Reviews for Tavolàta in Seattle, WA
Came for restaurant week with friends and had an excellent experience. Service was great from the start. We chose from the... restaurant week menu and all loved our choices including the wine. Personally love the steak I had. The music was kind of loudwhen we first got there, but once the restaurant filled up we didn't even notice any longer. Highly recommend! Read more
Hip, vibrant and moody Italian restaurant, full of energy and dark lighting. Cool space, utilising the elongated building well,... with beautiful long central table, normal seating on one side and booth seating on the other. Some bar style seating upfronttoo. Open fiery kitchen at the back, and an upper mezzanine up a short flight of stairs. Sat at the bar and just caught happyhour (5-6pm), with full menu items slightly cheaper. Had the smoked fish bruschetta, which was great, and the meatballspaghetti, which was a generous size with good sauce, but wasn?t the biggest of fans of the thick glutinous spaghetti. Read more
Sluggish service: our waitress would disappear for 10+ minutes at a time, no obvious reason. Portions are huge, food is... competent if spicy. Very limited wine list. They were pounding Heavy Metal rock music at 80 decibels when we arrived. Grudginglylowered it to 77 decibels after three requests. Much better choices for dinner. Read more
Waitstaff were excellent. The food was good with choices I've not seen in other restaurants. The pasta with anchovies was a bit... overly anchovy tasting for me but if you love a strong anchovy flavor, then perhaps you would like it. The chicken was verytender with a good flavor. The salad was excellent. Read more
Lively atmosphere, and cute mood lighting. The service was slow, 25 minutes to get mains after ordering. The staff were all very... kind just not incredibly attentive (maybe due to waiter shortage?). They don?t have lemonade but the pineapple daiquiri (virgin)is a good substitute. The baguette with cheese and oil is well worth the $7. The pasta was good and a good consistency. Therigatoni was surprisingly spicy though. Not about the restaurant and not contributing towards the eating but worth noting ?parking around the restaurant sucks. The closest lot (Aprox. 2 blocks away) is $25 for an evening and street parking is agamble. Surrounding area is filled with sketchy people. Read more
Friends wanted some Italian food while in Seattle and this place came up as a good recommendation. We were able to get seated... right away without any reservations. The drinks were strong and the food was amazing. You can tell they made their own pasta andsauces. Recommend the gnocchi and the pappardelle. The reason for the 3 stars was for the slow service. Our waiter would comeover and take food and drink orders and then not come back and check in on us or see how everything was. Because of this once wereceived the check, we paid online using the QR code to not have to be there any longer. Read more
Came in on a Saturday evening, had a great time. They have a cool bar, open to the street. I went simple on the appetizer, just... a baguette, but it comes with a nice pair of dipping options. Later for dinner, I had the rigatoni; my friend had thepappardelle, and both were excellent. Nice wine list. Service was a tad slow at times, but it was a pretty busy summerweekend. Olympic Otter Read more
Restaurant vibe is bar like. Lights are very dim, Cheesecake Factory like! Service is very friendly! People bringing the food... were ok friendly but what more do they have to say right?!. Appetizers arrived quickly! Bread was really good and warm.Bruschetta was flavorful, tasted better the more time you allowed for it develop in your mouth. Drinks were good aswell. When it came down to the pasta, it was flavorful in some parts and not flavorful in others. I suppose, not uniform inflavor. Read more