The restaurant is our style...small, exposed brick with clean interior lines. We’ve had or sampled 4 different dishes and everything was good. Unfortunately, there was nothing that said “come back again to get this dish.”
Wow. Absolutely stellar food, beautifully presented. We had the spicy shrimp, which was penne pasta with sauteed shrimp and a spicy marinara, green onion and bread crumbs. Also had rigatoni with spicy lamb and meatballs with roasted tomato sauce, roasted bell peppers, basil, pine nuts and a touch of
I would say that the food is VERT tasty. I never had such a tasty carbonara (withour cream please). It is a familial restaurants so they out their hearts into their food. The server we had was rude, but ut was quickly forgotten after having our dishes. I will definetely hit back there whenever I am
A good restaurant at the center. The soup was delicious, the main course was really good snd the most important was hot, like i like the pasta.
The desserts was delicious.
The service and the ambience was good.
Cozy place with comfort pasta. Great place for lunch specials not too busy and easy to get in and out quickly. Perfect portions sizes, the food is fancy looking but so good! The only con is the bread isn't complimentary like most Italian restaurants. Would recommend reservations at dinner as the pla
Very good Italian restaurant - one of the best in Austin. Great design in a small and comfortable setting. My wife is a conniseur of Carbonara and La Traviata has the best that she has ever had - even better than she had during a two week trip to Italy.
It's the little things here :
- The ragù bolognese is veal/beef/pork, and has barely a whiff of tomato, not unlike the RealVersionThereof™ (i.e., in Bologna)
- The wine list is long on inexpensive reds (again, a fairly common touch in northern italy)
- The "fried polenta" is surprisingly light, as i
Cozy Italian on Congress. Pasta dishes were house made, table bread was good but not worth the upcharge. The ceasar salad stole the show. Great dressing tossed just right. A great bar fills about a third of the restaurant, but only beer and wine service.
The food was simply fantastic. The Cesar Salads was crisp and dressed beautiful. However, the star of the show was the cioppino. I've had cioppino in Spain, Italy, San Francisco and my favorite Fish Market in San Diego. The cioppino tonight is definitely meets the standards of all of these. When in
Went here for an informal evening meal with a colleague. Fast service, excellent food and great value. Recommended.
Nice place for pasta. The carbonara is one of the best I've had... If you like scallions.
Outstanding experience. We had the tomato basil soup, local bread appetizer, spicy shrimp, and, one of the specials of the night, spinach stuffed creamy ravioli. All, very fantastic. A quick couple of things to note: first, the available space is smaller than most restaurants, so great for an intima
Really good flavors, perfect pasta and the beef carpaccio is delicious!
Fantastic food. I had the meatballs, plenty of small meatballs in an amazing sauce with a slight heat.
Felt the desert menu could have had better choice and would have loved to see garlic bread instead of just plain bread. Service was excellent. Interesting only appeared to be female staff front an
Absolutely outstanding quality food at very reasonable prices can be found at this small, downtown eatery. Plating is beautiful and the flavors are bright and fresh. The limited menu allows the chefs to focus on doing a few dishes great, rather than many dishes well. Service is quick and friendly.
We were a party of 6. The atmosphere is great, the wine is very good, and the dinner delicious. I can't remember the Italian name of the dish I had, but it featured seafood, and was delicious. After an enjoyable dinner, we did some walking and sightseeing in the area, then wondered back to La Travia
I really like the carbonara here. The spaghetti bolognese is very good too and so is the hanger steak salad.
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