Chef's Bistro

Reviews

• CV

  Cata Verse

  1 day ago
  5.0
  Seems great, workers are nice and super chill, bar tenders are great and social.. owner seems ok so far. :) Good service, very good food. Really wish it was open later.
• BS

  Brent Spahn

  2 days ago
  3.0
  We came here for dinner during a very busy fall foliage weekend. Overall, the food was fine, but the experience didn’t quite match how the restaurant presents itself as a “Fine Food & Wine Bar.” The first thing that struck us was that this feels much more like a casual pub than a fine dining restaurant. It was loud, college football was playing on the TVs, and the staff were in T-shirts and jeans or shorts. In fact, the staff shirts say “Fresh • Casual • Local.” There is absolutely nothing wrong with casual, but that is a much better description of this restaurant than “Fine Food & Wine Bar.” We started with cocktails. My Manhattan was average. My wife’s cocktail was below average and tasted mostly of simple syrup. We considered having a glass of wine with dinner but decided against it because we weren’t impressed with the wine selection. We split a Caesar salad, which came out in less than five minutes along with two plates that were actually hot, apparently right out of the dishwasher. The salad itself was fine—nothing wrong with it, but nothing special either. Service was the biggest issue. Our young server was clearly overwhelmed and literally running around trying to keep up. I want to emphasize that he was working extremely hard, and we still tipped him 20%. This seemed much more like a staffing and training problem than a lack of effort on his part. One example: we asked whether the lobster was fresh and our server wasn’t sure. We asked another staff member, who also wasn’t certain and eventually had to ask the owner. We were ultimately told that the lobster in the $49 entrée was fresh, while the lobster used in the lobster bisque was frozen. At a restaurant advertising itself as a fine food establishment, I would expect the servers to know something that basic about the menu. There was also a problem with our entrée order. About 10 minutes after taking it, our server came back and told us there had been a problem in the kitchen and he needed to take our order again. Our entrées arrived about 25 minutes after the order was retaken. I had the steak frites and my wife had the portobello mushroom burger. We both liked our meals. They were perfectly good, but neither was anything we would consider above average or exceptional. If we had walked in expecting a lively, casual pub with decent food, I might have rated the experience four stars. But given the “Fine Food & Wine Bar” billing, along with the service and training issues, three stars seems appropriate.
• SL

  siyao liu

  3 days ago
  1.0
  We came in with pretty high expectations because of all the positive Google reviews, but unfortunately the whole experience was extremely disappointing. The service was poor from the start. One of the staff members actually bumped into us and didn’t even say “sorry.” Our server also never came back to refill or replace our water, and we waited about 30 minutes for our food. The food was just as disappointing. We ordered what seemed to be one of their signature chicken pasta dishes, but it was overwhelmingly sour. There was so much lemon that it went far beyond a matter of personal taste or seasoning preference — it was genuinely difficult to eat. We also ordered the grilled shrimp appetizer, which was unbelievably salty. Between the service, the long wait, and the food itself, this was disappointing in pretty much every way. Given the high rating and all the good reviews, we expected much better.
• SH

  Sharon “Sunspirit” Hupe'

  5 days ago
  5.0
  The waitress, Kylie Knox, was amazing. Very proficient, polite, pretty, knowledgeable about the menue, and excellent attention to detail. The food was fresh and tasty.
• RR

  Rhonda Rosand

  Sep 20, 2026
  5.0
  Another incredible dining experience at the Chef's Bistro. It's obvious that the chef clearly takes pride in presentation. Just look how beautiful this plate is! Beyond looking like a work of art, everything was incredibly fresh, the greens and veggies were crisp and the tuna cooked perfectly.

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