I do love this restaurant. Took my sister and brother in law (from Florida) for dinner. My husband had the ravioli - excellent. My brother in law had the special sea bass- excellent. My sister had the meat balls- good but a tad dry. I had the pork and beef braised Pappardelle pasta. The pork/beef braise was delicious. The pasta itself was too thick and way under cooked. I make my own pasta at home all the time so I know pasta. I love al dente pasta. But my pasta was almost raw. I should have sent it back but I didn't want to ruin the dinner of my guests. I hope Cioa takes the advice as constructive criticism and not a dig. I will come back but they just need to be more diligent. read more

I very nice find while visiting from out of town. Had the recommended beef Wellington which was outstanding. Only served on Saturdays as a special and they run out every time (no wonder). Pastry outside was perfectly light and crisp with an excellent mushroom mixture between it and the beef which was perfectly cooked to medium rare. A special sauce went with it that really put it over the top to make it such a unique and memorable flavor experience! Wait staff was friendly and attentive. Best restaurant in Wausau! read more

I love love LOVE the vibe here. We always get a warm welcome when we stop in. We like to sit at the bar and eat because it's great way to meet new people from out of the area. The food is always good. The arancini recipe changes daily so it's always something new. Oysters Lobsterfeller is also a guaranteed favorite. And the wedge salad is the best I've ever had. If you go on a Saturday, order the Beef Wellington. But order early or they will run out! I can't recommend this restaurant enough! When in Wausau, go!!! read more

Top notch, we had a reservation so we were seated right away. The service, ambience, and food were all delicious! What a wonderful evening!

Great addition to the Wausau dining scene. Food, service and wine selection were all as expected and we all really liked the decor.

Great food, quiet atmosphere. I enjoy coming here for both lunch and dinner service, and the staff has always been pleasant

Everything was wonderful! Service, ambiance, the flavors in all of the dishes we tried. So good!!!

My husband took me to Ciao for my birthday. It was a nice place for a romantic dinner. The service was excellent and the food was absolutely delicious. The quality and freshness of the dishes exceeded my expectations. We started with the pork belly appetizer and then had the veal romano and a spicey Italian sausage pasta special, we finished with the tiramisu. This place is really special, the best fine dining I have had in Wausau, we will definitely be back! read more

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The best dining in Wausau. Excellent food and nice atmosphere. The pasta is house made. I recommend the Chicken Parmesan.

Ciao is easily our first choice in Wausau. Excellent food, great service and atmosphere. Always something new and we never leave disappointed. read more

The service is amazing but not as good as the food and it tastes amazing best Italian I have ever eaten

Excellent Italian restaurant in downtown Wausau!!!The Prosciutto wrapped asparagus was amazing! I really liked the Beet salad. The lobster bisque was good because it wasn't too rich with cream. My husband enjoyed the house made raviolis stuffed with a mixture of fresh ground sirloin and pork, imported Italian cheeses and fresh spinach. The pesto pasta was delish and we finished with an AMAZING Tiramisu. read more

Ciao - Pesto Pasta - Bars Near Me - Wausau, Wisconsin

Great food and great service. Fun place to celebrate my wife's birthday! Nice variety and specials!

LOBSTER BISQUE. Can't say it enough!! Best bisque I've ever had, never thought it would come from Wausau of all places. Far and away the best dining in the Wausau metro area, no else comes close. read more

We enjoyed the ravioli, the meatballs with bucatini and the chicken Parmesan. Each was well flavored but not overly salty and pasta cooked Al denté . Expertly mixed cocktails. The bartender knew what he was doing. The service was friendly and excellent from the hostess who found a way to fit us in without a reservation on a Friday night to the waitress who helped us find a dry spot indoors when the rain came while we were on the patio. We would highly recommend this charming little gem. read more

We are driving through for one night and had an amazing excellent meal an service tonight. The pasta was delicious! If we come back thru, we will definitely stop. read more

The ambiance is delightful. The food is amazing from the appetizer to desert. Had the bruschetta, ravioli, creme brule. What made the evening special was our server Jenny, great service and so personable. We will be back.​ read more

Tonight was my first time at Ciao and it was fantastic! Everything I had was wonderful, but the Espresso and Stout Pork Belly was by far my favorite. It was so tender and delicious. The espresso and stout sauce was so delicious I wanted to drink what remained. The pear martini was not only beautiful but delicious. The Sausage & Gnocchi was probably the best gnocchi I've ever had. It was so tender and I think there was just as much sausage as there was gnocchi. All in all I would highly recommend Ciao. You can't go wrong with fresh homemade pasta! read more

Stopped in here at 5:40 this evening Tuesday July 27th. I'm visiting Some relatives and they said ciao would be great. We (the 3 of us) walked in and asked if we could be seated outside. The lady asked if we had a reservation? We said no, and she said she has no available seating outside. We replied, we will sit inside then. She then said, I'm booked until 630 or 7. Odd that a restaurant that's pretty much empty wouldn't seat us. We left a little confused and thought it was odd. 10 minutes later I decided to call. out of curiosity I asked if they could get three people in in about five minutes. She said yes no problem. I wonder if the owner or manager knows this is going on. Not good for business. Good luck if you go here. I wouldn't go back after being treated so poorly. Sorry if I have typos in this. I wrote it quickly as Pima on vaca with family. Totally disappointed read more

We had an outstanding experience at Ciao! Busy Wednesday night, but they were able to seat us on the street so we could hear the live music on the square. Amanda was an outstanding server despite being very busy with a large table nearby. Buffalo mozzarella caprese, crab cake, lobster bucatini, wedge salad...all delicious. Tiramisu was one of the best we've had! Salted caramel bodino was also a hit. We would definitely come back!! read more

Really had a good meal. Maybe the best i have had in Northern Wisconsin. Aps, wine. were excellent. My entree was good...not great ....but i believe i would try again to see if it improved. But 100% i will go again! read more

Superb 5 star meals, service and atmosphere every time. Hands down the best Italian restaurant in Wausau.

Service was great, food very tasty. Beautiful evening at an outdoor table.

Visited Ciao during the Badger Start winter games. Our first visit. The food was amazing and service excellent. Beautiful atmosphere and totally celebration worthy. We will definitely make the trip to Wausau to go back. Delicious, comfortable and reasonably priced. read more

So good! The food, service, and location. Very thankful to have this quality in Wausau.

food was amazing, service was incredible and the restaurant was very nice. we wish we lived in town as we would be here often!

What a pleasant, relaxing little gem. The food was excellent, the server informative and welcoming, and the Old Fashions were the best in the area.!! The atmosphere was wonderful... definitely not a "noisy, pack-en-in, turn the table" place. Try it..... I believe you'll love it! read more

This is a must try if you're in the Wausau area. This place truly has some of the best Italian food I've ever had in my life along with incredible service. The oysters lobsterfeller are a must try. read more

CRAZY good service and even better food. Chef was nice and came to check on how everything was. 10/10 would recommend

All expensive yet good. Makes pasta from scratch. They still have that creepy guy when it had a different name to the restaurant. with the rat tail thing that is rude to men yet stares at women. If it weren't for that creep I'd rate it another star or 2. He really drives down the property value read more

This was a few weeks ago but I wanted to make sure I mentioned this! I was there with friends and the waitress Amanda (so amazing) was listing off the specials. There was a special that sounded amazing but was not vegetarian friendly. She offered to ask the chef if he could make it vegetarian safe. She came back and told me he could and even offered to put a different vegetable on it it make it heartier. When it came out it had a lot of different vegetables on it which I never would have expected! It was wonderful and it was one of the best dishes I've ever had dining in at a restaurant. Chef Adam is amazing and you can tell he cares about his food. Absolutely love going there. read more

Great food, friendly service and a well kept dining room, the specials are always great too.. french onion soup a must try!

This is our go to restaurant. Staff is friendly. Homemade pasta. Everything is fresh. Tara is the best bartender in the area. Can't miss

Best restaurant in Wausau, and honestly it's the best pasta we've ever had (and we used to live in the Boston area, so we know good pasta). Our boys especially love the pork belly appetizer and the bolognese entree; my personal favorite is the beet salad with the pesto pasta. All of the desserts are amazing, too - I dream about the budino. Tara is the world's greatest bartender - she makes a delicious sidecar and her kalimotxos are the best you'll get outside of Boise or the Basque country. read more

Amazing staff (our waitress was fantastic!), and very warm and cozy atmosphere. The food was good, not as great as expected considering how nice everything in the restaurant is, but it's still very good for the most part. A great place to stop in for a bite to eat. read more

One of the best in Wausau! Consistently good and plenty on the menu to choose from. I'm rarely in town, but when I am, we always stop here. Definitely does not feel like a restaurant that would be in Wausau... read more

Good food, HORRIBLE SERVICE. I came in with a group of 6 guys on Tuesday night all of us from out of state . We sat at around 6pm and our server (Catherine) was so high she forgot about us multiple times keeping us there for almost 3 hours. I ordered a salad (as an app) and the waitress brought it and gave it to a DIFFERENT guy at the table, coincidentally the guy she spent all her time flirting with. An entire hour later the gentleman who sat us came to fill waters and asked if we needed anything, I said I needed the salad our waitress gave away. He returned promptly with my salad. Unfortunately the waitress showed up before I took a bite with our entrees. Then she disappeared again (without an apology for the salad) and we didn't see her until our meal was finished. I wanted another drink but she was never around to order one. She should spend less time flirting and getting stoned and more time doing her job. The only time in my life I didn't tip a waitress. read more

We dined at Ciao on Friday, 4.30. We arrived around 7pm for a party of 2 and were promptly seated. We each ordered a different drink off of their drink menu and both were good and as to be expected. For our entrees, I ordered the bolognese. My parter ordered the sea scallops, to which he was promptly told those were 86'd, all out of those for the night. This was approximately 7:30 pm, on a Friday night. The scallops were not on a special Chef's menu or anything for the night, which could justify a quick sell out if that had been the case but the scallops were/are on the regular menu as a regular entree item. Flabbergasted, my partner hastily order the Veal Cutlets. Our food took longer than to be expected to be brought out. My bolognese was a complete disappointment. My favorite dish at Michael's was their bolognese. It was always very good. What I had at Ciao can only be described as glorified Hamburger Helper. I was so disappointed. It was very dry, flavorless, and I was hard-pressed to taste anything other than dry ground beef despite the menu claiming it was a mix of ground beef, pork, and veal. The odor from my partner's veal cutlets was so offensive that the table behind us used their menu to fan the air. As if the smell were not enough, the presentation itself was incredibly disappointing and unsatisfactory. The veal itself was incredibly mushy and chewy. My partner could not and did not eat it. We boxed it up and our dog got to enjoy $24 veal cutlets for dinner. While our waitress was very insincere throughout our whole dining experience, she did offer to get my partner a different dish but his appetite was long gone. Extremely disappointed in our experience at Ciao. I understand rough/bad nights can happen at any restaurant but not like this, to this level, at this price point of a place. We will not be back. read more

We were looking forward to eating here based on the menu, but were very disappointed. The raw oysters were tiny and seemed to disintegrate as we put a fork to them. The scallop entree was salty and the amount of oil in the cacio e pepe rendered it inedible. read more

This restaurant is very good, ambiance and food was very good. The young lady hostess tonight was excellent. Long dark hair and very pleasant personality . The waiter was good, the food was good, one drawback was the bread, need to fix this. Not a cheap restaurant, but good. Downtown Wausau. read more