We were lucky enough to enjoy the tasting menu at Uccellino after a long day of meetings. It was…read morethe perfect way to unwind, slow down and recover from the day. I started the meal with the Don Vito cocktail, a spirit forward sweet concoction of Cognac, Bourbon and Limoncello. Immediately felt like it set the perfect tone for dinner. The tasting menu started with four appetizers, the Arancini, Goat Ricotta Crostini, Insalata Siciliana and the Culatello. My favorite was the arancini as it was packed full of melty cheese with so much flavor. The culatello was a crowd favorite and the crostini was a great palate cleanser. For secondi we had the Truffle Gnudi and Paccheri. For people who like meaty flavors go with the paccheri, but I liked the light cheese and truffle of the gnudi. By the time the Pollo Al Mattone came around, I could only manage a mouthful of the succulent brick chicken and the fresh cabbage salad as I was so full and would need to be rolled out of the restaurant. We ended with the Chocolate Budino, which was dark, creamy and delicious. A great tasting menu at a great price, especially compared to Toronto prices!

I feel it's a bit challenging to rate this business. I start…read morewith things I didn't like much and end with positives: The place was very very noisy! It felt like a busy bar during an important hockey game! The lighting was not the best and it was affecting the ambiance and vibe of the business! These two items bothered me a bit! The staff was nice and helpful and pretty efficient! The food quality, the taste and the presentation were all really good! I loved them all! The wine our friend ordered was really good and overall I enjoyed our food and drink a lot. I think this business has room for improvement! However I'll still go back there as it is!

I still come here faithfully. I can't believe it's been ten years since I've written again. I…read morerecommend this place to everyone. Fantastic owner, I would support this place for him alone. But the food is always incredible. I just started veering away from my favourite dish and now have two other faves. All of the apps are great! And did I mention their cocktails. Because they are truly something to come for alone. My friends always love the dessert but I'm too full to even try it! But they all love it! Forever a staple and I hope it never leaves us downtown.

Amazing staff! Amazing food! 10/10 highly recommend!!! didnt have a reservation but they squeezed…read moreus in. So friendly!!! Love love love this place!

Bottom level was 40% full 7PM on a Tuesday night. Upstairs was booked for private event…read more Server was professional if not a little stiff. Place has "very fancy" feel and would be good for special events/celebration dinners. Free bread to start was fine but not the best I have had. I prefer mine with butter but the oil/vinegar is probably more typical. We tried the: Calamari: 10/10, great texture, loved that we got 2 sauces to dip in. Fettuccine Tavolino (cheese wheel pasta): 10/10. Boyfriend was not too full after. Pasta was cooked perfectly. Nice cheesy creamy flavor. Ravioli Alla Zucca: 9/10, I can't remember if there were 6 or 7 ravioli in the dish. Very pleasing presentation. In my opinion too many sundried tomatoes. I love that it comes with sundried tomatoes as that added some great tang/flavor. Ravioli themselves were perfectly cooked. Brown butter sauce was excellent and wanted more. Creme Brule: 9/10, exactly as expected, definitely enough to share between 2 people. Affogato: vanilla gelato was 11/10 good to me but boyfriend didn't like the flavor. We both agree the espresso was excellent. Very small portion (too small to share!). Free cookies at the end were fine. Overall food was excellent and I'll be back but to try something different on the menu.

I had really high hopes for this meal but it was just so very disappointing and I can't imagine…read moreever returning. To be clear, the service was not 1 star. We were greeted nicely, asked where we wanted to sit and had our water orders taken quickly. We had to wait a while for our server but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt as I don't think he is a server and may have had other things to do. But it w asnt busy and we were paying a lot so I should expect a little more attentive service. We eventually ordered an appetizer, each had a special and drinks . The appetizer was a lobster and cream cheese dip with toasted pita. And it was very good, though the pita was just cut in triangle. Hard to mess that up. The dip was fantastic and cheesy with big chunks of lobster. Great start and we were excited. That is the end of anything good. My wife ordered the special ravioli with shrimp, scallops and mussels. The shrimp was decent but nothing special. The scallops needed a better sear and were a bit soggy. The mussels were so small as to be almost tasteless. But the crime was the actual ravioli. It was thick and under cooked. The stuffing was good but you can't get over the huge bites of undercooked pasta. It was very off putting. The sauce and stuffing made it palatable but my wife couldn't finish .And I know it wasn't just us because I talked to friends at another table who said the same thing about theirs. I ordered the surf and turf special. Big mistake. Great presentation with the big lobster tail and good looking steak. The lobster was good. Not great. But it was a bit bland if you didn't dip it in the butter. And it seemed way smaller than the shell. I gave a bite to my wife and that left me with basically 3 more bites. And I'm not talking big bites. Normal bite sizes. Seemed the shell was larger than the meat in it. The steak looked great. But I couldn't even swallow the first bite. It was so stringy and fatty. It is hard trying to spit out food at a fancy restaurant. But I had to. And not just once! Every piece around the edge was fatty and gristly and stringy and I couldn't eat it. I tried to cut around the sides and just eat middle pieces. Managed to get a couple pieces but most of them were still stringy and I had to chew forever to get it down to size to swallow. My jaws hurt. In the end, I managed to eat less than half and left two big spit balls of inedible meat and the circumference of fat on the plate. To make it worse, it was close to rare and almost raw looking in some parts despite ordering medium rare. Just an awful steak all around. The mashed potatoes were very good though not plentiful and not near enough to overcome the meat. The veggies of one carrot, one bush of broccoli and a couple soggy zucchini slices were well done and actually I could have made a meal of them and been almost satisfied. When we started the dinner a group of four was sat behind us and they were the loudest people ever. No indoor voices. They seemed to know our waiter as they had a couple loud conversations with him and he was over a lot. I mean our food was terrible but the ambience had been nice. There was at least that. But now even that was ruined by these people. And I know I can't blame the restaurant for that. But I will say that they got much more attention from that point than we did. I actually think he came over exactly once to see how things were and we didn't get offered another drink at all. Our water glasses were refilled, not always by him. Again, maybe he had other things to do, but he seemed to have time for this other table. But I would still expect more attentive service at a place like this. By this time, we just wanted to leave. My wife still had half her plate and my plate looked like a bloody massacre on porcelain. Then our waiter came with a dessert with a sparkler going. Our friends surprised us by ordering it. It was bread pudding with a ball of vanilla ice cream. The bread pudding was good not great. IBut it was passable and it was free so that makes it better. Ice cream is ice cream and great but it is ice cream and hard to mess that up. In all it was a passable dessert but did not come close to making up for the atrocity that was the main course. Unfortunately, we are not the kind to send food back or cause a scene but it would have been deserved. Anyways, he leaves us the machine and we don't see him again. Got a good bye and thanks from the hostess but that was it. We got in the car and looked at each other and agreed it was terrible and we would never go back and that we would have a do-over anniversary in a couple months to make up for it. Such high expectations and promising start but overall not good at all. There are too many good restaurants to go to and explore in this city to waste another night there.

It was a great place that my friend suggested! The place was nicely designed and cozy and the patio…read morewas open since it was a nice day! Staff were friendly and helpful and the food was fantastic. I enjoyed my experience and I'll definitely go back there again! Highly recommended! :)

Came here for Valentines day set dinner menu. Sourdough…read morestarter bread was so hard and dry. Shrimp were 10/10. Arancini 10/10. Crab ravioli was fine 8/10 (pasta itself was great but the filling was underwhelming), but scallops served within was 10/10. Raspberry mouse was so-so to me 7/10, but boyfriend loved it. Drinks: Holy Water was surprisingly very weak in overall alcohol flavor and taste Pink Lady: also very weak in flavor but lemon sorbet in it was good. Overall they have amazing pasta here and its a nice date-night place.

Hidden gem. This was some of the best Italian food we've had in quite some time. - not just in…read moreEdmonton but period. The portions are huge but the food itself is clearly made from scratch. I can't sit to try more items on the menu. What's funny is we tried to get reservations somewhere much more high profile and couldn't for weeks, but I truly think Nuovo Bistro's food is likely superior! The service was spectacular as well. We enjoyed chatting with our server. He was friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. He even gave us the whole bottle of wine even though we only ordered glasses. The restaurant is cozy but not over the top. Anyone could feel comfortable coming here. We will be back again soon!

The food quality is exceptional Most pasta here is hand…read morerolled in house by a chef who has been at Nuovo for 10 years Highlights are Wild mushroom gnocchi & lasagna, Absolutely my favourite hole in the wall Italian.

Place was 50% full Saturday at 2PM. Gender specific bathrooms with stalls…read more Place feels very classy and professional. Server was nice but never refilled our table water even after we moved it a couple times to be within her view of the table (my friend swears he saw her see us move it to the edge of the table too). Rialto Float cocktail was nice if you like Pisco. Royal Jamaican Ginger beer was good too. Olive Calde - large portion for price. Olives were fine. Calamari - 10/10 delicious, dips were great too. Gnocchi with pancetta - 10/10, surprising filling and even though the Gnocchi were huge chunks they were well cooked. Waitress recommend Campanella Aragosta - 7/10. If you like spicy it's fine but otherwise the flavor is actually very bland. Pasta itself was unique and well cooked. Large portion. Beef Brisket Agnolotti - 7/10, 8 large ravioli filled with brisket. Sauce was good, ravioli were well cooked but brisket inside was pretty underwhelming. Friend who got this dish was ++ hungry still after and said he would order something else next time for the price. Funghi Cipolla - 8/10, it was as expected. Ricotta cheesecake - cheesecake itself was great with the ricotta taste but crust was soooo bad. So overly thick and dry and considering our waitress failed to give us water the entire meal it was impossible to eat (so dry). Date cake - Unfortunately they didn't have gelato as was advertised on the menu to go with the cake so whipped cream was substituted. Was told this only after we ordered and friend asked for the flavors of gelato. Cake had a few uncooked flour lumps. Flavor was fine but not as flavorful/spice-heavy as I hoped. Sprouts on top looked really messy but tasted fine. Overall not a seamless experience as I would have expected from an establishment of this caliber.

It was my first experience. It was a sunny day and we looked for a nice restaurant with patio and…read morewe found this restaurant and went there. The place was beautifully designed and decorated. The staff were friendly and they had a big patio. We ordered some drinks and all of them were delicious and fantastic. The appetizers were delicious with big portions. The food was delicious and we loved them. Desserts were also very delicious! Overall we loved our experience and we will definitely go back there again! :)

Had a Cold Meals with my Party of the 10 People who were at my Birthday party in May this past year…read more... I WONT BE GOING BACK EVER!!!!

Food is always top notch, prices are reasonable and the service is friendly and helpful when…read morehaving your order for special dietary needs. We love this place.

Pazzo Pazzo is a great place for dinner after work, or before a game or a show. The service at…read morePazzo Pazzo was good, and the staff were friendly. However, at times, it felt like the service was a bit slow. The restaurant has an intimate atmosphere, which is nice for a cozy dinner. We ordered the Bruschetta, Penne Pazzo, and of course the Tiramisu! I must say, the quality and taste of the food hasn't changed in the last 10 years. It's still delicious, and the portion sizes are quite generous. Pazzo Pazzo is easy to access, with an entrance right off the street and low tables for comfortable dining. Street parking can be limited, but there are parking lots nearby, so you should be able to find a spot.

The absolute best pasta in Edmonton. The portions are HUGE, and the taste is exceptional. I go in…read moreknowing that my leftovers will be a full meal worth! The service is always wonderful and quick, even when they're busy.

Awesome Italian restaurant food is really good with generous portions…read more Restaurant has been busy every time we go which tells you how good they are Definitely worth going to Nello's

Excellent service, great food, and big portions. Be prepared…read moreto take home leftovers. Free parking.

Overall, it was a fantastic night! The service was excellent and she greeted me warmly with a…read morefriendly smile. I'd definitely tip her well. They serve sparkling water which is amazing but remember everything comes at a price. Two glasses cost me $10, haha. The short rib and steak were delicious and all the other dishes were great too. The only slight disappointment was their old-fashioned cocktail. I don't know what to say but it wasn't surprising and it wasn't 2oz. It was a bit small. The environment was great though, with an open kitchen and a very clean space. We'll revisit.

Great Italian staple in the donsdale neighborhood. Not sure the private room or set menu are worth…read morethe price but you can't go wrong with any of the dishes on the menu.