Best Family Style Restaurants in Rancho Santa Fe

We finally tried Steak 48 and it definitely lives up to the hype! Had a wonderful Christmas eve early dinner. It was a treat to sit at the bar-James, the bartender was friendly, made excellent drinks & further detailed the menu. We ordered the crisp shrimp appetizer, bone-in rib-eye, bone-in filet & roasted cauliflower. All were fantastic, cooked perfectly/as we ordered & came out sizzling hot. Quality of food is superb, as was the service and ambiance. Can’t wait to come back! Thanks, James & Steak 48!

We really enjoy this restaurant as the experience is consistently excellent. I prefer dining on the patio when the weather permits because inside is too loud!

We had the salmon and cioppino entries, while our kids ordered marinara spaghetti with meatball and pasta Alfredo from kid’s menu. Also ordered a bruschetta side. The salmon and cioppino were great! Very pleased with food but even more with service. One of her kids has a peanut allergy and asked about p anutsbin the pasta when placing the order. We later ordered the bruschetta, butforgot to ask if it has any nuts however, we were very pleased that when the server brought the side, he mentioned that the bruschetta only had pine nuts and almonds or walnuts. we were going to ask when he brought the side, but he anticipated our question! High five to the server team!!

Its Christmas time ... so having said that .. crowds are heavy, people are impatient and kids are running around misbehaving. The restaurant was jammed. We were seated late; however we were treated very kindly and the wait staff were doing the best that they could. They were clearly under staffed and as I said the restaurant was in my opinion overbooked. I can't say enough about our wait staff; they rushed to get our bread, and our food and drinks. They were polite and did it all with a smile. We gave him a nice tip. He was running around (literally) dodging screaming kids all the while. The food was great but probably won't go back at holiday time. Too many families and parents not watching their kids who are allowed to behave poorly in public.

Great food. My favorite was the onion dip with the homemade potato chips. Great service too. We had a pleasant evening.