La Dolce Vita Trattoria - Palm Harbor

This Italian restaurant is a local gem. Absolutely delicious food and menu options. Very authentic cuisine.

Amazing food and the service is spectacular! Don’t sleep on this place. Everything is delicious!

I came with a friend of mine. We were a party of 2. It was 5:30 pm. The restaurant had 3 tables occupied inside yet, we were told that we would have to sit outside in the heat because every table inside was already reserved. Yet again, there were only 3 tables in the entire restaurant taken and the rest were unoccupied. We were celebrating my friend’s birthday so to make her sit outside and sweat was the opposite of the experience I had for us. Do not go here unless you are okay with sitting outside! No walk ins are available to sit inside unfortunately.

The service and atmosphere were good, but the food was disappointing. The bread was stale, and my chicken piccata was so tart and lemony that I couldn’t eat it. My wife had the pasta with mussels, clams, and shrimp. The pasta was undercooked, and the seafood tasted like it had been microwaved from frozen. We wanted to like this place, but the food just wasn’t good.

I travel to Italy every few months and this is is the closets you will get to real authentic Italian food.