Cenacolo Restaurant — Restaurant in North Huntingdon Township

When your Italian-Greek family says they want a "light lunch" you know that you're probably going to end up being too stuffed to walk after said lunch. Cenacolo is a great venue for this sort of eating. Portions and prices are the same at lunch as they are for dinner. this is more of an upscale restaurant, and their prices reflect that. However your taste buds WILL be transported to Italy. The pasta I had at Cenacolo is one of the absolute best meals I've ever had in my life. our waitress Lauretta was super friendly and accommodating.

We started our meal with the Carciofini Fritti which is basically a fried artichoke appetizer which was an amazing note to start the meal off on, We ordered a charcuterie/cheese board where you can choose between a variety of different cheeses and meats. Everything was delicious though I would've liked for them to have had some softer options. Our 'choose seven' selection consisted of; Prosciutto di Parma, Sweet Sopressata,Hot Sopressata, Speck, truffled cheddar, & a double portion of the smoked cheese. The only meh part of the entire meal was the smoked goat cheese which was in part my own fault because I falsely assumed it would be soft instead of hard. I should've just gotten more prosciutto (lol).

I even thought the salad that was served with the entree was superb. A nice portion of arugula and heirloom cherry tomatoes in a bowl licking good balsamic dressing, topped with shaved parmigiana.

The four cheese ravioli were supposedly awesome (according to my brother). The Ricciolina al Forno was a perfect long noodle with Pork Belly, Caramelized Onions, Gouda Cream, and Breadcrumbs, such a perfectly balanced dish while a bit on the salty side that was due to how much parmigiana my brother piled on.

The Tagliolini was a scrumptious "Flat Spaghetti Pasta" with Garlic, Chives, Lemon, Parmesan and copious amounts of Crabmeat. My mother got this preparation though ordered it with pappardelle in place of the tagliolini. This was amazing and left me longing for another dinner here in the middle of my current meal.

The Lobster Agnolotti was basically half moon Ravioli with Garlic, Spinach, Tomatoes, Truffle Cream, and a generous portion of lobster. Honestly their lobster agnolotti is on the list of dishes I'll be thinking of on my death bed.

After finishing up the gratis limoncello and amaretto cookies, our waitress set down a crab bruscetta appetizer at another table that looked amazing, heaping mounds of crab meat that tempt me to come back for dinner.

Basically Cenacolo is a great word-of-mouth type of thing in an unassuming business park but once you discover this gem you'll be hard pressed to find another 'pastah' place where you leave with left overs and the same post orgasmic dining bliss.

P.S. It's BYOB up to 1 bottle for every 4 diners though they also have an extensive wine menu.

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In short, the food was just 'ok', the service was bad, but the atmosphere was terrible.

Our service was slow, we came with a bottle of wine, which probably took close to 10 minutes to get corked. We ordered an appetizer and 4 dishes, the appetizer came reasonably quickly, and was probably the best part of the meal. We were enjoying our company, so it was barely noticeable, but the entrees took a VERY long time to come out. This, would not normally be a problem, we were patient and had no complaints. We ate our food and ordered dessert and coffee to finish the meal.

After dessert was delivered, our bill showed up, which we promptly put our credit card in as we continued our conversation. A few minutes later, a woman, not our server, came to our table and informed us that we had to pay our check and leave because had reached the table time limit. This was highly irritating, at no point in time did we do anything to slow down the meal and the check was already on the table waiting to be taken when she told us this. It left a very bad taste in my mouth.

I don't recall ever seeing a 2 hr time table time limit advertised by a restaurant in this manner, so if this is an ongoing problem for them so much so that they had to make a rule about it, perhaps they should look at themselves and their slow service as the real issue. Furthermore, our seats where relatively uncomfortable, which wouldn't be that big of a deal if we weren't stuck there so long.

It would be unfair to give 1 star because they food wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great, I ordered a hot sausage rigatoni it was filling. The table shared the Carciofini Fritti, which was the highlight of the meal. They were also generous with the free bread (which we had a lot of because we waited so long). If the rating system had seperate caragories for food and service, the food would have gotten a 3 bordering on 4 stars, and the service 1 star. Since I can only give one overall rating, it will...

Well I finally made it to this place to eat. I’ve been wanting to go for awhile and never made it, and bf and I decided to go here for our first time out since quarantine ended. We wanted something special, and this place did not disappoint. Everything was amazing. The service was fantastic. Not just our server, Maris who was excellent, but all the wait staff. Everyone was working together making sure we had refills and anything we needed, double checking everything was good. I’ve worked in the industry a long time and I know that’s a rare occurrence unfortunately. The owner is doing something right to get them to work together as a team! Always happy to see that as imo it’s a sign of a happy staff. I would be back for the service alone.

The food was obviously amazing though. The pasta was fresh, and the sauce was flavorful. Both of us liked our dishes and usually when we go somewhere we can never agree on stuff to share, but we literally wanted to try everything. We started with the burrata and meatballs. Both were perfect. We had the the rustic linguine and lobster tortellini for dinner. At this point we were both shocked. The portions are huge and they’re not skimping on the good stuff. We couldn’t believe the prices are so cheap with such quality food. Our meals were fantastic. I finished it off with the cheesecake. I really home they have it all the time. I love creme burlee and it tasted like a cheesecake version. It was amazing.

Either way we’re excited to go back. I’m kicking myself for waiting so long to go. We can’t wait to try other things, but it’s gonna be hard when our meals today...