Tavola Trattoria

Food was mediocre. Not bad, not great. The bread was delicious but underwhelming as it was minimal amount served. The marinara style sauce paired with the bread was interesting. Would have been better if it was warm and not cold.

The dinner portions were a bit small. Overall the food lacked flavor as it was not savory.

The dessert was good with the exception of the drizzled balsamic vinegar over the scoop of vanilla ice cream. That was a big NO for me.

Pricing is fair at approx $25 on average per person. That did not include adult beverages.

It was good to try out, but probably won’t go out of my way to go again.

Oh and service was good as well. Good waitress Valeria was attentive and courteous.

This is a great Italian restaurant with a large selection on the menu. The bread was served warm and came with a type of marinara sauce. I ordered the eggplant parmesan, which was excellent and perfectly crispy. It was seasoned well and came with a side of spaghetti. The portion was also just right. I ordered soup and the tomato basil was good, but a bit too creamy for my taste. Note that there are good vegetarian options even though the vegetable minestrone soup is not vegetarian!

Lively vibe, attentive service, very mediocre food (2.5/5)

I will preface this by saying that we have eaten at a lot of excellent restaurants in our lives so we have high standards when it comes to food.

This is a popular restaurant and both the attention we received from the hostess and the service our server provided were excellent. The food was lacking and we would not go back because of it. I’ll provide some detail below so that the kitchen can maybe make some improvements.

I am not sure what they were going for with the Crab Arancini Trio. It did not taste like crab but mostly like melted cheese. Honestly, it felt like having $18 cheese curds and I’ve had tastier cheese curds.

While the soft cheeses and meats of the Farm Board were decent, the hard cheeses were really disappointing. I know it’s not that easy to get great cheeses in this country but a good restaurant should be able to do better. They were Trader Joe’s type quality at most. Some of the Trader Joe’s ones I think may even be better. The board also included a spoiled grape, not a big deal, but also something that is so easy to avoid with a little attention to detail.

The Ana Rosa with salmon looked pretty but tasted like the most boring vegetables ever. The salmon was overcooked and not by a little.

My husband commented that his Ravioli Tavola were “very moyen” (mediocre).

We had the chocolate creme brulee as a dessert. A creme brulee should have a crunchy caramelized sugar top that you need to break with your spoon to get to the cream. The top was soggy. I guess it was made ahead. That does not work.
The kids remarked about their dessert sampler “The ice cream is good. I guess I’ve never met anyone who could mess that up.” but declined to have the cake or tiramisu boxed up. I tried both tiramisu and cake and agreed that it was the right choice to not take the leftovers home.

This place is an amazing gem. I went here because the menu looked amazing and was very reasonably priced. I was in bentonville for a concert that night and me and my son loved every single thing about our meal but to make it even better they serve this bread and bread salsa well I’ve never had bread salsa in my life but I’ve been really missing out. We will be making monthly trips up that way just to stop in for some delicious food great staff nice atmosphere.

We’ve visited here multiple times, and each time the chicken lemon cutlet has been a delight. The chicken is consistently cooked to perfection, and the addition of lemon enhances its flavor beautifully. The fettuccine meatballs with cream sauce are simply impeccable. The spaghetti meatballs, with their al dente texture, expertly complement the savory meatballs, and the thick tomato sauce brings everything together.