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Chef Rick's Ultimately Fine Foods
4869 S. Bradley Rd., Santa Maria M-S 11am-9pm, Closed Sunday Submit your review of this restaurant! Lamb shank that fell apart in the mouth with a creamy polenta
that absorbed the amazingly rich juice, then melted down
the throat. Amazing fingerfood appetizers that were thrown
together in a whizz, flung onto the table, consumed almost
immediately - so moorish and tasty that we couldn't finish
our main courses. Fish was generally nice and moist, accompanied
with flavourful sauces (the Halibut was superb). Portions
are large, ambience is cozy and simple, service is slow (but
that doesn't matter too much when the focus in this restaurant
is obviously on the quality of the food). Chef Rick himself,
is a super chap, full of stories and friendly banter. He's
also the man who gave Eason Jordan his very first job as
busboy in a restaurant he ran many years ago. I'm sure he'd
be happy
to re-hire him now if he's in need of something new after
resigning from CNN. Chef Ricks is the best place we here at Court TV have found
here in Santa Maria! We loved their seafood and mushroom bisque,
their inventive salads (both steak and halibut) and mostly we
love it because Chef Rick delivers our lunch to the court house
parking lot! How could it get any better!!! A gourmet restaurant with a Cajun twist. The
ambiance isn't quite gourmet (it's a storefront in a strip
mall) but the food is delicious and comes in nice portions.
I had the potato-crusted halibut with rosemary
shrimp and red pepper sauce -- yummy! My colleagues both
ordered from the daily specials and were equally pleased. Wine
by the glass is a bit pricey at $8.50. |