Arte Cafe - Upper West Side

Thank you to everyone. We were a big group for brunch celebrating my mother’s 65th. I had a 2 year old running around. Everyone was so patient and gracious.

There was an extensive menu with appealing choices, which were well prepared. .
The prices were extremely reasonable, so there was good value for the price, and the service was excellent..

My appetizer was cold and entree was warm not hot. I had sirloin steak this time the size was much smaller than 2 weeks ago

Disappointed...restaurant wasn't busy and my Chicken Piccata was served luke warm and had obviously been sitting under the heat lamp for a while.

Food is delicious, drinks are affordable, service is friendly and efficient, Management Team very friendly and aims to please! This is my "go to" home away from home!

We love Arte café. Great service and delicious food

Delicious food in a lovely setting where conversation can actually take place!

The food in this restaurant was exceptional, I would recommend to all. Very Authentic.

Food was awesome.

Thanks for a wonderful evening! Our server Wilson was great!

We gave the UWS location another try after having a fantastic experience at the Chelsea location. Although we ordered the same exact dishes (Stinco d'Agnello and Tagliata al Tagliere), they were not as satisfying, somehow the execution is better at the Chelsea location.

Valentine day

My only complaint about the service is that it took ONE HOUR to get our food!

Lovely restaurant with really good solid Italian food. We had the arugula salad and pasta. The arugula salad was refreshing and flavorful. It was not drowning in dressing and was topped with sweet thinly sliced pear. The gnocchi were hand made with a light fluffy texture. Overall very good.

Great location. Very comfortable dining room. Food is consistently excellent. Service is consistently extremely poor. We keep going back for the food and convenience. Asked multiple times for bread to no avail. While staff is plentiful they are focused on getting food and drink orders with little follow up as to any additional needs. Had to track down a waiter just to ask for a check. People at the table next to ours were practically in tears repeatedly asking for a check so they could make an appointment only to be consistently ignored.

Excellent value & food

Food and service where great. Wonderful staff.

Second experience here. First one was during the week with a light crowd. This one Saturday night and it was a full house. Service was abominable - from first drink order right through waitress late returning after presenting dessert menu. I am now annoyed with myself for normalizing the tip. It should have been 15% tops. Don’t need to list the details, just beware on busy nights.

Perfect for pre theater at Lincoln Center! Short bus ride or walk away. Lunch pre fix is served until six. Great value and oh, so good!

I enjoyed a terrific lunch at Arte Cafe. The mista salad with strawberries, the gnocchi with mozzarella and the apple strudel were all excellent. The prices are quite reasonable and the service was excellent.

I love this restaurant. The service and ambiance are great . The food is always great too.

They gave away our 7pm reservation! We then had to wait for approx 30 minutes to get seated. Ultimately they seated us in a room that was VERY NOISY!! Then the table next to us, a large party with kids, spilled a drink on the floor right beside us (thank god it didn't splash us). The staff placed a cone to avoid having anyone slip and then it took them 15 minutes to decide to bring out a mop. The mop smelled like ammonia!!! WTF. We have been to this restaurant before but never again. They really have dropped in service.

I have been a regular customer for many years. I always enjoyed the food and atmosphere, and very often have taken my friends for lunch or dinner. This was not the case this Saturday, dinner. The service was poor. I usually order the chicken Milanese which is excellent. This time I ordered scaloppini di vitello. The scaloppini were cold and chewy. Same w the pasta Bolognese, this dish is usually delicious which was not the case this time.

A very nice restaurant and good value. I highly recommend it.

My sister and I dined here the other night as a recommendation from a friend. It was amazing! The food was great and the price was awesome. Will be back.

Excellent restaurant, dependable and clearly puts the customer first! Stays on my priority list of recommendations to friends and clients.

The lunch special is a very good deal. The choices are good and the portions are generous. The Caesar salad was good and the pastas were excellent. The tiramisu was very nice as well.

LOVE Arte Cafe! Great meal and service!

Family-friendly, excellent service, good value -- especially for the neighborhood.

We had a group of 10 with 4 kids and felt very comfortable at the restaurant. The eggs, steak and benedicts was good, the toast was really dry and stale and we had to wait a long time for butter. The servers were patient and pleasant.

Definitely one of my go-to places for a quiet and leisurely lunch with a delicious prix-fixe menu. Fabulous service and a great deal.

Love this spot, it is never very crowded and the food is great! They have a really good lunch pre fix menu. I highly recommend.

Outstanding food and service. A true bargain for NYC. Just wish the dining room was a little more updated!

Excellent service and the food was delicious!

Food is great a d authentic and we've been going for years. Our waitress was great but the bussers and other servers need more training. They were taking plates as we finished and made us feel rushed. Waitress made up for it but something for the restaurant to be aware of so they can fix it!

Service was horrendous from start to finish. The maitre d sat my friend at one table and me at another. She seemed to have no clue as to what she was doing. When I arrived, I asked her if the other party had arrived yet and she said no. Then she proceeded to seat us separately. When we told her she brushed it off

We were seated for 2 hours prior to going to a
Show at the beacon theatre which started at 9:30. We informed the waiter prior to ordering. The only thing that came was our appetizer. By 9:05 our dinner still wasn’t served. The waiter didn’t even apologize and proceeded to bring the food at 9:15, at which time we had to leave without eating.
Nit only that, you would think
that they would have offered to pay for our drinks but nothing!
Unprofessional, uncaring, rude.
Will never return and advise others to stay away.

We were happy the restaurant accommodated our group (7), agreeing to change from a rectangular table in a back room to a round table in the main dining room. The service was efficient and courteous. The food was good, although some orders were not quite accurate (angel hair pasta instead of the requested penne). Nice, moderately priced restaurant that worked well for a small family reunion.

Another enjoyable evening at Arte Cafe. Excellent food, friendly staff, great waiter, and a relaxed ambience makes this my go-to restaurant for a local night out. Even my hard-to-please mother had a good time. Well done!

I love Arte Cafe! It is my “go to”restaurant! Great food, affordable and the service is always great (except for one bartender who just shouldn’t have that job...he seems to not want to be serving anyone!). All other servers there are very friendly and attentive! The Management Team is also very attentive and on the ball! Thank you, Nebiyu, Luciano, Adriana, Leslie...

Overall Arte is still good value.
The New Year's Eve menu was good for its price, but they ran out of one of the deserts we picked as well as of bread. Service was slower than usual and by the time we left staff seemed too exhausted to greet us as usual.
In short, taking into account the volume of business that night, I think they still offer good value, but quality of food and service was uneven.