California Cafe Bar & Grill

Those other reviews must not have been to this place in a while because it's fantastic! I came here a few times over the years and was slightly disappointed. All of a sudden I went in there one day and the food was so much better! Apparently they changed management companies and it shows. For lunch I reccomend the Grilled chicken pizza, it sounds simple but this one has corn, red onions, hoisin bbq sauce and is drizzled with a cilantro cream on top. YUMMY! At dinner everything is amazing, definately try to pan seared halibut. It comes with a purple potato mash and it's to die for.

The restaurant was overpriced and the portions were too small. The ambiance was nice and the service was good, but that doesn't make up for the food.

What's really weird is that they're attempting to bring the California style ambience to Philly, but they fail miserable. The room looks good, but the food was terrible, worse they were pretentious about their efforts, and overpriced.

For example, I paid $15 for a bento box meal, that essentially turned out to be four crappy salads (one of which was the sort of pasta salad you can buy in a grocery store, another was some truly awful chicken curry glop) and some stale mango salsa.

Not recommended at all.