Strings — Restaurant in Merced

love this restaurant. the customer service and attitude of the staff is amazing, i thought i had found a little known pasta dish called Pasta Sienna. it happens to be the best seller i overhead a customer order it topped with cheese..i gave it a shot and i found it to enhance the flavor..the salads are delish

1/23/18 first off our server Albert is phenomenal..a caring man with a positive attitude and a fantastic sense of humor. as usual i had the pasta sienna..delicious as usual, i give Strings 10/⭐️’s

5/24/18 haven’t been back for a while. it’s awful pricey. for the three of us it’s usually 60+ dollars and that’s at lunch.

4/16/19 once again i had a delish lunch with my mother and father. i’m happy to say Lacey started her serving career by serving our table. Lacey did a FANTASTIC job. her smile and attention to her tables was amazing, watching her i would have thought she’d been serving for years. thank you strings staff for noticing Lacey’s “go get em” attitude and great work ethic.. you got this Lacey

8/15/19 Strings now offers a lite luncheon menu i neglected to take a photo of that menu, it’s perfect size portioned for lunch.. the number one server award goes out to Tabatha‼️ i thought i’d never say this however her skills are better than Pizza..(i LOVE pizza) thanks Tabatha your personality and attitude are...

This is the Creamy Mushroom Braised Beef Risotto and the Costolette Brasate and Gnocchi !!! The first dish were boneless braised beef short ribs topped in a creamy mushroom sauce served over a side of risotto and asparagus! The meat was nice for a braised beef dish, and the sauce was not super bad! The mushrooms were super good in my opinion, and I wasn’t really a big fan of the risotto because I’m not really used to cold rice, but it was good! The asparagus was pretty good! The second dish were braised beef short ribs too but with a savory marsala gravy sauce served with a rosemary butter pesto gnocchi and asparagus! The sauce for this dish was soooo much better than the mushroom sauce in my opinion, so the marsala sauce is definitely a good choice to get here! It was thick, savory, and a dark red color! The gnocchi had a strong pesto taste, and it was nice to eat! We also were given bread and soup! We tried the minestrone and the seafood bisque! The minestrone soup didn’t taste like Olive Garden’s, but it did taste much more authentic and real! The seafood bisque was superrr good, and it was filled with so much flavor! We went on Valentine’s Day, so it was a bit busy, but the workers did a great...

Very disappointed. We ordered the Portolino Cioppino and the Eggplant Parmesan last night for curbside pickup. The Eggplant was so-so but the Cioppino was terrible. The dinner portion was VERY small like an appetizer, plus the mussels were horrible and could not be eaten. The TINY things they call scallops were NOT scallops. What a waste of twenty dollars. Plus, when we arrived and tried to call them to say we were there for our order we could not get anyone to answer the phone. We tried calling for 15 minutes while our order got cold.

SECOND THOUGHTS A WEEK LATER: Okay, after all it was Valentine's Day and the restaurant was overwhelmed due to not only the Holiday but also many people just wanting to get out to eat after being cooped up for so long because of the pandemic. SO, we will go back and give it another try. And, we do appreciate the restaurant calling us to follow up on our review. That shows they...