03/08/08

#1 Restaurant in Oakland

by cmoore64

Incredible! Best restaurant in the East Bay. Service is exceptional, food and wine are amazing. Very difficult to get a table on Fri and Sat nights - call a week+ in advance or drop in to potentially get a seat at the bar. A SF quality dining experience in the East Bay.

Don't waste time reading doghairnancy's comment below. Doghair - Berkeley has plenty of vegetarian places that allow you to sip on your Wheat Grass and savor on your zucchini. Your semi-vegetatian friends probably had a good laugh over your silly complaints about the waitress. Next time, let your friends enjoy and you should just plan on stopping by the Berkeley Bowl and eating your nuts, soup and salad at home.

• Pros: food, service, ambience
• Cons: parking

02/20/08

Wonderful new eatery in Rockridge!

by gottauseaname

This place is fantastic! A wonderful, cozy, delicious little hide-away! Be warned though, make a reservation WELL in advance because they only have 12 tables and a small bar area. Despite the size, they do a fantastic job of not making one feel cramped like a sardine. I've been twice and both times the overall experience has been great! GREAT food, GREAT service, SUPER GREAT wine list. Definately a must, the only problem for the non walking/bicycling folks is that there's no parking but come on.......are you surprised............it's Rockridge! Wouldn't say that this place cater's to a vegetarian/uber-health concious crowd so, if your vegan, or on a diet, please save the seats for carniverous clans!

01/22/08

Vegetarians, take your business elsewhere.

by doghairnancy

I'm speaking from the standpoint of a fairly typical Berkeleyite who expects a good vegetarian entree option at every restaurant in our enlightened area. I took 5 friends, several of whom try to be vegetarian, to dinner last night at Wood Tavern and there was not one single vegetarian entree on the menu. The fish was wrapped in pancetta, the rigatoni was bathed in lamb sugo...The waitress very unhelpfully suggested that we have soup and salad. No thanks, we can make that at home. She then offered us a mushroom risotto (which was offered as a side on another meaty dish). It's bad enough that there seems to be an in-your-face resurgence of eating the charismatic animals (veal, lamb, pigs, rabbits) 'because we can'. It's even worse when vegetarians are punished by restaurants who offer us no interesting choices. It's the last time I will ever recommend Wood Tavern to anyone.