Best Restaurants for Anniversaries in Portola Valley

we came for lunch and the staff was great. it was an overall great experience. we would come back again for dinner

Fantastic food; excellent service (attentive but not overwhelming) and great setting. “Double thumbs up”!

Had a fantastic night out with friends at Rustic House Oyster Bar & Grill in San Carlos! The food was absolutely delicious, and the service was top-notch. We were impressed by how perfectly timed everything was, with all our dishes arriving together. Highly recommend this spot for a great dining experience!

Overall, excellent. Just a couple comments: First, the appetizers came out very quickly (a good thing TM) but they beat our initial drinks (wine and beer) by a good 10 minutes. Second, I ordered the filet mignon "medium" because I had been at a Las Vegas steakhouse recently where "medium rare" was barely warm meat. But here the steak came out cooked truly medium and on a very hot plate. So if you like medium rare, you can trust them to do it right, I think. No complaints about how they cooked my steak; just saying I was too conservative in how I ordered it. All food was excellent; service very attentive. It's a louder place but by the end, it had emptied out and quieted down. We were there 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. on a Thursday. If it wasn't quite so expensive, we'd go more often.

This our favorite restaurant and is the place where family happenings occur; Christmas eve, Graduations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Sunday evening dinners after a rough week of work, out of town visitors. It's a beautiful setting and the ambience is welcoming. Hope and her family make it feel like coming home to family. ps. They make a wicked Manhattan and the Mac&Cheese is always a side that should be ordered ( and the calamari ! Actually, never had a bad dinner ever.