Martinez Lake Resort

This place is awesome, I highly recommend it. great atmosphere, friendly people, great food. whatever the new owner is doing it is working

Beautiful view and a very lovely outdoor patio. The food itself isn’t great, but there really isn’t any competition. If you’re hungry after a day of kayaking, fishing, swimming, or hiking, it’s serviceable.
Besides, you came to the lake for the view, and relaxation, not for a restaurant.

I cannot say that we were not warned about this place, we were. We asked directions from a local. He kindly gave us very good directions, but warned us that the café was not a good place to eat. When we arrived nobody greeted us so we made our way to table. After setting for about 10 minutes, my wife went to find the waitress. We put in our order. The food was brought out pretty quickly, but the order was wrong. My wife cannot eat tomatoes and of course there was a nice sliced one on her burger. When my wife reminded the waitress of this, the waitress became very irate and basically told my wife that she was lying. The waitress snatched the plate off the table and that we the last time we saw her. Another waitress was a bit more helpful, although we never got our drink order. So, at this point you should be asking why we did not simply walk out. Well, there is no other place to eat in this area, NONE, and we had plans of spending the rest of the day exploring.
We finally got something my wife could eat. I decided that I should probably talk with the manager so I inquired as to where he was. Turned out that he was in a very loud argument with an employee, both threatening to beat the s. t out of each other. I decided that the best thing to do was simply leave. We paid the bill and left.
I food is nothing the speak of and the whole experience reminded my of the movie Deliverance. I usually try to give a place a second chance but given that this is really the only place to eat at Martinez Lake and that is it 30 miles from any other reasonable place to eat, that is not in the cards.
Oh yes, the place needs to be cleaned much more often than is apparently the current practice.

Adjust your expectations based on the location of this place. The bar serves cold alcoholic beverages in an air-​conditioned room. The Cantina serves diner quality food. A host of surprises await you at this place. Why did you come here again?