Claim Jumper Steakhouse & Bar - La Mesa

My mother and I went here for our usual Friday lunch. We had a great time! Our server, Evan D was fantastic! He gave us the right amount of time to choose our drinks and decide on food.

The food as well was fantastic. We ordered the potato pancakes, as our starter. (Would recommend) I ordered the Chicken Florentine, which was just perfect. My mother ordered a shrimp scampi, which she also greatly enjoyed.

We had a great stay! and if you're seated with Evan D as your server, you're in good hands. Great experience!

Went to Claim Jumper for my wifes birthday. It was a good time!

We started out in the bar with some drinks and some happy hour appetizers. We got the pretzel bites and the fried zucchini. Both were excellent! Decent sized portions, and the price was awesome, $5.00 and $6.00 each, I believe. After that, we moved to the main dining room to have dinner with our friends.

I went with the Widow Maker Burger and my wife had a chicken pot pie. Both were delicious! Ended it with a free slice of the Chocolate Motherload Cake (or whatever its called) since it was my wife's birthday. Service was excellent and food was really good.

Place was freaking empty! It's a huge place, and only one little section had people in it. Sucks for them, but good for us I guess? Hope they survive! Would definitely come back.

It's been a few years since I visited Claim Jumper for its annual Thanksgiving Holiday dinner. I've always been a fan of their restaurant, especially on those occasions where large groups required a larger-spaced restaurant! Claim Jumper always came through! Well it was only me this day and instead taking my meal home, I was determined to celebrate my Thanksgiving in-shop this time. Since I'm on ambiance, Claim Jumper is neither upscale nor trendy. It's really just in between those categories and mostly serves American traditional offerings and seemingly a lot of comfort food! On holidays like Veterans Day or Thanksgiving, it gets very crowded here. It's always wise to make a reservation at Claim Jumper - I did for both of these holidays this year and it worked perfectly to get me in ahead of the crowd in waiting. Like my choice of the meat loaf dinner on Vets Day, the turkey dinner I had today was pretty awesome! The large-portioned white meat was very tender and I didn't need a knife to cut it. It came with the zucchini veggie side, mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes (which I don't like!), stuffing, and some cranberry sauce. I didn't feel like they dished up as much as in years past, but I still had to take some home with me, since I was not able to finish the meal. It was good to get reintroduced to this restaurant! I'll find a reason to come back again in the near future!

Recommend: HIGH

4/11/23 - We arrived with a party of three and went to the bar area. Then we were joined with a party of three we knew who happened to be going there as well. We waved them down and they decided to join us in the bar. We weren't excepting in seeing anyone we know here. Hostess was nice to move 2 tables together. Service was good for the food and the food was good. A total of 4 stars. I took a star off because the waiter refused to take our guests coupon they had for either a free appetizer or $10 off. We actually had the same coupon and received $10 off. Waiter said only one discount card per table. We all told them we arrived separately, saw each other and moved tables together. CHECK the cameras! Told waiter we would move table apart to get the other coupon used. Waiter said no. Well our group and the other group will never go back here. Poor customer service for not honoring a coupon which is why we both happen to go there. It was the last day for coupon before it expired. So the other group gave a $10 less tip for their bill. Waiter split out bills per our request. Because of this I didn't take any photos, just a photo of my lobster sandwich a friends burger. It was good but premixed with like mayo. I would have preferred it without the mayo or not mix they used. Other person in my group had the Widow Maker burger with fries. Last person had a salad.

Would I come back ? If I'm not paying .Over priced and the food is pretty bland .Came with a group of 8 and it took more than 40minutes to get our food and when we received it the food was like warm .The waiter was nice and it seemed as if he was working alone .Never got asked if I needed a refill or anything .Told the manager about the food and she offered to comp us desert .I never said I wanted desert but thanks .I personally wouldn't come here but I come with my father .This place is for the elderly .It's clean and not that packed .Freezing in here and there's no heaters on .

Place is beyond over priced and food is average. I compare it to a Chili's restaurant.

Service was great so that was definitely a plus.

They have plenty of seating so reservations are easy.

3/5 Mac and cheese burger - lacked flavor, didn't feel it was a great burger. Would skip this.

3/5 Potato skins - were very tiny and lacked flavor as well. Would skip this as well.

3/5 Mozzarella sticks - great size but give the taste of frozen.

Overall it's over priced and most likely wouldn't return. And steaks range from $50-$125. My roommate had the tomahawk steak and definitely was not worth the money. Overall, fancy name with no promising food.

Expensive, really subpar food that was once okay but has gotten progressively worse over the years. Truly disappointing in every way.

This was our first time visiting San Diego staying at the Wyndham Bayside! We loved Edna she took care of us like we were royaltyservice she gave was over and Above! Chocolate cake was the best and huge cake

Food was inedible. Place was dirty. Salad bar was sad looking. Service was ok. Manager comped the one item but still Will not be back.

An absolutely 100% hell to the NO!!!

- was not greeted upon entry
- was sat at a dirty table
- had to ask 3x for a glass of water
- had to ask for silverware, it was dirty then was given plastic utensils
- had to hunt down a manager