Village Tavern and Trattoria

I couldn’t believe how great the food was. If you go try the stuffed banana peppers and/​or beans and greens! You won’t be let down. Pizza is also one of the favorites I’m told. If you want to get the best bang for you buck the village tavern is the place to go. 12 beers on draft and a full stocked bar. Friendly servers/​bartenders/​managers who are willing to go the extra mile. If you’re in town and looking for great Italian food and a nice atmosphere, you’ll want to stop in !

Good food. Great value. Cool atmosphere. 45c wings on Tuesdays and 2 dollar domestics for happy hour

OK place. Service is iffy at times. Food is hit or miss but it is solid for the money. It’s not a place I would go put of my way to travel to go there. I keep trying it hoping that I will find something that knocks my socks off. Still looking. The owners seem super nice and always go out of their way to say hello.

Oh Village Tavern, you used to be one of my favorite Italian places in the burgh. But the last few times I visited, I’ve been less than impressed.
My visit today was so disappointing. There were a group of 6 of us there for my mother’s birthday. I think our server was recovering from a major night out or this was her first day ever with a job. I get it– being a server is hard. I stuck it out for 2 years and eventually gave up, because I wasn’t a very good server. But NEITHER WAS THIS PERSON.
We had to flag her to come take our orders. She seemed surprised like «Oh, I’ve only given you 20 minutes to read through our one page menu. Are you sure you’re ready?» We had to ask for silverware after our food was delivered. We had to ask for coffee refills eleventy-​billion times. We had to ask for red pepper flakes twice. We had to ask for our bill twice. I never got my water refilled once. I ordered a beer that never showed. We waited and waited and waited for everything. There was one other group of four in the entire dining room, so it’s not like it was slammed. We still tipped her well, because– life is hard, yo.
The food wasn’t all that great this time around. I usually go for dinner and today, it was lunch. So maybe that makes a difference? My husband’s Reuben was the most pathetic Reuben I’ve ever seen! If I’m going to pay $ 10 for a sandwich that meat better be at least an inch thick. My dad said his burger was «meh».
I love their red sauce and their meat sauce, their stuffed peppers, and their fried provolone. The salads are good too!
I’m not going to give up on this place because I’m an Italian girl who needs her sauce on Sundays, but I’ll probably be getting take out from now on.

Ordered side salad with house Italian dressing, fresh & good. Chicken parm sandwich, needed a bit more sauce but unfortunately the waitress was nowhere to be found, nor was she around when our drinks ran out (which in my opinion should never happen). Atmosphere is cool, i really want to give a higher rating but the service really took away from the experience that it could have been.
If I’m in the area again I will give it another shot in hopes that the service is better.

Great little Italian joint with a nice bar and patio. Fills a needed niche in the West End. Sunday is jazz day on the patio. Recommend.

I’m really not sure how this place ended up with 4 stars, because I was struggling to give it two. Service at the bar dragged it up, but that’s about all that I have positive to say about the place.
I went there for a wine and coloring book event, but had dinner at the bar first. It was warm in the bar, but even warmer (sweltering really) in the restaurant section. The food was freezer fare that they made an attempt to dress up a little. The buffalo chicken wrap had potential, but the thin buffalo sauce leaked all out of it and it ended up a big soggy, greasy mess. The lettuce on it was questionable as well. The sweet potato fries were passable and were served with apple butter, which was a nice touch. It’s still freezer food though. I also found it really odd that they were filling their ice wells with 20 lb bags and were serving soda from 2 liter bottles.
Once I moved to the dining area, I wasn’t sure which was worse — the sweltering heat or the «entertainment». At first, we thought «what is with this music selection?» The bar was playing contemporary country and this was stuff my grandparents would have listened to. Then, we thought «hmmm…this version of the song really sounds like bad karaōke». After looking around, we see a guy out on the patio with a karaōke machine. Oh… that explains it. It IS bad karaōke. 30 minutes later, though, we thought «why is this same terrible guy still up there?» And then he pulled out a trumpet and clearly, it wasn’t just karaōke night — this was the intended entertainment. Yikes!

Great addition to the West End neighborhood. Food is always good and the service is wonderful. When I go local this is where I head to.

It is fairly remarkable that with all the other better options available in the Pittsburgh market serving Italian/​bar food that this place actually exists. While the ambience initially suggests otherwise, the overall experience was disappointing. Along with some of the other reviews, my service experience was lacking. The pizza was freezer quality. Along with the parking hassle, you’d be better off just about anywhere else. I rarely take the time to review unless the experience is exceptional one way or the other, and this place would qualify unfortunately as the other. Don’t waste your time or money.

Excellent pub with great kitchen. Cool atmosphere, historical bar. Great great great

Went there with the wife. All of our food was pretty good. Very nice selection of reasonable italian an seafood dishes. Customer service an staff were really pleasant an nice sweet people. Only minor complaint was we went on a weekday where it wasn’t packed at all an rather empty an it took longer than normal to get seated an for our food to arrive. I would visit again with family though.

Service was very good Only small problem was the restaurant has a garage door to steet and the humidity was very high. The order was a pizza with stuffed banana peppers, very good and would recommend. Over all experience very nice to eat, would recommend

Outstanding customer service! They have awesome pizza!!! I ordered carry-​out and when I arrived they showed me that they had slightly burned a small portion of my pizza (so small I wouldn’t have cared) and let me know they were making a new one, I could take the slightly burned (free) and have a beer on the house while I wait… Took 5 minutes. Great pizza and awesome people!!!

Bought a groupon and decided to try the place out.
Parking:
First there is no parking lot, it is all on street parking, which was fine because it was after 7 and we didn’t have to put money into the meters.
Ambience:
Great design and layout of the location, brick walls, wooden booths, old wine bottles on wall.
Service:
Absolutely terrible. We never got refills on our water or soda. We received the food and never asked if we needed anything. Had to go to the waitress to ask her for red pepper flakes. The other waitress was kissing some guy a few times, and she never came over either. I didn’t even try to get management as the lady who looked to be the manager was texting on her phone the entire time and looked uninterested in helping tables.
Food:
We ordered the pizza and it was absolutely awful. Think $ 5 antoons pizza in oakland. The middle completely fell apart. And the pizza was over topped. I never thought you could put too many toppings on a pizza. But it must have been close to a pound of hot peppers on it, and this pizza crust couldn’t manage to hold it all together.
Overall:
I will never come back to here.

Excellent service and atmosphere and especially food. Most good is homemade. Nice mix of music and tvs. Has a formal dining area and the nice casual bar/​eating area. Definitely will be coming back! And reasonable price and great specials.

What an amazing time! Never been to Pittsburgh before and this is a hidden gem! If you can go for jazz night and grab a pizza!

Great food — must be one of the best kept secrets in the burg!
Wings: Tasty and done just right. I got the dried Cajun. tasty. I also tried hot buffalo with parm on them (not on the menu) and they were pretty good too.
Stuffed banana pepper pizza (Village tavern pizza): this concept is genius! ! It was the best pizza I have ever had. They make their own dough — everything is so fresh.
Fresh cut French fries folks!!! They were really delicious!
Great service, it was clean and there is street parking or a parking lot practically across the street …
Bravo Village Tavern. … Bravo !

Wasn’t very exciting. The foods was just OK. Not what I expected. I think the prices are too high for what you get. Beer was warm, and the soda was flat. Owner (?) Looked like he was in his own little world, didn’t really care what was going on around. Will not return.

We had a great dinner tonight. Nicolle our server was very attentive. I loved my veal parmigiano. My wife had the chicken special and really enjoyed it. The wine list was limited, but Nicolle brought samples of a few Merlots before we chose a nice bottle.

Any local restaurant that serves a healthy side salad (aka. not iceberg lettuce) in Pittsburgh gets at least 4 stars from me! The Village T & T is a cozy little place, with hard wood booths and tables. The menu serves traditional Italian fare. I ordered the Zucchini Parm special and my Mom ordered the Chicken Romano. The zucchini was good, but the chicken was out of this world! And, as stated before, the side salads had no iceberg lettuce at all! Score.
The only advice I’d give is to have one waitress per table. Even though the waitresses were very nice, we had two — two came to the table to take our order, and they seemed to switch off duties throughout the meal. It just felt a bit crowded and I felt more pressure to order quickly because there were two people waiting to take our order.