Felice — Restaurant in Weslaco

Had the pleasure of joining my friends for a second time at Felice. This time we sat at the bar, and I love sitting at chef tables and getting to see them in action I’m so happy there is something like this in the valley. Also please take into consideration while sitting at the bar area this isn’t a regular bar there are no bartenders. It’s an interpersonal experience with the chefs getting to see how run the restaurant if they are available to answer your questions or talk to you I promise they will. Be patient and kind. 1000000/10 I would recommend. The RGV needed exactly this. I can compare this to Michelin star restaurants that I have visited in the past. High quality ingredients, people and atmosphere. It has the duality for a cute date night or family outing. Nice options for beer and wine. We started off with the broccolini it was sitting on whipped ricotta with a chilli oil + hot honey on top it was a nice palette cleanse and something to get as an app or a side with dinner. The Suppli was a happy surprise I didn’t know what to expect I’ve never had anything like it. The crispy provolone is an amazing take on regular mozzarella sticks. Caesar salad is perfect to share, the dressing is fresh and light they make the bread crumbs in house. The pesto gnocchi.. yeah I can eat a whole order by myself. The texture is soft + flavor is so rich. If you’ve never had gnocchi before I would recommend trying it. We got to try almost all of their pizzas. OMG let’s start off by saying I judge pizza based off dough anyone can put topping on something, when I tell you this is the crispiest lightest dough and it has depth to it.. how they did that I have no clue. The toppings are very thought out. The spicy pepperoni adds a tiny kick + they drizzle some hot honey Bialca is my favorite it’s an explosion of flavors and everything compliments each other so well. The sweetness of fig preserves breaks up the saltiness of the bacon + the basil to bring some freshness back. Pure harmony. These two pizzas are my favorite because they took a classic pepperoni and added their spin on to it. And when have yall ever had bacon + fig preserves? I saw that they had added a chicken Alfredo and when I asked Chef Jesse how they made it… my mouth started watering. Let’s start off by saying this an isn’t Olive Garden so if you’re expecting white meat and a basic sauce you’re out of luck. This is WAY better. They use chicken thighs, they cook and render them and then they use the juices of the chicken thighs to make the sauce.. building complexity and richness of the flavors I can’t wait to try it. You can tell that the chefs take great pride and have strong integrity in how they create and prepare their dishes.. What makes my heart the happiest is that they’re from the RGV trying to elevate and introduce different palettes to people who unfortunately may not have the privilege to travel to experience these things. Chefs I commend you. Keep it up! The valley...

I hope this was an “off” night (6/19/20) but my mom was served a weird lasagna type pasta instead of pappardelle with her bolognese entree. You can see in the photo that they didn’t even hide the fact that another pasta was used giving her one lonely strand of the authentic pappardelle…as a joke I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I asked the waiter about it and he suddenly became a person who just jumbled a bunch of indecipherable words. This was such an insult to us. I wondered if they just thought no one would notice and if so, why? I guess they did not factor in that there are worldly, well-traveled people in the Valley who know how authentic food should be. But no, they basically gave her that Chef Boyardee lasagna in a can on her plate.

I had a sausage pizza and I guess they love that hot honey so much in the back that it was on my pie even though nothing was mentioned about anything sweet being on my pie on the menu. I can understand some people loving the hot honey but it threw off the entire flavor of my spicy sausage pizza. Again, the waiter forgot how to talk when we asked why it was on the pizza if not described as such on the menu. This was after I had waited SO LONG for my pizza. My mom had her entree at least 15 minutes before I had my pizza which made everything awkward and uncomfortable because I wanted her to eat and not have her Chef-Boyardee lasagna dish get cold. They literally could have made a new batch of fresh correct-type pasta for my mom in the time I waited for my pizza to be served. I saw other folks who had arrived later get their food before me. This really irked me and threw off the entire visit. I was so hungry I ate it anyway, hot honey special addition and all.

I was excited to have a Peroni on draft but they were out. I also had to try the tiramisu as it is one of my favorites but…eh. I do not like their take on the dessert with the Marias galletas as the base. The soggy cracker-cookies make a weird gross texture as compared to a cake-like madeleine that should be used. The galletas also added a hint of an unwanted cinnamon flavor as well. (I personally don’t like cinnamon unless it’s a main star of a dish - like cinnamon rolls.) Maybe pieces of conchas or something more light and airy would make for a better Mexican twist on the dessert..if that is what they are trying for. Soggy crackers is not it.

The interior is fine and I suppose we were “lucky” to get seated on a Thursday evening with no reservations. So if you really want to try it - reserve a spot. Hope your experience is...

My experience at felice 26 Y F Had been hearing about this place on TikTok! Friends that live in weslaco advised it wasn’t all that and I would be better off going somewhere else. Drove from Harlingen (30 min drive) to check it out on 9-27-25, I wanted to try it for myself. My friend also from Harlingen got there first and went in to get us a spot. I arrived maybe 5 min after her. We waited about 10-20 min for anyone to acknowledge us. Servers making eye contact w us, passing us by, not saying anything at all just staring at us. After maybe 20min the hostess comes by and gets on her tablet at the front, my friend asks if we can sit outside and she tells us yes, gets back on the tablet and we are just staring at her waiting to be walked out. She just looks at us and tells we can go find a seat. We walk ourselves outside and sit by the door. A couple with a child go in after we sit down outside and are immediately escorted outside by the hostess with menus. Maybe they had a reservation but we weren’t walked out or even given menus. We didn’t get any complimentary bread or anything like that which I thought this place did. Still not sure. No one comes us up to us and after maybe 20 min my friend flags down the waiter and asks if we can get some menus. Very off putting already and considering leaving right there and going somewhere else. But we think maybe it’s an off night for them. We try to order quickly afraid that we might not get the chance to later. I get the Alfredo pasta and marg pizza for us and my friend orders some kinda “salad” with chicken. They bring out her food first I wait maybe 10 min for them to bring the pizza. Maybe 10 more min go by and I start to worry if they forgot my pasta. They didn’t mention it would be out or anything about it when they brought the other food. A waitress comes out and has a pasta and doesn’t know which table it goes to and as she’s about to go back inside I ask if it’s mine. It was. Food was okay, my pasta wasn’t anything groundbreaking 7/10. They pizza was good, well cooked, not burnt or soggy 8/10. We were catching up and neither of us had finished eating when our waiter “checks” up on us and starts giving us to go Tupperware and asks if we’ll need more. I felt it was very inappropriate we hadn’t even been eating for long, service was already bad and now we are basically being asked to leave in the middle of eating(IMO). We were paying customer on a girls night dressed nicely. Don’t understand why the service was so bad. Overall, would not recommend or...