Wow! Corpus Christi has a hidden gem in the Ruby Ladle! Chef Michael and Jessica are amazing! The…read morefood was perfection. My family and I stopped in on Saturday, 6/20/26, for Father's Day. My brother and I had the duck, my mother had the chicken, and my father had the seafood pasta. The food was superb! Everything was cooked to perfection and seasoned so well. The place was so cozy and just a nice place for us to celebrate our father. Morgan was the best! So grateful she took the time to explain things and even attempted to get us the bread pudding pan! (JK inside joke!) We shared a lot of laughs, but she was passionate about making sure our experience was great! We will definitely be back. This is Corpus Christi's best restaurant by far!

A wonderful addition to fine dining in Corpus. We just attended Chef Michael Smith's seven course…read moreGame Dinner with locally sourced game and fish and it was one of our most enjoyable dinners in years. We were greeted with a complimentary champagne glass before being taken to our table, they were refilled before Chef Michael introduced the first course of buttermilk fried quail knots with red eye gravy, followed by pan seared duck with honey and cherry bigarade and then Clearwater Farms baked oysters with applewood smoked bacon with black garlic and Chipotle aioli. They were really excellent, and the farm owner who was attendingb the dinner also offer us additional tastings of fresh ones -briny and sweet they were the best cultured oysters we have tried in the Coastal Bend. A raspberry sorbet with mint cleared our palates before being presented with rabbit fricassee wild mushrooms and sherry cream sauce, followed by frenched boar chops with whole grain mustard and toasted pecans, and that was followed by S. Texas Nilgai antelope with truffle pom puree and blackberry demiglaze. The final touch was a delicious desert of white pudding and berries with chocolate caramel sauce. All the courses were paired with well chosen wine selections -with complimentary refills- and introduced by the Chef. They were all delicious and of very generous size (first time we have taken food home from a tasting menu). The service, headed by manager Jessica Chappell Smith was excellent. We cannot recommend enough Ruby Ladle and it should be tried by anybody who enjoys fine dining at very reasonable prices.