Ryan M.
Yelp
No way is this rating accurate!
This place is horrible! I ate here a year ago with my wife and we couldn't remember why we hadn't eaten here since, until tonight. Oh ya their food is horrible! All of us had bad meals, from the overly sugared bread, to the really bad wine selection.
The food is way over priced and so sauced it's just horrible. From the pasta Gemala which is 80% frozen vegetables with some cheap pasta to their pork chop which is just drowned in sauce and bland. All is bad, just nasty.
Also watch out on the wine! They're ripping everyone off here! We ordered the McGrail 2016 for $59 (their best wine) supposedly. What we got was a smoke tainted 2020 McGrail that was sold through the wine auction houses from the insurance companies (major difference in price from a 2016 to a tainted 2020). Let's back up here a min, we all remember 2020 fire season, most wineries dumped their wine and some tried to go to bottle but realized it was bad so triggered insurance, who made them whole and bought all their wine. Now the insurance companies can sell their wine through auction houses and major discount house hence grocery outlet and others, now Roxx's. Now take a look at Roxx's wine list, 95% are insurance wines! Trust me I'm in the insurance mitigation industry so I understand it. These are throw away wines they are trying to pass off as 2016's and others but watch their labels, their all 2020 (basically fraud here), they're relying on most people not paying attention or knowing. When i confronted the bar tender he said "oh we just ran out and got these cases in, I'll have to update the list". Judging by how high he was I'm not sure it's getting updated anytime soon.
Either way this restaurant would have gone out if it wasn't for their live music. Who brings in great local people to eat their horrible food, drink their nasty wine and listen to their great music.
So many other choices in Martinez to try, trust me try them first. Even taco daddy's would have been better and that's freaking tacos.
Roxx! Step it up, you have a great location no reason to have the worst wine list in Martinez and the sauciest food. Time to hire a new chef or fire yourself as CEO if you're making these bad decisions!
Just Nasty!