The Reef

212 4th Ave E, Olympia
(360) 489-0124

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Mike Linville

Just a friendly heads up. I live next door and I was an HVAC technician for years. Your unit is either low on refrigerant or has a blocked drain, its been beeping for a few weeks now. Have a nice day!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Payton Kammerer

best tater tots I have ever had

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jenn Francis

So sad it's closing!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kym Morrison

This place was AMAZING!!! IF I lived closer I would be a regular!! As it is I might make the 50 min drive at least once a month to eat here!. The food was delicious. It came hot fresh and the oysters were the best deep fried oysters I have ever had. They were thick and chunky on the inside, while being smooth. The banana foster shake was delicious!! In fact there was not one thing there that was not perfect.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Moon Soup

Really good food. The type of food where you can tell that whoever cooked it knows how to cook. Best breakfast in town by far, even something simple like a classic breakfast (bacon, eggs, toast, potatoes) is done super well. Just all around delicious menu. Also, I cannot stress enough how nice it is to have a place that serves breakfast all day. Love it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mustafa Haziq

First time here ever (before or after remodels, etc). Absolutely amazing food. The kimchi fried rice was excellent, great flavor and spicy enough to bring out the other flavors. My son had the fish and chips, excellent batter, thin and very crispy. Cole slaw was great too, dressing was not too thick. The fries were very good, ironically they looked just like the ones in the bad review, but taste very good (that white powder is not all salt, there's other spices mixed in with it). Portions were generous too. We'll definitely be back.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Michelle McKeown

For everyone asking where to get biscuits & gravy, this is the answer. Great food, prepared beautifully and served in a relaxed setting.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jonathon Seaborn

Honestly, those crispy potatoes and grilled pork belly sent me into another world! SO tasty and the service is wonderful 👍

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Heather h

Delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

SM

Server was really friendly and good at her job. Food is much better under this management and worth any extra cost. Loved the breakfast potatoes and mac n cheese in particular. Decor is also a lot nicer and fits the ocean theme much more.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nadine Bozeman

Best brunch in town! Really fun menu items and great atmosphere. Super friendly staff. Can’t wait to come back and work our way through the menu!

Thomas Cammack

Our server was very nice, and the food came out in a good amount of time, which we really appreciated! We felt the food lacked flavor and was probably not worth the price.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 4

Jenn Caro Oldenburg

Nice people. Good mocktails

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Brandon K

We always stop in Olympia on our drive home from Seattle, and our usual place was closed on Monday. So, we took a chance on Reef. Now it will be in our rotation for lunch when we come through. I liked the atmosphere of the place with the old school diner bar and the lighting etc. Reminded me of a now gone diner here in Salem.

We ordered the 1/2 Biscuit and Gravy, the Fried Chicken Sandwich, and a 1/2 dozen wings all for two adults and two kids to all share. It was plenty of food, and everything tasted great (my wife said the seasoning on the chicken sandwich wasn't her favorite, but I loved it; so, she had more of the biscuits and gravy, which were amazing).

I think there was only one guy running the front of the house, Isaiah. The place was fairly busy, and he was keeping up and took care of us. Kudos to him and whoever was running the kitchen.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Eric Duvall's Student Leadership Reprots for TESC

I'm sorely disappointed!

Before the pandemic, this place was amazing! My husband and I got engaged here before the pandemic. Before the pandemic, this place was absolutely amazing!

When I randomly found out this place reopened, I jumped at the opportunity to take my husband to the place we got engaged. I thought it would be just as amazing as it used too be.

But nope! The new owner of this place has ruined it! This place is nothing like it used to be prepandemic! The menu went from a wide variety of amazing options, too a minimal and poor selection of mismatched and poorly conceived ideas! Most items have so many unique ingredients that only those few with the most sophisticated pallets can even remotely enjoy the food. For nearly every one else, you have to make multiple modifications for something to be palatable!

Even those food items which are nearly always a safe option to try, are ruined here. For example, the ceaser salad uses only Kale Lettuce! Who does that? Ceaser Salad is supposed to have romane lettuce, not kale. Yuk! Another example, the fries are caked in three times the salt that you get at McDonald's! Yuk!

Instead of carrying on the rich history, and wide variety of great food this place used to have, the new owners dishonor this place!

I will not be back until this is fixed! Shame on the new owners!!!!!!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 5

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