Best Restaurants with Great Beer in Portola Valley

My husband and I celebrated Valentine’s Day this evening at dry Creek Grill. It was our first time visiting this restaurant and it was a very, very pleasant experience. We ordered the beef rib and it was very very tender. Excellent dinner excellent service. Looking forward to coming back with our family. We also had dessert I ordered the chocolate molten cake. It was served with a few raspberries and blackberries perfect balance for the cake. Overall great experience we will be returning soon.

Good service; good food; great time. We enjoyed ourselves. The octopus was very good as was the crudo. We shared these as starters. My wife had a special - uni with squid-ink noodles and I had the seared dayboat scallop risotto. Both were quite good - the noodles were a little too much for my wife to finish (but she made sure to get all of the uni). My risotto dish came with 5 scallops which were cooked very nicely and presented on top of the risotto - there could have been a few more chanterelle mushrooms though. We split the Pecan Pie Tart for dessert. We finished with a couple of cappuccinos which were nice and hot with plenty of foam and great espresso. We brought our own wine and enjoyed it with the meal.

We had the personal chicken garlic pizza, which was really good and cooked perfectly. Also had the romaine gorgonzola salad. It was good, but too much dressing on it. The happy hour from 4-6pm is a good deal.

Authentic Irish food for a fair price. The appetizers were all good, the range of Irish beers was excellent, and the Guinness Steak Pie was a winner! It was karaoke night following a guitarist. The guitar was quiet and even hard to hear with normal crowd noise, but the karaoke was amplified and blasting and unfortunately, as with most karaokes, there were some singers who were never in tune and had terrible voices. Was not tolerable for those screeches which were heard even in the rest rooms. We will definitely return for the good food, but probably not on a Monday night.