Snail Bar

Small restaurant so reservation is a must. I guess it's more of a bar with drinking food than a dinner place. I would go here for lunch or an afternoon wine drink and mingle. Service was nice and fast. Great wine selection. They're all pretty reasonable price so i got a couple bottle to take home too. Food was good. Interesting menu.

Meh! Considering how they cause tenants to file lawsuits and move out of the upstairs apartments they aren't a good business. They only care about their restaurant. Food isn't worth the price and neither is how they could care less of the community

Love how they change their menu up. Keeps it exciting. Small and intimate space but love the vibe. Great service and good food. Its a gem

My friend took me here for my birthday dinner and I was completely blown away by the flavors. The bay is currently getting a heat wave but the restaurant was in the shade by 6pm. Our server was incredibly attentive and asked if we wanted water or wine refills often. We ordered a number of dishes and I loved them all! From the oysters with passion fruit mignonette, to the honey glazed squash tostadas, down to the crispy pork belly and halloumi skewers, each dish was a unique & unexpected flavor bomb. Even the crudité reminded me why I love being a Californian and having easy access to delicious produce. 10/10 will return again!

Very cozy and tiny restaurant. Menu consists of small bites - mostly seafood. We ordered the snails, bread & butter, and petite plateau - which consisted of 6 oysters, 6 mussels, and 4 shrimp. All the seafood was very fresh and beautifully presented. The bread was warm and both crunchy yet soft. This is definitely a very pricy meal where you will likely leave the restaurant feeling hungry. I would say for what you're getting, it's pretty overpriced compared to other seafood restaurants on their caliber.

This place is such a cool hidden gem! I Love snails, escargot when it's done right and this place does it right! Come on, the name says it all. Got here right when they opened so we got a table super fast (best time to show up without a reso). We ordered the world famous snails, half dozen of oyster, corn pancake and a bottle of red bubbles. While wait for our food and sippin our bubbles, the ambiance really brought me back to Paris. The food was out of this world, some of the best I've had anywhere. They weren't kidding about world famous. If you're adventurous, come try this place because it fantastically put together. Love it

Came here for a double date around 6:30pm. There was no space inside for us, a walk-in, so we sat outside.I was surprised there was an option to still sit outside, despite the bad weather. The water was splashing against the windowsill, creating puddles on our table. Unfortunately, they were unable to close our window without doing it from the inside, encroaching on another table's space. We dealt with the wet table for a while.Crudités - The flavor of the dip was lovely. It reminded me of the Kewpie sesame sauce. The vegetables were locally sourced.Shellfish - For four people, we were able to have one bite of each item. That was clam, muscle, and scallop. For the price, it was pretty expensive in my opinion. The scallop had a fresh fruit salsa. everything was to see despite it being pretty much 20 bucks for a few bites of food.Ebelskivers - Small tasty pancakes that weren't too sweet. They were fluffy. I think they were 10 pieces per order, or about two pieces per person for our group of four. I think this would make more sense as a dessert. Although there was some savory component of it.We got a bottle of sweet orange wine at the recommendation of the server. We all loved it. I forget the name, but it felt dangerous being 14% in consideration of how easy it was to drink.Overall this place had a cute vibe to hang with friends, but I don't think it was worth the $225+ bill for what we got. It wasn't the most comfortable experience either. We hit another restaurant right after.

Oh the snail bar.. waited two hours the first time I went, the food was decent but didn't think it was worth it at the price point. Didn't go back for a quite a while and next thing I noticed was that reservations became much more available all of a sudden.Recently visited on a weekend night and the place was not crowded at all. The menu seemed much more limited this time, and unfortunately nothing outstanding. I almost felt like there was nothing to choose from. Everything was slightly above meh for the price point, and the snails are nothing to write home about. Also in case this wasn't clear, they use canned snails - I personally don't mind it other than the pricing, but do what you will with that info.Each dish also took forever to come out, we had one small dish at a time shared among the 4 of us and it really felt odd. The only thing I slightly liked was the grilled cheese at the end, which is kind of sad to say out loud for a restaurant that started as a highly coveted wine bar with interesting menu items. Maybe come for like, an afternoon bite, if you're not hungry at all? Idk, unlikely to return again unless strongly suggested by other people.

There were literally 6 items on the menu when I walked in. I didn't see any other seafood/shellfish being offered besides oysters on the half shells. $27 for 6 was a bit on the high side. I paid for bread n butter $8, and a glass of gear head sparking rose Syrah. total $83.xx I don't even know how the tap got so high or this place is just overpriced compared to where I can get a dozen kumamotos for like$24! Anyhow, the oysters were fresh and sweet as expected but other than that I didn't get to try anything else I saw on all these pics from Yelp. Due to the limited menu tonight. No hamachi or snails. Maybe an OFF night?

Food, ambiance, service, aroma, vibes, amazing. Cheers to the chef for making my weekend with these oxtail arepas: food should make you beam with joy like this.