Best Dog Friendly Restaurants in Del Mar

The food and ambiance are very strong. No pretense, but solid food. The service is top notch, especially from Willow, who was kind and excellent and thoughtful.

Brilliant food and service. Would go more often if a few more vegi / vegan options. Some great wines but perhaps the pours seems a tad skimpy. Overall a truly great place.

This place is one of our favorite places to eat. I always love their salsa (great earthy flavor) and chips - they season their chips and it’s so good. We love to start with the eloté spears (they are spicy but that is part of the fun of them!) and then we share any dish that also has the fig molé… it’s the best molé on the planet. Last night we got the chicken enchiladas and added the fig molé. It was much more spicy than usual which took away a *bit* from the flavor because it was a tad overpowering, but it was still really good. To drink I ordered a virgin mojito and it was great. I added some of my own sweetener but that’s just a preference thing. The blend of everything else was perfect. The waitstaff is SO KIND here. They are attentive and accommodating. I am hard of hearing and cannot hear a thing, usually, because ambient noise messes with my hearing aides. But they put us in the less busy side room and even turned the music down (without me even asking!) so that I was able to hear better. I’ve never had any waitstaff do that before and that alone makes me rate this place 10/10.

The food and service here never disappoint. The pork chop is excellent

Ruth Chris is always our favorite go-to “fancy” restaurant for casual and eventful dinners. We have nothing short of great service each visit.