Best Romantic Restaurants in Santa Cruz

The food is great and the staff was super nice and helpful and even stepped over our dogs (who took up way to much space on the patio)

The food was fantastic! I ordered the steak with roasted garlic and it was cooked perfectly and tasted wonderful. Service was also fast and our server was lovely. I would definitely go back!

We make a 75 mile round-trip from San Jose to Santa Cruz to eat dinner every Friday night. Been doing weekly since 2018 (pandemic disrupted the frequency but still did take out during that time). Our focus is on the desserts and our favorites are great - chocolate fantasy sundae, warm brownie, sin cake, truffles, Victoria hot chocolate with oat milk - these are chocolate artisan designs with more cacao emphasis than sugar and chocolate aficionados like us really enjoy it. Dinners are great as well - my longest go-to dish was Oaxaqueño Mo'le chicken plate - literally ate that dish for YEARS from 2018 to 2023. Then I 'discovered' their hand-rolled fettucine and salmon dishes - those are my new go-to dishes for 2023 onward. We are not drinkers so can't comment on the choices involving alcohol. Lastly, I read some of the more negative reviews here and respectfully disagree with most of them. The puzzling one is the recurring mention of 'dry' focaccia bread. We get that every week AND we were one of first to enjoy their switch to house-made focaccia bread. I do not find this to be dry at all - for me it's fresh and has just the right amount of moist texture. However, I understand others have different thresholds of dry. Regardless, this restaurant clearly is our favorite as we vote with our frequency of visits from San Jose for years.

Service was great. They were attentive & accommodating. The salad was divine, with a delicious avocado lemon dressing. We both ordered the salmon special & it was cooked perfectly! The chocolate dessert was yummy. We will definitely be returning!!!

As always, the food was cooked to perfection and the service was exemplary. We love eating on the pretty heated patio. The salad was interesting with toasted pecans, arugula, and apples ( which were too tart for my palate) and had a great vinaigrette dressing. Loved all of it!