Sean M from Ventura, California:
Thank you for writing your very first Trip Advisor review about your visit to Happy Ending Cantina. I sincerely appreciate you named your review simply "Great" and gave it Trip Advisor's highest "5-Star" rating.
Axel, one of our most popular day shift bartenders, asked me to personally thank you for all the nice comments you wrote about him. Axel and I are both happy that he was one of the reasons you "had a blast" during your visit. Axel has been one of our bartenders practically since the day we opened almost 6 years ago and will be here the next time you visit.
Thanks for pointing out that you enjoyed our tacos. We have 5 full time chefs that prepare some of the most delicious food in Cabo San Lucas.
You live in beautiful and historic Ventura, California, located on the Pacific Ocean between Malibu and Santa Barbara.
In 1769, the Spanish Portola expedition, the first recorded Europeans to visit inland areas of California, came down the Santa Clara River Valley from the previous night's encampment near today's town of Saticoy and camped near the outlet of the Ventura River into the Pacific. Fray Juan Crespi, a Franciscan missionary travelling with the expedition, described the area where the Chumash Native Americans lived as "we saw a regular town, the most populous and best laid-out of all that we had seen on the journey up to the present time." In 1782, Father Junípero Serra, the first leader of the Franciscans in California, founded Mission San Buenaventura in what would become the city of Ventura. The mission was named for St. Bonaventure, a Thirteenth Century Franciscan Saint and a Doctor of the Church. The first mission burned in 1801 and a replacement building of brick and stone was completed in 1809. The bell tower and facade of the new mission was destroyed by an 1812 earthquake. In 1841, Mexican Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado granted Rancho San Miguel to Felipe Lorenzana and Raymundo Olivas, whose Olivas Adobe on the banks of the Santa Clara River was the most magnificent hacienda south of Monterey. After the American Civil War, settlers came to the area, buying land from the Mexicans, or simply as squatters. In 1866, Ventura was incorporated. Vast holdings were later acquired by Easterners, including railroad magnate Thomas Scott. He was impressed by one of his young employees, Thomas Bard, who had been in charge of train supplies to Union troops, and Bard was sent west to handle Scott's property. Bard is often regarded as the Father of Ventura County and his descendants have been prominently identified with the growth of the county. The Union Oil Company was organized with Bard as President in 1890. Ventura is located between the Ventura River and the Santa Clara River, leading to soil so fertile that citrus grew better here than anywhere else in the California. The citrus farmers formed Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, the world's largest organization of citrus production.
Best wishes for having lots and lots of "Great" Happy Endings to all your endeavors, hopes and dreams wherever life's journeys might find you.
Gene, "El Jefe," Happy Ending Cantina, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico.