Bata

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   Jerry

   VIP

   Milwaukee

   33 reviews

   5.0

   33 reviews

   Dined 1 day ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The best thing about BATA is the menu changes weekly based upon what’s locally available. The food, drinks and service are impeccable. I happened to be in the bathroom when the host walked in and he started picking up small scraps of paper towels off the floor. Great attitude. The crudo was our favorite and the carpaccio with roe was 2nd. We had a great night.
   

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   Vito

   San Francisco

   3 reviews

   5.0

   3 reviews

   Dined 1 day ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Great creative cuisine with very attentive staff..
   

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   Paul

   VIP

   Cleveland

   7 reviews

   5.0

   7 reviews

   Dined 1 day ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The menu is always inventive and beautifully layered flavors and textures. Each dish is a taste and presentation adventure. Service is top notch and the entire staff is exceptionally friendly. This is simply the very best restaurant in Tucson!
   

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   Valory

   San Francisco

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Always the best experience. Thank you Bata team!!!
   

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   Laurie

   New York City

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The manager found I had left my credit card behind and tomorrow he plans to bring it to me!
   

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   Charles

   VIP

   New York City

   26 reviews

   5.0

   26 reviews

   Dined 4 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The inventive menu met every expectation that the rave reviews I read here and elsewhere created. It was very stimulating to a jaded palette, the dishes by every turn inspired in conception and flavorful in execution. As the restaurant does not publish its perhaps daily changing menu, I can’t properly name my dishes. The mushroom tart came with (for a mere $7 supplement) generous lashings of OR black truffle. The albacore crudo was the best raw tuna dish I’ve had this year, with shavings of raw turnip providing an unexpected but brilliant counterpoint. Their Sonoran spin on beef carpaccio should be recorded in a published recipe. I’ve never seen squash sorbet on a menu—with candied orange zest, it made for a refreshing ending. My server was highly professional and well informed about menu and wine pairings. She graciously brought a gift dish when one of mine not mentioned here disappointed me. Finally, the prices here are a bargain for fine dining at this level. A great exemplar of Tucson’s culinary scene.
   

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   Karen

   VIP

   Phoenix

   19 reviews

   5.0

   19 reviews

   Dined 4 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   We ordered the “surprise”menu and let the kitchen decide what we were having. It was a fun experience and the food was amazing - creative and delicious. We really appreciated the unique no- alcohol drinks menu as well. I think this is our new favourite restaurant in Tucson. Great food, great service and great ambience. We appreciated being able to talk over dinner without shouting.
   

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   AndrewH

   San Diego

   2 reviews

   3.0

   2 reviews

   Dined 4 days ago

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 5

   We love this restaurant and have eaten here many times. The food is probably the most interesting and well executed in Tucson.
   

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   Troy

   Tucson

   9 reviews

   5.0

   9 reviews

   Dined 4 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Went to Bata with my wife & daughter to celebrate my daughter's birthday. What an amazing experience! Our server, Oliver, ensured our evening was special with top notch service, and the food (as always) was the best in town!
   

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    Troy

    Los Angeles

    4 reviews

    2.0

    4 reviews

    Dined 5 days ago

    1. Overall 2
    2. Food 3
    3. Service 2
    4. Ambience 2

    Overall disappointing. We went to celebrate our anniversary. They greeted us with a nice happy anniversary card which was a great way to start. Service was strained and hard to get attention of our server. Also kitchen was really slow. For the first hour all we got was a bread and our drink. We chose the $65 let the chef pick your dinner each plan, wish we didn’t do that. Our server apologized for the delays but didn’t really offer another complimentary drink or anything. Then 3 dishes hit at once and they were all mediocre, the kale Caesar thing was maybe the best but really tough greens they needed to be tenderized. All the dishes felt poorly executed but decent ideas. Head chef must not have been there that night. Many things were overcooked on the open fire grill. Turnips inedible. The cabbage charred but cooked on too hot grill the inside wasn’t tender. The sunchoke kimichi thing rocked with the braised beef that was the best balanced bite. The bean dish with purée was confusing and bitter, not sure what to call it. And the pancake with pickled onion was wayyyyy too salty. The NA soda was too sweet. Everything was lacking balance and refinement. Everything LOOKS nice which is what let us down. We ended up being there for 2.5 hours? And we wanted to leave by hour and half in. The squash sorbet was maybe the best thing…they gave us a complimentary anniversary piece of cake which was very nice and pretty with choclate script on plate. The little Cake piece didn’t taste good but it’s ok. Unfortunately I wouldn’t come back and I wouldn’t recommend. Something was very off and I’m certain other guests were feeling it across the board. Bummer.
    

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