Best Farm To Table Restaurants in Oakland

beet salads were quite good; desserts especially so. Wait staff friendly but not obtrusive.

Authentic Italian dishes with lovely presentation. Comfortable atmosphere. One of the entrees was overcooked. Pacing of courses was a bit off tonight. A go to place for us. Such a strong and creative menu

Excellent service, great cocktails and bar, and very good menu with interesting ingredients (pomegranates! Quince!)

It’s for my son’s bday. Environment is nice, Love the service, the staff will explain the menu well. Food are good as expected. Good portion! They even gave my son a handwritten birthday card!!

The food quality at Octavia is very high. The chefs really know what they’re doing. We had a pre-fixe menu for Christmas Eve dinner and they accommodated dietary restrictions with advanced notice. They actually called a few days in advance of the reservation to confirm the dietary restrictions which was really nice. We had 9 courses I think and they were all delicious. My favorites were the soup and the pasta dishes. The service was also very good, the servers were very attending and accommodating. There was one dish I didn’t eat much of because it had radicchio in it which I don’t like, and our server offered to have the kitchen make me a replacement dish with a different lettuce instead. The only negative of Octavia is that it feels very cramped. The space is small and they squeeze in a lot of tables so you’re sitting basically on top of other diners and it’s a little awkward. Everything else was great though. I would definitely recommend Octavia as a good place for special occasions or bringing out of town visitors.