The Original Red Onion

Good food, large menu & portions with a friendly staff

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sandwich, Large Onion Rings

Best burger joint in 100 miles
Highly recommended

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: French Fries, Bacon Cheeseburger, Sandwich, Cheeseburger, Burger With, Chili Cheese, Double Cheeseburger, The Impossible Burger

pulled up outside to get lunch and they have french fries sitting outside on a box

Great burgers, but the Rueben is to die for! I will be back every time I am in Pinole! Service is really good, staff very friendly and the owner goes above and beyond.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bacon Cheeseburger, Sandwich

Sooooo good, the best red onion in the bay.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Food taste doesn’t match the priced I paid, I’ll leave it at that!

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 4

I haven’t tried everything on the menu (yet) but I can tell you they make an amazing burger and an unbeatable spicy crispy chicken sandwich! 👍🏼👍🏼

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: French Fries, Burger, Sandwich

We super enjoyed Ramon!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The flavor of burger was .well let me put it this way it was so good I didn't want to stop eating . everything there was the best I would refer everyone I know .

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Always the best !

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: French Fries, Bacon Cheeseburger

You arent gonna get a culturally innovative, fusion cuisine masterpiece from the Red Onion, you're gonna get the gigantic plate of chili cheese fries you're craving. You're gonna be full and what's going to be delightfully missing is the thought that you paid too much. I cannot tell you enough that for me, the main draw is value. You order the large? Its huge. You order extra cheese? You don't feel like they just charged you, then brought the regular amount, that thing has hella cheese on it! This place actually respects its customers and doesn't try to squeeze them for every dollar. Appetizers are actually big enough to share and are delicious. They have regularly priced, classic burgers, then they also got these 27 dollar insane amalgamations that combine all kinds of ingredients and flavors. I had the Chupacabra, it was incredible! Notably the burger was actually 27 dollars worth of food and didn't just cost more because of an exotic ingredient list. Milkshakes were awesome too. Im telling you, this is the spot for cravings food!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Detailed review. 😊

Yesterday, I ordered the Swiss Burger, onion rings, and sweet potato fries. In my opinion, the Swiss Burger was the most juiciest and flavorable burger I've ever tried in my 30+ years old of life. Though the burger was a bit messy on my hands (had to use many napkins), and thinking maybe it's due to ordering everything in it and sliced on top of that. I wonder if I didn't have it cut in half, that it would've been less messy to eat this delicious goodness. In terms of the onion rings, it was soooo crunchy even when dipped in ketchup and was devoured quick.

Best for last, the sweet potato fries were hot, crunchy, and when bit, had sweet potato oozing out in the center. I always order these fries at different restaurants. However, The Original Red Onion wins due to its freshness, crunchiness, and portion size. It truly hits the spot and I rate it the BEST sweet potato fries. 😋

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Burger With, Sweet Potato Fries, Large Onion Rings

The best burgers and service in town

This place is really gross and unsanitary. Food isn’t that great, better burger and sides elsewhere. They’re nice enough as a whole, but I think the popularity is because it’s been around so long. Known a lot of workers her the last 20 years and they’re not the most hygienic people.

The place looks filthy inside. The tables were sticky. The cook didn't change his gloves after touching raw meat. I brought it up to the server and nothing was said to the cook. I didn't eat my meal then the server never took it off the bill until I brought up the nasty cook again. And the cook still has the same gloves now. I see why both servers had a 20 minute bathroom breaks while we were there