Vivendo Restaurant

Small, family-owned restaurant with both Italian and Mediterranean options.  We enjoyed our appetizer of Mediterranean spreads - all were tasty and fresh.  The appetizer salads were fresh but just average.  The white sauce on our entrees was amazing - we could not get enough.  The red sauce was just average.  There was also a T-bone steak special that was cooked perfectly, melt-in-your-mouth delicious! We will return.

Amazing risotto!!! To die for!

The staff is always friendly and the waiter seems to remember my boyfriend and I even though we have only been there a couple times over the last year. Great Service! Really good drinks!

The risotto is so amazing it is hard to order something else, but I have tried the pesto pasta and the lasagna - both Very tasty. We have also tried many of the appetizers and have yet to be disappointed.

They are a bit hidden back in Bothell's Country Village (Giant Black and White Chicken) off of Bothell Everett Hwy. Vivendo is tucked behind Amai spa. It is so worth the hunt to fins them. The food is truly wonderful! The two friends I have taken there have loved it so much they always want to go back.

We've eaten at Vivendo 3 times.  The first time we were really pleased, the second time it was good but not outstanding, and the third time our faith was restored.  It's too bad the restaurant doesn't have a better location/visibility because it's actually a cute little place.  Romantic setting and when the weather is nice they have a lovely little courtyard for dining outdoors.  My husband has had the tortellini and gorganzola sauce twice and loved it. I've had the Mediterranean pasta twice and liked it both times.  The cocktails are tasty and the calamari was good.  Most recently we both decided to try new items on the menu so I got the special - Halibut with beet & cream sauces, and my other half tried the spaghetti pesto.  We started with their bruchetta napolenata.  It was good but would have been even better with more basil and better/riper tomatoes (not exactly the correct season for either).  The spaghetti pesto was very tasty (if you like pesto, this was a good one) but the highlight of our meal was the halibut and beet/cream sauce.  The halibut was excellent.  Fresh and perfectly cooked - opaque and flaky all the way through, but not dry or overdone.  The chopped, pickeled beets as garnish added excellent color but did not overpower or distract from the fish in any way.  The two sauces - beet sauce and cream sauce were lovely in presentation and again tasted great with the fish but did not overpower.    The dish was served with fresh asparagus (yum!) and risotto.  I'm not always a fan of risotto, but this one was quite tasty.  We finished the meal by sharing their home made creme brulee.  We are creme brulee snobs and love to try it wherever we go.  This one was good.  It wasn't as smooth/velvety as some but the flavor was good.  It could be improved by serving at room temperature.  The outside was warm from caramelizing the sugar on top but the inside was still cold from the refrigerator.  All-in-all our most recent trip to Vivendo was very pleasant and we left feeling like we had eaten an excellent meal, something that we would not have been able to have duplicated ourselves at home, or eaten and liked better elsewhere.  Well done!