We waited almost ten minutes for someone to come to our table. He hands us menus and walks off. Takes a drink order, walks off. We had been there over twenty minutes before we got any water. He drops off water then drinks, takes off twice more before taking our order and we wait another twenty minutes. Service was beyond slow and awkward the entire evening. Some cold bread and olive oil are dropped off at the table. What a disappointment. If you're going to have cold, flavorless bread then you should serve it with some butter or put some herbs in your oil. The food finally comes and these plates are on the small side and I'm upset because we've waited nearly an hour and this is not a cheap place. I got a seafood fettuccine dish and there was literally NOTHING special about it. The scallops were over cooked and the sauce was lackluster. My brother in law got a prosciutto pizza and the rosemary they put on it took over the entire pie. Maybe that was due to the fact that there was just prosciutto, rosemary and olive oil on it. Maybe cheese but I don't seeing any. I've been to another Taverna before and I do not remember it being this bad but now I don't see myself returning to either location. I can get over the service but not the bland, overpriced food. read more

Come here for quality, consistent Italian food. I have dined at the Domain & downtown Austin locations and the Plano Legacy West location. I love the fritto misto (5/5) and bucatini alla carbonara (5/5). I have also tried the paglia & fieno (4/5) and eggplant parmigiana (3/5). The portions are fair, perhaps even slightly larger than the average Italian restaurant. The location in the Domain has ample seating both indoors and on its patio. From all the times I recall, Taverna doesn't provide complimentary bread, which may be a bummer for some folks (including me, I love bread). read more

Went on a Thursday after work for happy hour. Sat on the patio. It took 15 minutes to get our 1 cocktail and a glass of wine after we ordered. We almost left before getting our drinks because it took so long. Server didn't mention anything about the delay when she finally brought our drinks. Maybe I'm being too picky. Figured it would take a lot longer to get food so we passed on dining here. It seemed the staff was running around with their heads cut off. We were approached 3 times with food we didn't order. I didn't try the food so maybe my rating isn't super fair. But this place is fairly pricy so the expectation is that service would be good. read more

Taverna - Wine and Austin cocktail. Austin cocktail is pretty tasty. Not too sweet. - Italian Near Me - Austin, Texas

I came here for Happy Hour and I would come again during that time! I think they have some pretty good Happy Hour deals for sure--the zucchini chips are addictive, the crostini was very good and you can't beat a $5 glass of wine. The patio looked lovely but it was hot out so we sat inside, but I'll gladly come back and sit outside when the weather cools down a bit again. We ended up staying past Happy Hour and needing a bit more food, so we ordered a classic caesar salad and the burrata pizza--both were good, but the prices on these weren't quite as good of a deal as you get at Happy Hour. We actually ended up getting the pizza because the pasta dishes, which is what we originally wanted, were a little pricey. That's the only reason I can't fully five-star this place. But it's five stars for Happy Hour! read more

The location of this restaurant is perfectly situated with a fantastic shopping experience all around. The food was okay but not raw beat Italian food I've had. There wasn't a long wait to get in. read more

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New to the area so trying out new places. This had us going in for the $2 mimosa and bellini. That was ok as we didn't expect much for $2. We were not impressed at all by the food nor the service. The food is nothing to get excited about. It was bland. And what service? She took our orders, and that was it. We won't be going back... I'd rather pay more and get decent service and better food. There are plenty of choices around. read more

Taverna - Italian Near Me - Austin, Texas

First time at a Taverna and we greatly enjoyed our whole experience. We shared every dish and pounded some peronis. Started w the chefs focaccia, Caesar and fritto misto. All slapped. Had the lobster ravioli as a main, superb flavor. Was also the perfect size for us to split seeing as how we had 3 apps and4 beers by this point, oops. And if that wasn't enough might as well have a dessert beer and espresso creme brûlée which was divine. Also our server was great, forgot his name but the dude was a solid. read more

We had no reservation. We got hungry and stumbled across this spot. The waiter I think was Jose he was the best. The short rib pasta was just ok and my drink was not to my liking. The drink had an acquired taste I couldn't get use to. I probably will be back but no plans to. read more

The food is good, Compliments to the chief, however the soda machine doesn't work, I got Diet Coke and it was flat, then switched to sprite which was flat as well. The service was not good at all, our waitress spend her sweet time taking our orders, bringing the check, actually I'm still waiting for the check, the restaurant was not busy at all so I don't get the long delays in everything!!!! read more

Great place to hang out with friends and sit outside for brunch. Waiter was nice, but it appeared that he was trying to push us out early, given the busy Sunday crowd. It was a tad pricey, but food was yummy! And plenty of healthy options. I will definitely be back to try out the Eggs Benedict! read more

Taverna - Chicken breast and Arugula salad. Delic! - Italian Near Me - Austin, Texas

No. Just no. Go to Maggiano's in stead, because the service will at least be better. Lunch here on a whim. There was one other couple dining and two or three people at the bar. The bartender took our drinks and came back with an Arnold Palmer that was too sour. The bartender told us he wasn't a cook and may not have made the lemonade correctly. Okay...no big deal. We all order our dishes. It did come out quickly. However the person that brought it was someone wearing street clothes including her sunglasses still on top of her head. The food was not great. Just bland. We dined with a guy that eats everything and he didn't finish his food. I ordered a shrimp linguine and it was served with 4 shrimp for $16.50. The service was just terrible. It took forever to get our check but the employees were all standing at the end of the bar talking. read more

When we initially called we were told to expect a 15 min wait. We had no wait at all. The staff were extremely welcoming, helpful in their suggestions without coming off as pretentious or condescending. This dish, the tonnarelli cacio e pepe, was a robust, flavor filled meal from beginning to end. The cooks came to our booth with this huge wheel of cheese and explained the cheese, its geographic region, history, and flavor as they prepared the pasta in the wheel. When they were done, they plated the pasta with extra cheese and pepper and brought bread with this amazing pesto to accompany my meal. It was the best tasting meal I've had in years. read more

We dined on a busy Tuesday during the holiday week and Kenny was absolutely amazing! Super attentive and so engaging! Couldn't be happier with the service we received! read more

Dined here a few times and no matter how busy or slow the courses are rushed out. You have about 5 minutes to eat your starter course before the entree is presented. I have given feedback to the manager and owner each time but there isn't any improvement. Food is good and staff are service oriented and pleasant. read more

Everything, including service, was great. Best part were the fries--battered and crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.

Food is absolutely delicious. They also sat a party of 10 literally 5 hours before we had to be there. I love the ambiance and everyone always seem so nice. I will definitely be eating here again!! read more

If you're a pursuer of brunch in Austin, you need to stop at Taverna. The atmosphere is casual enough for a hangover, but nice enough to bring out of town guests/parents. Servers are super nice, they always have good specials, and the brunch drinks specials are great! They just re-did their avocado toast dish and IT IS AWESOME. read more

Came here with my wife and son on Good Friday in the late-afternoon. The restaurant was moderately busy outside on the patio, but the inside was pretty sparse. We were promptly seated, but that was about the only thing that went right at the restaurant. I took my 15 month year old son to the bathroom to change his diaper, except that there wasn't a freakin diaper changing station. If you open a restaurant in an outdoor shopping area that is super conducive to kids, then you should have baby changing stations in both gender bathrooms. A waitress mentioned there was one in the women's restroom, but I wasn't about to get MeToo'd. My wife went and changed him instead, but com'on this is Austin. There are more than a few gay men who have kids or dads that going to change their kids. Came back to the table and we ordered; I ordered the carbonara, which is supposed to come with their focaccia bread (which my son was going to eat for his entrée), and added a side salad. My wife ordered a salad with chicken added. And we began our wait. It was around 1:45. We waited. And waited some more. Looking at my watch. Looked at my phone. Getting pretty damn hungry. Meanwhile, my son is managing not to go ape shit. Probably because the poor kid was starving to death. I start looking around for our waitress, who seems to have disappeared. I see through the outdoor window into the kitchen and see one, maybe two cooks working the line. I am pretty hangry. I see tables all around us getting their pizzas and fritto misto. Nothing for us. 2:15 rolls around. VERY HANGRY NOW. Our waitress runs over and apologizes and says our food is coming out shortly. In a few minutes, she appears with my wife's salad, sans chicken, as well as my carbonara, which I inhale in under 5 minutes. Another waiter comes by and I ask him to find us our waiter; he asks if there is a problem. Why, as a matter of fact, there is. My wife's salad is chicken-less, which given the time, is pretty interesting. My focaccia is missing as is my side salad. Seriously. Waiter scuttles asks if I still want my salad, given that I have already eaten my entre. I insist that I do and he quickly scuttles away. Sitting around waiting. Waitress comes out and apologies for some sort of mix-up in the kitchen, i.e. my focaccia wasn't made. It's getting cooked now. Should be just a few more mins. She brings out my wife's chicken, which is essentially a fried chicken cutlet. It's really strange, but we don't care because we are so hungry. My side salad is still missing. Side salad comes out a few minutes later, and no sign of focaccia. At this point my wife has given up half her salad to my son and he's been sitting for nearly an hour. If you have children, you understand; if you don't, just you wait. He's tearing at the butcher paper used as part of the tablecovering out of boredom and trying to eat it. Legitimately. I eat about four bites of my salad. My focaccia finally comes out; I eat one piece and then have to take my son to play or he's going to lose his shit, and we don't want to be "those parents...;" while my wife is finishing up my salad, the hostess comes out with some lame excuse that doesn't align with what the waitress says. During the entire conversation, she doesn't even apologize. She never says "hey, I am really sorry for what happened...," but rather just makes up some random excuse about food coming out of the pass too quickly (ironic, because we had to wait 30+ mins), and that food was delivered out of order...some bullshit like that. We receive our bill, which is discounted. We don't have to pay for my wife's salad, but looking at the receipt, you can see that the waitress didn't even enter the side salad or the focaccia into the computer. Maybe I am wrong, but the receipt is usually an indication of what is keyed into the computer, which is then transmitted to the back of the house to make. All in all, I will never return to this piece of shithole of a restaurant. I hope you won't either. I hope that so few people go to this place that the restaurant goes out of business because it frankly doesn't deserve to be at the Domain. read more

The food was delicious, but dear lord... the small portions are ridiculous. I paid $35 for their scallop special, which was three small scallops with sauce, some mash potatoes and broccolini. I don't think that was even $8 worth of food. My family and I literally made jokes that we had to go find some hamburgers somewhere because we were all still hungry immediately after eating. Table spent $500+ and we were still all hungry, that's insane. Your going for the atmosphere being in the ritzy domain, but don't go if your hungry. Also the lights right above our table were covered in dust, you'd think someone would have cleaned them by now. Food took forever to come out as well, so server gave us extra bread to help pass the time waiting. read more

Food was incredible, my server was helpless. I ordered the chicken picatta. It was really really good. This would have been a 5 star review if it weren't for the server who spent all her time at the table flirting and not listening. Asked for butter for the bread, had to remind her "oh I forgot LOL", got it AFTER I WAS DONE EATING MY ENTREE. Asked for salt, had to get up and get it myself from another table. Finally she took my plate from me without asking while I was still using the bread to sop up the yummy bits (remember the no butter part). So yah. Less flirty, more waitey. Thanks. read more

Two stars for wine and burrata pizza. 0 stars for service and ambiance which we chalk up to poor management. There is so much junk stored around the bar. When we first sat down we thought perhaps they were closing. Dirty dishes, opened coke cans, employee backpacks were strewn about. The staff was having a wine lesson on a Friday at 5 PM...awkward. When they finished their meeting the boisterously argued over who got their requested shifts covered for "derby". Very uncomfortable for patrons. At 5 PM Friday you can't find a seat at the neighboring restaurants. There's a reason this restaurant was dead empty. I hope they can make some changes...this location has potential. read more

Great weekend brunch. Good food and cheap mimosas. Just real nice atmosphere sitting on their outdoor patio.

Meal was okay but service was terrible. We ordered a salad for our first course, pasta for our second, and then steaks for our third. I was very clear about the order we wanted these but the server was odd and kept asking if we wanted to add protein to the first two courses. No dude, this is a three course meal, pay attention. After he entered our order I started to worry that he didn't understand and we called him over to confirm. He said he had entered it all to come out at once (wtf? Why would anyone want that?) and he would see if he could change it. He brought out the salad and we enjoyed that. We were sharing it and I told him it wasn't necessary for the kitchen to split it when I ordered it, he could just bring the salad and two plates. He plopped the salad down and brought zero plates. We just used the bread dishes, fine. Then the steaks showed up after a long wait (during which he could have easily fixed any entry errors) and I explained that we hadn't received our second course yet. The server explained he couldn't change the timing of the orders that he had entered wrong and all of it was here at once. I said that's fine but we didn't want the second course then. He got testy and wouldn't return it to the kitchen. How does someone that works in an Italian restaurant not understand the courses of a typical meal? And why make it our problem when he entered it incorrectly after we told him twice? Train your servers better or hire ones that actually listen. There's a reason this place was half empty on a Friday night when they were hosting free live music just outside the doors. We have come here for years as well as the downtown location since they opened and we won't be back. read more

The food here was excellent! We started with the mussels which I highly recommend, they were my favorite. The pizza and pasta were both also very good. Good ambiance and music in the background. Service was also great! I would definitely go back! read more

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Outdoor patio lunch, great weather, Food was nice. We had the frutti di mare, lasagna, and a few beers. Frutti di mare's creamy sauce was a nice surprise, and the seafood was delicious. The lasagna was probably one of the best I've had. The salad was a bit punchy with the vinaigrette, but the lobster bisque was very good. I would have given it more stars, but the service was bad. Albeit, the server I was told was fairly new. But when we asked for linguine instead of fettuccine, we were told that was fine. Then the fettuccine came out. When asked about it, she told us that the chef said that was the closest thing they had. Service was slow even though they had few customers during lunch. They mischarged us for the soup and salad, and I could go on and on. The server was nice, but you could tell she clearly didn't k ow the basics of Italian cuisine. If you get a good server, it will be a great dining experience with excellent food. read more

Taverna is a great brunch spot in Austin! The music and the vibe is amazing and my waitress, Ayesha, was so fun and attentive! The food was delicious and Ayesha took amazing care of us 10/10 read more

Taverna Domain is not COVID compliant. I stopped in today to grab a glass of wine and an appetizer at the bar. Shortly after I arrived, all of the seats started to fill up. None of the seats were spaced out, no signs were present directing people to seat in specific seats, and the bartender and manager were allowing people to sit closely. I had to quickly chug my glass of red wine because I felt so uncomfortable (my chair is the only empty one in the photo). I spoke with the manager as I was leaving, and he fumbled over his words to explain why everyone was so close. As I walked away he said he would call the GM. read more

Taverna - Italian Near Me - Austin, Texas

Friendly, attentive service and excellent food in a comfortable atmosphere. Had the bruschetta, which was both tasty and copious, followed by a linguine with lobster and crab in a lemon butter sauce special. Outstanding! read more

I went here with a friend for a quick lunch. The service was excellent. The drinks were yummy and strong! They have a nice patio that you can sit outside and enjoy a couple drinks with friends and family. Will be back to try the other entrees on their menu. read more

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Great establishment. I had good hopes because o love Italian food. They didn't have coke when we got there so that was a bit upsetting but the atmosphere and food made up for it. They played great music and some of my favorite songs. Their food was incredible. I got the Buccatini Alla Carbonara and it was the best pasta I hav ever had. I would definitely recommend this place to any who loves Italian food and is in Texas read more

I've had pleasant brunch visits here in the past, however my first dinner visit was a failure. We arrived on-time for our reservation to be told of a further 45 min wait for the indoor table we had reserved and were seated on an unheated patio with flimsy plastic curtains our only defense from the cold winter wind. We started with cocktails which were impeccable. The Chef's Focaccia was essentially a thin-crust pizza devoid of toppings, with none of the bready chewiness one expects. I ordered the Paglia & Fieno pasta and received a tasty dish that would have made a fine, if small, lunch portion. This was a dinner - I ate slowly and still had an empty plate 15 minutes before my table companions. Speaking of whom, one ordered a short rib and polenta dish which was entirely unseasoned. When salt arrived, 10 minutes after the second request, the meat was delicious. The polenta was so cold, runny, and bland it was best avoided. 1/5 the drinks were good, but the good food was in minuscule portions and the regular sized portions were simply not good. read more

I really enjoyed this resturant, food and service. The bread was very good. The food was great. Service was A1. No complaints at all. Thank you. read more

So either this place is under new management or They need to change their strategy. We would come to this place fairly often like once or twice a month sometimes more. However after the experience we had today we will not be returning. It took almost an hour for the food to come out and they got our order wrong, but this was not the reason why am writing the review. The dishes that we normally get were inedible. I don't know if they changed the recipe but they tasted horrible. The lasagna tasted like dirty dishwater. The pasta dish that I normally had hard noodles and the sauce was runny and flavorless. The manager came and asked us about experience and we told him he just answered with an awkward "enjoy" We took literally one bite of our meals and left. I hope they re evaluate their new strategy because they lost pretty consistent customers today. read more

We have visited twice so far and have had superb service! Jackson was our server on both visits and was amazing. He was attentive, courteous, and was very knowledgeable on the menu items. Food was delicious!! We absolutely love the mussels here. Wine bottles are decently priced and a great selection. We will most definitely be visiting again. read more

Great experience! Going out to Italian restaurants is usually not a very fun experience when you have celiac/gluten allergy, but Taverna was incredibly accommodating. They have everything labeled on their menu, and offer a ton of options (they even have GF bread as a starter). There were so many gluten free pasta options, pizzas, and risottos to choose from. I tried the black truffle risotto - and it was good! My aperol spirtz was actually fantastic, and we were all very happy with our drinks and dishes. The service, however, was not great. When we all finished our meals and said we were ready for the check. It probably took 25-30 minutes to receive our check - and that was after hunting down our waiter after waiting for 20 minutes. Service wasn't the best - but the food and drinks were great. Would definitely go back!! read more

Clearly racist seating by the host. Off hours and was told 1 and 45 mins wait. At least 6 tables were open. Took our business to restaurant 2 blocks away that was welcoming and delicious- Bakery Lorraine!!! read more

A simple girls day out and we enjoyed a bottle of wine, shared the mussels, mozzarella salad and the seafood pasta. The service was a bit slow at times although they were not really busy, but when we did flag someone down they were attentive. The mussels were more tomatoes based and not garlic wine style. Not bad but not what I expected. The pastas serving size is a bit small but since we both eat light it was perfect. The seafood was plentiful and the homemade pasta made the dish. The salad on the other hand was terrible. No flavor and no impact. Not even a drizzle of anything. The server was kind enough to take our feedback and remove it from the bill. I'll visit again and try out some other items for sure. read more

The food was great as always but the service today was absolute crap. The waiter did not care at all about any of his tables. Service at 2nd st is 100x better. read more

Took the family here for New Year's Eve and the night did not start off so well as we had to plead our case to get a table inside despite having reservation for just that. Star of the dinner was both the Branzino and fried seafood appetizer. Disappointed in the unauthentic carbonara that was served way too al dente and with more of a cream sauce vs true carbonara style. Overall food was okay and the experience left me wondering why I would go back. read more

It was our first time to eat at Taverna and we had such a pleasant lunch experience! The food was delicious, our server Jackson was wonderful and patiently explained different dishes we asked about and the covered outdoor tables with a view of the little park and Domain shops, people walking around made for a wonderful lunch experience! we are definitely going back and already have reservations for dinner soon!!! read more