Great service and food was amazing. Can't wait to go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Zachary Sallade
Great pizza if you’re not expecting Italian pizza.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
Brian Carr
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.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Rosemarie Hunter
Absolutely delicious and wonderful meal last evening. Eileen my server was quick and gracious getting it meal out with anything we needed. My eggplant Parmigiano was perfection.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Han Wu
Food is decent but not worth the price in my opinion. Very small portion size. The waiting staff were friendly and helpful. Of all the things we ordered, our favorite was the leftover $4 kid pasta and cheese.
Kid-friendliness: Staff were friendly to our child. Good variety of kid menu item.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
cindy Richardson
It was during Festivall on a Friday evening around 7pm. We dined inside in the AC, although we like the patio a lot also. We each had our favorite appetizer: caprese salad for me and the tuna for my husband. I had wonderfully creamy lobster ravioli and I believe he had lamb. Our service and meals were excellent!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Roberta Gayer
We spent the evening celebrating my best friend's birthday. We had a bottle of delicious resting with our meal. The salads were fresh and so good! We had the fig and feta salad. We had seafood ravioli, spaghetti and 3 cheese ravioli. The we topped it off with a flour less chocolate torte. It was a perfect evening with friends. The we went next door to the ball park and watched the Dirty Birds play ball! Kathleen was a wonderful server.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sauce, Cheese- House Three Cheese Blend on Our Rustic Tomato, Ravioli
Brooke Hirst
I had a great first experience here! The staff were super friendly and accommodating! Our waiter kept our drinks full the whole meal, which is impressive considering how much water I drink at dinner. The food was great!! We got the antipasto appetizer and it was full of yummy cheese meat fruit and even pickled cauliflower! Which was amazing. I ordered the mushroom campanelle and oh my lord it was incredible. The flavors were perfect and the pasta was cooked just right. The portion looked small, but I actually didn’t quite finish it, so I would say it was just the right amount of food! My husband got Alfredo and I personally was not a fan, but good for a less adventurous eater. Overall, I enjoyed myself and I would definitely come back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jay
It was fairly slow and over 75% empty when we were there but it took an absurdly long time for a simple pizza. We watched several people come in after us and receive their meals long before ours. We enjoyed the calamari app, but the pizza was basically on par with a frozen Digiorno's and definitely not worth the price. Service (Eileen) left a lot to be desired and assumed rounding our bill up and taking the change was cool. Overall, a pretty big disappointment.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Sarah Bear
Our waitress was really attentive but the food was super bland. Small portions especially for these high end prices. Definitely won't return ?
Best eggplant parmigiana I’ve ever had. Excellent!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Eggplant Parmesan
Maria Medvedeva
It was our first time visiting the restaurant during the Restaurant Week. We sat at the bar area and had wonderful service. The atmosphere was alright. The food was 50 / 50 interesting. The mushroom ball appetizer was big enough to split for two and great tasting. The short-rib ravioli was really rich and the better entree. The trout with risotto was pretty bland. So was the strawberry cobbler. On the other hand, the chocolate panna cotta was superb.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Justin Holmes
Had a reservation for 2024 restaurant week. When called back to confirm time, was told there was no reservation with that name. I spoke to the same person both times. We’ve been here before and everything was amazing, but this is very disappointing.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
Tiffany
This restaurant is way overpriced for the amount of food you get. To be honest it wasn’t bad, but nothing to write home about either. Don’t show up hungry, because you will leave that way as well. My husbands food was the most disappointing dish. He got Italian sausage ravioli and it looked like it was made for a child. None of the food on the menu comes with salads or sides you just get some thin sliced bread(not garlic toast) think grocery store bread shaved off. The kids food has a larger portion than some of the adult plates. The salad that I got was really small for $10, but it was good and fresh just wish it were in a bowl instead of a plate and you could get a little more. Service could have been a lot better, the waitress was not very nice.. she made me ask her 3 times if the kids plate was butter noodles. We should have went to Long Horn it would have been less expensive and no one would leave hungry. Never again. The only plate that was good was my lasagna, but I wouldn’t come back for that because they are way too overpriced.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 1
kenny Johnson
Staff is extremely nice, food was hot fast and excellent, I will definitely be a returning customer, I highly recommend,
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sausage Pizza, Meatball Sub on Baguette, Pepperoni Pizza Extra Cheese, Griled Herbed Salmon
Great service and food was amazing. Can't wait to go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great pizza if you’re not expecting Italian pizza.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
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.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Absolutely delicious and wonderful meal last evening. Eileen my server was quick and gracious getting it meal out with anything we needed. My eggplant Parmigiano was perfection.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food is decent but not worth the price in my opinion. Very small portion size. The waiting staff were friendly and helpful. Of all the things we ordered, our favorite was the leftover $4 kid pasta and cheese.
Kid-friendliness: Staff were friendly to our child. Good variety of kid menu item.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
It was during Festivall on a Friday evening around 7pm. We dined inside in the AC, although we like the patio a lot also. We each had our favorite appetizer: caprese salad for me and the tuna for my husband. I had wonderfully creamy lobster ravioli and I believe he had lamb. Our service and meals were excellent!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We spent the evening celebrating my best friend's birthday. We had a bottle of delicious resting with our meal. The salads were fresh and so good! We had the fig and feta salad. We had seafood ravioli, spaghetti and 3 cheese ravioli. The we topped it off with a flour less chocolate torte. It was a perfect evening with friends.
The we went next door to the ball park and watched the Dirty Birds play ball! Kathleen was a wonderful server.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sauce, Cheese- House Three Cheese Blend on Our Rustic Tomato, Ravioli
I had a great first experience here! The staff were super friendly and accommodating! Our waiter kept our drinks full the whole meal, which is impressive considering how much water I drink at dinner. The food was great!! We got the antipasto appetizer and it was full of yummy cheese meat fruit and even pickled cauliflower! Which was amazing. I ordered the mushroom campanelle and oh my lord it was incredible. The flavors were perfect and the pasta was cooked just right. The portion looked small, but I actually didn’t quite finish it, so I would say it was just the right amount of food! My husband got Alfredo and I personally was not a fan, but good for a less adventurous eater. Overall, I enjoyed myself and I would definitely come back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
It was fairly slow and over 75% empty when we were there but it took an absurdly long time for a simple pizza. We watched several people come in after us and receive their meals long before ours. We enjoyed the calamari app, but the pizza was basically on par with a frozen Digiorno's and definitely not worth the price. Service (Eileen) left a lot to be desired and assumed rounding our bill up and taking the change was cool. Overall, a pretty big disappointment.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Our waitress was really attentive but the food was super bland. Small portions especially for these high end prices. Definitely won't return ?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Best eggplant parmigiana I’ve ever had. Excellent!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Eggplant Parmesan
It was our first time visiting the restaurant during the Restaurant Week. We sat at the bar area and had wonderful service. The atmosphere was alright. The food was 50 / 50 interesting. The mushroom ball appetizer was big enough to split for two and great tasting. The short-rib ravioli was really rich and the better entree. The trout with risotto was pretty bland. So was the strawberry cobbler. On the other hand, the chocolate panna cotta was superb.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Had a reservation for 2024 restaurant week. When called back to confirm time, was told there was no reservation with that name. I spoke to the same person both times. We’ve been here before and everything was amazing, but this is very disappointing.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
This restaurant is way overpriced for the amount of food you get. To be honest it wasn’t bad, but nothing to write home about either. Don’t show up hungry, because you will leave that way as well. My husbands food was the most disappointing dish. He got Italian sausage ravioli and it looked like it was made for a child. None of the food on the menu comes with salads or sides you just get some thin sliced bread(not garlic toast) think grocery store bread shaved off. The kids food has a larger portion than some of the adult plates. The salad that I got was really small for $10, but it was good and fresh just wish it were in a bowl instead of a plate and you could get a little more. Service could have been a lot better, the waitress was not very nice.. she made me ask her 3 times if the kids plate was butter noodles. We should have went to Long Horn it would have been less expensive and no one would leave hungry. Never again. The only plate that was good was my lasagna, but I wouldn’t come back for that because they are way too overpriced.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 1
Staff is extremely nice, food was hot fast and excellent, I will definitely be a returning customer, I highly recommend,
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sausage Pizza, Meatball Sub on Baguette, Pepperoni Pizza Extra Cheese, Griled Herbed Salmon
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