JUST WOW. If you dont eat anywhere else in LBK, eat here!!…read moreNormally we pretty much dine on seafood the entire time. Tried this place just for something different. Very small on the inside and the hours open are minimal, but WOW was the food amazing!!. Service was top notch. Watress was incredibly knowledgeable and attentive. We started with the antipasta and burrata cheese, pesto was the best part. Could put that on a shoe and eat it. Had veal saltimbocca and the chicken parm. Pasta is made in house and you can definitely tell. Veal was tinder and well presented chicken you could cut with a fork.. we were stuffed to gills.. this place will for sure be a regular spot on vacation in lbk.

By far the best meal I've had in 6yrs living on Longboat Key. I'm actually mad at myself that this…read morewas only my first visit...what an amazing, authentic Italian restaurant with reasonable prices. Bruschetta, meatballs, branzino & tiramisu all surpassed expectations

First time here... we ordered (for pickup) 2 pies. Sicilian meat and a cauliflower crust cheese…read more Environment was nice (we sat at the bar and ordered and waited for the pizzas to take out) Bartender was fantastic and we will be back again!

Generous servings of homestyle Italian food served with a smile…read more Arugula and Southern Italian salads were big enough to share! Oregano in the dressing was an unexpected treat! Flounder, served with a side of roasted vegetables, satisfied! Eggplant appetizer was unusual and delicious. Supertuscan red wine is tasty. Make a reservation if you'd like to dine outside!

I heard the StRegis was beautiful but very expensive ($1200/night) so we (4 of us) decided to try…read moreit(Riva restaurant-Italian) for dinner. I went with a pre-conceived notion I would be disappointed but driving into the complex and especially entering the main bar, I was blown away. The lighting and design is special. Each evening at 6 champagne is poured to celebrate so we participated as we walked around to view the complex before dinner. Riva serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. We ate outside and were presented bread and oil with our drinks. My Burrata salad was excellent as was my duck ragout; Mafaldini noodles were very filling. Christy was the perfect waitress- appearing when needed and refilling our drinks. The old Monkey bar on the beach is gone but a new bar honoring this iconic bar is there. As much as I hate to admit it, 5 stars- food, service, ambiance and setting. Valet parking- get your ticket validated

The food was amazing and our server Jose is just phenomenal!! He actually was the server at my…read morebirthday dinner in May as well! His suggestions and attention is extremely appreciated! We will ask for him when we return! The ambiance and location is amazing l!

We enjoyed several meals at Ravi during a mini staycation at the St. Regis. Ravi is the main…read morerestaurant of several available at the resort and offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. The restaurant is just off the main lobby and offers Italian classics with fresh made pasta. The decor is classic and relaxing, offering plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. The outdoor seating will provide better views of the resort pools and gulf; it was too cold to seat outside while we were there recently. Service was excellent with very kind and attentive staff. Since we were celebrating our anniversary, the team went out of there way to make our stay special with special treats. The food was very good for all three meals. Dinner was definitely the standout. My biggest issue was the muffaletta on the lunch menu. While the sandwich was good, it wasn't a muffaletta since it was absent of the olive salad. I'm from New Orleans and I know my muffs . Overall score 4.6.

Food was cold and sparse, atmosphere was unpleasant. Won't be back. The lighting was like Denny's…read morerestaurant.

We tried this authentic Italian little hole-in-the-wall, and wow--absolutely delicious. You're…read moregreeted by the nicest family, and the owner/chef personally takes your order and even brings out the food himself. He surprised us with a small appetizer to try and even treated us to dessert--such a thoughtful touch. My husband had a special rigatoni with shrimp and bacon, and I had the spaghetti and meatballs--both were incredible. The food is amazing, the service is warm and personal, and the place is small but truly authentic, from Napoli. Don't hesitate to give them a try!

This is one of our favorite places! They food is excellent,…read moreowner and staff are amazing and friendly, and delicious wine!

My wife and I heard good things about this place. First off the hostess and waitress were great…read more Lots of great laughs. As for the food we started with the meatballs. They were good. Looked like cafeteria size so I was worried. Tasted great maybe a little Less breadcrumbs. 1-10 (7). My wife had the chicken parm and had the eggplant parm. My was ok. They didn't have enough layers of eggplant. It seemed like only 2. Wasn't impressed. My wife's Chicken parm was solid. Breadcrumbs had great flavor and the chicken was the perfect thickness. We both had a side of pasta and it wasn't anything fancy. The grated parm was in a shaker. Not a fan of the generic grated cheese. Overall it was cool little spot! Would I go again? Yes I would but I wouldn't be jumping through hoops. Overall rating in my opinion is 7 out of 10.

We had a large group going to dinner and this is was the restaurant of choice... as I waited for…read morethe group to get there I had a Stella draft at the bar and looked around the dining room. It's basically one big room with a porch out back, and I was surprised it wasn't louder in there. Ordered a cup of pasta e fagioli soup and the penne with portobello mushrooms and sausage for my main. Since there were ten of us it was interesting to hear some of the other choices... three people at the table ordered an appetizer for their meal - spinach, sausage and beans soup and when it arrived I could see why - it was huge! My soup was very good (sorry no picture) and the penne with sausage and portobello was good too, I think I'd have liked a little more sausage in the mix but the flavor was good and I couldn't finish so I had lunch for the next day. All in all a nice place - the waitress was especially nice and explained everything perfectly.

Went here with some friends who actually recommended it from friends and Yelp…read more The exterior looked like the Italian restaurants you find in a larger city, trying hard to be noticed. The interior was in the same motif, an old school Italian restaurant that's been around for awhile. We had reservations and were sat immediately. Our server came over to our table almost immediately. He was friendly, professional and friendly and explained the menu and his recommendations. Even though the appetizers looked amazing, we opted to just order entrees as they came with a salad and pasta. We ordered 2 Chicken Parm's with a Caeser salad side and their homemade Tagliatelle pasta, Bronzino special and a Pasta (homemade linguine). I was one of the Chicken Parm's. DAMN, it was excellent! Very large portions of chicken and pasta with a tomato sauce that was absolutely one of the best I've ever had in a restaurant! It was thick, tasty and clung to the pasta and Parm. I HATE ordering pasta in a restaurant that isn't drained properly and the plate is a puddle with food sitting in it-and this WAS NOT the case! It was a big ass tasty platter of delicious food. The other plates were as large and delicious! For dessert, I had the Espresso Affogato, again DELICIOUS!!! I WILL be back to try some of the other dishes as, for me, unless they do a really good chicken parm, I won't go on!! Great job by the staff! Our table was constantly bussed, waters refilled and making sure we were satisfied.

Unfortunately, this is a one and done restaurant for me, and not one I would recommend. Sorry no…read morepictures! We were seated right away, and our server was attentive, almost a little too attentive at times that we felt rushed. The atmosphere was nice, but the restaurant is small, difficult to move around, and the lighting was darker than I prefer. We started with the fried calamari and meatballs. The calamari was good, but the meatballs were disappointing. They were about the size of golf balls which is ok but lacked flavor. For our entrees, we ordered the penne alla vodka, chicken parmesan, gnocchi, and I had the spaghetti special that was finished in a cheese wheel tableside. The presentation was fun, but the food itself just didn't live up to it. The marinara sauce across the dishes was bland, the gnocchi was forgettable, and my spaghetti portion was surprisingly small, more like an appetizer than an entrée. I almost always take leftovers home from Italian restaurants because the portions are generous and the food is rich. This time, there was nothing left because there wasn't much there to begin with. The biggest disappointment was the bread. When I go to an Italian restaurant, I expect warm, crusty Italian bread. Instead, it tasted like ordinary sliced sandwich bread. I actually like Publix bread, but that's not what I'm looking for with an Italian meal. Overall, nothing was terrible, but nothing stood out either. For the prices, I expected much more flavor, better portions, and a more authentic Italian experience.

Marcello never disappoints... .. there were 8 of us &…read moreeveryone very satisfied! Gus was our server & was great! Like the quaintness of the resturant!

As always this place absolutely kills it. Great wine, great food, and great service. If you can…read moreget in go but don't expect it to be easy. Great restaurants like this are hard to get into for a reason. Absolutely love this place.

I was stationed in NAPOLI for 3 years while serving in the United States Navy…read more I will be the first to tell you that most pizza restaurants are NOT even close to the authentic Neopolitan Pizza this restaurant makes. The ingredients are the reason this restaurant will become my go to place for AMAZING AUTHENTIC NAPOLITANO PIZZA in the future. While we tried the restaurant for the first time, I couldn't contain my enjoyment and while my wife and I were eating I played my favorite Italian music off my phone, as loud as I could, first (Tu Vuo Fa 'L' Americano), and then (NAPOLI) by Nino D'angelo. My wife was concerned with the volume as she thought it would upset the patrons and the restaurant staff, but it did the opposite....everyone was singing along with a smile on their face...recognizing that I was having the time of my life, bringing back memories of BELLA NAPOLI! Very authentic cuisine and excellent service!

My wife took me to Bella Napoli this evening to celebrate Father's Day…read more We had 6:00 PM reservations for an inside table. We were seated in the back next to a serving/drinking station across from a group of 6 10 year old girls...whose parents were eating outside. The noise level was so unbearable that we asked to be moved outside, which they accommodated. But the noise level was strike number 1. After we were seated outside we waited. And waited. And waited more, roughly 20 minutes before we finally caught the attention of a waitress. Strike 2. My wife order the white bean soup for an appetizer and the Branzino. I ordered the special...Veal Osso Buco over risotto The white bean soup was delicious. 4 out of 5 stars. The Branzino was a little fishy tasting, which it should not. We order Branzino all the time and it's never tasted fishy. But the most disturbing part of the meal was the bait and switch using Pork in place of Veal for the Veal Osso Buco. Yes you read that right. It was Pork. Not Veal. The meat was gray, fatty and not very tender. Veal is tan or light brown, extremely tender and very lean. Charging $49.95 for Veal Osso Buco would have been reasonable. Trying to pass off Pork as Veal for that price is down-right criminal. Strike 3. AN ABSOLUTE HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE.! WE WILL NEVER GO BACK!!! Response to Ceasar D: the parent's of the 6 little girls (who you must admit were quite loud and unsupervised) were sitting inside. All of the children's parents and some other adults, about 14 adults in total, were seated outside. So please don't try and pass this off as if they were celebrating Father's Day. They weren't even sitting with their "Fathers". It simply demonstrates poor restaurant management. The wait for a server outside was so long, my wife had actually suggested we leave. I truly wish we had. Regarding the Branzino, if it HAD been fresh it would not have tasted fishy! As for the Osso Buco, I'm a culinary expert and know the difference between Veal and Pork. I knew it was pork as soon as I tasted it! The fat was a dead giveaway. Perhaps now that this has been posted, you'll start using veal or be truthful and simply let your patrons know you're serving Pork Osso Buco! I stand by my original post.

We had a great dinner last night at La Dolce Vita. It is a small place, I didn't think to count…read morethe tables inside but there is maybe a dozen, and a few more outside. Small and busy, I would recommend getting a reservation. I checked out their menu earlier in the day and was very much looking forward to trying their Pappardelle, Funghi e Salsiccia, a sausage and mushroom pasta dish with a creamy panna sauce. I was not disappointed. In fact, I found my food absolutely delicious. I loved the mushrooms, the sausage, and the sauce really tied it all together. Service was fine, maybe just a little slow at the end getting the bill, but we were in no hurry. Very helpful, one person in our group had some dietary restrictions which were accommodated.

Food was terrible, owner was more interested in being a singer than actually cooking…read more I don't know what part of Italy she is from, but it's not like any Italian food I've ever experienced in my lifetime The chicken was mushy and they use way too much salt