The Chateau Sarasota

Go to this restaurant before it is tough to get a seat. Recent menu changes will satisfy any diner’s palate. A great wine selection! Staff is very attentive and provide proper service!

Great place for date night with the wife. Great food and drinks!

We were a party of 8, and consensus was a solid 4 for the food, and 5 stars for service (our waiter was Mark). My only complaint is they reserve all the close parking for valet; not much of a complaint, but why tho...? This was our 2nd visit and we will be back.

Loved our experience except for the bill. Substituted a wine by the glass price for a wine that we ordered and they didn't have. So the bill was $171. vs $110. Was NOT informed until the bill came. This is unacceptable. The place is already very expensive so to have an additional $61. plus tax and service fee is bad.

I was a frequent customer at the Anna Maria Island location and wanted to try the "new" Sarasota location. Walked in last night and Mark recognized me and said hello. It was nice that he remembered me from AMI location. We were seated promptly for our 6pm reservation. Our waiter was not very attentive to detail and was very slow. I had to ask other waiters for things because he did not come by our table very often. We had dishes piling up from our 1st two courses because no bussed the table. They missed some protocol things that a higher end restaurant should provide: he did not let me taste the wine before decanting it, we ordered caviar and he did not bring out an oyster spoon to serve the caviar and didn't bring the crostini until we asked. For an appetizer with a $195 price, that is just not acceptable. I ordered another cocktail to enjoy with the caviar, the caviar arrived and my drink came about 15 minutes later. The lobster bisque tasted like lobster but there was no lobster chucks, it was runny, and luke warm. The blue cheese potato side was also luke warm. They also had the wrong toppings on the wrong steak and we just swapped them at the table. The strawberry shortcake was dry. The coffee was also luke warm. Dinner took 3 hours and was incredibly slow. On the way out I mentioned this to Mark and his attitude was dismissive. That is not what i would expect for such a "high end" restaurant and for a repeat customer that generates very large tickets. I won't be going back....they lost a valuable repeat customer.

Amazing experience. The food, the people, the atmosphere. Probably one of my favorite dining experiences, definitely the best one in many years. Highly recommend.

It’s very nice, but leaves a lot to be desired. The staff are not as great as at the Ritz. There was a host, Sir something that was just too much to handle. I haven’t seen him the last few times I came, but the staff could definitely work in how to make you feel more welcome. So generic and fake.

Disappointing. Two of us in our party had the $75 chief cut steak and both steaks were very fatty and a little tough. My friend ordered his steak medium and I ordered my steak medium well done, but both came exactly the same. For dessert we had the recommended donuts, which were described as light and fluffy. They arrived hard. We all agreed they were more like pretzels than donuts. The waiter said as very nice but seemed to disappear for long periods, so there was many times when we were without drinks. Our first time trying this restaurant and it was not great which is a shame.

Excellent food. My husband said, “The best burger ever!” Bartender was less than attentive.

Love love love! Such a beautiful hidden gem! Denny and JJ were amazing!