Trattoria Bianca

The service was amazing. The staff is extremely attentive and I was impressed with the bartender G. The level of service was amazing, therefor I wasn’t to bothered by the over priced $ 12. glass of wine.
The calamari taste average. Given the level of fancy the restaurant has, I was expecting an over the top marinara sauce or more impressive dipping sauce.
Not recommended if your looking for happy hour prices.

Adriana. The best. Join her at the bar she will make your dreams come true. Came back for more the second time. Will be back. Thank you. 1 dollar oysters happy hour.

Love love love this place! Chef is amazing and came to say hello! Delicious food and amazing service!

Visiting New York, came here for dinner since I was craving Italian food. The ambiance was nice but the service was very bad, slow and the server was inattentive. We ordered the calamari for our appetizer and that was very good but when I finally got my main entrée which was Penne Pasta alla Vodka, I wasn’t so happy. My pasta wasn’t cooked, it was almost raw so I had to send it back. It took another 15 mins before I got my food back. The waiter didn’t check on us the entire dinner. We had no more water, no one even came by to fill our glasses. I don’t recommend this restaurant.

Their gluten-​free pasta was absolutely horrible. When I asked if I could have a side salad as an alternative, I was given a bowl of lettuce and charged $ 11. Not coming back but hope others enjoy their experience much more.

Ehh. Some things are actually ok… not bad… but NOT WORTH THE MONEY.
With all the local dining there is no reason to choose this one over another; Not the food, not the Price, and certainly not the service…
Prepare to get an incorrect order that really strangles your wallet.
convenient if youre staying in the hotel, otherwise, take a walk.

The food was decent but the waitress we got couldn’t describe any of the dishes to us, and when my husband asked how the Cornish hen was, she said «people like it.» Thanks lady. For the amount of money we spent on a cheap bottle of wine and dinner, I was disappointed in the experience as a whole.

We had the Lobster ravioli and pasta marinara… The food is great, the service is awesome, the place very very nice.

It’s good .had only price fix at bar. The chicken was flavored nicely and steak had interesting spice but was overdone to my taste and request. The service is excellent. My wife has food allergies and they made sure all was ok.

I order food for delivery it was disgusting. They are definitely choosing the worse/​cheapest products for their food and they don’t even bother taking the stems of the tomatoes out !

We went for a lunch on a weekday, so there were lots of open tables. I feel like this is one of the hidden gem, as it serves good and affordable food, even though it is in the midtown. They offer lunch Pri Fixe Special ($ 13.95), which includes choice of appetizer & entrée. That is a pretty good deal…
The food was ok, nothing really special, other than their Sauteed Corn & Vegetable Chowder. This soup was really amazing!!!
Read my full review of this restaurant and food on my food blog, foodlovergirl.

Beautiful places but what do you expect when the hotel have their own restaurant downstairs… but ill givet it 3stars for now cause i was just meeting a friend and grab a drink so i didn’t get to try their full meals and desserts but will definitely be back for that… Cause the 1^st thing i notice walking in was the oyster for a $ 1 and i looooove oysters or any seafood of kind… so until next time Bianca;)

This place is basically 3.5 star food and extra for service. There is nothing wrong with the food, it is good, and $ 1 oysters are high quality. I stopped in when in the middle of a trip and the waitress recognized that we were coming from JFK, had a closet for our luggage, and was prompt and attentive. If you are in the area and cant make your mind up, have seat here. The drinks are good, and everyone is pleasant. The place is big and clean. They have a lot of competition being where they are at, but I would come back. Having storage for luggage, and being prompt is key when being located so close to Penn Station and not far from the buses.

Was there 4 days ago. Saturday around 6pm and was not very busy. Contemporary décor, atmosphere is nice, somewhat quiet most likely because it was not busy.
Promptly seated, menus in hand, server got us drinks quickly. Started with Oysters and beef carpaccio which seemed fresh. My wife had the lobster ravioli, which was truly good, great sauce and nice shellfish flavor.
I had the seared tuna amalfi, which is basically a seared tuna salad, which was flavorless, and totally forgettable. It lacked a nice dressing.
Despite my salad, it’s a decent place, with very nice service and clean bathrooms.

Cosmo: good price on happy hour. Tastes good.
Side Salad: good quality mixed baby greens dumped on a plate with a bit of balsamic vinaigrette and not much else. Really disappointing.
Entrée: chicken fettuccine Alfredo. Bland and uninteresting. Good quality meat and pasta, just no imagination or real flavor.
Service: came at non peak hour. Staff was friendly and offered a suggestion for the special, which as I mentioned above was bland. The sauce especially. But was not offered water or bread.

Accueil sympatique, mais plats bien trop chers pour une qualité trés limite.
Passez votre chemin

Finding decent food around midtown for lunch can be difficult, especially when you’re sick of Korean food from 32^nd street.
Knowing that Trattoria Bianca offered decent lunch specials, I was down.
There is plenty of food to be shared, it’s Italian after all.
The squid ink pasta did not live up to my expectations. I did not taste any sea urchin butter, just regular butter. They had a decent amount of scallops, shrimp and clams though. They were in pretty big chunks too.
Lobster rolls were pretty meh. Sure the portions of lobster is fair but it lacked flavor. The dish was bland. The wrap they used was pita bread? Dry and powdery which enforces the bland taste. I’d skip it if I were you.
The minestrone soup was decent, a mix of kale and other greens. The soup was light.
All in all 3 stars, food is passable but not fantastic just like its overall rating of 3.5.

I was pleasantly surprised with Trattoria Bianca. We were searching for a sit-​down restaurant to get pizza/​pasta before a MSG event (parents insisted on no meat — Ash Wednesday), and there are slim pickings in that area. I found Trattoria on Unilocal and was a bit hesitant because of some of the reviews I read, but we had quite a pleasant experience.
My table started off with two pizzas, the white and margharita, and both were very tasty. These were probably the highlights of the meal for me. I ordered the pasta marinara for a main course, and it was fine, nothing special. I also tasted the seared tuna main course, which I wasn’t particularly fond of, and the parpardella carbonarra sans bacon, which was pretty good. Service was friendly and fair. All in all, this is a good spot to come to before a Garden event if you’re set on Italian food. If not, there are plenty of upscale pub-​food type places nearby that I’d probably go to before here.

Quick tips: Connected to the Wyndham Hotel. I would only go to this restaurant if I was staying in the hotel, it was raining, and I didn’t want to leave or order room service. Nothing special and fairly pricey. With so many good options in NYC, why would you go here otherwise.
Food: We ordered the Italian cured meats, cheeses, and fig jam. It was mediocre, nothing special about the any of the items. My husband ordered the Bianca’s special spaghetti carbonara. It was very very mediocre. My husband said my recipe is better and I will be the first to say I’m not the best cook (as evidenced by how much we eat out and Unilocal!). Chicken parmigiana was also mediocre.
Ambiance: Very cute ambiance. White tabecloth.
Service: Amazing service. We had such a cute older Italian waiter. The waiter and the ambiance are why I’m giving the restaurant two stars instead of one.

Please don’t waste your time here service is slow and food is not good. The pricing is ridiculously high for below average food.
I ordered the Pan Seared scallops and they were under cooked. My friend ordered the classic carbonara and it had no flavor.
The service was extremely slow. The waiter only had 3 tables including us and it took over 25 minutes to even come over to our table. He spent most of his time chatting up front.
There are many other better places nearby aside from this place that would offer way better service and food.

Maybe should be 3 ½ stars but I will round it up to 4. In the new Wyndham New Yorker Hotel — Eighth Ave at 35^th Street. Signage could be a bit better. Enter at the corner of Eighth @ 35^th or thru the hotel lobby.
I really liked the room. A long bar facing the windows along the Eighth Ave side. Several four tops near the bar. Floor to ceiling window looking out to the hotel lobby. Banquettes and four tops in the L shaped area along the 35^th Street side.
White tablecloth place. They swap out silverware between courses — a nice touch. Background music — set a little too low — was Italian — mixed with a little New Age. Our server today was fine. She came around several times to pour our wine. A rather nice Prosecco.
Food had it’s ups and downs. Bread came out with a dipping sauce of canellini bean purée and roast red pepper purée with olive oll — very nice. The vegetable frito misto — a combination of zucchini, asparagus, mushrooms and kale — was very nice. A small order was enough for two people. My guest had the spagetti carbonara; tasted fine; but the guanciale was roughly chopped and rather fatty. I went with chicken piccata — very nice — with a side of spagetti marinara — seemed like the marinari was made in house — good.
For dessert we had the Sicilian cassata — worth a trip — and the pear torte — looks great tasted OK — the pastry was not crisp.
The place has been open a month so there is room to fine tune the menu. But overall I was pleased and would stop by again. The bar area is worth a stop for commuters before walking over to Penn Station.