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Aria Tuscan Grill
Aria Tuscan Grill

Aria Tuscan Grill Details

  • Dining Style: Casual Dining
  • Website: http://www.ariacharlotte.com
  • Email: briana@sonomarestaurants.net
  • Phone: (704) 376-8880
  • Hours of Operation: Lunch: Monday - Friday: 11:30am - 2:30pm; Dinner: Monday - Thursday: 5:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday - Saturday: 5:00pm - 11:00pm
  • Payment Options: AMEX, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
  • Cuisine: Italian
  • Executive Chef: Frank Altomare
  • Dress Code: Casual Dress
  • Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
  • Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Chef's Table, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Late Night, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Takeout, View, Wheelchair Access, Wine
  • Catering: As a full sevice caterer, Aria's event planning professionals will work with you on every detail of your special event, tailoring it to your taste and budget. Please allow us to discuss your upcoming event with you. Simply contact us at 704.331.0078. We would love to have you join us for a consultation and a taste of Aria.
  • Entertainment: Live music every Friday & Saturday from 7:30-10:30pm
  • Special Events & Promotions: Aria and Founders Hall offer a unique setting for weddings. bridal showers, receptions, rehearsal dinners, fund-raisers, corproate dinners & special events. Simply choose your date, and we'll help do the rest!
    Special Event Sales 704.331.0078

Getting there

  • Cross Street: College and Trade Streets
  • Parking: Valet
  • Parking Details: Aria offers complimentary valet parking, located on College Street between Trade and Fifth Streets. We also validate for the Bank of America Corporate parking deck. It may be entered from Fifth, College & Trade Streets.
A word from Aria Tuscan Grill
Bringing the best ot Italy to Charlotte, Aria Tuscan Grill & Champagne Lounge are Charlotte's urban neighborhood restaurant and lounge in the heart of center city. Serving mouthwatering old word comfort food in a modern Italian setting, Aria brings the flavors & colors of Tuscany to Charlotte.…
Featuring a kitchen with a view, a striking wine wall that highlights a wide array of predominantly focused Italian wines, house made Limoncello, live music every weekend, a late night "Bar Bites" menu, Charlotte's only Chef's Table, a street level view of Uptown Charlotte to take in the city as you dine, and a location that is front and center to all of Charlotte's main attractions.
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Diner Reviews
  • "Theater night. Good, but app came after salad. My entree was good....stripped bass...but not great. Good atmosphere. Prefer Blue for variety and service."
    Dined on 3/7/2014
  • "Totally enjoyed my birthday dinner!! Awesome meeting the Executive Chef :) as well!! He took the liberty of ordering my pasta dinner for me! Made me truly feel extra special for the birthday event! Look forward to returning! Service of course is always energetic and complimenting!"
    Dined on 2/15/2014
  • "Food & service was excellent. Perfect for dinner before a show at the Belk."
    Dined on 3/7/2014
  • "A little noisy but food was good- my portion was a little on the small side ,my companion's was adequate. Great location for theater performances and parking validated which was a real plus !!"
    Dined on 3/5/2014
  • "I took my mom here for dinner last night after looking at reviews on Yelp. We both loved the ambiance of the restaurant and our food was delicious. She ordered the Salmon and I had the butternut squash soup. The plates were filling, reasonably priced, and tasted amazing."
    Dined on 3/5/2014
  • "Aria has the perfect location in the Bank of America Founder's Hall building, attached to the bank towers and to the Blumenthal Performing Arts center. It has an extremely busy lunch crowd of bankers during the week, and is ideal for dinner after work or before a show at one of the nearby performing arts venues. The menu is creative and the food is top quality, consistently good, well prepared and presented. Aria has a great bar upstairs and one downstairs as well, making it the perfect place for meeting friends in the evening. The staff is friendly and the service is exceptional. I've never been disappointed at Aria, and dine there frequently."
    Dined on 2/5/2014
  • "Great Italian place to eat. They had live music, good atmosphere, great food. The seafood special was very good."
    Dined on 2/28/2014
  • "We visited on a Wednesday night and we were very surprised that the dining room was full. Since the room was full, and we were a party of 7, the noise level made conversation very difficult. But the food and service was excellent. The menu had a nice variety of items including items that vegans would enjoy. The pear and goat cheese salad was very good as was the mesto frito. For the main course I had the oven roasted rabbit and it was also very good. The waiter was very attentive and was helpful with the wine selection. I would return but hopefully on an evening when it wasn't quite so busy."
    Dined on 2/26/2014
  • "We recently visited Aria before we saw Alton Brown at the Belk Theatre. It is SO convenient! You don't even have to leave the building to get to the theatre. We told the server that we had a show to get to ahead of time. He made sure our food was out and cleared so we'd be on time. We would definitely come back here. The ambience is amazing too! It's low lighting and it looked like there were several BOA happy hour goers at the bar."
    Dined on 2/24/2014
  • "The food was amazing and the waiting staff really take care of you."
    Dined on 2/22/2014
  • "8 people in our group and served 7 different entrees and everyone thoroughly enjoyed their meal"
    Dined on 2/24/2014
  • "Excellent food, service and atmosphere. Waiter was attentive and knowledgeable about food choices and wine pairing. Would definitely go again."
    Dined on 2/24/2014
  • "the restaurant is a bit loud but the food is so great you can overlook the noise"
    Dined on 2/22/2014
  • "What a charming place, excellent food (I had the stuffed trout), the wine list was good, the service excellent. I couldn't decide which Pinot Griggio to order so the waiter brought me both to sample, very nice! The only caviat is the noise level, hard to keep a conversation. So if you want a "quiet" dinner, ask for a table as far away from the bar/music as possible."
    Dined on 2/21/2014
  • "Really enjoyed our lunch, as there were plenty of options to select from. The short rib special was recommended and was an excellent choice. Service was amazing."
    Dined on 2/19/2014
  • "The Appetizers were awesome, main course had a lot to be desired...."
    Dined on 2/10/2014
  • "Watch out for the wine prices. My 1st experience the bartender recommended a wine without mentioning the price which turned out to be $20 a glass! The wine was good but certainly not worth $20. The 2nd time, 1 of my friends asked for a glass of wine to which the waiter said a bottle would be cheaper. Once again no price was offered & to my shock when the bill came the bottle was $57!!! That's now twice I feel like a victim of "gotcha" with the wine prices. Also my lamb shank while falling off the bone tender had a strange sweet taste to the sauce which was unpleasant & tasted like the cook had accidentally added sugar instead of salt. All I can say is make sure you know the price of any wine you order unless money is no object."
    Dined on 2/18/2014
  • "Aria is by far our favorite restaurant uptown, and arguably our fave in all of Charlotte. The food, wine list, service and ambiance all come together to create a lovely experience! You can't go wrong - the entire menu is delicious! We eat here at least once a week and can't get enough of it!"
    Dined on 2/18/2014
  • "Our Dining experience at Aria Tuscan Grill was delightful. Our waiter was very knowledgeable about the extensive wine list and my wife and I enjoyed a much needed night out without the kids in a mature environment. I love the convenience of the restaurant's location which can be reached by walking through the BofA building or from one of the streets in uptown Charlotte."
    Dined on 2/15/2014
  • "Great ambiance. The food was fabulous, pasta was great. Highly recommend the pasta tasting dish (5 plates of different pastas)."
    Dined on 2/15/2014
  • "The menu selection is broad, the food is always well prepared and graciously served. The wine list is spectacular. It is alwys a pleasure to eat there."
    Dined on 2/15/2014
  • "We came here for an early Valentine's Day dinner, and although we arrived 15 minutes early, we were still seated right away. It was a 6pm reservation, so we expected it to be quiet, but it was a little bit uncomfortably quiet for the first 30 minutes until it began to fill up. We are in our mid twenties, and were certainly on the younger side of the crowd, but it was a fantastic place to celebrate any occasion. We ordered the lamb chops and ravioli, which were both phenomenal and shared a chocolate cake which was delicious and not overly rich if split in half. I give a very high recommendation for this place and many thanks and compliments to the chefs and workers!"
    Dined on 1/23/2014
  • "Received poor service during restaurant week and to make matters worse the manager was unapologetic and dismissed us after we stated that are dessert was delayed by an hour. However a couple that came in 1 hour and 30 minutes after us receive every course including dessert before our dessert came. Very dissatisfied after looking forward to trying Aria."
    Dined on 1/20/2014
  • "High expectations because of Urbanspoon reviews. Good food but not special. Price was good, but my group has expectations for a food experience. Did the kitchen table, but the view to kitchen was of the assembly area and not the chef stations Ho-hum."
    Dined on 2/10/2014
  • "This was our second visit to Aria and it proved as good in fact as was the memory of the first. The food was excellent, the wine perfect, and the service commendable. It was so good, in fact, that we made reservations before we left."
    Dined on 2/8/2014
  • "Aria consistently provides well prepared and presented food delivered by friendly, efficient servers. Great spot to bring friends with a variety of food interests/needs. Don't forget to show your Belk event ticket and receive a 10% discount."
    Dined on 2/8/2014
  • "Everyone in our party raved about the meal. From the pear and goat cheese salad to the salmon, the food was uniformly excellent."
    Dined on 2/7/2014
  • "My work associates and I enjoy the 3-course lunch special which includes simple pasta entree, side salad and cheesecake. Perfect portion sizes -- don't feel like you are eating too much."
    Dined on 2/3/2014
  • "Very customer friendly and had a great waiter. Good food was had by all in our party of four!"
    Dined on 2/7/2014
  • "We reserved a quiet table preferably a booth. The hostess was going to take us to our table and the manager changed it to a table right in the line of traffic. We asked for a quite table out of traffic and the placed us right next to the hostess stand by the door. Very cold and noisy. We also had difficulty finding them because they are listed on one street but the door is on another street."
    Dined on 1/17/2014
  • "We were pleasantly surprised with our experience. The food was awesome, the service was great! We had the best table in the restaurant! I wanted a great dining experience, and that's what we received!"
    Dined on 1/31/2014
  • "had to go back upstairs after we went down stairs to be greated - service elevator with the staff!"
    Dined on 1/22/2014
  • "Of the six restaurants we dined at during Restaurant Week, Aria was best by an order of magnitude. Full menu was available for the Restaurant Week selection. The fresh baked bread and all six items we ordered was top notch."
    Dined on 1/26/2014
  • "This was my first time visiting Aria and I loved it! Although I was running a little late past my reservation the staff was very understanding.The food was wonderful, my waitress was very kind, and the limoncello is to die for!"
    Dined on 1/25/2014
  • "Outstanding, one of the best meals I've had in Charlotte! I will return."
    Dined on 1/26/2014
  • "I have been here many times, this visit did not disappoint. Went for Restaurant Week ($30 for 3 courses); they let you choose anything on the menu and give generous portions. The wine list is great, heavy on Italian selections. Notable items were the pork tenderloin (out of this world!) and the calamari. Also highly recommend the Lillith Primitivo ($36/bottle)- nice acidity, not too tanic, jammy, and slightly spicy."
    Dined on 1/26/2014
  • "We were first introduced to Aria, after asking an usher at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center for a place we could grab a quick lunch. What a find! Our lunch experience was super: food, atmosphere, service, was all memorable in a good way! When Restaurant Week came up, we had so many places to choose from, but selected Aria because of our initial experience and their menu for the week. We were not disappointed. Service was great, including the suggestions offered when we asked about items on the menu. The food was delicious. Presentation was portrait-worthy and fresh! I haven't had a meal in some time that I wished would last all evening. A wonderful experience. Aria has become a favorite of ours and we will definitely go back!"
    Dined on 1/26/2014
  • "would highly recommend. had the caprese salad, chicken scallopini and the best part- the cheesecake! unbelievable!"
    Dined on 1/26/2014
  • "Came here with a party of about 16 for Restaurant Week / Birthday Party. Aria was one of the only places that had a larger selection of foods to choose from for this event. Our table was ready for us when we arrived. The staff were all very friendly and service was awesome. I would highly recommend this place to others. It's not easy serving large groups of people and they all did a great job. Appetizers were great, tried the Mushroom Pizza and Beef Carpaccio was delish. My entree was a little chewy, I had the flat iron steak. All of the other entrees looked much better at our table."
    Dined on 1/26/2014
  • "I was very excited to try this place as I am an up and coming foodie, however once past the door the excitement died. The atmosphere is lovely, but the customer service provided by our waiter made this an unpleasant visit for us. The food was ok; however the bad taste was left by the waiter. We had no information on the restaurant or the menu, no food suggestions made, and to top that our waiter never refilled our glasses with water. He told us that the water wasn't chilled and he was waiting for it, but the tables around us received multiple refills. I have never experienced anything like this before. I wanted to speak to the manager, however we were having such a great night amongst ourselves that we just paid and got out of there."
    Dined on 1/26/2014
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