Tubac Jack's Restaurant & Saloon

Previously I had eaten at this place when it was the Old Tubac Inn which I happened to love. I figured how much different can it really be? Oh it was different alright and not in a good way.

We walked in after 6pm on a Saturday and the place was dead- this should've been a giveaway. We were told there was a table for six just around the corner. I do not really understand the decor- the booths are lined with tacky India inspired bright pillows with bling. Yet we are in a "bar" yet they have a single page seasonal menu like many upscale establishments have. Very confusing! It was really warm in the dining area as well, which doesn't make you want to eat food.  

Anyway we order sodas for the kids, and three of us order from the bar and one adult orders a soda. The drinks weren't bad I will give them that.

We ordered Cheese "Pizza" for each of the kids, two people in our party ordered the pulled pork sandwiches, another adult ordered the burger and I ordered the chicken Florentine flat-bread pizza.

We also ordered chips and salsa which weren't bad the salsa was actually pretty decent here. The kids pizzas tasted like raw tomato sauce- no flavor whatsoever with cheap cheese. The pulled pork sandwiches were okay- they had very little bbq sauce and pork itself had no flavor. The homemade chips were good that came with the sandwiches. The burger looked juicy and good but nothing really to write home about. My Chicken Florentine flat-bread pizza was supposed to have a garlic olive oil brushed on it. I tasted absolutely ZERO garlic, the chicken that was on there- like others have said was uber bland. When you have cheese, bland chicken and sauteed spinach (which was WAY overly cooked) on flatbread its not that appetizing, I had to put a decent amount of salt and pepper just to help the flavor and even then I went ahead and asked for some ranch dressing to dip it in just to give it flavor. To top it all off this flatbread was almost ten bucks! Crazy!

Anyway I guess if I went back during the spring I would try them again to see what is on the menu only because I believe in second chances but if I were in Tubac during the summer again- nope.

Tubac Jacks is an old main stay for locals and Tubac Visitors who are well informed. Jim, the proprietor has been "in-charge for decades. Of all the items of the menu, I enjoy Jims Ribs the most. Especially after working on the ranch all day. At Jacks you meet historians such as Pete Solares, he even has a street named after his grandfather, or even Michael who owns "Mother-truckers" a large truck brokerage and then there may be, Loco Michael, if he's not 86'd that night! All in all, Tubac Jacks is a great eating emporium and the "people watchin is fun. Join all my friends for some front porch kicken! Gary

Poor service- worse food.

Came here with my husband and Mother in law during a trip to tubac (to see new things!).  There are very few restaurants in Tubac, so this is the one we happened to stop at. It was busy, the entire patio was full so we sat inside. It's self seating, which I am not a huge fan of.  It took our waiter a good 10-15 minutes to greet us and take our drink order. He didn't seem happy to be there, was short and snippy with us. After waiting forever again to get our drinks and give our food order, we waited forever AGAIN to get our food. And what a disappointment our food was.

I ordered a chicken taco salad- the chicken had NO seasoning and was stone cold, the salad was boring, just lettuce, canned black beans, canned corn and tomatoes with a tiny sprinkle of cheese and that horrible chicken. The only thing that made it edible was the chipotle ranch dressing.
My husband ordered 3 tacos, one chicken, one beef and one pork. The chicken  and pork had no seasoning, the beef was overly salty. They were smothered in a green sauce that was unappetizing and the tortillas were not fresh.
My mother in law was  the luckiest of the three of us, but not by much- she ordered a BBQ chicken pizza. There was nothing exciting or memorable about it. The bbq sauce was obviously from a bottle, and the chicken was the same bland unseasoned chicken from the last two items described.  

The menu is small with not too many choices.

Our waiter NEVER came back to refill our drinks or check on us. Finally we had to flag him down from accross the room to get our check. Needless to say we will not go back.