Jen Ren

Good food and lots of good beer to choose from! I really liked the Beer Battered Zuchini and housemade ranch was bomb! The Carne Asada Burrito was not bad. The service is awesome and so sweet and fun! I forgot to take a picture until we were almost done!

Chad Tollard

Amazing staff And friendly. Bartender was on the ball and rhere if you needed something. Had a live band called Natural Selection. This Bar and Restaurant is in Downtown Poway California. They make you feel like family and very good service. I recomend checking out I be back.

George Toth Jr.

Because i was in the area, I stopped in for a bite to eat. Huge place. Lot of TV's Ordered the pork pot stickers as appetizer and for lunch ordered the standard burger with bacon, and fries. If i was going to be disappointed about anything it would be that this is a Pepsi joint, not a joke joint. I do not drink Pepsi...ever...overall, the pork pot sticker was great, had crispness and still chewy. Dip was great with it. The burger was simple, but very good. I will return and order her again.

+9

Natalie

What a nice little restaurant. Nothing jaw dropping but good food and kind waitresses. This is in the parking lot of the strip mall. This Saturday early afternoon it seat yourself and we grabbed a booth. Quickly we’re given waters and our menus. Waitress took a bit to come by to get our order but seemed like she was in charge of all the tables on our side of the restaurant. I got the mainstream breakfast over easy eggs sausage links hash browns and a side pancake. She got biscuits and gravy with o Brien potatoes. Food didn’t take too long to make and it was good! Food is a little more bland than other breakfast spots I have been to, but that is fine since I can season to my liking and others may not be a fan or overly seasoned food. Everything was cooked perfectly and their butter was soft and delightful on my pancake. When we got our bill she did accidentally comp the biscuit meal which turned out to be an accident. We asked her to make the correction to include it because that’s only right and it came out under 30$ which is not bad at all as we recently tried a burger place and it was $35 for two burger meals. Not bad spot I’d love to come and try their lunch and dinner menus

+4

Danielson GettinAround

Popped to catch a game. Had some appetizers, drinks and food. Good time overall. Good service very friendly. Food was good. Wings were good. Salsa and chips were NOT. Nachos were ok...i guess. When you have nachos and chips on the menu, they gotta be good you can not mess up chips and salsa or nachos....some how they did. They did take the chips and salsa off my tab...5 stars. Atmosphere was cool, bar section of Mainstream is actually real nice. The bar side, is your typical dive bar side. I will go back for drink and game day. Just won't get nachos...lol..

+7

Maverick

My family and I really enjoy this place. We always try to sit in Leslie’s section. She takes great care of us and seems to have a genuine interest in us and she’s easy to talk to. The food is always good and the place is always clean. They also have a New Mexican restaurant open in the back which I have not been to yet but looks great. You can find parking at the front of the restaurant and at the back. Parking in the back may be limited as actual spaces go. There is also covered seating in the rear parking lot. There televisions and heaters if necessary. Mainstream has a large bar seating area as you enter on your left and I believe they still offer a discount on Fireball shots when the Fire Department next door gets a call. There are two sets of bathrooms. One is near the bar and the other is in the back of the restaurant. It’s in the new Mexican restaurant which is attached to Mainstream. I would recommend visiting Mainstream for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Or to catch a sporting event playing on one of their tv’s. They have something for everyone. Enjoy!

+3

Sharon B

We ordered the Mainstream Egg Breakfast plate and the chilaquiles. I should have listened to the other reviewers and not ordered a Mexican dish. The chilaquiles had dry carnitas, the salsa had absolutely no flavor, and the tortillas were soggy in the middle. The waitress was very attentive and checked up on us often. She was great!

Shalice Emerson

Meh.. fries are hot and crunchy. Beer selection for an IPA lover sub par at best Food.. so-so. This is more a local hang out where ppl are used to their friends over food quality. I wouldn't recommend to a sports lover on a Saturday showing past Sunday games and not current college games. I'd rather be at Pitchers in Rancho Penasquitos. Food is better.

terri forrest

We eat here frequently. We had the worse service today EVER. Brought the wrong food. Had to ask for our toast and utensils wasn’t offered more coffee and dropped our check way to early never checking back with us

HEC TOR

This place is totally outdated, hillbillies-like, it smelled funky! Food is terrible, chicken wings & strips super salted, egg rolls were defrosted by deep frying them, so inside they seem to have some sort of "gel" with an insipid taste. Their nachos were barely sprinkled with beans and cheese, like trying to make a bigger profit out of their sale. Over all, a bad experience, I definitely DO NOT recommend going to waste your money eating there!!

Trina Reyes

Absolute worst experience ever. Went to eat breakfast on 9/26/2025. Took 1 1/2hrs Our server was slow!!! When we got up to leave she had misplaced my credit card. We waited another 10 min for her to find it and process. Will have to find another breakfast place!!!