The Old Spagetti Factory Review

Always love eating here. Cool building and atmosphere with great views of the river if you can get a window seat. The food is good and affordable.

Always been one of my favorites, if you go to those mass produced chains , treat yourself to some real italian cooking. Come hungry.

Imagine Olive Garden quality food but eating it in an elementary school.

While I would go here for a drink just to enjoy the atmosphere, I would not recommend the food. This chain restaurant is all hype and lays a very good cover. The descriptions of the menu items will make your mouth water but the actual food will leave you gagging. The Vesuvious dish tasted like it was made with Spaghettio sauce. The sausage and chicken pieces were itty bitty bites of mealy mush.
This is NOT Italian food people!

Great place; expect all of the food to be high on dairy. I got the fettuccine Alfredo and there was a huge pile of cream and melted cheese on it. Good food and friendly atmosphere, though.

The Spaghetti Factory has one of the most visual pleasing atmosphere's I have experienced. Every we're you turn is old world beauty.
The mouth watering menu choices are superb.
Perfect place to ask her to marry you, celebrate your anniversary, celebration of new chapter in your life.

Love this place! The atmosphere is beautiful, friendly staff and of course the food is always on point

Very smooth ordering process, The gluten free pasta was very good and the cheese was very creamy and smooth. the view is also beautiful and the flower garden (pictures included) is quite the sight

The best spaghetti factory around. This is their national headquarters, so expect to get the best service available. The bread is always fresh, and comes out piping hot from the oven. You can get as much as you can eat. There s a side salad or soup included with dinner as well. For a $1 you can add a drink. If you get one of their main pasta dishes, you can make it a hearty portion for just a few dollars more. I always get their homage thousand and creamy pesto dressing to dip it in. They have an upper level bar, where you can grab a drink while you wait. Happy hour is good too, in the bar.

Much better than the Clackamas location and several tables have a nice view of the river. Still crazy expensive for pasta

Great building, nice view of the water front and good food.

Always visit The Old Spaghetti Factory whenever I go to America. Brilliant food at a great price

Had to wait 45 min for service which was to be expected. Food was good but not much selection and took waiter 45 min to take our order and we had to find them for the desert and then again for the ticket to pay. So minus a small menu and very slow service, was good food.

First timer. Party of 5. Food was below average. If pasta is in your name, then cook it to perfection and this was sadly not the case! Service was slow and the location was not super busy. Very disappointing.

One of ny favorite dinner spots. The Portland location is the best one. Gorgeous building and view, and a great value.

Had a great time for my birthday! Spectacular service!!

I like their gluten-free pasta, with half Alfredo and half marinara mixed together, yum!

Very tasty pasta and lasagna. Spectacular waterfront view !

Food is still good, but seriously need to drop pricing significantly. This is a family restaurant, not white table cloth, you are pricing us out of cooking here any more. For your current pricing I can get much better food and experience in many Italian restaurants.

Great location on the river with excellent food and prices.

Great waterfront view while eating dinner was terrific!

How can a thing as simple as Mizithra and butter be so damn perfect!
Chefs: please never be greedy on the butter

The building is bueatiful - the servings are large - the service is OK - and depending on the meal - the food is OK

I'd never been here prior to this visit. The place is impressive. Two stories, with a game room on the 2nd floor. We went for my husband's birthday. Seating at the rear of the building overlooks the Willamette River. Absolutely beautiful vista. Our server was delightful and the food exceptional. Our tab, for 4, was $90 (including tip). With our entrees, we had a choice of salad or soup, and it also came with a dish of Spumoni for dessert. We added an appetizer and 2 shakes for the girls. Overall, we received quite a bit for our money and left with leftovers. A few servers sang happy birthday to my husband, which was lovely. It is a place I'd gladly visit again

Clean and inviting place. Food was good, staff friendly and accommodating.

Mom's birthday...waitress(Christine) was extraordinary...good times

We love the Spaghetti Factory and always enjoy our food. However we were disappointed with our server tonight, she seemed to be too preoccupied with the large party upstairs to provide us the attention we needed. But the food is amazing!

Food was very good, didn't know about the specials. There were a couple of very loud large groups that made it hard to hear and not so relaxing.

Delicious food. Either our server had too many tables or was inattentive. It was the worst service at a restaurant we've had in as long as I can remember. At least the food was good!

The food is soooooo good and the atmosphere and staff were wonderful. They have an awesome kids room upstairs. Totally made waiting for our table barrable with our toddler.

Very nice staff. Attentive. Team work for sure. Great food!

It was ok. My meal got cold after awhile and the cocktails were alcohol weak. Very beautiful place however.

Went to a murder mystery dinner here. Great experience! Staff and food were great!

Great atmosphere, nice retro decor. We had dinner with river views in the bar. The food was tasty. I had the chicken marsala, which I loved. My partner had ravioli and spinach tortellini, the first they thought good and the second was gross. We both enjoyed the river views and low key atmosphere. Service was prompt. The coffee with Bailey's was okay.

The menu doesn't change much, but the food is just as good as it was when I was a kid. They have a room with multiple large tables, so it's not too hard to bring a big group. And the house red in a carafe is pretty good, too.

Always good food and service. We always eat the Spaghetti Factory when ever we travel if there is one in town.

Family friendly. This one has an amazing view. Great decor. Lots of food. You have to try the pesto dressing!

We don t frequent the waterfront location very often but it s always a treat when we do. A great place for families, especially ones with young kids. Love the creamy pesto dressing! Having tried a lot of dishes on the menu, I like most of them like mizithra cheese and meat sauce or the spinach tortellini or the spaghetti Vesuvius. Those being my top three favorites. I don t like the meatballs though. Not something I ever get. And of course the spumoni at the end.

Simple, quick Italian food. It was a bit loud, very cavernous space. Also, had difficulty flagging down our waiter a few times, but we were there during peak dinner time.... so I guess it's to be expected. (?)

The location isn't anything to write home about but what is not to love about OSF food and service? Always great.

Beautiful environment, delicious pasta and great service. I was there with my elderly parents and really appreciated the care we were given

The food here is pretty good, but we sat there waiting at our table, ready to order, for a while before we were helped. If you come here, make sure you don't have plans for a whole after, because you'll be here a while probably.

The service was a little slow. It could have been that they were unexpectedly busy because of the hot weather.

Most Beautiful Restaurant in the city! The food was great!

Outstanding downtown location with plenty of free parking and a view of the Willamette River. Kids game room upstairs along with a separate lounge and dinning area for adults. Main floor has plenty of dinning room area along with a private dining area for your special events. Restaurant was clean and the staff was friendly. Bathrooms were clean, easily located but small. Food choices were ample and the food tasted great and arrived in a timely manner. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 was the service, in particular our waitress. The restaurant was not that busy at the time but the service was slow. Once seated it took more than 7 minutes for her to give us our menus and then another 5-7 minutes for her to take our order. She never did refill the water glasses either. Other than that I highly recommend this location for a great Italian meal.

Fantastic food, moderate prices, interesting decor. Worth coming back again.

Great service and food. Location is romantic, and had the best Long Island ever.

Food was sub par. Spaghetti was dry, calimari edible but barely. Overcooked.

Stunning ambiance. Great views of the water with amazing food. The service was superb.

Reasonable prices, delicious food, interesting and rustic atmosphere, but quite noisy, fairly crowded, and slow service.

Not my favorite. To expensive for what is IMO pretty low quality Italian. But it's a chain so that's kind of to be expected.

I went in this past Friday. We waited a full 14 minutes to be greeted by our server by the time he had dropped off our drinks we had been waiting in Spaghetti Factory for over 30 minutes for 2 waters. At that time we were finally able to order our food. The service was disappointing and I had been looking forward to our pasta date for a few weeks :( please staff appropriately so your customers get the service they deserve Spaghetti Factory!

Food is always delicious. Servers are usually very attentive. Views can be quite beautiful. Gorgeous decor.

Always great food, had to visit the "home" restaurant for the chain.
Love the retro decor.

Food was great.. staff was friendly and ambience was beautiful as well..

Food was excellent and the service is nice and
Curtesy

The decor inside in stunning. The food is pretty good but bland Italian food.

Great old building, very personable waiter and now there's a vegetable option you can choose to replace the pasta. So very pleasant. Nice.

The martinis were great. The service was the best. And so was the food. Always is.