Shadyside Lounge — Restaurant in Tahoe City

Terrible service. Terrible food. Waited 1.5 hours as 5 parties that arrived after us were sat before us, it was visible on the hostess tablet, but she told us that we would be next while giving tables to other patrons. In the meantime, the owner switched tables and spoke to his employees with a rude energy snapping at his employees and demanding attention at his table. Nothing like taking tables away from patrons/employees at your own restaurant on a Friday night. When we were finally sat, it was at a ridiculous table, literally attached to the bar in the most loud & uncomfortable spot. Despite the fact that every server in the restaurant had to bump past us - We sat for 20+ minutes before having to ask 2 to 3 employees for some kind of service. When somebody did finally show up, Looking like a manager? he told us that he would take care of us and get our order in quickly. We waited another 25+ minutes for cold, soggy, mushy, over-seasoned, terrible food. He never returned to our table to check in for the rest of the evening. (even though he walked within 1 foot of us probably a half dozen times behind the bar) However, he sent a different waitress with the (full) check indicating that he was not there to help and couldn’t handle the situation on his own.

We explained our experience to this waitress, she was kind and accommodating and comped our drinks.

There are five different types of meat served in three ways, that’s the entire menu… generally simple menus mean good /fast food, unfortunately, that’s not the case at Shadyside. I will say the guacamole was good.

This place strikes me as another high turnover, poor quality, poorly organized restaurant that will likely survive in Tahoe simply because there are enough tourists/turnover to keep it afloat. We will not be returning, or recommending this restaurant to anybody.

For reference, we all live and work in the service industry in the Tahoe area. Not our...

Friends took me out for a treat to this place and with no expectations nor idea of where we were going, I was absolutely pleased with their introduction to this place.

I don't know, there's so much to food to review as while we were waiting for our food, parades of dishes went whizzing by as servers served the food.

I had the garlic shrimp dish which I totally loved and could have eaten two dishes of those.

And above the delicious food, we went there at twilight and got seated in the open air backyard area, the atmosphere was electric with such a fun vibe. Perhaps it was just the excitement of a new place to me or that I was with good friends, or the great energy everyone had, but it was curiously memorable and a place I'd go to repeatedly.

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Really liked this place. We walked down from the campground across the street. Wife and I split an order of Tinga chicken tacos. And I had a Manhattan. They were delicious. We have been looking up recipes of how the make tinga chicken at home ever since. I know some have complained about the portion size but we we really happy with the quality over quantity and after eating we were both full and ready to walk back up the hill and start a campfire. We will definitely be coming back here again next year. And we want to invite friends to join us. Its really nice to find a good local place that cares...