Trattoria Amante

We used to love this place before they moved to the new location. Unfortunately the new place isn’t just slightly worse, its a downright disaster.
I will admit this is my first review on Unilocal — frankly before tonight I’ve never felt truely compelled to take the time. Kudos to Amante for that I suppose.
Let’s start with the food. Amante’s food has never been top notch but its always been one of our favorite places. Before they moved the atmosphere was that of a delivery place that also had a too-​frequently overlooked dine-​in experience. The pasta dishes were good, homey and hot. The staff was friendly, recognized us and made some great wine recommendations. Because it was slightly off the beaten path it was always easy to park and quiet (although never empty).
When they moved locations we were thrilled that one of our favorite places was moving to front street and getting a makeover. We had high hopes that the new Amante would be even better. Too bad we were wrong.
We’ve tried the new location twice now and I can say with absolute certainty we will never go back. In the interests of complete transparency ill admit now that my hope is that after hearing about our final experience you’ll make a different choice when deciding where to go for dinner.
Food was frozen, never was cold in the old location.
Waitress was completely inattentive, service was slow.
After we had finished the waitress came to clear the plates. When she turned around she knocked the candle off the neighboring table. It hit the ground spraying hot wax all over my girlfriends pants and face.
Manager didn’t care
Waitress didn’t notice
Meal eventually comped
Manager wouldn’t even walk over.

Worst pizza I ever had. Their cheese bread was even more disgusting, it was just plain pizza with no sauce. I will never eat at this chain again.

Closed. Glad you’re gone. Food good, but owner horrible. Worst customer service! Thats why they are out of business.

Came here and the sauce was sweet… Ew my big itallian boyfriend and I couldn’t even finish his pasta after leg day! Bummer :’(the service was decent tho

The pizza is atrocious. I’m a pizza junkie – in a pinch, I’ll even eat Domino’s or DiGiorno; hey, any port in a storm – but I could not endure what we ordered last night. Specifically the sauce is pretty gross (salty, paste-​y, with zero flavor) and the toppings were… weird. I ordered pepperoni and Canadian bacon, and the CB was sliced so thick it reminded me of a ham steak. Even based on that description you might think it was OK, but it was just wrong. It was like having slabs of spam draped over a unappetizing layer of brownish-​red sludge-​sauce. Overall, not at all the kind of experience I want when biting into a slice, and like I said, I’m really not even very picky.
That was delivery. I’ll probably try their dining room sometime, based on a few of the reviews I’ve read here, just to see if it was a fluke. I wish they were open for lunch – the sign on their door says they are, but clearly they’re an evenings-​only venue. But I’m never again ordering the pizza, and based on the difficulty involved with screwing up pizza, I’m not encouraged that their other fare will actually be any better.

4 star pizza, 3 star pasta, below zero star customer service. If you want to enjoy the food at all you have to go there and not order delivery. But to do that you have to endure the service. And if you don’t like the service the owner/​manager will gladly tell you where you can stuff it while she’s sitting at the bar with her feet on another barstool. If you order online it will be at least an hour before it arrives and then the food has sat around too long. There are other places. I will go to them instead.

Came out originally to listen to a friend’s band and fell in love with this place. I usually order the same thing everytime so I can’t really critique the other entrees on the menu. I order what I like and they make it the way I like it… nuff said.
Live music at least one night a week, usually two. Can’t go wrong there.
A lot of the negative reviews are from quite awhile back, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Trattoria Amante used the negative feedback as a learning experience and have changed a lot of things around.
I’ll go back anytime, and I routinely invite friends to catch the live shows.

Worst restaurant I have ever been to! While their food is average and their prices are okay… The customer service is horrible! Spoke with the manager and with one of the owners… Neither took any responsibility to make it «right». It is truly sad that an establishment like this exists in such a small and quaint town as Issaquah. The nicest thing I can say about this restaurant is to stay away! If you can’t take care of your customers what have you got?

Terrible mushy ‘Italian food.’ Plus they can’t d cide what they serve. They also have seafood and Greek. I’m sure all are equally terrible.

This is the worst pizza. Terrible service, unbearably loud music and horribly rude manager. Plus they charged us twice on purpose! We will never go back!

Although we waited for almost 90 minutes for our food, it was somewhat worth it. The pizza was delicious! I had the bbq chicken and hubby had the captains pizza. Really, really good pizza. You can definitely tell the difference between this pizza and the chain stores. It was made with love. A little on the pricey side but a nice change. Next time we feel like blowing a wad on pizza, we will be back! Total for (2) pizzas, breadsticks and dessert was $ 75 including tip and we waited 90 minutes.

We have ordered delivery from this place once.
I got the eggplant Parmesan and my husband got spaghetti and meatballs.
They took a pretty long time to get to us (even though they are right down the street), but the delivery guy was very friendly and polite.
However, when we opened the food I realized that they had given me their special ‘low-​carb’ eggplant Parmesan, which is just eggplant in sauce and cheese, with no noodles. When we called to tell them, the guy did not believe us. He kept telling us over and over to look under the eggplant and that we would find a bed of noodles. This was a shallow container and we could easily see the bottom of it. He finally said he would send us another one, but it was pretty obvious he did not believe us. This was pretty irritating because we had waited a really long time and were starving.
When the delivery guy came back, he apologized and said I could keep both dishes. I wanted to show him the first one just so he could tell the guys we talked to on the phone that we weren’t crazy, but he wouldn’t look at it. Either way we did get a fee dish out of it.
The food was not bad but not impressive either, and definitely not worth that whole ordeal.
The final thing I noticed was that they included an invoice with out order that had my full name, address, phone number, and all of my credit card info (none of the cc number was concealed). This made me uneasy as usually business do not print out all of that private info on a receipt or invoice, and made me wonder how careful they are with my information.

Very rude service, bad quality food.
Overpriced!
My wife’s salmon tasted weird & when we asked the manager just to make sure they know about it, they blamed her taste buds. No apologies, No offer to even replace her dish. For a $ 25 – 30 entrée that smelled and tasted bad this was criminal.
Avoid at all cost.

Live music. I have only had drinks here. Very quiet for a Friday night. I know people who love their pizza. They do deliver around Issaquah. Their menu is enormous. Nice staff. $ 15 for a glass of wine.

Wouldn’t know and probably will never. Their door post Sunday opening time at 11:00 am and their web site is 12 noon with all day happy hour in the bar on Sunday. Went down a couple of months ago at noon for a glass of wine and some happy hour snacks and there was a sign posted on the door that they were not open on Sundays any more. Went there again today at high noon for the same and there was another sign that said they did not open until 1:00. The first time sent a message to their contact info site suggesting that it would be nice if their web site contained the correct hours of operation but apparently no one on their staff can read &%$*#@! English. Don’t waste your gas on this place there are many others that run a tighter ship and question if the food would look anything like the website.
PS know this will never make it to their web site as only five star reviews seem to make it there but it will to open table and every other place that we can think of.

An hour and a half wait for bad food.
The pita on my gyro was so old and baked it was more like a rock. I couldn’t even chew it. The fries were wet.
Come on guys… what happened?

I hate it when everyone is right about a place. Started with a to-​go order at their website, which I got email confirmation for but they hadn’t seen 20 minutes later when I arrived for pickup. They were quite kind about it and rushed the order through. I took in the place while waiting. A nice enough spot but service was disjointed in general.
I got home with the food eager to dig in. For my entrée the chicken was overcooked, the sauce pedestrian, and lacking the side salad. The entrée salad ordered was lacking toppings listed on the menu and we found the blue cheese dressing oddly sweet.
I really wish it was better because I like the menu, just not the reality.

The coconut shrimp at Trattoria Amante is the stuff dreams are made of! Pillowy soft jumbo shrimp cooked to perfection, rolled in coconut and batter– OMGosh! So incredibly good! Dip it in the tangy pineapple sauce — hmmm, hmmm, hmmm!
If you can get passed the delectable coconut shrimp — this place has a whole lot more to offer! Low carb, no carb, vegetarian or carnivore — Trattoria Amante has something for everyone!
Great place for parties and family dinners! The dining room is big and can accommodate large private parties and events as well. The staff are friendly, knowledgable about the menu and fast!
Other favorite dishes: Chicken Parmesan, spaghetti with meat sauce, Eggplant Parmesan and their grinder sandwiches.
Happy hour prices in the bar all day on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
Great place for date night with live music on the weekends.

Don’t bother with this ZERO STAR place.
We walk in promptly for out 6:45 reservation. There’s a band setting up and the place is half full. NOBODY greets us at the door for what felt like 5 minutes. When we do get seated nearly 10 minutes go by before the waitress finally comes by and asks us if we’d like to order some drinks. We order a coke and an iced tea, Calamari as an appetizer and Spaghetti Bolognese for me and Fettuccini Carbonara for my Wife. The meals come with a side salad and NO, you cannot substitute a greek salad for the side salad. Of course. What idiot would want to do that? Anyway…
Side salads come. We ordered Caesar salads. What a joke. Just some romaine with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese, a few croutons and some caesar dressing drizzled on. What does it take to TOSS the salad in the dressing before putting it on the plate?
10 minutes after the salad… The Calamari are greasy and chewy and wasn’t served with a lemon wedge. Had to go to the bar for a wedge of lemon. Marinara sauce for dipping was straight out of a bottle or can.
30 minutes after the Calamari… My Bolognese was HORRIBLE. Very little meat and a tomato sauce that tasted like a tin can. Totally BLAND. My Wife’s Carbonara was just passable. Hell, it DOES have BACON in it after all. Worst meal in a very long time.
We should have left right after the salads. Never going back to this dump.

I want to give 2 reviews, 1 for Grub Hub and one for this restaurant!
5 STARS TO GRUB HUB!!! coolest app ever!!! It was so easy and fast and the app said my order would would be at my door at 7:55pm. 7:55PM ON THE DOT MY DOOR RANG! Love it love it!
Now to the food, which is the 1 rating. I was really surprised about how awful the food was here, considering I pass it at least once a day and especially on a Friday or Saturday night, the place is packed.
I ordered the fettuccine Alfredo with a side salad and some cheesy bread. When I got my dinner I opened it up, portions are huge!!! I took one bite of the fettuccine and immediately was sorry I did. BLAND… absoultey no flavor. I went and grabbed the salt and salted my food. Every bite I needed to salt it… AND I DON’T LIKE SALT! Finally I realized that no amount of salt was going to fix this pasta and it went in the trash. The cheesy bread wasn’t’ good at. Mozzarella cheese which was fine… but it also tasted like their was that bland Alfredo sauce on the bread as well, tried dipping it in the marinara sauce that it comes with, tasted like Chef Boyarde… YUCK…in the trash that went
Side salad was good, but that was literally probably $ 4 of the meal. I spent $ 30 with tax and tip and ended up eating $ 4 of it.
They really need to hire an amazing Italian chef to spruce this place up, or it’s gonna go down fast… at this point, will not be back