Carbonara was also completely loaded with grease and oil. I’ve never seen so much yellow grease pooling on a plate. Bacon may have been soaked bacon bits and inside the pasta was a piece of paper. Maybe it was a piece of packaging the «chef» tore open from the frozen entrée box this «meal» came out of before he poured grease over the top of it and stuck it in the microwave.
This cannot be fresh food we were served. I would have to see with my own eyes this «chef» making this to be convinced it wasn’t cheap frozen boxed food.
«Salad bar» is cheap Costco bagged lettuce and you can choose from a wide variety of about 4 toppings which look like they are leftover chopped pieces they use for pizza orders.
The bill arrives and we’re charged $ 14 per plate and the waitress explained the extra $ 2 per plate is for the «sauce» on the entrees.
Further surprised when we presented our credit card for payment she informed us we were going to be charged tax while another member of our party paid his bill with cash and was not charged any tax.
Reinero’s, you are a business in California. You either collect sales tax on your dine in food or you don’t. Which one is it? You only collect «tax» from credit card users? Perhaps a refresher with your tax preparer or the BOE is in order. Your accounting books must be as muddled and wrong as the food you serve.
Never never never coming here again.

During my second visit, we had the worst service ever, and the lasagna tasted like pure salt. The waiter didn’t bother to refill our drinks or see if we wanted more beer/​wine, he yelled across the restaurant, and basically didn’t deserve a tip. I’ll just make my own clam chowder at home and add some hot sauce to it.

The stories we could tell! Phil kicked out of there for getting inside when he felt 50% of the tables was full enough and locked the doors on a Friday night. Our favorite waitress let us in and got yelled at quite loudly in front of everyone for doing it. Such a shame. She works somewhere else now. We eat elsewhere now.
Besides that, and to be fair, Phil had the best minestrone in California, bar none. His homemade hot buttered rum recipe is an old family secret and wild pigs could not snort it from him. My original review reads, «Red table cloths, standard Italian décor, lots and lots of noise, excellent garlic bread, hustle and bustle and always a wait. No reservations accepted. You can wait in the bar with bra covered moose heads and the owner in his inevitable white togs, however, the owner has some serious attitude problems. Rarely open with any regularity. «
Rumors abound about why he closed, and even more that be might reopen. We are not holding our breaths.