Desert Inn Bar & Grill

Great food strong drinks and good prices. I’ve came here several times now on a Friday night and haven’t been disappointed. Service is always spot on also

Paid for top shelf drinks, watched the rookie ‘bartenders’ pour from top shelf bottles, but at first sip it was obviously NOT top shelf liquor.
Guess they are fooling others, but we won’t be back, bad business & we won’t be recommending this place to anyone!

The first time we walked in, we turned around and walked out. It was an out of control place that was also dirty. After six months and hearing it was under new management, we tried again… and again and again. Pete, the manager, has really turned this place around. The service is great (especially when Pete is working) and the place is as clean as you could expect for a middle-​of-​no-​where-​bar. In fact, it sets the bar for the surroundings areas.
Often bellied up to the bar is the locals winding down for the day. There’s pool, shuffle board, juke box, outdoor patio with horseshoes and gambling.
The food is mostly typical bar food… then there’s the fresh made pasta! It takes an extra 20 minutes once you order since the chef (yes, a real chef) makes it in-​house. The fettuccine Alfredo is excellent! It starts with a typical green salad and then pasta with a side of fresh veggies and garlic bread. The serving of pasta is ridiculously huge. No worries, because they’ll box it up for you. Definitely worth the stop!

Not a great experience. My girlfriend and I went there to watch a football game last weekend. The establishment is a small one, fairly low-​end but homely (as you’d expect to see in a small town of 500 people), essentially a two-​parter: the first half is a bar like you’d expect (though nicely lit with windows) that’s open to the other: a tavern/​inn of sorts that’s filled with a couple of pool tables, a few finding tables and chairs with some other tables and chairs stacked up along one wall. Kind of like a multi-​use room. Almost like an after-​thought.
We decided to sit in the back room because there were more fans and we didn’t feel like sitting in the bar area, though it was quiet and clean… just that it was cold and the TV was up in the corner between two windows with a lot of sunlight that made it hard to watch.
The only table available in the back was a small one with tie hard chairs next to the wall near the kitchen door. Three TVs back there, one playing our game. There were a couple of families with some kids there. Noisy but not in the way a sports bar fan would expect. I’m sorry but kids don’t belong in a bar, even if it’s some back room «dining» area that is only separated from the bar by the air we breathe. Anyway, it was cold and drafty in there as well. I noticed most of the other people were wearing jackets. At one point the back door to the outside, which was across the way from us, was left open for a long time and cold air was filling the room until another patron shut it.
The beers were good, albeit spendy. We expected that. Asked for an order of buffalo wings. Got a small plate with something like six, maybe seven SMALL wings (I mean they were tiny), small pieces of celery that-​as we found out– were two 2″-3″ pieces split into small strips (apparently LOOKED like a big serving of celery in the darker room?) and a container of ranch dressing. Certainly NOT worth $ 7. My girlfriend, who has worked in a restaurant, was disgusted with the paltry serving. The food taste was mediocre.
My girlfriend went to the restroom. It was a while before she got back. When she did, she told me she had a word with the owner/​manager of the establishment. She was nice to compliment him on the environment (being polite, really) but voiced her concerns about the food, particularly the portion and size on the wings. He said «well, they’re not breaded» as the reason for them not being bigger. We both have had wings before and they were easily much bigger. And in larger portions. With lots of celery and carrots. For the same kind of money. I mean, the ONLY thing in abundance on the plate was the ranch dip.
On top of that, they overcharged us 50¢ on the tab. Good thing we caught it.
We’re not going back… unless we absolutely HAVE to be on time for an important game and nothing else is available and ONLY for a beer or two. Sad thing is I’ve been there a few times before. The food and the environment were better then. Not sure why they’ve gone downhill.