Excellent Italian food from a clearly caring staff with an outstanding patio dining area. What more could you ask for? A gem of New Haven that people should know about. Try the arugula salad, the radiatore, and the rigatoni.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dorian
Horrible place to otder. I ordered 90 minutes before arrival and when I came, they made me wait another 40 minutes on the heat! Food is mediocre.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Alison Tosi
Come here just about every week. Tonight they were very busy which is great to see, thinking NH is coming back to life. I had the rigatoni Genovese and my husband had the Ribeye. Beyond delicious. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Victor Rivera
Made a reservation, arrived on time, and unfortunately had to wait 40 minutes at the bar before we gave up and found somewhere else for dinner. Cocktails were mid tbh.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Colby Putnam
Caffe Bravo is New Haven’s best kept secret. It’s an intimate space, making it the perfect place for a date night, or in our case, our anniversary dinner. I had the lamb and it was incredible! The staff is friendly and hard-working. My wife and I love to come here and are always well taken care of. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lucille
I went for an early dinner. The food was excellent, as was the service. The menu included some interesting dishes.
Dean
They offer great specials and keep their menu updated, so there is always something new and different, all fantastic.
carole
Our waiter Sal was WONDERFUL! We had a perfect date on the patio with excellent food as always and perfect ambiance. My husband got the cacio e Pepe with a side of broccoli rabe and sausage and raved about it.
Erica Heiden
Wonderful, authentic food, excellent ambiance, amazing owners. Kathleen is the best!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Raymond Carlson
Delicious food in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere! Highly recommend the gnocchi!
Pretty average Italian food in the area. No dish stood out to me as incredible, but if you're looking for a comfort food Italian restaurant, this one is an okay choice. The app plates are pretty small, but can be shared by 2 people (3 means everyone gets one bite). The entrees were pretty bland and nothing special honestly. The wines were solid, but overall things were a little pricy.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Sharon Alpert
We had a delightful dinner at cafe Bravo- the food is terrific, particularly the Cacio Pepe! We love this neighborhood place!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Robert Lehman
Wonderful food, service , waiter very helpful and we loved the bucatini so Much we got to take it home
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amelia
Great birthday dinner for my dad. There was a mistake in the kitchen and the staff gave us our dessert round for free. Fantastic service and food!
Alie Fowler
We dined here on Mother’s Day. We were seated quickly and gotten drinks. We placed an order for appetizers and got those fairly quickly but the waitress didn’t take our meal order until those arrived. The prices on the specialty Mother’s Day menu were quite high but we decided to try a pistachio pasta dish from there and then items from the normal menu, including lasagna, gnocchi, and çacio pepe. Our meals took over an hour! The waitress was not very apologetic and honestly didn’t seem phased by it. When they did arrive, they were flavorless and bland. The cacio pepe was swimming in a watered down cheese sauce which made it quite unappetizing. The gnocchi was underdone making them mushy and weirdly textured.The pistachio pasta had zero flavor and the lasagna was miniscule. Our bill was well over $200 for a meal that would have been better at the Olive Garden. I don’t know if this was because it was Mother’s Day and the kitchen had too many menu items or if they were understaffed, but I would definitely not recommend it! Too pricy for very below average food!
Excellent Italian food from a clearly caring staff with an outstanding patio dining area. What more could you ask for? A gem of New Haven that people should know about. Try the arugula salad, the radiatore, and the rigatoni.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Horrible place to otder. I ordered 90 minutes before arrival and when I came, they made me wait another 40 minutes on the heat! Food is mediocre.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Come here just about every week. Tonight they were very busy which is great to see, thinking NH is coming back to life. I had the rigatoni Genovese and my husband had the Ribeye. Beyond delicious. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Made a reservation, arrived on time, and unfortunately had to wait 40 minutes at the bar before we gave up and found somewhere else for dinner. Cocktails were mid tbh.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Caffe Bravo is New Haven’s best kept secret. It’s an intimate space, making it the perfect place for a date night, or in our case, our anniversary dinner. I had the lamb and it was incredible! The staff is friendly and hard-working. My wife and I love to come here and are always well taken care of. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I went for an early dinner. The food was excellent, as was the service. The menu included some interesting dishes.
They offer great specials and keep their menu updated, so there is always something new and different, all fantastic.
Our waiter Sal was WONDERFUL! We had a perfect date on the patio with excellent food as always and perfect ambiance. My husband got the cacio e Pepe with a side of broccoli rabe and sausage and raved about it.
Wonderful, authentic food, excellent ambiance, amazing owners. Kathleen is the best!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Delicious food in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere! Highly recommend the gnocchi!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Pretty average Italian food in the area. No dish stood out to me as incredible, but if you're looking for a comfort food Italian restaurant, this one is an okay choice. The app plates are pretty small, but can be shared by 2 people (3 means everyone gets one bite). The entrees were pretty bland and nothing special honestly. The wines were solid, but overall things were a little pricy.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
We had a delightful dinner at cafe Bravo- the food is terrific, particularly the Cacio Pepe!
We love this neighborhood place!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wonderful food, service , waiter very helpful and we loved the bucatini so
Much we got to take it home
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great birthday dinner for my dad. There was a mistake in the kitchen and the staff gave us our dessert round for free. Fantastic service and food!
We dined here on Mother’s Day. We were seated quickly and gotten drinks. We placed an order for appetizers and got those fairly quickly but the waitress didn’t take our meal order until those arrived. The prices on the specialty Mother’s Day menu were quite high but we decided to try a pistachio pasta dish from there and then items from the normal menu, including lasagna, gnocchi, and çacio pepe. Our meals took over an hour! The waitress was not very apologetic and honestly didn’t seem phased by it. When they did arrive, they were flavorless and bland. The cacio pepe was swimming in a watered down cheese sauce which made it quite unappetizing. The gnocchi was underdone making them mushy and weirdly textured.The pistachio pasta had zero flavor and the lasagna was miniscule. Our bill was well over $200 for a meal that would have been better at the Olive Garden. I don’t know if this was because it was Mother’s Day and the kitchen had too many menu items or if they were understaffed, but I would definitely not recommend it! Too pricy for very below average food!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 2
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