DARKROOM Restaurant and Wine Bar

3751 S Harbor Blvd suite c, Santa Ana
(657) 777-3275

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Luc Newlin

Fun, inviting, creative.

Darkroom/Chrysalis team always provides an interesting and unique experience.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nancy Adams

Fantastic!! Every dish we had was perfect. The drinks were amazing and the wine was the bomb.
Our server, Merv was spot on.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

rick remington

Shareable type menu.
For four of us, we ordered several items. Everything was wonderful.
Got great help with a wine pairing for our meal.
Fun vibe. If you've ever been in a real darkroom, you understand the lighting.
We sat in the vinyl room near the record players. Might be a bit louder there but fun.
Totally plan to go back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Peter William Young

A lovely, stylish location! They have a distinctive atmosphere and decor. The food and drinks were great, and the service was remarkable. I love everything in this place.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

James Anhalt III

Darkroom's 1 year anniversary chef's dinner and wine paring. Truley unique!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jason Burris

My third visit. Dish after dish of outstanding and inventive food with super fresh ingredients, imbued with artful depth balance of flavor. Darkroom’s DNA is part DJ, part mad scientist, part varsity chef. Wine pairings were on point. The music and low lighting really set the vibe. Not too loud, not too quiet. An incredible vegan dish was available, too. Menu changes often so you can visit often.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Hanger Steak

Andrew Kanouse

I'll be the first person to say that I don't understand the vibe at all. I understand that it's called Darkroom but it literally is so....dark? For seemingly no reason? The music is cool, so I'll give it that. They have a rotating vinyl playlist, which I definitely appreciated. The tables are a skosh close together but that ended up not even being a factor. The service was SO pleasant, unexpectedly so. Which was the best part of the night. Now the food:

Ultimately, all of the food was pretty good, but nothing really stood out as needing to go back.
- Fried Scotch olives I found to be an interesting idea but the taste itself didn't really pull through. the sauce was the most interesting part.
- Gorganzola arancini with Wagyu tartare: for the price I wish there were a third. The aranchini is sort of whatever but the Wagyu actually was pretty nice.
- Little gem Caeasar: this was an interesting presentation of this. While I enjoyed this, I would have enjoyed it infinitely more if there were a crouton/crunch aspect
- Spicy chicken sandwich: favorite of the night. It's so unassuming but it's so perfectly crispy, the sauce is delicious. I was a little confused because the menu has such a clear divide in pricing between apps/entrees and this one snuck in at such a lower price point than the other entrees
- Hanger steak: there's so so much going on here. While I love the peppers it's served with, it needs a real vegetable or a starch because otherwise the plate is just a saucy adventure. The steak itself is good, but this plate could be so much better.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Laura Lizotte

The food was incredible. The service was incredible. We had our server surprise us with different dishes and it was all amazing.

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mark S Lenning

We had dinner at Darkroom last night and were pleasantly surprised with the creative collection of small and large plates, excellent sauces, attractive presentations and friendly staff. Lasagna, crudo and hanger steak were all excellent. And chocolate torte a favorite.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Hanger Steak, Ricotta Donuts, Watermelon Appetizer

Saswat Patnaik

Very trendy spot. Definitely excited to go back again for dinner later in the fall and try out their fall dinner items . The decor and vibe is unique. Love the vinyl and the sound system . the service was great. the food and drinks were overall great but I didnt particularly like the fish snitzel . It could have been very well my expectations with it more than the quality of the dish because everything else was amazing .

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Norma Pack

The food was good. The service is good. Good vibes. We had a reservation at 5:30 party of five we were celebrating that son came for visit from Australia.
Luckily, we did not order dessert because they asked us to leave at 7:30, so we had to leave.
I will come back but only with a party of 2 or 3.
It's not a place to come with a large party.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mary Ann Wettler

Gracious owners, delicious food, embracing atmosphere. Will be back. Thanks team.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rick Byrens

This place is nothing short of Special

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Minh Do

Great Atmosphere. Vibe is so welcoming.
Just wanted to show my appreciation with this Ai Video

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ian Dworkin

We Had an incredible dinner experience on our first visit. Scotty was an incredible server and bartender and his recommendations were all spot on. We’ll be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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