The Bay View | Restaurant & Lounge - Bodega Bay, California

Philip Knowles

I would not rate this place at all. Our server was pretty rude and when I asked if they have french fries she kinda scoffed at me. Also and this you do not expect from a place that comes highly regarded was when they brought out one of our main courses, the salmon with veggies, no joke an ant was in the food. I believe if you have 1 ant, you have at least a few. Our server looked mortified when she saw it and just walked away. She sort of downplayed it, walked away and apologized for it even though I doubt she was sorry. After that I felt like we were treated differently and it was not even until the hostess came over and asked if everything was OK that I said there is an ant in the food we are not gonna eat it. The hostess was very pleasant from the start and I could tell she felt bad unlike the waitress. The hostess took away the ant plate and asked if we want anything else. We then asked for some chicken tenders to go - which they brought out but did not give us any condiments for the chicken which was dry. I honestly would not rate this place and kinda feel I wasted money at the restaurant and the hotel there that we were staying at. I spent collectively $450 for the hotel and $150 for the restaurant which totals $600 and I do not feel it was worth it. I will say that the bartender at the restaurant made great drinks and was fun to talk about. I sat at the bar before my family joined me and he made a great espresso martini.

Stephanie Walters

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.

davidevgen

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 a vegetarian, I ordered wild mushrooms cooked in wine sauce, over pasta and a salad. We got the salad in a massive bowl, but it looked like someone had hacked up a head of lettuce with big chunks with oil and balsamic vinegar. The salad was very bitter and the dressing was very sour, so it wasn't edible. Our server asked how was our food , and we simply said bad.

Now the funny part was when they brought out the pasta. It came in this tiny, tiny TINY! waste of space of a bowl for $26 per dish!!! I looked up from my plate, like really? My mother ordered the same thing, and she just started laughing. It was so stupidly small that it was funny! My mom even looked around to see if we were being pranked!

I know this restaurant was trying to be very 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 single pack of Top Ramen! Thank goodness for the bread and olives, or we would have starved! At least what little food we got for the entree tasted alright.

So, in all, I don't recommended this place unless you eat before and after and have a big pocketbook!

Abhinav KR

The Choco lava cake was extremely delicious.

Alicia Ginochio

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 as beer selection, I'm impressed by their bar offerings as well!

K Hotch

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. First he openly chastisised the host in front of us making everyone uncomfortable. He barely even looked at the seating chart and said he 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 even say 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 what we 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 chart and 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 have left, 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 left being made feel like we were not even wanted there we hear him loudly yelling at the host again. I was in food service myself in college this is probably the worst boss anyone could imagine to work for. I feel sorry for his staff and will NEVER eat at this place.

keith lozano

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 the bartender the reason why our drinks were late stating that the bartender had been "very busy" when all the while we could see the bartender was not. After our drinks and hors d'oeuvre we waited for about 30 minutes for our salads. The waiter had forgotten what kind of salads we had ordered and he initially brought us the wrong entrees.

Rebecca Cuttino

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 was delayed because it is not cooking/undercooked), "sorry" (the salad had onions and the menu wasn't clear that the salad was a mostly 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) I am "sorry" I set foot in this restaurant. For such high prices, to have such horrible table service and such poor responsiveness from the Matra d? skip....