Viognier Restaurant Review, San Mateo
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Reviewer: Foodnut.com Viognier Restaurant 222 E 4th Ave San Mateo, CA 94401 650-685-3727 |
Viognier Restaurant is named after a grape grown in France. It is located in San Mateo in the Draeger’s grocery store. We tried lunch and dinner here. The menu changes seasonally. We had not eaten here for a while, so it was time to rekindle our memories.
Dinner is a prix fix 3 to 5 course meal where you can select any course including 3 entrees.
Cocktail
Decor, Vibe – Rustic decor with stylish art and a large open kitchen. It is a power lunch place with lots of well dressed business people. At dinner on a Sunday night it was pretty barren.
Menu Pictures
Dinner Menu
Extensive Wine List
Picks:
Steak Frites ($21 Lunch) New York steak, Homemade Fries, Bearnaise Aioli had a bunch of fries and a small piece of high quality meat that was cooked correctly.
Warm Scallop and Prawn Salad ($20 Lunch) with baby spinach, avacado, bacon, Sherry Dijon Vinagrette. It only had 2 of each tasty shellfish. Dressing was a little too creamy.
Main Lobster Salad (Dinner) with apples, persimmons, walnuts came with lots of tender lobster. The fruit balanced out the lobsters very well.
Seared Yellowfin Tuna (Dinner) with farro, lemon, watercress, extra virgin olive oil was delicious. The tuna was fresh and cut very well. All ingredients worked well together.
Seared Duck Breast (Dinner) with Huckleberry Jus, Happy boy farms Turnips was cooked to a perfect medium rare. Tender meat and crispy skin made for a very good dish. Could have used more huckleberry sauce.
Grilled Prime Beef Strip Loin (Dinner) with Kennebee potato hash, garlic spinach, piquillo pepper sauce was done to a nice medium rare. Good quality meat with good flavor made this a good pick.
Line Caught Halibut (Dinner) with shitake, pistachio, lemon brown butter emulsion was cooked just right. It is hard to cook fish perfectly, but they did it. Very good sized portion.
Souffled Pumpkin Cheesecake (Dinner) with maple baked kabocha, toasted pepitas, Candied ginger was inventive as it was more like a cake with cheese cake flavor. Interesting and still very good.
OK:
Wild Mushroom Soup ($10 Lunch) was average, not creamy but nothing special.
Organic Baby Field Greens ($9 Lunch) was a pretty standard salad with good quality greens.
Pans:
None
Service was decent especially seeing how empty the place was during lunch. There are not a lot of alternatives for high end dining in San Mateo, making this one of the best bets. Prices are on the high side but quality rivals many places in San Francisco charging more.
Complimentary Cookies
Viognier Restaurant in San Mateo is know for their extensive 1700+ bottle wine collection. Glasses start at $8, bottles from $23, $25 Corkage.
Viognier Restaurant Overall Rating: 
(Very Good
Come Back? 
| Food Rating: | (Excellent) |
| Service Rating: | (Very Good) |
| Atmosphere Rating: | (Very Good) |
| Value Rating: | (Average) |
Guide: 0 = poor, 1 = Below/Average, 2 = Good, 2.5 = Very Good, 3 = Excellent , 4 = Extraordinary
| Alcohol: | Full Bar |
| Attire: | Dressy |
| Hours: | Daily 11:30am-2:30pm, 530-9pm |
| Parking: | Street |
| Reservations: | Yes |
| Prices: | $14 - $21 (Lunch) $55 - $85 (Dinner) |
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