Pronounced che-trella and named for Capri's fragrant valley with panoramic views, Cetrella offers rustic, worldly and free-spirited Mediterranean-rim and California coastal cuisine. Cetrella Los Altos occupies the northwest corner of the 400 Main Street business complex at the Village gateway. Its flagship restaurant on the San Mateo Coastside, Cetrella Half Moon Bay, launched in September 2001 to national recognition, with early features in Gourmet Magazine and San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants. For five years the Michelin Guide for the San Francisco Bay Area Recommended Cetrella.
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Pronounced che-trella and named for Capri's fragrant valley with panoramic views, Cetrella offers rustic, worldly and free-spirited Mediterranean-rim and California coastal cuisine. Cetrella Los Altos occupies the northwest corner of the 400 Main Street business complex at the Village gateway. Its flagship restaurant on the San Mateo Coastside, Cetrella Half Moon Bay, launched in September 2001 to national recognition, with early features in Gourmet Magazine and San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants. For five years the Michelin Guide for the San Francisco Bay Area Recommended Cetrella.
Designed by Hayes Group Architects, Cetrella Los Altos seats 200 patrons in the main Cetrella Valley and Silicon Valley dining rooms, scalable Grotto and Grove private rooms, adjacent screened outdoor seating, and full bar, and offers weekend live jazz and periodic wine dinners. Paintings by Matt Farrar, depict local-area scenes of a creek, foothills and redwoods, and distinguish the dining spaces with their grand presence.
Our kitchen serves flavorful Mediterranean-rim and California coastal dishes that source regional farms and artisanal purveyors. With an emphasis on accessible fine dining, the menus include seasonal egg, salad and sandwich entrées and soups, raw seafood, cheese flights, house-made breads and pastas, grilled vegetables, fish, fowl, field and game meats, rotating rustic entrées and house-made desserts. The Bar menu features Spanish-influenced small plates, including charcuterie, a wine country picnic, and wood-oven pizzas. An after dinner menu offers house specialty desserts and a cheese flight. The kitchen adapts dishes for patrons with food sensitivities and dietary preferences, and includes vegetarian and vegan options. Cetrella Los Altos is open seven days a week, serving brunch, lunch and dinner.
Cetrella’s Wine Cellar houses an international wine library to pair with its cuisine. The wine list includes vintages from ten countries, with strong regional holdings and more than a dozen varietals, including French Bordeaux and Burgundies, Italian Barolos and Tuscans, Spanish Priorats, Austrian Grüner Veltliner and German Mosel-Saar Riesling, and New World Chardonnays and Cabernets. We offer a global selection of dessert wines, grappas and ports by the glass. Completing the collection are signature wines, Cetrella Private Cellars Syrah and Cabernet from our sister enterprise, Liquid Sky Vineyards of Moon Mountain in Sonoma.
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