The Cave

Had dinner Saturday night with my wife, food was amazing. We started with the mussels as an appetizer then I had the crab and spinach salad and my wife had the cave salad add salmon. Everything about it was amazing. Especially the service, Sarah was our main server but we also were helped by a Rachel and Megan. We sometimes forget about the cave with its location but its a place weve always loved and and enjoyed when we get the chance to get in.
Mar 22nd, 2024

Weve gone to the cave many times in the past and loved it but this last time the food was not up to par for the high price. It wasnt seasoned very well and oily. The house wine was just blah. We wont be back anymore. Also it had a bad sewer smell, plumbers were trying to clear a drain pretty close to our table.
Mar 12th, 2024

Very disappointed for the first time. I dont know if something changed recently, like the owner change or chef change, but our whole experience this time was very different. We had a cave salad that had too much dressing and not really fresh vegetables (like you can tell when you see a packaged spring mix getting old). I had jumbo scallop and garlic shrimp that had much over cooked spaghetti with super oily sauce with no flavor. And I was not sure if scallops were cooked well enough because I had some funny feeling in my stomach later that night. The kids had a hamburger that had burnt buns and burgers that they complained that it tasted bitter. The hubby had chicken Marsala that also lacked flavor. Unfortunately, we smelled sewer the whole time and funny thing, they needed to provide an emergency sewer repair right on the floor at dinner time on Saturday. Plus, I didnt really enjoy their wine selections this time. (Well, everybody has a different taste for wine, so I wont count that into stars though) Before tonight we always thought The Cave was one of a little up scale side of restaurants in Ventura, so it was very unfortunate.
Mar 15th, 2024

Great place to have lunch or dinner and sample wonderful wines. Great selection of wine at the attached wine shop, and live music on certain nights for dinner. Nice atmosphere and highly recommended. Thank you.
Feb 27th, 2024

I might've liked the casual wine tasting and dining but I tried the private dining experience with a large group and hated it. They charged a few hundreds to secure the room, which didn't go towards the cost of food and it isn't even cave-like (if you want the cave interior, skip the private room). They "made a special menu" just for our large party which meant they gave us a smaller, more limited version of the full menu with the prices hidden so you don't know how much things cost until later. And you can't split the check in any way. The food was mediocre and way overpriced. Would not recommend the private dining experience.
Feb 25th, 2024