Grillin & Chillin Alehouse — Restaurant in Hollister

Mediocre food and rude, unfriendly service!

We’ve had lunch at this place twice in the past month. The first time, the food was good enough, but the service was indifferent and unfriendly. We got the feeling that since we were first-timers and not regulars, we weren’t that welcome. There were only a couple of other occupied tables at the time, and staff nearly outnumbered patrons. The food took a really long time to arrive and the waitress completely ignored us other than bringing the food and the bill ($50 for two entrees, an appetizer and 20% tip).

We decided to give the place another chance. This time there was a larger lunch crowd - about six tables of customers. The service (a different waitress) was again indifferent and unfriendly - actually uncomfortably so. One of the entrees was an item my husband hadn’t tried before so he wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. Turns out it was a totally different sandwich than what he’d ordered. It was (very dry) chicken instead of beef. When he asked the waitress about it she blamed the mixup on him, even though he had pointed to what he wanted on the menu when ordering. She never apologized or offered a remedy, since apparently it was his own fault that she got it wrong. 🙄 She did not check on us once except to bring the bill, and it took over half an hour to get the food. We will never go back to this lousy...

I enjoyed myself quite a bit I was there for the first time and they had live music that DJ he played My Latin music and also the food was great not to mention they also teach you how to dance Latin music and if that doesn't do it I'll be happy to teach you myself my name is Mario and I love dancing dancing this place is big enough to enjoy yourself nice dark room away from the restaurant kind of reminds me of Texas they have places like this also in the southern part like McAllen and I really suggest you go to this place in Hollister get there early if you need to learn how to dance like 7:30 to 8:30 hopefully it'll start the music at 8:30 for dancing not 9:00 like last time I rather dance with the lights off I guess you could say I'm part of vampire this place is open for mother's Day and make sure you think your mother over there dancing I'm not exactly a young puppy but I feel like I am when I'm out there dancing I'm sure you'll see me I'm the one that's probably dancing with most of the ladies out there I wish I could find one that I could lift up in the sky like I used to 4 years ago but for that you'd have to be around 120 or less so if you fit that description I myself I am over 70 barely but we would think I'm around 50 enjoy yourself tonight for...

My family and I (party of 9) went to support this local business this past Saturday 8/1 and upon arrival we were immediately and rudely told that they didn’t have a table for us. Mind you, when we arrived there was clearly an open table for 6, a table for 4 and a table for 2 open on the outdoor patio (Covid-19 patio only dining). We tried to ignore this older mans rudeness and continued to explain that we would gladly split our party up onto two tables but before we could even complete the sentence, this worker (older gray haired white male) rudely interrupted while rolling his eyes and says in a notch of volume louder “yeah but I don’t have a table for you!” and walked away. Instead of firing back and making a bigger scene, we choose to walk away and take our business elsewhere... to another locally owned business. We have vouched not to ever go back there and will tell everyone we know about the awful experience we had. The owners of this restaurant also have a restaurant called Grillin & Chillin Roadhouse on San Juan Road. Due to this experience, we will also not support or promote this restaurant either. I am baffled by this disregard of...