Bazille at Nordstrom

Reviews

• PC

  Peter Cheaz

  Sep 5, 2026
  5.0
  This is a place that is pet friendly, with a balcony. The food at Nordstroms, plural, always comes well made and much fancier than its price, though the price is not cheap. They use good ingredients in my opinion and I would highly recommend trying the Nicoise Salmon Salad
• CE

  C E

  Aug 5, 2026
  4.0
  I have an unreasonable amount of affection for Nordstrom restaurants. West or east coast, if there’s a Nordstrom restaurant somewhere near me, I’ve probably eaten there. I’ve had a Nordstrom card forever. I’m the audience for this place. So Bazille in Torrance isn’t getting judged against some imaginary standard. I’m judging it against a lot of Nordstrom meals. And the frustrating thing is that the food here is mostly very good. The chicken tacos are probably the thing I’ve ordered most. Crispy shells, ground chicken, avocado, cheese, greens, that cilantro chipotle situation happening on top. When everything is right, they’re fantastic. The flavor combination just works. They can get a little sloppy, the chicken has occasionally been aggressively salty and they don’t travel particularly well. My most recent delivery arrived with the tacos already getting soggy despite ordering the aioli on the side. Still good. Just nowhere near what they are fresh at the restaurant. The cilantro lime chicken salad is essentially the same universe dismantled onto a plate and it’s another favorite. The chicken here is surprisingly good across the menu. The chicken katsu is solid, the burger is excellent and the kids’ menu is legitimately useful if you’re eating with young children rather than treating them as an inconvenience somebody accidentally brought into the restaurant. The tomato basil soup deserves its own mention because that thing survived delivery beautifully. Piping hot when it arrived and tasted exactly as it should. Even the fries are good. Just do yourself a favor and ask for them without the rosemary unless rosemary on french fries happens to be your thing. Where Bazille loses me is service. It’s wildly inconsistent. I’ve had one server here repeatedly who is fantastic. Warm, attentive, remembers what the table needs, everything you want. Then I’ve had visits where getting basic things feels like filing paperwork with a municipal government. The host stand might be my least favorite part of the restaurant. The physical setup itself is awkward. There’s this strange barrier/bar arrangement where you’re never entirely sure where you’re supposed to stand or whether anyone has acknowledged you. The welcome can range from genuinely friendly to complete indifference. For a Nordstrom restaurant, where hospitality is supposed to be part of the proposition, that inconsistency is particularly noticeable. And apparently I’m not imagining the service issue. Other recent reviewers describe staff chatting among themselves, difficulty getting refills and forgotten requests. That’s pretty close to the inconsistency I’ve experienced myself. I can’t speak to some of the more dramatic complaints in the reviews because they didn’t happen to me and I’m only reviewing what I’ve experienced. The room itself is pleasant, although the architecture is a little peculiar and depending on where you’re sitting, the California sun can absolutely cook you through the windows. But here’s the simplest test. Will I come back? Absolutely. There are too many things on the menu I genuinely enjoy, the kids can eat here and when you get one of the good servers, Bazille reminds you why Nordstrom restaurants have been such an oddly reliable part of my life for so long. Fix the front of house consistency, pay a little more attention to execution and this could easily be a five. Until then, it’s a very solid four.
• JC

  Julian Chavez

  Aug 4, 2026
  1.0
  Just called, was going to bring the lady here for her birthday today. Asked the woman on the phone if we could do some kind of basic chocolate dessert and have it come out after we finish entrees, etc. Nothing crazy, just write happy birthday on the plate with some sauce/desert dressing or something. She said “no….we don’t do anything for birthdays”. All nice restaurants should be able to do something simple like that, I’m disappointed and not going anymore.
• SW

  Sharon Witzansky

  Jun 14, 2026
  3.0
  I want to point out that we ordered the “heirloom tomato and burrata” appetizer…it was halved grape tomatoes. I don’t know if there are such things- grape “heirloom” tomatoes. That being said, it was NOT what I expected (thick large yellow/orange/green round and large in diameter and thickness “heirloom” tomatoes. The same grape tomatoes were in the salad I ordered. I didn’t want to complain to the actual server bc it’s not her fault. Misleading menu item.
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  Sherry Huang

  Jun 6, 2026
  5.0
  Been to several locations, always nice.

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