Red Room Cafe — Restaurant in Ventnor City

My family and I are always on the hunt for highly-rated restaurants. When we saw the 4+ star review this place had, we were excited to go, but what an incredible disappointment, in our opinion. Because of the ongoing COVID issue, they have an outdoor dining setup under a large tent in the street, which is where we sat. Right away, we could detect the waiter was short with us and didn’t come back to take our order for a very long time. This was only the beginning of the debacle. The street flooded while we were sitting there! Water literally began gushing out of the storm drains to the point where we could no longer stay at our table. Instead of rushing to their customers’ aid, the staff at the restaurant left us to move our own cups, utensils, etc to a new table while the wait staff loitered in the adjacent alley talking and smoking cigarettes. They also forgot to give us bread, salt/pepper, and our appetizer. It wasn’t until my mother asked for our appetizer three times that it finally came out, and by that point, we were half way done with our entrees. Regarding the food, it was not good in our opinions. The chicken piccata was tough, the bolognese was bland and flavorless, and the rice balls were just soggy. At $20+ an entree, you expect better than that, and if the food had been excellent, we perhaps could have overlooked the abysmal service. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case, and the woman who, I assume, was the proprietor was more interested in gladhanding with customers she recognized than making sure her staff was on-point. It was a sorry experience and we’ll never be back, nor would we suggest...

I come here every year for my birthday dinner. My husband and I are locals so we tend to visit in the off season to avoid the craziness. What I usually love about this restaurant is the consistency of the food, we never had a problem even during Covid. We dined in this past Thursday night for my birthday dinner. Our waitress Taylor was attentive and super sweet. We shared a hot honey pizza for an appetizer and it was very good. I love the pizza here. My husband got the gnocchi for his entree, which you can never go wrong with. Red Room’s gnocchi are little pillows of heaven. I always get the same entree every time I dine in, the frutti di mare. When our entrees came out, my meal was not hot and the paccheri pasta was completely undercooked. I don’t mind al dente, but I couldn’t get past the texture, taste, and thickness of the pasta. It was hard to stab the pasta with my fork. I usually never send food back, but I was so looking forward to my meal and I wanted to enjoy it. They said they would make a new one for me. 10 minutes or so go by and the second time around my entree was very hot and the pasta was cooked perfectly, but then I noticed the color of the sauce was much lighter compared to the first time I received the entree. I don’t know if they boiled the same pasta from the first time, which then made the sauce watered down? I tried to eat it, but then the dish didn’t taste right. Something was off. We ended up stacking our other dishes on top because I didn’t want to make a big stink about it, but I was very disappointed because I’ve never had a problem...

We love the red room Cafe in ventnor! The food is always delicious and the service is wonderful. We had the artichoke appetizer (its a special) last year and I've been craving it all year. I just had it again and it was everything I remembered.

I've had just about half the menu (not myself but tasting my family's entrees and app too) and I have loved it all! They never disappoint. And while the steaks and cooked perfectly and the pastas are delicious don't be afraid to get the pizzas .... they are amazing!! You can't go wrong.

Definitely make reservations, even fornweek nights. Thats not to say they are always booked, but they do fill up fast if they arent booked!

There is nice outdoor seating too. The owners are so friendly. They walk around to check on everything. The women owner even helped my kids with their plates and napkins, it was very sweet! Our last visit we didn't have reservations and they were very accommodating. However we got super lucky that there was just enough time before the next reservations.

I can't believe I didn't take one picture of our food, it looked just as good as it tasted!

My kids are expensive dates. They eat appitizers with us and ordered steak. Plus we had dessert and espressos, which were all also soooo yummy!! It's a byob and there's a liquor store right next to the restaurant with wine, beer, setzlers, etc, just 2 doors down.

If you haven't eaten here, you...