Wood Ranch Ventura:
Down Home Hospitality & Divine BBQ

Dining Detectives
By Carol & Joe Davis

With a collection of venues throughout California and the US, Wood Ranch has become a household name when it comes to great BBQ and grilled delights top enjoy in a comfortable atmosphere where service really matters.

Guacamole & Chips

Wood Ranch is an ideal place for family dinners or business meetings, and offers something to appeal to every taste. Their menu "The Food That Makes America Great!" is award winning, high quality and includes plates such as baby back pork ribs, Angus beef steaks, prime rib, shrimp, burgers, USDA choice tri tip roasts, fresh fish and chicken, with pasta. The salads and appetizers are full sized and delicious, and the sinful ending desserts are almost a meal on their own. The keylime pie is a perfect dessert for two.

Keylime Cheese Cake Dessert

Recently the restaurant bar group designed a new line of great tasting cocktails, and they offer all the full bar favorite's guests enjoy before or with dinner. The guacamole and margarita is a great win-win before dinner. They have nice wine choices and great coffee for java lovers. Wood Ranch offers a happy hour Monday - Friday from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Wood Ranch Veggie Burger

BBQ items are prepared with their unique two-step cooking process in state-of-the-art smokers. Baby back ribs are slow roasted overnight and then grilled with their signature sauce over mesquite fire. This food was described by restaurant critic Merrill Schindler of KABC Radio as "Ecstasy" food.

Onions & Sweet Potato Fries

The brisket burger with fries is outstanding, as is the BBQ chicken & ribs, baby back ribs, top sirloin steak, pulled pork sandwich and tri tip.

Appetizers not miss include spinach-artichoke dip, and more. The home-made champagne vinaigrette dressing on the Tuscan kale or Caesar salad is fantastic. They also offer a healthy Quinoa salad and a delicious house-made vegan burger of lentils, bulgur, cashews, leeks and avocado on a toasted honey wheat bun for health minded patrons, along with great soups that change daily.

Wood Ranch Ventura
Pacific View Mall
3449 E. Main Street
805-629-4500
http://www.woodranch.com/restaurants/Ventura

 

By Bonnie Carroll & Mary Hilton