I actually really enjoyed this place. I came here on a whim with some family that are local to the area and was suggested to try the ice cream. It was actually delicious! The ice cream was soft and creamy, and the sundae itself looked beautiful. The staff were also very friendly and kind around some kids that came by (coincidentally, also to buy ice cream). I ended up getting a large fry and a grilled cheese. The sandwich was great, but the fries were even better. Plus, the large comes in an entire bag. I mean, they really are large. But for all of that and an extra sundae it was under $20. Pretty low pricing for some yummy food! It's in a really big and empty parking lot and looks a bit isolated, but don't let the location put you off. I'll definitely be coming back here and will probably try some of the other menu options. read more

Bowinkle's Restaurant - Rush Limbaugh Meal - Burgers Near Me - Rio Linda, California

I've been going to this drive thru for weeks now since I started work in Rio Linda. Food is good. However, today I feel slightly cheated. A BLT on the menu costs 6.99. The BLT combo I ordered today cost me 16.69. Either adding fries and a drink adds $10 or I was intentionally charged too much. I don't think I'll be returning. Which sucks because I genuinely liked the food. Typically, the drive thru is ran by a younger girl who asks for my signature on the receipt and I tip regularly, but today it was an older lady with glasses and she didn't have me sign anything which was kind of a red flag for me. 3 stars for good Food -2 stars for peculiar pricing practices. I swear every time I get the same thing, I pay a different price. Sometimes it's exactly the price on the menu, sometimes it's that price with tax and then today where the cost didn't even make sense with the menu items. TLDR: Make sure that you are charged correctly for what you ordered. read more

I come here a lot, decent good old fashioned American burger joint food for a decent price . Sometimes the food can be better than other times, I can tell a difference whenever the shift changes. Sometimes they over cook the fries and burger patties other times they don't. Not anything bad enough for me to stop going tho. It's close and convenient. read more

This place has grest fresh food made to order. Accurate on large order. Family friendly. Love the s.

Frozen patties over charged food flavorless come on get it together make your own patties frys ok i heard the burritos are best thing there

Consistently good service and food. Old school feel. Chocolate shakes and cheeseburgers are my favorite. read more

I was looking for an old type of drive in place to eat. I found this place on Yelp! The food was good

Have the Bacon Western cheeseburger it was so good mushrooms a little soggy but I think it's hard to get fried mushrooms that aren't ranch is awesome it's like homemade or something friendly quick service food was fresh definitely recommend read more

I've been by this place a million times and have never stopped to try it. Ordered GH tonight. Had the chicken nuggets, fried zucchini and onion rings. All of it was great! Perfectly cooked and not greasy. The ranch dip is almost like a cream cheese dip. It's awesome. I also ordered a banana shake. And it was good. It's hard to find a decent banana shake! Food arrived hot and well-packaged. Bonus points for actually reading the comments. I will definitely be adding this place to my list. 5/5 read more

The pastrami burger combo is good. The staff is courteous, and the premises are clean.

Every time I come back to my hometown for a visit with family, I make time to take a trip to Bowinkle's their hamburgers never disappoint:)

Food is great! And staff is friendly! Easily located and lots of parking. My favorite is the Western bacon cheeseburger

Whoever was working at Bowinkles tonight should be ashamed of themselves for sending a burger with me that looked like this... y'all need to take a little bit of pride in your work. The fact that half of the cheese was off of the burger and hanging outside of the bun and the other half of the burger didn't have any cheese at all. There was one piece of bacon on only half of the burger. And the bun only had mayonnaise on half of it. I'm not quite sure what was going on in the kitchen tonight, but they really need to get it together. No need to go back to this place ever again. read more

Bowinkle's Restaurant - This is supposed to be a mushroom burger. - Burgers Near Me - Rio Linda, California

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First timing being here it's a good experience an good food. Great service I would recommend this place an reasonable prices on the food read more

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Great food, and great service! Super friendly staff. An easy place to run in and grab a burger or sandwich.

In a pinch quick and easy fast food smack in the middle of Rio Linda. A community favorite. One place you can still get a decent meal for not to expensive. $10.99 before tax got me the French cheeseburger combo with fries and a small drink. Also got a side taco for I think $2.79? Taco was surprisingly very flavorful, but gone in 2 bites. The burger was a nice touch on the French roll gave it some class, but obviously a frozen patty, although was 1/2pound so good portion. Fresh veggies, good service. Fries were cooked and salted just perfectly and came with a generous portion as well. Have been here years ago and will be back. Can always count on a town's favorite! read more

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I love this place! The family is always friendly and fast. The food is always good and the prices are great. On top of that the lady always remembers my order and me. read more

My fiancé went to pick up dinner tonight from here. And when I say absolutely amazing, that is an understatement. Never been but we will definitely be coming back. I got the Santa Fe chicken sandwich, he got the double western cheeseburger, and we ordered a side of their mushrooms. The flavors tied in together with the Santa Fe, the burger was cooked perfectly, and the mushrooms were deep fried, very crispy and Suprisingly very juicy in a really good way. The ranch tastes like it's made in house! read more

This place is a gem! Hidden in plain sight! I love everything this place serves up! My favorite thing to order here is the pastrami burger. Juicy and delicious grilled burger topped with pastrami, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onions. They also have great onion rings. I tried the peach milk shake and it was amazing! I Highly recommended this nostalgic, down home neighborhood joint! read more

Food was great and food was cooked fast! Staff was great. Place was clean. I will go back again.

Love this place , good old fashioned burgers , fries and milkshakes. Staff is always friendly and apologetic if there is a wait . Food has always been good , they give my rotty a pup cup every time we use the drive thru . read more

Bugger was excellent. Glad we stopped here instead of McDonalds.

The ice cream is really good. If you want real icecream, come here. This place is a good place to take your kids out for icecream. The workers ate really friendly also. read more

Bowinkle's Restaurant - The ice cream is really good. If you want real icecream, come here. - Burgers Near Me - Rio Linda, California

I love this place!! I love getting their chicken nuggets or the western cheese burger. Their ranch is very creamy I always order extra.

Yummy food. They have quick service especially how busy they are. They food is really good and reasonably priced

We all have our favorites when we go here. It isn't anything fancy or difficult, but it's always good and hearty. What really sells me though is how kind everyone is every time we go. Even when it's late and cold and close to closing. The friendliness is contagious and lifts my spirits. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the mushroom burger and fried mushrooms ;) read more

Excellent service and food was delicious like old s hool hamburger stand. Although I got chicken stripz.

Everything I've had from here has been delicious! Their strawberry shakes are amazing!

Bowinkles sits out in an open sea of ageing asphalt, one of the few survivors in what was once this little town's main retail shopping center. This little drive-thru & walk-up fast food joint is too small to offer an indoor dining room, but there are a few picnic tables in a shady covered area out front. For walk up business, it's the old school order at one screened window, pick-up at the other. I had the Western Cheeseburger combo. The burger is dressed in cheese, onion rings, bacon & BBQ sauce. Yes, that does sound like a Carl's Bacon Western Cheeseburger knockoff. Knockoff?!? Them's fightin' words pardner! Insert that famous western movie whistling now and get ready fer a high-noon shootout! Our burgers start back to back, take ten steps, turn and...draw! Bang! bang! When the gunsmoke clears there are two burgers on the ground, blood runs into the parched & indifferent dusty earth. Hold up now, that's BBQ sauce, not blood. In the dual of Doc Carliday & Bowinkle the Kid, it's a draw. Maybe they're two long lost cheeseburger brothers? Only their mama knows for sure and she's ain't sayin'...just standin' there lookin' rode hard and put up wet. Git yer mind out of the gutter... That ain't no Southern sexual innuendo! Bowinkles is some okay eatin' if yer lookin' fer some small town vittles. read more

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I was in the area for work grabbing some things and was craving a burger like nobody's business. The usual joints just didn't sound pleasing so I hopped on yelp to see what was around and then I found this gem. It's just a stand out in Rio Linda in a parking lot but the food?! Amazing. Definitely hit the spot and then some. I had a double western burger and chili cheese fries. Smackin! The line went fast, the man at the window was funny and personable. But wait.... can we talk about the prices?! I've never seen this quality for the price. My man got a double quarter pounder meal with supersize fries, and with my meal... we spent 20 bucks. We were both surprised and we will both be back!!! Love this place! read more

Ordered a western bacon hamburger, hope you like it well done. Alot of chewy and then it sat on a moldy bun. Don't order tacos unless you are taking home to cook shells. 1 more, hot dog came with tomatoes instead of the onions that were ordered. Not again read more

Took a long time with no other cars in the drive thru. Overpriced. Jumbo corndog was a normal sized corndog and did not taste good at all. (It's been a few years since I've had one so maybe my expectations were high) Both burgers were not good at all. The patties had bubbles all over them and were dry. BBQ sauce is gross, ranch is gross, the onion rings have no onion rings in it. Just a bunch of onion flavored batter. The fries weren't bad. The drinks weren't bad either. I think overall, they just don't really care about the quality so they just do what they do and hope people keep coming. They should either increase their quality or drop their prices by almost half. I would give a one star but I feel bad so I put two. read more

The last 3 time I come in the last 2 weeks and new guy is hella rude and dose not belong here evey is very nice here and always says thank you for the tip he rush to get your food and is rude when you leave 4 dollor tip look at you with a nasty face and the 2nd time he have done this and the worst part got my kid a kid burger there got home the bread was cover in mold I am very up set and all of rio linda will know this about how you treated us and gave us moldy food and would not take it back or make us new burger I will not come back now read more

These guys better get their stuff together. I normally like the food, but here lately with the new staff. The fries are mushy and greasy and the burger is half warm. In the past never had this, I am getting close to NOT GOING ever again. read more

The first sentence must mention Rush Limbaugh, of course. I don't think he's ever talked about Bowinkle's. But his first big radio gig was in Sacramento, "my adopted home town", and on one of his trips exploring his new city, he ended up in a rathole where cars were on concrete blocks, weeds were as tall as the cars, washing machines on the porch had plants inside them, paint was peeling, you get the idea. So when he felt that he needed to simplify one of his rants, he'd say, "For those of you in Rio Linda...", and to this day, he still does. There are only two reasons to go to Rio Linda: You live there, or you're a Dittohead on a pilgrimage to Bowinkle's to eat the burger named after the harmless loveable little fuzzball. Bowinkle's is located in a run-down standalone building in a run-down shopping center in a run-down downtown of a run-down burg. Not the ghetto of Sacratomato, but trailer park trash. Bowinkle's is a step up from a dive, a step below a real restaurant. Whatever profits they get go into their food. No inside seating, just two tables outside and a drive-through. Normal priced food for such a place. Great beef and condiments; maybe they have talent on loan from God. Lot's of mispelings on thier menu (Jalapino, chilli, Hawiaiian). Minus one star for location and mispelings, plus one star for food that makes up for that. And if the one-pound Rush Limbaugh burger isn't big enough for you, there's the one-and-a-half pound Gaggler. Thing is, you can find a great burger without having to drive all the way up to Rio Linda . . . Oh well, it was worth the trip for us. And yes, I *am* a Dittohead. read more

First of all where's the rest of the bacon?? Second, my kid is allergic to onions. I specifically said no onions for this reason. Yet there's onions... And third I asked for the FULL meals. Paid for them and everything. But they did not put the fries. It was close to closing time and I had my child in the back seat hungry and upset so I did not have time to go back. Very disappointed. read more

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I love this place!! The owners are great people. Sometimes it's a little hard to understand the person who is running the drive through. The food is always good and hot. I will continue to keep coming back. I love their Oreo Milkshake! read more

I'm from Rio Linda and I've been going here since I was a kid. I don't even live out there anymore and anytime I'm in town to see my mom I have to stop here. The food is always yummy and they always have the nicest workers. Always happy to serve there guests. read more

Disappointed in the service. I've lived in Rio Linda on my life and patronized Bowinkles for years, but that's going to change. I used the drive-through, and when I paid with my credit card, they had a tip line, which for fast food, I never tip. When he handed me my food through the car window, he read it off and said it was all there, but the chicken nugget kids meal was not there. We realized it after we got home. So I had to drive all the way back up there and all they said was sorry for the inconvenience. So this is why I think they did this on purpose, because I didn't tip. Tipping is for the full restaurant experience fast food does not give you that. I think it's ridiculous. Even asking for a tip and even more ridiculous they retaliate against you and make it inconvenient for you to get your complete meal. They also want to charge me for extra ranch for my zucchini which I had two orders. I don't think it's OK that they charge extra for condiments. I like patronizing the Rio Linda Community businesses, but will no longer patronize Bowinkles. read more

Good ole classic drive thru food. They have all the classics here. The food never disappoints. The staff is friendly. Their shakes are the best! read more