Reviews for The Bay View | Restaurant & Lounge in Bodega Bay, CA
I only come here for the most celebratory of occasions. The special tonight, as pictured, is a lovely duck breast with cherry... sauce, served with basil mashed potatoes and asparagus. Also pictured, signature menu item, The Hitchcock. Read more
The food for the Kunde winemaker dinner was fabulous and very tasty. The service was excellent and the view was beautiful, I... highly recommend trying this place for dinner while you are in the Bodega Bay area! They have a great wine selection as well asbeer selection, I'm impressed by their bar offerings as well! Read more
The Choco lava cake was extremely delicious.
Great service and atmosphere, but I can't say much for portion size and the price. My family and I went here for dinner. The... place was empty, except for two people. This is usually a bad sign, but I wanted to give the place a chance. Being avegetarian, I ordered wild mushrooms cooked in wine sauce, over pasta and a salad. We got the salad in a massive bowl, but itlooked like someone had hacked up a head of lettuce with big chunks with oil and balsamic vinegar. The salad was very bitterand the dressing was very sour, so it wasn't edible. Our server asked how was our food , and we simply said bad. Now the funnypart was when they brought out the pasta. It came in this tiny, tiny TINY! waste of space of a bowl for $26 per dish!!! Ilooked up from my plate, like really? My mother ordered the same thing, and she just started laughing. It was so stupidlysmall that it was funny! My mom even looked around to see if we were being pranked! I know this restaurant was trying to bevery European. Since I've been to Europe, so I know that they serve more food than that. Heck, I could get more out of a singlepack of Top Ramen! Thank goodness for the bread and olives, or we would have starved! At least what little food we got for theentree tasted alright. So, in all, I don't recommended this place unless you eat before and after and have a big pocketbook! Read more
Terrible Service. My uncle and I went to have dinner. The restaurant was approximately 30% full of guests. We had ordered drinks... and we had to remind the waiter several times that we were still waiting for our drinks. The waiter had the nerve to blame thebartender the reason why our drinks were late stating that the bartender had been "very busy" when all the while we could seethe bartender was not. After our drinks and hors d'oeuvre we waited for about 30 minutes for our salads. The waiter hadforgotten what kind of salads we had ordered and he initially brought us the wrong entrees. Read more
We were staying at the hotel and were going in to enjoy a nice dinner after a relaxing day. They were slightly full but the host... was trying to get us a table and got us in. In walks one of the rudest managers I have seen at any establishment in years. Firsthe openly chastisised the host in front of us making everyone uncomfortable. He barely even looked at the seating chart and saidhe could seat us you could "check back in 30 minutes" didn't take our name down and say you can wait at the bar... didn't evensay sorry. Then he looked at us and told us there is a place across the street trying to brush us off. I asked him, "....so whatwe come I back in 30 minutes and maybe we get to eat no guarantees?" It was at this point he finally looked at his seating chartand he "might be able to write us in in an hour and a half." Honestly even if he had a table magically open up we would haveleft, he had a diner with 15 tables and was acting like he was managing a 5 star restaurant. To top it all off as we leftbeing made feel like we were not even wanted there we hear him loudly yelling at the host again. I was in food service myself incollege this is probably the worst boss anyone could imagine to work for. I feel sorry for his staff and will NEVER eat at thisplace. Read more
HORRIBLE SERVICE!!!! Theme of the night was "sorry" (we forgot you even though you are sitting in the middle of the restaurant),... "sorry" (the food took over 45 minutes), "sorry" (the chicken was overcooked and dry, after being told that the chicken wasdelayed because it is not cooking/undercooked), "sorry" (the salad had onions and the menu wasn't clear that the salad was amostly onion salad), "sorry" (took a half hour to get the check when we were one of two tables LEFT at the end of the night) Iam "sorry" I set foot in this restaurant. For such high prices, to have such horrible table service and such poorresponsiveness from the Matra d? skip.... Read more
Lovely restaurant located on the grounds of the Inn at the Tides. Wonderful view overlooking Bodega Bay, with a live pianist.... Food was well cooked and delicious. Wait staff attentive and friendly. Read more