vincitorio's

good place, great service.. wife & i, and our good friends had saturday evening dinner here.
seated at anicebooth by a friendly hostess. order taken by great waiter. bread basket & drinks arrived quickly.
started with the antipasto plate. prosciutto, salami, mozzarella,and small portions of good quality items. i would have liked more olives, eggplant & artichoke.
had a glass of chianti. nice.
waiter praised the veal, so i had the veal saltimbocca.
it was the best i've had in a good while. pasta was ok.
dessert was pretty good tiramisu, and i had a delightful "exotic gelato" beautifully presented, and very tasty.
everyone enjoyed their meals, this place has a well deserved good reputation.
service was excellent. efficient, and friendly.
food was good, but not great. a bit bland maybe, though everything was well prepared, and fresh.

we got there at 5:30 and had reservations. it soon got packed. even so, the service was perfect!.nicecrowd, though some mannerless yuppies couldn't seem to get out of our way as we exited. not managements fault though.

food ..............b
service...........a
ambience......b
value..............b+

very enjoyable meal!

mediocre. went for dinner on a saturday night.nicelooking restaurant, although my overall impression was that it was sort of fake. almost an olive garden like appearance. the food was nothing special. my lasagna was bland, mostly pasta and commercial mozzarella with a few pieces of sausage. my wife enjoyed her chicken scarpara.nicewine list. for dessert we split a tiramisu that was just awful: white cake and bland cream with no trace of espresso or liqueur.

saturday nite dinner 6-23-12. my wife and i visited vincitorio for the first time, veryniceatmosphere. first thing to comment on - excellent wait staff and service. very attentive. a+

wine list was great, good variety of selections and well explained choices. prices: decent/fair. i had two glasses of montepulciano riserva “bosco”abruzzo. very nice.

we ordered appetizer: burrata e pere (burrata cheese with pears wrapped in prosciutto), delicious, creamy, salty, sweet goodness. i strongly recommend it.

entrees with salad or soup: my wife ordered veal genovese with a salad, and i ordered the cannelloni rossini with soup (cream of mushroom).

the salad was typical, very ordinary; the cream of mushroom soup was bland needed flavor (perhaps some pepper or thyme would have improved it).

the veal genovese was very good, with side of penne in marinara. the cannelloni rossini was ok, with an ordinary presentation, and surprising small for the price. the meat filling was minimal, and the bechamel sauce was everywhere. i was a bit disappointed. pasta was fresh though.

we ordered a childhood favorite for dessert: spumoni. wonderful presentation and delicious. it made up for the cannelloni.

overall, the meal was enjoyable and we would return. the prices-to-food ratio is my only complaint.

great food, great atmosphere, same entertainer.... been here 9 or 10 times. never had a bad meal. fantastic italian food!!! for dessert get the coconut sorbet in a coconut shell. mmmm! same entertainer every time i've been there. beniceif they mixed it up with different performers. getting tired of the same guy over and over again.

yesterday was michael's 23rd birthday. as anicetreat his grandmother gloria took us out for a quiet italian lunch in south tempe at vincitorio's.