Fig & Olive
“each crostini very generously sized (like 3-4 full bites each)
Entree was Paella which was one of the best I have ever had.”
“Each dish brought new flavors and built to the crescendo of dessert – pot de creme of course.”
“Oh and let me add goat cheese & chive gnocchi, roasted honey eggplant with rosemary Garlic Olive Oil.”
Fig & Olive
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$$ Price range $31-60
8 reviews
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Nope, never again.
I was extremely disappointed by the waitress at this Fig & Olive location. My boyfriend and I walked in expecting to have a nice dinner and immediately felt uncomfortable. Our waitress greeted us at the door by scanning me up and down and completely ignoring my boyfriend. We were seated immediately, our food came out quickly, and our waitress checked half-heartedly checked in with us twice. I'm not sure what about us (or anyone) would warrant such treatment.
The food itself was good (we ordered the octopus appetizer, a vegetarian ravioli, and the yellow-fin tuna entree) though (unsurprisingly given the location) a bit overpriced when compared to more moderate price tags further downtown.
However, I'm never coming back to this or another Fig & Olive location again and saving my friends the mistake of suffering through such rude customer service.
great salads! The fig and olive salad is delicious, not overdressed and lettuce is crisp. Salad had the perfect balance of sweet and salty. The toasts were all delicious. I especially loved the burrata. Deserts were ok nothing special, but liked that the ice cream had real vanilla bean. Service was not good. Waitress was slow. Would recommend as a lunch place but don't go during the lunch rush. Its better for a late lunch 2pm on
Went here the other night for dinner and while overall it was quite good, they had run out of truffle oil. Half of their dishes require truffle oil. All of their dishes that look delicious require truffle oil. They should rename the place fish and truffle because there is so much truffle oil on the menu. There's even another fig and olive down the street, couldn't they borrow some truffle oil from them? And this is the upper east side, there's several dean and delucas nearby that stock truffle oil. However, we persevered onward and ordered some of the menu items without truffle oil. I had the prefix menu with the fog and olive salad, Mediterranean chicken, and crostini dessert. The salad was extremely delicious and definitely the type of thing I'd recommend getting here on its own for a fancy lunch. The chicken was also quite good and served with some cous cous and different types of pesto/tomato oils. The dessert was incredible and basically tasted like a strawberry shortcake. However, overall, the place is overpriced, portions are small, decor is laking, and service is just okay. I'd consider coming back if they had like a special restaurant week deal or something AND they had truffle oil in stock.
underwhelming. Went in with my boyfriend on a Sunday night and were seated by some lovely ladies. I wont go into detail because nothing awful happened, but this place is so not what I thought it would be. This feels and looks and tastes like a way over priced olive garden….
I came here with my friends for a farewell lunch and it's a pretty tiny place. The decor is beautiful and you have to make reservations. The Salmon Crudo was sooooo good. At first, I was hesitant to try it because I don't usually eat raw fish but I decided to go out of my comfort zone and boy was I glad I did! It was amazing! It literally melts in your mouth and you just want to eat more and more and more. I'm salivating just thinking about how delicious it was. We all ordered the Paella Del Mar which comes in a personal mini pan which is the cutest thing ever. It's such a huge portion size that all of us were struggling to finish our meal. It was very well cooked and tasted very fresh. Service was good as well. My stomach & I left this place feeling very happy & satisfied. I definitely recommend this place!
3 stars because of horrible service but tasty food. I made a reservation for dinner at 7:30pm for 4 and we all got there on time. We waited about 10 minutes for our table to be ready, which was uncomfortable because there is technically no space to stand and NO AC!!!! It was nicer to stand outside than to be inside. So finally we got seated. My bf's chair had bread crumbs and what not all over the chair. Nobody bothered to clean it even when he was very obvious about it. Then there was this piece of who-knows-what STUCK on the RW menu. STUCK. We both tried to flick it off. IT DOESN'T COME OFF. Disgusting. We pointed it out to our waitress and she gave us the whatever look and went off with it. Twice they switched my dish with my bf's. I don't understand how.
The food was tasty. We had the RW menu. I had the mushroom croqette. Bf had the beef carpaccio. Our friend had the salad (she loved it). I ordered the truffle risotto, and bf had paella. Our friend had the Tajine. It looked ok. The paella is very small (since it's RW) and my risotto tasted like my croquette. So basically my main dish and my appetizer tasted the same. The dessert was good. I had the crostini and bf ordered the chocolate cream.
The place is very small and BLAST THE AC ON A HOT SUMMER NIGHT PLEASE! I saw a couple of other bad service reviews… which means the service level changes depending on who they are serving.
Mediocre spot. The food isn't bad, but it's definitely not great. I came for brunch and would recommend against this if you like traditional breakfast or the ability to make your own omelette.
Brunch options are pretty minimal and they do not allow you to substitute or change anything! Omelette options are full of veggies or mushrooms and cheese. The skinny fries that come with it are anything but! They are literally small baked fingerling potatoes. Bread basket another flop. The bread wasn't fresh and tasted stale. I am a huge bread lover so for bread to suck that's saying a lot. Our table got the omelette options and both were underwhelmed and had too much oil.
I recommend coming for lunch/dinner if you decide to try it. Portions are okay and food is on the pricer side. Not worth it for what we tried.
3.5, to be exact.
I came here for restaurant week. After you order, they provide complimentary bread, with 3 different types of olive oil (our plate included olive oil from Spain, Portugal, and Italy). The bread was a bit dry but the olive oils were quite tasty, and the waitress provided descriptions of the flavors of each one.
I had the chilled cucumber soup to start, and it was .. interesting. It was my first time trying cucumber soup, so it may just be my personal preference, but I expected it to be more refreshing, but instead it was more savoury than I wished. Not bad, just not what I had in mind.
I really enjoyed my entree though – I had the seared salmon, with grilled asparagus and pea purée, and it was very delicious. I tried my sisters paella, which was super flavourful as well.
For dessert, I had the panna cotta, which had a crumble topping and also included a side of sorbet – the sorbet was refreshing, and the panna cotta was good too. (Nothing spectacular though)
The decor was nice too, but I felt the service was just mediocre.