Reviews F'amelia Ristorante

Such a cute restaurant hidden away in cabbagetown. The venue is cozy and warm and perfect for an Italian meal on a cold night. We started with mini arrinchini (on the house) which were delightful. We had boar meatballs for an appetizer which were soft and the marinara sauce was very well made. I had the ricotta gnocchi for my main and they were light and not thick and sticky (which I hate). The tiramisu for desert was also very good. Overall a very good meal.

They bake they bread and make their pasta on site. Good pasta dishes, except the lasagna is kind of soupy. Not my favourite. The pizzas are pretty good, and the wine list is not bad either.

Not a bad spot, tucked away, quiet with nice mood lighting.

The server wasn't the friendliest but perhaps it had been a long day.

The food itself was pretty good. I had the heirloom beet rissotto with walnuts. It was very flavourful and tasty but one of the walnuts was bad and another person in my group that had the same dish experienced the same rotten walnut. Other than that it was good.

The pizza I sampled was decent and everyone else that had the rabbit papardelle seemed ok with it. The lasagna was mediocre but the speck risotto was also quite tasty.

Overall it wasn't a bad experience but we'll likely not be back. There are too many other Italian places that are good.

Also this place was on the expensive side since the pasta dishes were all around $23.

Best crust in the City. We were there around 8pm on a saturday night, although very busy we got a nice table on the patio right away.
We ordered 2 pizzas and they were both very good.
The servers are a little standoffish, but who cares, I came for the food.
Will be back for sure

Loved it. Will be going back.. Excited to go there since it opened in our neighbourhood. So we went there for my moms birthday. Our server was very sweet, attentive, and knowledgable of the menu. The pizzas are to die for. The Regina Margherita was delicious. Loved the experience. Will be going back.

Great Place. Been there twice. All the food is excellent. The breads are all made in the wood fired oven daily and are incredible.

They seem to have captured the perfect blend of space that allows for a very fine dining experience or a casual visit with the kids ....kind of hard to find that mix in Toronto and I'm glad it is in Cabbagetown.

The BEST Gnocchi I've ever had. I was thrilled to hear that Cabbagetown was getting a new restaurant and have been to F'Amelia a couple of times now. Their pizza is really, really great, But the gnocchi, is honestly, among the best I've ever had. Gnocchi can often be really heavy, not just the pasta itself, but often the sauce is thick, creamy and full of cheese like Blue cheese. But F'Amelia's is really light, and the sauce is delicious. It's definitely one of my favourites.

Great food and atmosphere. We have eaten there a few times and every time it has been delicious. The pizza is fantastic and the pastas are delightfully fresh. The atmosphere has a wonderful airy feel. It is exactly what Cabbagetown and Toronto needs.. We will be back! (Don't pass up the lemon tart. It is the perfect amount of creamy and tart.)

Overall, I really enjoyed the food, atmosphere, and service provided by F'Amelia. The waitstaff were amazingly friendly and helpful. The amuse-bouche, appetizers, and desserts were outstanding! The coworkers I talked to all absolutely adored the appetizers and the desserts - as did I. However, we all agreed that the entrees were not at the same standard as the appetizers. On the other hand, the coworkers who had the sea bass were extremely pleased with their meal. I definitely look forward in returning to F'Amelia!

Indeed, almost everyone seemed to be getting one of their cheese and meat boards, we were no different sharing the five salumi/terrine and three cheese one ($28).

Firstly, the five meats. The most intriguing was the guanciale or cured pig cheek; paper thin the meat and fat melts in your mouth but the rub on it is an acquired taste and not appealing for our table. While the thyme and rosemary flavoured strips of pancetta were nicely flavoured, they were a tad fatty and waxy for my taste. A chicken liver mousse piped along the breadsticks was light and sweetened so it was almost

Monday It's not sometimes what a place is or what they do, it's what they decide not to be or the things they restrain themselves from doing. Less than 10 weeks old F'Amelia has a following of loyal customers and foodies alike.

Wow- another whirl-wind of a weekend, and I cannot tell you what a treat it is to "allow" myself to sit down and blog. As the weeks of my dietetic internship come to an end, I find myself scrambling to finish up all of those last minute projects, and because the last week was so crazy at work in Gen Med staff relief, I didn't get any time to actually work on the academic stuff. As a result, I have been trying to catch up on that work all day today and yesterday, making Saturday night even more exciting. Our friends invited us out to F'Amelia, a casual Italian restaurant in Cabbagetown where our friend knows the chef and pastry chef.The place is pretty large with 3-4 rooms of tables and a small bar with seats. I liked the energy in the room, which I think was partially just because it was packed with people, and also related to the open-concept kitchen with an awesome view of the wood-burning pizza oven. I don't know if I'm alone, but seeing delicious food being prepared and literally transformed in seconds (as with the pizza oven) is exciting and energizing to me.Service was incredibly friendly and casual. There was lots of small talk, jokes, and super genuine smiles, and I felt the meal was perfectly paced. She probably could have been a bit more attentive with the water glass refilling, but I can excuse that as she was pretty slammed and had a lot of tables to tend to.Drinks are definitely my style. They had a variety of interesting offerings, and it was actually hard to choose, but I started with the Sofia (which had grapefruit juice, Belstar Proscecco, Cassis and Campari), and later on had a more citrusy take on a Whisky Sour. Both were really delicious. Both were really delicious, easy drinking and perfectly suited to the season.Okay, onto food. Soon after being seated, we were served two small squares of rosemary flat bread, a piece of foccacia and olive oil for dunking. All of the bread was absolutely delicious, I just wish we had a bit more! We tried: Chef's choice of 5 salumi/terrine and 3 cheeses with flat bread, sesame grissini, pickles, olives and berry jam: Everything on the tray was really delicious, I think my personal favourite was the terrine. I will say though that for the amount of meat, terrine, cheese and pate, we really needed more flat bread and grissini. Thank goodness my friend warned me to save my bread for this platter, or else I would have been eating pate by the spoon, and that's not nearly as enjoyable. I also would say we could have used a bit more jam as they only really gave us a teaspoon. Chilled pea soup with fresh mint: They split this in two for us so that it could be shared between the two couples. Fresh, very light and aromatic, but I wasn't as impressed as others. I found it a bit underseasoned for my preferences. Tagliatelle with braised rabbit, fava beans and wild mushrooms: I only tried a bite, but it was definitely delicious, and better than the pasta dish I had the night before. The rabbit was tender, and the fava beans were cooked perfectly. A nice portion too. Baked Lasagna: This wasn't really what I was expecting, as I am accustomed to a bechamel sauce layer or some type of ricotta filling layer in my lasagna, while this was literally sheets of pasta with meat sauce (heavy on the meat) and a thin layer of melted cheese on top. It was good, but not the best dish of the night. Campagnola Pizza with marinated artichokes, baby spinach, Ontario goat cheese, Italian sun dried tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil: The crust at F'Amelia is light, chewy, nicely crispy around the edges and not soggy in the middle. Of the two pizzas I definitely preferred this one as it very generous with the tangy goats cheese, which was complemented nicely by the bright sweet and acidic artichokes and tomatoes. Margherita Pizza with crushed San Marzano tomatoes, fior di latte, basil, Parmigiano Reggiano D.O.P., extra virgin olive oil: The Margherita is always a good way to judge a pizza. Again the dough was delicious, my only criticism is that I think they probably could have been a little more generous on the tomatoes and fior di latte, but I tend to like my pizzas loaded. Tiramisύ: The table agreed that this was the best dessert of the night. But for me, it was really a hard call to make because I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. This tiramisu was deliciously light, creamy, with the perfect amount of subtle sweetness. A nice source of relief from some of the other sugar bombs at the table. Ontario strawberry budino: Personally, I thought this was incredible. The budino was a creme brulee type custard (without being set or bruleed), topped with a really sweet and sticky strawberry sauce. If I were to critique anything, it would be been that it could have used something crunchy on top (maybe sliced almonds?) to add another dimension of texture, but flavour-wise it was spot on. Brûlée lemon tart with rhubarb compote: Another winner. The lemon flavour was bright and bold, and complemented well by the tangy rhubarb, and the thick bruleed top provided that textural contrast and element of sweet to cut through all that citrus. A delicious early summer dish. Nutella Pizza: While I thought all of the desserts were generously portioned, this one took the cake- or the pizza, I should say. With that same crispy, chewy delicious dough we enjoyed with our main course, we got a full 8" pizza spread with a thick coating of nutella and topped with sliced bananas. It was rich, and decadent but completely addictive. All I would have wanted was a bit more bananas, but I am a banana freak, so that may have been personal preference. If you can believe it, we ate all of all of our desserts, and by the end of it, we were pretty full but satisfied.So, for 1 large platter, 1 app, 4 mains, 4 desserts, 5 cocktails, 1 glass of wine, 1 bottle of wine, the bill was about 350$ including tax and tip. We're always happy to find a spot that's relatively central in location (we seem to always be shlepping out to the west end), so F'Amelia was a nice surprise. I am looking forward to a repeat visit when it's nice enough to enjoy their patio.