Bombay Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Ventura

Attended this bar to celebrate graduations with my partner and best friend this past Friday and ended up being discriminated against by a racist bar tender. Never have I been so humiliated as I was by this man. My partner and I approached the bar on his side because there were open chairs and his end did not seem as busy as the other. He served several others that approached the bar after me and I begun to think maybe I was not being assertive enough. So I made attempts to to speak to him and waive him down. He then proceeded to help individuals on the other end of the bar after making eye contact with me. I begun to feel like he just did not want to service me. He finally came in front of me and I thought here is my chance for a drink. I was wrong, he ignored me and my partner and took an order from a person standing behind me. At this time I told my boyfriend I no longer wanted a drink and would rather go home or else where. My boyfriend then waived him down at which time the bar tender approached us and said “what do you want?” My boyfriend asked for a Belvedere cranberry and a beer. The bar tender took off and I thought.. ok finally were getting somewhere. Wrong again, the bartender proceeded to serve 3 others before finally preparing our order. I saw him pour well vodka into my “Belvedere cranberry”, when he approached us with our drink I told him I thought there was a mix up because we asked for Belvedere cranberry not a well drink. He shook his head and said “no you asked for vodka cranberry, why would your order Belvedere? ...here’s your drink.” I shook my head no and reiterated that I don’t drink house vodka because it causes me headaches. He shook his head no, said something under his breath and walked away. I was left confused and thought maybe he processed our request incorrectly but did not understand why he did not just correct it.. as any other bartender would at any decent bar. My boyfriend waived him down again and told him he did not appreciate the way he was speaking to me and would like the drink changed to a Belvedere cranberry as we ordered. This bartender shook his head no again and yelled “you two get out!” blew a whistle and flashed lights in our faces. At this point I was beyond confused on what was going and why we were being treated this way.. my boyfriend looked at me at said “he just reminded me that I am a black man and can’t or shouldn’t speak up for myself or my girl.. let’s just leave.” I don’t know what is worst the awful service, the way I was dismissed and discriminated against or the fact that this man is employed at this restaurant as has probably discriminated against others and will continue to do so to many after us. I will not be returning...

My husband and I went on a Wednesday and had a really bad experience with the food and the service. Even though it was not busy at all, we had to wait 10 minutes for our drinks and 35 minutes for our food. Two people sat down after us and got their burgers first. We had order a couple buffalo wings as appetizers but the came out with the food and they were really dry, overly salty and didn't really have the buffalo flavor at all. My husband had to wait 20 minutes for a refill on his coke. When I finally did get my burger, which I had asked for well done it was medium rare. I sent it back and politely explained that I can't eat medium rare meat.

Now here is the part that really pissed me off. We could see the kitchen and the cook clearly from our table and I watched as my burger sat on the shelf for 5 minutes. I told our waitress again about it and she walked over and talked to the cook. I watched as the cook took my burger off the shelf, cut it in half and gave it back to her!! He did not put it back on the grill, not even for a second. The waitress came back and said he fixed it and when I pointed out it was still pink, she said "the lights make it look more pink than it really was" and walked away. I guess the think people are idiots here... I just asked for the check and puclshed the burger away. After 5 more minutes, the manager came over and I told him what happened. Overall, terrible experience and bad wings. The only reason why I gave them 2 stars instead of one is because my husband said his burger was decent and the manager had the decency to take my burger off the bill and give our sodas for free. Still, wasted an hour and a half of our evening and I walked...

Uptight & overpriced. Paid $6 for a ginger beer with a wedge of lime. Came to see my talented friends play in a band. They're Looking West and they're WAY too good to be playing for free in a pretentious overglorified sports bar like this.

During the break, went next door to The Habit so I could get a veggie burger for under $8. I won't pay $17 for a burger or $11 for fries here. Ridiculous.

Politely asked security guy if I could bring my burger in a small plastic container inside. Told him I paid for a drink (and tipped $1). He went to talk to the bar girl I tipped. Came outside and said no. Guess things would be different if I coughed up $5 for fetching a bottle and glass and being a standard person.

Sat on the curb while a random crazy homeless lady lurked around the premises. Guy eventually left me alone with her. Thanks.

Was 55° in February at 7:30pm. Pretty chilly. Felt very isolating and demeaning. So petty. I would have let someone in who had paid already personally.

I went in to grab my glass bc I thought I might choke on my food. He came out and said, "You wasn't supposed to have this," and took it as I was re-entering. Wow. Happy to say I'm almost 5 years sober so thanks for that. He could have given it a whiff.

This is how Bombay treats customers. 0 hospitality. I will ensure everyone knows. Never gonna give this hole another penny. It's giving barn dungeon, drunk...