Red Mesa Grill - Boyne City

We really enjoyed this restaurant. We got fajitas and split one portion between two of us, leaving very full still! We’ve been here and found out their rice has dairy, which my wife and I can’t eat, so we were a little disappointed we couldn’t be accommodated, but other than that, the food was really good! The staff is really friendly as well!

Go here every time we get to Boyne and we love it. Great kids menu, good food, service is wonderful Kid-friendliness: Kids menu is nice and they have coloring pages

I wish I could give it a 10! I love Mexican food, but having visited many regions of Mexico for work over the years, I KNOW good Mexican food. And although Red Mesa does still have small American twists to their food, it is GLORIOUS! The carnitas, shredded chicken and shredded beef were all mouth watering. The beans and rice are also very flavorful. We had the 3 enchilada and 3 taco meals. The meats are so well seasoned. The portion size are great. The food is fresh and the prices are on point for the quality of food. We live in Gaylord and have been going to a local (better than average) Mexican restaurant, but this is our new go-to by far. We plan to try the Red Mesa in Boyne as well. The ambiance is on point and the service was good. Be sure to try Red Mesa; your money will be well spent!

After years of saying “we should try that place”, tonight we took the plunge. Safe to say, now we’re chastising ourselves for not going sooner! ? The food was incredible and Leah was a fantastic server! The Coconut Mojito is one of the best I’ve ever had. We will definitely be back!

We’ve been here at least once every time we have visited Boyne, which is a lot. We will not be back. Ever. Our service was terrible, and the food was horrible. Stephanie, our server, managed to get drinks to a table of 8 people before she got our drinks to us— a party of three adults and two little ones— even though we were seated first. My husband could not drink his Casa Margarita. He said it tasted like chemicals. I tasted it. Seemed like it had been sitting around and all of the salt that he asked for had melted down into the drink. When he told Stephanie he couldn't drink it and ordered a Patron, she did not take it off the check. Stephanie brought my son’s entree ten minutes after my husband and I were served ours. My husband ate part of one of his three tacos (served cold), and I only had to take a couple of bites of steak from my Churrascurro Bowl before knowing I wasn’t going to be able to eat any more of it (also served cold) because it tasted just… wrong. My son ate all of the chicken from his chicken fajitas, but the platter still looked like he had hardly eaten anything; it was mostly onions and peppers. At least his was hot. No one ate the chips and salsa. Usually, everyone fills up on chips and salsa— but these were not good. We were ready to leave for so long that my son left with his tired little ones while my husband and I stayed to pay the bill. When Stephanie brought it, I handed her my credit card. I didn’t want to wait any longer. The last thing we’d asked her for was a bottle of beer, which took 15 minutes. She brought back a check that I DID look over— $39.99 for chicken fajitas!!! We waited to see her pass by again, and then I told my husband we’d get her on the way out. I found Stephanie standing at the bar. I said, “$39.99 for chicken fajitas? They’re not that much.” She looked at our bill for a few seconds and then mumbled that there must be something wrong with the computer. I waited a while for her after finding a chair to sit in by the servers’ computers. Stephanie had disappeared. When she came back several minutes later, she said that under Fajitas, there’s a Sunday Funday option, but “IT’S ALL FIXED NOW.” I looked at her, and she said, “Sunday Funday is just a bigger order. But IT’S ALL FIXED NOW.” The fajitas were then $21.99 on my second check.. I tipped her $20 on a $125 check, which I thought was cutting her short. I should have cut her tip shorter. Her service was horrible, and she pretended not to know what could have possibly gone wrong. She knew. Open questions I will never know the answer to: How often does this happen at Red Mesa Grill? Does it only happen to people Stephanie serves? Does handing over a credit card without looking at the bill affect this? Does having drunk two margaritas affect what is on the bill that is brought to one to sign after one has not looked at the bill? After getting back, I looked up Sunday Funday. Another question: how does one make this mistake at all, much less on a summer Friday when Stroll the Streets is in full swing?