Tavolata - Seattle

Booooo. Extremely slight portions of proteins or sauces on every dish poor value. Examples: 1. pappardelle with meat ragu 1 Tablespoon of sauce and meat. 2. Prawns and pasta had 2 small prawns cut into six pieces and kitchen apologizes because there should have been 3 prawns cut into 9 pieces. Hahahahaha come on. 3. 3 scallops not jumbo scallops on an entree plate as the entree with a Tablespoon and a half of rice and 2 pine nuts halved. 4. 3 chicken meatballs in a huge bowl of spaghetti with no sauce, it was tossed in sauce and put into the bowl and was dry. Our dinners and desserts were served 15 minutes apart. We waited 20 minutes after being seated to even be acknowledged and that wasn’t even by our server. Our server was sweet but there is clearly no team here. Overall the pasta was good but he value is terrible and two dishes were grossly over salted while one had no seasoning at all. The scallops weren’t properly seared on both sides resulting in slightly under cooked centers. To round out amateur night they hyped a champagne gelato which one would assume the champagne is poured over the top, after we ordered and expected to see it on the table after a 20 minute wait, the rest of the desserts were brought and our friend was then told they couldn’t giver her that dessert because the champagne didn’t freeze. Well duh. The spicy Rigatoni was the only really good dish on the menu. The wine list is very good but with a 110 125% markup so be prepared. As a lover of great food, a defender of great restaurants... I must say... Unless you are dying to part with $100 per person for mediocrity, go somewhere else!

I have been here a couple of times and enjoy it. The Burrata cheese appetizer was very good but the tonnarelli pasta was a bit too al dente, sauce was great. We had half bottle of Amarone but glasses smelled of bleach. Server was very nice and rinsed the glasses so we could enjoy the wine.

A decent value for a standard, Italian Ethan Stowell meal. Nice restaurant tucked away inside Belltown.

We went to celebrate New Year and had a great dinner with my family.

The pasta was phenomenal, as were the desserts, wine, and appetizers.