Undici Ristorante — Restaurant in Englewood

What an absolutely amazing Italian restaurant! I've always had a hard time finding a really good high-end Italian restaurant. This place is it!

This place reminds me of a place in Italy or New York. Kind of a blend of both. The decor inside is beautiful. Very well done. And you really get a feel for the owner’s sense of pride for their family. As soon as you walk in the door, you see portraits of the owner’s son and daughter.

The food is fantastic. They bring out warm bread with olive oil/balsamic for dipping. Note: It's delicious so make sure you don't fill up on the free stuff alone!

For my entrée, I chose the gnocchi with chicken. The pasta was cooked perfectly and melted in my mouth and the chicken was tender and well seasoned. **Update- we went back a couple of days after the initial review was written and asked if they could make the gnocchi with Alfredo as opposed to marinara and they quickly obliged. IT WAS DELICIOUS!!!

I’m also obsessed with their salmon dish. The piece of fish is ALWAYS cooked perfectly and the sauce they use in the dish is buttery/liquid gold!

The tiramisu is legitimately THE BEST I’ve ever had (this has also been the opinion of everyone we’ve forced to try it). I come from a very judgy Italian family, so my standards are super high when it comes to this particular dessert. Too much or too little coffee will ruin this dish and Undici has ALWAYS gotten it right.

The service is really what sets the place apart from ANYWHERE else in Denver. Ask to sit in Dimitri’s section. He’s the best. Period. The owners, Alex and Dina, are so attentive and generally awesome people to be around. They greet us like they’ve known us their entire lives. I think Olive Garden's old motto, "When You're Here, You're Family" is more suited for Undici. (That will be my first and ONLY reference I will make to Olive Garden when speaking of Undici. There is absolutely NO comparison).

I highly recommend it. Very romantic atmosphere. And a fine menu. This place will not disappoint.

(I have been to Undici so many times that I’m almost ashamed to admit it. I’ve gone in with full intention of taking the typical entree/dessert pics, but I can’t help myself from devouring the plate as soon as they set it down in...

The food was good, but nothing spectacular. The seating and ambiance were wonderful as well as the service. Drinks are about $12 average and were pretty good. The Italian mule was far too sweet for my liking, but the gf enjoyed it. (Made with limoncello)

To start, I don't like when items are labeled salad when there is no lettuce or traditional "salad" to it. The beet "salad" was interesting, but was not what I expected. It was a little blan with not much other than the reduction adding to the flavors. The plate consists of a layer of pureed ricotta with roasted beets laid on top, served with a drizzle of balsamic reduction over the top. The beets were not browned, roasted or braised looking in anyway, and in turn lacked the robust flavor that I was looking for. I assume they were braised then peeled, but I was hoping for peeled and then braised, leaving behind the caramelized outside. The cheese was good and reduction was fine, but the plate itself didn't come together to yeild any kind of interesting combination.

We ordered the charcuterie board which was pretty good, but they were out of some of the cheese it was supposed to come with, so we got a limited selection. The cheeses themselves were delicious and the bread it came with tasted home made and quite fresh. I would definitely get this again.

I had the scampi for dinner, which was good and the shrimp was perfectly cooked. I would have liked a little more lemon flavor, but nothing a side of lemon wouldn't fix.

For dessert I got an affogato which was wonderful and came topped with shaved chocolate.

Overall the meal was pretty good, but for the $170 price tag I didn't think it was worth it. (Gf had three...

I'm a huge fan of Italian food, but the wilds of Englewood are far from my usual stomping grounds and I was unfamiliar with this restaurant until I happened upon a description of it by chance. We were in the mood for a good Happy Hour, so we decided to go on a little adventure to check it out.

It doesn't necessarily come out in the photos, but this place seemed very dated and tired to me. The exterior could definitely use some fresh paint. The interior is rather gloomy 1980s. The staff was distracted and the place was deserted when we arrived toward the end of the Happy Hour period.

However, the food was a big surprise. Happy Hour features a Bottle & Board option (currently $26): a bottle of the house red or white plus any one item from the Happy Hour menu. We picked the house red plus the Chef's Board which included a nice selection of meats, cheeses, olives, and a marmalade--all top quality. We received a little basket of bread with an excellent dipping dish of olive oil and balsamic.

We also tried the meatballs and the mussels. The mussels were promised with spicy marinara, but actually came with what appeared to be a white wine broth. The portion was huge, especially for a Happy Hour serving priced at $8, and the seafood was perfectly cooked and delicious. We asked for extra bread to sop up more of the broth which was delicious and very flavorful.

The spicy marinara showed up with the meatballs which also came with soft polenta. The meatballs were very tender and all of the ingredients were tasty and blended well.

The house red was quite nice and went well with all of the food. We enjoyed our Happy Hour outing a lot and agreed we would like to...