Cafe Avellino

First time here, fun little place with great service and outstanding lasagna! Local bakery bread and homemade oil for dipping. Good prices as well.

I’ve been a fan for many years (all 3 café’s) and now they have a nice bar and delicious, fresh and creative Italian eats! The panini & breakfast sandwiches are still delicious and made fresh to order, but I urge you to try an entrée and a glass of wine!
Last night I had angel hair pasta with an outstanding red sauce and basil meatballs — to die for!
These ladies have a passion for food and they love to make their customers happy!
My favorite sweet treat here is the lemon square, it’s huge and it’s delicious! (I know, LOL, but there’s just no better way to describe it!)
This is a casual dining/​café experience that you’ll want to return to again & again! Enjoy!

Awesome food. Great people. Best food in swampscott. Try the bruschetta and special avellino panini. They now serve wine, beer and mixed drinks.

Best signature panini !!! Delicious coffee/​cappuccinos/​lattes and wine selection. Best Italian food. Great place to come and unwind. Friendliest spot in town, and they offer so much– well worth the amount you pay and quality goes above and beyond. Café Avellino

Sandwiches were tasty but overpriced for coming with nothing but a pickle. Staff is very friendly. It would be smart to at least include chips or pasta salad with a $ 9 sandwich.

A nice little place to sit and have coffee and a snack with a friend. I’m so glad Swampscott is getting it together with a few little cafes to hang out at along the ocean. My cookie and coffee were delicious and after speaking with the very knowledgable counter person it sounds like they are gearing up for some improvements. I’m looking forward to trying it for lunch with my coworkers and I’ll post a followup review.

It seems like no business can survive in this location and I don’t think this one will be any different.
I wanted to give it a try despite my fiancée saying he got a gross latte here. I was starving and decided to go in for lunch after getting my nails done next door.
I ordered an eggplant parm sandwich. The girl was super friendly and said I was going to love the sandwich because it had basil and fresh mozzarella in it. That’s when I knew I wasn’t going to love my sandwich because for 9 $ obviously it SHOULD have those things in it.
I got home and opened my sandwich and was not surprised when it has the smallest piece of eggplant, it was all sauce, and «the fresh mozzarella that I was going to love» was two slices the size of postal stamps.
Won’t be surprised again when this place closes and it goes back to being an ATM.

Opened last week in place of the defunct Sea View Café, Avellino’s co-​owners are full of optimism for their new enterprise. These ladies of southern Italian heritage are off to a good start. They offer a half-​dozen pannini choices in two different sizes. They also have an assortment of pastries including cannoli that look good but that I haven’t sampled. We did get three pannini for lunch, the Avellino, assorted Italian cold cuts, a portobello, and a spicy turkey. All received good marks, with the bread especially noteworthy. Maria told us that they would be offering several chicken and veal dinner entrees boxed to go from Toscana’s in Peabody in a few days.
Its great to see this spot filled so soon after Sea View’s departure. I believe Avellino’s is offering enough to be a success. Its a small place, seating for 12 or so, but taking a fresh pannini to eat at the beach or some chicken parm home for dinner ought to be popular with locals and visitors alike.