Amici Trattoria Review

Very cozy place, friendly people and great food at moderate prices.

We love Amici. Like no other restaurant Amici food, service and environment can be the fancy place to celebrate a big family event or a nice casual restaurant on a Tuesday night. It has a home town feel and simultaneously brings exquisiteness to small town central Massachusetts. We love Amici.

I lived in Shrewsbury for 20 years and only recently " discovered" this place after moving to Milford! LOL! The food is excellent, the service is top notch and the atmosphere is warm and inviting. It is a small place so expect to wait but believe me you'll be happy you did

Amazing experience, every time I go there it's awesome. Fantastic neighborhood restaurant, and the bartender Alex is the most polite and professional person I've ever had serve me.

Very good food. They just put mushrooms in everything dish restricted my meal options. Atmosphere was ok. It's halfway between wanting to be casual and wanting to be fancy. Waitress was fantastic!

Excellent food. Great service. Parking could be better.

Delicious!! Amazing food! Cocktails are alright. No reservation necessary, first come first serve basis. However, you can call 15 minutes before arrival to get on the wait list, which should result in a shorter wait. Plety of parking behind the building. Would certainly recommend and will visit again.

Service was great, had a fantastic panini and their bread is phenomenal. Gave rating of 4, may increase if I can get back and try more dishes. Especially looking forward to trying one of their many seafood entrees.

Food was good, however our server was not that great seem to be in a hurry not providing us a warm experience something we noticed on other servers there.

Amazing italian eatery in the heart of Shrewsbury. Well worth the drive to get there!

Great place - tiny little bar - excellent large servings, be prepared to take some home. Get there early on Thursday or Friday, is a favorite for the locals.

Great service, nice atmosphere with full menu and bar for dining in but usually do takeout. Cheese pizza and the wild arugula salad are favorites. Pizza is really good but sometimes too well done for us so we just mention when ordering.

They have the most flavorful and delicious food I've ever had. Great cocktails and ambiance too!

It is a very cozy space with excellent service. Make sure to come on an empty stomach, as the portion sizes are quite large.

Too much breading on very thin veal that was too well done and very tough.

Was the worst pizza. Got thin crust. Big mistake because the crust separated. Bottom portion split off the heavier top so when you ate it you had a plate full of brown flakes. Can't believe all the rave reviews. Standard must be very low in Shrewsbury. Restaurant extremely noisy and our waitress a bit snappy. She refused to give us bread and oil because we still had our menus and they may get dirty? I'm recommending Shrewsbury Street over local.

Great menu. Couldn't decide what to have. I love risotto and they have 6 different kinds. The food was excellent and I plan to go back soin. The service was a bit slow, but I was in no hurry, so it didn't bother me. I would recommend this restaurant to anyone.

Nice place for casual Italian. Their Pizza is usually quite delicious

Excellent Italian food in a comfortable atmosphere. Service is great! I highly recommend.

Every thing is awesome here. Alex, our host, was amazing. Food is great. Fresh baked panini with olive oil and roasted garlic was heaven. Buffalo chicken pizza was fantastic. Risotto with zafron was rich with flavor. Panini with chicken and broccoli with creamy garlic sauce was so good too. Will come again for sure.

The food was absolutely delicious and the service was courteous, warm and extremely competent. Next time I get to Shrewsbury, I'll make it a point to visit again.

slow service. Food just so-so. Not worth the price.

Terrible takeout food! Sandwhich with paper Scraps mixed into to the sandwich. And the pizza is disgustingly greasy

Food was delicious and the service was great. They have a nice variety of items to choose from and the portions are fairly large!!

We ordered pizza and they gave us the wrong order therefore they gave us a gift certificate and then we picked up the correct order. Now we ordered eggplant Parmesan with everything on it. Again all that it came with is eggplant Parmesan, nothing extra that was ordered. For some reason they cannot get an order right

Sat at the bar. Atmosphere was busy, but not too hectic. Had sangria and pizza. I've definitely had better pizza here. Crust was a bit mushy, but it was thin crust with a few toppings. 5 stars is for the whole experience. Great service and relaxing environment.

Food was good, not great. Service was on the slow side. Stopped on a whim because it was convenient. Had linguine with white clam sauce. Was surprised to have it come with lemons on it? The lemon was overwhelming to the dish. Another person in my party had a salmon special and was happy with it. I would stop again but it wouldn't be my first choice.

I got a margherita pizza from here and it was phenomenal very authentic

Went to Amici for the first time today for breakfast because we wanted to try something new and local. Immediately upon walking in the maitre d' did not greet us but our waitress came over to seat us. The food was good and bar was adequately stocked but the initial greeting sets the stage and it ended the same way we came in, no thank you for coming or see you soon. Just dead silence. So we weren't welcomed and we won't be back.

A bit of a deception here pasta were ok but not great.

What a great find! Excellent food, large portions sizes. Cute interior with friendly staff. I wish we lived closer!

Very Good!! Great chicken parm sub and fantastic Pizza!!

Nice little italian place, 8 seat bar, good pizza, and take out

Best gnocchi I ve ever had. Service treats you like family. Great bar and great pizza. What else could you ask for?

Great place for lunch meetings, quick, reasonable, excellent food and great service!

Frickin awesome! Love this place! Great food and great service. Highly recommend the risotto.

Food is always on point along with great service. Love it here.

I found a neighborhood gem. Dinner portion is very generous and I couldn't finish it.Reasonable price. They also support charities for a good cause.

Amici's Trattoria is our favorite neighborhood restaurant and we frequent the restaurant almost weekly. The food is exceptional and the wait staff and bar tenders are great. We walk in and they know our favorite drinks and food. Our only bad experiences have been with a woman named Jasmine. She is a manager I believe and needs to be trained on customer service. We have had three terrible experiences with this individual. After our last experience, we actually thought about not returning to the restaurant, but felt it was not fair to the great people who work there besides Jasmine. If this establishment wants to keep its loyal customers, I would recommend sending Jasmine to customer service training.

This place is one of my favorite "Little Italian" restaurants. The service staff is quick and friendly, the atmosphere is small-scale family restaurant, and the food.... Oh... My... Word... The food is amazing! Get the Alfredo with so.e fresh pasta... You will eat so much you feel ready to burst, and still have enough for tomorrow's lunch! Prices are mid range, expect to spend $60 for a couple to eat and have a drink.

Wonderful retro atmosphere and excellent authentic cuisine

This restaurant has some of the best food I've had in a longtime... Authentic Italian food...

Nice local hang out with good food. I love their Caesar salads, portobello mushroom tower and chicken Parmesan. My husband has their chicken piccata every time and says its consistently good. The bar is always popular with locals, nice wine list and excellent cocktails. The atmosphere is vibrant, sometimes fringes on loud. Don't miss their pizza- thin crust and excellent. Have I mentioned their warm bread and garlic dipping sauce? This alone will bring you back every time. Parking can sometimes seem like a hassle, but just keep driving around the block and I absolutely promise you something will open up!

Excellent food and service! Veal parm nice and tender. Delicious!

If you're looking for above average Italian food. This is a great place.

We had a date night on Saturday here. The food was phenomenal. Everything we tried was delicious, including their home made cannoli. Prices are reasonable for the quality of food too.

Very nice place to eat. Not quite the right spot for families with kids under 6.....

This used to be a five * review. I'm updating it today, April 2016. Amici has been my favorite Italian restaurant for years. I've recommended it to plenty, and returned time and again. I used to look forward to Worcester Restaurant week just so I could go and see what they had created. Sadly, over the past year or so, they've evolved into a restaurant that has lost touch with its charm, its culinary quality, and most of all, its service. The final straw came for me last week. I walked out even before we ordered. Unfortunately, I won't be going back.

I give this restaurant a 3. Food was cold and the wait staff lagged.

Food is absolutely amazing. Very friendly staff. Even if there's a wait it's worth it. Priced very fair actually better then places that are not near as good.

This a very nice and Intimate restaurant, with great food and service. Iv been here quite a few times and always left pleased. This last time I sat at the bar and had dinner,the bartender was great and on point..

NEVER going there again. Slooooooooooooooow service. Coffee served room temp then 10 min to get cream. An hour before food on the table. We informed server of a specific life threatening food allergy and that we didn t want the bread at the table but she brought it anyway. One server and six tables and still she s just chit chatting up front with the bar maid. Forgetful. Slow. Poor service.

Descent Italian food. Restrooms are very tight, single stall

Food is amazing, good portions. See Alex at the bar for the best service!

We ordered takeout while the bartender made us great drinks! food was tasty and hot when we got it home so we were very happy. Very welcoming nice warm bar.

I have been here many times but this last time might be my last. I ordered chicken penne in a cream sauce that was more like paste. Just awful. My wife ordered the the lasagna that was not fresh and heavily covered with
tomato sauce and very unappetizing. .

Excellent Italian fare. A bit expensive than other comparative options

An Upper-class expectation based on Public Image. Portions were minimal but the price was high and service was okay, not spectacular. Tough place to park as well unless you know the area.

Restaurant with Fred Willis he was the original opener of this restaurant it was called Willy's Tuscan trattoria was a great restaurant it seems like they had the same menu still.

The foods ok but its the only restaurant I've ever been to where one of the waitstaff told me specific things to NOT order on the menu.

Best Italian food in the area. Confirmed by a good friend who lives in Aviano Italy for 4 years.

Food is good. Not superb, but definitely great food. The pasta is a little overpriced for what you get, but they make a good cheap attempt to glorify italian food. What I mean by this is that the presentation is done really well, including home-made bread and roasted garlic in olive oil; and fancy pasta dishes. When it boils down to it though, there really isn't anything inventive here, it's all just presentation. Regardless, it is tasty.
HOWEVER, and this is a big however: you can't have a conversation here, It is a VERY small place and they pack you in like sardines. It gets VERY loud. So loud in fact, that I couldn't have a conversation with my dining partners. I just had to sit and stare around and be amazed at just how loud this place is.
Despite how good the food is, I will not be returning as there is no point to dining in such noise. If I can't have a conversation with whom I am dining, or if I have to scream to be heard, there is no point to it.

Service was great. The place is small and feels like eating dinner at a diner. If you're into having small talk with other attendees during dinner then you can expect it. Bread was great, coffee was good and calamari was fresh. Ordered the thin crust margherita pizza which was not good. Crust separates from toppings and pretty much crumbles on the plate. Flavor was eh. Had a couple of bites and stopped. I wouldn't go again if I based my experience on the pizza but other plates of food looked good.

Horrible takeout experience on a Sunday night. Decided to call ahead and order 2 to-go pizzas (thin crust) at 7:00pm. Was told it would be ready in 20-25 minutes. Arrived at 7:30pm and had to wait until 7:50pm. 50 minutes for two thin crust pizzas??
They also had me sign for the pizza 30 mins before it was done to finalize the sale. Not okay.
And the best part is when we got home, the pizzas weren't even cooked. I had to throw them in my own oven for another 15 minutes. The cheese fell right off the entire pizza. For $30, I will go to Anzio's next time in Northborough! This restaurant has gone down hill in the past two years.

Food was fresh and delicious. Server and support staff were great too. Will definitely be back!