Sizzler

If I could give less I would. Last year when my family and I went here, it was great. Boy… what a difference a year makes.
The place looked clean but the cashier looked like he hated life. Not pleasant at all. The waitress was AOL most of the time. They under cooked my steak and then over cooked it. I didn’t finish it. They had beer battered fries which I thought was odd for a kids menu item. If I had known we would’ve gotten something else for him. There mashed potatoes looked sad… I can’t even think of a way to describe it. But they looked the way they tasted.
The women’s bathroom smelled like pee. It was pretty dirty too. Ewwww…
Save your money and go somewhere else. :)

I have eaten here a few times, and not by choice. I guess as a kid you have this thing about Sizzler being such a great place. But then when you get older you realized it’s not much then a shined up Denny’s.
If you have eaten at a Sizzler, you all know how things work there. They try to give you this steak experience. However the best thing I have ever had there was the cheeseburger. The salad bar is cool, all the females pile up their plates and think they are doing good with the diet! Sorry, but the mile high salad has more junk on it then a burger. Steak is alright, food is OK. Again, the salad bar is the best thing they have. Not much service there, mostly self serve. Prices for their food is OK, however you can always get a much better meal somewhere else for a little more money.
Not trying to bash the place, so I guess it’s OK. But you can do better.

The last time I ate at this place was 1992. Mistakingly I thought a few years may have positively changed the quality of the food. It was horrible everyone but one of our kids left with a stomach ache and that’s because he had only the soft serve. The clam chowder was horrible it smelled like the bottom of a fish tank that has not been washed for a long time. I dared not even try it, but my husband did and it was bad. The moral of this review is don’t waste your money or the integrity of your stomach. Go some where else.

Food with good salad bar was excellent and well kept up and I got one of the best way to say this before I even ask for things they were at my table loved it

I was here for dinner tonight 23.00 for dinner what a joke no refill on my overpriced drink salad bar sucked tri trip stock was great for 12 dollars
Service sucked won’t go back

Yuk. $ 50 for lunch for a family of 4. Two us ordered a salad bar only. Half of the vegetables were rotten in my opinion. Pretty sorry for the price. My kids ordered chicken fingers and fries. The chicken was too salty to be edible. The fries were artificially crunchy from all the cellulose on them. For the price and (lack of) quality I would recommend going somewhere else. Even the fast burger chains are better than this!

Came here since restaurant we wanted to go to was busy. We had the salad bar which was mediocre a lot of empty items wasn’t impressed need to update and fill items. I know most are seasonal people but live an hour away so get it together.

Yikes. I haven’t eaten at Sizzler in over two decades and now I remember why. The only reason why anyone would go I think is the cheesy bread, which they were out of. My expectations were not very high going in, but wow. The food was awful. Salad bar selection was a joke. So was the selection of hot food. The jumbo shrimp we got were pathetically small and 90% breading. There are no plates or bowls, so to get a clean one, you had to wait for the completely overwhelmed wait staff to change them out. Our waitress was really nice and she was doing the best she could. She was the most redeeming quality of this place. Other than that, spending $ 50 for three adults seemed like almost a crime here.

bagged salad, stale salad bar, frozen kid pizza, out of most of the dessert items, owner spent time chit chatting with waitress keeping her from doing her job. Used to come here many years ago, seems to have really gone downhill.

Awful service, very dirty and a bad experience all around.
We had a party of 5, and each of us received our plates in 3 – 7 minute intervals. The «server» was rarely seen and offered little explanation as to why our food was coming out 1 plate at a time. When speaking with the manager about it, he offered a $ 25 gift card to come back to Sizzler. I declined it, expressing I wouldn’t have need of it because I wouldn’t be coming back, but he didn’t really seem to care.

The waitress was nice but the food poisoning pretty much killed the trip. We stopped for a late lunch and I was throwing up by the time we were home 2 hours later. Lovely experience lasted till early morning
My guess is the salad. My dad and I had almost the same thing: Malibu chicken. He had fries and I had a baked potato. But I had a side salad. He had no ill effects

Step into your Delorean and crank it up to 88 miles an hour, as you are about to go back in time to when Ghostbusters II was in the theaters, and Bill Murray evoked the name of this classic family restaurant when he comes upon his cohorts donning full hazmat suits: «Let me guess, all you can eat BBQ rib night at the Sizzler!»
The 1980’s era all you can eat salad bar gimmicky family restaurant known as The Sizzler is a chain that has vacated several markets over the past few years (including my home city of Las Vegas) but still can be found on the west coast and in various other cities around the US. Carrying the tag line of «Steak, Seafood, Salad» this restaurant located in the quaint time capsule of a city known as Big Bear Lake in Southern California is nostalgic and comforting in a way and despite largely showing its age, still brings with it a comfort food atmosphere with its rustic furnishings, expansive windows with forrest views, and vintage sign that I haven’t seen a Sizzler have in about 30 years.
The setup is the same as Sizzler always has had: you walk in and order from a counter and the food is delivered later. You get your drinks immediately and can hit the salad bar before you even sit down. The salad bar is what you remember from 1989. Ambrosia, soups, typical greens, as well as a hot appetizer station with fried chicken, taco bar, and dessert station with soft serve ice cream and toppings.
Best of all, the classic and world famous cheese bread is still complimentary and brought to the table upon seating.
Of course despite the nostalgia, there are some cons as well:
1. The value isn’t great. Some menu items (especially the all you can eat shrimp and other main entrees) are rather high priced and do not include salad bar. There are value priced items though that do include the bar, and my family vies toward those.
2. They are often very short staffed, especially later in the night when it is just one waitress covering the entire restaurant. This means slow refills on drinks and bread.
3. The cleanliness and maintenance of the salad bar is lacking at times. The dessert station is constantly messy due to the kids and it doesn’t seem to be well cared for.
Despite these cons, this is still a great nostalgic choice for a family dinner when visiting Big Bear Lake.

Don’t eat here. I like Sizzler but this was not a well run restaurant. Food is overpriced for the quality and quantity and their affordable options for kids and families are about as bad as I’ve seen. Our food from the salad bar was old and stale and tasted horrible.

Ordering at the front desk was very inefficient and slow. They don’t care if people wait in line. As we waited, I watched a man filling water glasses and handling them from the top with his fingers where people drink. When he was finished, he proceeded to count out some money. Did he return to handling those water glasses without washing his hands? I don’t know, but it would not surprise me.
Screaming kids, but that’s not Sizzler’s fault.
The food was OK, standard Sizzler fare. The waitress was attentive, friendly and accommodating. I wish she could get a job in a better place.
We won’t be back.

We aren’t chain places kinda folks but were so hungry and everything was packed. The salad bar was fresh but not a ton if choices. The hit food bar was borderline gross. Dried out chicken, pork, bread, tortillas, etc… What looked like dog food in a tub of grease labeled taco meat. No bueno. Glad we liked fresh salad because that’s kinda the only choice we had.

Sizzler Big Bear
The Great
— great décor
— lots of booths
— great location
— great views of the woods next door and the carvings across the street
— great Sizzler food and salad bar
— great value
— lots of parking. Easily always fits my RV

Don’t order the salmon. It tasted and smelled like it was cooked yesterday, and reheated in the microwave today when I ordered it. The veggies looked and tasted stale as well. Was very disappointed!

I knew better from experiences I’d had at this Sizzler a couple of years ago. I knew better because of my fellow Unilocalers. i knew better because I spend a lot of time in Big Bear and know of at least five other places which are better than this place. However since my friend had a craving for Sizzler we went. Oh how I wish we hadn’t!
Their prices seemed to have gone-​up significantly since my last visit at least three years ago. I ordered the Steak and all you can eat Shrimp, my friend a steak. Total with sodas (no salad bar, looked gross) was just under $ 40.
Our waitress was friendly however the Manager who three years ago I dubbed «Soup Nazi» for the way he stands at the cash register and watches the entire dinning room with a scowl on his face was still there and lived-​up to expectations. He made my friend and I so nervous we moved to another table to get away from his gaze. Thankfully this being 7PM on a Friday night the place was empty so finding another table was easy (that should have been another red flag when we walked-​in but what can I say, the girl wanted a steak).
Our food arrived and we both laughed. We’d both ordered our steaks ‘Medium Well” however both steaks had been cooked vastly differently; my friends was edible, mine not so much. Mine was inedible while my friends was edible, by the time she had removed all the fat and gristle her steak had been reduced by half! Our waitress didn’t care when we brought this to her attention and just asked if I wanted more shrimp or Cheesy bread.
Never again Sizzler. So long Soup Nazi, you’ve cast your gaze on this Unilocaler for the last time!

I’m so sorry to write this review, however; I’m pretty disappointed. My girlfriend and I had Sizzler for the first time on Christmas. (Different location). It was the only place opened and we walked in expecting hometown buffet type food, but we were wrong. It was fabulous. We actually started speaking highly to our friends of our new surprise-​fantastic steakhouse. They thought we were nuts. I guess we found the unicorn on Christmas because this place was the complete opposite experience. (Much like our friends described) Muuuuch lower quality food, cold, drowned in butter, etc. the lesson I learned was NOT ALL SIZZLERS are the SAME. Unfortunately, never to return.

The worst quality of food and the saddest looking salad bar I’ve ever seen!!!
1 star was for the nice waitress.