Ravens - MENDOCINO

Wow! this is the most amazing eating experience I had full stop!

This is not how vegan food should taste.I am vegetarian and I did not like this place. I would rather go to a regular restaurant that have vegetarian options.Favors are bad, very mediocre food

I enjoyed every meal of our dinners at Ravens. The food is creative, delicious, and attractively presented. Most nights my daughter and I each got a small plate, followed by a large plate. One night we even indulged in dessert. The food is rich in vegetables and many other healthy ingredients, and is low oil and not fried.Our favorite small plate was the kale stack, and favorite large plate was the sea palm. As we roamed nearby parks, we were quite attuned to all the sea palms growing on rocks near shore. Ravens sources their sea palm locally, so we might have been looking at someone's future dinner.The portions are generous, and every night we took enough food back to our room for lunch the next day for both of us.

The restaurant is a part of the beautiful Stanford Inn. Unfortunately, the food is less then mediocre and the service is downright poor.We moved to Mendocino a month ago and being vegetarians, we were really excited to have a vegitarean restaurant nearby. Having eaten there twice over the last month, followed by a take out, we came to the conclusion that Raven has a long way to go to deliver delicious, well prepared and well served food.However the only exception in this poorly managed restaurant is Tyler who works as a bartender. His cocktails are amazing and he has a great friendly attitude w guests.

To be fair, it’s been a couple years since I’ve eaten here since we live a couple hours away. But, I had to write because the reviews here are hilarious! “Too many dishes come with chips”, “I had to ask for special water”, etc. I’m not really sure what people who are leaving these reviews expect from restaurants. Read reviews on other sites for true feedback. I’ve been very happy with every meal here. Nice healthy vegetarian dining that even a meat eater can appreciate (not a fake meat kind of place). A casual lodge-feeling space with a fine-dining feel. Fair prices for farm-fresh food in a far-from metropolis region.