Bottega Napa Valley

Attended a bday party 🥳. We had the whole back room for the celebration. I have dietary constraints & the staff handled my needs proactively & professionally. I got drinks at the bar & Effrin made a perfect dirty martini so delicious that I had a second one. Definitely on the list to go back.

The food here is a hit and miss with flavors. The Gnocchi Della Nonna is a delightful appetizer that has gnocchi that compares to donut-like pillows. They were wrapped in prosciutto zested with Pecorino Romano that rests on a delicious, velvety old hen sauce. The spaghetti Alla Sophia Loren is homemade pasta very lightly salted with heirloom tomatoes. The prawn special was two colossal prawns on the same spaghetti as the Sophia Alla Loren, with a prawn head and no prawn added on the plate for decoration. The service is great. However, we were sat by the large glass doors and were constantly pestered by flies - yuck! It was so bad that we had to move to the dark end of the dining room. If you choose to go here for lunch- sit away from the farthest glass window/doors from the bar to avoid the flies.

The restaurant, servers, and ambiance were great. My only problems were, 1- on a relatively empty patio we got seated next to a group of very boisterous women and it kinda ruined our date...well, not ruined, but it was not pleasant. And 2- the servers were a little too on the ball. The food came too fast, someone was always there filling our water, taking plates, and I feel this is unpleasant when you want some quiet conversation.

On a positive note, the restaurant was beautiful. The food was amazing. The bread was the best I've had since I'd been to Europe. And I especially liked my Italian Gin&Tonic. Delicious.

Food size is ridiculous - we have 7 adults and we ordered 3 starters + 7 main dishes. We left hungry. Seriously do you expect that an adult can be well fed with 0.6 ounce of pasta?

Food quality is debatable - Polpo is BURNT! BURNT! And we had to pay $19 dollars over the blacked octopus?

Service is unbearable - 20% is automatically added to a party of 7, which is okay. But what kind of attendant would only fill water when customers desperately ask for a refill and attendants honestly only did that once out of their mercy during the entire MEAL?! Is it because that they know they’re safe for the 20% regardless of how lousy they work?

Honestly, if you think Asian customers aren’t worth it, you should have put the discrimination out there. Instead, set up a trap and baiting customers in is a cheap move. Shame on you.

Beautiful restaurant, delicious food, great service and nice ambiance! We stopped by on our 9-year wedding anniversary for lunch and really enjoyed the nice touch they added to our table for the occasion. We ordered the bruschetta trio, a seafood soup with a large delicious crouton in the broth and a fusilli vegetarian dish with a spicy tomato sauce, pine nuts and veggies. Of course, red wine and rose served by the sommelier.

Person feeling: The roasted chicken was not so juicy. The pasta was a little bit too salty. We were not so hungry when we were at the restaurant. We only ordered two entries. The server kept checking our status and kept asking us whether to order more food. We told the server the reason, but still felt pushed for ordering more stuff. That made us feel not that good. Also when the server talked to us, the server’s mouth too close to our food. When the server added water, the water jar was right above our food and water dropped in our food. The good point was that the server was really friendly and we felt welcomed.

This restaurant was everything I wanted and expected it to be.

We went for our 10-year anniversary dinner and were surprised with a personalized Happy Anniversary card.

Our server was personable and knowledgeable.

There were 2 things that shocked me. The first was the size of the portions. They were larger than expected. The second was the bill. I really thought our server didn't charge us for something or a couple of things. He did. It was all on there. I rarely walk out of a restaurant of that quality feeling like I got a deal.