Villa Tronco Italian Restaurant

Birthday celebration party of 8- everyone loved it.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Calamari, Lasagna, Villa Tronco House Salad, Seafood Pesto, Italian Eggrolls, Creamy Seafood Pesto

Plan to hang for 2 hours or more when you come here. It's a great place to tuck in with a few cocktails, appetizers, soup and salad before the main event. This is our favorite Italian restaurant in town. The service is always friendly. It's feels like you've been transported somewhere far away from Columbia. While everything is delicious, their specials are always knockouts! From cacio e pepe to the best pork ribeye you'll ever put in your mouth. No matter how full you are, get dessert! Even if you must take it home for later. Their tiramisu and amaretto bread pudding are to die for.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Calamari, Chicken or Veal Parmigiana, Chicken Marsala, Villa Tronco House Salad, Italian Eggrolls

Great food, great atmosphere, definitely recommend. The bolognese is amazing.

Incredible iconic restaurant in Columbia. A don't-miss experience of great food, service and atmosphere from a family run establishment. The fresh pasta and crab cakes will make you miss New York and Maryland simultaneously! Bon apetit.

This place blew me out the park. I enjoyed the food so much and it reminded me of growing up in NY and eating at our favorite Italian restaurant. Food was amazing . Great prices , great service and everything was tasty . Authentic Italian food , which can be hard to find these days.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great place. Food was spectacular and service was attentive and knowledgeable.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

One of my absolute favorite restaurants in Columbia! We are so fortunate to have the quality of food and atmosphere that Villa Tronco has to offer and has for 85 years!

Food was perfection and service is top notch!
Highly recommend if you haven’t been.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Villa Tronco

4 people for supper, all meals were prepared perfectly, attentive service and reasonable prices

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My wife and I recently went here and we ordered two different entrees off the weekly special menu. It was FANTASTIC! The food was so good, the service was fast and friendly and we were so pleased with our meal. The server was very helpful pairing a great wine to go with our meals. This was our 2nd time here and we be back again!

Fantastic ambience and delicious food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

I have been to Villa Tronco twice now. The first time is not the focus of this review, as it was fine, aside from them giving me a different drink than I ordered. I went a second time with a group of 6, and was very disappointed. To start, our reservation was at 6:30, which we were right on time for. We were told our table wasn’t ready, and ended up waiting 30 minutes until we were finally sat. To make up for it, we received 2 appetizers on the house, which was not enough for a party of 5 whatsoever, as each plate had 4-bite size pieces - not every guest could have one of each. We ordered cocktails, which came about 20 minutes later. At this point, it’s nearly an hour since the reservation was supposed to start. Drinks were not top tier taste. Salads came out 30 minutes after ordering, chicken which was ordered on pasta did not come until we had to ask, and one guest was charged for a $20 pasta dish no one ordered. Had to ask for a side of vodka sauce for the penne, because it was dry, which we ended up still getting charged for? Service could have been a lot more attentive, especially with how the evening started. I will give props to the water re-fillers. They were amazing and prompt. Other than that, the whole meal should have been compensated. Was quite disappointing.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 2

First visit. Seated promptly as we had reservations. No problem with parking at 5:00 pm Thurs evening. Server Nikki review menu and was initially attentive. However, once food was served, she never came back to inquire about our meals. The veal was tough and dried out. Chicken lacked flavor and although requested light on pest for Seafood Pesto, it came with Alfredo sauce only. Expensive dish for small amount of seafood served. The bread sticks were disappointing. Expected good Italian bread at this level of dinning.
The venue was dark and tired looking.
A disappointing evening.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2

I’m so impressed

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great dinner tonight! The trout piccata was fantastic. I highly recommend saving room for amoretto cheesecake. ❤️

We are visiting from Savannah and we loved Villa Tronco! The drinks, entrees and desserts all outstanding, and our server Nikki was great! If you want an excellent restaurant in Columbia, this is the place.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Parmesan, Villa Tronco House Salad, Villa Tronco