Estéban Restaurant, Local's Favorite, Open for Grab & Go Breakfast, Weekend Brunch, Dinner, Indoor & Outdoor Patio Dining!
700 Munras Ave, Monterey
(831) 375-0176
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Great service, always love the food, and had a cozy evening by the fireplace with dear friends. A wonderful evening.
Our service was great. The ambiance of this place is unique, two fireplaces one in and one outside. Being from the South I absolutely loved this and was sad to discover this after we were seated. The oysters were the perfect size but I keep forgetting that in the West they do not serve them with crackers. However, they were served with a lime juice concoction that was out of this world and made up for the missing crackers. Our charcuterie board had everything you could want to finish a bottle of wine. The cream brûlée was awesome. Parking was sufficient on the street. We will return. Thanks!!!
I love Esteban. The outdoor dining area is wonderful, and inside is lovely, too. I do not like the menu nearly as much as I used to like it, but it's still delicious. And Sunday night with $1 oysters is phenomenal.
My wife and I love coming to Esteban for dinner. We wish their was a restaurant like this where we live. The food is fantastic!
Food I ordered was unusual; sea bass with potato and other cooked veggies on top. Mostly delicious. I have only one complaint, exactly the same as my experience a year ago, servers left me alone (never came by) for a long time after I finished my meal. Last time I commented the same and got a graceful response telling me improvement will be made (not that I saw). Perhaps it's that I dine alone and servers are more interested in the larger groups.
Service was friendly and overall fine — one of my drinks took about 20 minutes to arrive, but I wasn't in a rush, so it didn't bother me. Dinner was enjoyable, and it was so convenient to be able to eat right before walking over to the show
We love this place and we're excited to try the burger special because all the other food we have had at Esteban's has been so good! Unfortunately the burger wasn't as good as we expected, mostly due to the bun being so dry and flavorless, bordering stale. Please change your buns!
Food was incredible, staff made some mistakes, and there was a drunken group at the bar that were hooting and hollering. The ambience between indoor and outdoor is night and day. I recommend sitting outdoors
We love the tapas and excellent wine. We aren't outdoors people but enjoy being cosy by the fireside indoors.
I had a great birthday dinner with wonderful food and wine. The service was great and the atmosphere was restful even though the dining room was fairly occupied but not crowded or noisy. As we were leaving we spotted a very famous personality dining there with his family.
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Thank you to Esteban’s for having a fun empanada Mondays for five dollars where you can try more than one type, which is what I did. You could either have indoor or patio seating. My preference was for the original empanada.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Very pleasant sitting in front of the fire. Chilly outside elsewhere. Heat lamps not sufficient? Service v good. Food a bit greasy .. ( empanadas ); calamari way too salty. Shishito peppers v good, as were meatballs. Happy hour drinks v good; excellent Spanish white wine.
Highly recommend this place. We started out with the Tapas (calamari and the burrata) which was so good! Then we had the paella. It takes 30min to prepare which they told us about and it was disclosed on the menu too which I appreciated. This paella was literally the best paella I ever had EVER. ! Absolutely delicious!!!!! Shareable too! I had the Spanish Margarita for my cocktail and that was delicious too. Left completely stuffed. Definitely worth it.
The food, service, and atmosphere were excellent! The spices and freshness of the dishes were perfect. The drinks were also well-made. Our server was delightful and made the dinner even more enjoyable. I went back a few days later for appetizers and had an equally wonderful experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
As always food was great. We had the Wrath Pinot as the wine. Excellent! Had empanadas, croquettes, sourdough bread and chicken paella. All were to our liking. Service was a bit slow as there were not many servers. Overall great experience. Will be back.
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