This place is awesome, can you just imagine all the great who have passed thru it's doorway. Great food, service and wine is norm here. For a true romantic treat ask to dine in the wine cellar. I think the newest waiter on their staff has been there like 15 years. Talk about experience.

This place is amazing! it has a breath taking view and they have wonderful 3 course meals. this is a MUST to eat at. There are lots of tourist here. Monterey in general is just beautiful so eating here was a great experience for me. they customer service here is good and the environment is clean. this place definitely deserves to be rated 5 stars!

Lovely atmosphere, we had our dinner in what looked like a glass house, I think they call it the atrium. The tables where set around a huge planter box full of plants and trees. The food was to die for! Great appetizers and even better steaks. We'll be going there again!

My wife and I went to the Sardine Factory on a Tuesday night for a romantic dinner. It was recommended very highly at the Winery in Cannery Row by both the staff and the patrons. An extra perk was that they would have no corkage fee for any wine purchased at the winery, and we had purchased a nice bottle for the occasion.

The restaurant is beautiful, with multiple rooms each having their on charm. We ate in the Conservatory, a beautiful glass-domed room adorned with plants. We were dressed up and ready to enjoy a fine meal. All was going superbly, although we thought it odd that our host told us "welcome home" four separate times. Then, the sommelier swooped over, saw that we had brought our own wine, sniveled "Oh -- I see we have already made our choice," hastily opened the wine and unceremoniously left. That set the tone for the evening -- the staff acted like they were doing us a favor by serving us; quite a departure from the charming and sincere service at nearby Passionfish the previous night.

The meal was fine -- the abalone chowder was wonderful, my wife's mustard-glazed salmon was wonderful, and my scallops over lobster risotto was delicious. I don't think the food warranted the price ($9.50 for a cup of the chowder), and I wonder how it is that restaurant staff think it's good for their establishment to treat the patrons as if they don't belong. But there you have it -- I won't return there. It's too easy to get good meals at better prices and with better service.

I am a frequent visitor to Monterey and have had a pleasurable experience at the Sardine Factory before.
This experience was disappointing in the extreme. The ambience has not changed and is very pleasant,
we dined in the room with the blue and yellow wallpaper and the fireplace blazing. The service, while pleasant, was a bit forced and insincere, and was comprised primarily of young kids with minimal training. We ordered the abalone bisque and seafood delight, which consisted of 3 oysters, 4 mussels, 4 clams, 4 shrimp, and one-half of a very small Maine lobster-all for $35. The price was not the issue, it was the quality of the food itself. Both the shrimp and the lobster had obviously been refrozen and was quite mushy. When we told the staff they were ambiviolent. We cannot recommend this restaurant.