The Mining Company Menu (Update 2025)
The Mining Company in San Marcos, CA offers a diverse menu featuring steaks, barbecue ribs, and an extensive salad bar. Customers rave about the generous portions and quality of the food, with highlights including the smoked tri-tip, ribs, and sirloin. The atmosphere is described as fun and welcoming, with themed décor and ample seating options. The restaurant provides excellent service, with friendly staff and a range of amenities such as free Wi-Fi, outdoor seating, and happy hour specials. Customers appreciate the attention to detail, from the homemade dressings to the variety of soup options available. Overall, The Mining Company is a must-visit destination for delicious food, a great atmosphere, and exceptional service.
Sunday Brunch
Miners Benedict
Two English muffins split in two, topped with thinly sliced ham, two poached eggs, and smothered with a rich and creamy hollandaise sauce. Served with home fries.
Denver Omelet
A three egg omelet stuffed with ham, bell pepper, tomato, and melted cheddar and jack cheeses. Served with home fries.
The Miners Omelet
A three egg omelet stuffed with diced bacon, sausage, avocado, tomato, and sour cream topped with pepper jack cheese. Served with home fries.
Breakfast Burrito
Scrambled eggs, cheddar and jack cheeses, pinto beans, diced bacon, and pico de gallo wrapped in a flour tortilla. Served with home fries.
Biscuits Gravy
Two mouthwatering biscuits smothered in our famous sausage country gravy. Served with home fries.
Miners French Toast
HectorTraditional French Toast served with your choice of bacon or sausage.
Veggie Omelet
A threeegg omelet stuffed with diced tomato, mushrooms, broccoli and spinach. Topped with pepper jack cheese and avocado. Served with fresh fruit.
Country Fried Steak N Eggs
Country fried steak topped with country gravy, 2 eggs how you want them and homefries.
Golden Flapjack Breakfast
A stack of golden buttermilk pancakes served with your choice of bacon or sausage.
The Motherload Combo
Two eggs cooked to your liking, your choice of bacon or sausage, and your choice of sourdough, wheat toast, or bisquit. Served with home fries.
12 Sandwich And Cup Of Soup
Sliced turkey, ham or roast beef crisp lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on grilled sourdoughbread. Served with your choice of soup baked potato cheese, turkey creole, or tritip chili.
Chicken Tender Platter
Crispy chicken tenders served over a bed of garlic mashed potatoes, smothered with a rich country gravy.
Grilled Ham With Honey Mustard Sandwich
Ham, Swiss cheese, and tomato smothered in a tangy honey mustard sauce sandwiched between two slices of sourdough bread, grilled to perfection. Served with french fries.
Open Faced Meatloaf Sandwich
Oldfashioned meatloaf atop of a slice of sourdough bread then smothered in turkey gavy. Served with garlic mashed potatoes and turkey gravy
The Cabo Wrap
Grilled marinated chicken breast tossed with romaine lettuce, shredded jack cheese, red onions, diced tomato, cilantro, avocado, tortilla strips, our tangy chilelime Caesar dressing wrapped in a grilled flour tortilla. Served with fruit.
Open Face Turkey Sandwich
Hot rotisserie turkey and cornbread stuffing atop a slice of sourdough bread then smothered in turkey gravy. Served with garlic mashed potatoes and turkey gravy.
Bacon And Cheddar Lunch Burger
13 Pound burger, cheddar cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, and Thousand Island on a grilled hamburger bun. Served with french fries.
Open Faced TriTip Sandwich
Our famous smoked sliced tritip smothered with grilled mushrooms and onions atop of grilled sourdough bread. Served with french fries.
Ruben Sandwich
Thinly sliced mouthwatering corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and thousand islands, on grilled rye bread. Served with french fries.
Carne Asada Taco Salad
Romaine lettuce, jack cheese, diced tomatoes, black beans, and tortilla strips, tossed in our chilelime Caesar dressing and topped with carne asada. Served in a flour tortilla bowl.
Lunch Grilled Salmon
Fresh Atlantic salmon grilled to perfection over an open flame. Served with a wild rice blend.
Fish Tacos
2 Battered Icelandic Cod deep fried and stuffd in a corn tortilla, topped with cabbage, Pico de Gallo, and a light white sauce. Served with black beans and chipolte salsa.
Lunch Specials
Dinner Served All Day
Buffalo Wings
Classic buffalo wings are back with the perfect touch of O.C.M.C. flavor. Choose from hot, mild or BBQ sauces. Served with celery sticks and ranch dressing.
Coconut Shrimp
Eight coconutbattered shrimp fried golden brown and served with spicy sweet and sour sauce for dipping.
Gold Miners Chicken Quesadilla
A flour tortilla stuffed with melted cheese. Served with sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo. Add chicken 3, Carne Asada or our famous Tritip chili 4
Johnnys Bar TriTip
Our bar tritip is Applewood smoked to perfection, cubed and topped with sauteed mushrooms onions, served with au jus and with garlic bread.
Stuffed Potato Skins
Crispy potato skins topped with melted cheese, bacon and chives. Served with ranch dressing.
Spinach Artichoke Dip
Artichoke hearts and steamed spinach in the creamy garlicparmesan dip. Served with warm tortilla chips and garlic toast.
Spicy Tequila Shrimp
A Mining Company Classic! Eight shrimp sauteed in spicy garlic butter and splashed with chileinfused tequila. Served on a bed of rice pilaf.
Miners Appetizer Sampler
A sample of our most popular favorites! Our sampler is piled high with hot or mild wings, potato skins, chicken strips and fried onion rings. Perfect for any appetite!
Famous Smoked TriTip Chili
Topped with cheese and onions.
Baked Potato Cheese
A hearty cheesy potato soup topped with shredded cheese and bacon.
Turkey Creole
Turkey breast, celery, onion, tomato and rice in a spicy broth.
Clam Chowder
A classic Boston Clam Chowder Soup. Only served on Fridays.
House Or Caesar Salad
Salad Bar
Our bottomless salad bar with you favorite soup. Not for take out
Cool RanchBBQ Chicken Salad
BBQ chicken breast atop mixed greens, diced tomato, corn, black beans, jack cheese, tortilla strips and green onions and tossed with Ranch dressing.
Smoked TriTip Steak Salad
Smoked tritip steak served over romaine lettuce with red onion, pecans, and bleu cheese crumbles. Served with balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
Cabo San Lucas Salad
Marinated chicken breast sliced and served atop romaine lettuce, shredded jack cheese, red onions, tomatoes, cilantro, avocado and tortilla strips, tossed with chilelime caesar dressing.
Chicken Caesar
Grilled chicken breast atop our traditional caesar salad
Brown Derby Cobb Salad
Smoked turkey, crisp bacon, Bleu cheese crumbles, diced tomatoes, avocado, black olives and hardboiled egg atop shredded lettuce, tossed on request with your choice of dressing.
Blackened Shrimp Salad
Blackened jumbo shrimp atop romaine lettuce, diced tomatoes, roasted corn and tortilla strips and tossed in creamy cilantrolime dressing. Served in a flour tortilla bowl.
Gold Miners Toppers
BaconWrapped Filet Mignon
6 oz. bacon wrapped filet mignon topped with bleucheese crumbles, drizzled with balsamic reduction.Served on a bed of sauteed spinach.
Top Sirloin
Our tenounce top sirloin is perfectly seasoned and mesquite grilled for classic flavor
Teriyaki Steak Kabob
Cubed Sirloin steak skewered with mushrooms, onions, and bell peppers mesquite grilled and glazed with homemade teriyaki sauce. Try it with our wild rice pilaf!
The Baseball Steak
The baseball steak is centercut top sirloin Due to its 12 ounce cut, twoinch thickness, this steak is best done rare to medium rare.
Whiskey Peppercorn Ribeye
A wellmarbled ribeye steak smothered in WHISKEY PEPPERCORN SAUCE that adds to a combination of tenderness and flavor.
Slab Of Baby Back Ribs
Our ribs are slow roasted in our Apple Wood smoker and finished on our grill while basted with smokey BBQ sauce.
Rustic PecanApple Pork Chop
A twelveounce pork chop cooked on our grill, topped with sauteed apples, pecans, and onion. Served atop cornbread stuffing.
Smoked TriTip Dinner
Ten ounces of tritip hand rubbed with our peppercornherb spice blend and slow smoked with Avocado Wood to bring you the perfect flavor.
Smoked TriTip Dinner For Two
A generous fifteen ounce portion of our orignial triptrip dinner that is perfect for two. Includes your choice of soup or salad and one side per person.
Avocado WoodSmoked Chicken Dinner
Our half chicken is smoked to perfection in our Apple Wood smoker and finished on our grill while basted with smokey BBQ sauce.
Smokehouse Combo
Your choice of two of the following our Famous Avocado WoodSmoked TriTip, half smoked BBQ chicken, or a 13 Rack of Our Baby Back Ribs. NOT for the weak appetite!
SlowRoasted Prime Rib
Available Friday and Saturday evenings from 5PM until we sell out! Our prime rib is hand rubbed with a homemade spice blend and slow cooked in our Avocado Wood smoker. Served with au jus and creamy horseradish. Best served rare to medium rare for tenderness.
RotisserieSmoked Turkey Dinner
Handsliced baked turkey atop of cornbread stuffing and smothered with brown turkey gravy and cranberry sauce. Served best with mashed potatoes and gravy!
Mesquite Salmon
Fresh Atlantic salmon grilled to perfection over an open flame and served with a rice blend. Add lemonpepper sauce with capers and artichoke hearts for 1.95
Herb Crusted Barramundi Sea Bass
Barramundi Sea Bass crusted in herbs and bread crumbs topped with a white wine cream sauce, diced tomatoes and green onions.
Fish And Chips
House prepared crispy battered Icelandic cod with tartar sauce. Served best with our crispy french fries.
The Miners Burger
Prepared with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle and 1000 Island dressing.
San Francisco Burger
Same as the Classic, except served on grilled sourdough.
Jalapeno Burger
Our burger topped with jalapenos and pepper jack cheese.
Brooks Bears BBQ Burger
Piled high with golden onion rings, applewoodsmoked bacon and BBQ sauce.
MushroomSwiss Melt
Sauteed mushrooms and onions with melted swiss cheese on grilled sourdough.
Ole Blue Burger
Our burger topped with Blue cheese crumbles, bacon, and grilled onions.
BBQ TriTip Sandwich
Thinly sliced smoked tritip sauteed in bbq sauce and piled high on a garlictoasted french roll. Try it with pepper jack cheese for on 1.50
Tuna Melt
Tuna salad topped with melted cheddar and jack cheeses, avocado, bacon and sliced tomatoes on grilled sourdough.
California Cheese Steak
Thick slices of tender, smoked tritip with grilled peppers and onions, smothered in melting swiss cheese. Served on a grilled french roll.
Famous TriTip Beef Dip
Thinly sliced smoked tritip piled high on a garlictoasted french roll. Served with au jus fordipping. Add mushrooms onions for 2.00 Add BBQ Sauce 1
Miners Club
Rotisseriesmoked turkey, crisp bacon, smoked gouda cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo on your choice of grilled sourdough.
Ruben Sandwich
Thinly sliced mouthwatering corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and thousand islands, on grilled rye bread. Served with french fries.
Chicken Piccata Pasta
Penne noodles with grilled chicken, artichokes, mushrooms, capers, spinach, and sundried tomatoes in creamy white wine sauce.
Cajun ChickenPasta
Penne noodles with grilled chicken in creamy cajun alfredo sauce topped with diced tomato, green onion, and Parmesan cheese.
Spicy TequilaLime Shrimp Pasta
Penne noodles with grilled shrimp, onions and bell peppers in spicy tequila alfredo sauce.
Macaroni Cheese
Macaroni noodles mixed with a homemade creamy cheese sauce, topped with Parmesan cheese, bacon, and breadcrumbs.
Grandmas Grilled Liver Onions
The best in town! Our tender calf liver is smothered with sauteed onions and bacon, served with garlic mashed potatoes and soup or salad.
Whitehouse Recipe Meatloaf
Oldfashioned meatloaf served with garlic mashed potatoes and gravy and soup or salad.
CountryFried Steak
A crispy, battered steak served with garlic mashed potatoes and country gravy and soup or salad.
BourbonApple Chicken
Lightly breaded chicken breasts smothered with warm, Bourbonsplashed cinnamon apples. Served with garlic mashed potatoes and soup or salad.
MushroomArtichoke Chicken WRice
Chicken breast smothered in a creamy garlic sauce with mushrooms and artichoke hearts. Served with rice and soup or salad.
Fiesta Chicken Bowl
Grilled chicken with wild rice, black beans, and jack cheese topped with lettuce, Pico de Gallo, and guacamole. Served with chipotle Salsa.
Grilled Mahi Tacos
Soft corn tortilla filled with grilled mahimahi, lettuce, mango salsa, and a light crema sauce. Served with black beans. Add Avocado 3
Shrimp Penne
Penne noodles with grilled shrimp, broccoli, sundried tomatoes in a olive oilgarlic sauce and topped with Parmesan cheese. Served with garlic toast.
Veggie Supreme Sandwich
A vegetarian delight! Cheddar Cheese, cucumber, mayo, lettuce, tomato, onion, and alfalfa sprouts topped with avocado on toasted wheat bread. Served with fruit.
Buffalo Wings
One pound of our classic buffalo wings. Choose from hot, mild, or BBQ sauce. Served with celery and carrot sticks, and ranch dressing
Stuffed Potato Skins
Crispy potato skins stuffed with melted cheese and bacon, topped with chives and served with ranch dressing.
Rustlers Tacos
4 Mini soft corn tortillas stuffed with your choice of chicken or Carne Asada add 2, topped with onion and cilantro. Served with black beans, guacamole, and chipotle salsa.
Fish Taco
Battered Icelandic Cod deep fried and stuffed in a corn tortilla, topped with cabbage,pico de gallo, and a light white sauce.
Bar TriTip
Avocado Wood smoked to perfection, our bar tritip is cubed andserved with sauteed mushrooms, onions, and topped with au jus.
Beef Dip Sliders
Thinly slied TriTip on 3 Hawaiian rolls covered with sauteed onions and melted Swiss cheese.
Chili Cheese Fries
Our famous TriTip Chili served over a bed of French fries and smother with melted cheese.
Old California Nachos Grande
Crunchy tortilla chips piled high with melted cheese, black beans, guacamole, sour cream, chives, and Pico de Gallo. Add Chicken 3, Carne Asada, or our famous smoked tritip chili 4
Sunday
12 Price Bottle Wine
Monday
6.00 16oz. Craft Beer
Tuesday
7.00 Miners Punch
Wednesday
12 Price Bottle Wine
Thursday
8.00 Martinis Choose from our Martini List
Friday
8 Tumbleweed Tea
Saturday
7.00 Cadillac Margarita
Happy Hour Menu
Beer
Bottle Coors Light
Bottle Bud Lite
Bottle Miller Lite
Bottle Michelob Ultra
Bottle Heineken
Bottle Corona
Bottle Corona Light
Bottle ODouls
Can Guiness
Can White Claw
Bud Lite
Coors Light
Stella Artois
Modelo Especial
Firestone 805
Belching Beaver Rotating IPA
Stone Delicious IPA
Alpine Beer Duet
Brewery X Slap Tickle
Barrel And Stave
Rotate
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Modern Times Oatmeal Coffee Stout
Mother Earth Cali Creamin
Five Suits Pit BOS Hef
Dos Desperados Ruffian Red
Coronado Weekend Vibes IPA
Fetzer Merlot
Fetzer Cabernet Sauvignon
Josh Craftsman Cabernet Sauvignon
Sea Sun Pinot Noir
Bogle
Avalon Cabernet Sauvignon
Sexy Cabernet Sauvignon
Fetzer Chardonnay
Hess Chardonnay
Josh Craftsman Chardonnay
Giesen Sauvignon Blanc
Fetzer Pinot Grigio
Sasy Sauvignon Blanc
Wine
Cocktails
Miners Punch
Our Mai Tai with Myers Dark and Bacardi Light
Ore Cart Apple
Jack Daniels Whiskey, Sour Apple Puckers and cranberry juice shaken and served in a martini glass.
Tumble Weed Tea
Titos Vodka, Gray Whale Gin, Bacardi Rum, Triple Sec, sweet and sour with a splash of cola.
Bonaza Mule
Titos Vodka, ginger beer and lime juice.
Cadillac Margarita
Corralejo Tequila, Triple Sec, Grand Marnier and sweet and sour.
The Classic
Bombay Sapphire Gin with a hint of Cribari Vermouth
Cosmopolitan
Titos Vodka, Cointreau and a splash of cranberry juice.
Peach Drop
Smirnoff Peach Vodka, Dubouchett Triple Sec, squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Sour Apple Martini
Smirnoff Vodka, Dubouchett Sour Apple Liqueur
Lemon Drop
Svedka Citron Vodka, Coinreau, squeeze of fresh lemon juice in a sugar rimmed glass
Traditional New York Cheesecake
For the purist, rich creamy cheesecake on a graham cracker crust.
Rylands Golden Nugget Sundae
Vanilla ice cream rolled in crunchy golden flakes and served on a pool of caramel.
Brownie Sundae
Decadent Brownie topped with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauce.
Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwich
Vanilla ice cream in between two chocolate chip cookies. Served in a pool of hot fudge. Topped with whipped cream and drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauce.
Mud Pie
Rich coffee ice cram atop an Oreo Cookie crust
Dessert Menu
Banquet Menu
Smoked TriTip Dinner
12oz Smoked tritip hand sliced and served with garlic mashed potatoes.
Rotisserie Smoked Turkey Dinner
Hand sliced rotisserie smoked turkey served with stuffing, cranberry sauce and garlic mashed potatoes.
Chicken Picatta Pasta
Tender chicken breast over fettuccini noodles with artichokes, mushrooms, capers, spinach and sundried tomatoes in a creamy white wine sauce.
BourbonApple Chicken Dinner
Lightly breaded chicken breasts on a bed of cornbread stuffing, then smothered with warm bourbon cinnamon apples. Served with garlic mashed potatoes.
Mesquite Salmon Dinner
Fresh Atlantic Salmon grilled to perfection over an open flame grill. Served with rice blend.
Bourbon Apple Chicken Dinner
Lightly breaded chicken breasts on a bed of cornbread, then smothered with warm bourbon cinnamon apples. Served with garlic mashed potatoes.
Cajun Chicken Pasta Dinner
Blackened chicken breast diced and tossed with penne noodles in a Spicy Cajun alfredo sauce topped with diced tomato, green onions and parmesan cheese.
Cowboy Ribeye
A well marbled ribeye steak that has a combination of tenderness and flavor. Served with garlic mashed potatoes.
Rustic Pecan Apple Pork Chop Dinner
12oz Bonein Pork Chop cook on our mesquite grill. Topped with sauteed apples, pecans and onions. Served atop stuffing and garlic mashed potatoes.
Baby Back Rib Dinner
Our baby back ribs are slow roasted for tenderness then finished on our mesquite grill while basted with smoky BBQ sauce. Served with French Fries.