The Tee Room

Lovely Tee Room! I highly recommend it, if you you wanna have fun after work & also happy hours with your college or lunch time (awesome buffet). It was my hot spot when I lived in Irvine, I still go there if I’ll be in south Cali! There is golf course behind the bar-​restaurant, which is great as well. Very nice hospitality from owner, Hamid.

Enough already. I’ve been going to
The Tee Room for years. It’s progressively getting worse. Minnie the bartender/​dice dealer has full run of the bar, watch your cash. It will disappear.
Don’t sign up for Super bowl football pool. The money will go missing.
The filth is never cleaned and the regular drinkers, that don’t pay for drinks are loud and rude.
Hamid the owner hasn’t taken care of the situation, unfortunately.
The service and attitude of the employees is terrible.
I had my wedding reception there and was over charged $ 500 for tips. No tips were passed on to servers.
Minnie needs to hang it up. The ABC and the labor board need to intervene.

How they have stayed in business for 37 years baffles me. Though, rude unprofessional people have to work somewhere I suppose. Other than location, there is nothing going for this place. I am confident the better Unilocal reviews are from family or friends of the employed.

Wow. Just wow. I have been to French Laundry. I have been to Nobu. I’ve even shared an evening with Wolfgang Puck himself. But believe me when I say, that the Tee Room is the finest establishment I’ve ever attended. Just when you think you’ve found taste bud Nirvana (the tacos), you discover culinary ecstasy (the quesadilla — house special remix). Wash it all down with a Minny Manhattan, a Kehl Storm (Crown, rocks), or an ice-​cold Miller Lite (bottle, obvi), and there’s no finer evening this side of the Mississippi. Nay, this side of the Ganges.

This is the best bang for your buck. The golf is cheap, the lights are free, and the friends in the club house are outstanding

I apparently found hell on earth. We went there for their Sunday brunch. The place first of all was completely filthy. The chairs and tables were covered in dirty white tableclothes that still had crumbs all over them, where stained with red wine and grape juice and had grease spots all over them. When we asked for clean seat covers we were told ««No»
The buffet was unmanned. There was a roast sitting under a heat lamp that had obviously been there for hours, next to the omelet station was a few dozen eggs that had obviously been sitting there for hours.
I did eat here about 8 years ago and remember everything being much cleaner. I don’t know if the management changed, but they need to change again or just bulldoze this mess and start over
Wanting to avoid an emergency room visit, we left. Does the health department know what goes on here?

WOW! Horrible customer service. I just called over there and talked to a VERY RUDE lady. wow I can’t believe she works there and representing the company. She told me to call back tomorrow and speak to Yameed… then hung up. I can’t believe they hire someone like that to «sell» the venue. If your reading this Yameed and need a very professional, well spoken, patient, customer service rep– call me I might have someone that would be perfect to represent your venue and space alot better to bring in way more business!

My husband LOVES this place! He says the staff is great, down to earth, the food is delicious, and you do not get skimped on your drinks. He wishes this place was closer to home, but there is always Über!

Hamid is one of the best bar managers I have ever met. Him and his staff are some of the best folks I have ever met. Please come for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

This place is a hidden gem! Live music, wonderful company, and the food amazing. Hamid makes a mean drink and it’s all affordable! My new local spot!

Checked in and NO 10% off. I asked the cashier and she said no coupon on holidays. The server said ‘its $ 10 buffet so its included’ oh gosh. 2 stars for some food served on the buffet table that kinda pleased my palate– white meat chicken, potato, steam vegetable, tilapia.

Mother and I enjoyed a very nice Mother’s Day buffet at the Tee Room. It was only $ 13 per person plus $ 2 for iced tea. And live music was provided for no additional cost. It is a small buffet; however, still a nice choice of different proteins, salads, two different soups, an omelet bar, and meat carving station. Dessert was limited to three items. No chocolate desserts of any kind. I tried their carrot cake and it was GOOD. The vanilla cake with excellent frosting the cake was very hard so I didn’t eat it.
What I liked: The salmon and the tomato with tuna on top. Both were very GOOD.
Waiters were friendly and helpful. One took a picture of mother and I with my camera.
Live music was excellent. Mother was very pleased (So was I).
What I didn’t like: On our table there was little tiny black bugs that were crawling around. They looked like flees but didn’t fly! Have no idea what that was all about. And when they served our iced teas, my glass (bottom) was loaded with coffee grounds that was on a dirty table in the kitchen. After the server placed the cold drink on the table and I picked it up to drink, mother and I saw a series of black dots on the table. I looked hard to make sure that none of those black dots started to crawl. None did so all was ok just looked messy. I never got my tea refilled (Thta’s okay, since I drank it slow to make sure it lasted the entire meal).
Ignore the bad stuff then you can really take in the beauty of the room, which was decorated nicely with balloons, and nice white linens on the tables (We sat on the one table that the linen has some tiny black crawling bugs on it).
For the money you DO get a very GOOD DEAL at the TEE ROOM. Good food and nice live music. (Make sure you don’t sit down at a table that the linen has tiny black bugs crawling around. Looks like the black pepper sprinkles are moving around on your table cloth)

If you are looking for a great place to network, and have a good lunch, please take a second and stop by the Tee Room. (Please note, that the reviews listed here are old, and the place has changed.)
Customer service is great, as well as the food. Highly Recommended for meetings, and also for weddings!

I thought I posted a review this a.m. but I guess not. Anyway, their service has really deteriorated over the last few months. That grouchy woman with the short hair never even smiles. I used to tip 40 to 50% because the price of the Sunday brunch was very fair @ $ 10. But brunch starts @ 10:30 and they are not prepared; e.g. no one to make the custom omeletts, late on coffee. I go there every month with a meet-​up group but will try to get the venue changed if this persists. I don’t care about smiles, it’s how they ignore you when they see you waiting for an omelette. Or you ask for coffee and it takes too long. Even the variety of food has fallen. I am and have always been courteous because I am a seasoned diner. I just want to be treated like one.

I have been going to the Tee Room for many years. It has always been a good place for a less expensive lunch or dinner with a terrific view of the golf course. The staff has always been professional and the service good. While drinks are a bit on the high side, the food more than makes up for it. Hamid is a very kind and attentive manager. I have never requested any service from him; I didn’t receive. He goes over-​board to accomodate his customers.
I have had birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas parties, employee appreciation lunches, baby showers and in September, my husbands 45^th Class reuion will be held there. All my experiences at the Tee Room have had fantastic results.
In regards to the food choices and quality… I don’t know what to say. I have always found the food to be hot, tasty and plenty of it. It is after all… only $ 10.00 for all you can eat! It’s not chain food or fast food… it’s prepared daily and has always been very acceptable to me and my friends and family.
As far as the cleanliness of the restaurant, I have never personally experienced this problem there. The tables are always dressed in clean tablecloths and never dirty. If that were so, I’d simply ask the server to change it and he would, and the problem solved!
Lighten up people… there’s a whole world out there to complain about, but the Tee Room isn’t one of them!

I was there last Saturday for a social group party. When I walked into the golf course restaurant, Tee Room, I was shocked that they had the gull to charge a cover. Just to be clear, I’m usually for cover charges to keep riff raff out, but this place is really a dive bar which tries to be quasi fancy. To start off with the décor, it appears that the location has NOT had an update for 30 years. I’m certain they are still in business because of golfers being their primary patrons. Even though the restaurant was notified that a group of 60+ will be showing up, they decided to only have 1 bartender on duty. This bartender, Hamid, was extremely rude and unprofessional. To make matters worse, I asked to speak to a manager and he said he was the manager. I was blown away by the rude attitude and sheer disconcern for customer service.
As for the DJs, they had no business being in there and the event would have been better by just letting some Directv music channel play. There were 2 DJs and the music had no flow and the volume gyrated up and down. Seriously, a high school kid with an iPod could do much better.
Bottom Line: This place is a complete waste of money and time, I highly recommend that you stay away from here because there are a ton of places that really want your business and are happy to have it. As for the food, I didn’t hear any positive comments about it, but the plates, silverware and cups all seem to be old. You are better off going to a chain like El Torito or Javier’s. STAY AWAY!!!
The only positive is free parking, but we are in OC, so parking should be free, so that’s really a push of a pro.

The buffet USED to be good. It used to have a large selection of foods including chicken, blintzes, etc. However it’s slowly degraded. Too many pork products to start with. Cheap, dry deserts. Lots of bell pepper — which both I and my mom are allergic too.
Look, if I want Mexican food, I’ll go to Mi Casa or even Taco Bell. I expect what I used to be able to get here. Salmon prepared the way you’d find in some of the better restaurants, barbecued chicken wings and beef ribs. Deserts that don’t taste like they’re two weeks old.
The staff has slowly gotten dirtier and dirtier as well. I’m surprised that they pass health inspections. Filthy clothing, bad BO. The tables are often dirty — and this will be when they FIRST OPEN. I’ve been to help set up private events there where the staff has put out filthy table cloths loaded with old stains. I’ve had to follow staff around, stripping the tables, handing them the cloths, and saying «I want a clean one.»
The man who runs the whole shebang creeps me out. He’s always touching me, getting way into my personal space. Even said he wanted to «talk to me alone.» My parents, who’ve always been with me when I’m there, including for those private events, tell me to just ignore it. But I don’t care to have some strange man rubbing my shoulders and talking a quarter inch away from my ear. *shudders*
The whole place needs a major over haul. Food, staff, and manager.

The only thing I recommend here is the tacos and drinks. You need to take this for what it is… a bar at a cheap golf course. If you want a buffet, go to Alcapulco or something. (not that I really recommend that either) Chicken tacos and beer!!! MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm

This is a review of the lunch buffet. 1.5 stars.
They had some pretty nasty flat steak, chicken and pork. Nothing was very good or memorable. The buffet is cheap, at $ 8 AYCE but you shouldn’t be stuffing yourself with food of this quality.
My friends were mad I suggested we try this place.
Apparently the beans are terrible.
I just ate meat the rankings for meat were:
1) Chicken
2) Carnitas pork
3) Mystery steak
All the meats had a flavor like it had been cooked the night before to go with Italian food and pasta and then we were getting leftovers.

another great choice mike i.
terrible. not worth the $ 5 for one plate. definitely not worth the $ 8 for all you can eat. so sad that my friend picked this place.
the next time we go to lunch im going to pick a dumpster behind vons to eat. i’d get the same satisfaction out of that meal.