Barone's Restaurant

475 St John St, Pleasanton
(925) 426-0987

Recent Reviews

Andrew Cain (Andrew C)

Updating this review.Since their reopening they have a far more limited menu making it hard to come here to eat a meal now. This is not the Barones of the past!The restaurant was dead when we arrived and dead when we left. Seems like the community has spoken! Hopefully the owners recognize this and change it up again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Motorsports Euro

Was looking for a place with live music and dinner for a special date night. Everything started off great, music started at 7 place was fairly empty, ordered food and drink. Food was ok. Music was good also. All of a sudden a huge corporate holiday party takes over the room and it’s so crowded you can’t even stand and definitely can’t hear the music. We literally had to push people out of our way to get out. Thanks for ruining my date by being selfish and advertising live music, then booking a large party while pretending it’s still open to the public. This is greedy and inconsiderate. It’s also unfair to the waitstaff. No one told us when we walked in that the outdoor tent would be used for a function and happily took my money for dinner. Don’t bother going there, they ruined my night but you can still save yours by going somewhere else.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 4

James Levinson

All I had was fish tacos. This review is only for the fish tacos and that is all. I would remove the fish tacos from your menu. They are not good. For $20, I expected much better fish tacos. These fish tacos were heavily breaded and had no flavor, with some kind of unknown bland sauce and they ended up in your mouth like a lump of oily mush. Like I said, I would remove the fish tacos from your menu - after all, it's an Italian restaurant, right?

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Craig Jones

Such a fun and vibrant restaurant. The outdoor seating is amazing and the live music was top tier. If you’re lucky enough to have Mario as your server you’re in for a great night. Perfect date night spot.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Karnsiri Tiangteratam

What an amazing restaurant!We went there to celebrate my dad 76 birthday and they were very accommodating.It’s a very beautiful restaurant. It looks like it was a house converted into a restaurant.Excellent service and excellent food.We ordered a couple bottles of delicious Malbec and an unflavored mai tai.I had the chicken Parm, which was good. My dad had Seabass, which he said was very good.The shrimp, calamari and chicken wings appetizers were amazing.The most impressive part is that they allowed me to bring in a cake. They kept it refrigerated and when it was time to sing my dad happy birthday they brought it out with lite candles, which totally shocked me.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Frank Gomez

Maureen and I will miss our times at Barone's, but we will always have the memories of our wedding reception, special events and dinners on the patio.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Braised Short Ribs, Filet Mignon and Lobster

Elisa Hermance

Christmas party was fabulous food excellent and service outstanding. Great place. E

Cheryl B

Over charged. As we waited an unusually long time for the waiter to return with our card I received 3 text notifications from the credit card company with three different charge amounts for this restaurant. When the waiter came back I confronted him and he said the owner was having problems running the card but that the incorrect charges should disappear by Monday (this was Saturday). The followed Wednesday I checked the account and there were 2 charges that went through and another that was pending. They were all different amounts, only 1 was the amount I signed for. Called credit card company and found out the correct charge was made using the chip reader and the other 2 were processed as online transactions. Credit card company treating as fraud attempt. Be careful of the payment card you use if you eat here.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 1

Jim Thurman

Fantastic atmosphereGreat dinner locationTop shelf menu optionsHad the ribeye....this is going to be my regular order here...it was very memorable....Coming from a Chef this is very goodPerfectly cooked to a delicious medium. Blackened scallops were amazing. All in all a wonderful eveningHighly recommend ?

Everything was exceptional from the service to the food. Their meatballs appy was to die for. Meat was flavorful and the “gravy” had just the right amount of sugar to cut the tomato acid. Arugula & Watermelon salad hit all the food sensory buttons. I had the Ahi, which was cooked perfectly and married with the side well. My wife had the Ribeye. Good, not great. Meat was not as tender as she/we would have liked. All in all - a great meal. So sad this restaurant will be closing this year - but glad we stopped by.

Nuke

Will be saddened when this fine restaurant closes its doors for business.... Been coming to this establishment for 27 years! The food menu offerings are absolutely yummy... I will miss the staff too, absolutely professional! Best wishes to all......

DavidV

We LOVE the food and service here at Barone's. If you're in the market for the most delicious Chilean Sea Bass, you owe it to yourself to go to Barone's for dinner. Expect greatness!

KarenI

our waitress Ariana was the best! professional, onto of every thing and respectful, made the experience great! She is a true asset to your restaurant we just enjoyed her so much. Jim Morrison and Karen Innocenti

Our party of 3 enjoyed our first dining experience at Barone's this evening. Service with a smile is what experienced. we were warmly greeted and seated promptly. After setting in out came our iced water along with bread and butter which actually surprised me because I haven't enjoyed warm bread and butter post pandemic, and I truly appreciated the starter. Overall the service was stellar! My only comment would be is to keep the marinara less sweet and maybe more herbs and garlic used to elevate a more natural flavor. The papardelle pasta entree could have been prepared Al dente and less sweet.

RobertT

Our waiter was not good. I felt like he was serving other tables far better than ours. It was a bummer as it was our anniversary date. But the bus service and the food was amazing. The drinks were good. It was just a problem getting more than 1 drink each because our waiter wasn't around. Still going back. The food was really that good. Very fair price for the quality of the food you get here.

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