bernadette Restaurant

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   Peter

   VIP

   New York City

   17 reviews

   5.0

   17 reviews

   Dined today

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Great first visit. Will definitely be back. Cocktails, food and service were all great!
   

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   Alyssa

   VIP

   New York City

   10 reviews

   5.0

   10 reviews

   Dined today

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Very cool place very nice vibe. Nice menu lots of flavors.
   

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   Vasu

   New York City

   28 reviews

   5.0

   28 reviews

   Dined on January 17, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Excellent dinner and drinks. Had a good time. Great date night
   

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   kevern

   New York City

   4 reviews

   5.0

   4 reviews

   Dined on January 4, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Excellent food. A brilliant kitchen and a staff out front offering a welcoming, easy hospitality. What cocktails! From a critic of modern cocktails.
   

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   Lauren

   New York City

   11 reviews

   4.0

   11 reviews

   Dined on December 22, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Beautiful place. Very interesting tasty small and large plates. Fun drinks!
   

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   Lindsay

   Tampa

   3 reviews

   3.0

   3 reviews

   Dined on December 14, 2024

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 2

   We were seated 30 minutes late for our reservation, without much attention or insight from the restaurant during our waiting period. The martini was not great, but other craft cocktails were tasty. Food was good, and while it is tapas, the portions are very small for the price point. The set up and vibe of the space is a little strange.
   

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   Flynn

   VIP

   New York City

   19 reviews

   4.0

   19 reviews

   Dined on December 12, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Gorgeous decor, creative yummy tapas, fabulous team. I can only guess pricing is what is keeping more diners away. Had the place practically to ourselves. Not exorbitant but multiple small plates per person adds up. $21 per glass for house cab.
   

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   Shannon

   New Jersey

   7 reviews

   1.0

   7 reviews

   Dined on December 6, 2024

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 4

   Resturant is beautiful and I wanted to love it, but there were too many problems for the price charged for the experience. I reserved a high top since tables were booked. High Tops are generally small tall tables in the bar area. In this case, our seats were across from each other at a very wide community table that had a father/child pair seated on one end and a family of three seating at the other. The seats in the middle of wide table between these two parties was very close on each side to strangers but too far away from my husband for any chance at talking privately. I can't image trying to share tapas across that width comfortably. We decided to leave but was moved to bar. If High Top was advertised as "Community Table" I would not have booked that option. The curved wide bar is beautiful and a much better seating experience for couples who want to share tapas. The bartender was attentive and helpful. However the food service was outrageously too slow. It took 2 hours to recieve three plates. We were warned that the last dish could take 25-30 minutes to prepare (pasta with shellfish on top really), but it was well over an hour or more for something that really is not a complex plate. We ordered 3 total glasses of wine in that time. The bartender apologized for the slow but deducted nothing for the inconvenience. The bill was over $160 with the tip. I walked away annoyed that we paid a massively large bill for three small pates of food and two glasses of wine and at least an hour of wasted time. An apology for bad service doesn't make bad service good. We will not return.
   

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   allison

   New York City

   11 reviews

   4.0

   11 reviews

   Dined on December 6, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   Delicious food. Tried a variety of tapas including croquettes, tuna tartar, pissetta, patatas, cheese plate and profiteroles. The only disappointment was the cheese plate. Everything else was outstanding. There was a group of 7 women that was very loud which made it difficult to have a conversation.
   

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    Deborah

    Charleston

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on November 30, 2024

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5

    A New York style restaurant in Scotch Plains NJ? That's weird, but good. The food was also good. We had the squash salad, brussel sprouts and bacon-wrapped dates. (We weren't very hungry.) All yummy.
    

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