While cruising through Santa Cruz on vacation, we decided to try this restaurant due to the reviews. It is one of the better reviewed restaurants in the area. The location is amazing...you drive out on a little pier where there's a row of restaurants and shops. Lots of birds, seals and people fishing. Great place to hang out and enjoy the view. The restaurant itself is pretty cool, they have small windows in the floor so you can see the seals hanging out beneath the restaurant. The ambiance is the location, so we asked for a table by the window. None were available and the hostess didn't offer us an option to wait, she stated she could seat us in the bar area which offered rotating seating thus giving everyone an opportunity to have a window view. She said it was really nice and people like it, so we reluctantly went with it and hated it. It's like going from night to day several times while dining. As the wheel turns, you go from light bright to dark, then back to light bright, then dark. It was a very depressing experience for us. Also, within 5 minutes of being seated, all but one of their window seats became available. It would have been nice if hostess was attentive enough to realize almost everyone by the window had completed their meals and was getting ready to leave before she seated us on this rotating wheel. Nonetheless, we rotated for about an hour. Our waitress gave recommendations on drinks which we tried. Nothing eventful there, they were pretty but more fruity, punchy type of drinks. The food was decent. My husband ordered the burger, which was a bit dry but the mayo and pineapple salsa added a great flavor to the dish. I ordered the beef and chicken skewers. They lacked flavor but were edible. We were underwhelmed by the whole experience. Also, we got really annoyed with the waitstaff constantly walking by the table. They have to walk across the rotating wheel to get to the kitchen so they were constantly going around tables to get drinks and food which heightened the unpleasantness of the dining experience.