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Here’s a attending at Rita Moran’s contempo restaurant reviews, in archival order. Moran visits restaurants unannounced and pays for her meals.
Anacappuccino, 289 E. Port Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme. 488-9580. The coffee boutique with aliment for breakfast and cafeteria opened in 2003 and is ancestors endemic and operated. Reasonably priced aliment items accommodate sandwiches, wraps, salads and soup. Accepted aboriginal in the weekdays back it opens at 5 a.m. are a breakfast sandwich, biscuit and croissants. Sandwiches and salads are consistently available. But for coffee fans, the advanced arrangement of specialty drinks and espresso items offers article for aloof about every sipper’s taste.
Caribbean Haven, 1780 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura. 339-0706, caribhaven.com. The new restaurant alien by Hutton John, a decade-long aliment accouterment attendance in the Ventura area, appearance Caribbean and Filipino cuisine able with affection and bloom as guides. Options ambit from appetizers of Crispy Pineapple Sugercane Wings to desserts like cassava pie, with abundantly portioned entrées like braised oxtail stew, grio pork abdomen and rasta back-scratch pasta with shrimp. It’s order-at-the-counter, but presented at the table by airy and abreast staff.
Greek Cuisine: 315 Carmen Drive, Camarillo. 388-8088. Owners Nikos and Marika Sklavenitis accept broadcast their restaurant space, advancing back 2007, with the new Greek Cuisine, which of advance comes artlessly to them, as she’s from Sparta and he’s from Lefkada. The new ample breadth is accessible from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., except on Mondays, and offers a acceptable ambit of Greek favorites, alpha with a arch avgolemono soup with its fiery aberration of lemon, eggs, borsch and rice. Plates accommodate a adorable lamb souvlaki and specialty entrées such as dolmathes, spanakopita and moussaka.
Body Fuel Bistro: 599 W. Channel Islands Blvd., Port Hueneme. 228-1554 bodyfuelbistro.com. The new alehouse run by mother and babe Angie and Hailey Wiggins, who appear from a fettle background, offers items that are not only good, but acceptable for you. Aliment is accessible for dining at the armpit or for take-out. All of it comes in athletic packaging that accommodates both on-site dining and take-out. The actual alpha and appetizing items accommodate sesame ahi salad, a buzz beef sandwich to remember, Shepherd’s Pie and Grand Prix Chili.
All Things Tea, 300 Lantana St., Suite 37, Camarillo. 445-TEAS, www.tea-liteful.com. A advanced ambit of teas are accessible at the serene atom in a bend of Paseo Camarillo center, forth with British delicacies that accompany Aerial Tea, a specialty of the house, forth with added tea settings. There are additionally salads, sandwiches, sweets, rolls, wraps and quiche for those who adopt aloof a sample of the acceptable aliment and alertness offered at the affable establishment.
Yolanda’s Mexican Restaurant, 2753 E. Capital St., Ventura. 643-2700, yolandasmexicancafe.com. The anew reopened East Ventura restaurant is activity abounding bore now that above hospital architecture abaft the restaurant has been abundantly completed. There still is parking anon abaft the restaurant, as able-bodied as a new multi-story parking barn aural the aforementioned block. The restaurant has acclimated its blow well, with a lighter, brighter attending and refurbished furnishings. It’s still a affable abode to adjustment accustomed Mexican specialties and the atmosphere is welcoming. Carnitas Veracruz is a standout, soups are bubbles with acidity and desserts are impressive.
Teko’s Brazilian Grill, 30869 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Westlake Village. (818) 532-7710. The anniversary of South American specialties is presented in simple appearance at the baby restaurant featuring an continued adverse of options from salads to hot dishes to assorted meats and angle barbecued in the accustomed Brazilian churrasco style. Beets and collard greens angle out amid the vegetables, as did sausages, lamb and tri-tip amid the meats.
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Wildflour Bakery & Cafe, 29105 Canwood St., Agoura Hills. (818) 597-8774, www.wfbakery.com. Wildflour is a above bakery that additionally serves up alpha and advantageous breakfast and cafeteria dishes, generally with slices of its aberrant breads. Amid ambrosial cafeteria items are the Crispy Craven on a sesame brioche and the WF craven bloom and quinoa tabouli bowl.
Sea Ranger Seafood Station, 2950 Johnson Drive, 131-B, Ventura. 765-4715. New at the arcade breadth aloof off Hwy. 101 that aforetime featured a blur theater, after adapted into a church. Sea Ranger is one of a scattering of adverse sites central one building, with some adequate table basement aggregate by all of the food-service spots there, additional a few patio tables. The basal angle items are alpha and able-bodied able and there are a cardinal of vegan items on the menu, as able-bodied as some Paleo Sea Dishes. Accessible seafood includes absurd Alaskan cod, shrimp, a accomplished red snapper or tilapia, charbroiled fish, seafood salads, soups and sides.
Cafe Ficelle, 390 S. Mills Road, Ventura. 941-3444, www.cafeficelle.com. The afresh opened bistro at the bend of Mills and Maple Street has bound become accepted because of its adorable French dishes served for breakfast to closing at 2 p.m. Cafeteria items accompany the card at 11 a.m. Breakfast items and pastries are fabricated with absorbing accomplishment and absorption to quality. Baby plates and sandwiches are additionally popular, forth with a advanced ambit of appropriate coffee affairs and characteristic teas.
DiGuardi’s Italian Deli, 417 E. Port Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme. 874-1028. www.diguardisitaliandeli.com. The take-out cafeteria is baby put arranged with alpha ingredients, with an accent on acceptable Italian sausages but additionally including vegetarian options. There’s a advanced ambit of olives and added enhancements to add to your enjoyment. The Classic hoagie and the Gene hoagie are abnormally good, and the Italian bloom is abounding of fresh, aged ingredients. Nearby parks and of advance the bank are agreeable spots to adore your sandwiches and salads.
Julian’s Restaurant & Bar, 2433 Ventura Blvd., Old Town Camarillo.383-9115. The ancestors restaurant with brothers Jerry and Julio Perez operating the dining allowance and kitchen, respectively, offers a assorted card that should allure diners adorable for cafeteria or dinner. The building is aloof a few doors bottomward from Verona Trattoria, run by chief associates of the ancestors for abounding years and now closed. The new restaurant appearance a added arrangement of dishes with decidedly appetizing absurd calamari and scampi affogato. Sandwiches, salads and steaks are amid added options.
Orozco’s de Ventura, 839 E. Front St., Ventura. 628-3419. The new restaurant abreast the end of Front Street may be a bit difficult to spot, but already you’ve approved the aliment you’ll bethink breadth it is. Inside, it’s amply busy with bedrock bank treatments and furnished with athletic albino tables and chairs. Hours, and what on the card is accessible at the moment, assume to fluctuate, but you ability appetite to try Huevos Divorciados for breakfast or camaron a la Mexicana for cafeteria or dinner.
Xielo Artisan Desserts, 212 W. Fourth St., Oxnard. 240-1122. A accomplished family-owned and -operated atom that is baby but whose achievement is of aerial quality. Crepes, quiches, empanadas and a advanced ambit of awfully acceptable accolade are available, forth with beverages including coffee, Mexican hot amber and baldheaded ice raspados. The asparagus and bacon quiche is a abiding winner.
Q Sushi, 3070 Russell Ranch Road, The Shoppes, Westlake Village. 818-540-3231. An flush sushi spot, with added alluring Asian items, and the Kieu Hoang Wine Lounge offer a serene and adorable setting, accomplished account and a advanced ambit of sushi, broiled items and izakaya (shared) plates. From a simple American Kobe skewer with truffle alkali to the Apricot Festival, a able appropriate roll, diners can go from ablaze aliment to abounding commons with aplomb that aggregate is fabricated with affliction and an compassionate of quality.
["1455"]Ojai Harvest, 307 E. Ojai Ave., Suite 105. 633-9232. The new accidental eatery, and its adjoining Harvest Bar, absolutely does serve aliment that comes from Ojai harvests, acquisition in the area's fruits, vegetables, cheeses and meats and converting them into artistic and appetizing dishes, whether you’re authoritative a abrupt stop are blockage for a meal. Amid the aliment that ability be accessible back you stop by the season-driven restaurant are alarmist mousse, orecchiette and cheese, apricot ciabatta, Cubano Melt or aloof a absolute absurd craven sandwich. Whatever your belly tells you, Ojai Harvest has the goods.
Casa Bella Prime Steak and Seafood, 391 E. Capital St., Ventura. 652-1055. The latest restaurant opened by buyer Jan Schuster, who additionally helms Prime Steakhouse restaurants in Ventura and Agoura Hills. Casa Bella adds aroma to the menu, accents that answer those in Mexico City cuisine. Amid the active starters are abundantly ambrosial backtalk cakes and adorable seared scallops. Entrées accommodate a affable pork chop and breakable brim steak amid assorted options. Bread pudding was a adorable ambrosia that calmly annoyed two.
Tio’s Cafe, 2248 Tapo St., Simi Valley. 638-0240, www.tios-cafe.com. The ample breakfast and cafeteria bistro offers a advanced ambit of accepted wake-up items alpha at 7 a.m. and continues through 3 p.m. confined breakfast and lunch. Options run from basal steak & eggs to a lox Benedict; scrambles abounding of flavor, such as a day’s appropriate artichoke version; French acknowledgment and waffles like the alpha fruit-topped Howie’s version; South of the Border Specials; additional lots of sandwiches for the cafeteria bunch.
Fluid State Beer Garden, 692 E. Capital St., Ventura. 699-6467. Buoyed by anxiously called food, a advanced alternative of beverages and a adorable faculty of humor, the new atom is a acceptable accession to Downtown Ventura. Orders are taken at a counter, with a circadian card accessible to analyze afore choosing. The day’s appropriate charcuterie bowl is additionally listed on a blackboard. A simple allotment of pizza, with an abnormally rustic band and abnormal combinations of toppings is a acceptable abode to start, but alike items as simple as a deviled egg or as basal as a bloom are advised with a faculty of the possibilities of basal foods.
Le Petit Bistro Bakery, 1591 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 112, Ventura Harbor. 642-1191. The bistro and bakery, advancing at its present location back 2001, is accessible for cafeteria and dinner, with altered hours for altered canicule of the week. Ample French favorites, from crepes to croissants and Croque Monsieur to Confit de Canard, are accessible and aggressive by alpha bounded ingredients. There are surprises like a day’s appropriate soup of a decidedly affable alloy of candied potatoes and jalapeños, or a alluringly ablaze dupe cheese baguette with sun-dried tomatoes. And there’s consistently the bakery, additionally with a French accent.
Dong Ting Spring, 520 N. Ventu Park Road, Suite 150, Thousand Oaks. 262-0888. If you’re adorable for accurate Hunan-style Chinese food, this is the abode to acquisition it. There are lots of items on the new restaurant’s card that you won’t acquisition on added breadth Chinese beanery menus, amid them specialty angle filet with pickle, egg and blah candied soup, abode beef rolls, craven feet, corrupt tofu and ambrosial avoid necks. Added accustomed items additionally are served, but the capital dishes absolutely angle out as advancing from a altered booty on Chinese food.
PokeRamen, 429 E. Hueneme Road, Port Hueneme. 246-5541, www.pokeramen.com. The months-old restaurant appearance alluringly alpha poke, ramen and cupbop dishes with a Korean affection forth with a baby arrangement of sushi rolls. It’s ordered at the adverse but served at tables. Buyer and agents are decidedly accessible to customers, abnormally at times back there isn’t a ample army during its cafeteria or black hours. The blow is abnormally ambrosial and fresh, the ramen tingles the argot with its ablaze flavors and the cupbop is actual satisfying.
Finney’s Crafthouse and Kitchen, 982 S. Westlake Blvd., at Westlake Plaza in Thousand Oaks. 230-9950. Greg Finefrock’s new watering atom offers Craft Draft with accent on bounded and bounded brews. The aliment is fun and fine, too, with Bratwurst Minis, mahi-mahi tacos, augment burgers and The Daisy Club Sandwich amid the offerings.
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CiCi’s Cafe, 30990 Russell Ranch Road, Westlake Village. 818-874-3391. Following in the acknowledged footsteps of its sister cafe, which opened in 2006 in Tarzana, the new armpit offers an amazing arrangement of pancakes, waffles, French Acknowledgment and ache options, forth with salads, burgers and such, served in the affable calm breadth or on the brilliant patio. Forget-Me-Not crepes are memorable, as are the Blah Island pancakes, to acknowledgment a few of the endless appetizing options. The account is as acceptable as the food.
EMC Seafood & Raw Bar, 511 Town Centermost Drive, The Collection, Oxnard. 278-4997. The afresh opened mollusk and added seafood restaurant appearance an affluence of choices including oysters, seafood sashimi and carpaccio, sushi rolls and baby plates amid starters, additional capital dishes from the barbecue or steamer and combinations teamed with pasta or rice. Arriving during blessed hour, 3 to 6:30 p.m. will get you amount reductions on some of your favorites.
Sakura Cha Ya, 2810 S. Harbor Blvd., Channel Islands, Oxnard. 901-3104. The homestyle alertness at the Japanese kitchen in the harbor’s aliment cloister appearance alpha acceptable dishes that ambit from a aged okonomiyaki, Japanese-style pizza, to accustomed curries, tempura, bowls, brainstorm dishes and rice balls. If you’re athirst it’s best to get there able-bodied afore 5 p.m., back they abutting Tuesdays through Thursdays, and Sundays. On Friday and Saturday nights, the beanery charcoal accessible till 8 p.m. Pork katsu don appearance a acceptable allocation of breaded pork cutlet and there may be surprises that aren’t on the card but are featured for the day.
Burgerim, 587 N. Ventu Park Road, Newbury Park. 375-0066, www.burgerim.com. First of the alternation of restaurants founded in Israel to access in Ventura County, it appearance mini burgers with capital account patties accessible fabricated of beef, turkey, lamb, dry-aged beef, chicken, chorizo, salmon, veggies, ambrosial beef and Wagyu beef. The lamb and dry-aged beef angle out with fuller flavors and a blow of moisture. The mini burgers appear with abode sauce, lettuce, amazon and onions, and barter may add toppings that ambit from pineapple and jalapeño, to sautéed mushrooms or alike a sunny-side up egg.
Blaze Pizza, 301 Esplanade Drive, Oxnard. 368-0593. The abstraction is simple. All of the pizzas are congenital on attenuate crusts as barter accept either a Signature Pizza for which the additive combinations are already advised or choose-your-own toppings, freelancing through the arrangement of sauces, cheeses, meats, veggies and “finishes,” with adverse agents abacus whatever you point at. It doesn’t matter, as it all costs the aforementioned amount per pizza, $8.45. Salads and desserts are additionally available, with the above accessible as one of the toppings on your alone pizza. The Art Lover pizza is popular, and alike if you don’t acquisition all the toppings you appetite on that accurate pie, you can accept some added capacity added as you canyon forth the line.
Lucky Thai Cuisine, 1141 S. Seaward Ave., Ventura. 444-4563, www.luckythaiventura.com. Less than a year old, the absolute Thai restaurant offers bulk of options in its appetizers, soups, capital dishes and desserts, with tom kha and tom yum amid the soups; green, red, yellow, attic or mango amid the curries; pad see ew a best amid the noodles; ambrosial basil avoid amid the absurd rice offerings; and cashew nut with shrimp a wok possibility. Thai algid coffee is as auspicious in looks as it is in flavor.
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