Coltivare

My wife and I married in Ithaca in July 2022, and Coltivare was a great place to have our tasting dinner and a day after brunch. The food was incredible, and the service was even better. Your event team was incredibly thoughtful and appealing and made both days a wonderful experience for all our family and friends. They offered to curate a special menu for dinner and to us with the whole wine cellar for dinner, along with 1/2 of the banquet area for? For brunch we were the only ones in the building and felt so well maintained. We cannot recommend Coltivare enough for special occasions and private events. We look forward to coming back soon!

The food is okay but there is room for improvement. Charcuterie board can include more meat varieties (now only sausages) and have the cheeses cut. The menu is also VERY limited by the time we visited (May 27th). I don?t think it?s worth the price and their environment, though. Please consider expand the menu and bring back some past dishes. The salmon was the highlight of our meal and well as the tiramisu.

Locally sourced ingredients. Great concept, but poorly executed. Meat Flatbread $15) sounds great but it's actually just a small pizza similar in taste to Papa John's. In comparison the pizza at Cornell University North Star dining hall was much better. Creole Crusted Lamb Chops $36) was overcooked and it certainly was not creole in the least bit. We had high hopes but decided to skip trying anything else due to disappoinment of the first few dishes. Dining hall ambiance. $80 for one entree, a small pizza and one mixed drink. The reason it's not 1 stars is because the service was excellent.

The staff was very attentive and with the meal kept step, very suitable for the occasion. I ordered both the Apple Fest Makkaroni and a Cheeseburger. The Apple Fest macaroni is definitely a must when you are in Ithaca, and you can try it here if you are not in the city for Apple Festival itself. The burger itself was perfectly, beautiful and delicately cooked! Very pleasant experience all around!

I rarely give reviews, but I have to share my experience in Coltivare. Firstly, it is one of the most expensive restaurants in the city, and therefore you expect first-class service and food. My table was a table of 10. The food, we decided, was above average. Not fantastic, not bad. Some dishes better than others. The service was bad. We were not a demanding table at all. And yet we had a birthday girl at the table who received her birthday cake without the other guests at the table (how do you not wait until all guests are present at your table before you bring out a birthday cake? and the waitress added a 25% tip to the bill and disappeared before we could ask questions. Ithaca has limited food options, and yet, I would choose elsewhere.