Best Casual Restaurants in Palm Desert

I’m always looking for new places to try. On the recommendation of someone on NextDoor, I took my sister there for happy hour for her birthday. Oh my! We laughingly started with dessert - a chocolate martini. The best we’ve ever had. We ordered Grandma‘s meatballs, buffalo cauliflower, and buffalo shrimp. I must say, the buffalo in those two items is no joke. Loved the ambience. The service was superb. Our server, Brian, and busboy were very personable and attentive. Will definitely be returning to try some of the other dishes.

I can’t recall how many friends I have referred to Larkspur for their French onion soup with short rib, which is/was my favorite thing in the valley. You can’t imagine how sad we were to plan a get together recently, just to hear it was no longer on the menu. The rest of the menu is somewhat small, but we still managed to have a good dinner. The servers are fabulous, the ambiance is beautiful and fun and the music was awesome. Please bring back the soup.. it was delicious and different.

the owners treat us like family and the food id fantastic. I highly recommend the sausage appetizer. Great food and great service. What more can you ask for from a restaurant.

The happy hour menu is fantastic and great value! We will come here again for quick delicious appetizers. The staff are all super friendly too.

We went to a wine pairing dinner at Wildest and were thoroughly impressed with the restaurant and the food especially. The wine pairings were spot on but the wine itself was not one of our favorites. There were 6 courses (all small plates, of course) and each one was delicious with a beautiful presentation. We were happy to learn that most of the food we had is part of their regular menu so we will definitely be back for more. The service was good but for a wine pairing dinner, we kept getting the wine before the food. Since the wine owner was speaking about the various characteristics of the wine, we kept tasting and then had little left when the food finally arrived. But the whole evening was great!