Harvest Wine Bar & Restaurant

Harvest in New Haven was a lovely place for lunch. Drinks and food all came out in a very timely manner and our server was absolutely wonderful.

Great food, nice wine selection, attentive but not overbearing service and overall an excellent experience.

Very disappointing. Service was slow and unimpressive. We asked if bread would be served to the table and were told, "No because it is restaurant week." What? THe food very very underwhelming and the cocktails were no better. We brought friends from out of town and were embarrassed by the poor food and subpar service.

Dinner was delicious. We even splurged for dessert. Waiter staff was pleasant and knowledgeable. Harvest is a little higher priced than I usually choose but not outrageous. We agreed we would definitely eat here again.

A disappointing experience. Took more than 20 minutes after our reservation to get seated, and another 15 before our wine arrived. The food was ok, but good enough to justify the pricetag. (I"m from Brooklyn, so I'm used to high prices.) To be fair, it seemed like the place was understaffed—everyone, especially the bartenders, looked harried.

My only comment is that after booking my reservations through Open Table and confirming it on the day of our visit, Harvest did not have it in their system. Luckily, they had a table available.

Service was poor, our glasses and plates were dented and unclean. Food was stale

Food: 1

Service: 3

I have had enjoyable meals at this restaurant before, clearly something wasn't working the night we were there. My bibb salad (something I've enjoyed before there ) was supposed to have blue cheese on top but came with a mound of salty parmesan. When I pointed it out, the server initially returned the salad telling me it was blue cheese, and I told her it was not. She then returned with the exact same salad and a side of blue cheese. Finally, another waiter came and fixed it but they clearly had just scraped off the parmesan and tossed blue cheese on top. There was barely any dressing on the salad and the chicken on top was extremely overcooked and dry. My friend had ordered medium veal and received well done, her husband had very dry chicken as well. Drinks we ordered either arrived quite late or never arrived at all. My friends were new to the community and said they would never come back.

The food was good but the service was not the best .

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

I almost never leave 1-star reviews, but this experience was truly unacceptable.

We called to see if they could sit 6 people around 7:15pm, and Harvest was very accommodating when we asked to add 2 more guests. Great start, but that’s where everything went downhill.

After being seated, we waited about 15–20 minutes before realizing no server was ever going to come by. We had to get up and let the staff know. A server eventually came, took our drink and food orders, and then essentially disappeared. Over the next 30 minutes, she checked on us once, just to refill water. Meanwhile, we noticed guests who arrived after us already getting drinks.

Another 10–15 minutes passed with nothing. I went up to the hostess to let her know we still hadn’t gotten our drinks. She apologized, but when she later came by our table, she spoke to us in a rude, dismissive tone, telling us that our drinks and food were coming and that we needed to “just wait.” Everyone at the table was shocked by how unprofessional that was.

At this point, we had been seated for over an hour. It was nearly 8:30pm, and we had no drinks, no food, and no service except water, and then were met with rudeness when we voiced frustration. Being busy is one thing; ignoring a table for nearly an hour and then being dismissive is another.

Harvest might have good food, but I’ll never know. We left before anything arrived. Truly one of the worst dining experiences I’ve had.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Always enjoy our visits to Harvest. The one thing that puzzles us is how poor the bread is that is served. Dry and tasteless - which makes no sense since every dish we've had is really good.

Nice spot and good service but food was very bad. Would not recommend.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 4

Sat outside on the patio for sunny Sunday brunch-perfect! Good food, very reasonable prices and terrific service. Staff sang happy birthday to my sister & she loved it!

Overall the food was very good. The service was awkward from placement of plates, uncertainty as to who was responsible for our table, and little attentiveness after food came out. Back of the house seems to be doing well but front of the house from host, server, bartender to bussing all require some serious attention.

Amazing! Went there for a group lunch and it was wonderful! Service, staff, atmosphere, all the things!