Came in for just drinks and some food at the bar on a Friday night. Two of us sat at the bar right in the middle no one else around and it still took 5 mins before anyone came to ask for a drink order. I could have made a drink myself in that time. Finally a bartender noticed us and got our drinks. Â After food and two rounds of drinks we tried to cash out and leave. We put coats on, stood up from the bar stools , even called out loud were ready to cash out holding our card. The female bartender totally ignored us and spend her time chatting with her friends at other the bar. Our $79 tab wasn't worth the time apparently and it took us 15 mins just to cash out. Â Great food & drinks ruined by terrible service. Â We send an email to management to just let them know not expecting anything. No one bothered to even reply. I'll spend my money else where next time. Not worth the terrible service go to someplace else where they take care of you and are willing to let you just pay the bill when your ready.
Review Source:I've been going here since 1993 or so, two moves ago. Â It has been my favorite restaurant for the majority of those years. Â The past three years, I spent being disappointed in a couple changes I noticed.
Little details only a regular would notice, for example, the first time I went to the current location, I got those shitty foil wrapped butters served with my bread and my favorite old menu item (chicken rollatini) was no longer
available, even by special request! Â I emailed them afterwards, really blunt and angry email... Something about sacrificing quality and pissing off all their clients.
Anyway, I went to a family birthday dinner this week. Â The amazing garlic butter was back and what did I discover on the menu? Â Not chicken rollatini, but the exact recipe with salmon instead of chicken. Â It was the best plate of food I had in a while. Â Crab stuffed salmon. Go get some now.
What a gem this place is. Never in a million years would we have stopped by expecting such a fantastic dining experience. The place is in a non-descript strip mall in the middle of nothing. But once inside... Perfection. The ambiance is brilliant, the lighting soft, the music heard but not loud, the decor has class... Couldn't ask for much more. We visited after seeing some glowing reviews of the service, and the reviews don't do this place justice. We visited late on Valentine's day, expecting a tired staff, the "end of day" food and a rushed experience. We were wrong across the board. The staff was extremely inviting. Our waiter was perfect, seemingly appearing like magic to clear dishes and refresh drinks. The food was prompt and fresh. I have never experienced a steak that was so obviously fresh off the grill in a restaurant before. I can not recommend this place enough. The staff alone sets the bar to which all other restaurants, at any level, should strive. Bravo!
Review Source:We have been going to both D'Agnese's locations in Seven Hills and Broadview Heights for over ten years. Â The food and service are always fantastic with a very cosmopolitan wine list. Last night, we enjoyed Veal Saltibocca and the Rack of Lamb. I would like to conclude this review with once again offering our sincere thanks to Mindy who always makes a feel at home and welcome!
Review Source:I love D'Agnese's! Â Everything tastes SO Fresh. Â It's affordable. Â Quality is great. Â I first came here many years ago and have not been coming in frequently enough. Â Mostly because it can get quite busy! Â I see however yelp has a handy dandy little reservation feature built on D'Agnese's page here. Â My favorite appetizer is the sausage stuffed peppers. Â The seasonings zing your senses. Â Fried Raviolis are also quite appetizing. Â Crunchy yet creamy. Â The eggplant parm is the best around. Â Great quality and quantity. Â So so tasty.
Review Source:Great salads and calamari. The bar area is very comfortable and not a cheesy bar but classy. Prices are reasonable; similar to Carabbas but better quality and menu selections and certainly not as dark. There is a small area for kids. I love wine and their house selection is nice. No draft beer but who needs that. Â Try an Italian beer or a local one--enjoy. I go here twice a month.
Review Source:I really, REALLY want to like D'Agnese's. It's very close to home, it's a very nice looking place, it's very close to home. Â Decided to try again, and, again, it just underwhelms.
One of the main reasons people love Italian food is FLAVOR. Â Yes, capital letters. Â BIG, BOLD, F L A V O R. But, D'Agnese's simply refuses to speak, write, or cook above a whisper. Tonight we got a Caesar Salad, Wedding Soup, Egg Plant Rollatini and a Mediterranean Salad. There was nothing wrong with any of it. But, sadly, there was nothing right with any of it either. It's like they are cooking for people who can't have any herbs or spices. For goodness sake, the bacon in their Caesar was TASTELESS!
Seriously, just HOW exactly do you take the flavor out of bacon?? HOW? Folks, this is one of life's major mysteries. Â
Yes, I know it's popular, but so is Olive Garden. Â Am I comparing the two? No, because I haven't been to an Olive Garden since the year they opened here. Hell, for all I know Olive Garden might be better; sure as heck can't be much worse.
If D'Agnese's wants to see and--much more importantly--TASTE how it's done, maybe they should just mosey up Broadview to just north of Pleasant Valley and go to Eddie's.  Comparing one to the other is like comparing a Vespa to a Bugati.  Yes, they might both be made in Italy, but  one is pure sizzle and class and the other is a very minor diversion at best.  The fact both restaurants share the same price point should embarrass D'Agnese's management to their core.
Shame on them for the mediocrity they produce.
Came here for lunch the other day after seeing its good Yelp reviews, and this is one place that warrants the hype.
We had a flat iron steak special, house salad (candied walnuts, goat cheese, vinagrette), and tiramisu for dessert.
The meal started with bread fresh out of the oven (literally piping hot, in a good way), and a great vinagrette/oil dip that quickly disappeared. Delicious start, and the meal that followed was on par. The steak was cooked properly and was very juicy. The tiramisu was a great dessert, and if anything the size was almost too large -- definitely has to be shared, and may even be too much for two people.
This place is reasonably priced for its quality -- our meal ran us a hair under $25, though the dinner menu will be more like $25 per person. Try the lunch!
I am quite surprised by the negative comments re: the cost of food, poor service, ordinary Italian food (this person must have gotten confused and reviewed another restaurant!!) Â Here are the facts: D'Agnese's is a high class, well run (I happen to have a BS in Restaurant/Hotel Management so I would know) restaurant with unusually large portions for the prices (obviously many of these reviewers don't understand high fine dining. Â I suggest they go to Little Italy in New York City! Â Then perhaps D'Agnese's will seem inexpensive!) ALL the dishes are imaginative, excellently prepared, using fresh local ingredients, beautifully plated, professionally & courteously served @ reasonable prices! (I also have a Culinary Degree and judge restaurants at higher standards than most) I do agree with the reviewer who stated this is really not a place for families (I cannot imagine what the parents of the child seated at the bar, were thinking! Â Also, the food is quite elegant and they use unusual and interesting ingredients....NOT food children would like! Â I'm sure they are up to the task of whipping up something kids might like such as a higher class version of "mac-n-cheese" but then, why should they have to!)
D'Agnese's is a beautifully decorated, classy "take a date," real Italian restaurant! Â The fact that it is in Broadview Heights is a gift to the city and those who know what fine dining really is!
I give D'Agneses a 5 star, the service is great; our server, Brain, is so excellent and caring.  The atmospheres and the décor are very classic and elegant.  It is suited for romantic and date dinning.  The portion is large and price is very reasonable.  Warning: reservation is must in the weekend and holiday.
Their bread is great with the crushed olive spread. Â I order the wedding soup and my wife have the Tomato and Mozzarella salad. Â Soup is very tasty and the salad with the reduced balsamic dressing is perfect match with the chesses and fresh tomato. Â However, the full portion of the salad is large, be careful. Â
I order the Pistachio crusted Lamb rack and my wife has the Zuppa di Pesce w/ lobster tail (seafood linguini). Â My lamb was cooked perfectly with the crusted pistachio, very tasty. Â My wife's linguini came with tomato based calm sauce, touch of spices, perfect. Â Their portion is large and we have enough left over for lunch tomorrow.
I've been here twice and have been very pleased with both experiences. Â I recently celebrated a friend's birthday here with 6 other individuals. Â We had a reservation but were happily surprised at how well we were accommodated. Â I had the ricotta ravioli with asparagus and crab meat. Â It was delicious! I also had some of the eggplant appetizer as well as the goat cheese appetizer and artichoke appetizer. Â They were all very good. Â The wine and drinks list is very extensive which was fabulous for our group. Â Some of us shared a couple bottles of wine while the others had drinks from the bar. Â I will certainly be back!
Review Source:Once you step into this place, you'll forget you're in the highest of the heights. The tables have chairs and are even elegant. The waiters and waitresses all speak proper English and are not hostile. You don't have to pay in advance.
The night we went there it was raining outside so I pulled up to the door to allow the ladies to avoid getting wet. A gentleman in a yellow hummer honked at me. Since we were close to the Seneca Apartments and some seedy beer sloughs where these broken people get liquored up, I assumed he was mad and wanted to fight me. He didn't. He wanted to ask me something so I reluctantly rolled the window down.
"Hey. Buddy. Ferga dant way?" I don't know what to say to this person and he repeated himself so I said, "Yeah. Guess so. Thanks." My fiancé and her colleague had entered already and I wanted desperately to park the car but the hatted man was still looking at me. "Is it or ain't it?" I smiled, he called me a homo and I quickly drove away less a man than I ought to be. I'm engaged, by the way.
The calamari at D'Agnese is a mountain of fried goodness and if you were to share it with a table of eight, you'd be full and not need an entrée at all. While sipping a glass of a fine Tre Bicchieri (2009) I allowed my mind to wander and imagined a grimy but exciting scene of the restaurant's own 125 foot quad diesel purse seiner gut-trawling a quarter million hectares of the Mediterranean just to keep this fine establishment in squid rings. They sell a lot of calamari. Excellent dipping sauce.
The Chicken D'Agnese is better choice than the Veal D'Agnese because you get more. No one at your table gives you the veal look either which is always meal-enhancing. It costs about the same and both are awesome with lemon and capers and a small bowl of oily pasta to go with it. The bread is fresh and good. Desserts are not an option especially if you get one of their immense salads.
Sometimes there are cosmo-drinking lonely women at the bar and they'll ogle men in the dining area even if the men are clearly with women. There are decorative barricades to keep them as isolated as possible. Be warned though, if a grizzled and sotted tart looks past you towards a table of seniors and licks her lips longingly, you'll question your manhood which, on a rainy night, miles from civilization is unnerving.
I'm not really engaged. I just said that.
So why do parents think that it is ok to bring their annoying children to a nice restaurant? Â In Broadview Heights, it seems like children eat out every night.
My wife and I arrived early to have a drink at the bar--and the bar area is quite nicely decorated--but then a family of 4 gets the table in the bar and presto, the ambiance is gone and we are having martini's at Chuck E Cheese. Â The bar gets very crowded and it can be difficult to find a seat.
The food is good, especially the Veal D'Agnese and the Grouper Picatta but as others have mentioned, a bit overpriced. Â
As we were leaving, I saw a little boy sitting at the bar with his family eating dinner. Â Come on. Â There are adults crowded in trying to have a drink while this selfish family hogs up the bar. Â Shame on the management for allowing this.
Went there with big group and was treated very well. Kept wine glasses and bread baskets filled. All entrees looked good... I went with Chicken d'Agnese which had a great sauce. The pasta was great, calamari wonderful and fried goat cheese perfect. Didn't find prices that outrageous as other reviewer did. The portions justify the prices as almost everyone at our table went home with a doggy bag.
Review Source:Meh.. Its OK. I used to love this place, but i think that was before i discovered other/better places to eat. I know they do really well, i am just surprised that they get away with charging as much as they do. This place is REALLY expensive for your average (and yes its average) Italian food restaurant. Their namesake dishes like the Shrimp D'Agnese and Steak D'Agnese are good.. I can think of at least 5 places i would pick over this for the price.
Decor is really nice, great place for a date and the service is impeccable. Bring a fat wallet or drink a lot so you don't care. You will want to make reservations or you could end up waiting.
Went here for a lunch meeting and was impressed. Â The lunch menu is fairly extensive. Â The Salmon Piccata was very good. Â The risotto that came alongside it was swimming in butter. Â It tasted delicious but I think I heard my arteries slamming shut. Â This is a cute Italian restaurant and I wish they had a location in downtown Cleveland.
Review Source:Last night my husband and I went to D'Agnese's for dinner and this was the first time for us at the new location. Â My heart skipped a beat when they brought the bread and tapenade instead of the wonderful dipping sauce with the pepper rings in it that I am used to. But I asked for it and they were quick to bring it. I ordered the crab stuffed salmon with rice as my side and my husband ordered fish (I think it was halibut) served over gnocchi with sun dried tomatoes. His was really good but mine was spectacular. For starters and most importantly in my book, the salmon was cooked to perfection, then topped with crab and mozzarella cheese and fresh mushrooms. What made the flavors all come together was that by the mushrooms they had some of the marsala sauce (I think) and on the other side of the plate they had their famous lemon butter sauce. Simply the best!
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