Candelilla Cafe

21701 FM170, Terlingua
(432) 424-5000

Recent Reviews

Iris Rivera

Highly recommended. The waiters are fast and friendly. The food was delicious and fresh, I would definitely recommend eating here on your visit. We stayed at the Maverick Ranch RV Park, whose restaurant is literally on the other side of the RV Park.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Pamela Chapman-Markle

We stayed in the ambush home and it was very dirty. The floors had sand and dirt all in them. Hot water took 10 minutes to heat. Next door construction kept blocking our driveway from the road. No coffee or filters. No room service. We won’t ever stay there again. No Vegan options.Dietary restrictions: No vegan or milk optionsParking: We were blocked from employees and workers constantly next door. We had to go ask them to move their vehicles

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Street Tacos

Lloyd Christmas

Great little oasis! Not sure how they an afford to keep the golf course so green. The food was great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jim Ross

Highly recommend: Arrived before 5pm so Lunch Menu I was. Sat outside on patio with outstanding view including Mexico. House Salad was great with cukes, numerous fresh tomatoes, and spring lettuce. Main course rice, beans with Verde Hot Sauce and beef tortillas. Of course two beers Guinness and Anchor Steam. Quick, effective service from Ward and Brooke

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Malcolm White

Though the views are excellent, a gas station breakfast would be an upgrade to this place. The coffee was awful, the food was burned when it came out, and the server was disinterested and in no way attentive. We came for breakfast and walked out, which we almost never do. Unless you’re staying at the resort, feed yourself from the buffet, and don’t drink coffee, I’d do almost anything else for a meal.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 1

Natalie Tessier

Limited menu for Christmas, twice as expensive as the usual menu, cafeteria service, overly dry fish, lumber camp soup... I was promised the experience of the century. Really disappointing and overpriced.

Patti P

I ordered the fajitas for lunch and my expectations were high so I was disappointed in the fajitas. They were tough and the fajitas at High Sierra in Terlingua were so much better! Out waitress Sara was delightful and very attentive which was a positive as was the view sitting outside on the patio.

King kid eli

The servers were very nice to us, the atmosphere was very chill and not crazy like some other restaurants. The food... the food was pretty ok. The food I tried was the fajitas, mozzarella stick, and the chips w/ 3 dips. They were at most eat able but the the best tasting, the food was not the best but the atmosphere and workers were very nice.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Mike Tong

It’s in the desert, so given that it was pretty good. Service was kind and attentive. The food was good, but it is a little pricey. As almost everyone chose to eat outside for the beautiful views, we had the whole restaurant to ourselves.Entrees are between 30-50 dollars. Also, you must have reservations. They turn people away even though they are not busy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Sherry Chen

I found this restaurant through The Thirsty Goat page (it was listed as a restaurant, but it was actually just the bar).When we arrived, the waitress took a while to arrange us a seat even it was empty.The restaurant is beautiful with incredible view, totally worth to come here even just for drinks.However I don’t recommend for the food. I ordered the Fajitas with shrimp, the shrimp looks not seasoned and not seared, just boiled, as you can see the pictures.Ok, and then we ordered dessert. The Cream Brûlée, wow, I never had such a bad cream brûlée in my life. Why they even think of adding extra sweet cream under the brown sugar? It’s way too sweat. I didn’t want to waste, asked my husband and others to try, none of them could eat it.Anyway, if you want to come for the view and cocktails, its very nice. Don’t come for the food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 3

Andrew Meadville

We made reservations for October 1st at 5pm. Upon showing up there was a sign on the door saying it was closed until October 4th. Why they took our reservation request when they knew it would be closed is beyond me. Definitely lost our business for ever.

Yoli CallnAllAngels

Sooooo different then the bar next door. I highly recommend this place

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Richard Lokey

It's definitely a great place to eat. Views and service were amazing.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Caesar Salad

Eric Green

I really wanted to like this place a lot more. The surrounding facilities were quite nice, but the restaurant itself was rather blah. No real atmosphere or ambiance. The waitress was rather good, but disappeared for large swaths of time leading to empty water glasses. Cocktails were rather average and the food was similar. The food was good, but significantly overpriced. Ironically, as we were arriving a gentleman was leaving and said under his breath to me 'I hope you brought your wallet'. After sitting down and seeing the menu/prices... yep, i got what he was saying. It was way overpriced and the overall experience didn't live up to the prices. Save your time, money, and effort and just visit the Starlight Theater. 10x better experience.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 4

Service: 4

Adrian Flores

Me and my family came here for dinner. Immediately the waitress Theresa asked us if we were staying there at the resort (which doesn’t matter because it’s a public restaurant), after telling her no, she told us there were too many reservations (this was a blatant lie because the restaurant was nearly empty the remainder of the evening) and told us to try the pizzeria instead. A nice man ended up giving us his reservation. After that another waitress came up to us and told us it was going to be a long time before we got served due to “ a busy kitchen”. This was also a lie because we got all of our food within 20-30 minutes. We were seated and had a waiter named Ryan who was EXCELLENT. He completely turned our night around after we dealt with the other two waitresses. I have never felt so discriminated against and I hope the owner or management sees this and takes action towards Theresa for her multiple attempts to drive us away.P.S the food was amazing.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 1

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