The Forge - Napa

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   Gabriela

   San Francisco

   3 reviews

   2.0

   3 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

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

   The experience started very strangely. I made a reservation for part of 5. They say it’s down and there were 4 place settings and the restaurant didn’t mention anything to us so we assumed we had to split our party up and we used the table next to us where there were more place settings. The hostess can’t back and told us we visit shut at that table because that’s reserved for Valentine’s Day?! Not sure what she meant but I told her I made a reservation for 5 and there is only 4 seats.. she proceeded to ask me “Do you want me to get you another chair and put it on the end of the table?” DUH!! I should have left. I ordered the ribs. All my food was cold. The ribs were very dry so it felt like I was having jerky. The potatoes had good flavor but they tried to make it look fancy and it was smeared on the plate so I think it couldn’t have been more than a couple of tablespoons worth. The cornbread was like a hockey puck and the maple butter on top tasted like fridge…you know what I mean?! Improperly stored for sure. My daughter had the pasta with mushrooms..edible. Appetizers were actually decent..Brussel sprouts and the frito misto. My dranddaughter got the burger and she said it was good. The chicken sandwich was decent but lacked flavor. The service was ok. I gave my waiter a good tip although he forgot my drink refill and I told him I was probably going to order drinks from the bar..he never returned to ask me what I wanted so I decided against them. The tip was mainly because I saw how hard he was working. I didn’t feel welcomed and felt rushed. No one was outwardly rude but I didn’t get the feeling that they cared I was there. All in all I sincerely doubt I will return. The place was loud and the employees were running around like crazy..I felt bad because it’s possibly a staffing issue another reason for the tip. They are working as hard as they can with what they have.
   

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   Erin

   San Francisco

   50 reviews

   1.0

   50 reviews

   Dined on 2 February 2025

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

   We were here all the time and sadly the last 3 visits have been less than mediocre. This visit our entree came out before the cheese curds appetizer. And 5 minutes after the appetizer my salad came out. If you sit in the high top area your service will be terrible. IF we dare go back again we will insist on not sitting in that area. Also I had an Open Table reward to use and the server could not figure it out. Unfortunately this was kind of our whole reason to go this time so we could use the mastercard reward dollars.
   

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   Katey

   San Francisco

   8 reviews

   5.0

   8 reviews

   Dined on 2 February 2025

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

   Always great there, one of our family favorites. Good food. Nice staff
   

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   SFfoodluver

   VIP

   San Francisco

   9 reviews

   3.0

   9 reviews

   Dined on 27 January 2025

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

   Couple of things we noticed: servers were cutting the pizza without gloves, which would not be great if they had touched anything infected with the various viruses going around these days. No build your own pizza option, and no greek olives?? Also not a fan of their garlic sauce or three cheese pizza, which seemed like it had cottage cheese on it. The salad which my vegetarian boyfriend ordered had unadvertised bacon in it - fail! Nice space and loved the fireplace, decent crust, but I we won’t be returning!
   

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5. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   Sacramento

   2 reviews

   5.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on 25 January 2025

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

   We love this place. We come here to meet up with friends and catch up. Kid friendly, the kids love the pizza and the noodles with butter. We always enjoy the pizza (especially the Bamba) and the tomato basil soup! We will continue to come back to this restaurant. Staff is always very friendly and the food is out quickly, which is great when you have a group of kiddos 5 and under! The food is always great quality! I recommend this place to friends and family all the time!
   

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   Magen

   San Francisco

   2 reviews

   2.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on 22 January 2025

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

   We usually love Forge but our experience tonight was the worst we’ve had. Many of our food items were wrong or incomplete. It was my son’s bday and they had asked if we wanted dessert, we said no because we had other plans. They still brought him out dessert and sang happy birthday. When we got the check they had changed us for his dessert.
   

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   Stephanie

   San Francisco

   23 reviews

   5.0

   23 reviews

   Dined on 19 January 2025

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

   We were a party of 8 adults on a busy Saturday evening. We were seated at the time of our reservation, staff did a great job making sure the table was prepared for us. Our waitress was friendly and did an excellent job answering questions and noting our dietary requests in the system. The cooks were overwhelmed with orders and didn’t see a couple of requests (dressing on side, add chicken), and without asking removed them from our bill at the end. Food was very good with the exception of the wood fired pizza crusts being slightly soggy in the middle. All the food was very tasty and filling.
   

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   elizabeth

   VIP

   San Francisco

   8 reviews

   3.0

   8 reviews

   Dined on 7 January 2025

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

   Good variety of offerings. Apple salad delicious but has hard rice hill in it. Not fun to eat. Shishitos too oily Pizza soggy, not cooked enough. Chicken nugget too heavily breaded and greasy Not planning on returning soon.
   

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   Alice

   San Francisco

   58 reviews

   5.0

   58 reviews

   Dined on 5 January 2025

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

   Excellent service and choice of pizza. Bottle of sparkling wine is $30
   

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    Carole

    VIP

    San Francisco

    22 reviews

    4.0

    22 reviews

    Dined on 28 December 2024

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

    It’s the holidays so things are busy but we were there 55 minutes before we got our food. They need more staff.
    

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