Ale's Steakhouse & Bar

What a great place to dine with friends and colleagues. The restaurant is normally packed and the food is great! Not fine dining great, but down home cooking great. Although I've been here many times before, tonight's occasion was coming here with business colleagues. The pictured Steak & Skewers was absolutely delicious and very filling. Everyone was happy with their meals and the servers did a great job serving our party of 12.

First off I tried to order to go because I'm staying next door at the hotel and just got off work. Wanted to relax and have some dinner. No answer... three times. So I walk over and see one table in the whole dining area on the right and one lady at the register. I wait another 5 minutes to get seated. Once I got seated I received my drink right away and was ready to order. Then I proceeded to wait another 10 minute while all 4 waitstaff stands around talking and helping the other table with people at it. After that I decide to go pay for my lemonade and find another place to eat. Your service is terrible and it seems like your waitstaff doesn't like making money. What a pity they don't train their staff in customer service. Wish I could leave a review about the food but unfortunately never got a chance to order.

After 11 hours straight on the road, I was looking for a blue-collar place to get a balanced meal. Ale's steakhouse was the one I chose. No previous experience with this place, but lots of experience with Ridgecrest-NWC China Lake. I have been coming here since 1979. Yeah, damn long time.Back in those days, we would all go out to Inyokern for a great meal at Indian Wells Lodge. It was a little bit of a drive out of town, but well worth it. This time I knew I would be too tired to do that, but next time, for sure.So, what has changed in Ridgecest over the past 44 years? Not much, except more escapees from the LA Metro area. Same dusty, wind blown, hot as hell location in the high desert. Same salt of the earth residents and former military families just trying to survive. That is the attraction of this area. Plenty of No-BS people, unlike the cesspool of LA and Orange Counties. Refreshing to spend time around these unpretentious folks.You can see the meal in the pics. Jealous? You should be. I topped it off with a Margarita for dessert. Angelberto was my server, and he was welcomed by many other regulars tonight.Eat your hearts out, people. I studied all the meals that went past me to other tables. Lots of happy people and good-looking meals

The burgers were sooooo big and juicy!! Everything was fresh. I ordered the Memphis BBQ burger and my husband had the regular cheeseburger. Cooked to our liking, so delicious. Fast and friendly. We were staying at the Heritage Inn after 8 hours of driving, so my hubby went to go pick it up as a TO GO order and he said the place was packed, so it must be great. Definitely found our GO TO place when staying in Ridgecrest. Thank you Ale's Steakhouse and Jesus for such great food and service. Oh yes, we also ordered some of those huge meaty Buffalo Wings, but we were so full from the burgers, we ended up packing them in our ice chest and eating them the next day. STILL GREAT heated up in the microwave!!

I drove by this evening around 6pm for supper and it was closed. I'm not sure if they're closed for good or what. We didn't stop to look at any signs. I love and miss you Ale's. Please don't be gone for good. So one star gone for not being open and my fear you closed but I don't want to torpedo your ratings in case you were closed intentionally and I was too lazy to get out of the car.

I was in town for work and one of the locals recommended this place to me. I enjoyed it! I called in advance to place my order and it only took about 10-15 minutes for my food to be ready for takeout.

Excellent food and best service I've experienced at a restaurant in years! This place is locally owned, delicious and super friendly environment. I came here at reccomendation of our hotel front desk staff. So glad I asked them because I never would have found it on my own. After driving all day and being so tired it was great to find such a friendly spot.They had kids meals and I found all of the prices to be reasonable especially for the portion size. When my kid spilled his drink, the waiter was so nice about it. I really appreciated his kindness at an embarrassing moment for a tired mom! We will definitely be back next time we pass thru HW 395.

They have cut portion sizes, only have Clam Chowder on Friday night and one waiter for six tables wasn't doable.The steak was tough and the salad a sad mix of limp greens.Used to love the place- ate a great steak at least twice a month and a favorite for out of town friends.This damn economy's going to collapse and it's not gonna get better for small businesses

Jam-packed on a Monday night. That's a good sign. Friendly server named Hector behind the bar. Nice atmosphere. Ribeye steak was so tender and tasty. Not too much fat in it, I ate it up all the way through. Got the mushrooms with it and a loaded baked potato. Both great!

I ordered a t bone steak with Mac n cheese with fries.13 minute wait timeCooked pretty decent. Fries and Mac n cheese weren't coldCame pretty early in the day.