Amici's Cucina — Restaurant in Waterville

The exterior of the building lends itself to look significantly more spacious inside. Upon first entering the restaurant, it's immediately apparent how cramped it is. There are approximately 20 tables, all of which are maybe an arm's length apart from one another. This fact coupled with the lack of any partitions and a generally small dining room, leads to a hardly bearable cacophony when at capacity.

Regarding the food itself; overpriced relative to portion sizes and quality. Ordering a pasta dish nets you a paltry salad, e.g., a less than handful of greens, 2 cucumber slices and 2 cherry tomatoes. What gives? I'm aware of restaurant practices like upcharging on lower cost menu items (pasta, for example) to subsidize costs on other menu items (often steak) but produce is of minimal value. Ordered the carbonara and it was profoundly average made worse with sadly overcooked pasta, not whatsoever al dente. Pasta portion was admittedly fair and the best part of the meal was the ciabatta bread they brought to the table. However, for an around $30 entree, not impressed.

Service was fine, attentive but wouldn't call the staff friendly or down to earth, either. Found the repetitious upselling and rigamarole surrounding this obnoxious. They have this whole charade of bringing around a dessert plate to display everything they have, even when not asked for. Awkward.

Definitely not returning but if this sounds like your cup of tea,...

This place was awesome. I am NOT a fancy person, but this place was still great. My wife and myself went to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, after a recommendation from a Co worker. The food was amazing, we were brought ice water right away, as well as a refill bottle if we wanted more. Also, our hostess lit a tealight candle at our table before we started. Was perfect. Every single bite was great. I felt like the cost of the food, for the quality of what we got was absolutely fair. Was just shy of 100 dollars for the two of us. I had san pellegrino for a drink, and my wife a cloud #9 mixed drink (no idea, very tropical) we had flatbread; drizzled with garlic and oil and covered with basil, mozzarella and tomatoes. I got the caprese stuffed chicken; came with roasted baby red potatoes and the vegetable of the day, which happily for me was asparagus. My wife got the 5 cheese lasagna. It came with no sides, but it was SO BIG she could only eat about half. Both meals also came with a salad. Between the appetizers and the main course we were served a small loaf of bread with dipping oil. We thought about skipping desert, but when our waiter Forrest brought out a platter to show us the desert, I knew we'd have cheesecake. Best. Dang. Cheesecake. Ever. Caramel drizzled on top, and the cake was probably 2, 3 inches thick. Fantastic night. Thank you to Amici's. We will most...

Overall - not worth the cost. Food was generally bland, service was bad, and the pasta was more similar to what I would expect from a pizza place than a nice Italian restaurant.

All four of us ordered a different pasta dish, and all four of us had overcooked, disappointing pasta. The Eggplant Parmesan came with a little side of pasta, which was soggy. If you have a dislike for al dente pasta this is the place for you. Served with plenty of marinara, but it wasn't worth it as it had little flavor and was watery. Caesar salad was also bland and watery.

Service was not good. It took 45 minutes for us to be served, and that was only after tracking down our waitress that we had been waiting that long for our food. In general she was not attentive about drinks. There was a large party (seated after us) which may have played a role in the slowness, but our waitress could've at least checked in and let us know the kitchen was behind.

Desserts were expensive for what they are. They show them to you on a tray which is nice, but it means you don't know the price until the check comes. Plus the slice they gave us was smaller than what they...