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This place has a neighborhood hole in the wall feel with a great atmosphere. The service was great and inviting. The prime rib melts in your mouth and the shrimp scampi was excellent. We also tried a few of their martinis. There were are well made and went down easy. We are visiting from out of town but we will return when we come back to Santa Barbara.

This is a small steak house/ bar. They serve excellent steaks and prime rib, come hungry. They open at 5:00 pm for dinner. Bar is open earlier if you want to have a drink before dinning. I ordered their Par cut of prime rib, it is their smallest cut and it’s still way big. It was excellent, sides of potatoes and vegetables were average. Dinner salad was great. The Warden ordered fried chicken, it was juicy and succulent, didn’t care for batter/seasoning on skin. For dessert we split a mud pie, it was huge and delicious. We couldn’t finish it.

I am stuck between 3 and 4 stars. The food was good, but the experience was almost a disaster. We were happy with 75% of our plates. BUT one of the steaks was so fatty we couldn't even stomach it, "big bertha". It was hard to chew without gagging. There was so much fat in every single bite, it was hard to swallow. We mentioned it to the waitress, and she basically said that sometimes it happens. For the price of that steak we would hope for a better one or a discount, or something. Lastly, we also saw a tiny cockroach crawling on the table. But, we all know cockroaches are even in the fanciest places. So we didn't want to make a big deal of that. Like some mentioned in another post, watch out for the tall waitress.