Oracle Inn Steakhouse And Lounge

6 Happy Diners After touring the Biosphere 2 , we headed towards Oracle - 2 seniors , 2 adults 2 kids 9 and 12. We went in the Oracle Inn Steakhouse and Lounge for supper. There was a varied variety on the menu that pleased everyone. The waitress was awesome . She brought us a small homemade bread with butter ( she had added honey Mmmmm) . The bread was suppose to be for the 2 seniors with our meal but everyone was hungry and we all had a piece . She gave us another one at no extra charged . Brought me another glass of raspberry iced tea when my glass was still half full. Brought the kids a small pitcher of Root Beer for their refills. Homemade hamburgers and homemade buns for the kids - Our pasta meals were delicious and cooked to perfection- Quesidillas - again homemade - A well kept secret - Won't be for long - I will tell everyone in our park .

So today's adventure was taking the wife out for her birthday dinner and we stepped outside of our normal chain Stackhouse meal and drove up to Oracle, Az to eat at the Oracle Inn Steakhouse (The OI). Great food, love the classic ambiance and the staff was attentive and well informed about menu items. Well worth the drive for a great meal!

We have frequented this place off and on since we moved here 6 years ago. Its changed ownership a year or two ago. I was hoping some of the bar issues would be fixed with the new owner. They were not. The food is alright but IMO pricey for what you get in a little town like Oracle. My 2 star review is more for the bar than the restaurant. The bar has a very large selection of 15 or so beers on tap. I have tried various ones. Each and every tap beer has an "off" taste even BUD. Knowing beer as I do they either have never cleaned their beer lines or the beer is not sold fast enough and the kegs get old. The tap beer just tastes bad. Sometimes the beer is just flat right out of the tap. I want to like this bar but drinking bad tasting beer is such a turn off. My suggestion to the owner is reduce the number of taps to brands you can sell regularly. Secondly clean your beer lines. It makes no business sense to carry 15 diff beers if they go bad before the kegs are empty.

We were there in the mid-afternoon on a Sunday for a couple of beers, so this is a review just of the Sunday afternoon beer-drinking experience at the bar. The service was pretty good. It was nice and slow so the bartender paid us good attention, checking if we needed refills as we finished our drinks. Though there was a shift change while we were there and it took a while for our new bartender to check in. Unfortunately, all of the draft beers that everyone got tasted like the lines really badly needed to be cleaned. I couldn't even finish my Dragoon IPA because the taste was so off. I credit them for their selection of draft beers, but I suspect that they don't get enough draft beer drinkers to go through kegs quickly enough. As a result, the beer gets a bit old and the lines get a bit dirty. The ambiance was really great. It really felt like stepping into the old West. Really great photos on the walls and a really charming building overall. We took the wrong entrance, into the restaurant instead of the bar, but this allowed us to walk through the whole place which I really enjoyed. As my in-laws are moving to Oracle and this seems to be one of the few places that serves beer in town, I'll certainly be back. However, I'll opt for a bottle next time.