9 Best Italian Restaurants near Charleston

“Had a dinner there last night and was taken well care of! The server was excellent! The cook(s) did an excellent job! I appreciate the addition of mash potatoes back on the menu. Thank you for the serving of garlic butter as well! Loved my experience and will be back! Would recommend!

Had the salmon with mash potatoes and fried mozzarella! Salad of course! I totally enjoyed my dinner experience!! Much love to the staff and God Bless!“

“The Lasagna was delicious.“

“This was our first time at Sergio’s and we had a wonderful experience. The food was great and our server Susan was so kind and attentive. We will be back to try other selections on the menu!“

“My husband and I had an amazing lunch Saturday. The food was delicious, especially the salads with all the fresh vegetables! The service was wonderful as usually! No food pictures but the portions were huge!“

“This place is consistently great. We’ve had nothing but pleasant dining experiences at Abruzzi.

The bread they serve from the Charleston bakery is SO GOOD, especially the olive bread!

We’ve been twice in the last couple of months, had the antipasto appetizer both times. It’s what you expect, sliced meats and cheese, would prefer olives, but the sweet grapes were a nice reprieve from the salty meats. The pickled veggies were really good!

The Prosciutto and Burrata Salad was also good, I would say great but it’s a big salad with a ton of arugula, it needed more dressing for sure. I’m accustomed to a creamier and more buttery burrata, this was a little drier and leaned closer to mozzarella, but still good.

I would say the appetizers and salads are “good”, but the entrees are legit! Recently, we’ve had the lobster ravioli, frutti de mare risotto (basically, seafood risotto), mushroom campanelle and spring carbonara and our family had the chicken parm, crab cakes and Alfredo… they all raved about their plates. I’m convinced you can’t go wrong with any entree.

I have to call out the frutti de mare risotto… the scallops probably rank top 3 I’ve ever had, and that’s insane because this is Charleston, WV, we aren’t near any coastline, that’s for sure. I’ve lived on the Chesapeake bay in MD, on Topsail Island, NC and Savannah, GA. How some chef in Chucktown is cooking better scallops than coastal restaurants in coastal foodie destination cities is beyond me. My only reservation is the portion of seafood to risotto… 2 shrimp and 2 scallops weren’t enough to have a bite of seafood with each bite of risotto, maybe throw in some calamari or clams to round it out.

We make homemade pasta and we do it well, on both a manual Marcato Atlas press and a kitchen-aid pasta press, we know homemade pasta. Once you have tried it you can easily identify it on a plate, it’s texturally different and more flavorful. Abruzzi is definitely making their pasta in house. The texture is divine, and the bite it perfect, every time. Now I need to find a campanelle attachment for our pasta press, it’s such a great shape for sauce to cling to!

There are other local Italian restaurants that serve great food, but Abruzzi does it better.

As a local, here’s my tip… look at the Charleston Dirty Birds schedule and visit when they are out of town, parking is readily available across the street when the team isn’t hosting a home game. If you have to park in the parking garage it’s going to ruin your dinner, urban campers use the stairwells as their personal lavatories.“

“I hope you get a good waitress. The food was good, but the service was terrible. I don't know what the waitress was doing, but she wasn't very attentive to our table.“

“Good food and friendly courteous staff“

“Awesome food! Everything we have eaten here has been amazing!“

“Always fresh and delicious food with friendly service and reasonable prices! It can take a while to get your order, but it’s worth the wait!“