Il Piatto

The two stars are for location and ambiance, the place is really cute. The food on the other hand, sucks. I got the happy hour bolognese on rigatoni. The sauce was way overly sweet, with very little meat, and the pasta was overcooked to the point that I didn't even need to taste it to know, it was swollen, and you could see by looking at it. My wife got the lasagna, which had a lot of stuff in it, including sweet potatoes. It was mediocre at best, I am pretty sure I could get the same quality out a frozen Amy's lasagna.

My brother and nephew ordered the special, which was some kind of seafood/mushroom/fettucini alfredo. It was by far the worst of the night. It simply tasted like canned mushrooms. It was disgusting, they had to send it back. The replaced it with the carbonara, which is actually decent. Two normal people could split one though, it is VERY rich. Combine the quite bad food with the rather high prices and this place fails on most levels. I would not come here again.…

Feels like Home. To start off with, I have to say that this restaurant has exceptional food, everything we had we fully enjoyed. We arrived at 7pm with about 8 other tables being occupied at the time. We felt welcomed with our server as well as the host who sat us and brought over water and warm bread.

The server was friendly and brought us over the wine list. Wines on the list seemed fairly priced with many choices in the $25 range.

We had just missed the Happy Hour which ended at 6:30 so next time we will have to come in a bit earlier.

I had the lamb shank which was almost too big and my husband had the chicken pasta with plums. Both items were really good and the pasta, even though I thought sounded rather odd came out tasting really good.

I deliberated even having dessert especially after the lamb shank, but we decided on the orange layer cake and it was sooo good.

I have to say, that's what I love about Portland, you can always find charming and new places in areas you might not expect.

This one is just hidden on a side street.…

Love it!. We have dined at quite a few Italian Restaurants but yet we always come back to il Piatto. Accomodating wait staff and a Chef who goes out of his way to make our evenings special. The food is always fresh and good.

Last time I tried the Lasagna with roasted yams, goat cheese and chanterelle mushrooms.

Desserts are made in house, I recommend the tiramisu.

Good, wholesome, happy, filling, and just simply satisfying would be the only way to describe our dining experiences over the past years.…

Terrible Experience. My family came here for our pre-holiday dinner. The food was overall satisfactory but not as good as our previous visit despite my husband and I ordering the exact same entrees. The wait time, however, was unacceptable. We were at the restaurant 2.5 hours and despite being the very first table seated in the restaurant, we saw multiple tables leave before we even had our entrees. After we were done with our entrees, we waited 30 minutes with empty drinks/waters without being checked on by our server. After asking three times for our bill to arrive from other staff, I asked to speak to the manager. The owner was not very receptive to hearing what I had to say about the service and didn't help us out in any way.

To top it all off, two out of the six people in my party experienced food poisoning (beware the prawns). Could not have been a worse experience.…