Pier 701 Restaurant Bar

Great place to visit for good food, friendly staff, great views and great ambiance. Kitchen is a bit slow, but in general is very good! Will come again!

I have been a customer of Pier 701 Restaurant from 2012. They got better and better every year, offering a selected variety of foods. Strategically located on Hudson River marina, with a magnificent view, this is also a strong reason to come back again and again. When you get tired of urbanization, you can take a road trip to Piermont. Small cute town bloomed like a flower in the last 10 years. You will find beautiful restaurants, ice cream store, boutiques, and a weekend market ran by mom and pop courageous entrepreneurs. Driving up the street by Hudson river, you will see several marinas. In one of them is nested Pier 701 restaurant. It has a big covered terrace, with indoors accommodations as well. Linen tablecloths and napkins, fireplace, generous delicious portions of food, nice wine, fantastic view, and you are all set for a relaxing weekend. No matter where I am, I always have pleasure of driving back to this place, eating well, and spend a few peaceful and pleasant hours. For this I would like to give credit where credit is due.

If I could give this restaurant less than one star I would. Absolutely disgraceful I ordered a veggie burger and they served me a frozen veggie burger ON TWO HOT DOG ROLLS. The fact that a manager thought this was acceptable to serve is insane. Save yourself the time and money and do not eat here.

Beautiful location. Perfect setting. Enjoyed a business meeting dinner and the food was good. Large portions. Waitstaff was tentative. Great place to bring a date. The view of the Mario Cuomo bridge lite up was amazing. I will definitely be returning to this establishment in the future. I feel like the menu was a little limited in what was offered, however, what was offered tasted good.

Pier 701 probably has one of the most enviable locations in the area it 's literally right on the Hudson, with incredible unobstructed views up and down the river with the Tappan Zee (no, I 'm not calling it anything else) directly to the north. Gorgeous on any day, but I had the fortune of coming by last Saturday for a baby shower on a picture perfect slightly nippy fall afternoon. The only downside was a wind that kept most of the festivities inside, though it was by no means torturous to go outside from time to time, especially if one had foresight to bring an ear warmer. I accidentally ended up parking about .3 miles to the south near the library and figured since it was a nice day that I could easily walk over even in my fashionable high boots (I was right). Because of that, I managed to avoid the valet parking that a lot of other people had to grit their teeth and deal with. Honestly, there 's no reason at all for them to have valet parking. It 's a perfectly normal parking lot that could easily accommodate self serve parking (a phrase that I 've never seen occasion to type before). The interior of Pier 701 is perfectly nice it has a pretty generic slightly upper middle class Italian vibe to it, with a spacious dining room area in the back. It 's exactly the type of place you 'd expect to host a gathering like this. Coupled with the outdoor deck/patio area, which has a bar off to the side, I 'm sure this is a pretty popular destination for a number of different activities. The women 's bathroom has a very odd, eccentric design there 's a stall right by the door with a diagonally placed toilet inside, along with a mirror so you could watch yourself in pretty explicit detail if you chose to. No one I spoke with considered it a negative, with one noble chum musing that it added a touch of whimsy. But if you 're more of the modest sort and anti whimsy, I 'd use a different stall. The food was very good. I thought the salmon was solid and the penne vodka was the star of the show. The roasted potatoes had the right consistency/texture but unfortunately were lacking in the taste department. There was a lot of salad too, but I don 't believe in consuming vegetables on the weekends so you 'll have to seek insight on that elsewhere. There was also a delightful gelato station, which the guest of honor said wasn 't initially an option but was included as a courtesy. Classy, and for my money, very tasty. I especially liked the inclusion of mini M&Ms as an optional topping, which to me have been underutilized by society as a whole. Service wise, this was essentially a catering job for the staff, with a few manning different food or drink stations, and others continuously bussing tables, keeping an eye out for empty water glasses, discarded plates, etc. Everyone I interacted with was very pleasant; no issues there. One piece of constructive feedback though would be the lack of professional attire most employees were in all black, with some wearing button down shirts with slacks. Perfectly appropriate in my view. This was a nice party, but by no means a black tie affair. However, there were several staffers sporting hoodies, and it wasn 't a great look. I 'd recommend for these types of gatherings that they tighten up their dress code a bit as a guest, I shouldn 't be dressed noticeably better than the employees. I tend to host my own shindigs, but I wouldn 't mind coming back for someone else 's party. I 'd probably park by the library again though.