Mike’s Drive-Up

Best chili burgers /​hot dogs ever! The garlic fries are so good and you can’t hide that you snuck there for lunch without a friend since they get in your car smell the garlic and go «you went to Mike’s Without me didn’t you» Been getting my lunches here since the late 60’s never had a bad meal in all that time. Ignore the one star ratings as they are probably pissed off libtards since the last owner posted right wing news articles on the walls. This place is the best that is all you can say!

Thank you for completely ignoring. Made my lunch experience so much better at Wendy’s. You customer service sucks.

Unless you’re ready to take that ride down your last road stay away, far away. Boring food with boring taste.

I’ve had better and real garlic fries in Old Sacramento. These were too greasy and bland. I don’t know why people say the food is good here. The people working there looked sad and depressed, I almost wanted to leave and not order a damn thing.

I love Mike’s. They are local and have such great hamburgers, garlic fries and shakes. I like the atmosphere including the funny signs they have.

Always get a craving for the chili cheese burger at least once a month. Can’t eat healthy all the time! My brother from Chicago loves this place, Chicagoians know their food! The new owners have the place sparkling even though the décor is dated. Truly a Eureka land mark.

Garlic fries are great, but hard to mess that up. They serve up the tiniest little sad burger you can find however. And the joint is super conservative politically, and they post all kinds of dumb propaganda all over the walls. That, plus a burger way smaller than the bun makes me not go back. Seriously guys, the political crap has to go. I don’t like places that post liberal stuff on the walls either. I want to purchase your services, not get soap box ambushed, especially when it’s a bunch of dumb ignorant crap about how Obama or Bush or whatever is screwing everything up.

Yummy Yummy Yummy! I travel from Lake Tahoe, CA to go back home to humboldt. The first place I hit up is Mike’s! LOOOOve it! Especially the oh so wonderful garlicy french fries.
Who cares about the political & religious funnies on THEIR walls. We are all entitled toI our opinions. Thus being the reason we live in America.

AWWww… Whaddidja expect you ninny-​suckers! Of course you want your hot dog cooked and your fries done right! Whenever «I» am in a place that has NOT cooked my meal right, I approach the counter and using my best «Verbal JuJitsu» (like the Cops do) and get my meal «corrected». Now, on to my review~~~~*
Been coming here for around 35 years and it ain’t changed very much. Those Garlic Fries are what first got me so long ago, followed shortly by the «Chili» (more like a coney sauce) Burger, and their shake. Amazingly I swear some of the same folks still work there from before. And just HOW much can they screw things up when your standing right there! Three feet away from your food being prepared for you. I revise my order as they cook it and of course making them laff works wonders on their attitude toward you AND your food!
Once you get yer vittles you can shuffle over to the side and use the «standing room only» area if its raining like a Mudder Sucker outside. Or, go eat it in your vehicle. If it’s a rare «Nice» day, find a flat surface and quaff your burger while its HOT! Try and get the fries «Al dente» (a little underdone) and see if they aren’t great!
Now yer gettin’ it Pilgrim! Go stroll the Oldtown area and enjoy Eureka and its fishing harbor. Eat Dinner at Lazio’s and put off heading North, South, or East as long as you can. The zoo (if its still there) and the city park are cool too. Have Fun y’all and get happy…
PS~ STILL «No Restrooms» @ «Mikes». So «Go» before you Go~~~*

Never again.
1. Treat me like a customer, not an Inconvenience.
2. Fries should not puncture cardboard.
3. Your employee shouldn’t have to apologize for the attitude you throw around, whether you own the joint or not.
4. Perhaps avail the world to the pleasure of your business being opened at your published business hours?
I hate giving 1 star reviews, and generally avoid it… but I had noted this in 2012, then re-​visited recently. $ 12 dollars and some change amazingly wasted. This joint is part of the reason I venture, at times, into my own food service establishments.

Despite all the negative reviews, this place isn’t bad at all. In fact, it’s one of my favorite places. I’m actually craving a chili cheeseburger and garlic fries as I type this. The food is greasy, but delicious. It’s an old mom and pop type place and yes, they may be political. Get over it. The food is ALWAYS the same and it is ALWAYS yummy. The two that own it are always cheerful and happy to be serving the public. That alone is more than I can say for a lot of places I’ve eaten.

As my friend plainly stated, «You’re reviewing that place where we got the garlic fries from hell?» Dripping, greasy, soggy, icky fries… apparently from hell.

I ordered a cheese dog, small fry and a chocolate shake. $ 11.50 later… The hotdog was not warm enough to melt the plastic wrapped, american cheese. The hotdog itself was raw. Lets face it, you can tell the difference in a cooked hotdog and one that is not. French Fries were not in the least crisp, very soggy and barely any garlic taste to their famous garlic fries. Service was fast, but there was no one else in the store when I arrived after 1:00 pm.
This place comes highly recommended but I was not impressed and I will not return.

Best Garlic Fries in the area. I recommend you call the food in because sometimes they are really busy around lunch time. The posters are strange, but not any different then über liberal dining in town. They support many local kids groups and are very nice people.
One of my favorite places to eat.

This review is based on the fries the burgers are usually not that great or they suck

All I can say is YUCK. French fries are disgusting, cheeseburger wasn’t any better. Will not eat there again.

Like many places in Humboldt… mediocrity rules and that the case here. You guys might have better luck pushing your political agenda through stupid right wing posters if you had decent food. The food here is a joke. Its almost as unpalatable as the redneck bulls$^# on the walls. Oh, and then I was charged for 2 orders and got the total stink vibe when I explained I had only ordered one. guess you need to try and cheat people when your food is that bad. Sorry, but I’ll have to be on my deathbed from starvation before i ever pay their ridiculous prices for terrible food again. You guys SUCK… On the flip side… my dog loved it. Famous fries huh? In what fantasy world?

I wish i could give this place no stars but, I’ll compromise. The food here is way overrated, over priced, greasy and bland. The place appears to be run by a bunch of ignorant, radical, Jew-​hating rednecks who care very little about cleanliness and even less about the quality of their menu. If you’re a knuckle dragging, inbred neanderthal who likes bad, overpriced food, has a 5 years old’s grasp of politics, and is dying to have a giant heart attack, this is the place for you!

If there was a zero star rating this place would get just that. The reasons are as follows.
I don’t like politics with my food. The two don’t mix.
The chili dog was top of the list for being one of the nastiest things I have ever eaten.
Prices are literally highway robbery.$ 4.65 for a chili dog and almost $ 5.00 for a shake. If the food was quality I wouldn’t have a problem. After one bite of the chili dog it went straight in the trash.
Got overcharged by almost $ 4.00 and when I called them on it, got a bunch of attitude.
I could see the attraction of the aroma of the fries, but once inside it’s a big disappointment.

I am with everyone else on the political posters and signs around the store being way tacky. BUT, it is their place– they can post what they want and say what they feel just like everyone else. Even if it is really tacky and brazen (considering it’s a food joint not city hall)…all I can say is that it doesn’t change the taste of the food.
If I want fast food (hamburger, fries, or a milkshake) this is actually my favorite place in Eureka! Better then Stars in my opinion (a lot better). Oh and they DO know what protein style means here!
The garlic fries are killer– really crispy outside, soft inside– smells like garlic from a mile away… Yea give it try!