La Terrazza

Very good food and the waiter vinny was the coolest he was very nice and funny, on top of the food highly recommend

I have come here with my husband and family numerous times and I am always pleased! They have delicious pizza, really good pasta and the chocolate mouse is sooooo good! I do think they are a bit pricey and the parking situation is annoying since they are in a common shopping plaza but besides that they are definitely good.

Terrible service. Terrible food. This place must have new owners as it used to be quite good. We have eaten here many times over the years but never again.

We definitely won’t be going back here. It started off kind of strange when they brought us some burnt bread with cold tomato sauce to dip in. My son ordered a plain pizza which was delivered almost raw. When we asked the waiter to fix it he picked up the pizza tray and attached to the bottom was a piece of gum which stretched over and on my sons shoulder. When we complained to the waiter about the issue he told us he would go talk to «them.» He came back to let us know that he was sorry but no one on the staff was chewing gum! Not happy with this answer, I asked for the manager and the waiter said he was the manager. And again, he apologizes. Then, the replacement pizza came out burnt. My son ended up eating a whopper for dinner that night. Only after I got loud to our waiter/​manager did he finally remove the pizza from the bill.
If you’re in this area and looking for Italian food, there is an excellent place across the street called Azzurro. It’s kind of hard to find and attached to a crummy looking hotel, but you’ll be MUCH better off.

I was in town for business from NYC for a few days and this restaurant was right across the street and looked cute
a friend recommended it
I had low expectations
the ambience was decent and the service and staff were extremely friendly
unfortunately the food was a major disappointment The lemon chicken was the quality of a pizzeria Served with Asian? Vegetables! But the worst was the uncle bens rice!!! C’mon Rice is cheap enough, by jasmine for 10 cents more a pound or basmati

This is a relatively small, family owned restaurant where you will feel welcome and relaxed while dinning on some delicious home made Italian food. The menu is rather extensive; you can order just a pizza (there are several kinds) or dine on sumptuous veal saltimbocca, as well as, other Italian favorites. There is soft music in the backgorund from some of the oldie Italina crooners and your server will undoubtedly be attentive. The bill will be most reasonable. This is perhaps one of the best neighborhood restaurants around. Give them a try… you won’t be disappointed.

This restaurant is such a gem! The atmosphere is so romantic and relaxed. We had steaks and seafood and all three dishes were amazing. My friend’a son ordered pizza, we all tried it and it was one of the best pizzas we had. The service is timely and courteous, I’m not sure what other reviewers were complaining about, maybe the place had different owners before, but now everything is absolutely great. The owner came by our table to make sure we had everything we needed, that was very nice. Bottom line — definitely come check it out if you’re in the area, you will not be disappointed!

Soda was completely flat. Be careful when ordering drinks. Very expensive. My cognac was 15 dollars and was barely a drop and my wife’s drink was 13 dollars. Kids pasta was good and plentiful but our adult antipasto platter was small. Service was just o.k.

Can’t believe this place. I ordered the ravioli terraza last night and the sauce was very good but the seafood filling was too fishy. when I mentioned the strong flavor to the sever he was so obnoxious and said «well the ravioli is stuffed with seafood, seafood tastes like fish.» really? So this scientific, culinary and seafood expert forgot about the fact that old seafood tastes really bad. He didn’t apologize and just took the plate off the table. My friend was ok with his order. I had a great company which was the only reason why we stayed to try the dessert. We had the chocolate cake, and this really deserves the 5 stars, just like the beautiful setting specially outside; but the slacking service doesn’t do the restaurant any good.
We didn’t asked for the check. But julian was in a hurry to finish his shift, and event worst the tip was included. First and last time I visit this place. I you dare to go make sure is not a date, and also ask for a different server.

The service at this place sucks. Went and ordered and everyone in my table ate like 10 minutes apart from each other. Would not suggest anyone to go there.

This has to be the worst Italian food I’ve ever had in my life in the history of food, Italians and all lives everywhere for eternity.
I’m not even sure you can call it Italian food.
We ordered an arugula salad that had wilted leaves and clearly visibly old cucumbers. We also ordered some basic Italian dishes that were clearly served with boiled Chinese food style chicken but that’s not even the strangest part. The dishes were served with with canned pickled red cabbage and some marinated carrots and broccoli.
I ordered a chicken parm and got burnt Chinese chicken and broccoli with marinara sauce on the side and some boiled potatoes. Also very strange. (See photo.)
To make matters even worse, we waited way too long for the food in a mostly empty restaurant.
Everyone was very nice but it was probably because they didn’t know how to react to our looks of horror. We didn’t really complain too much because we were in shock but thinking back now, this was some pricey Chinese food and marinara sauce.
Because they were so nice, I’m begging them to go to Olive Garden and try some real fake Italian food or hire some kid out of culinary school that knows how to grill chicken and make a few dishes. Until then, avoid this place at all costs. Run into the street into oncoming cars if you have to so you do not walk by too close and be conned into eating food this bad.
We went to Burger King a few steps away and downed some Whoppers to kill the taste of the few bites of Chi’talian we had.
On a side note, we ordered take out from the pizzeria a few doors down and it was good. At the very least Italian.

La Terrazza!
If you are staying in Sunny Isles FL and want the BEST service and food for your money, please visit this establishment! We stopped there twice (due to a lack of «normal» restaurants in the area) and although they are a bit pricey, you WILL be very pleasantly satisfied! Edith the Manager was a real sweetie! BTW-​do not try Porterhouse restaurant-​it was horrible!

I once came here some time ago on a date, and must have been quite smitten with the man, as I did not notice how mediocre the food was and when I saw that the Russian restaurant (my first choice) that was supposed to be around this shopping plaza went out of business, I decided to go for that which I was familiar with. Bad mistake.
Service was good, but the establishment smelled like Febreeze (for the record, when I came last time, I ate outdoors so I would not have known). It made me wonder what odor they were masking. A filthy carpet? Dogs, perhaps? That alone was a bad sign but I tried to get accustomed to the off-​putting odor.
My friend and I ordered a Caesar salad to share as an appetizer since the complimentary bread was not the best. The good thing about the salad was that it had a decent amount of cheese and the portion was generous, but the dressing had this slightly sweet flavor to it. It didn’t taste homemade, but commercial, which is a turn-​off when you go to a restaurant. If I wanted commercial dressing, I’d go to Publix, buy a bottle and buy some salad, and I’d make it at home.
My friend ordered the veal (Scaloppine di Vitello al Limon) and I ordered Chicken Marsala, something that cannot be screwed up considering even Cheesecake Factory, a chain restaurant, does a decent job… or can it? It was quite greasy (you can see the bubbling grease in the close-​up photo I posted, not only on the mushrooms but on the parsley and the breast), and for some ungodly reason, it came with zucchini, and pickled cabbage (pickled cabbage being traditional to Middle Eastern cooking, not Italian). Hmmm… okay…I suddenly felt like Gordon Ramsey would have a fit because there was too much going on in this dish.
There was not a hint of marsala wine, which is a brown wine reduction, in my meal, and too many random ingredients, as mentioned above. To make things worse, my friend’s sauce in the gravy boat was the same as mine… even though he did not order anything that would contain «marsala», so that made no sense. We were truly baffled, and disappointed. The sauce they provided was very greasy and yellow, I can only assume it was melted butter with chunks of mushrooms and parsley. The potato came with no butter, salt, or sour cream either, nor was any offered. I got fed up of my meal and left a portion behind. My friend did as well, noting that the veal had a grey tinge and looked like dog food, and not at all appetizing.
To make matters worse, being in ritzy Sunny Isles, there’s a mandatory 18% gratuity. Below-​average meal, expensive food and expensive tip, all of which left us unsatisfied, makes this an overall putrid experience not worthy of repeating. Like I said, I must have been smitten and blinded by love during that date the first time to not have realized that this is one of the worst «Italian» restaurants in the area. The funny thing is, my friend had been here before as well and did not recall such an unsatisfying meal, new management perhaps? Regardless, steer clear; they make Olive Garden look like a 5-​star restaurant.

Decent food…
The ciopino is NOT how I am used to it. Tasted good, but felt like a half-​hearted attempt at the REAL stuff. Think marinara sauce and a few pieces of shrimp and muscles.
Service, unfortunately, IS what others have described, and that is LACKLUSTER. Waited at LEAST ten minutes after our food was finished for someone to even acknowledge us.
Again, the food tastes good, but not what I am used to when I think of a traditional Italian Food Restaurant (or Ristorante).
If you don’t care much about service and have time to kill, by all means…

Went tonight for dinner — early at 5p. We were only the 2^nd table but by the time we left, it was starting to fill up. I really loved our dinners. I had Chicken Marsala and it was plated with green beans, sweet potato purée and some zucchini, etc. I had a lot of chicken. All homemade tasting and not over cooked/​pre-​cooked dinners. My husband and son ordered Chicken Parm and my daughter had Penne Vodka. I had 2 glasses of wine and the bill came to $ 176 including 18% gratuity. I loved the food so I overlooked the waiter not coming to check on us (my husband had to request a round of drinks. We also had an issue with the diet coke — tasted like a lot of syrup and not enough seltzer but the server said it was changed 2 days ago… we knew something was off and ordered different drinks. You would think that the waiter would have just given my husband and daughter the new drinks for free but he charged them for the bad diet cokes and then for lemonade and a shirley temple… that bothered me but again, the food was good and I let that slide).
When we walked out, we started talking to a French gentleman who was so very nice. He told us he just learned English 3 months ago. He then told us he is the new owner from 4 months ago. So I’m thinking that the past bad reviews were aimed at the former owners/​establishment.
When we are back in town, I will definitely go back again. I’m a fan, for sure!

I was in a hurry so I ordered some penne with vodka sauce to eat at home got home 2 min later realized my food was like warm and I got it that way got home to eat and it had no flavor absolutely no salt or seasoning had to season it myself had too much oil and overall a 6 year old could have made better pasta than this so called authentic Italian food. Do not recommend it.

Much of the problem with this restaurant seemed to be due to the waiter with an attitude. When we sat down he asked what we want to drink and we all said ice water with lemon on the side. He brought us a bottle of water which surprised us. Since it was an Italian restaurant we thought they might serve water in a bottle similar to restaurants in parts of Europe. However, we soon noticed other people with pitchers off ice water. Already we thought the waiter was playing games.
The food we ordered was good (not great) but we enjoyed the meal. The check came with a charge for the water and tip included.
The second time we went the same waiter served us. He took the order and we never saw him again.
Unfortunately they will never see us again. And that’s the best tip I can give anyone.
Eat somewhere else. There are lots of good restaurants in Sunny Isles Beach.

My bf and I ate here on vacation, expecting a nice italian meal, but I would’ve much preferred the Olive Garden. (No dis on the OG either!!)
Where to begin… First, it’s really expensive! We were willing to overlook this since we thought we’d be getting authentic italian cuisine. I got mussels in red sauce and the sauce was way too salty! I LOVE marinara sauce and I’m usually not too picky about salt, but this was mouth puckering salty. (When I don’t clean my plate of marinara sauce, there’s a problem.) My bf got penne in vodka sauce and that sauce seemed okay — nothing special. We each got a $ 10 side salad and the House balsamic dressing on that was way too tart too! I think it chapped my lips. Also, the portion were pretty small.
The atmosphere was OK. We sat on the back patio — that was cute. They had «live music» which was literally a guy singing lyrics off a laptop. He was a good singer, but really, if I’m going to be listening to someone kareoke, we should all get a chance to sing, am I right?
Our server was TERRIBLE. The service was extremely slow and the restaurant was by no means crowded. Our server barely spoke to us and when we said we were finished (i.e. no dessert and/​or coffee) he just completely ignored us! Everyone around us had gotten their checks and left and we were still sitting there! Finally, we flagged him down and he acted surprised that we wanted our check… it was strange.
Oh yeah, also my bf got really sick a couple hours later and was throwing up… A LOT. Not saying it was from this food, but we’re not sure what it was from. (No, it wasn’t from alcohol — we didn’t drink that night!)
I’m usually willing to give places a second chance, but judging from the overpriced and underwhelming food here, I’d def suggest saving your time and going somewhere else.

This place was convenient to my hotel and I saw reviews by fellow Unilocalers. Knew it was not going to be great. Nothing was bad and nothing was memorable. The service was very good. The best part of the night was half price wines on Monday nights. Some good values at 50% off. The meal:
Bread basket– very good bread from the brick oven
Pizza– How do you not have a crisp bottom and crust from the brick oven? Decent flavor but way too soft.
Gnocchi– Good red sauce. Poor pasta.
Cold seafood salad– Very average and not much seafood. Mainly salad that was way overdressed.
Prices were on the high side but most of the portions at the table were pretty substantial.

Thank goodness for the
gift certificate because I’d probably be even more disappointed with La Terrazza if I didn’t have a $ 25 discount on our dinner.
I went here with a friend of mine for a girls night dinner. It took a while to be seated. There was a hostess stand, but no hostess. A waiter came up to us and told us to sit anywhere after several minutes. Service was slow for most of the dinner. I got a 4-​cheese pasta dish with chicken for around $ 20 (no soup/​salad included with that) and it was definitely overpriced for what it was. My friend’s dish was around the same price, but lacked flavor. We waited about 15 minutes for the waiter to check on us after our food came out and she asked if there was any kind of sauce he could bring out to add flavor and he said the only one he could bring without a charge was the marinara. Well, that was bland as well. The bread they brought to the table was probably the best thing we had. While my meal was flavorful, it wasn’t anything special, and our impression was that this place needs the
certificates to stay in business.
With the discount, we each paid around $ 15 for dinner including tip, so that was a deal, but for the quality and quantity of our meals it is actually more of a fair price than a bargain.