Bistro 33

Avoid this place. Ignoring some of the other unstellar yelp reviews, I brought my family here when they came to visit because this is a cool looking place from the outside and seems like a nice-casual type of restaurant. Seriously though, heed everyone else and don't make my mistake!

We had a pretty bad experience all around: they were out of some of the wines we tried to order, they messed up one of the orders, the others took forever to come out, the portions were tiny for some meals but not for others (none of it was worth the price though), and our waitress was terrible. My sis is a waitress at a nice-casual place like this, and said she would have been fired if she worked like that. At least we all left with a good story about how bad this place was!

4 stars might be for the lack of places to go at night in Davis, but even so I like it.  Sophie's can be full of  drunkards and Bistro's a great place with appetizers you can go have a couple of drinks with friends at. Very good food and drink menu, great to so-so service...never sit at the bar close to the door...always the sides.  You'll get much better service

They have a great location and the design and layout of the restraunt  is nice.  They have a great patio area with plenty of seating.  The quality of food, especially considering it is not super cheap, is extremely poor.  The service has been very bad on the several occasions I've been there.  The waiters don't seem to understand the food or drink menu very well.  The most recent time I went there service was very slow and I had to re-order several times because they had run out of multiple ingredients and draft beers.

In conclusion: Bistro has a great location, nice ambiance and higher cost version of Apple bee's quality food.  There are much better, lower cost, higher quality food places in Davis.