I love love love Chili's. They have the best deal, you get an appetizer to share, two entrees, and desert to share & its only $20. You get so full and it tatses awesome. Their country fried steak is SO amazing i can live off it. Their gravy and mashed potatoes are my favorite. Ive been there so many times, every time i walk in the waiters say,"You're back again." & i always respond with of course : ) So since this economy isn't to great right now but you still want to go out to dinner i suggest Chili's anytime. read more

Horrible service. We did a take out order and they gave us completely the wrong order. They promised to refund our order, which was some cash and I used a gift card. It has now been 3 weeks sense the order was placed. They voided the amount pain to our bank but to this day our $25 dollar gift card has NOT been refunded. I have followed up three times now, giving up. Horrible horrible service. And the WRONG order that was given to us to was awful, raw onion rings, uncooked cold steak, and a wilted salad - gross!!! Managers unfriend and not the least bit helpful! Will NEVER eat there again read more

This was the worst Chili's I've ever been to! I ordered the babyback ribs and they were soooo dry and overcooked literally unedible. And to top it off they ran out of French fries , so instead we had to get mashed potatoes which were bland and thick :/ I will not return to this location ever again !!! read more

Tried to check in to line through app & it said no wait. Called restaurant and was told they can't take a phone reservation for a party of 7...must be 9 or more. They also told me there was no wait, if the app says there is no wait. Ten minutes before we got there, I checked app again and it said no wait. When we actually got to the restaurant, there WAS a wait...we were quoted 20 minutes. As we sat waiting, several other smaller parties walked up and were seated immediately. 35 minutes in, I asked the hostess where we were in line, and was told they were bussing some tables and we were next. 10 minutes later, I walked in and stood in front of the hostess stand, which was when they finally went to bus some open tables. I asked again and was told the 20 minutes was only an estimate, but they were currently getting our table ready. One hour in, we FINALLY got seated. Let's see how long it takes for service... read more

My Husband, daughter, I just got back from Lunch at CHILI'S in Vista. Where we met up with my brother, sister in law, Mom and Dad... We were celebrating my/our Mom's 71st Birthday (a day early.) We all had a very nice time. The food is so very Yummy. The service was awesome! Will definitely will go back again. read more

Our experience. Me and my fiance wanted to have a couple drinks so we came here because this is the closest chilis to where we live (we usually go to Chilis Oceanside, they have the best baristas!). Okay so we sitted and we waited for like 10 minutes to have somebody came and gave us a menu. We came Thursday night and it wasn't even that busy. So when he handed the menu, we right then said we were ready because we already knew what we wanted. I wanted a skinny margarita and my fiance wanted a blue moon. When we said we were ready,the bartender said "yeah I'll be right back". And so we waited again for another 15 minutes watching him walking around the bar as if he was too busy asking other customers if they were good or needed anything, just pass by us didn't even look at us. I wanted to leave because I was very irritated, then there's this another young lady bartender saw us just sitting there waiting, she quicly came to us and ask if we needed anything, so we said what we wanted and she quickly gave us our order. Thanks to her. We ordered our drinks and a triple dipper,which we got after about 25 minutes of waiting. The guy who served our triple dipper was trying to serve it on a wrong table, which was rediculous. First the very unwelcoming bartender a waiter who did not know what he was doing. I will definitely wont coming back here even if it's only half mile away from my place. I still prefer going to Oceanside Chilis even I have to drive a little further. read more

If there is a more negative rating, I would select. Tonight I attended this place after work, with a co-worker. With just looking forward to unwinding and have dinner and a drink, we were served by a server named, Brady. From the start I could tell he was less than interested in being a server, but to more less to be a asshole. With waiting nearly 20 minutes to receive drinks, food was "soon" to follow 45 minutes later. As I can understand Friday night being busy, a simple gesture about that would have been more than understanding. I ordered a very traditional Bacon Cheese Burger, well done (sorry, but I just like hamburger cooked well). As I mentioned the food arriving late, he brings only the burger letting me know that the fries will be a few more minutes. Okay, fine, but to only see the burger was medium. I hate to be stupid for making a deal of something so simple, but fact of the matter, this was not the only mistake tonight. When letting the server (Brady) know this, he walked away, rounding the corner laughing. To me this is completely unacceptable. He can make all the gestures you want, but I pay for meals and service when I decide to eat out. This obviously set me over the edge. I spoke with the manager ( Jenn Brieaddy ) whom was completely professional and asked to comp the meal/drinks. I refused and said I would still pay, but did not want the food from that point. She still discounted half the bill. Thank you for that! But the damage was already done. Will never go back to this place again. This server should not work in a serving organization ever again, as far as i'm concerned. read more

Worst service we've ever had. Place was busy but not enough to make our waitress ignore our table completely and walk away when we are trying to talk to her. She was not helpful at all with the questions we had and never looked at our table when she would walk by. Took a couple times for us to flag her down to get our check, she just would walk by and go in the back. I would never treat someone like that. We had a 4 year old that was just ready to leave. Oh and her name was Jacqueline. read more

This was a very disappointing Chili's visit for my wife and I. We usually visit Chili's at least once a month, however this was the first time we visited this location. We were seated the second we walked through the door. Our waiter was friendly and we ordered almost right away. Thirty minutes go by and our food has yet to arrive, this was odd because the restaurant was nearly empty. My wife asked our waiter if he could check on our food. He checked and told us our food would be right out, but unfortunately when they brought the meal to our table it was not what we ordered. Another twenty minutes went by and they brought out more food, this was still not the meal we ordered. At this point we decided we just wanted to pay for our drinks and leave, but the manager came to our table apologized to us and promised a free appetizer. Finally on the third try and after a grand total wait time of ninety minutes our order was finally correct. The most frustrating part was the fact that the staff repeatedly treated my wife and I as if we made the mistake. The first time they brought out the wrong food and we corrected them they asked, "are you sure this is not your food?" Overall not the most pleasant of dining experiences. read more

We had the best service today. Our food was delicious and out waiter, Kevin was great! Thanks Kevin for a great experience.

I have never written a Yelp review before but this is by far the worst restaurant experience I have had anywhere. We arrived for dinner around 6:15 pm and were seated within about 2 minutes. It then took about 10 minutes for anyone to attend our table because the waiter was to busy with a party of about 12. Once our server came to our table we immediately ordered our food and drinks. We ordered chips and salsa and 2 chicken fajita meals. After waiting over a half hour after we placed our order, I had someone get the manager, as our waiter never came to check on us. We then asked the manager when our food would be ready and a few minutes later he brought out the food. We ordered queso for the fajitas but it wasn't delivered with the food. We asked the manager for it and he told us the waiter didn't put it on the order but he would go get it for us and then he never returned with it. Several minutes later our waiter came to check on us and we told him we still didn't get the queso. By time we ended up getting the queso, my husband was almost done with his food. The waiter then said he would get a refill of the drink and took a long time for the drink to be brought to the table. The waiter then brought us the bill and we immediately put our credit card out. Over 10 minutes later, a different waiter finally took the card to run the payment (by the way we were still charged for the queso we couldn't really use.) It shouldn't take almost an hour and a half for the visit. I don't plan on ever returning and would not recommend anyone else to visit...save your money and time. read more

Okay where do I begin? The hostesses are very friendly and welcoming dont get me wrong.. But food quality I am speechless. Food quality has been the same at both the Vista location and the Carlsbad location.. Horrible! The servers are much friendlier at this location in Vista.. Id recommend this place over Carlsbad, but all in all save your money because if you are going for good food you aren't going to get that, this place is not cheap either. I ordered the Cajun Chicken Pasta the otherday and it tasted like a Lean Cuisine frozen pasta from the grocery store. It was also topped with a Texas Toast "garlic bread" from the grocery store that they just buy in bulk most likely. For $18? Why do that when you can go to the grocery store and buy yourself a lean cuisine and a box of Texas Toast for less that $7.... My boyfriend had the chicken enchiladas and said they were literally flavorless and he was right. Probably frozen food again..I hate to say it but the food quality is so poor its sad. Also... The "pay it yourself" kiosk tablet things on the tables??? I have never seen that in any other high quality/ service restaurant I have worked in. Isnt the server's job to close you out themselves?? I get it saves time but with those things in place you would thing it would create for the service to be way better and friendlier servers. Your servers are really that lazy??? DONT go to Chilis. It honestly may as welll be fast food. Go to Yellow Deli down the road! Delicious healthy food they grow on their own farm. Way better service, and they actually give a damn about their guests. read more

Pretty decent food. The service was excellent. Our waitress was very pleasant & attentive. I had the turkey sandwich on whole wheat toast, pretty yummy. The fries we're ok, nothing special. We ordrd the molten lava cake, cheesecake & chocolate chip thing ( I don't know what its called) to share amongst all 6 of us. The portions are big, so u only have to order 1 to share for 2 ppl. The cheesecake was ok, but it was a little soft. The chocolate chip thing wth ice cream was very, very rich (2 rich 4 me) & the lava cake thing, now that is amazing. I recommend this one. I don't give more stars because the turkey sandwich was just ok. Oh & I tasted their chicken enchilada soup. Ummm, the flavor is good but the chicken was that processed "packed together" type, like nasty chicken mcnuggets & not fresh shredded chicken. The prices are pretty decent. Our check (6 ppl) wth an 18% tip was $129, the tip was included in the bill. This included our drinks, soda & coffee. We left $140 since the waitress was so nice :-) read more