Montecito Wine Bistro

I hate to say this, but it was really disappointing. I ordered beef carpaccio and a caesar salad. The Caesar salad was full of leaves that were browned on both ends where they had been clearly cut at least a day before service. The beef carpaccio was smothered with arugula salad. The lemon salad dressing on the arugula was overwhelming for the beef. It was absolutely a solid even though it was listed on the starters portion of the menu. There was so little beef in the beef carpaccio that a better menu description would have been whispers of beef. And the server was very inattentive, and just really ill-informed about basic menu options. I'm sure that my guest and I would have been much better off had we ordered one of their pizzas from the wood fired oven or a pasta. However none of these had gluten-free options. So I was left with a salad and a salad.

This is actually a nice Italian restaurant in addition to having a large selection of local and International wines. The daily special s are seasonal and many times feature local seafood. I really enjoyed the Italian style cippano which was a flavor ful tomato based sauce over pasta that contained shrimp, calarmi & salmon. Great flavor and quite filling. Highly recommended venue with nice ambiance.