Wood Ranch Bar-B-Que

10/08/07

This is highly reccomended!

by peoplesgty7

This is a high quality place to have a good dinner. It has very very very good food & drinks & appetizers & the bread is so well made & fresh too. The little bread buns has garlic on it, and thats why it tastes so good. The dessert is the bomb! That's the high quality stuff, and everything you get there is mouth-watering food, that you can eat for hours & hours. This is so well done that I give this restaurant five stars & its very very very highly quality reccomended stuff.

• Pros: Thumbs way up!

11/10/06

Excellent Food

by tanikka

Wood Ranch has VERY good barbeque and drinks...it has more of a sportsy feel to it...I would recommend this as a place to hang out with your friends and get a good meal...gets REALLY crowded during the holidays.

• Pros: Good food, nice location
• Cons: next to freeway

Gracious service and family atmosphere are the main draws at this local barbecue chain.

by Contributor

In Short
This isn't a typical barbecue joint, and the vibe and food are anything but rustic. Inside, families and couples at large booths and tables feast on mesquite-grilled BBQ in a modern, earth-toned setting. Slow-roasted meats, such as baby-back ribs and chicken, dominate the moderately-priced menu, but crowd-pleasers also include the 15-ounce Kansas City Strip, freshwater Idaho trout and balsamic shrimp. If that doesn't trip the trigger, Certified Angus Beef burgers and mile-high salads are other options.

07/08/06

Decent BBQ

by omegaseamaster

I've been to the Agoura Hills and Moorpark locations for lunch and dinner. I'd recommend reservations for dinner. The decor is reminiscent of a "ranch / cowboy" style with hardwood tables and chairs. Ambiance reminds me of BJs (casual) but for BBQ, which can be loud at times. The BBQ tri tip is not top notch. Having gone to school up in San Luis Obispo for college, there is nothing that beats Santa Maria tri tip (hint: Mo's has the best tri-tip, in my opinion with Firestone's at close second). Wood Ranch tri tip can be dry at times with little or no taste. Other than that, the chopped salads either chicken or tri-tip is decent. This place is not worth the "9" rating it currently has. I would rate this around a 7 or 8, at best. I'm critical of BBQ / Grill places considering of all the BBQ'ing and grilling I've done in college and having eaten at some of the best BBQ places in California - "hole in the wall" places included.

• Pros: Ambiance
• Cons: Tri tip can be dry at times

06/01/06

Nice Place and Great Food!

by heapedjim

I have to say: Anyone that would give this place a bad rating is an idiot! We and all of our friends have benn going there since it opened and it's great EVERYTIME! Go there hungry, order a dozen free rolls, drink a 20 oz beer, and have a great dinner. Thats what Im Talking about! Top it off with a mud pie, and your ready to go! GOOD FOOD!

• Pros: great food, nice employees, big beers
• Cons: long wait, no reservations

05/22/03

Awful BBQ

by Kelen_Harigold

Horrible, bottled tasting sauce that lacks smoke and is too sticky and sweet. The food is so uneventful and commercialized that I cannot, for the life of me, understand why it is always so packed. I guess these people have no idea what real, hole-in-the-wall BBQ should taste like!

02/06/03

Horsecrap

by davedogg

I couldn't believe my experience with this restaurant. I told our waitress it was my birthday. Fine. I ordered tri-tip medium rare and a sam adams (it was my 21st). She came back and said she was out of sam adams (supposedly on tap). I said fine, just give me some beer, whatever you have. She came back 20 minutes later and told me that she was also out of tri-tip. This is when I asked to speak to a manager because I wasn't about to drink a beer I didn't want and be refused the supposed specialty. How can you run out of tri tip? Why would you tell me you have them and then come back 20 minutes later and tell me you are out? She refused to get a manager and I paid for the beer I didn't drink and left. I suggest not attending this restaurant.

• Pros: awful service

01/19/03

Good Steaks, not barbacue

by jbullock

Nice place for tri-tip or steak, very enjoyable, but this is grilled meat not barbacue!

• Pros: Good Steaks, Reasonable prices
• Cons: Not Barbacue

01/09/03

Bring your Appetite

by BillyP_1

I really like this place and the fact that they have opened locations in south Orange county is a huge plus.

• Pros: South OC location, fast take out
• Cons: long waiting, no lunch

12/07/02

Tri-Tip Salad is the Best!

by avcastner

If you go here for a good steak--watch out. They have very few cuts of steak, mostly specializing in tri-tip, with Prime Rib only on the weekends. The prime rib is quite boring--much better at Black Angus. The tri-tip is very bland, too. HOWEVER, if you do not try the tri-tip salad, you will miss a quite original dish. If you order it "to-go," request it tossed, because they use two different dressings.

• Pros: Tri-Tip Salad, Rolls
• Cons: Steak varieties, Bad Parking, Crowded