The Waterfront Seafood Grill - Napa (CA)

3 /5 Roxane McCosh: We have never been to Napa so we wanted to go to a higher quality restaurant to have a nice experience on the Napa River. We discussed if parking were an issue, we would go someplace else. It was an artificially built made to look historic building with no direct parking but since we found street parking (after making a u turn in the street), we stayed. At first, I was excited, I loved the river front, the look of the outside bar, and the design of the restaurant. I walked in and no one was there to greet us, the open kitchen staff (where there appeared to have at least 10 workers), just kept working, didn’t acknowledge me, and the few who looked up, didn’t say “someone will be right with you” or anything. We waited a few more minutes and thought about leaving. When someone did arrive, I said it seems like there will likely be a lot of people customers arriving later, and she shook her head and said “no”. All I could think was, that’s a large staff to pay for not many patrons for a restaurant. What a sad state of affairs for a world renowned town like Napa to have ungrateful staff, I saw another couple staff members jibber jabbering out front and being so disrespectful of anyone dining there. The server was excellent - he deserves 5 stars. We started with soup and salad and decided if it wasn’t 5 stars, we may not order an entree. The Caesar salad was poorly chopped, had minimal dressing, and the soup was luke warm. We decided to leave. The architecture was beautiful - I took photos when we first arrived. But not impressed with the food so didn’t take any images of the disappointment. Wasn’t going to do a review but I think the Owner should know he’s wasting his money on staffing.

3 /5 Timothy Cheung: We had a pleasant overall experience at Waterfront Restaurant in downtown Napa. The scallops were well prepared and definitely the standout dish for us. The pork chop was cooked through a bit more than requested—we ordered medium and it came out closer to well done—but it was still flavorful. The dining room was quite loud, which took away slightly from the experience. Overall, it was a good meal, just nothing that particularly set it apart for us.

2 /5 moranda marple: Context: We are locals and we went on a Saturday night. Buzz words: Over priced, bland, forgettable, and poor food quality. Service: Our waiter had way too big of a section, we never saw him. He was friendly when we did but everything took too long because he was stretched too thin. Give them smaller sections. Food: I’m so bummed, the food quality was equivalent to apple bees except seafood style. Every single one of our dishes had no flavor except spicy? And three of our dishes had two rock solid bread logs covered in this WEIRD yellow mustard sauce that had no flavor?? It was unappetizing and unappealing to looking at. It turned everything yellow. The scallop dish had SO MUCH wet soaked spinach it was so gross. Another thing, a handful of plates for our table and the table next to us came out scorching hot (steaming hot) in a way that resembled microwaves or reheat. Plates shouldn’t be hot to the touch at the top where no food is located… Especially the spaghetti that visibly looked like it had been sitting under a warmer for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, we will not return.

5 /5 S Patzkowsky: Wonderful experience. We dined outside along the river. We shared a shrimp cocktail. For dinner I had the seared scallops with spinach and mashed potatoes while my husband had the spaghetti with shrimp and crabs. Both were excellent. For dessert we had the Caramel Apple Bread Pudding.