Opening its third site on February 26, the Santa Barbara Chicken Ranch, located on 4020 East Main Street serves appetizing, flavorful, and reasonably priced Mexican-style BBQ.
The restaurant is small and charming, with a color scheme of varying shades of brown and light greys, with artificial bull-horn ornaments on the walls to convey a ranch theme.
Its main dish is the tender, mesquite BBQ chicken and tri-tip grilled with authentic mesquite charcoal imported from Mexico, which gives the meat a smoky, wood flavor. The mesquite taste is also combined with spicy seasoning. The seasoning however, is very light as to not overwhelm the delicious mesquite flavor.