Cold Spring Tavern

The tavern is located 20 minutes north of Santa Barbara, California, in Cold Spring Canyon, which is about a mile off Highway 154 along Stagecoach Road (in the San Marcos Pass area).

[2] In 1956, Cold Spring Tavern was the first restaurant to serve Steve Henson's original salad dressing.

Audrey Ovington, a friend of the Hensons who owned the tavern at the time, was their first commercial customer, and the condiment has since been known as ranch dressing.

[3] The tavern was chosen as the “BEST place for a Romantic Getaway” and the Santa Barbara Independent called it "pure MAGIC!

[5] In 2019, it was featured in a Santa Barbara episode of the Cooking Channel's Man v. Food.