We love this place. We've been going here for over 20 years and can't stop going there. The food is always fresh. John (the owner) and Kelly are very kind and always treats you like their own family.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Mahtab Zand
We ordered the Tetrazzine pasta with garlic bread. The fettuccine was super thick and doughy, and the sauce was really watery with no real flavor. The garlic bread didn’t taste like garlic at all, just burnt oil. Overall, we weren’t happy with the food.
Food: 2
Tracy Wall
Love my experience there will 100% be back
Stephen Bennett
The pasta I ordered was so boring with no flavour . I should have ordered pasta with nothing . No garlic on all the bread , we might have just ordered Bread plain only . Don’t waste your money here unless the change and give you real Italian food !! Bottom line cheap gross bland food !!! I put it in the garbage as I would not feed it to me dog .
Food: 2
Connie Beaton Tsc
One of our favourite recipes
Hannah Bydal
My significant other and I had found our selves walking around Burnaby going to find a place to eat when this restaurant caught our eyes and we were there for and hour and half and didn’t even realize that we were the waitress’s were so nice and treated us very kindly when we said it was our first time here and gave us there recommendations and let me just say the food was amazing and the atmosphere was too , ( if you get the large make sure to wear your stretchy pants the large is a large) when you walk in and it feels like your walking into Italian family’s house for dinner every one is enjoying there time there having conversations and laughing next time we find our selves we will be going back for more !!… and to the lovely waitress that said the food taste good the next day as well YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Calvin John
Very generous serving. One small order of pasta is pretty much good for 2 people. Very kind staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Small, Alfredo
Aarón Pólito Serratos
I went to celebrate my birthday, the food was delicious, the service from the waitress Kelly was spectacular. I will definitely come back for dinner and take my family. I loved this place
This place has the best bolognese sauce I have ever found in the lower mainland. I cannot drive by without stopping in. They even sell the sauce as takeaway.
I don't go out of my way to write negative reviews unless something is absolutely horrible .. But, in this case, i have to as it is a money grab situation and it has really put me off.
$38 for a large baked spaghetti (I Was charged extra for them to bake it - what?!... charging extra to place pasta in an oven to bake it ... are you joking?
Without any exaggeration the (Take-Out) container was Half Full...and it wasn't actually even baked!.. the cheese was barely melted...no garlic bread ... no salad?! $38 FOR NOODLES and a little bit of sauce? NEVER again. Had we been seated at a table and that was brought to us, we would have spoken up about it there and then. Charging extra for baking a pasta is insulting.
Food: 1
H. EL-
I was expecting to taste delicious pasta when I went to an Italian restaurant yesterday which I chose to celebrate my daughter's 24th birthday with my family. I was disappointed with the taste of the sauce of the different types of pasta we ordered: Alfredo, Pesto, De State ,all of three dishes the pasta was completely off . We tried adding black pepper and salt to add flavor to the pasta, but to no avail. My daughter and I only had two bites of the dish and we couldn't continue eating ,I'm not saying that there is no flavor, but the taste of all 3 sauces are not good at all. We had asked for chicken pieces to be added, but unfortunately even the few pieces of chicken were flavourless. Honestly, the Pollo alla Parmigiana was good. As for the salad, we ordered insalata di amoross ,the dressing was excellent, but the tomatoes were not fresh and very, very soft. The calamri a la Roma dish was normal (fried) nothing special. As for the portion: all the dishes had a large amount of pasta. As for the service: the server was friendly and served more than four tables at the same time since there was no one else to serve the customers. in the way back home we were apologizing to my daughter for ruining her birthday and decided to make it up to her another day ,and of course we ordered her meal on the way home.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Small
1961pocoloco
Food was very good from the pasta to the Slovakia, reasonably priced like most of past houses in Burnaby and new Westminster. Service was excellent. Overall I gave a four because I really don’t know what a five is. If you order a large pasta, be prepared to take home leftovers for the next couple of days.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Darlene Swanson
Went last night with my 2 sisters. We shared mussel appetizer in a beautiful tomato broth. We totally loved it. Portions are excellent. Pasta dishes as wonderful as remembered. Service great lovely atmosphere. Highly recommended
We love this place. We've been going here for over 20 years and can't stop going there. The food is always fresh. John (the owner) and Kelly are very kind and always treats you like their own family.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We ordered the Tetrazzine pasta with garlic bread. The fettuccine was super thick and doughy, and the sauce was really watery with no real flavor. The garlic bread didn’t taste like garlic at all, just burnt oil. Overall, we weren’t happy with the food.
Food: 2
Love my experience there will 100% be back
The pasta I ordered was so boring with no flavour . I should have ordered pasta with nothing . No garlic on all the bread , we might have just ordered Bread plain only . Don’t waste your money here unless the change and give you real Italian food !! Bottom line cheap gross bland food !!! I put it in the garbage as I would not feed it to me dog .
Food: 2
One of our favourite recipes
My significant other and I had found our selves walking around Burnaby going to find a place to eat when this restaurant caught our eyes and we were there for and hour and half and didn’t even realize that we were the waitress’s were so nice and treated us very kindly when we said it was our first time here and gave us there recommendations and let me just say the food was amazing and the atmosphere was too , ( if you get the large make sure to wear your stretchy pants the large is a large) when you walk in and it feels like your walking into Italian family’s house for dinner every one is enjoying there time there having conversations and laughing next time we find our selves we will be going back for more !!… and to the lovely waitress that said the food taste good the next day as well YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very generous serving. One small order of pasta is pretty much good for 2 people. Very kind staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Small, Alfredo
I went to celebrate my birthday, the food was delicious, the service from the waitress Kelly was spectacular. I will definitely come back for dinner and take my family. I loved this place
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Large, Salad, Small, Alfredo, Fettuccine, Calamari Caesar Salad, Tiramisu
Annual Holiday group dinner always at Amarosa. Awesome food. Huge portions. Great menu.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Salad, Calamari Caesar Salad, Seafood, Calamari Dinner, Seafood Pasta, Spaghetti Bolognese
This place has the best bolognese sauce I have ever found in the lower mainland. I cannot drive by without stopping in. They even sell the sauce as takeaway.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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I don't go out of my way to write negative reviews unless something is absolutely horrible .. But, in this case, i have to as it is a money grab situation and it has really put me off.
$38 for a large baked spaghetti (I Was charged extra for them to bake it - what?!... charging extra to place pasta in an oven to bake it ... are you joking?
Without any exaggeration the (Take-Out) container was Half Full...and it wasn't actually even baked!.. the cheese was barely melted...no garlic bread ... no salad?! $38 FOR NOODLES and a little bit of sauce?
NEVER again.
Had we been seated at a table and that was brought to us, we would have spoken up about it there and then.
Charging extra for baking a pasta is insulting.
Food: 1
I was expecting to taste delicious pasta when I went to an Italian restaurant yesterday which I chose to celebrate my daughter's 24th birthday with my family. I was disappointed with the taste of the sauce of the different types of pasta we ordered: Alfredo, Pesto, De State ,all of three dishes the pasta was completely off . We tried adding black pepper and salt to add flavor to the pasta, but to no avail. My daughter and I only had two bites of the dish and we couldn't continue eating ,I'm not saying that there is no flavor, but the taste of all 3 sauces are not good at all. We had asked for chicken pieces to be added, but unfortunately even the few pieces of chicken were flavourless. Honestly, the Pollo alla Parmigiana was good. As for the salad, we ordered insalata di amoross ,the dressing was excellent, but the tomatoes were not fresh and very, very soft. The calamri a la Roma dish was normal (fried) nothing special.
As for the portion: all the dishes had a large amount of pasta.
As for the service: the server was friendly and served more than four tables at the same time since there was no one else to serve the customers. in the way back home we were apologizing to my daughter for ruining her birthday and decided to make it up to her another day ,and of course we ordered her meal on the way home.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Small
Food was very good from the pasta to the Slovakia, reasonably priced like most of past houses in Burnaby and new Westminster. Service was excellent. Overall I gave a four because I really don’t know what a five is.
If you order a large pasta, be prepared to take home leftovers for the next couple of days.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went last night with my 2 sisters. We shared mussel appetizer in a beautiful tomato broth. We totally loved it. Portions are excellent. Pasta dishes as wonderful as remembered. Service great lovely atmosphere. Highly recommended
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Always enjoyable. Great value. Must try.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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