Chico Restaurant Guide

They seated us next to some deli case in the back forty. I felt like an outcast but charged as if I were dining with royalty. Food was fine, service mediocre. not running back any time soon, tho.

This is the first time my husband has eaten here. The food was great, we couldn't get enough of the oysters. The salmon was very tasty being cooked med-rare. The service was outstanding. We came from the bay area and this restaurant is the closest to the bay area experience. We are still checking out other restaurants in the area but this one ranks #1 with us.

Truly a high-class restaurant. The food is wonderful as well as the service. It's a little on the pricey side for Chico, but it's definitely my favorite treat to get to eat there!

Well, I visited this place almost 6 years ago after first moving to this area, and was hugely disappointed then.

Restaurants being creatures subject to change, I thought it only fair to try again, thinking to myself that a lot could happen in half a decade in order to make things different, and hopefully better.

So off I went, along with a business associate, about a week ago, to sample their offerings yet again.

Disappointing would be a very kind understatement.

The bread served was stale.

The salad was incredibly bland, void of tomatoe, and served with a generic dressing reminiscent of FoodMaxx on their worst day.

My friend's entry was some object best described as recently-stewed dead cow on a bone (barely - the meat fell from the bone as any stew stock readily does). The taste, according to him (a professional restaurateur) was bland. He left most of it, uneaten, on his plate.

I initially wanted the Sea Scallops. Our waiter informed me they were sold out. It was 6pm. I asked how they could be sold out at only 6pm. His response was that they had been sold out for 3 days. THREE DAYS?!?!?! At a so-called haut cuisine restaurant?? Do these folks not have a food service company? So I had to settle for the grilled salmon - undercooked, overseasoned, presented poorly with garlic mashed potatos hidden beneath the fish - well, the potatos tasted just great. The rest - not at all memorable and not at all good.

I just do not GET this place. I am from Philadelphia, where Christian Michael's would not last a week, if that. So folks, spare yourself the financial burden - take the money elsewhere.