Tavernonna Italian Kitchen

106 W 12th St, Kansas City
(816) 346-4410

Recent Reviews

gianluca latini

I would be ashamed to call whatever they serve Italian food…hell, I would be ashamed to call it “food”.Feel it for the bartender embarrassment who had to charge me $36 for a bowl of cheap heavy cream drenched pasta the cook slang out of the microwave, and still kept a smile on her face.Stay out of this place.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 4

Chris Ward

Slow service. Food took a long time to come and was not at all worth the wait. $93 lesson for us.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2

Ashley Ward

Very cold inside,staff not very friendly,over priced meals that taste like cafeteria food.Very disappointing. ?

Vika Clark

We had a fun time eating at Taveronna. The environment was welcoming and comfortable! The only complaint I have is they were out of their blackberry vodka? Or whatever was supposed to go in my drink and they were also out of the charcuterie board. Was definitely sad about that. Food presentation was wonderful though and our waiter Ryan was such a character! We enjoyed ourselves.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Amanda Mayflower

Our server was nice. Unfortunately it was the literal worst biscuits and gravy I have ever eaten. Sticky, cold, unseasoned (or maybe vaguely sweetened with a spice I can't put my finger on?). I've had better at Continental breakfast. Do not recommend the oatmeal or biscuits and gravy

Dawney D.

Service is amazing. Raven is in a class of his own. Superb wine list and a very deep bar with all the talent to back it up.

Erin Andersen

Service was awful. Food was good, extremely overpriced however.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 1

Mike B.

Truly a terrible dining experience. The server was poorly trained and was bored with serving us. Our chicken piccata was almost gross -- it was a giant deep fried chicken breast (not a cutlet) on top of a pile of overcooked linguini drenched in some sort of creamy lemon sauce. Our Rigatoni Alla Vodka was overpriced pasta drenched in what tasted like jarred marinara sauce with bacon pretending to be panchetta. There are plenty of better restaurants nearby that I wish we'd have gone to instead of this overpriced and underwhelming one. I will not return.

KatelynN

Service was extremely poor. Waitress was very distracted and it wasn't very busy and we were eating late around 8pm. Our entrées came out before our appetizers, and when we mentioned it to the waitress, she said she would go check and admitted that she had forgotten the food had been sitting in the window. When she finally brought the appetizer, said she would take it off the check since it was her mistake.  However, when she brought the check, she left the appetizers on the bill. The food overall was good but the service made the experience one I do not want to repeat. 

isa camacho

food was frozen. took 5 years to come out. small portions for so much. don’t recommend.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

We went to celebrate my husband's birthday the service was super slow. Had to ask every time for salt, pepper, bread, water everything. Bar was full of drunk people that were yelling and walking around the dining area. Just an over all bad experience

Bailey H.

I don't leave reviews but, man, we were so disappointed. The vibe of the restaurant is great, the staff was welcoming. The waitress was very pleasant. The food, however, was terrible. We ordered ravioli, but the waitress came back and said their fryers were down, totally understandable, so we went with bruschetta. It came out pretty quickly and it looked amazing. We quickly both took a bite and our faces just went blank. Our eyes, our mouths just started burning. We took a second to actually look at what we were eating and I am not kidding - I have never tasted or seen so much minced garlic in my entire life. If you like spooning mouthfuls of minced garlic from a jar - you will definitely like the bruschetta. I loveeee garlic, but holy crap. Someone had to have messed up their conversions because there is no way anyone's recipe calls for that much garlic. I should've taken a picture of it, because the ratio of tomatoes to garlic was essentially 1:1. We used our waters to try to get the taste out of our mouths but it didn't work, so it kind of ruined the taste of our wine whenever we went to take a sip, it was just stuck in our mouths the whole date. Our main dishes came out at a decent time as well, however, mine was cold/lukewarm when it came out and my fiancé's seafood pasta was lukewarm with a piping hot salmon filet. The salmon filet was the only thing that we could really enjoy eating as it grossed us out eating lukewarm pasta with cold meat/seafood. We have wanted to try this place for a long time, so we made sure to make reservations this year for our v-day. The vibe was great, but for the $$$ price of what you pay for the food - 1000% not worth it.

CBDem

Had high hopes for Tavernonna based on how nice the website looked and the interesting menu items. Not sure if employees called in due to Valentine's Day but they seemed to be short staffed. Upon entry, there was no host to welcome you. Also, there seemed to be multiple entry ways and all were unattended. You literally had to stop someone and ask to be seated, or in my case, go find your own seat. While seated, saw multiple parties enter and kind of look lost eating to be greeted and seated. The menu was concise and easy to read. Decided to start with appetizers and from our 7 o'clock reservation, we waited until 8 o'clock before asking, "where are our appetizers"? People who arrived and ordered after us were receiving their meals before we had appetizers. One group received appetizers, dinner, and was done eating before we had salads. When we asked what's going on, we never got a clear answer. The waitress and manager then tried to bring us our dinner without any explanation of what happened to the appetizers. We literally had to refuse the dinners and say, "bring us our appetizers". Once we did get our meals, you can tell they were the same meals from 30-minutes ago, just warmed up. However, they must have forgotten to warm up the broccolini, as it was stone cold. We asked for new broccolini and received uncooked stalks this time. Neither the waitress or the manager asked how we were doing, if the apps were good, if the food was good, did we want dessert, or to offer any apologies. The food was decent but the vibe was pretty much so ruined that we barely ate. They did remove the appetizers from the bill but it wasn't about the money, we just wanted to have a nice dinner. The saving grace was that after going home and warming up the food, it did taste pretty good. However, side to service and them warming up our food, not sure if we would return.

Jewels

This is my favorite restaurant. The wait staff is always friendly and prompt. The food is very good. I have tried several different dishes and have never been disappointed. My compliments to the chef! If you're in a more casual mood, you can sit in the bar and watch sports instead of one of the dining room areas. I will go back to Tavernonna again and again.

Zachariah Stovall

I will be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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