Stonefire Grill — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Nov 24 Great food, order at the counter type place, also a great Take Out spot. Here's why:

Can't beat the soda fountain with refills when you dine in.

Families will love this place! Lots of sprawling areas to join tables together, roam around, Etc.

The food is phenomenal. It's kind of like Cheap Italian meets California BBQ. They have pizza, pasta, roasted chicken, tri-tip, and more.

If you love carbs with a side of protein, The "stimulus package" deal is where it's at! $42.99 for half a tri-tip (more like 1 third realistically) OR a half chicken (better value), a 2 topping 12-inch pizza, 8 breadsticks and a green salad.

Stimulus Package Portion size? Carbs, carbs everywhere. If you're two adults and two small children, you should be okay. If you are two adults and say two teenagers, you may need to get one stimulus package and supplement it with an additional whole chicken, or a whole tri-tip, or some other meat upgrade. If you're a couple of heavy set guys looking to cater a poker game, get one of these per every 2 people. If you're four skinny ladies looking for a game night take out meal, I think 1 Stimulus Package will have you covered.

The service here is top-notch! There's at least 25 staff people between the counters and the open floor. And they do check in on you quite regularly if you take part in the sit down side of things. Even at the takeout counter, there's at least 12 people managing orders, prepping your food, getting everything ready for you to just pick it up and go.

Tri Tip, get it medium rare. The carryover cooking by the time you get home if you do the takeout will bring it to a nice juicy perfection. Whether you get the garlic or the barbecue flavor, the tri tip always aims to please. Size? They say "half a Tri Tip," but I think shrinkflation has hit StoneFire too. The size/amount of Tri Tip you get with the stimulus package is more like 1/3 of a tri-tip. StoneFire used to give more meat. But I guess they're cutting costs like everyone else by giving less meat.

My advice? Get the half chicken instead. Because that's truly a half a chicken including breast, thigh and drumstick. It's roasted well, juicy and tender.

The stimulus package comes with a 12-inch 2 topping pizza, and 8 breadsticks. If you want a 16-inch pizza you'll pay a little bit extra. But not by much. Need more toppings? Each additional topping is $2. My advice on the pizza is to get it well done. Less doughy that way, and a little more crispy underneath and on the crust.

Chopped Italian Salad... delicious. It's a $9 upgrade from the green salad if you get it with the Stimulus Package meal. There's about a tablespoon of each of salami, garbanzo beans, banana peppers, green bell peppers, white cheese, red onion, black olives.

Parking is plentiful. This is part of the Victory and Fallbrook Shopping center. Tons of spaces whether it's during the day, or in the evening, weekday or weekend. You'll always find a space somewhere.

Again, can't thank the service and the staff enough! At least four people checked in on me while I was waiting patiently about 20 minutes from my order.

You'll love this place. Give it a try. Make sure to mention this review and my name. Cheers!

Just One Note for Management, because it wasn't obvious to me if there was an option, but it would be nice if you had a "Meat Lovers" Take Out option / stimulus package or similar. Something with less carbs, and just more meat! Maybe you could do something like a full tri-tip, a full roasted chicken, and maybe a full rack of ribs for $60? That would really be a steal! ...and bring a LOT more...

Horrible curbside service. I placed an order online and arrived earlier than the time stated so I knew I had to wait a bit. When I parked a young lady came up and asked for my name. She went inside, came back outside but never came back to my car to update me or check in again. I had my two toddlers in the car with me and one was thirsty, so I exited my car to ask one of the employees for a water. She said of course, but as I walked back to my car she waited a few minutes before heading inside to get the water. Nonetheless she finally came back with the water. We waited for another 10mins, still no food. At this point itapast my pickup time and other customers have come a d go e with their orders. I exited my car again and inquired about my order. A different young lady asked me for my name and headed inside to inquire about the order. When she finally came back out she didn't return to my car. She went to another car that had just pulled up and helped them. At this point I'm becoming frustrated and my children are ready to leave. I call the restaurant ask about the status of my order. I was informed I need to ask someone outside. I explained that I already followed those procedures and still had no food. Its now almost 25mins past my pickup time. The lady over the phone said they would send someone to my car,surprise no one came. Once again I got out of my car and stopped one of the serves and asked for my order. She went inside, came back outside, went back in then fi ally returned to me only to tell me I had to wait another 10mins. At this point I want to leave and get refund.my 4yi son is telling me to leave because he's tired and hungry. I call the restaurant again and ask to speak with a manager.themanager tells me that they are running behind with the orders which I can understand but didn't know because of the lack of communication and professionalism. She then tells me that some of the servers are new and don't know how to communicate properly?! Huh?! How is that a valid excuse. I explain to her that anyone can offer an update or say we are running behind ma'am you're order will be out but to blatantly not interact with a customer is beyond naive employees and lack of experience. I then voice my frustration and she apologizes while make the sa.e excuse of communication. After I make reference that she hasn't even offered a remedy to the situation she says well what am I supposed to do i don't know if you're still here or not. I tell her in still parked because as we are speaking my food arrives almost 30mins late. She then suggests well maybe I can give you a free dessert or something. I say no to the dessert and she hung up on me. I will never patronize this restaurant again. The lack of customer service was appalling. And the manager was rude who hangs up on a customer? And I wasn't being rude or...

Honestly worst place to dine in We called in to see if they took reservations they said no that the line was out the door , asked how long the wait was to be seated he mentioned 10 mins . We arrived and it was empty , we were waiting to get seated and the cashier said We can seat ourselves we just had to order and pay upfront . We ordered and I asked the cashier if I can have the tri tip well done and cut very thin and she said it's usually thin and I mentioned when I order to go it's not , that's why I'm asking if u can add it in the notes . She then went on and said they usually cut it thin hopefully it comes thin . I was like just wow. We paid we tipped and we sat and they gave us a cup to go get a fountain drink then we noticed they had plates and utensils and we figured we had to get our OWN napkins utensils plate and dipping sauce . Defeats the purpose of dining in a restaurant and paying so much money . We received the pasta and tri tip and there was no Parmesan cheese. They have employees like crazy but when it came time for us to ask for something they would ignore us . We ended up taking our food to go . The boxes were so flimsy the box that had our pasta ripped and fell in the parking lot .We were so over in coming out to dine I do not...