It had been 10 years since last I ate at this restaurant. It really was an amazing meal with great atmosphere. This past New Year’s we went to Sonoma to celebrate. I wanted to check out the Girl & The Fig, so we did. What a disappointment! The scene was a madhouse, the hostesses were clueless on how to negotiate so many people.
The signature salad was all arugula and half-a-fig which I had recalled as fabulous but was now an arugula forest and no fig — what happened? The entree were uneven. Mine, the seafood stew, was good, but the saffron overwhelmed the fish; my love had the chopped liver, and it was mediocre at best.
Even worse? It was a cold night in Sonoma and they put us by a plastic curtain where the wind slowly crept in and froze our legs. Didn’t freeze our taste buds though. What kind of quality restaurant puts a table by the cold plastic shield? Sad to see such a place lose its edge.
Better to go across the street to El Dorado…now that was good!
https://www.thegirlandthefig.com/
Outspoken Traveler 
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