Cabo Wabo

I normally am not into giving bad reviews, but I truly feel that the customers should know what they are getting upon coming to this Cabo Wabo.. My group arrived between 8:30-8:45 and went directly to the bar to the left of the restaurant and took a seat. The service there was great and our bartender answered all our questions about the drinks. We then decided to get a table because you couldn't order food there which was no problem. I went to the hosts podium and waited and waited.. A table had just opened up and needed to be cleared off and I wanted to make sure we got it.. Finally someone came up to the stand and I asked if we could have that particular table and he said yes. Another couple came in at that point in time, walked past the host stand and sat at the table they were cleaning up for my party. The man at the host stand said "oops, i guess not!" Wow.. Finally another table opened up and we took it which was fine, but as we tried to order food the server told us they were going to stop serving food after 9:30.. It wasn't 9:30 yet!!! All we wanted were chips and salsa and we were NOT ordering them last minute and had our table not been taken.. you get the picture. So we ask for a manager and the server left and shortly after a new server showed up because I am guessing the other did not want to help us!! Throughout this whole debacle and rudeness, I personally went up to the bar which was packed and tried to order a pitcher of margaritas.. The bar tender had multiple customers at the same time and walked away after answering my question and I waited to order the pitcher.. He never came back.. A female bartender walked behind the bar, milled around cleaning and then went right up to the people standing behind me (who had just shown up), squealed and took their drink order because they were her friends.. I kept standing there trying to get someone to take my drink order.. I tried to get a pitcher of margaritas for 15 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally the barback asked me what I wanted and then grabbed the female bartender who told me I couldn't order the margaritas because it was now after 9:30 and they didn't serve them after 9:30.. It was not even 9:35 and I had been waiting and overlooked. I went back to my table and eventually saw groups getting the pitchers so again I went back to the bar and the same bar tender now explains that only bachelorette parties can get the pitchers after 9:30.. I made my way back to my table yet again to explain the new reason we could not have the pitcher. My group of girlfriends and I were ironically up in Lake Tahoe to celebrate a birthday and my engagement!! One of the gals in the group then went to our server and explained this who took her to the bar and low and behold, we get a pitcher! (I am sitting at the table at this point unaware of the details.) She comes back to the table and lets me know that we got a pitcher to my surprise.. I go up to the bar with our money and Nicki the rude bartender pulls the pitcher to her chest and says I am trying to swindle them! I am completely shocked at this point and quickly tell her that I in fact was not trying to swindle them as I had money in hand and she tells me that I have been trying to get a pitcher all night and that I am swindling them out of a pitcher! This was by far the worst service I have ever had!!!!!!!!!!

Never in my life have I ever heard someone speak to a customer that way.. I will never be coming back to this establishment and would hope that in the future they take better care of their customers rather than calling them a thief. DISGUSTED!

The only good thing about this restaurant was the margarita and the chips/salsa. The food we ordered (which was recommended by our server) was lacking any flavor whatsoever. The carne asada was bland as well as the rice and beans. 2 others in my party ordered the fish tacos (also recommended) and said they were awful as well. Maybe we should've just gone for the bar experience and not ordered food. Our server was also not the most friendly person I've ever met and the young girl who brought out chips and salsa as well as our water was very rude. Overall, I've had MUCH better dining experiences and I will not go back on future trips to Tahoe.

Sitting in the main bar for drinks and some shared appetizers is GREAT, in fact, it's a South Lake Tahoe favorite!!  To sit down for a meal in the restaurant itself ??  Sadly, not so much. The very cute, very friendly kids waiting the tables are incredibly sweet, but  service is slow and attention to detail is just not there ( a lack of experience/ proper training seems to be the case... ) To have to keep reminding a server for water to be refilled, condiments or missing parts of the meal to be delivered or missing utensils and napkins to be replaced when they appear to be wandering around slightly aimlessly or socializing with other servers is no bueno... LOL. Let's just say it's happened enough that we just skip that experience altogether and go for what works!! The Bar/Music Venue!!