Fantastic all around. Loved the egg ravioli by Nino Bergese!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pain
Came for the food, was disappointed. I’ll talk about each dish served. Burrata (antipasto) too rich. I was struggling to finish the dish, and felt unpleasant eating it. Bread would be a must with that one. The cured meat served with the dish was just too salty and did not work. The main dishes were disappointing. I had the “modenese vacationing in rome”. It was dry, salty, loaded with cheese. Not to mention quite a small portion. I’ve had better pasta almost anywhere else. My friend had the verde on verde on verde. Cool name but he said it was not good. Lastly, the dessert. We had all four flavors of gelato on the menu. The olive oil ice cream was horrible. Why is that a thing? Two of the other flavors were really good, but I couldn’t even tell which was which. Maybe a skill issue on our end. Overall, terribly overpriced for the quality of food we were served. The service was nice and it was packed around 12:30 pm on Saturday. Reservations seem the way to go if you want to come still. We paid $140 after tax and tip for two of us. Will not be coming back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Allison Kunis
Abominable hospitality from the moment you open the front door.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Jimmy Luo
Portions are disappointing. Left hungry despite a high bill. You can find better value at other no frills Italian restaurants. Service was ok. Couldn’t really understand most of what our waiter was saying.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Ginevra Petrucci
Had a wonderful birthday lunch here! Great service, and really authentic selections from Emilia Romagna. The anolini brought me back to Italy from the first bite! Gnocco fritto was a divine appetizer. Lovely craft cocktails as well as a great wine list. Glad I finally visited!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Uovo Raviolo Di Nino Bergese, Gnocco Fritto, Anolini from Parma
John Weimer
The pasta is why you’re here and it was in impeccable. The service was also impeccable. The problem is the portion size to the price is way too small. The waiter says it is typical Italian portions and I’ve been to Italy many times it is not typical Italian portions. The pasta portions should be double for the price. The quality is excellen but the portions are terribly small. Just myself I could eat at least half the pasta menu and be barely full for $250. This should be called a pasta tasting menu.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tarik Rençber
Too crowded with too many tables and therefore too loud for a Michelin star restaurant. Although food was delicious, I did not hear half of the introduction speech from waiters, even though they were shouting at me.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 4
MJD
I wish I could copy and paste my Yelp review for this place to Google but unfortunately my Yelp account disappeared after rating Rezdora.Interesting. Especially that this completely falls in line with my spiel about how it's hard to trust reviews in NYC because people are too susceptible to hype and too afraid to disagree with the crowd. Even when the food is overpriced trash. It's either that or they get hit with cognitive dissonance about the fact that they just grossly overpaid for subpar food and in the process of self deceptive mental reconciliation write a good review instead of admitting to the fact that it would have ACTUALLY been a better night if they've gone to McDonald's and put the remaining $250 in their pocket.Apparently there is also the deleting and reporting of honest reviews by the restaurants. That'll add to the phony hype. So how can you trust reviews in NYC? You can't. The safest bet is to filter for lowest ratings and see what the haters are saying (yours truly). Because sometimes the low stars don't really matter. Is it bad service? Whatever. Is it late delivery? Who cares. Is it some angered imbecile who had his Yelp review deleted? Ignore. Is it gross food? Important. Very important. Of course the significance of these things will vary based on personal preferences but you get the gist.All that to say this. If you order spaghetti at Rezdora, you will get salt with some spaghetti. If you order ravioli, you will get salt with a side of ravioli. If you order the cheeks, there will be more salt than meat on those cheeks. That thing I said earlier about McDonald's? Yea, totally the case here. I don't understand how these places get away with this. No, wait, I do know -- it's the HYPE! In Italy this place would be out of business within a week.Great atmosphere though. Seriously. Very authentic. If that's more important to you than the food, or you don't plan on eating, then this is the place to visit for sure.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Mindy Lai
Went right at 5pm to have dinner at the bar and there wasn’t a wait. But DEFINITELY go at that time or earlier so you can eat!Opened with the salad and worked our way through it all to dessert. Everything was phenomenal and the pastas were just perfect. There really isn’t anything you can compare it to because it’s HOMEMADE!
It’s a small restaurant with excellent food. Reservations are hard to get. Recommend for special occasions.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rishab Hegde
Some of the best food I’ve had in New York, the olive oil cake and pasta (especially the grandma and Tagliolini) was exceptional though the tiramisu was pretty badHowever, the service was atrocious - took over 30 minutes to order to begin with and we had to flag down a server anytime we needed anything
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
A P
The homemade pastas and lovely fresh salads are everything! I only regret that I agreed to split everything with my skinny friend at lunchtime! The portions are intended for one person. Would have loved to have had it all to myself and tried more menu options. Definitely going back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Grandma Walking Through Forest in Emilia, Cacio E Pepe in Emilia
Tara Geary
Service was excellent. The food was just a hair below excellent. It was very good. If I could give half stars I would give 4 and a half. I wish they had a bread offering before dinner.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
W Carn
The food and service were excellent. The pasta was exquisite. Try the Gnocco Fritti as well. The only gripe is the amount of staff hovering around due to the small footprint of this restaurant.Nonetheless, highly recommend Rezdora.
Fantastic all around. Loved the egg ravioli by Nino Bergese!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Came for the food, was disappointed. I’ll talk about each dish served. Burrata (antipasto) too rich. I was struggling to finish the dish, and felt unpleasant eating it. Bread would be a must with that one. The cured meat served with the dish was just too salty and did not work. The main dishes were disappointing. I had the “modenese vacationing in rome”. It was dry, salty, loaded with cheese. Not to mention quite a small portion. I’ve had better pasta almost anywhere else. My friend had the verde on verde on verde. Cool name but he said it was not good. Lastly, the dessert. We had all four flavors of gelato on the menu. The olive oil ice cream was horrible. Why is that a thing? Two of the other flavors were really good, but I couldn’t even tell which was which. Maybe a skill issue on our end. Overall, terribly overpriced for the quality of food we were served. The service was nice and it was packed around 12:30 pm on Saturday. Reservations seem the way to go if you want to come still. We paid $140 after tax and tip for two of us. Will not be coming back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Abominable hospitality from the moment you open the front door.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Portions are disappointing. Left hungry despite a high bill. You can find better value at other no frills Italian restaurants. Service was ok. Couldn’t really understand most of what our waiter was saying.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Had a wonderful birthday lunch here! Great service, and really authentic selections from Emilia Romagna. The anolini brought me back to Italy from the first bite! Gnocco fritto was a divine appetizer. Lovely craft cocktails as well as a great wine list. Glad I finally visited!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Uovo Raviolo Di Nino Bergese, Gnocco Fritto, Anolini from Parma
The pasta is why you’re here and it was in impeccable. The service was also impeccable. The problem is the portion size to the price is way too small. The waiter says it is typical Italian portions and I’ve been to Italy many times it is not typical Italian portions. The pasta portions should be double for the price. The quality is excellen but the portions are terribly small. Just myself I could eat at least half the pasta menu and be barely full for $250. This should be called a pasta tasting menu.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Too crowded with too many tables and therefore too loud for a Michelin star restaurant. Although food was delicious, I did not hear half of the introduction speech from waiters, even though they were shouting at me.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 4
I wish I could copy and paste my Yelp review for this place to Google but unfortunately my Yelp account disappeared after rating Rezdora.Interesting. Especially that this completely falls in line with my spiel about how it's hard to trust reviews in NYC because people are too susceptible to hype and too afraid to disagree with the crowd. Even when the food is overpriced trash. It's either that or they get hit with cognitive dissonance about the fact that they just grossly overpaid for subpar food and in the process of self deceptive mental reconciliation write a good review instead of admitting to the fact that it would have ACTUALLY been a better night if they've gone to McDonald's and put the remaining $250 in their pocket.Apparently there is also the deleting and reporting of honest reviews by the restaurants. That'll add to the phony hype. So how can you trust reviews in NYC? You can't. The safest bet is to filter for lowest ratings and see what the haters are saying (yours truly). Because sometimes the low stars don't really matter. Is it bad service? Whatever. Is it late delivery? Who cares. Is it some angered imbecile who had his Yelp review deleted? Ignore. Is it gross food? Important. Very important. Of course the significance of these things will vary based on personal preferences but you get the gist.All that to say this. If you order spaghetti at Rezdora, you will get salt with some spaghetti. If you order ravioli, you will get salt with a side of ravioli. If you order the cheeks, there will be more salt than meat on those cheeks. That thing I said earlier about McDonald's? Yea, totally the case here. I don't understand how these places get away with this. No, wait, I do know -- it's the HYPE! In Italy this place would be out of business within a week.Great atmosphere though. Seriously. Very authentic. If that's more important to you than the food, or you don't plan on eating, then this is the place to visit for sure.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Went right at 5pm to have dinner at the bar and there wasn’t a wait. But DEFINITELY go at that time or earlier so you can eat!Opened with the salad and worked our way through it all to dessert. Everything was phenomenal and the pastas were just perfect. There really isn’t anything you can compare it to because it’s HOMEMADE!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Incredible Pasta selection
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
It’s a small restaurant with excellent food. Reservations are hard to get. Recommend for special occasions.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Some of the best food I’ve had in New York, the olive oil cake and pasta (especially the grandma and Tagliolini) was exceptional though the tiramisu was pretty badHowever, the service was atrocious - took over 30 minutes to order to begin with and we had to flag down a server anytime we needed anything
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
The homemade pastas and lovely fresh salads are everything! I only regret that I agreed to split everything with my skinny friend at lunchtime! The portions are intended for one person. Would have loved to have had it all to myself and tried more menu options. Definitely going back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Grandma Walking Through Forest in Emilia, Cacio E Pepe in Emilia
Service was excellent. The food was just a hair below excellent. It was very good. If I could give half stars I would give 4 and a half. I wish they had a bread offering before dinner.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
The food and service were excellent. The pasta was exquisite. Try the Gnocco Fritti as well. The only gripe is the amount of staff hovering around due to the small footprint of this restaurant.Nonetheless, highly recommend Rezdora.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5