Topock66 Colorado River — Restaurant in Needles

The reviews on Google show this place to be real lively. My friend brought me here and he said he’s had a great time when he’s here.

Sadly when we showed up yesterday it was 1.5 hours before close and they close early at 8 PM. (Early if you are coming from LA) I didn’t know that at the time since there are no signs anywhere that state the closing time. But I should’ve looked on Google Maps. (My bad)

First thing I noticed was the place is big and looks very nice. There’s a huge pool and there’s a bar actually at the pool’s edge, so you can walk up to the bar from inside the pool. They were very few people there at the time. We sat down to order food. The menu is very small, which I thought would mean that they do the food really well but the food came out almost room temperature. Pulled pork should be served hot. There was no sauce mixed with the pulled pork. So they just took some pork put it on a bun and put the sauce on the side. I did not ask for sauce on the side so this is their usual presentation.

The waitress said that they were running out of ingredients in the kitchen, but didn’t say what we ordered was part of that list. The food came out way too fast which let me know that they did not cook it to order. I ate it because we were hungry from a long day of driving. The other person who had pulled pork didn’t seem to enjoy her meal either.

The hotdog and the chicken tenders seemed really good to my other friends.

At this point it was 8:05 PM. I could not find our waitress, people were busy hurrying up to clean before the place had even closed, so now that the kitchen was closed the cleaning intensified. I was thinking to myself if the bar doesn’t close until nine this furry of mops on the floor is not really going to make people want to order drinks or stay at all.

So I decided to order a BLT since the pulled pork was not great. This one came out fast too and had no mayo and only one slice of tomato. (It’s a BLT it’s only bacon lettuce and tomato.)

I was told it closes at 8pm but the bar is open until 9 PM. for a while so I had to ask a different waitress to get the bacon Mayo that is part of the order. She wanted to remake the sandwich but I said just bring the bacon mayo and I’ll put it on the sandwich. She brought back regular mayo and that’s when I knew it was a wrap.

I’ve worked service before and I know when people when I get the heck out of work so I returned the sandwich and made my way to the bar to grab a drink since I thought I could at least get a drink for the next 45 minutes. It was 8:15 PM at this point so I ordered a drink and tried to talk to the bartender she seemed like she was in a hurry as well. Talking to other bar staff while I’m sitting there waiting. She made the drink and I can’t tell if it was good or bad, I’m not much of a drinker so I can’t say it was a bad drink. I want to buy another drink but she said that the bar is closed. I’m wondering the bars close at 8:15 PM when you told me that the bars open until 9 PM. So the writing was definitely on the wall it was time to go. I only drank about 10% of that drink and left it on the table.

I think this place is a really nice restaurant, it has a great location, the views are spectacular, and the best time is probably before 5 PM. But if you’re going to be open, and you’re going to serve food and drinks, it should be a great experience even at the end of the day. I’m on my way to Chicago so hopefully I get a chance to come back here again but not soon. I hope they fix...

I came down to visit a friend in Lake Havasu and one of the places they wanted me to visit was Topock66. I was excited to go, but extremely disappointed in the service and quality of the food.

So we take a 30 plus minute drive to visit this historic place and what we got was a server/bartender who had the worst attitude. She never said hi, or introduce herself. She just came to our table and said what do you want to drink. Didn't ask if we had been there before or share any information about their drinks or food.

She saw me looking around the bar to figure out what they had and never offered any assistance, so I just order a beer on tap. she quickly walked away without asking if we want a food menu, so we had to chase her down to ask for a menu, it took her a while to bring us menus, I mean a "single"menu that we all had to share to figure out what to order. We hadn't had the menu for more than a minute when she came back and asked us if we were ready to order. Again, she didn't offer any suggestions or ask if we had any questions. When we were finally ready to order, I tell her I would like to order the smoked wings and now she tells me they are out. Would have been nice to know that, when I was looking at the menu.

Food came fairly quickly, since overall the place wasn't that busy, but the 3 small chicken strips were over cooked and the chicken gizzards were extremely tough. both items where overpriced at $12. Both menu items came with ranch dressing that was heavily watered down.

Our server, never once asked us how our meals was or if we needed anything. We noticed that most of the staff had bad attitudes and this really brought down the overall experience. I usually tip very well, but this time I didn't because the service was so bad.

Overall the place had great atmosphere and a fun vibe to it, but I would not recommend this place because the staff and especially our server didn't seem to care about it guests.

Two guests 2 beers in tap 2 entrees, chicken tenders, chicken gizzards 1 order of onion rings, a little to greasy for a final bill of $50.58

Hope this gives anyone thinking of going here some insight and hopefully management takes this...

Was visiting the area this past weekend, we had been visiting various restaurants along the Colorado river. We stopped in Monday the 20th. By far this is the worst place to visit, the waitress Roxy had argued with us on drink orders and just brought waters to us. She proceeded to swear about customers to us, threw our drinks on the table when she brought the right drinks out. Never came to check on us nor refill our drinks. We waited out or orders. It took the restaurant just over 2 hours by the time we ordered to leaving. While various amounts of people proceeded to walk out lack of service. When we asked to speak to a manager they said no one is in. We called the next day and no manager is in as well. Save the time and money and go to pirates cove or another local restaurant.

Edit for update. We got a hold of the manager for the restaurant, he appoglized for it. Said it was a off weekend basically for the place and sent us a $50 gift card and told us to come back. We just went there Sunday for Labor Day weekend. Took awhile to get service (understanble for the weekend) waitress was better just slow. Took us 2 hours to have a burger and a beer. But here is the kicker. When we went to pay and use the gift card sent to us. The card had nothing on it. When asked to see a manager to talk to them. They were to busy or unavailable. The waitress said she will take care of it which is unfair since it was not her fault. We left our number for the manager to call us. But definitely will not be...