Pinot Bistro
12969 Ventura Blvd
Studio City, CA
(818) 990-0500GOOGLE MAP

This place is pretty incredible. A small restaurant from the outside on Venture Blvd's north side, it has reasonably priced valet parking. The inside is quite nice and elegant, with a dining room on one side, and a full sized bar on the other, along with some tables, near the window and along the bar. We sat on that side next to the window. Their are also seats out front on the sidewalk for when it is warmer. The service was excellent as was the food, this is highly recommended!

Actually can't say how good the normal food here is, as we had the special Valentines Day meel, which was a 4 course French Meal with Dessert for $68 Per Person, and was fantastic.Here is the menu for that
night.
PatinaGroupPinotBistroValentinesMenu.pdf

She had the Celeriac Soup, which was incredible and almost tasted like New England Clam Chowder it was so rich, wow, while I hd the Asparagus, Shallots and Brioche which was quite excellent. For the second course we both had the Steamed black mussels, which were just mussels out of the shell in the tomato fondue, with a sauce to dip them in as you ate them, excellent and so fresh. For the main course we both had the red wine pached beef tenderloin, which while hard to cut literally melted in your mouth! It was so succulent it was divine!

For dessert we decided to try one of each, so she got the Chocolate with mango sauce, and mango pieces, which was incredibly rich and incredibly tasty!

I on the other other hand got the Passion Fruit Pana Cotta with Rasberries, which was also excellent and went quite well with the chocolate!

To accompany the meal we had an excellent Riesling, an Emrich Schónleber Nahe 2001 Monzinger Halenbery Riesling Spótlese which was fruity, slightly sweet and incredible. I will do a separate short review of it.

This was an incredible meal, if a little pricey, but well worth it. Wow, what an amazing Valentines Day dinner. Just incredible!!!