Editor Pick
The Restaurant
- January 23, 2006
- Rated 1 of 5 by
heathriel from Woburn, Massachusetts
This is a restaurant so pretentious, it is honestly named "The Restaurant" (seriously, you can look it up at http://www.lasventanas.com if you don't believe me.) Cocktails here start at $16 each, so that should give you some idea of what you are in for.
The food here is good, certainly, but what you're really paying for is the service. While you're there, you are given individual attention (theoretically) to such a degree that they have purse stools, and if you even think about standing up, someone will rush out of nowhere to your chair to pull it out with the speed of The Flash.
This is all well and good, but I go to a restaurant to eat, not to be pampered. If I want to have 5 people waiting on me hand and foot, I'd rather it be in a spa.
Anyway, as I mentioned above, the food is good, but not spectacular. For the prices they charge ($80 for a steak - not even a filet mignon - when I was there), I want to be wowed. I have no problem going to a restaurant and spending hundreds of dollars on a meal for two people - but the food has to be worth it. Here, it's not.
However, a reservation here will get you past the entrance gate to Las Ventanas, which is *the* most exclusive resort in all of Cabo. This is where the stars stay, and you might catch a glimpse of Madonna or John Travolta or someone else walking the grounds while you're there (they are both among the regular visitors).
If you are the type of person who wants to see what a $10,000 a night hotel looks like, by all means, eat here. If you just want to eat a good meal, go somewhere else, like Peacock's downtown.
From journal Cabo for the First Time