The Craft House — Restaurant in Clovis

Date night for my wife and I and I said no usual spot. She found this place and that was all the decisions I had before going. Going in the place was well spaced out and clean. Social distance still enforced and they're following to the T. We were seated promptly and the waitress came for our drinks. Good diverse selection of beers, definitely something for all palettes. After a bit of time my wife decided on the Korean tacos and I went for the Dip It, basically a French dip. Both of us chose fries for the side. Amazing. That's all that's needed to be said. The bread on the Dip It was perfect. Nice crunch on the outside, soft but stood up to the dip on the inside. A bit of an addition to a usual French dip adding sautéed mushrooms and onion, but it only enhanced the flavor. My wife's Korean tacos were presented beautifully. No, I didn't taste them. However my wife thought they were amazing. Beers were great, service was on point, the chefs brought their "A" game. Whoever designed the food on the menu put love into it, and it comes out in the food. The ONLY reason it's four and not five stars is the tacos. Like I said they were presented beautifully, however I could tell that the tortillas they used were store bought. If you want store bought that's fine, but everything else was thought out meticulously. At least get Vallarta fresh made corn tortillas if you're not going to make them in house. Am I being too harsh? No. Let's put it this way. My daughter didn't like corn tortillas. Then my wife started making them at home with maseca you buy at the store. Now my daughter pulls them right off the pan to eat them. I get it, store bought is easy, but with everything else that I saw I could see the love. One more step up on the tortillas and this is a 5...

Honestly I was looking forward to eating here. I was expecting exactly what the reviews on this establishment said but was completely let down on every level. We were quickly greeted and sat and from there it went down hill completely. It took our waitress atleast 10 minutes to even come to our table and even longer to bring us the waters we ordered. We watched the owner go table to table greeting and talking to every customer but skipped ours multiple times. We finally ordered our food and could've finished the Titanic before it was plated and placed on the table. I dug in immediately as I was beyond hungry after walking the down town farmers market all day. I was highly impressed with the tater tots and than I bit into the meat. It was beyond awful to say the least. Completely rare and squishy as if I was eating a chunk of kids slime. Was not the experience I wanted what so ever. I asked very nicely to be remade and my date waited patiently as they made it. Finally another Harry Potter novel later it arrived with the same exact issues. But this time even the tots where nasty. We agreed to leave neither of us ate half of anything we ordered. They took off my meal from the bill. We paid the rest and left immediately. It was definitely an experience I never want to have again and I highly suggest they do a little better for the customers who decide to try this place. Giving them 2 stars for simple fact that the waitress was nice and tried her best even with the experience we were having. She saw it all and apologized numerous times and even made small little jokes to try and break the ice on this horrific dinner date I...

Just got home from my first visit. As you can see, I give 4 Stars. If I could it would have been 4.5 Stars. The service was excellent and the staff friendly and attentive, while not being overly attentive. Now the menu items:

Hummus tray: Great appetizer clean and fresh with snappy veggie. Just the right spice and heat for the Hummus.

Clam Chowder: Good, but not great. That being said better than the chowder at Pismo's and much better than the chowder at the House of JuJu. I thought it lacked butter...also, my personal taste is I prefer i strong celery taste. Also always bring a pepper shaker with chowder, don't make us ask.

Pub burger w fries: We got this to go....once home Mom ate it up. She said it was great .

Salad with for proteins: Can't remember the exact name....but it was great. All four proteins were cooked just as they should have been (in Fresno/Clovis area there is a tendency to overcook fish and shrimp...not so here).

Salmon Tacos: Great dish. The aioli in the tacos was fad. I was the perfect Salmon taco. But, and seemingly there is always a but, I had salad with it with blue-cheese dressing. The dressing looked and taste like in came from a bottle or jar. It actually was BAD. If it had been a good tasting house dressing 5 stars it would have. My advice, for what free advice is worth, narrow the list of dressing offered as to what you can make on premise. If indeed the blue-cheese was made there...start over.

Ok. The big question is would I go back....the answer of course is yes. I think The Craft House is the best eatery in Old...