Ristorante Fiore

08/15/09

Only accoustic piano jazz n North End

by AngeloSusan at Citysearch

Well me and my girlfriend stumbled up on Fiores as a sweet date. Well went in for the food but were more than presently surprised by a great solo jazz piano player. He was wonderful. The food was great but listening to him while we enjoyed our meal. was a treat. Piano players name was Nick something

• Pros: I love food but the music is beautiful
• Cons: late night is not best for music it was better earlier

08/13/09

Should have read reviews before going!

by SheriLC123 at Citysearch

We love the North End for lunch and dinner or just to have a drink or even coffee. I have never written a review before but our experience was just so bad, we had to warn people.

The food is overpriced and nothing more than average. The waitress was ok, but acted as if she didn't expect a tip. But the worse part of the visit has to be the woman, Mandy or something like that, who is supposed to be the owners wife. She was rude and snippy. They probably don't need the money. We will use this site to check out reviews before we go to a new place, that's for sure.

• Pros: nice looking place.
• Cons: average food and overpriced and rude management

06/10/09

Unbeatable special event location!

by kellijameson at Citysearch

Shout out to Melinda Rossi w/event planning & the folks at Ristorante Fiore!! I recently held my fiance's 40th birthday party here and it was amazing! The private dining area was perfect & directly across from the rooftop deck area. Melinda Rossi was fabulous & helped me plan down to the last detail, including arranging the repair of the birthday cake that was purchased elsewhere and packaged poorly so that it slid off of the tray! I received kudos from all of my guests. This is a first class place to hold your special event!

• Pros: Best location & event planning!
• Cons: Parking

01/16/09

Disappointing - Nice Atmosphere, Mediocre Food and Poor Service

by CES81 at Citysearch

I find that it's tough to find a good spot in the North End that is both classy and reasonably priced with stellar food so I had high hopes for Fiore. Ordered a rum and diet coke at the bar it was made with regular coke not diet, no big deal. Then from where I was sitting I could see all the male staff flipping through stuff at night and pointing out different body parts to each other on the models inside the magazine....classy. From the bar I sat down with my friend and got bread, it was ice cold, it came oil no parmesan. It was 8 degrees outside and because it was dead inside (even on a Thursday night) I had to keep my coat on the entire time of my meal it was ridiculous. Everyone in there looked freezing. The waiter was attentive and nice enough but when he saw that my friend and I were not going to be ordering appetizers and lots of drinks he totally wrote us off it was very apparent and made us feel almost unwelcome. My gnocchi was decent but nothing memorable. We ordered a drink and entrees but he treated us like we didn't belong there. I eat out FREQUENTLY and a good waiter should never deliver service based on what you order. Overall the experience was disappointing especially for the price of their food and drinks. My vote would be to skip it.

• Pros: Nice atmosphere
• Cons: Food not worth the expense, patrons not treated with respect by servers

12/22/08

Move the Chef across the Street!

by dvel09 at Citysearch

This place had great food. I'm eating the leftovers right now! Only thing is, my girlfriend's chicken parm somehow got mixed up with my marsala pasta and sauce. Terrible service all night. It took forever to get our orders in and when they came the waiter put my girlfriend's dish in front of me. When I politely said that it was her's and not mine, he tried to correct me! The host placed us in an area upstairs which was entiely unromantic. Tables were close together, kids were running by constantly and the music was awful. Oh, and a note to the owners, pasta should be included in the price of a meal, especially one that is highly priced. I'll not be back, unless they offer takeout at a reduced rate.

• Pros: food
• Cons: waitstaff

12/19/08

Best for Special Occassions

by smarcely at Citysearch

I just went to Ristorante Fiore last night for my brother's 21st birthday (right before a bruins game) and let me tell you it was an absolutely perfect celebration. Before our reservation time I asked the manager if it were ok to bring in an outside cake and have them light candles and sing happy birthday at the end of our meal - it was NO PROBLEM! I was so happy, the manager seems tough but he was so accommodating to us (a party of 6). I have no idea why people are complaining about their entrees being unseasoned and the sauces being watery - all of our dinners were divine. My brother, who doesn't have a palate at all, ate all of his food including his salad and cherry tomatoes in his entree! I had the Bombolotti alla Vodka (signature dish) and it was absolute heaven. For all of our dishes the salads had amazing texture and well seasoned dressing, pastas were perfectly al dente and steaks were cooked just as we liked them. Our server was very intelligent of the Italian cuisine and got us out of the restaurant in time for the Bruin's game (at our request). At the end of our meal we were searching for our waiter (since we were running out of time for the game and wanted to tell him about the cake) but he showed up by his own instinct with the Birthday cake all lit and a large group behind him singing ?Happy Birthday?! It was a perfect Birthday and dinner - my brother was very happy and impressed.

• Pros: Ambience, Food, wait staff/management, wine list
• Cons: Bread wasn't anything special, but still good

09/24/08

Worst Italian Food I've ever had. I think the school cafeteria did much better. Harsh but true!

by CanWeTawk at Citysearch

Hmmm, where should I begin. I went there a month ago with 3 friends and not one of us found anything remotely redeeming about this place. The space was out dated, like something out of a 1970's bad Italian mob movie. We were all in agreement that popping open a jar of Prego and boiling up a mixture of some really bad packaged ravioil, gnocci or tortelonni would have been a much better alternative to what we got. Everything was under seasoned, the tomato sauces were watery like a BAD MARINARA. My friend said his Chicken Parm. was like shoe leather and to make matters worse the bread they served seemed like it came from the bottom of the bin. The salad's were good but that's annoying to even have to mention. The dessert was "old school" Italian style and seemed like it had probably been sitting in a freezer for months prior to them defrosting it. The waitress was (bluntly) A Mess, a total disaster of a server! A ten year old would have known more about Italian food from eating at chukee-cheez than she did.

Unfortunately we couldn't bring ourselves to return any of our food because we realized It Was, from beginning to end, Substandard!

• Pros: being able to sit down and rest our feet for a while
• Cons: Everything but a chair and some H2O

08/11/08

Avoid the roof deck if you do not like to be surrounded by second hand smoke.

by beachboy21 at Citysearch

One of the apparenlty very few restaurants in Boston that have decided to compromise the above average food with poor atmosphere. 4 of us ate during the rust hour on a recent Saturday and found the service to be adequate but the atmosphere to be sophomoric. Fiore needs to decide if their roof is a bar or a dining area. It cannot be both as long as they allow both cigarette and pipe smoking.

It would have helped if our meals had been well above average but they were not. Fiore is efficiently run including pushing the bill on you at the end of the meal to clear the table for the next seating. We may return for a drink but the food at other neighboring restaurants is free of tobacco smoke and generally better.

• Pros: Attentive wait staff
• Cons: Smoking

07/23/08

Not worth it

by Don0211645 at Citysearch

We went recently for a crowd of 8 and were seated upstairs which was nice in the beginning. The waiter was very slow to get drink orders and we ordered 2 apps of calamari and mozzarella and tomato. Needless to say we needed another 2 calamari apps which were tiny! Overpriced for the quantity. The food was average at best so I would not recommend this place when there are so many other places in the N. End that are really good and have human size portions. Too pricy for this level of dining and quality of food.

05/29/08

Not up to North End standards

by Pete7491 at Citysearch

Very disappointing for a north end restaurant. even though the service was excellent, my meal was tasteless and my friend's meal, supposedly a baked sausage meal was 95% pasta. We won't be going again. Having eaten in the North End probably 50 times, this was the worst.