Ferraro's Spokane Valley — Restaurant in Spokane Valley

On Friday, June 2, 2023, my family dined at Ferraro’s in the Spokane Valley for the first time. If I could describe the experience in one word it would be “value” but more on that in just a moment. I wanted to start with how warm and pleasant it is when you walk inside. It is a cozy and clean Italian restaurant with red and white checkered table tops, old photos on the walls, and an indoor pergola with greenery growing through it. You immediately feel like you are at home or at least in an authentically Italian eatery.

My wife ordered the sirloin alfredo. I went with the penne pasta. Our kids each got buttered noodles. Flavorful garlic bread came out after we put in the order. Sodas automatically came with the kids meals. Soup or salad came with the adult entrees and my wife chose salad. I went with soup and was delivered a hot cup of minestrone that tasted incredible and might have been my favorite part of the meal. Our entrees were plentiful, cooked perfectly, and delicious. To put the icing on the cake, ice cream also came with all our meals. Everyone got vanilla except for me—I went for spumoni!

Our server was Jen who did a fantastic job. She was great with the kids, gave my wife a good menu recommendation, was very attentive to us, and seemed to be in a pleasant mood. Good service is often hard to find but Jen was an A+ on the waitress report card.

Again, I circle back to value. Bread, soup/salad, entrée, and ice cream all for as little as $15.95 (Items on the kids menu are $7.95) in a nice atmosphere with top notch service. We really enjoyed our visit to Ferraro’s and will...

We went there for my sons 11th birthday for the first time and we unfortunately were pretty disappointed when we were getting ready to leave…..appetizers were pretty good, soup and salad were very underwhelming, and then the entrees came out. While the waitress brought out our sampler she was very abrupt and actually hit my father in the forehead with the plate and never said sorry! When the entrees came out my poor father was again accidentally bumped into by a plate but this time leaving sauce on his shirt! I believe our waitress was very overwhelmed and a bit scattered not sure if she was new or not. Everyone’s entrees we’re looking ok except I ordered the seafood fettuccine (as requested by our waitress) and there were literally 2 clams and 2 shrimp in my pasta bowl. A little disappointed especially when I see a table that had ordered my same dish and yet it was covered in clams and shrimp! We finish up our food and our waitress finally comes out to check on us and asks if she could bring our son chocolate cake. We said sure and out she comes and she just kind of slides it in front of him….no singing, no happy birthday, nothing. Doesn’t ask if anyone else wants anything just brings us the check. Then to top everything off we are sitting letting our son finish his cake and out comes another waiter to let his table know that every entree comes with dessert?!? Wait what we were never offered a dessert menu let alone a dessert that should have come with the meal we paid for?? Our entrees were great but be a of everything else we probably won’t be returning or recommending this...

This place is okay - not terrible, not great. If I had read all of the reviews about this place before visiting then I feel like I would have been disappointed. Even though decent Italian cuisine is difficult to come by in Eastern WA, folks saying "Best pasta and sauces" and "most authentic Italian in Spokane" are being VERY generous.

It is cool that most meals include an appetizer and ice cream, but the salad dressings were kind of bland. The garlic butter for the table bread was nice and flavorful. The clam sauce was fine and tasty, but the red sauce and accompanying meatballs were lacking flavour and appeared to not have many/any herbal seasonings. For how seasoned the bread butter was I kind of expected more in either the sauce or meatballs.

All that said, I would totally give this place another shot, just to check consistency. The server was very nice (He seemed to get along better with the older crowd than he did with my partner and me who were younger, but it could have been an awkward day, idk) and the restaurant seemed very clean. Definitely not a bad experience, but to me, boxed pasta and canned-tasting sauce would not qualify this as "authentic" or "homemade" Italian food. Also their Monday deal - two meals for $27 - definitely made the price worth the experience and is great for newcomers...