Dolce Restaurant & Wine Bar

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1. KJ

   KarenJ

   Chicago

   6 reviews

   3.0

   6 reviews

   Dined 5 days ago

   overall3food3service4ambience4

   Gnocchi with burrata was very good. Alfredo sauce was delicious. The burrata unfortunately was ice cold which tempered the dish. Added the shrimp which was done perfectly. Had the lava cake which was a bit disappointing. Came to the table nice and warm . Cut open expecting oozing chocolate and found , Well, more cake. So no lava. Service was very good. Attentive to the table and anticipated our needs. Will try again. Maybe just an off night for the kitchen

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2. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   Chicago

   5 reviews

   4.0

   5 reviews

   Dined 6 days ago

   overall4food4service5ambience4

   Nice decor. Great service good food. Fair value. Zombi dust on menu.

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   NC1989

   Chicago

   8 reviews

   5.0

   8 reviews

   Dined on January 22, 2023

   overall5food5service5ambience4

   Food was excellent, service was very good and it is a very nice place. Only bad thing was they had a musician playing and it was difficult to have conversations with the people at our table. He was good but need to tone down the music. We will definitely go back.

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   Patrick

   Chicago

   3 reviews

   5.0

   3 reviews

   Dined on January 22, 2023

   overall5food5service5ambience5

   The food at Dolce is second to none, as well as the staff. My wife and I love this place and would recommend anyone that hasn’t been here to make sure add this to your list of go-to restaurants.

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5. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined on January 21, 2023

   overall5food5service5ambience4

   Fantastic experience. First time at the new location. The front is beautiful, very high end and more formal experience. The middle is very bar like for casual dining and personal favorite the outdoor area. Outside could be both formal or casual. The food was delicious as always and the service and staff were as kind as can be.

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6. DD

   DandD

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined on January 21, 2023

   overall5food5service5ambience5

   We had the Rigatoni Norcina and the Chicken Florentine dinners. Hubby and I agree they were both absolutely delicious. It was our first time there and will definitely return with friends. The server was amazingly knowledgeable of the menu and wine offerings. The owner Steve came to our table to check on our satisfaction. Overall a great meal and service.

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7. LJ

   LisaJ

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined on January 17, 2023

   overall5food4service4ambience5

   It was a good experience. Food was pretty good. Nice presentation. Not too busy or loud. Server was pleasant but not overly friendly. Sometimes it felt like we were more of a bother... maybe because we didn't order drinks, which should never make a difference...

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   BobR

   Chicago

   20 reviews

   5.0

   20 reviews

   Dined on January 15, 2023

   overall5food5service5ambience4

   Very good food, service, and value. Front dining room was a bit loud.

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   AnnetteS

   Chicago

   6 reviews

   5.0

   6 reviews

   Dined on January 14, 2023

   overall5food5service5ambience5

   We sat on the patio and it was really nice. The food was great, they gave us plenty of time in between courses and our server was great!

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    montana

    Chicago

    3 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on January 12, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience4

    Service by Josh was great. Owner Steve stopped by to chat. Great food, Rigatoni was hot, fresh, and delicious! Fun local place with great food and drinks!

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11. RJ

    RJLD

    Chicago

    4 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    4 reviews

    Dined on January 8, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience3

    Our first visit, but not our last, went perfectly! Service was outstanding! The artichoke and spinach appetizer was incredible.

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    Bobo

    Chicago

    4 reviews

    4.0

    4 reviews

    Dined on January 7, 2023

    overall4food4service4ambience4

    Very cheerful and accommodating servers. Awesome salads and good pizza. I thought the pizza was a little undercooked, but otherwise very good. The patio in the back is casual while the front part of the restaurant is a bit more formal.

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    RRSSFF

    Chicago

    63 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    63 reviews

    Dined on January 4, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    I LOVE Dolce!! The ambiance, service and cuisine were perfection.

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14. RQ

    RickyQ

    Chicago

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on January 1, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    It’s a more casual version of Amber that it replaced. Good menu Variety Pasta, Pizza Fish and steak at good prices.

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    333H

    Atlanta

    11 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    11 reviews

    Dined on January 1, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience4

    Love this restaurant!!!

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    Peter

    Chicago

    10 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    10 reviews

    Dined on December 31, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    New Years Eve was very special, and the lobster bisque was excellent!

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    RonaldM

    Chicago

    39 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    39 reviews

    Dined on December 31, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    Welcoming and friendly staff. Comfortable former outside room, well heated. Quiet. Great atmosphere. And the food is delicious with difficult choices. Everything sounds so good we had a tough choices deciding. Friendly staff had reasons for each choice and then they “delivered”! Great food. Soup, lobster bisque, was lusciously creamy and delicious. I chose the pasta Carbonara and it was served at the “right” temperature with abundant pancetta and lovely cracked pepper and Parmesan cheese. Creamy and so delicious. My wife requested the halibut with tomatoes and roasted potatoes. She raved about the flavor and texture. Congratulations to Steve and his chef. Becky was knowledgeable and attentive and friendly too. Thanks. We’ll certainly return to this neighborhood gem.

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18. MW

    MaryW

    Chicago

    5 reviews

    4.0

    5 reviews

    Dined on December 31, 2022

    overall4food4service4ambience4

    Lovely place. The mushroom toast was wonderful as well as the lobster bisque. The rossotto was not quite done. The pear and Gorgonzola pizza was a little strange with pickled pears.

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19. SK

    ScottK

    San Francisco

    3 reviews

    4.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on December 30, 2022

    overall4food5service5ambience4

    First time visiting at new location. Our table of three were the only customers at the time with a reservation at 7pm on a Thursday. Server was attentive and enjoyable to chat with. We had the mushroom toast (epic!) and calamari for appetizers. I had the pappardelle with short ribs which was very good. Would gladly recommend as the food was tasty and of high quality. Thanks!

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    billm

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on December 29, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience4

    Attentive service, delicious food and gelato, nice cocktails and cleverly named dishes and drinks of locals.

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21. OT

    OpenTable Diner

    Chicago

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on December 20, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    Absolutely delicious. And the cocktails…omg.

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22. MC

    MattC

    Seattle

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on December 17, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience4

    Food was really good, staff was knowledgeable and attentive. I will definitely go there again.

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    Fishwife

    Chicago

    6 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    6 reviews

    Dined on December 17, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience4

    We enjoy this place. The food is solid and we have good service usually. Nice local atmosphere

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    avittori

    Chicago

    72 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    72 reviews

    Dined on December 15, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    We ordered the ricotta and honey, amatricana pizza, and burrata & prosciutto bruschetta. Everything was flavorful, presented nicely and super fresh! The newer location is great, might be my new favorite spot in Westmont! Looking forward to coming back, not to mention the customer service was absolutely amazing from the host to our server!!

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    Bachdew

    Chicago

    3 reviews

    4.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on December 10, 2022

    overall4food5service5ambience4

    Delicious Food, Great Service & Live Music=An Enjoyable Evening

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    AmandaJ

    Chicago

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on December 10, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    Service is always amazing. They had a live band on the patio and they weren’t too loud so you could still have a conversation. Food is consistent and delicious every time

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27. MS

    MichaelS

    Chicago

    1 review

    1.0

    1 review

    Dined on December 4, 2022

    overall1food1service2ambience1

    Worst restaurant I've been to in a very long time. The maitre d’ was almost completely unintelligible, in part because the room is extremely loud. The chef intensely over-salts everything and tries to pass off what appears and has the texture and toughness of stew meat as short ribs in the Pappardelle with Short Rib. The Mushroom Toast appetizer was NOT toasted, and I'd swear I was eating anchovies the sauce was so overly salted. The Dover Sole was also terrible. Again so much salt that it was uncomfortable (and unhealthy) to consume. If the prices were a quarter what the establishment charges it would still be a waste of money. They should stop trying to be a "refined" restaurant and stick to their simple salads and flatbreads (thin-crust pizzas) that are hard screwup in the kitchen and what apparently get adequate reviews. My recommendation: stay away from this place; find any other restaurant for your evening out because you're not likely to enjoy this place. (12/3/2022)

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28. OT

    OpenTable Diner

    Chicago

    5 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    5 reviews

    Dined on November 22, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    Normally you find a place that does something well: cocktails, appetizers, entrees or desserts. At Dolce, they hit the quad-fecta. Everything on the menu was excellent. Service was great, striking the perfect balance between personal and professional—attentive without being overly so, friendly without being too familiar. We had a great date night anniversary out by ourselves. We had tried the old location a couple times as walk-ins and couldn’t get in. This was a Monday, booked ahead and it wasn’t too crowded. It is an easy 5-iron away from the old location. Can’t wait to try the patio at the new place! Coming back real soon.

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    Trixie

    Chicago

    1 review

    3.0

    1 review

    Dined on November 19, 2022

    overall3food2service4ambience3

    The pizza was cool, not hot , when it arrived,which impacted the enjoyment and flavor. The food was average, and the place was very noisy. After 7pm when music started it seemed like a young-person's nightclub in the bar area and outside. The restaurant floor didn't look clean when we arrived and the restaurant had just opened near 5pm on a Saturday night. Our wait-person (Rebecca) was excellent.

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30. GS

    GingerS

    Chicago

    6 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    6 reviews

    Dined on November 19, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience4

    Excellent Food and Drink! Wide variety of appetizers, salads, and entrees to choose from. Fantastic wine and drink list. You will not be disappointed!

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31. SM

    ScottM

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on November 19, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    Great restaurant with a new location that makes it terrific. The menu is reasonably priced and it has a strong wine list. Hard to find a quality restaurant that has a fantastic covered and heated patio.

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32. OT

    OpenTable Diner

    Chicago

    6 reviews

    3.0

    6 reviews

    Dined on November 18, 2022

    overall3food3service3ambience4

    Nice overall ambience but it was cold when I first arrived to an empty restaurant at 5:00. After some hot tea and a full dining room it was better. Tortilla chips and artichoke dip appetizer was very good. Dishes came out to our table of five in three waves and I didn't appreciate that. They were "waiting for the gluten free pasta." There was probably at least a five -minute lag between both deliveries. Caesar salad had very gritty small croutons, like gravel. Carbona dish with bacon didn't seem to go over too well with the added egg. Gnocchi and scallop dishes were good. Creme brûlée dessert was very creamy.

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33. OT

    OpenTable Diner

    Chicago

    1 review

    vip
    2.0

    1 review

    Dined on November 13, 2022

    overall2food2service5ambience3

    We had plastic on the fish we ordered.Total turn off.

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    Christine

    Chicago

    4 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    4 reviews

    Dined on November 13, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    You will not be disappointed if you try the short rib dish. The absolute best!

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    luv2eat

    Chicago

    80 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    80 reviews

    Dined on November 10, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    We enjoyed a fun midweek dinner out at Dolce. We loved sitting at a high top table in the energetic bar area. Great service, and half price bottles of wine on Wednesdays! I’m not a fan of wedge salad, but our server offered to switch the iceberg lettuce out for spinach and that was delicious! We learned that Dolce recently had their pizza oven installed in their new location so we ordered 2 pizzas- a white cheddar and mushroom- so good-and a slightly spicy one, Amatriciana, which my husband really enjoyed.

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    food4thought

    Chicago

    23 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    23 reviews

    Dined on November 5, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    I hadn’t been to this new Dolce location and was anxious to try it. What a pleasant surprise that the food is still as good as at the old restaurant a couple of blocks away—but with a much larger and equally warm dining experience. We were greeted when we entered the restaurant and shown to our table for two. Our server, Heather, promptly took our orders for a cocktail and wine. (I must say that Dolce’s wine list by both glass and bottle is the best I’ve seen in the area for a long time. I highly recommend the French pinot noir Domaine Giraud 2020, which was a wonderfully light but complex pinot noir bursting with flavors!) We skipped the very tempting appetizers and small plates and went immediately to the entrees: My friend had scallops with garlic risotto with a light lemon cream sauce. The scallops were perfectly grilled and the flavors of garlic and lemon in the risotto and sauce were subtle and wonderful. I had the halibut Psari Plaki, which was slightly overcooked but all so good when accompanied with grape tomatoes in a tomato and herb sauce served with Greek style potatoes. The flavors were bursting! After dinner we went into the bar area to enjoy a great band playing in the covered and heated outdoor patio. If you haven’t seen the bar and patio area, give yourself a treat. This one is bright and light but warm and cozy—very much welcomed as the cooler temps have hit us—and a live band is always a treat! After we left, one of the owners, Steve, called me (having my name and number through my Open Table reservation) to let me know that one of the staff found my friend’s wallet. How wonderful is that—to know you can rely on the staff and owner of a local establishment to contact you and return a wallet intact with credit card and money?!!! I will definitely return to Dolce in Westmont to try some of their other enticing menu offerings, as well as the live entertainment and lively atmosphere! It truly was a delicious and fun evening!

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    MichaelS

    Chicago

    59 reviews

    vip
    4.0

    59 reviews

    Dined on November 4, 2022

    overall4food3service5ambience4

    Like the new location, but the food was just okay. The ricotta appetizer was delightful, but the Greek style main course was disappointing. Too much acidity to the tomatoes. Cocktails were very good. Would come back for those!

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38. JJ

    JayJ

    Chicago

    7 reviews

    5.0

    7 reviews

    Dined on November 3, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    Josh was both our bartender and wait staff. He was great on both accounts. As usual staff was attentive and friendly. The new location is perfect.

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    GingerS

    Chicago

    7 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    7 reviews

    Dined on October 29, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience5

    Lots of food choices. Excellent quality. Good drinks, Friendly staff. Love the new place.

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40. OT

    OpenTable Diner

    Chicago

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on October 28, 2022

    overall5food5service5ambience4

    First time there. Great dining experience.

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