Extra Virgin Bistro — Restaurant in Saint John

We come here year after year visiting St. John’s ! It has always been our number one until this year! We were here for my daughter’s wedding staying at Solenborg estate with the wedding party. Went there as a private celebration before the wedding for our side of the family, a party of 14 plus. Didn’t realize that it has switched to fixed price for all 4-5 courses. Two of us were not feeling well (one for medical reasons and the other was jet lagged from flying over 24hours and wanted a lighter faire). Was told by a very rude, indignant male server that there was nothing for him to offer us! We offered to pay for the full fixed price menu and split and were told , NO WAY! They promptly took our forks away, so ok! We are not scammers or those kin of people that do that! We only wanted the salad portion and 1st course of pasta and were willing to pay for the entire dinner without serving the main course and willing to pay for it all ! We were told no way! Stayed for the conversation with our party but had to leave and go to mangos to get a salad and shrimp. Ate a nice salad there and split a shrimp…..only to have the waitress tell us that extra virgin offers ala’carte at the bar????? Really a party of 15 plus and he could not offer us another option?? Don’t think we will ever be back. Should have asked for an owner or manager but didn’t want make waves. Big loss for them as we always visit the nicest and spend lots of money! ...

Love love love the idea of the 3-4 course meal. It gave our guests and ourselves time to chat and visit. Anticipate 15-20 minutes between course meals. Food was F💣 amazing! I got one of something that I would not normally get .the Ricotta has a sweet and savory amazing and surprising taste. DO IT ! No need for the honey comb unless you want the experience. The spinach salad was ok but sure hit the spot. The sea bass with the side of lobster tail was spot on. Serving it in a bowl didn’t make sense since trying to cut the lobster tail almost resulted with my dish on the floor. My drink was a coconut cream with infused pineapple rum . Soooooo freaken good but more of a desert drink. So I asked for a Mai tai to back off the cream. Quickly our waiter responded with “we don’t do Mai Tai “. Hm? Ok . Possibly a suggestion of a drink that would be close, that they did do? Seemed pretty straight forward yet left me confused with why not up sell me on another drink ? It’s all good . I chose not to get another drink. But I did choose to get the chocolate moose which was aaaaamazing!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on the food for sure . You truly get what you for so don’t complain unless you want cheap food. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ service was almost there. But could use some attention. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ atmosphere was nice. I struggle with low light conditions so maybe a little brighter would make things slightly...

Food was absolutely amazing! Definitely the best place I’ve eaten on the island and a lot of places I’ve eaten in the US. Jenna, our waitress, was fantastic as well. She was kind and attentive and was just the best. The only reason for the lack of 5 stars is the woman who was hosting. Our group made a reservation a month ago for 10 at 7:45pm. We called ahead at around 6pm to let them know we were in the area and see if they could seat us sooner but we were told we needed to wait. Our group was fine with that and got a drink down the street and walked around. At 7:35 our group should up and checked in with the hostess. She said, “like I said on the phone, you need to wait until 7:45.” We said okay and waited outside until 7:45. When we tried to check in then, we were told, “we know you’re here. You need to wait and we’ll come get you. You’re being snippy.” We continued to wait even when it started raining for a few minutes and then overheard the hostess tell the party of 3 next to us “do you want to go over there and tell that table to leave?” when they asked about the wait. The couple who were taking our group of 10 to this restaurant said they have never had a bad experience with the other hosts but this was ridiculous. Everything else was amazing! But that hostess was unnecessarily rude and should not work in hospitality if she is just going to be...