Tre Lune

Great vibe, great food. Stands out even in a town with lots of good eats.

We had an overall good experience! The waiter was very knowledgeable of the foods and wines. Venue is small and intimate, not noisy at all. We had a RSVP, and got seated right away. We would come back again!

All items ordered were excellent (see list below). It was ½−¾ full and people next to us were upset as no one came to take their order for a long while. Our server was friendly and nice but they all seemed a little too busy with both inside and outside seating.
The manager was seen by us eating with his fingers from a container in the area between the kitchen and dining area. Guess he likes the food also.
Items we loved were:
–Special asparagus soup for the day.
–Melazane (rolled eggplant with mozarella and basil in tomato sauce). This was not salty at all. Just perfect.
–Grilled seafood (lobster, crab, shrimp, scallop, and fish) with a side of vegies.
–Salmon in lemon sauce with vegies. The salmon was extremely fresh and the sauce was perfect!
PS: little dogs were allowed inside the restaurant and sat with a woman everyone seemed to know. There were dogs outside as well but weren’t sure about them being inside albeit they were cute!

Montecito isn’t lacking in Italian restaurants but Tre Lune feels and tastes the most authentic. The service is attentive and the atmosphere charming, cozy and exclusive (but not snobby). We like the pasta dishes but tend to favor the chicken or pizza which are good to split. The pizza selection is extensive, reasonably-​priced and really top notch, not what you would expect from such a toney place.

Although I don’t go there often I really love Tre Lune! It is so adorable with the white table cloths and all of the tiny little chairs that circle the the room, each an honor to a special regular who is lucky enough to frequent this great little restaurant.
I guess you would call it an Italian place based on the menu but I have only been once for dinner. Breakfast time it is waffles, pancakes and Eggs Benedict. Everything I have had there is delicious and the portions are big, don’t think I have ever finished an entire meal.
I love the Eggs Benedict and have had the omelette which was delish. Once I splurged and had a Bloody Mary with my breakfast but I usually just have the delicious cappuccino.
What is really great though is that you are at the most beautiful restaurant with most delicious food, sitting in a room with all of the movers and shakers of Santa Barbara eating an omelette for the same $ 13 that you would probably pay at Esau’s. I do think the $ 7 bagel and cream cheese is a little steep though but I guess they have to keep out the riff-​raff.

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Please don’t review this business if you received a freebie for writing this review, or if you’re connected in any way to the owner or employee. I realize that the majority of people that have reviewed this restaurant love it. Therefore I only wish to report our experience. Like the one person in the crowd all of whom where cheering the emperor, we only, realized he had no clothes. I ordered a 12 dollar glass of La Spinetta sparkling Rose. I am familiar with the wines from this producer and they are all excellent. Our server brought the order not in a flute but in white wine glass. I saw one bubble rise to the top of the glass. Clearly this was tired sparkling wine and should have never been served. My server had no clue that this was improper. I ordered the frittura mista, Fritto Misto to the cognoscenti. An inferior imitation of this classic Italian dish! The fried crust on the seafood more reminiscent of Coney Island than the Amalfi Coast. I console myself that it was lunch not dinner and although we did not sample other things on the menu why bother!

Tre Lune is a very quiet and well appointed eatery in Montecito on Coast Village Road. I had a group of five for breakfast. The service was good and the food was slightly above average. I had eggs Benedict at a price point of $ 18 and a couple in our party had bananas foster French toast which was stated to be ok but that you could taste too much rum. We had a snafu when paying out as our server double charged when we were trying to payout. That took a while to correct. All in all, pretty decent, and a nice setting.

We ate there last night. The food was great but our waiter was TERRIBLE and RUDE. I’d love to give this restaurant a higher score but the service from the waiter specifically was so bad it left us shaking our heads. It really doesn’t matter how good the food at a restaurant is if the wait staff makes you never want to return.

Italian food done right. Deliciously excellent linguine alla vongole. Perfect N.Y. Steak. Righteous fettuccine al fredo. Wine list superbly Italian. Atmosphere authentic. And one could converse without yelling at each other. Treat yourself.

We loved this place. It was very quaint, romantic with great service. The bread was fresh. Highly recommend the vegetables called Margo. My husband and I both had pasta dishes. Mine was so unique with truffles, leeks and mushrooms. We will come here again.

The place is dark and noisy. Service is good but at Montecito pace, i.e. slow. The Greek omelette was totally bland due to lack of any seasoning. Potatoes tasted old but the bacon was good.

This is a great place for breakfast when you are visiting Montecito. The Greek omelet is amazing. The Bloody Mary is perfect and the service is attentive and fast. It is an elegant but casual place with cloth napkins on the tables and nice decorations. I would recommend getting reservations for larger groups.

Favorite Italian restaurant in town
The food is always amazing. We have never been disappointed once.
The chef and the staff are so nice
It’s super close to our house so we come here often

Every time I come here, it’s a treat. I usually come for breakfast and it’s never a let down. I order their omelettes frequently and they’re always great.
They have a great selection of teas. including blossoming tea which is really neat! They always have fresh rose buds on each table and customer service is always wonderful. I’d recommend this place for anyone who happens to be near by. whether you’re a local or just passing through.

I’m writing this review based on a take out order, so in defense of the restaurant, and perhaps a great experience you have had, this is all about take out. The gist of this review applies to many restaurants. This is my personal rant on expensive take out!
I always am leery about take out from places, that although have tremendous food, sometimes just don’t get it right with food that travels. I almost wish a restaurant would say «no» to take out, rather than allow the dishes to leave the restaurant in a plastic container, in the way it was not meant to be. But as diners, we fuel this problem by demanding the food from our favorite restaurants, be allowed to be eaten at home. Pizza, chicken wings, Italian beef sandwiches and the like, were designed to travel, be reheated, microwaved, eaten cold, or be eaten days later without much harm. And chances are, you didn’t spend an arm & a leg on this stuff, so who really cares. You stuffed yourself on a mediocre, yet piping hot pizza!
We were in town to visit friends in Santa Barbara. Last minute, we decide to get food to-​go. Mind you, there’s plenty of great food in SB, but it was getting a little later in the evening, and the town of Montecito was just a few blocks away. We stopped by the Honor Bar, which we should have ordered from, but the group had take out from them a night before. Great place. A glass of wine was had, but we decided to opt out for Italian.
Tre Luna is just steps away, so we head over there. Pretty full, but we make our way to the small bar in the back. Nice little place filled with diners of all ages. Probably lots of old money, pampered by the staff in the know. I get it.
We have a couple glasses of wine and order take out. Pollo limone, pollo marsala, burrata caprese, Tre Luna salad, soup, caesar salad & grilled calamari. It took a while to get the order, but they were busy, so no big deal. We get our bag, and we’re home in minutes.
Let’s eat! But wait! Where’s the $ 11 Caesar salad? Not there! We’re hungry & tired. Forget about it, and let’s just eat. The 2 small foil containers of Marsala & Limone go really fast between the four of us. The grilled calamari is barely eaten. It’s too chewy. The Tre Luna salad & soup are just uneventful. The saddest was the burrata caprese. We’ve all had this in some shape or form. Some fresh burrata, fresh basil, perhaps some nice heirloom tomatoes. A little sea salt & you’re done! Not so much here. The burrata was fine, but the tomatoes were a total embarrassment to the history of this simple dish. Perhaps a small Roma tomato was used, sliced so thin, that the «carpaccio style» sliced tomatoes were buried under the weight of the cheese. They should have worn a mask, robbing $ 17 from me for this dish.
What else can I say. Were the chicken dishes both mediocre because they were take out? Was the calamari chewy because it steamed itself into a frenzy under the tight lid? But that caprese? They have no excuse for that or the missing Caesar salad.
I sometimes believe that the kitchen figures that when preparing items to go, they can short change the customer. There’s no manager or server to immediately bitch about the portion, or the thinly sliced tomatoes. It’s all wrapped up in tight little containers. Hell these cooks have a bunch of food going out to the dining room & this take out is just a pain in the ass to them. Throw it in a container & pack it away. We’re busy in here dammit!
So in part, I’m to blame for expecting great food, (when it is), to be eaten off premises, out of a foil container, 15 minutes after it came out of the kitchen. But on this flip side, you said it was ok to do carry out. You stock the containers, the bags, the plastic forks, etc, to facilitate your precious food to take home. There were no discounts off the bill stating that carry out food tends to be much crappier than food eaten in, so here’s 25% off the bill for this mediocre presentation of our food.
As a restaurant, you secretly know, that a take out order requires just the cost of the containers, bag, plastic ware, etc. There’s no bus boys, dishwashers, servers, expensive napkins or a prime table taken up on a Saturday night. All of the expense that goes into a table of a 2 or 4 goes away, and simply packaged up into a shopping bag full of mediocre food. We spent $ 125 plus a 20% tip.
The bottom line here? If you’re out to preserve the authenticity of your Italian dishes, either figure out a way to send them home with the integrity of the dish, as dined in-​house, or just deny us take out! Or maybe just say that all food to go, is ½ off? Then no one complains. We took a risk & you rewarded us.
It’s just not acceptable to spend that kind of money, for such a major disappointment.
I’m done!

To be perfectly honest, I love this place. Or did until my last visit. I have celebrated birthdays, births, life, people’s memories after they have passed and just any occasion to eat at this place. But the last time I was there for lunch something happened that surprised and disappointed me all the same.
My friend and brother and I were there having a late lunch. Eating, drinking, being marry. We had been there for some time as had the couple sitting next to us. A woman who works there (manager possibly) eventually came up to us as said that we would need to clear the table soon and they had reservations for dinner. She didn’t mention anything to the couple sitting at a four top next to us.
Now I’m not saying she is racist, but I wonder. I feel like we were discriminated against. To the best of my recollection, i have never run into this before. My friend has. Many times. I wasn’t sure how to handle it because it is such a tricky situation. It isn’t blatant, but it is. It is just a hunch. And it really is gross.
I almost went back to the restaurant to confront this woman. I regret not doing that. Not only to stand up for my friend, but to stand up for my own beliefs and everyone else who has experienced this anywhere. I’m so incredibly disappointed in Tre Lune.

If there was a restaurant that perfectly captured the dolce far niente — sweetness of doing nothing — Tre Lune would be it. The small, intimate bistro strikes notes of romantic sophistication, infused with the warmth and family-​style atmosphere that makes Italian cuisine so comforting. The food is delicate, fresh and flavorful, just as you’d hope and the service was lovely. Our waiter never rushed us, offered recommendations, and ensured that each course was an experience rather than a chore. It makes for a perfect date night — complete with candlelit terrace seating, an extensive Italian wine menu, and fare meant to share. Tre Lune far outshines it’s celebrated neighbor, Trattoria Mollie (which gets weighed down by snobish staff, despite the fabulous kitchen team). If you’re looking for high-​end Italian in Santa Barbara, Tre Lune gets my vote for charm and taste.

Muy buen ambiente, rico, servicio excelente! Sobre todo la mesa que nos toco en la vereda… Eramos 4 con 6 niños, como nos miraban los que llegaban después! Pero realmente muy bueno, un chardonnay de Carneros y un pinot noir de Sonoma.

I am always fond of dinning at Tre Lune the food is excellent and service, usually good…
My guest and I arrived at 11:45 am Sat. And informed the servers we would like breakfast and we were waiting for four others,
Party of six.
The servers informed me that we would not be able to dine for breakfast… That we would have to choose from the lunch menu.
seeing only three tables occupied and being that it was before noon on a sat. We were quite disappointed.
The six of us had a fabulous breakfast at Jeannine’s down the street.

Local Montecito with all that it conjures lunch scene … Beautiful people, understated wealth & the occasional overstated, put together California style, good for business lunches to girls lunches and multi generational family lunches.
Spice tip: If u like spice, ask for the pepper infused olive oil. Yum. One of the best
Ordering tip: good luck is needed sometimes: Mushroom tagliatelle special. Very good but when I ordered to have lots of mushrooms, it seems the opposite was presented. Tre lune I am a fan, but please Don’t skimp on this especially if request is for more.
Servers: polished and do try. Maybe disconnect with kitchen and waiter
Breakfast: yum good veggie sauté. Delicious but witnessed same disconnect between kitchen and servers with a few lost in translation moments. This was the case for my friends… but was still tasty and great ambience for morning start.

Best coffee and service
Have had great dinners here am now trying breakfast
I make preserves so I had to taste the ones they make here even before my breakfast
Wow
Lots of fruit not too much sugar
Best preserves and coffee on the planet