Veladora — Restaurant in California

Literally at their Christmas buffet right now, already asked them if I can bring my dog during reservation and she said yes they could sit me outside, thought I was all set. Somehow the arrangement was messed up and they could not find us a table outside when we showed up at our reservation time. So we were given some random table on a different level than where the restaurant is, just the two of us with my dog sitting on a random table, no Christmas decorations, walked pretty far and had to go through multiple flights of staircases through puddles of water to get and bring back food, it felt dangerous, I did worry about slipping down the stairs with a plate of food multiple times. What is the point of making a reservation 1 week ahead of time and asking them if I can bring my dog during the reservation if none of these was being taken into account. And the whole point of getting Christmas buffet is so I could be surrounded by Christmas decorations and atmosphere, but I might just as well getting a togo box from that place and ate at my home instead, if I were just sitting at a random outside table that was not even part of the restaurant. I made a joke that I felt like we were being placed at the bottom deck like in the Titanic movie, well, except paying the same price as the upper deck people. At 130 pp, plus 18 bucks a drink, 380 total for two ppl, this place should get shut down so it does not ruin someone else's Christmas. I thought about going to the Park Aviara at first but choose this place instead because they told me I can bring my dog, my fault choosing to come here because I assume the pricier the better, my fault. Now I need to wait another year to choose another place for Christmas buffet to flush this bad memory out of my system. Other than that, the servers are great people and those working at the carving station, soup station actually tried to take good...

Beautiful atmosphere, very nice and attentive staff, delicious drinks!! The food was very expensive, sparse and just okay in flavors. We got the local crudo, which was very bland, corn soup, had a nice simple flavor, farmer's market salad, decent flavors and interesting, and the filet, cooked to the perfect temp but was only 2 thin slices with a big skillet fried mash potato and mushroom I believe...nothing...

Right next door to the Pony Room at the Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa. We had Thanksgiving lunch here and it was fantastic! The spread of delicious food was amazing and the service was spot on!

They had everything you could want in a traditional Thanksgiving meal (turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, etc) but also had some other variety including a...