Best Romantic Restaurants in El Cajon / Lakeside

My husband and I always have dinner here for special occasions and restaurant week. We first ate here in 2022, we fell in love with the food and service, so we started coming back and brought our friends too. We celebrated our anniversary tonight and I ordered my favorite Coquilles St. Jacques, I was disappointed when I received my plate, I had almost half of the portion I used to get, the amount of risotto was so small compared to my previous orders What happened? The food is still great and service was good, jut not happy with the amount of the meal I ordered.

We had a great meal. Two of us had the salmon and loved it. I had the meat raviolis and they were excellent. The fourth member of our group had the seafood raviolis and said they were great. The service was very good considering the restaurant was getting slammed on a Saturday night. We will definitely go back.

We have gone to Sycuan more then 2 dozen times in the last year but never tried Bull & Bourbon. Wow, sure glad we did, the food was excellent. I had lobster pasta that had a whole lobster tail in it. It was great, I would order it again. My wife had f filet mignon the smaller one and it was pretty big she ate half of it. She said the flavor was excellent. We ordered two side dressers, mashed potatoes and carrots. They give you a lot of food we didn’t even eat it, we took it home. We will definitely come back.

We came in last night and had a wonderful experience. Our server was Alessandra and she was just amazing. First off the place is so cute & trendy, I love what they did with the space. We started our meal with the fritto misto (mixed calamari & veggies), fungo ripieno (mushroom w artichoke, red sauce & polenta) which was my personal favorite (the polenta was to die for) and the crispy burrata. We ate everything and left no crumbs ! Then we went on to our main courses. We ordered the fettuccine tartufo (mushroom & truffle - our tables favorite), spicy vodka pasta, ragu Della Nonna (red sauce with meat), and the parmigiana Milanese (eggplant Parmesan). Everything was delicious. The pasta was cooked perfect & al dente, we ate what we could & took the rest home! Then came dessert. It was my father’s birthday and they offered us a dessert of our choice, Alessandra recommended the fresh made table side tiramisu -good choice. Flavors were so well balanced. We also ordered the cannoli and was one of my favorite cannolis ever! Needless to say we will be coming back again! Thank you for the great dinner.

Fun place to hang with friend to watch the Padre game.