Mount Bistro

Came here for dinner on the 4th Jan 2017. A great great restaurant classy and formal. We were a large group of 11 and they put us indoor on a large round table. Took us a while to get our food but once it arrived it was outstanding! I had the lamb 3 ways and it was Devine. The wait staff were polite throughout the evening a big plus when it's a large group of diners! Top effort I'll be coming back here again!!

Having been someone who has dined at almost every local restaurant in Tga the Mt. a few places out of town, I would have to say that this place exceeded expectations from roadside first impressions. I compare my food and taste experience to SidArt in Akld.<br/ <br/ Restaurant appearance: Schuzh up needed.<br/ From the outside, I would never have thought the food was going to be so good. Having looked at real estate apartments above in the past, I would assume that the restaurant styling must stay within the entire complex 'look ' so hence the defy of your stock standard flashy restaurant street appeal.<br/ *Lime or bay tree topiary standards would look great planted in the garden on either side of the entrance an espaliered, well kept green grape (or ornamental along the entire roadside wall to 1 cover the wall as much as possible and 2 draw in abit of shuzhed up class; <br/ <br/ Wait service: Friendly and prompt.<br/ To be fair the use of the term 'fine dining ' implies quite a lot of expectations including staff. There is definitely service protocol present however I think the internal decor some what undoes the true staffing efforts if you cannot focus on one aspect of dining experience at a time.<br/ <br/ Price: Standard restaurant prices with exceptional: food choice, complimentary taste and master chef presentation.<br/ The word fine dining has much become like a CV these days when eating out over promise but under deliver. The Mt. Bistro was more the reverse simplistic fine dining offer with exceptional chef execution.<br/ <br/ What can you expect: Well that 's up to you.<br/ If you can break down each aspect of your experience by not letting each component taint the food before you 've even tasted it, I think you 'll be impressed. This is not one of those fancy restaurants where you think 'this is going to be good ' because you 've based it on how fancy the decor is.... and then the food was a little disappointing. You will not get piles of mash and hot fries on your plate to fill you up but you will get beautifully presented food where flavour depends on your own palette likes and dislikes.<br/ I have eaten here half a dozen times in the last couple of years and the highlights for me were: quiet environment where you can actually enjoy dinner conversation with accompanying guests. Decor is a little out dated but the overall feeling is welcoming, comfortable and relaxing. I don 't like pages of food selection so expect your usual palette choices on a single page to choose from this is typical for fine dining. I haven 't tried everything (the seafood sword was delicious, the steak was cooked how I like it medium and everything else had a wow factor somewhere present but I would try food I wouldn 't normally eat because it looks that pleasing to the eye.<br/ And I always come away satisfied but never overfull I eat a full entree, 80% of my main and 80% of dessert to avoid that overfull feeling.<br/ <br/ Rating: This is in my top 3 local dining experiences and top 10 within every other place I 've eaten; <br/ <br/ Enjoy!

We purchased a Grab One voucher for this restaurant which was a set menu for our one year wedding anniversary.  WOW!!  From the moment we arrived the waitresses were excellent.  The entrée which was a platter to share included prawns, mussels, pork belly sliders and a tempura mushroom and all of it was excellent.  Very tasty.  My husband and I both ordered the rib eye steak for the main which were cooked to perfection.  For dessert we had a platter to share which included ice-cream, a macaroon, a chocolate chilli tart and something else which I wasn't too keen on.  The chocolate chilli tart was really nice but a little too heavy for me at the end of the meal.  The other items, I didn't really enjoy.  Just not to my palette but I am sure others would enjoy.  Overall we had a wonderful evening and I would definitely come back.

This restaurant by far is the best food in the bay, I have eaten at most the top restaurants in this area and Mount Bistro has the best food! Only reason they didn't get a 5 was because the staff were dressed to casual wearing jandles/sandals and it took about 15 mins to get our first drink. Also, the décor inside prob needs an update some time soon

Amazing food! Some of the best I have had in Tauranga/Mount area, but have now resorted to ordering takeaway style as my friends/ family and myself feel that our last experience there was far below our standards. The lady of the house, had a bad habit of speaking over me, and making my friend (who is a supervisor and wine steward at Mills Reef) and myself (previuos wine steward and cocktail maker at Millennium Hotel) feel stupid when asking about the wine range they had available. Our waitress was good at taking orders but did not smile the whole time of doing it and did not try to talk to us at all to make us feel welcome or less of being just a paycheck. The best service we had all night was from the head chef as he brought my dads flambeed entree over.Overall delicious food, but customer service needs a big improvement!