Café Capriccio - City of Albany

Place is very old and dingy, food was excellent. I was going to give it a great review, but once I got to my car after leaving I received a call from the restaurant asking if I liked the food, I said yes, they said well your tip was very low. I apologized and stated to add an extra $10. They text me and stated they will be charging my credit card a total of a $70 tip when I was leaving $45. They called again stating that a party of 5 is a 20% gratuity. We told them , first of all if it's an automatic gratuity it is usually added to the bill, which it was not, and tip is based on the total bill before taxes. They called a third time to say that the tip will be $65, and the menu states 20% gratuity for parties of 5 or more. Although the food was excellent, I will NOT return. This was extremely rude.

I was in Albany to see my granddaughter play in a lacrosse tournament so Saturday night after a tough day 1 I took my daughter and granddaughter to dinner at Cafe Capriccio. What a lovely place in a very old building so many dining rooms. They nicely honored my request for a more quiet table and sat us in a back dining room. Our waitress was fabulous very informative about the menu and the building. My daughter and I shared a lovely and not too expensive bottle of Vermentino while my 16 year old granddaughter had a Shirley Temple but it was a bottled variety and she loved it! The food was very good my only slight complaint was that there was too much tomato sauce on my chicken and eggplant sorrento. I'm more accustomed to it with more of a white wine/olive oil sauce but really covered in sauce.Their tomato sauce is excellent but it dominated the dish too much. We finished the meal by sharing one of the best coffee gelatos I've had here or abroad! If I lived in Albany I would be a regular!

We went for Father Days dinner with 6 extremely picky characters. Every dinner met everyone's expectations and there was not one complaint .I am looking forward to another beautiful meal .

Hidden gem of a place. Service was outstanding and the food was delicious! From the wine to focaccia bread, salad, fresh pasta chicken/eggplant cutlets. Limoncello cake to end it was phenomenal! We will definitely be back!

Been dining at Capriccio for over 30 years, probably 4 times a year. This time, only outside seating was open in OpenTable even though the dining room had plenty of availability. The waitress never put in my wife's order so it was at least 15 minutes late. The waitress tried being overly familiar with us even though we've never met her just because other staff knew who we were asking one of us if he worked there in the past just because she didn't understand how the main waiter assigned to our table knew him. And we never saw the main waiter again and just had what I'll call a trainee. Just not the class that Capriccio was known for. It will be a while before I go back. Used to be 5 stars. For last night, I gave it a 3.