Sands Restaurant II

I had the potatoes, eggs, and chorizo burrito the tortilla was homemade like and the burrito was delicious. I also had the bean and cheese very good reminded me of my youth. I also found out that Sands was a set for a movie directed by Tommy lee Jones. After finding out I rented the movie on Apple Tv and it had a good plot, very enjoyable.

I love greasy spoon diners, but this was really really really awful. Our waitress was VERY preoccupied with her boyfriend (or lover or whatever) who was sitting in a booth across the restaurant. I only got one refill. ONE. I spent all day in the dang desert and I got one refill while she sat over there with this guy holding while hands across the table and being generally gross in public. So the service gets zero stars. I would rather have been my own waiter so I wouldn't feel obligated to even tipping a lousy below-average 10%.The food also gets zero stars. I don't remember what I got, but I remember that it tasted identical to those awful TV dinners. Actually, I'm 90% sure that the beans came from a TV dinner. They weren't even beans, it was just some brown-ish slop. I'd rather scavenge for food behind the Wendy's dumpster than go back to this place.

We decided to have our final dining experience (trip east and return) on our way home to Las Cruces at Sands. We didn't realize that parts of the movie, Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, was filmed at the motel/restaurant. We both had hot roast beef sandwiches, french fries, and small salads. Nothing special about our meals, but nothing wrong with them either. Service was fine.

I was eating my dinner of Mexican green sauce enchiladas. The lettuce that was on the plate I watched a roach crawl out of. I went to the bathroom immediately and got sick. Stay away from this place! The woman was very apologetic. The man was full of excuses. We've had the exterminator in and the little critters just keep getting into everything. Says they have a real problem

Great Food and friendly waitress's fast service, but I came in before the dinner crowd arrived, huge drink glasses. I will be making this a stopping place on every trip to California.

Riding our bike back to Texas from Cali we stopped in Van Horn for gas and to warm up. I forgot I had stopped here on the way out to Cali. The food was good and filling. Neat little place.

A good diner style restaurant in Van Horn. They have normal hours, serve breakfast and dinner, and the service and food is very good. Breakfast is mostly eggs, cereal, coffee, and breakfast meats. The dinner menu is not particularly vegetarian friendly, and consists of a number of cuts of steak. They have some very nice artwork in the dining area, especially a mural that depicts the local landscape/scenery. I've only had breakfast here, but it is always very good. The bacon is especially good, the eggs are cooked well, and the only real downside is that the toast is most likely wonderbread, so go for the biscuits instead.

Slow service, mehh food. We ordered fajitas and they were out of beef. We wanted soup and they were also out of all soups including menudo. The super nachos didn't have salsa or sour cream, not very super. The burger wasn't bad. The fries were homemade but looked too dark and were a little limp like they were fried too long in oil that wasn't hot enough to get nice and crispy.

Ate here in August it was pretty good and the service was fair. However this time the waitress was more interested in talking to another customer/boyfriend/husband than waiting on us. The hamburger was good but the terrible service (no drink refills or any other attention) negated the whole visit.

We were in town for the Lobo "Desert Dust Cinema" festival, and in Van Horn (the closest city), there are few options that don't involve a truck stop. This, however, is a great diner style restaurant. Interesting trivia, this restaurant was the place where the Tommy Lee Jones movie Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada was filmed and our waitress was in the movie as a border patrol agent...worth checking out the photos of the production on the wall by the cash register...Food wise, it was the best breakfast option in town we found. I had a great cheese omelet with patty sausage and the biscuits were fresh and fluffy. Service was friendly, like we were a local. Highly recommended.