Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Ojai.
Accolades in Ojai
These are the rooms where the wine program helps define the meal. Ojai’s most developed lists are concentrated in Downtown Ojai and the Ojai Valley.
Olivella in Ojai Valley is the city’s clearest fine-dining wine room, with an exceptional program, 1,375 selections, and 16,000 bottles. The restaurant has a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and serves seasonal California cuisine with Italian heritage techniques in prix fixe, à la carte, and tasting menu formats.
The Dutchess in Downtown Ojai pairs Burmese-Californian cooking with a curated wine program and 1,300 bottles. It holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and Michelin Plate recognition, and the day-to-night format moves from bakery-café to restaurant service in a historic 1927 building.
Tipple and Ramble in Downtown Ojai is a hybrid picnic shop and wine bar with a curated wine program and a deeper bottle selection than the setting first suggests. It also serves beer, small plates, cheese, and charcuterie on an outdoor patio.
Ojai’s considered dining includes tasting menus, Michelin Plate recognition, and a resort kitchen set beside the valley landscape.
Olivella in Ojai Valley is the town’s most formal dining room, with Forbes Five-Star recognition and tasting menu service. Its California Italian fine dining format leans on seasonal produce from the surrounding Ojai valleys, ranches, and coastal waters, while the wine program includes Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California depth.
Rory's Place in Downtown Ojai has Michelin Plate recognition and a California farm-to-table approach with a raw bar. The wine program is curated, and the menu is a la carte with small plates.
The Oak in Ojai Valley Inn sits under vine-covered pergolas with views of 200-year-old oak trees, the golf course, and the Topatopa Mountains. Its curated wine program supports Californian Coastal Valley cooking in an al fresco room at the edge of the valley.
Downtown Ojai has the strongest concentration in our guide, with 9 venues and several of the town’s most wine-aware rooms. The Ojai Valley also matters for more formal dining, especially around the resort setting. Together they give the clearest cluster of places where wine lists and kitchen ambition align.
There are 0 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide for Ojai. The city does have Michelin Plate-recognised restaurants, including The Dutchess and Rory's Place, both in Downtown Ojai, along with Olivella’s Forbes Five-Star dining room in Ojai Valley.
Olivella in Ojai Valley offers tasting menu service, along with prix fixe and à la carte formats. It pairs seasonal California cuisine with Italian heritage techniques and a wine program that spans Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California.
Two venues in our guide hold Wine Spectator awards. Olivella in Ojai Valley has a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and The Dutchess in Downtown Ojai has a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Olivella is the signature restaurant at Ojai Valley Inn, a resort favored by Hollywood figures and well-heeled Californians. Chef Andrew Foskey applies an Italian-Californian framework to produce sourced from the surrounding Ojai valleys, ranches, and coastal waters. The wine program spans 1,375 selections across 16,000 bottles, with particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California.
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The Dutchess brings Burmese cooking to Ojai's East End dining strip, earning consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. Chef Saw Naing leads the kitchen alongside a wine program of 1,300 bottles curated by Wine Director Emily Johnston, with pricing that sits well below what comparable ambition commands elsewhere in California. Lunch and dinner service runs at 457 E Ojai Ave.
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Rory's Place on East Ojai Avenue has held a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, and landed at number 13 on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list in 2023. The kitchen works in the California coastal register, where local produce and proximity to the Pacific set the terms. At the $$$ price point, it sits at the more serious end of Ojai's small but growing dining scene.
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A Ojai institution along East Ojai Avenue, Boccali's draws locals and visitors alike with its unpretentious, convivial atmosphere and California-rooted cooking. The setting rewards a particular pace of dining: unhurried, communal, and grounded in the valley's agricultural character. It occupies a place in Ojai's dining scene that more formal rooms cannot easily replicate.
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A plant-based spot on North Montgomery Street, Hip Vegan fits squarely into Ojai's ingredient-conscious dining culture, where proximity to the Ventura County growing region shapes what ends up on the plate. The format is casual and accessible, making it a practical stop for visitors exploring the town's broader dining scene alongside spots like Boccali's and Nocciola.
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Little Sama Ojai is worth choosing for an easy, casual meal when you want Asian fusion comfort food inside a lively brewery setting. It is better for lunch, dinner with friends, or a relaxed solo stop than for a formal occasion, with its strongest value coming from bold à la carte cooking and local sourcing through Farm Cart Organics.
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Nocciola brings a quietly serious approach to the Ojai dining scene, working within a town that has built its food identity around agricultural proximity and an aversion to pretension. At 314 El Paseo Rd, it occupies a position somewhere between neighborhood staple and considered destination, drawing visitors who want something more deliberate than the casual end of the valley's restaurant range without crossing into full occasion-dining territory.
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On East Ojai Avenue, Ojai Rotie occupies a stretch of the valley's small but increasingly purposeful dining corridor. The name signals a French rotisserie tradition transplanted into Southern California's agricultural abundance, positioning it within Ojai's growing cohort of ingredient-driven independents. Confirm current hours and booking directly before visiting, as operational details are subject to change.
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Papa Lennon's occupies a quiet stretch of West El Roblar Drive in Ojai, operating within a town whose dining scene has grown steadily more considered over the past decade.
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Set along Country Club Road at the edge of Ojai's valley, The Oak is a dining address that rewards those who understand how the town's restaurant scene works: quietly, without fanfare, and substantially on its own terms. The kitchen draws on the agricultural depth of the Ojai Valley, a region with serious farm-to-table credentials, and the pace of a meal here reflects that unhurried relationship with the land.
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The Spanish Colonial resort sits 90 minutes northwest of Los Angeles and runs five dining outlets, a 31,000-square-foot spa, and a George C. Thomas-designed golf course that has hosted seven Senior PGA Tour events.
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Ojai's oldest hotel, Hotel El Roblar has operated on the town's main avenue for more than a century. A Hollywood-tied ownership group spent six years restoring the Spanish Revival landmark after it went dark in 2017, preserving the mission-style arches and stone fireplace while adding 50 rooms, two restaurants, and a pool. Rates start from $550 per night.
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Ojai Rancho Inn occupies a low-slung roadside position on West Ojai Avenue that reads as deliberately unhurried — part motor-court heritage, part California-casual retreat. The property sits inside one of Southern California's most characterful small towns, where the Topa Topa mountains frame the valley and the pace shifts noticeably from the coast. For travellers who find the larger resort options in town too polished, this is a different register entirely.
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A dual-concept spot on West Ojai Avenue where a fresh grill meets a cantina format, Jim & Rob's Fresh Grill and Lisa's Cantina sits at the casual end of Ojai's dining scene. The combination of grilled fare and cantina-style drinks makes it a practical stop for visitors exploring the valley. Ojai's small-town pace means places like this function as neighbourhood anchors as much as destination restaurants.
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SNUG BAR is worth choosing for a relaxed classic cocktail in Downtown Ojai, especially if you want a quiet hotel-bar room rather than a louder night out. At $25 per person, the value is in the restored Hotel El Roblar setting, casual dress code, and walk-in-friendly format, not in food or late-night energy.
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A spirits-forward bar on Ojai's quieter north side, Tipple and Ramble sits at 315 N Montgomery St in a town better known for lavender farms and wellness retreats than serious back bars. The draw here is the bottle selection, which runs deeper than the small-town address might suggest, placing it in a different conversation from the casual tasting-room circuit that defines most drinking in Ventura County.
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Topa Topa Brewing Company serves craft beer from an outdoor terrace and seated bar with mountain views, in a casual, lively setting with live music.
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