Good service, but terrible pasta but the arancini was good
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
Sanjay Patel
We are visiting Montreal from California ( SF bay area) and were looking for some Italian food and we are walking down the street and spotted this gem of the place, we have some dietary restrictions so we were looking at the menu posted on the window and we liked what we saw so decided to go inside and got seated right away, Nino who is the owner helped make us feel comfortable, had conversation about the weather and how hot it was in Montreal vs where we live, brought us cold water, started out with dietary needs for one of us so he suggest great meal, Wonderful pasta for my wife and risotto for me and salad and all three times were wonderful, being vegetarian and gluten free free makes hard selection for food at most places, he was very gracious and wonderful host catted, Joked and shared some stories, Other two gentleman David and Paulo who help us during the meal were wonderful as fun to interact with as the Nino, This was by the best experience with food and service we had in Montreal! loved it! Thank you, Nino and Team
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Elizabeth Benavidez
My apologies for only snapping pics of dessert, everything was phenomenal! Perfect place to eat family style so you can try a bite of everything. The food is so fresh and thoughtfully prepared with exquisite flavor combinations. You won’t find better service anywhere else in the city. It truly has that family feel like having dinner at your favorite Nonna‘s house if you have one of those.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Paul Stark
What amazing amazing food, super friendly service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Michael Camilleri
Underwhelming, small plates of ~$30 pasta. Tried 4 different ones and all were too salty, 2 of them sitting in a ladleful of pasta water. If you’re charging this much for a small plate of pasta it’d better be flawless.
Sharing one drinks menu between 6 is inconvenient, as is reading the food menu off a board across the room.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
J Cruz
When my partner and I have a rare date night and want to stay close to home, we head to La Medusa. The menu often rotates with seasonal items, and we always find a new dish or two to try. It's a snug and intimate interior that's great for people watching if you get a window seat, and we've even brought the kids here a few times, but I'd say it's more ideal for date night. And because it's close to home, we often sneak in a sweet treat at Molly Moon's, and/or adult beverages at Lottie's or Flying Lion after dinner.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lauren Byers
amazing food and experience❤️ the staff were attentive and friendly luca and Zar were both exceptional, would definitely reccomend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Naitik Soni
Amazing food. We found few vegetarian options. Great service. Donna was amazing in explaining us each and every menu item in detail.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Campanelle Farz Bem Pesto
Cody Johns
Great experience overall. Authentic Sicilian cuisine. Went for my bday, had a great time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
R R
The food was very expensive esp given the portions; Mozzarella Caprese did not come with bread, that had to be purchased separately. The clams and pasta dish I had was bland and needing to tweeze bits of meat out of tiny clams didn’t help, but it was still better than the pasta that was too short to twirl on a fork and too thin to spear with the fork so every piece had to be balanced across the tines in order to raise it to my mouth, not exactly easy to eat. I had to go get fast food after we left, despite the bill coming to $120 for 2 (my friend had one glass of wine, I had no alcohol.) As others have said it was noisy with little privacy for conversation. While the servers were friendly It took a long time for the food to arrive and my drink was empty for a good portion of the meal. This made the mandatory service fee on the bill more frustrating, and then even more so when there was an additional line for a “gratuity”. It was a disappointing meal and I can’t imagine ever going back.
A wonderful neighborhood dining spot that really captures the Sicilian essence when it comes to gathering over delicious and uncomplicated cuisine. Service was knowledgeable and friendly, food was served at the appropriate temperature and pacing with the meal - we never felt rushed and enjoyed the comfortable atmosphere. Only snagged a pic of the Arancini since we could wait for a photo to dig in to the next dish! Definitely making this a go-to spot for date night and taking friends out.
Went here for dinner during the weekend. We were seated right away, which was nice. As we walked in you can hear EVERY SINGLE CONVERSATION. Everyone was talking all at once. I was uncomfortable close to the tables next to me. Waiter comes to take our order and we get our food relatively fast.
For $30/plate we got about 3 mouths full of food. It was very well executed. The pasta is of perfect consistency, got a nice chew and nice structure. They the sauce was tomato sauce with some olives and capers with a hint of anchovies. Slightly too salty and acidic but again, a well executed plate. It’s about three mouth fulls with of food. Luckily we weren’t too hungry but man was it expensive. It was absolutely not worth the money IMO. Add that to the poor loud environment, I just did not have that great of a time there. Would not come back given the price. Keep in mind they also charge 18% service by default. Don’t feel pressured to tip more.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Squid Ink Rigatoni Puttanesca
Grizzlycougar
Walked here from our place to give this local place a try since it won some awards and looked promising, however we left disappointed.
They have a rotating menu, so we ordered the cavatappi with goat ragu and ink spaghetti.
The cavatappi was very good as well as the spaghetti noodles. Even the spaghetti sauce was delicious. However, the dishes are quite small and simple. Didn't get a whole lot of meat and they ran out of protein for the spaghetti so it was just tomatoes and olives. It feels like something was missing from the dish to bring the ingredients together. I don't rate based on the price but for a full entree we expected more.
It is also very loud and cramped inside. We could barely hear each other and could hear everyone else at the same time.
Overall I wouldn't recommend it unless you really want fresh made pasta.
Good service, but terrible pasta but the arancini was good
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
We are visiting Montreal from California ( SF bay area) and were looking for some Italian food and we are walking down the street and spotted this gem of the place, we have some dietary restrictions so we were looking at the menu posted on the window and we liked what we saw so decided to go inside and got seated right away, Nino who is the owner helped make us feel comfortable, had conversation about the weather and how hot it was in Montreal vs where we live, brought us cold water, started out with dietary needs for one of us so he suggest great meal, Wonderful pasta for my wife and risotto for me and salad and all three times were wonderful, being vegetarian and gluten free free makes hard selection for food at most places, he was very gracious and wonderful host catted, Joked and shared some stories, Other two gentleman David and Paulo who help us during the meal were wonderful as fun to interact with as the Nino, This was by the best experience with food and service we had in Montreal! loved it! Thank you, Nino and Team
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My apologies for only snapping pics of dessert, everything was phenomenal! Perfect place to eat family style so you can try a bite of everything. The food is so fresh and thoughtfully prepared with exquisite flavor combinations. You won’t find better service anywhere else in the city. It truly has that family feel like having dinner at your favorite Nonna‘s house if you have one of those.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
What amazing amazing food, super friendly service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Underwhelming, small plates of ~$30 pasta. Tried 4 different ones and all were too salty, 2 of them sitting in a ladleful of pasta water. If you’re charging this much for a small plate of pasta it’d better be flawless.
Sharing one drinks menu between 6 is inconvenient, as is reading the food menu off a board across the room.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
When my partner and I have a rare date night and want to stay close to home, we head to La Medusa. The menu often rotates with seasonal items, and we always find a new dish or two to try. It's a snug and intimate interior that's great for people watching if you get a window seat, and we've even brought the kids here a few times, but I'd say it's more ideal for date night. And because it's close to home, we often sneak in a sweet treat at Molly Moon's, and/or adult beverages at Lottie's or Flying Lion after dinner.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
amazing food and experience❤️ the staff were attentive and friendly luca and Zar were both exceptional, would definitely reccomend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing food. We found few vegetarian options. Great service.
Donna was amazing in explaining us each and every menu item in detail.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Campanelle Farz Bem Pesto
Great experience overall. Authentic Sicilian cuisine. Went for my bday, had a great time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food was very expensive esp given the portions; Mozzarella Caprese did not come with bread, that had to be purchased separately. The clams and pasta dish I had was bland and needing to tweeze bits of meat out of tiny clams didn’t help, but it was still better than the pasta that was too short to twirl on a fork and too thin to spear with the fork so every piece had to be balanced across the tines in order to raise it to my mouth, not exactly easy to eat. I had to go get fast food after we left, despite the bill coming to $120 for 2 (my friend had one glass of wine, I had no alcohol.) As others have said it was noisy with little privacy for conversation. While the servers were friendly It took a long time for the food to arrive and my drink was empty for a good portion of the meal. This made the mandatory service fee on the bill more frustrating, and then even more so when there was an additional line for a “gratuity”. It was a disappointing meal and I can’t imagine ever going back.
Food: 1
Service: 3
Restaurantji Recommends
A wonderful neighborhood dining spot that really captures the Sicilian essence when it comes to gathering over delicious and uncomplicated cuisine. Service was knowledgeable and friendly, food was served at the appropriate temperature and pacing with the meal - we never felt rushed and enjoyed the comfortable atmosphere. Only snagged a pic of the Arancini since we could wait for a photo to dig in to the next dish! Definitely making this a go-to spot for date night and taking friends out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Arancini - Saffron Risotto Croquette, Simple Chicory Salad with Preserved Lemon Soft Cooked Egg Parmesan \u0026 Bread Crumbles
Among the best Italian restaurants in Seattle! Love their family-style atmosphere and amazing food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Goat Ragu
Been twice, lovely experience both times.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chocolate Torte, Braised Cabbage, Branzino Prepared Tableside
Went here for dinner during the weekend. We were seated right away, which was nice. As we walked in you can hear EVERY SINGLE CONVERSATION. Everyone was talking all at once. I was uncomfortable close to the tables next to me. Waiter comes to take our order and we get our food relatively fast.
For $30/plate we got about 3 mouths full of food. It was very well executed. The pasta is of perfect consistency, got a nice chew and nice structure. They the sauce was tomato sauce with some olives and capers with a hint of anchovies. Slightly too salty and acidic but again, a well executed plate. It’s about three mouth fulls with of food. Luckily we weren’t too hungry but man was it expensive. It was absolutely not worth the money IMO. Add that to the poor loud environment, I just did not have that great of a time there. Would not come back given the price. Keep in mind they also charge 18% service by default. Don’t feel pressured to tip more.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Squid Ink Rigatoni Puttanesca
Walked here from our place to give this local place a try since it won some awards and looked promising, however we left disappointed.
They have a rotating menu, so we ordered the cavatappi with goat ragu and ink spaghetti.
The cavatappi was very good as well as the spaghetti noodles. Even the spaghetti sauce was delicious. However, the dishes are quite small and simple. Didn't get a whole lot of meat and they ran out of protein for the spaghetti so it was just tomatoes and olives. It feels like something was missing from the dish to bring the ingredients together. I don't rate based on the price but for a full entree we expected more.
It is also very loud and cramped inside. We could barely hear each other and could hear everyone else at the same time.
Overall I wouldn't recommend it unless you really want fresh made pasta.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 4
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