Fig & Olive

Fig & Olive do not make most of their food in-​house, food is pre-​made/​frozen.

Went on Valentine’s Day so menu was quite limited. The filet was excellent, and the barley risotto was superb. The dessert was bitter and took 45 minutes to be served, all the tables around us received theirs even though our dinner was done much sooner. I would love to go back to enjoy the full menu.

Food: A decent dining experience. The meal began with 4 different crostini’s, none of which were really memorable. The scallops were delicious, perfectly cooked with a sweet raisin sauce. The artichoke burrata ate like separates — loved the cheese, but the marinated artichokes tasted like they came out of a can from TJs. Finally the Chilean Sea was excellent– perfectly cooked on a celery root purée and a sauce that made me wish i had more of that free bread to sop it up with. The rosemary lamb was meh and the gnocchi were dry and flavorless. The dessert was an update on the Dixie Cup I had as a child, but a little on the slushy side.
Service: Excellent, attentive, and always present to refill a wine glass or inquire about the meal, but not overwhelming.
Ambience: A little too dark — i felt like i needed a flashlight to read the menu. Décor was clean and simple.
Best item: Chilean Sea bass vs. scallops
Needs improvement: Crostini
Bottomline: Would go again on someone else’s dollar.

I came here with my friends for a farewell lunch and it’s a pretty tiny place. The décor is beautiful and you have to make reservations. The Salmon Crudo was sooooo good. At first, I was hesitant to try it because I don’t usually eat raw fish but I decided to go out of my comfort zone and boy was I glad I did! It was amazing! It literally melts in your mouth and you just want to eat more and more and more. I’m salivating just thinking about how delicious it was. We all ordered the Paella Del Mar which comes in a personal mini pan which is the cutest thing ever. It’s such a huge portion size that all of us were struggling to finish our meal. It was very well cooked and tasted very fresh. Service was good as well. My stomach & I left this place feeling very happy & satisfied. I definitely recommend this place!

We started off with the chefs special of crostinis which were really good, my favorite being the goat cheese and onion one. Then I got the pasta funghi with truffles which was amazing. So many mushrooms and you could taste the truffle sauce in every bite. My boyfriend had the salmon which he loved. Great fast device with a wonderful menu, definitely coming back!

Food here is pretty average. I went during restaurant week and ordered off the special restaurant week menu. The crostini appetizer is the best thing we ordered (which was an upsale on the RW menu). I had the fig and olive salad — very good but nothing special. The Tajine wasn’t cooked long enough. The potatoes were hard! and the chicken could have been more tender which shows it was not allowed to cook for as long as it should have.. For all the seasonings the dish claimed to have, it was a bit bland.
They were accommodating about my lactose intolerance and allowed me to substitute fresh fruit for dessert and I appreciate that a lot.

Came here for an anniversary dinner during restaurant week– but we ended up ordering off the regular menu because the restaurant week selections seemed… lacking.
My boyfriend ordered:
Butternut Squash & Chestnut Soup– very pretty presentation (a bit impractical though. They serve the soup on a plate rather than a bowl), Flavor was rich and the seeds/​nuts were very fragrant, neither were overwhelming in how they came together.
Paella del Mar– colorful, festive in flavor, overall very nice.
I ordered:
Truffle Mushroom Croquette– I fell in love. I truly did. It was so deliciously heavy in flavor, very savory and creamy. I ate every last bite and crumb, I couldn’t get enough of it!
The Mediterranean Tasting– The lambchops were soft, juicy, and cooked to perfection! The avocado/​salsa was tangy, and a great compliment to the herb grilled shrimp. The only thing i did not touch on the plate was the risotto– it was a bit too strong and cheesy for my liking, the only outlier on this ‘sampler’ dish.
Service was attentive and very informative, ambiance was upscale yet casual. I enjoyed my dinner very much and would love to visit again!

Amazing food. The most tasteful and well-​presented! You can never go wrong with the restaurant week pre-​fixed menu! My favorite were the croquettes. There is no doubt that I will come back again!

Really nice décor and ambiance (not too loud) but I read an article saying that they essentially take frozen food and reheat it. I thought the taste was rather mediocre as well; unfortunate because I used to love this place!

Great food. Took my girl friend here for her birthday. I booked my reservations through open table and made note that it was my GF’s birthday and asked if they could do any sort of special birthday surprise for dessert. When we came in, the hostess greeted us, turned to my gf and said, I understand its your birthday, right. Total fail on blowing the surprise and was really hard to get over through the entire meal. Host staff, if you are listening, don’t blow the surprise! Aside from this, food and service was on point. — 1 star for the «hiccup»

The ambience was nice and relaxing although they could of checked up on us a bit more, to make sure that everything was fine. I didn’t like the fact that the hostess was so close to where our table was so I didn’t have much privacy with my husband and that annoyed me. The food was excellent from the fig salad to the salmon. I didn’t enjoy the wine at all. All around I would definitely go back and have a different wine and I would choose a different place to sit.

Elaine took me and my colleagues here for lunch and I fell in love with this place! We had the 6 for 24 crostini appetizer that had a mix of their 6 crostinis. It was delicious, fresh and mostly unique ! the mixtures of sauces, meats and veggies on each crostini is like something I’ve never tasted before.
I personally had the Rosemary chicken panini and a shot of espresso. the espresso was amazing, one of the best I’ve ever had. the panini was delicious! the chicken was soft and the veggies were fresh. It came was a size of fries (another A+) and a mini balsamic salad.
Fig & olive, you nailed it. Highly recommended !

I have been to Fig & Olive several times but the one in Meatpacking District. I have to say that this place is super tiny and the food isn’t as great as the one on Meatpacking. Server was great but seemed like he was rushing us to leave to place. I HIGHLY recommend the other location. Is waaaay bigger and pleasant. Sangria was just ok. Not too tasty. You have to order the scallops. The are juicy and super tasty.

underwhelming. Went in with my boyfriend on a Sunday night and were seated by some lovely ladies. I wont go into detail because nothing awful happened, but this place is so not what I thought it would be. This feels and looks and tastes like a way over priced olive garden…

3.5, to be exact.
I came here for restaurant week. After you order, they provide complimentary bread, with 3 different types of olive oil (our plate included olive oil from Spain, Portugal, and Italy). The bread was a bit dry but the olive oils were quite tasty, and the waitress provided descriptions of the flavors of each one.
I had the chilled cucumber soup to start, and it was. interesting. It was my first time trying cucumber soup, so it may just be my personal preference, but I expected it to be more refreshing, but instead it was more savoury than I wished. Not bad, just not what I had in mind.
I really enjoyed my entrée though — I had the seared salmon, with grilled asparagus and pea purée, and it was very delicious. I tried my sisters paella, which was super flavourful as well.
For dessert, I had the panna cotta, which had a crumble topping and also included a side of sorbet — the sorbet was refreshing, and the panna cotta was good too. (Nothing spectacular though)
The décor was nice too, but I felt the service was just mediocre.

3 stars because of horrible service but tasty food. I made a reservation for dinner at 7:30pm for 4 and we all got there on time. We waited about 10 minutes for our table to be ready, which was uncomfortable because there is technically no space to stand and NO AC!!! It was nicer to stand outside than to be inside. So finally we got seated. My bf’s chair had bread crumbs and what not all over the chair. Nobody bothered to clean it even when he was very obvious about it. Then there was this piece of who-​knows-​what STUCK on the RW menu. STUCK. We both tried to flick it off. IT DOESN’T COME OFF. Disgusting. We pointed it out to our waitress and she gave us the whatever look and went off with it. Twice they switched my dish with my bf’s. I don’t understand how.
The food was tasty. We had the RW menu. I had the mushroom croqette. Bf had the beef carpaccio. Our friend had the salad (she loved it). I ordered the truffle risotto, and bf had paella. Our friend had the Tajine. It looked ok. The paella is very small (since it’s RW) and my risotto tasted like my croquette. So basically my main dish and my appetizer tasted the same. The dessert was good. I had the crostini and bf ordered the chocolate cream.
The place is very small and BLAST THE AC ON A HOT SUMMER NIGHT PLEASE! I saw a couple of other bad service reviews… which means the service level changes depending on who they are serving.

Came here for restaurant week. I ordered the Salmon crudo, Paella Del Mar, and the Panna Cotta. The food was delicious and the portions were nice. I left with a full stomach and happy taste buds.
Before coming, I made reservations so there was no wait at all, food came quickly and the servers and hostesses were very friendly.

Nope, never again.
I was extremely disappointed by the waitress at this Fig & Olive location. My boyfriend and I walked in expecting to have a nice dinner and immediately felt uncomfortable. Our waitress greeted us at the door by scanning me up and down and completely ignoring my boyfriend. We were seated immediately, our food came out quickly, and our waitress checked half-​heartedly checked in with us twice. I’m not sure what about us (or anyone) would warrant such treatment.
The food itself was good (we ordered the octopus appetizer, a vegetarian ravioli, and the yellow-​fin tuna entrée) though (unsurprisingly given the location) a bit overpriced when compared to more moderate price tags further downtown.
However, I’m never coming back to this or another Fig & Olive location again and saving my friends the mistake of suffering through such rude customer service.

I had been yearning to try Mediterranean restaurant, Fig & Olive for quite some time now so I jumped at the chance to dine at Fig & Olive for lunch during Restaurant Week. My friend and I ate at the Uptown location, which was beautiful, sleek, elegant and cozy with comfortable seating, which had an intimate feel.
After we settled in, we were served a plate of rosemary focaccia bread pieces and three different types of olive oil: Two from Spain and one from Italy. The bread was mediocre, a little bit dry but the olive oil was rich and tasty.
For my appetizer, I chose the truffle mushroom croquettes, which were delicious fried balls of cremini mushroom parmesan and béchamel, served with truffle oil aioli. They were incredibly flavorful, fresh and wonderful!
The main course was Rosemary Lamb, which consisted of grilled lamb and red bell pepper on skewers with rosemary ends, a fig and cous cous with red onion, scallions and tomatoes, and sauce made out of Greek yogurt base. The lamb was amazing… Perfectly cooked, tender, well-​seasoned and incredibly appetizing. The cous cous was also quite good, and I normally don’t like cous cous that much. I enjoyed both the lamb and cous cous with the sauce, giving the dish more depth.
There were only two options for dessert, so my friend and I ordered one of each so that we could try both. The «Dessert Crostini» was Amarena cherry and mascarpone on top of pistachio shortbread with basil. There were two of these so it was perfect and I liked the taste of mascarpone on the shortbread but I thought the cherries were way too sweet.
The chocolate pot de crème, which came with a crunchy praline financier (basically a fancy Kit Kat bar) and vanilla cream on top, was out of this world delectable. It was incredibly chocolate-​y and had a lovely smooth consistency with just the right amount of sweetness.
I really enjoyed my meal at Fig & Olive. The service was also high quality. I would highly recommend trying out this restaurant!

This Fig and Olive is pretty good, but quite a bit smaller than the others, and a little cramped. The décor and service are both still nice.
We had the shrimp and salmon salad — it was very tasty on arugula and with the sour-​cream toast and avocado. We also had the mushroom croquettes. They’re heavier than they look (as in, a little greasy), but very tasty, and very good with the cheese and sauce.