Favorite spot in Traverse City. The food is amazing, the service top notch, and the menu includes local farms and purveyors. Some people balk at the prices but you truly get what you pay for and then some. Don’t miss out on the Burrata and anything that comes covered with the Marsala sauce.

Best in the area. Excellent all around. Highly recommended.

Incredible food & atmosphere. I can’t wait to eat here again! The charcuterie board is to die for - cocktails are amazing.

Still top notch through all of the uncertainties of this pandemic. The service is remarkable as is the food and wine. The best dining experience in the past year, hands down.

Great Birthday Dinner for the wife & date night!

Fabulous chef great server clean and efficient simply a great experience!

My wife and I have had dinner here for years and it's one of the very best places we have ever gone for a spectacular dinner every time!
The staff and Chef are some of the best I have every had the pleasure of dealing with out of all the places across the country I have been to.

Often restaurants of this type seem stiff and formal fortunately our visit was nothing like that. Our waitress was extremely pleasant and very detail oriented. She offered her thoughts on the various menu items and helped us select a delicious well paired wine for our meal. Our appetizers and entrees were not only delicious but presented us with imaginative ways in which flavors can be combined such as butter squash ravioli.
We had a wonderful few days to explore the city and we are so pleased that included our evening at Trattoria Stella.

Kristen, our server, was delightful, knowledgeable, and patient while we selected a wine. The salads were unique and tasty and the white pizza was to die for.

Food was brought out fast, maybe a little too fast. Quality ingredients and a great server who explained everything on our plates.

Chef Miles is the best. The Veal Striploin Saltimbocca was to die for. The Werp Farms Arugala was fantastic. The server was very helpful and made a few suggestions that we took. He recommended two wines and brought us samples. Both were great. I also enjoyed the Perfect Negroni.

Amazing service, outstanding food, and overall an enjoyable experience. Would eat again here in a heartbeat.

Our dinner was amazing and the space intimate and warm. The food (as usual) was inventive and super flavorful. It's not easy to make Spanish octupus the consistency of butter, but the Chef at Stella sure does. Each course was delicious and our server Ali B was extremely knowledgeable not only about the menu, but also wine and after dinner drinks and digestives. Thanks to all!

Amazing meal and beautiful ambiance

In town for the weekend and it was a recommendation.

Service was great, (very COVID conscious) food was excellent (I had the Hake, he had the steak). Only complaint was a tad pricey. But, we were enlightened to this prior. Oh & the tiramisu, scrumptious.

From start to finish, one of the best Italian meals I’ve ever had and I have been to Italy. KRISTEN was nothing short of amazing. She is personable, knowledgeable, fun, and spot on with all of her recommendations. We had the burrata, shaved celery salad (awesome sleeper item that still impressed), beets salad (best beets I’ve ever had - Didn’t know beets could impress like this. Ask where they get them), Maltagliati (one of the best Italian noodle dishes I’ve had), Acini D’pepe, And desserts were fantastic. Their menu changes often so you might not see all my recommendations but most should be staples. Strongly recommend this place to anyone going. Ask for Kristin and enjoy!

Amazing food and service! Kristen was our server and she was very knowledgeable and fun 🙂

Delicious food, attentive staff and great ambiance!

First time at Stella’s and it did not disappoint. Great ambiance and the service was impeccable as Craig was flawless and directed us to great dishes and drinks. The calamari was different and right up there with the best I may have ever had. The scallops were i credible and they were the very best we have had and we have been all over the world. They were perfect crispness and so smooth inside with a lightly sweet flavor. Great place!

Our server was courteous, professional, and kind. The restaurant was clean and practiced good safety precautions for Covid-19. We felt well taken care of. Food was delicious, my scallops were seared perfectly and my husband enjoyed the ribeye special. Many thanks to Craig for his superb service and making our anniversary dinner a night to cherish.

This was an absolutely fabulous meal! Everything was delicious, the staff was warm and inviting, it was an experience! I would highly recommend this restaurant!

Exquisite. Superior service and sublime food. Killer!

Delicious and unique seasonally prepared food. Reasonably priced for gourmet food. Cocktails fresh. Friendly staff. Ambiance was romantic. Coming back for our anniversary and tomato season!

The best dinner and dining experience I have ever had.

Pleasant, delicious, great service. We recommend this place.

Special bday celebration was perfect!

The food and service was fabulous! Can’t wait to go back.

The food is ALWAYS amazing and waitstaff are wonderful!! I can not complain about ever having a bad experience!

We were met by our server, we had had her as server on a previous visit. We began with drinks and oysters. My wife and I enjoyed the entire meal and experience. So happy to celebrate my wife’s birthday this way.

Food was absolutely outstanding and everyone was very nice and helpful.

Celebrating our anniversary. Perfect choice. Cheese board and short ribs were phenomenal. Caesar salad with lemon spectacular.

Waitress was very knowledgeable about the food and it came out quickly. We all enjoyed every dish and can’t wait to come back again.

We had a wonderful evening at Stella, our server was delightful. Food and wine were delicious and so was the coffee! My only negative would be that we had to leave our masks on even while seated at our table. They could only come off while eating or drinking. It seemed a bit much considering we were the only table in our little alcove. It was the first restaurant I had been to that you had to leave them on while seated. Other than that, if you want a relaxing, memorable dinner, I highly recommend Stella's!

Loved the shaved celery/mushroom salad. Like to try different ways of doing things. I also had the shortribs - very tender & tasteful with two type of mushrooms & grilled asparagus. Can't recall what my wife had !

The food was not good at all i have had plenty of Italian food and this was far from par. The pastas were both not good. My wife had to order two different ones because the fishiness of the first one was disgusting.

The food was simply outstanding! From the appetizers through the entrees and into dessert, every bite just kept getting better!!!! Truly amazing dining experience!!

We have frequented Trattoria Stella before and enjoyed the menu and chef prepared dishes. I was very disappointed with the limited menu and it being blamed on COVID.

Exceptional restaurant experience for a romantic dinner. Great service, and the food was out of this world. Stylish cocktail menu, nice variety. The panna cotta for dessert was a religious experience.

Wonderful to be able to dine out. Everything was excellent!