The Gambling Cowboy - Temecula

During our first visit to Old Town Temecula, we discovered this wonderful restaurant. The design of the place is stunning, the service is excellent, and the food is truly delicious. You have the option to make reservations for a table in the main dining area, or you can wait for a spot in the smaller room, where we ended up sitting. There was fantastic live music, and the overall atmosphere was very welcoming. In summary, it was a delightful experience!

Let me start off it was a great looking place and the stroganoff and the soups and steak were amazing .I did requested a birthday and no one sang to my friend but we heard another party getting sang too. My husbands baked potato was cold when he cut into it I took a bite and it was good just disappointing . Hope next time isn’t the same experience

Awesome place with a live music and good food! Parking might be tough but we were lucky to find a spot. It’s located on the third floor and we sat one table across from the live music. The staffs are very friendly and are very accommodating. Waiting for food might take a while so I recommend ordering an entree or a drink. Overall atmosphere: ‘Murica!

My wife said she's never had a better steak, cooked to her preference. Good wine selection too. Dessert was delicious even though we were full. Our server brought us a champagne serving for our wedding anniversary. Nice, appreciated touch. Highly recommend this place.

My wife and I were really excited to visit this restaurant. I made reservations for her birthday to try it For the 1st time. I showed up a little late, But they still allowed us to get seated quickly, which was nice. It took our waitress a little bit to get to us as they were at capacity, but she was very nice and attentive once she arrived. She took our drink orders and all the drinks were really good. I had a watermelon mojito and my wife had a fruit sangria. Where things started to fall apart was the wait time. It took a long time to get food to us. She even miss-recommended splitting a wedge salad. I asked if it was big enough to share and she said, yes, it was a good size. When it came to us it was probably the smallest salad I have ever eaten. Definitely not big enough to share. It was delicious and had I had a full order, it would have been perfect. We started with the appetizers which my son and I had shrimp cocktail. That was really good except for they hide all the cocktail sauce in lettuce in a cup and it makes it very difficult to dip the shrimp in lettuce mixed with cocktail sauce. The next course we got was was clam chowder for me and my wife ordered French onion soup. My wife's French onion soup was absolutely fantastic. Probably the best I've ever had flavor-wise. The only issue was the temp of the soupbwas not hot enough. As if it had sat a good while before coming out. My clam chowder was one of the worst I've ever had. It was very chocky and full of large lumps of flour. Due to the small salad size and my lack of taste for the soup, I opted to order a steak Burger for the next day or if I was still hungry at the end of our dinner. For her entree my wife ordered a filet mignon with French fries. She felt it was slightly overcooked but I thought it looked about what she ordered. By that point we had shared enough food that we were both fairly full and had just enough room for dessert. For dessert I ordered bread pudding and she had the creme Brule. Both were really good and my son opted to share my bread pudding with me so I had a few bites and shared the creme brule with my wife. Overall it was a good meal and good experience it's not likely we'll go back. Although my wife's soup was phenomenal it came out a little hotter than room temperature and that kind of put her off even though the taste was very flavourful. The service was excellent and the hostess and staff were all very nice, but the prices were prices were 5 star dining prices and I would give this restaurant roughly 3 and a 1/2 stars or maaaaybe 4. If they made small tweaks it would be a solid 4. Maybe we came on amnoff day. Who knows. If we do return it would be for appetizers and for sure the French onion soup and drinks. Side note, when I got home I checked my steak Burger and they got it wrong and gave me a steak and fries instead. Almost forgot my son, he ordered Mac and cheese and it was absolutely phenomenal as well so that was a plus. Sorry for the half eaten food pics. I generally try and remember to take pics but I was distracted by my beautiful wife lol.