La Fontaine - Walnut Creek

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   Susan

   San Francisco

   24 reviews

   5.0

   24 reviews

   Dined 5 days ago

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

   Excellent dining experience from start to finish. Friendly, professional wait staff, absolutely delicious food, including seafood risotto and seafood pappardelle. Go there. You won't be disappointed.
   

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   Naghma

   VIP

   San Francisco

   1 review

   4.0

   1 review

   Dined on 19 February 2025

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

   Food items we picked were delicious. Great service
   

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   Barbara

   San Francisco

   16 reviews

   5.0

   16 reviews

   Dined on 19 February 2025

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

   Excellent all the way around! Great cocktail, delicious food (we loved the scallops and the truffle ravioli!), comfortable ambiance and excellent, thoughtful service.
   

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   Cris

   VIP

   Hawaii

   33 reviews

   5.0

   33 reviews

   Dined on 16 February 2025

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

   Our group of five really enjoyed the food. We tried a few salads and the calamari. The short ribs steak frites and pasta we had were very delicious. The profiteroles and lava cake was wonderful as well. The servers were good. We were glad we were seated to the back because it would have been too cold from the door opening and closing if we were any closer to the door. Also glad we had reservations otherwise we probably would’ve had a long wait.
   

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   Keith

   San Francisco

   7 reviews

   5.0

   7 reviews

   Dined on 16 February 2025

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

   Food was amazing. Service was quick and attentive.
   

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   Gary

   San Francisco

   4 reviews

   3.0

   4 reviews

   Dined on 15 February 2025

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

   The quality of the food was excellent. In other respects, we were less happy.
   

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   Dawn

   San Francisco

   5 reviews

   2.0

   5 reviews

   Dined on 15 February 2025

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

   Food wasn’t good or hot at all. Definitely not worth the price for the Valentine Day special..
   

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   Don

   San Francisco

   3 reviews

   2.0

   3 reviews

   Dined on 15 February 2025

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

   Good food, ambiance was OK, awful service. We went for the Valentine package: $125 per person. With that you would expect a high degree of service. Unfortunately, our server was very slow with our initial drinks and starters, and then came back with dessert skipping our main course entirely! She literally came to our table with our dessert course in hand thinking we had already eaten. Once corrected, we enjoyed our main dishes (which we had to wait on) but then experienced a delay in getting our actual desserts! It was extremely frustrating to then be required to pay a full 20% gratuity, automatically added to our bill without any forewarning. When we talked to a person that looked like he was in charge, he offered to comp our dessert should we come in next time. The basic message here is "We're not going to do anything to correct our service mishaps in the moment ~ We'll just note that you get a comp'd dessert if you choose to come back." They should have given us some sort of comp in the moment, but instead, we paid almost $400 for decent food and the worst service we've encountered in a long while. I'm all for supporting servers in restaurants and I consistently give 20% gratuity, but the manager offering dessert "next time" instead of correcting in the moment exemplified no sense of urgency to correct a mishap and worst yet gave us no incentive to ever return.
   

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   Stacy

   VIP

   Los Angeles

   19 reviews

   5.0

   19 reviews

   Dined on 15 February 2025

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

   We had a lovely Valentine’s dinner and enjoyed the food, atmosphere, and service.
   

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    Srihita

    San Francisco

    1 review

    1.0

    1 review

    Dined on 15 February 2025

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

    Most of the food was served cold. There could have been more options. Its an utter waste to charge 125 per person for simply not so good food.
    

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