IHOP — Restaurant in Goleta

We live a few blocks away from this IHOP location and we usually came here often when the place was Itsuki Japanese restaurant. On our first visit IHop here, we had an okay dinner. However, on our second visit last Sunday, it wasn't great at all. I liked their concept of egg Benedict on top of spinach and mushroom, but the hollandaise sauce was missing a taste compared to other places. I ordered add on bacon and sausage sides with hope to bring up more flavor to my dish. However, my bacon wasn't crispy and the sausage had a somewhat "fallen out texture" like doughy/flour. Not sure what it was. My Benedict included my choice of side fruit, but the food runner failed to delivery it in whole. He accidentally dropped some fruit on the table when he placed my meal in front of me. He said oops, I am sorry and then left.😅 I guest he saved those fallen out fruit pieces on the table for me. 😂 My husband ordered orange juice, but it doesn't taste like real juice. It tastes just like powder drink.( It was like Vitamin C pills taste)

I tried their watermelon lemonade. They added fresh water melon n blue berries for topping to make it look nice, but that couldn't fool my taste. I take one sip and push it aside because it tasted like a fountain lemonade with soda while the drink weren't listed under fountain drink options on their menu. Our drinks are refillable, but we rather it was served with quality @real juice instead of quantity. In my opinion, what is the point of being refillable when we can't even enjoy our first. I replaced my drink with Ice coffee. And..Oh Well, another wrong decision was made, my bad! 😕 On the bright side, We enjoyed their sunny Patio seating. We will probably come back once in a while for dinner because it is nearby, but definitely stay away from their cold drink options. We hope someday the company will consider changing their fresh drinks options such as fresh brewed ice tea, fresh lemon, fresh juice, etc.Until that is happened , I probably order water or hot tea and make myself an...

Shopping at Albertsons next door and realized how hungry I was, against my better judgment I went to new IHOP, the Eggs Benedict banner lured me in. The place was practically empty 1:00 PM. Blasting very loud hard rock at IHOP! Weird! It gets weirder.. After sitting at my big, barricaded booth where nobody could see me, for over 10 minutes… servers kept walking by me as I were invisible, I finally flagged one down and she said she’d get my server… 10 minutes or so later my server graced me with her presence! I told her I was in a hurry and had been sitting here for over 20 minutes alone at lunch time ( I’m not there to hang out ). She giggled … “sorry”. I asked how the Eggs Benedict was, she replied “ everyone takes it back because the new recipe for sauce was sour and not good”😳 I asked for a ramekin of sauce Hollandaise, she reluctantly brought it over for me to taste, it was the new recipe that “everyone” hates… well, it was actually the near perfect Sauce Hollandaise I’ve had! I told her that THIS IS WHAT HOLLANDAISE SAUCE SHOULD TASTE LIKE! It’s not sour, it’s a touch of lemon juice! Long story short …. The Eggs Benedict is legit at IHOP ! Service is...

I love IHop but will never return….. I went with my family and we were all starving after a long hike, we ordered our drinks and we noticed it said “free refills”. That was a scam. The waiter came back to check on us only once and it was five minutes after she brought us our drinks. She did not come back to check on us after that. We waited 45 minutes for our food when the restaurant was completely empty besides two other tables. The waitress was dodging our table and only attended the other two tables and actively gave them refills and chatted with them. By the end of this meal we were left scavenging for any bits of our drinks that were left. They brought the receipt, basically kicking us out because we weren't even halfway through our food and we had planned on getting dessert. Keep in mind the restaurant had 3 hours till closing time. Everyone at the table agreed we should have gone to...