Locanda Vini e Olii

Lovely spot in Clinton Hill. Great home made pasta and lovely people and atmosphere!

LOVE this restaurant! It’s so much more than a wonderful neighborhood spot! The service is wonderful, the owners are friendly and accommodating. I am obsessed with their ice creams!

WOW!!! This place met and exceeded all expectations!! The food was off the charts delicious and made fresh! Staff were super helpful and accommodating. The vibe inside is very like old world Italian and I spent half the time just looking at all the bottles of liquor and the display cases filled with interesting things. They went above and beyond to make the dinner special for us, and since it was my sister's birthday they gave us house-made limoncello shots on the house! I would honestly go back just to get the limoncello, it was so good!! But literally everything we ate was like heaven in your mouth!! You're missing out if you don't try this place at least once in your life!

Such a cute little hidden gem! The truffle pasta is literally to die for. Will definitely go back ♥️you do not want to miss the pistachio cake!! Amazing service and delicious food. Highly recommend doing the family style meal.

I absolutely loved everything about this restaurant. The food was pure perfection. The wine was fantastic. The ambience was incredible. Its everything its set out to be. And WORTH THE PRICE.

What a place. The owners and staff are incredible. The food is absolutely delicious. The gelato- chef’s kiss. Beyond reasonably priced. Must go. And then again.

This charming neighborhood spot has been an icon for ages. It STILL doesn't lose its charm, even after dining here for years. The quality of ingredients expertly combined into classic (real) Italian dishes feels like getting a big, tasty hug. I absolutely love the food. The drink list is A+, with not too much selection as to paralyze one with indecision, but not too small/boring to disappoint. The adorableness of the place and its location only add to the experience. Anyone teetering on the edge of deciding to come here or not, just come. Enjoy yourself. Thanks for being here, Locanda. 🥂 Featured picture is this braised pork shank that a fork could rip apart with ease because they know how to cook.

I’ve wanted to have dinner here for several years. We finally did and it was fantastic - from service to food. Will definitely go back.

The most rustic flavourful Italian food We ordered a variety of pastas and martinis and loved them all

Delicious and authentic Italian food. Great food and great cocktails. Very unique and pleasant atmosphere and great service!

Truly enjoyed Locanda Vini & Olii. We started the night with a classic aperol spritz and a red wine ( which was a generous pour I might add) and then enjoyed the sformato, black pepper pici, and Al tartufo. All very delicious and authentically Italian. Will 100% be dreaming about these dishes. The staff was wonderful and charming. You can see that it’s a neighborhood establishment as well. We sat outside and enjoyed watching the familiarity between walkers and the staff. Couldn’t recommend more.

We came to this restaurant tonight for my mom’s birthday. From the moment we walked up, service was ON and stayed that way until we left. The food was delicious and authentic - we got three different pastas and all were done beautifully. Had an amazing glass of wine recommended by our server. They celebrated my mom’s birthday without hesitation and really made her night!! Such a great neighborhood spot.

Loved this place. It felt really cozy, the atmosphere was warm, the staff were super friendly, and the food was absolutely delicious🤍

As a restaurant owner I can only admire this restaurant. We came on a busy night without reservation and the hostess was kind enough to give as a table. Our waiter Alessio was extremely nice and knowledgeable, he suggested a great wine and guide us trough a really great culinary experience with perfect timing in between courses. Dishes were perfecly executed. Money truly well spent. Can’t recommend a better restaurant in the area.

Just lovely. Beautiful local Italian spot. Lighting was perfect. Cozy. Excellent food. I would describe it as rustic Italian. A well earned 5 stars!

I've introduced several friends to this place on return visits. Staff met the standard for good service. Good dishes made from excellent ingredients. Nice energy, helpful team, and clean space without clutter. I'm thankful this restaurant enhances our options.

Lovely neighborhood restaurant, with a warm cozy environment. We enjoy getting a cocktail and pasta on a cold winter night just as much as coming by on a hot summer night and sitting outdoors. Locanda's friendly waiters and personable owner make it feel like a perfect neighborhood joint. A place we'll continue to go to for many years to come!

Incredible decor - it’s an old drugstore and the still have antique ampules and pamphlets in mahogany cabinets around the seating area. But the food is even better. Out of this world pasta (and I don’t even like pasta!), delicious apps & salads, fantastic cocktails. Just love this place so much!

I had a delightful dinner at Locanda ! It is my platonic ideal of a restaurant. The servers are charming, it looks beautiful inside, the food is delicious, and the espresso is tasty. The server gave us his homemade limoncello. I will be back!

We sat outside. We did make a reservation earlier in the day. We went on a Thursday evening. There were walk-up diners who were accommodated. We got an appetizer from the specials and 2 pasta dishes off the menu. My husband got a glass of wine. Highly recommend this place!

Great authentic Italian restaurant! The duck breast and lentils were delicious and so were the desserts. The past was very fresh and those who like tripe really enjoyed it. The space itself is impressive because it’s an old pharmacy that has been preserved.

We were very lucky to get a seat without reservation. The duck breast we had was delicious, very tender and juicy. We ordered their The Upstate Nigori and Plum Nigori to pair with the foods. We also had Tiramisu for the dessert, it tastes perfect. At the end, we got a free mint tea liquor from our friendly server. I recommend this Italian restaurant to you all if you are nearby.

I have driving by this restaurant for years. I finally tried it . They have unique pasta dishes where they make all of their pastas. Nice ambience and good drinks. Definitely a unique Italian restaurant.

Enjoyed the chef’s tasting menu with friends and was overwhelmed by the amount of food. Definitely filling with some dishes really shining: sage mushroom pasta, rabbit ragú pappardelle, calamari in tomato appetizer, and the ricotta cheesecake is not to be missed.

We ordered the Ribollita which was good, the MOZZARELLA DI BUFALA we did not like. The cold mozzarella cheese on a warm squash, the textures and temperature of the two foods didn’t taste great for us. The AL CONIGLIO pasta was our favourite,while the TARTUFO NERO was not as great. The truffle flavour was overwhelming in the dish and it was a little dry. Food was okay , we didn’t love anything . Servers were friendly , it took a while for our main dishes to arrive after the appetizers but the atmosphere was nice so we didn’t mind the wait.

We came there in a Saturday night and it was good that we had a reservation, as we learned from the couple entering before us, the wait would have been two hours. They have several different types of negronis, and since the negroni is 100 years old this year, I had to have one.It was good. Overall, dinner was an experience. The food was so delicious. The atmosphere is nice. From the outside, the building is labeled as a drug store, and the interior is decorated with drugstore paraphilia. Overall this is would be a glowing review if there would not be two areas of improvement. (1) It's really loud in there, and it's tough to carry a conversation.(2) As others have noted, the service is slow.

Delicious and charming! Highlights were the chicken liver starter and the venison osso bucco, one of the best entrees we've ever had. Pici, a hand-rolled spaghetti-but-fatter pasta, was much fatter and more doughy than I've had in Tuscany but the roasted onion sauce was very good. Double espresso barely filled half the thimble cup. Oh, well.Prices: Starters $10-$16, Primi (pastas) in between, and mains $25-$29. Three of us ordered two of each course and were very happy. The venue, an old drugstore, surrounds you with the dark wood and glass cabinets of another century, but it's the charm and helpfulness of the wait staff, all in lovely Italian accents, that topped the experience for me. Warning: Dark and noisy and tables are inches from each other. A lovely evening!

Solid date spot. Cute menus. Duck was ok. Pesto gnocchi was good. Ancient soup was pretty tasty. Would go w the beef next time

A very unique little place with a varied menu. They were however very busy and slightly unaccommodating the day we were there. The pasta was good but not the best.

My chitara pasta (the first pasta dish on the menu) was actually so good. Still thinking about it... Tiramisu amazing. Olives delicious and functionally bottomless. Wine overpriced c'mon now 😅 Very nice service I told them it was our anniversary and they gave us some candles in our dessert :)

I got the truffle tagliatelle. While I was greeted with a lot of truffle on my plate, the taste itself was not anything special and I only was willing to spend the $35 because of the truffle. I've had better tagliatelle. The Gelato, however was absolutely amazing! My favorite was the olive oil and bread crumb and the Italian cream. The serve staff was incredibly hospitable prompt, jovial, and so friendly! I would come here again just not for the food. The restaurant is in a really nice part of Brooklyn too.

Food was overall great. The service was mehh. Grill duck breast was perfectly cooked, juicy meat and very delicious! Al tartufo, black truffles pasta, sauce was on point, even though truffle slices were thiner than paper. I wouldn’t recommend Potato gnocchi with pesto sauce which was so bland...didn’t taste anything rather than chewy gnocchi and sun dried tomato. Two types of outdoor seatings: 1) street tables: Under tent with a wall mounted electric heater on each table which was not enough warm on 39-45F weather... 2) Side tables with tall heaters, no barriers around. But it seemed warmer than street table since the heaters were gas heat. If you wish to dine out, be prepared with thick coats, hats, and gloves? our hands were freezing!

Restaurant board says different name. The board says Levis Drug Store. The food was not very exciting. We had ordered Fegatini (chicken liver), but it was bad in taste. We ordered two different pastas and pastas were okay. Overall it was an average experience.

Okay let's be as objective as possible here. I walked in by myself for a 8PM reservation. I first ordered the 28 dollar octopus appetizer. Some pieces were very chewy and others were soft. Overall not much flavor going on other than a mild "tuna-can' taste. The white beans were undercooked, so when you bite into it, you can taste graininess to them (that really sucked). I took 2 small bites and left the rest untouched. The bread was super dry (actually just sad) and the olive oil was just okay. It didn't really have that nice EVOO smell and taste you look for a good dipping EVOO. I also ordered the truffle pasta for ~ 29 dollars. The pasta was overcooked, the portion size was simply not adequate for this price. The white asparagus was really lacking in the dish. They definitely used less than one white asparagus stalk for the dish, dicing it up into 0.5-1cm cubes. Almost none of the grana padano cheese added to the dish was tastable and in retrospect I should have mentioned that. I put 5 stars for service because they did not charge me for the octopus appetizer. My overall rating was pushed from 2 stars to 3 stars because of the service. I am surprised that no one asked me what I didn't like about the dishes, so I am writing my feedback here in case someone at the restaurant finds it useful. Overall for these high prices, I was really expecting much more.

in the 4 star column ... service. decor. overall ambiance. olives. jambon. in the 3.75 star column ... both salads (panzanella not pictured) in the 3 star column ... bread. and music ... meh. in the 2 star column ... asparagus soup (served room temp) overall 3.75

Very surprised. I understand ordering everything at once but zero time between order and each course. Service was poor. Rushing us the duration of our meal. The pasta dishes were bland. The saving grace are the cocktails, which we would have happily ordered more of if we had a minute to breathe in between. Of all the amazing Italian in the area, you can can skip this one

Meal was very lackluster, especially for the price charged. The salad (with figs and gorgonzola) was very underwhelming in its flavors. The anchovy dish in particular was extremely disappointing: untoasted, cold slices of average bread, with unmelted butter and the anchovy on top is simply not a pleasant mouthfeel and it fails to bring out the flavors of each of the ingredients. The cocktails had a very syrupy mouthfeel and overly sweet flavor that masked any notes of the liquors used. Perhaps we "ordered wrong" but for the price it seems unacceptable that there would be wrong dishes to order. We had one of each pici and they were good, but not enough to turn the evening around. The space is very nice. The waiter was very friendly.

Food was bland, service was okay. The restaurant is beautiful. We had steak, truffle and another handmade pasta. My pasta was both over salted and bland. Over priced. Truffle was meh, have had better truffle taglietelle for $30. Hardly any veggie options and no kid friendly options either. Loved visiting Clinton hill but this was not a great experience of Italian food, misses the mark by a mile. We are london based and we’re looking forward to a great meal. We won’t be back.

Very kind server and a nice atmosphere but the food is not worth the price by any means

Omg, where do I even start? The truffle pasta ($35) doesn’t even have shaved truffles like any of the photos here showed. Apparently, they changed the dish 2 months ago from shaved truffles to TEENY TINY GRATED truffles, which are much less in volume and different in taste, without changing the menu description to match the current dish. The menu stated that the dish has mushroom and anchovies, which we didn’t see or taste at all. Completely a rip off at the slightest, and deception if I want to be honest. The worst part is, manager and staff were extremely defensive when we expressed how disappointed we were when getting an underwhelming dish at a high price point, on our close friend’s birthday. No comp or any apologies were made. We still left a tip since people need to get paid to eat (we just hope they didn’t eat the truffle pasta, otherwise they would be disappointed). Long story short, except for the ambiance that’s actually quite nice, whole experience was bad. Do not go :)