The Twisted Pig Bar and Grill — Restaurant in Modesto

A lady wouldn't put something that looked like that in her mouth in public. Look at the pictures. There were 3 pieces of fish and they all looked like the one in the picture. Olive garden breadsticks are PG-13 compared to these XXX fish sticks. They tasted good with tartar sauce. They do not have cocktail sauce (no pun intended). Did they cook them in this shape on purpose? There are details in the picture that point toward yes.

The ribs and fries were ok. They both had adequate and appropriate flavor.

The cooking staff have a lot of work to do to get their sides up to par.

Awesome tots were not awesome. They weren't even good. The pulled pork on top was sticky sweet, too sweet, cloyingly sweet. The flavors of EVERYTHING that was piled together to make awesome tots were not complimentary toward each other. It appears there has been no effort made to balance the flavors, edit the dish and perfect the dish. It feels like someone just wanted to throw together whatever they had already available in the kitchen to sell an appetizer for $14.75. It looked and sounded awesome, but it was awful.

The mac n' cheese was awful. It looks the right color of yellow and it looks like a gooey, delicious comfort food, however it had almost no taste. It had just a slight burnt/bitter taste like you would expect of a beer cheese, but not a good savory cheesey taste at all. Not even a little salty. It is unbelievable that it lacked delicious flavor because it looked alright.

The mashed potatoes had almost no flavor also. There was a very slight hint of garlic, but they mostly tasted like water. No butter flavor, no milk flavor, no creamy flavor, no salt, not even an adequate garlic flavor, heck, not even a potato flavor... Like water.

The coleslaw was awful too. Almost no flavor.

Someone needs to taste-test the food every now and then to make sure it tastes good. Management and every cook need to know what this food tastes like so that it can be made right. You can't just make food and send it out for customers to eat if you have no idea if it tastes good. Just because it looks fine does not mean it tastes good.

The food coming out of this kitchen should be savory and craveable. There is no good reason why this kitchen is making so many foods that don't taste good. It is managements' job to taste-test the food and figure out why this is happening and fix it.

I wasted a lot of money.

I would never order the awesome tots, mashed potatoes, cole slaw or mac n' cheese again.

Loud bar atmosphere.

A place for heavy drinkers.

Not a good environment for kids.

Karaoke outside on patio (bad singing not heard inside).

Note to management:

Please try mac n' cheese at the following places: Chicken Barn (McHenry Ave.) Chic-fil-A (Manteca) Flying J (truck stop in Ripon) Dickey's BBQ (Lathrop)

Please try mashed potatoes at the following places: Cool Hand Luke's (Riverbank) Red Lobster (Modesto)

Please try coleslaw at the following places: KFC (Dale Rd.) Sam's Chowder House (Half Moon Bay)

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Rude customer service! (( UPDATED REVIEW ATTACH TO THE BOTTOM))

I came to this place to order food to go as I have been here before due to a company appreciation party and food was good. Hence the return to the establishment.

I asked to do a to go order and the server rudely told me she couldn’t help me since I am doing a to go order and direct me to try with the bar tender. She ended up taking someone else’s order right in front of me while I waited to place an order with the bar tender. Their food even came out faster than my order with the bar tender.

The bar tender was nice in the beginning but when it came to paying for my bill in which I asked her nicely using my manners to do so. All of a sudden she consider me an inconvenience to her as she stared me down with her eyes. She then leaned forward with her ear towards me in which I took it as to repeat myself because she didn’t catch what I said and so I did. She said that she heard me and needed to wait while she did her job. She had no problem chatting it up with the rest of the guest at the bar talking about how she got a cold drink waiting for her once she got home.

I could have taken my food and walked off without paying because no one was paying attention.

*The chef was the only nice person working that night and brought my order out to me. Cool dude.

I order the twisted Mac with tri tip which honestly was okay. It could have used a few other condiments to perfect it. Perhaps bacon, green onion, heavy whipping cream.

Awesome tots which were really good.

I also order another side of just Mac and cheese which was suppose to be only $2 but instead was charged another twisted Mac for $12.50

Receipt $63.30 is mine and the second receipt is one I found on the internet for how much they charged for a side of Mac and cheese.

** Hello Owner, I don't know how to individually reply to your response so I am adding it to the current review. Yes i am open to talk to make this right. ( 5/2/23) Thank you.

5/16/23 An Updated Five Star Review.

I spoke with one of the owners from Twisted Pig and had a warm and good conversation in regards of a previous review I made.

I placed an order via telephone today with a women who was happy to take my order and repeated it back for accuracy.

I went back to twisted pig and ordered quite a few things for myself and the family that included ( Boarshetta, Awesome Tots, The Dip Tip, The Conquerer Slides)

Twisted Pig did not disappoint when it comes for making an impression on new consumers and returning consumers. The atmosphere upon arrival gave all the vibes of positive social gatherings, openness, and big smiles all across the room.

Boarshetta: very bomb with a toasted bread pull pork topped with a special drizzle sauce that executed it to perfection.

Boss burger: a wild combination with beef, pull pork and bacon with a secret sauce that would make you salivate out of your mouth with each bite. Definitely a favorite.

I strongly recommend Twisted Pig for those who are hungry, want a positive social environment and plenty of amazing food options to...

I placed an online order expecting that it would be ready by the time I got there as I had allowed 25 mins; however when I got there the bartender told me she had not seen the notification come through on the tablet sitting directly in front of her. She told me it would be an additional wait of 20-25 mins. I was not happy about that, but chose to wait. In the meantime I ordered a beer (I was tired and hungry since I came back from a 21mile hiking trip the previous day). The man next to me made a comment about how the bartender should continue to miss orders placed online as it would draw more business because people would buy drinks. I smiled it off. Before the food came I asked the bartender that I’d rather eat there instead of to-go since it would be fresh. Shprovide silverware, but when the food arrived it was in a to-go container. I was expecting it to be on a plate. All while waiting the dining area was relative busy, but not overly busy. She had enough time to stand and watch the Warriors game that was playing and casually speak to the man at the bar; he must be a regular since it seemed like they’ve interacted before. So with that being said, I’m not sure how the online order I placed was not seen. It wasn’t THAT busy. I would also like to mention the hot chicken sandwich I ordered was nothing like the IG picture (insert laughing emoji) it was very basic and blah. I also ordered mashed potatoes that were relatively warm. My first experience there and I must say I won’t be going back. I felt bad not leaving a tip, but she really didn’t do anything for me and I think should have discounted the beer or even comped it to make up for the waiting period. Idk, that’s just me. I usually don’t leave reviews, but felt I had to. Save your money and go to a...