Sandbar Mexican Grill

Coming from California, I have high expectations of Mexican food. This place is legit. The food is so good. We’ve been here 3 – 4 times now over the past year. And here’s the reason why the reviews aren’t that great: the service. It’s not all that grand. The servers and bartenders are pretty young and they just give that amazing service you get at some restaurants. Although, I don’t care. My order comes out at a decent time frame, they always have great specials, and they’ve never given us the wrong order. So, in general, do I feel like I’m the most important person to my server? No. But I don’t really care. It’s not that important to me. I just care about good food, and cold beer. So it gets 5 stars in my books!

The worst service and reception I have ever got anywhere. The margarita was terrible, watered down stuffed with ice. Ordered appetizer and entrée and it all came out at the same time after our waitress Darian forgot our drink order. Don’t go here, there is a in and out burger next door.

Awesome customer service! Good drinks, awesome ambiance, good food. Thats what u look for in a bar

Came in with some friends the other afternoon and the food was great! Can never go wrong with the chimichanga. Also, our server, Summer, was pleasant fun and tentative to our party’s needs. Awesome atmosphere. Feels like mexico. (In a good way) We will most definitely be back!

Worst service, the food was not good either! The tortilla soup was so under seasoned! Do the have cooks, a chef who knows what salt and pepper are!

Whoa, I’m not sure where to start with this review but I’d like to preface that I rarely give 1 star to any business.
My family decided to stop here for lunch after shopping at the local stores. This included 2 adults, a teen and a toddler.
Place was dead on a Saturday at noon. Weird, but ok. Perhaps I should have taken that as a sign.
Sat down in a booth. The booth next to us was attracting flies because no one had apparently bussed the table for quite a few hours. Food was crusting on the plates.
Margarita that I ordered was so watered down and in a dirty glass (I now have a sore throat). Ordered queso as an app and it was cold and unbelievably flavorless. Chips were cold and stale. Inedible.
My toddler was playing in the booth and I noticed her hands were dirty. Looked at back of booth (s) and they were covered in dust. I’m assuming that servers aren’t asked to do closing duties when checking out. Basically the place was really dirty. Including utensils and plates.
Took 45 minutes, yes you read that right, 45 minutes to get a kids burger and 2 orders of enchiladas. Waitress checked on us ONCE throughout the meal. Once!
The food tasted like it had been sitting under the heat lamp for 45 minutes. I took one bite and was done. Inedible. Seriously.
Took another 30 minutes to get check. By this time my toddler was screaming and ready to go. So was I! I wish I could have screamed! They were dead. Why the delay in service and food?!
I was so looking forward to some yummy Mexican food and left the restaurant completely grossed out with possibly some funk.
Won’t be back.

I’m all about realistic expectations. That said, I’m fairly certain for a 70+ dollar bill I got Filibertos food and service. Hell, I kinda like Filibertos to hit the spot sometimes, but at least they charge me accordingly. I’ve had better food at Taco Bell to be honest.
I suppose if you’re stuck in Ahwatukee/​Chandler and don’t want to Lyft it somewhere decent, this place will give you tiny margaritas and you can get your suburban rocks off. That’s about all I can recommend, though. I’m pretty sure management counts on your inebriation to rank this place any higher than two stars. Just remember when you’re picking the fake beach sand out your hair the next morning: this place is shyte.
Our orders: beef chimi, queso, cheese enchiladas, kids menu, various mixed drinks. Beef chimi was ok, rice and beans standard bland fare. Queso is an embarrassment (personal best: Salty Señorita on a good day; Roaring Fork)
Our service: took too long on a really slow day. We could see food sitting under the heat lamps which turned out to be ours, had to call out service to get it.
That One Redemption: Moscow Mule.

Came here with some friends to grab some cheap food and drinks on Ladies’ Night. I had no clue what to expect, but Sandbar definitely exceeded my lack of expectations. From the half-​price pink margaritas (were they actually pink? I’m still not sure. Man, they didn’t skimp on the ETOH content) to the cheap appetizers (many of which were $ 4!), there are great deals to be had. I tried to be healthy (er) and ordered off the normal menu instead of the Ladies’ Night specials and was super pleased with my Shrimp Tacos.
We also liked that there is literally sand on the ground outside (so you track sand into your car, just like the real beach!) and that we could watch my husband’s fantasy team players suck it up on the big screen.
I think I’ve found a new favorite sports bar!

The service was awesome! The bartender knows how to make customer happy with their cocktails! wink.wink.
I love the green salsa/​salsa verde instead of red salsa, taste too garlic-​y to me :).

Visited here Friday on ¹⁰⁄₀₂ for Happy Hour & had Margarita’s and Nachos both were Awesome!!!
The Margarita’s were a little on the small side but packed with power, the nachos best I ever had.
Would not recommend the Strawberry Mojito, to many mint leaves & flavorless.

Oh boy, where do I start? Came here with my boyfriend to meet up with some friends of his and because I only came for the company and didn’t eat or drink, I can really only comment on the atmosphere for lack of a better word.
Our waitress was awesome. She was incredibly busy, but checked on us frequently and without asking, split all of the bills. I know bill splitting is a pain for waitstaff, but she didn’t make us feel like it was an inconvenience.
It was a busy night because of a college football game (this is an Iowa bar FYI), so the bar was packed and wild as hell. There were two extremes of patrons that night: post-​college students looking for cheap drinks and cougar town posses who were just there to dance. I was reluctantly pulled onto the dance floor which was sticky with sloshed beverages and possibly something else from the two couples humping in a dark corner of the dance floor.
I probably won’t be back because I am right in that sweet spot of too young to be in a cougar posse but old enough to know that I don’t have to leave my house to have a drink spilled on me. I can do that all by myself.

Great chips and salsa, but the service can be a hit or a miss. Very nice happy hour and weekly specials.

Off the beaten path… NOT!!! Down the street from work. Nice night. good drinks. nice looking crowd and its Thursday. Casual and enjoyable. I think i like this spot.

Sandbar is a great place to hangout without having to deal with the hassle of «going out». I’ve been here for Taco Tuesdays three times, a Saturday night with a friend, and on a date. I’ve been satisfied every time. The food is good. All my servers have been friendly. Especially the woman who picks up the plates, if she recognizes you she gives you a warm hug and makes quick small talk in english and spanish.
I was surprised to hear a good DJ. I moved here in September of 2014 from Miami and I’ve been disappointed at the quality of DJs. However on Tuesday nights the DJ mixes 90s hits with modern house beats. Heard some really good remixes. Saturdays is top 40s with the occasional trap remix. I was surprised they even threw in a merengue for the latin crowd. Given that there’s a good sized dance floor I wished the DJ would have focused more on keeping that vibe going more. I feel he played more to the non-​dancers which makes sense because they make the bar money. Could be a great dance spot if music was a little better.
Crowd is ok, not upscale, chill mixed crowd. Expect a few cat calls on a weekend from men as you walk through the crowd. Can be annoying but tolerable.
The overall vibe is pretty laid back, ladies you can dress down or rock heals on a weekend and not feel over dressed. Keep in mind some of the outdoor seating in on sand when picking the right shoes.
I don’t drink so I can’t comment on that, but they do make a yummy virgin piña colada and shirley temple, yes I actually ordered those. You should have seen their faces.
Enjoy!

We had a big work group get together here for happy hour. It was okay — we went on a Tuesday and got the awesome Taco Tuesday prices (most tacos are $ 2 each, a few specialty ones are $ 3, and house margs are $ 4) but the service was pretty blah. Our actual waitress was very attentive but the hostess was absolutely clueless about our reservation, which I had confirmed, and she seemed annoyed/​frazzled about getting our table together. A few of us went early and had a few drinks at the bar, which was not busy, but the bar tender was hard to flag down and painfully slow.
It wasn’t a bad experience but it wasn’t good either. It was too hot to go outside so we didn’t get to hang out on the sand, which made Sandbar become just another subpar Mexican place.

Terrible. The food was bad. The service was PAINSTAKINGLY SLOW. Drink refills? No chance. They appeared to have plenty of servers and the place wasn’t that busy.
Don’t waste your money, there are plenty of better options in the area.

The only thing good I can say about this place is that they have good entertainment. Went there just to see the band and will never go back. It was $ 20 for guys and $ 10 for girls, just to get In
I should have gone with my gut and left before going in.
When we were finally able to order a drink, 20 min. After we sat down, our waitress asked us if we wanted to start a tab? I was not planning on staying long so I said I would pay cash. I had to pre-​pay, and that is fine. I am sure when it is busy they have issues, so I paid her, $ 19 for 2 Coronas & 1 shot of tequila??? Way over priced in my opinion. We waited 20 more min. Still no drinks so my friend went looking for the waitress, couldn’t find her. 40 min after we ordered, I see our waitress just walking around??? I asked her about our drinks, she tells me we shouldn’t have moved??? We were at the same table, but whatever, I wanted the change from my $ 100, she had to go get it and I said I would follow her, I didn’t want her to lose me again. She got my change and was so rude about giving it to me! I didn’t complaine about paying for drinks that we never got so why is she mad???
I guess the manager is too busy «rapping on stage» to actually manage his employees’s? He was pretty good at rap, maybe he should stick to that because he sucks at running a bar!

I went here with my fiancée and a group of friends on Saturday night. We were looking for some nightlife and sand bar absolutely qualified. Loud music, dancing, a building packed with bodies and a late night taco station. The sand bar, beach theme was cool. I was actually suprised it seemed like a place that could be good during the day time as well. Not a bad choice for that side of town.
Did I mention taco cart? Who doesn’t like drunk-​tacos?

We only went there once for a couple drinks for Happy Hour. Just in town to visit family. Probably won’t be back anytime soon, but this is my impression.
The outside area cute w beach theme *duh
Tables mixture of trad & surfboard shape & stools heavy made of metal aka HEAVY!
The outside bar has multi-​level of tvs. though some hidden under bar roof hindering viewing, but still lots of tvs. We were there opening of March Madness.
Our waitress was great. They use expeditors… another waitress was not, I mean a Bitch to her expeditor. Of course these waitresses are probably 21 – 23, cute skinny, the poor expeditor was same age, super nice to his tables but not the «perfect» 10 & overweight. I was so annoyed & sad & wanted to complain but it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. I hope the mgmt does some training with these girls, people see things that they might not think gets seen & doesn’t leave a good impression.

I can’t really give it 3 stars. I started to but there’s more wrong with this place than right. Others have complained about the poor staff. The staff was fine and service was good so we didn’t have anything to complain about there.
What we didn’t like was more. To begin with the seats are very uncomfortable. Most of them are on tall wood stools without backs. Some of the tables are on concrete and some are on the sand.
Then, there was the menu. It’s really different. There really is a variety but we didn’t think the menu was enough to call it a Mexican grill and that’s what we were looking for … Mexican food. The red sauce on the enchiladas was pretty spicy and tasted a little burnt. The pulled pork sandwich was also pretty spicy and nothing on the menu indicated that it was spicy. I can definitely tell you it was.
We were actually quite disappointed with the food and there’s no reason we would return.