Fattoria e Mare - Half Moon Bay, California

Sneha Mirajkar

We were in HMB, and chose to eat lunch at this place, the place is lovely located right next to a creek, and well situated by the Main Street, the interiors of this place are beautiful it’s clean and classy well maintained not an ounce of dirt or discomfort around, it’s pretty spacious too. But all good things about this place stop at that.
The food is way below average for the price the pasta was not at all cooked, it’s not like I haven’t had pasta before, utterly bland and absolutely no flavour or wow feeling especially when eating at a place that is supposed to be authentic.
Overall not a great experience ?

yung-chin Chen

The food is great. We ordered catch of the day and crab omelette. The ingredients are fresh and great quality. The taste is light and healthy. They have both indoor and outdoor seating. Service is great. Price is high though.

Grace Lin

Brilliant seafood platter! Love the clams and prawns. Tomato dressing is light but yummy ? seafood goes so well with the house wine ?
Exquisite atmosphere and decorations. Not to mention the service was brilliant!

Christopher Sanchez

I recommend the catch of the day. We stopped here on our way up the coast after going to the beach. Originally we thought it might be too nice a place to go into after a swim in the ocean, but we decided to try it anyway. We were pleasantly surprised by the excellent food. The service was friendly and courteous, even though we were a bit under dressed for the very nice atmosphere. My wife and I decided to have the special which was salmon with mushrooms and a risotto like pasta that I can't remember the name of, but it was delicious. The kids had Fettuccine and Spaghetti and everyone thoroughly enjoyed their meal. Definitely a great place for a casual lunch or a fine dining experience. In our case we had both!

Jack L

This restaurant is a great find. We have been to many Italian restaurants in the peninsula but they are all mediocre. We had no expectations, so when the starter came, we were surprised to see a beautiful dish of half baby beets and large strawberries in a good sauce. The focacia was very good too. My main of seared salmon was perfectly cooked and flavorful, unlike most other restaurants which tend to overcook salmon. Our other main was steak sandwich, which was excellent too. The pleasant staff automatically refilled our ice teas several times. We will make this our regular place for Italian.

On our second visit a couple of weeks later, my son said it was "the best meal we've had since the last time we came here. "

Coast 2 Coast Creative (Ede O)

Wow! Just amazed with the overall experience the quality of service here! They even brought out a cheese barrel to serve pasta:) we had the beet salad which was enjoyable to watch them present, and it was delicious! Kinda went over the top and got the seafood platter as the entree and a bottle of a nice Italian wine. The seafood platter was above and beyond our expectations with a whole branzini, colossal shrimp, scallops, clams, mucked and calamari. They say the food brings you there but the service will keep you coming back and they are not wrong! We ended the dinner next to the fireplace with a lounge area:) Oh and the focaccia bread, was buttery fresh, I don’t think I’ve ever had it taste that good before 🙂 Definitely recommend

Catalina Kragel

European here, so I judge food harshly. The place was nice and I had very high hopes of the place, thought that I finally found a nice restaurant that reminds me of Europe but food was disappointing ?.
We had grilled octopus ?, smoked mussels and my husband got meat lover pizza.
Octopus doesn’t pair well with fresh tomatoes and cucumber in my opinion. The smoked mussels were interesting but the taste just not there, too much lemon juice and the pizza was the worst I had in the Bay Area so far and I lived here for 2 years. It just didn’t taste like normal italian pizza dough.
Hope you guys can do better.

Janai West

The dining room was lovely, well decorated, and clean. The servers were kind and helpful. Sadly, the food was overly complicated and lacked a lot of flavor. We ordered a beet salad dish and it came served in a dome of smoke. The smoke did not make the beets taste good. The cheesecake came served with a dome of cotton candy over it. They poured a flaming liquid over it to melt it, but the cheesecake itself was bland and the texture was mushy. I think if they focused on a few strong flavors the dishes would be greatly improved.