Centrolina

Beautiful spot for outdoor dining, with lovely colorful paper lanterns hanging above. You're seated along a pedestrian walkway in City Center, instead of along a road with traffic like most outdoor places. Heaters kept us fairly warm, and seating had full airflow so it felt safe for COVID. The service was great and food was delicious, though pasta portions are quite small, especially for the hefty price.

We ate outside. Fabulous food and service.

My girlfriend and I went to dinner here for our anniversary and everything we had was great. I don’t think you could go wrong with anything on their menu.!

Pros: Flavorful seafood dishes, nice location and ambiance. Good physical distancing and compliance with COVID precautions.

Cons: All other food was mediocre. Chef was unwilling to customize dishes or accommodate dietary restrictions. Service was very slow (more a problem with the kitchen than the servers themselves).

Bottom line: Fell way short of expectations and menu prices.

Wished blankets were not offered for sale but provided and the heaters provided a little more heat than they did. The food was excellent but needed the ability to accomodate dietary restrictions. Best pasta ever!

Great location and service was top notch!
The Funghi antipasto was amazing! Definitely coming back.

Great experience for a Friday night date with my girlfriend. Health measures that gives you confidence and safety.

We've stopped into Centrolina several times before for drinks but this was our first time enjoying a full dinner there and we had a great experience from start to finish. Their service was excellent - very knowledgeable, engaging, and attentive. They have an excellent wine list including some great highlights from female wine makers. And their food was creative, delicious, and well portioned. They have heaters for those dining outdoors, however we dined inside and felt very comfortable with their ample spacing and safety measures. We highly recommend and look forward to returning.

Centrolina was a fantastic meal from start to finish. We started off with you arugula salad and made our way through the course of Chestnut pasta and Branzino, sharing a meal. The butterscotch dessert was amazing! The only comment I might make is that the bread could be warmer, but this was a detriment to the overall meal. I will be back soon!

A great evening out at a great DC restaurant. We celebrated my girlfriend’s birthday. She very much enjoyed the recommended wine pairings, the very descriptive breakdown of the menu by the staff, and the uniquely prepared and delicious food. Service was attentive yet unobtrusive. Overall wonderful experience. Thanks

Exquisite! Great food, service, ambiance. Very friendly and COVID aware. The verde is the best salad around. The salmon filet was perfectly prepared.

On the whole, it really is their outstanding service from beginning to end that makes it all worthwhile.

Excellent service. The food was great, and our server was very attentive and gave great recommendations, even coursing some of our entrees for sharing.

I would wholeheartedly recommend this restaurant for a nice night out.

Amazing food, outstanding service! Great for a date night or any other occasion.

Did the outdoor patio dining. Wonderful experience. Plenty of heaters to go around and open-air for safety. Tables spaced six feet apart. Food was outstanding. Had starters and pasta and we were plenty full. Pastas are fresh made every day and delicious. Wine was lovely. We had the Barbera red - smooth and buttery red - and the Albana - unique “orange” wine with bright citrus and a bite at the end.

Food and service were outstanding with staff accomodating patrons with heaters while outdoor dining. Fresh and well prepared dishes and correctly portioned. One of the best dining experiences in DC and a must try venue.

Top 5 favorite of my
Chef Amy and the restaurant staff are 5 star

Awesome service. Delicious food and wine and warm and cozy atmosphere. We loved it

The dinner was delicious; all the vegetables cooked to the perfect degree
of doneness; not over cooked. The fish and steak were done perfectly
in the wood burning oven; giving the dishes just the right degree of charring.

Amazing!!!

Tim and his team did a fantastic job—as usual. The chef and hostess are excellent.

The verde salad is definitely an experience unto its own.

The ribeye was sizable and full of flavor.

Look forward to returning.

Nothing but positive, the staff was courteous and efficient, to me you can’t beat that plus the bar lady was extremely helpful I asked about how to make the Mirabell cocktail and she was so happy to help
Went as far as to teach me step by step with all the ingredients
Bravo!!

We love Centrolina. Excellent food every time. Desserts are wonderful. Service is great

Excellent food and service! We dine here often and the superior quality of food remains constant!

The service was great and food delicious. I would return.

Amazing meals!!!

Excellent food and excellent service. We ste outside on nye and even though it was cold it was so worth it!

Had a great meal there. Food was excellent all around. They were well set up for outdoor dining, even on a night when the temperature was in the low 40's.

Food was outstanding! Outdoor dining was well spaced and in a cute area. Outdoor heaters worked well. Really enjoyed our experience.

Food was good, but appetizers and drinks were minuscule and overpriced.

Food was very very good. We had the mushroom and the crudo for appetizers and gnocchi, black cod and scallops for entrees. They were all excellent. Only very slight disappointment was the crudo, which for some reason was dry (as if it had been prepared ahead of time and sat in the fridge - I don’t know this to be the case, but that’s what it reminded me of). The flavors of the crudo were wonderful so we didn’t mind too much. We sat outdoors under heaters on either side of our table for four last week...somewhat chilly but worth it for the delicious meal.

After our first meal there, my friend and I agreed Centrolina's reputation as one of DC's top Italian restaurants is deserved. Pandemic-related allowances had to be made for the chilly (despite heat lamps), less-than-elegant outdoor setting, but the service and the food quality (a mushroom appetizer and a lamb shank were stand-outs) were reminiscent of fine European dining. Wine list mark-ups seemed excessive.

I was truly looking forward to a relaxing lunch on a chilly December day but I cut my stay short after just a bowl of soup and a drink. It was freezing and breezy inside and service was slow. I ate wearing my winter wool coat.

The reason it was "freezing and breezy" inside was because of the cold outdoor temperature and a malfunctioning front door that didn't close, letting cold air blast in and somehow through the dining space. Guests enter through a two-door air lock, but with the outside door stuck open much of the time, a lot of outside air blew through the dining room every time a guest or server entered or left. (Servers had to enter and exit because some guests dined outside.) I sat at the bar about 15 or 20 feet from the door. I never saw a guest or server manually shut the door that wouldn't close on its own.

Service was slow. It's true that I hoped for a relaxing meal, and told my server so, but one drink shouldn't mean it takes 70 minutes after being seated to be served a bowl of soup.

The bar stools lack back support, except for a 2-3 inch lip.

On the plus side, my server was very friendly, even though I think she could tell I was cutting my stay short. The staff seemed to be hustling, although that did not seem to speed up the delivery of my soup. And the mushroom soup itself tasted very good.

The restaurant wasn't too loud although in normal times a full house might be loud. And the ambiance, except for the unacceptable temperature, broken door, and indoor breeze, was attractive.

Lovely restaurant- only negative thing is it is a bit cold inside.

Our server very knowledgeable about food and wines. Gnocchi terrific.

Lovely Italian restaurant, with very attentive staff, and excellent variation in Italian cuisine. The white bolognese is delicious and truly unique!

You can tell the staff takes today's precautions seriously, whether dining in or outside.

The Black Cod was like butter. Once again, the chef did a great job of find unique ingredients.

Good and service were wonderful! The finest meal we have had in a long time.

Fantastic business dinner - service and delivery were exceptional, and the entire menu was prepared wonderfully with an exquisite attention to detail. Soup, pasta, pork, and seafood were perfect.

We had a great experience... the food was excellent, the timing ot he courses perfect (usually in the US they bring course one after the other! ). The recipes original and very tasty. Excellent findingns: a beatiful wine from Calabria, Ciro', Rabarbaro Zucca, e very creative cocktail (I mulled wine with limoncello and spices :).. I am vegetarian and there were tasty options for me as well.. All the recipes are cooked with local ingredients. Anyways, here a few pictures!
I will come back!!

The restaurant is contemporary and the food was great. The fungi appetizer was delicious and pork chops were very good.