The Restaurant

Chris Mower

Exquisite. Everything about this place was out of this world. Three of us stopped here for lunch and all ordered different food. All three of us raved about the food. It seems as though this restaurant can work miracles. On top of the high quality and well presented food, the wait staff may have been the best I've encountered and I've done a tremendous amount of traveling and dining. Add to that, the view of the valley and the mountains and the 5 star rating for The Restaurant doesn't begin to do it justice. I would go back in a heart beat.

Kimberley Yee

Absolutely breathtaking view, however the food and service were a bit off. I used Amex concierge to secure this booking. We found a hair in our salmon dish and a fly in a beer. The waitress did what she could to accommodate the mishap, but we definitely expected more attention to detail! The food was decent, but nothing crazy. The service was very slow (1 hour to get entree from being seated) causing us to push back a spa reservation in Calistoga. Luckily the spa was flexible to accommodate. The view from the restaurant really made the entire experience. I recommend just to enjoy it and take in the fresh air!

K K

My one lonely star goes to Franco, our waiter, who was nothing less than superb and unbelievably attentive and caring and sympathetic to our anguish and frustration. Also, it is a kudos for the nice table location outside and the amazing view. However, the culinary experience missed the mark for the remaining stars when it came to the food. This is the 3rd disappointing Michelin starred restaurant I have been to in the past couple of months and confirms my belief Michelin stars belong on tires and not on restaurant labels! So here goes: the calamari was a bit wilted and the smell of frying oil coming off of it was quite pungent; the pizza was blah, cheeseless and tasteless (but the dough was ok); the french fries were overfried and tasted like McDonalds after it was refried and had been sitting around for while untouched; the rigatoni was a disaster of disasters, just pasta swimming around in a sea of lemony water with flavorless corn bits and zuchini pieces (the waiter was kind enough to take it off the bill). The dessert, strawberry millefeuille was ok, but I have come to hate chefs who think culinary genius and creativity comes from serving a traditional dish or dessert in a deconstructed way that ends up being a nightmare for whoever is eating to reconstruct it to derive the expected taste experience from it - Borrriiing! During the course of the meal, I asked why the menu was so poor and unimpressive, and I was told that mondays and tuesdays is just casual food and that the fine dining is only from wednesday to saturday (or sunday). Now, I had booked tuesday night because it was our 25th wedding anniversary and was super disappointed to learn that I was duped by the hotel's restaurant booking system into believing that I was booking the fine dining experience instead of tasteless bar food. You see, their website states that dining is wednesday to saturday but when you go in to book, you are directed to Open Table which shows monday and tuesday dining booking options but does not alert you that you are booking a tasteless bar food experience instead of the fine dining one (not sure it would be fine dining given the poor performance with the bar/casual food). After I complained to the hostess, she could only apologize and agree that it was an error in their system to which I replied that such an error is deceptive behavior towards customers. She had nothing else to say to that except "yeah". Anyway, even if we ended up being duped into casual bar food, this is a Michelin star restaurant, and one would expect nothing less than impeccable food quality, even if it is just a plate of bread with butter or olive oil. But I guess Michelin keeps disappointing and has become nothing more than a bunch of clueless umbrella carrying twits hoping for a free meal in return for dishing out their useless Michelin stars. I've had better food in corner side restaurants all over Italy than many of the Michelin starred restaurants I have been to lately!

Arthur Wong

Awesome view with spectucular food, definitely one of the best I had in Napa. Definitely worth a stop!!!