paliotti's italian restaurant

really.... really, not good!. after reading the reviews for this place..... which, i wish i read a little closer..... most had stated that generally, people loved this place, wow...... where they ever wrong!! my brother and i went on the assumtion of what do we have to loose, who can screw up italian! well this place can.... and very well at that too!. poor service, poor quality food. one of the worst ceasar salads i have ever eaten ..... soggy, oily and incredably salty.... no zip at all, flat! we knew right then, that we were in the wrong place. our mains arrived i had chicken parm my bro had fettuccine with meatballs and sausage. i had asked for carbanara sauce but i was told that there cream sauce was very simular... which of course is was not.... flavourless oily mess, un edible, one bite was more then enough for me... i didnt eat all my parm either, it was so so at best... no sauce, dry as hell and yup, you guessed it, geasy, flavourless, kinda gross. bro's meatballs were boil in a bag balls, need i say more, my dog didnt even eat them. do your self a favour and stay away from this place and go to antonio's up the road.

nice place, great food. we go often and we bring visitors often.

great food and you get lots of it at a reasonable price.

best restaurant in town. i cannot believe that anyone could write a bad review about this place! paliotti's is my favorite restaurant in abbotsford and has the best italian food i've ever had outside of europe. the atmosphere is modern yet casual, and based on my experiences, i feel as though they're actually undercharging for the quantity and quality of the food they provide. be sure to come with an empty belly as the portions are huge! i go there often and have never had a bad experience.

this place sucks they serve olive oil and balsamic with bread and it's not even real balsamic it's a red wine vinegar they say they have parmigiano cheese, it's not it's fake parmesan. the pasta is grouse way over cooper and the alfredo seduce in my pasta was a soup. this place sucks my 8 year old daughter can cook better than this .

come on guys all you have to do show a little love, it's italian food real cheese is a must
fresh past is a must for a italian pasta joint. even my wife gnocchi we're not homemade!! come on i can whip up a batch of gnocchi in half-an-hour feeds 10 people and i can freeze it for the next day or two or three come on!!!!!

i hope the people of paliottis read this and improve that's what this post was intended for.

remember real balsamic real cheese fresh pasta get it right

i took my mom here for mother's day. she ordered the chicken neptune and i ordered the mixed grill and we decided to share the zucchini sticks as an appy. then we waited. ...and waited, and waited, annnnd waited. after almost an hour the bread and olive oil arrived. thank god. we were starving! our entres arrived shortly after and about 15 minutes later we got our appetizer.

as far as the food goes my mom enjoyed hers. which is good. the "lamb" was mutton, no doubt. overcooked and dry too. the chicken followed suit. at least they're consistent!! the steak i ordered rare, so it turned out great. i got the pasta with cream sauce on the side with vegetables. the vegetables were perfect.. the cream sauce was flavorless and the pasta was no better than the cheap no name stuff at the grocery store. we finally asked for our bill and it was labeled as a table of four and had four entrees on it, none of which being anything we ordered.

i believe there are some serious management issues at this establishment. the service, friendly as it was, was slow as hell, and the food was messed up. i don't think i will blame the kitchen staff or servers fully for this. i think there's a serious lack of teamwork, coordination, leadership, and training here. i think the owner and or manager is a moron. the woman who i assume was the manger had herself doing the simplest hostessing tasks while the young and poorly trained servers were running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to find some source of direction while the under qualified cooks did their best to make quality meals with little or no training. i will not waste my time or money here ever again. this place is a joke. i'm just happy my mom enjoyed her food or i would have refused to pay all together.

you suck, paliotti's. at everything.

sat down at 5:30 and didn’t get our food until 7pm. lots of empty tables and still didn’t get drink refilled. awful experience. salad was wilted and soggy.

four of us went to paliotti’s for dinner. korina was our waitress. we waited 2 hours for our dinner to arrive so the service is terrible. no management to speak of. our only option was not to leave any tip.

food is amazing, price is not bad but the staff is rude and tries to rush you through your meal. took a long time to be seated even though there were many tables available. i would take a first date there if i felt like looking like a rich douche, because that is the atmosphere they portray.

worst restaurant experience. waited forever at the front even though we had a reservation. when seated, after ordering it took an hour for our food to arrive. there was no apologies by management or compensation for our meal. now, missing our movie plans, we left very unsatisfied.

our family went to paliotti's for fathers day dinner. the restaurant was amazing. the food was amazing and the portions were huge. we all took home doggy bags. i had the charbroiled chicken with a side caesar and sautéed veggies.. unlike most restaurants the veggies were actually fresh and had a crunch to them.. not one person was upset with their meal and we were a large group.. our waiter was excellent he is one of the owners. it was his first fathers day as a father he brought his very cute son to the table to show him off 😊 he was very attentive never forgot to bring anything to the table we had asked for despite how busy it was. i definitely recommend this place perfect setting for an intimate meal or large group of people..

me and my fiance went to this establishment and was looking forward to trying a place in abbotsford with authentic italian food which was not what we got.the food had no flavor tasted like it was from a can. i had the lasagna expecting something spectacular and it tasted like a frozen lasagna from walmart. absolutely horrible but that wasnt even the worst part about the place my order was a 10 oz new york steak with upgraded lasagna as the side the menu says right on it steak with mushroom and onion on it. came without mushroom or onion so i call the server over and ask about it and he told the kitchen and brought raw onion with "sauteed" mushroom. well the mushroom tasted not cooked and out of a can and in addition whilst there we noticed the servers sitting at the bar were drinking (which to me is no way to conduct a good establishment) honestly when i walked in i said everyone here is drunk because of actions i had seen coming in but to sit and try to have dinner while i am watching my server so drunk at other tables swaying around i asked for my food to go as i could not take it anymore. i even asked him to try the shit he served us which he did no problem probably because he wanted something to soak up the alcohol. i would not recommend this place to anybody we are really disappointed, cool little place but no recommendations for kids or any form of family due to the unsafe and drunk staff not to mention food. "my experience" we are both cooks from high end establishments also my fiance advised me against going here and wish i would have listened.

my wife and i have been to the abbotsford location a few times and for the most part it is great food and great service. once we came in after work and were dressed casually (not grungy just not done up) and were treated like we came from the tent park next door. then we found a dirty hair in my wife's pasta. they were quick to correct the situation to our satisfaction when the manager recognized us as regular patrons, but this experience definitely brought their rating down for this review. since then, under similar circumstances, this has not happened again.

it was the best of times and it was the worst at times. the last time we went here, there was no order as to who was actually our server. one would do the drinks, another taking our food order, someone else bringing out the bread, a fourth person brought out our main dishes. when we left the staff didn't say anything to us, not a 'bye,' not 'have a good day,' not even a 'boo.' other times everything was good between the service and food. just hit and miss

i am critical and opinionated, so i rarely give over 3 stars (this place is 4.5 stars) and i always have something to complain about, but all i can say is: clean restaurant, great service, excellent food, at reasonable prices. they always serve a delicious fresh in house baked bread and a olive/balsamic to dip into. i am a big guy and i always leave feeling full. i will certainly be eating here again... and again... (abbotsford location)

i like spicy hot food and the first few times they were very afraid to make it as spicy as i asked, but after several visits they kept increasing the spiciness and now they make it exactly as i like it.
the only constructive criticism i can make is... please place some chili flakes in a pepper grinder and offer that to those that want extra spice. chili flakes either need to be cooked into food, or placed in a pepper grinder to crack open the pepper seeds... this is done for 2 reasons:
1) to allow the spicy oil in the seed to be tasted, this way fewer chili flakes are required to achieve a certain level of spiciness,
2) it is gentler on the intestine because the stomach acids can work on the flakes rather than letting the unopened seeds release their spicy oil inside the intestine.