While visiting Gaitlinburg, we wanted to stop by a place to great a drink and not be covered up with tourists. Â This is the spot! Â We had a local recommend to visit this spot and it was very nice! Â We didn't get any food while we were there so I cannot review the food. Â The service was great here and loved the atmosphere. Â There is a patio located at the front of the cafe, but the real treat is sitting by the river on the back patio!! Â Very charming place!
Review Source:Gatlinburg has long been a family vacation spot - I'm pretty certain that until I moved to California a year or so ago, not a season passed that I didn't wind up here for some reason or another. For most of those years, I would thoroughly enjoy almost every part of the trip except one: the food. Almost all of the restaurants in Gburg are chains and they all seem to be missing that je ne sais quoi that make restaurant experiences fantastic.
Dolce Uva changed all of that.
I have been here at least half a dozen times since they opened and every time it has been absolutely wonderful. They have expanded and taken over a retail space that was next door, so now the restaurant opens up into a lovely, open dining area with a patio on the sidewalk for all of your people-watching needs and a deck in the back overlooking the river. It's run by a couple, Glen and Lisa, and they are two of the sweetest people you could ever hope to meet. I read Ellenphant's review and find it unfortunate, but I can say that in all of the times I have been there, those two have never been anything but warm and caring and a total delight. They always make a point to stop by your table and chat and seem genuinely interested in your life and story. Lisa cooks all of the food from scratch, every meal made to order, so every bite is phenomenal. I can't help myself... every dish I have sampled has been amazing but the only thing I can ever bring myself to order us the ravioli di formaggio. From the perfect pasta pillows stuffed with a silky mixture of cheeses to the delicious, fresh tomato sauce with huge chunks of tomato so you know it's fresh to the fresh cheese and basil leaves on top, it's simply sublime.
I absolutely cannot speak highly enough of this place, nor can I wait until the next time I find myself in East Tennessee so I can go back.
Do yourself, your soul and your stomach a favor and go.
My girlfriend and I while walking around Gatlinburg for a good place to eat and have a drink or to stumbled upon this little wine bar with karoke. Â We were able to enjoy a nice bottle of wine some great food and when the karoke started we had so much fun. Â This is definitely a great place to take your significant other to enjoy some wine, food, and some good karoke.
Review Source:I am usually really generous when i review independently owned restaurants - but for this place, i had to make an exception. after seeing so many great reviews, i tried it out, along with my family in tow around the Christmas holidays. i kept double checking the address to make sure we were in the right place. the place was a mess - tables rearranged all over the place. it looked like a run down sports bar. service was terrible. the guy who served us was super rude when we were trying to decide on wine and food. kept "sighing" and looking annoyed - no joke! we ordered and watched 5 or 6 other tables who came in AFTER us receive their food BEFORE us. no one came to to table to tell us "it will be right out." We waited nearly 45 minutes before flagging the same rude gentleman down again, and politely asked where our food was. he was defensive and AGAIN rude - it almost seemed like he wanted to start a fight with us! ridiculous. i was so shocked, and although i am the first to admit we're not easily impressed, we are VERY easy to please. STAY AWAY from this place! he eventually managed to mumble a "sorry" but that was it. I was so mad when i learned my husband still tipped him as well as he did. Stay AWAY!
The food is also just "okay." I actually had to ASK for balsalmic vinegar on my caprese salad because they forgot to put it on... (again, he acted annoyed).
My friends and I were on vacation in Gatlinburg and we happened upon Dolce Uva. What a treat! It's the kind of place where you immediately feel like a local and a regular. Glenn and his wife Lisa run the place with some help in the kitchen from a kid working his way through culinary school. Glenn's a New Yorker who moved to his wife's home state of TN, so you can tell the bar will have personality. Glenn and Lisa have a great selection of wine and are passionate about their bar and the wine they serve. Don't judge the book by its modest cover - don't miss this one. It is on the corner as you go around the bend in Gatlinburg and conveniently across from a parking lot. I hear they're expanding so there should be more space soon, too.
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