The Bay View Lounge - BODEGA BAY

Beautiful restaurant on the grounds of the Inn in the Tides. Beautiful view of Bodega Bay, with a live pianist. The food was well cooked and delicious. Wait staff attentive and friendly.

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!

I'm just coming here for the celebrity of occasions. The special tonight, as depicted, is a beautiful duck breast with cherry sauce, served with basil potatoes and asparagus. Also pictured, Signature menu item, The Hitchcock.

The food for the customer Winzer Dinner was fabulous and very tasty. The service was excellent and the view was nice, I highly recommend trying this place for dinner while you are in the Bodega Bay area! You have a great selection of wine and beer selection, I am also impressed by their bar offers!

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.