Reviews for Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici in Hyde Park, NY
I didn't get to take pics for this dinner date but I wanted to write in and tell everyone about the sangria lol. YUM. It was a... white wine, which I wasn't expecting, but the lower you went into the drink it got sweeter and sweeter from the fruit. The foodwas amazing - I ordered the Marguerite pizza (it was pizza lol), Linguine Alle Vongole (delicious!), and the ZucchiniParmigiana... they used bechamel which made it intriguing for me enough to try it. I was not disappointed!!! SO GOOD. Thestudents were delightful to interact with, and we love asking them what they were going to the CIA for... it's actually ourfavorite part of the visit. Good luck to Granger, our waiter, in his studies, as one of the first to attend beer studies! Doknow that the restaurants add a 20% gratuity, which goes to the students as scholarship money. WORTH IT. Support these studentsand enjoy a great meal! Read more
Beautiful plating, lovely server- pasta was decent, entree was gross. Literally worse than airplane food.
Great meal! The students were clearly nervous and have not worked front of house much, but they tried their best and smiled. The... food was delicious! I always love coming up here to eat. I wish reservations were not always so hard to get Read more
From the CIA restaurants this is not my favorite restaurant, the food was good but I prefer Bocuse, they put more atention in... detail! My favorite was the taleggio ravioli, very nice sauce and is great that you could pick the size of the plate(portion). The pizza was good but nothing very original and I really didn't likes the parpadelle. For my taste the fresh pastashould had been a little bit thiner! Read more
I visited there for dinner with my wife on 7/3/2019. I really had a great experience dining there. Food and service were... excellent. My server, senior student HS Yoon was very attentive and served very professionally. The only issue was that foodwas served late. We loved it so much and returning next week with friends!. Thank you all students for good experience. Read more
Enthusiastic staff, disappointing menu. I haven't been to the CIA for quite some time and then always chose the French... restaurant, The Escoffier Room at the time. For a change and a Birthday celebration we tried the Italian. I was anticipating ahigher caliber of menu items. The roasted beet salad appetizer was delicious but fairly common. The Kale Salad was preparedchiffonade which created a seaweed appearance and a drier texture. Taste was good but nothing special. The first courseTri-starch selection featured Al dente risotto, rigatoni and agnolotti. The asparagus risotto had no real flavor and lacked thecreaminess that is intrinsic to the dish. The meat filling of the agnolotti was dry and oddly seasoned with no sauce tocomplement it. The Rigatoni had small cubes of Guanciale tossed in but neither the meat or sauce stood out. A "pan fried" porkcutlet Milanese seemed to have been deep fried but was tender. The accompanying sauce was flat but necessary. The fish of theday, King Sole I believe, was the highlight prepared with almonds and was the freshest of our selections. The Salmon was so so,a little dry, a little dull. We all traveled about an hour to lunch here and I can think of several restaurants that would havebeen closer and better. It it an experience? Yes. Is it worth the trip and rigamarole to reserve way in advance and park in acollege campus following signs to "restaurants" to find that Caterina de Medici is not among them? Not to me. Read more
Great food, great atmosphere. Some small service issues (our side veggies never came with dinner and it took quite a while to... get the check when we had tickets to an event on campus following dinner) but the staff was beyond courteous. Read more
Spent $200 on a forgettable meal. I know they?re students but it was just not seasoned well, all soft textures including the... skin on the chicken. The frisé on the appetizer was dressed really well with lemon vinaigrette but then on the entreecompletely dry. Waste of plate space when it could?ve been delicious. Coffee with dessert was cold. Tiramisu was delicious thoand everyone was nice. Read more