Negri's - Occidental

This was a rather great disappointment after hearing about the great Italian family style dinner of Occidental. We are new residents of Forestville and were con... read more This was a rather great disappointment after hearing about the great Italian family style dinner of Occidental. We are new residents of Forestville and were constantly impressed by any meal we had out here until these, who are absolutely not living until the hype. At first it is not family style and although this page said Negris was opened that the whole side of the building was closed and the only service was in Joe's Bar, which was just a sterile concrete floor room with a few TVs on the wall. Super loud and not particularly welcoming. It's just super fat bar food with some Italian themes. Food, service and personnel were completely lacking in real quality or complexity. Bringing a piece of butter into a bunch of frozen ingredients does not make it good or Italian. Pizza, shrimp and polnta app, pasta, salads, were all super simple and yet incredibly greasy. Nothing to write home. There is much better food to do in just about every city in Sonoma co. It looks like we missed the fame days here, based on our experience and other recent reviews.

Food is very good. I had the mine straw soup, salad and roasted Brussels sprouts. It was a delicious and vegan dinner. The roasted mushrooms are not to be misse... read more Food is very good. I had the mine straw soup, salad and roasted Brussels sprouts. It was a delicious and vegan dinner. The roasted mushrooms are not to be missed.

That was our favorite family restaurant for decades. Covid hit hard to close the restaurant side. The bar is still open with a striped menu. All our favorite di... read more That was our favorite family restaurant for decades. Covid hit hard to close the restaurant side. The bar is still open with a striped menu. All our favorite dishes were gone, but the food was good. No more family service. It broke our hearts after a 300 miles drive, but again what they have is not bad.

This was our favorite family restaurant for decades. Covid hit hard so they had to close the restaurant side. The bar is still open with a striped down menu. Al... read more This was our favorite family restaurant for decades. Covid hit hard so they had to close the restaurant side. The bar is still open with a striped down menu. All of our favorite dishes were gone but the food was good. No more family style service. Itbroke our hearts after a 300 mile drive, but again, what they do have left isn 't bad.

This was a pretty big disappointment after hearing about the great Italian family style dinners of Occidental. We are new residents of Forestville and have been... read more This was a pretty big disappointment after hearing about the great Italian family style dinners of Occidental. We are new residents of Forestville and have been continually impressed with pretty much every meal we've had out here until this one,which absolutely does not live up to the hype. First off, it isn't family style and although this page said Negris was opened,that whole side of the building was closed and the only service was in Joe's bar, which is just a sterile concrete floored roomwith a couple TVs on the wall. Super loud and not particularly inviting. It's just super greasy bar food with some Italianthemed items. The food, service and staff all totally lacked any real quality or complexity. Putting a stick of butter into abunch of frozen ingredients does not make it good or Italian. Pizza, shrimp and polenta app, prawn pasta, salads, were all superplain yet insanely greasy. Nothing to write home about. There is significantly better eating to be done in just about every townin Sonoma co. Seems like we missed the glory days here based on our experience and the other recent reviews.