Alloro Wine Bar Restaurant, Awarded Top 10 Wine Bar In Ore

Cosy, elegant, romantic and always satisfying. We are often tourists of the coast of Oregon, and Alloro is our absolute favorite place to dinate when in beautiful Bandon. I love the spaghetti bolognese. We were here when there was a live harp and another time with an acoustic guitarist who sang beautiful melodies.

Don't you think they say the recipes aren't as good as aunt?s or the portions are small, it's just not that! However, this is not a wine bar, there is a bar, yes they serve wine, but it is not a wine bar. Don't expect. Just a chick, just a little boss. You get the bill with a clover QR code, but they want you to pay in cash. It is an overload for using a card, fees already there, but no card fees they add; tip the harpist, she has no other source of income, about this amount you pay for more bread. Relax, the place is great and apparently just so much has been recognized. Scampi was wonderful, house made pasta perfect. Bolognese not a tomato sauce with meat, it is a few very high-grade meat cooked properly to make actual Bolognese, the top notch. Croutons from polenta, not your everyday and pretty beautiful are in the Caesar. A fairly expertly curated and fair award-winning wine list with the exception of a premium for European wines, but you? re in Oregon for heaven's sake, drink locally. I also do not think that any kind of live music performer is suitable for a small place like this

Hands down our best culinary experience in Bandon, with delicious beautifully presented dishes, a very reasonable (and very inexpensive) wine list, beautiful cocktails and a very friendly staff. We had our chocolate lab with us had to dinate on the back terrace, but the table was perfectly set, a small heating was provided, and even a Bluetooth speaker was discreetly placed on the adjacent table, playing soothing music only for us.

We have always enjoyed it for years, but tonight we were disappointed. Maybe we met a bad night, but quality and taste was not what we remembered in previous visits. An example of this was the Risotto was very good, but the sea bass cheeks were hard and lack of taste Our pasta dishes needed salt. The Bolognese was watery and was simply not pleasant. The bread was delicious.

Every year, I visit Bandon and, part of my tradition, is to have dinner at Alloro. Let me start with the non foods. Apparently, this restaurant is still stuck in 2020, because they are still requiring masks. Seriously! For a 5 foot walk from the door to your table. Everybody else in town has realized that the era of mask mandates is over, but not here. Pathetic. 1 star People on this review site complain about the fees. The three main ones are split plate, extra rolls and corkage. Now, if you have the audacity to bring your own wine to a wine bar, you should expect to pay a corkage fee even one as high as $35. Also, the housemade rolls (delicious, by the way are complimentary up to TWO per person. That is more than reasonable. To ask a mere 50 cents for the third one is not out of line at all. The $8 spilt plate fee, however, is a little ridiculous. The plating is not Michelin star level that would be hard to split onto two plates. Anyone who 's ever worked in a restaurant knows how easy this is. As far as staffing, they couldn 't be nicer. Our server was very friendly and responsive making sure water is refilled and always available if needed. In the past, the chef/owner has come to the table to greet diners. This year, we never saw her. (Maybe she 's so deathly afraid of Covid, she chooses to stay quarantined in the kitchen?? Anyway, onto the food. In 2018, I had the duck with a cranberry chipotle sauce. Absolutely delicious. No longer on the menu. In 2019, I had shrimp scampi. Beautiful shrimp in delicious scampi sauce with the chef 's housemade pasta. No longer on the menu. In 2020, I had the Fettuccine Alfredo with a beautiful Crab Cake on top. Also delicious the Alfredo sauce, the housemade pasta and the crab cake. No longer on the menu. Last year, unfortunately, I chose the Bolognese. It was served over some sort of pasta that looked like frilly lasagna noodles, cut in half. That wasn 't the worst part. The Bolognese sauce was one of the worst I 've had in my life. I 've had it in Bologna, so I know what it 's supposed to taste like. They try to make it the traditional way, with low tomato content, but they miss the mark. The menu talks about mascarpone and ricotta, but there was none of either on my plate. Disappointing. That, sadly IS still on the menu. Since the food is usually good, this might have been a fluke. This year (2022 , I wanted the seared scallops dish. Unfortunately, they were out. So, I settled on the grilled shrimp over mushroom polenta with broccolini. The risotto, although a very small portion, was absolutely delicious well flavored and perfectly cooked. The shrimp were nice and large and very well cooked. It restored my faith in the cooking after last year 's stumble. In the past, the dessert was a delicious ending to the menu tiramisu one year, lemon tart another. This year, however, the dessert menu was extremely disappointing, to say the least, so we decided to g