Amici Ristorante

Always passing by this beautiful exterior restaurant, decided to go in for a quick lunch. Inside is as nice as it was from outside.. Had artichokes for appetizer, wasn't seasoned bad, but it was chewy, so there was quite some left on the plate.. Server at first was friendly and really helpful as we thought, but further the lunch was going, we didn't have that same feeling. She suggested their signature pasta, which is THE WORST pasta I've ever had, just look at the photos where the "sauce" nowhere close to sauce, no thickness at all, it was just milk!!! I needed spoon to get that sauce to my mouth.. The ham that was sliced, was quality of food for dogs. I couldn't hide my dissappointment, so I told the waitress in a polite way and she didn't wanna hear about that pasta was bad, she said It's maybe not made by my taste, so that pissed me off even more. Never ever I will be back at this place!

Great food. Friendly server. Such a homie staple in the neighborhood. Beautiful place to enjoy great Italian food. The baked clams were great. The Lemon Italian Sorbet though was too incredible to perceive. A must try!

The best part of my Christmas was their Baled clams ! An old-school charming restaurant with a nice fireplace and a big bar,… try the lasagna too 🇮🇹 Don’t forget to grab a glass of 🍷 Chianti 🍷 at the bar while you wait for your pick up

This restaurant was picked by my niece for my partner's birthday dinner. We had not visited here before but am very happy we ended up here. There were 5 in our party and the waitress was friendly, fun and attentive. I had the Mama's Lasagna and everyone else had Mussels Marinara. All of of which were delicious. It was a fun relaxing evening and we will definitely be coming back for more :)

We did the take out and the food was amazing!we never ate here before but we will definetly be back! Especially with the indoor dining ,restaurant looks so nice. This was chicken parmesan and meatball sandwich

We stopped with the kids for dinner, cocktails, and dessert. The food and service were excellent.

Clean, cozy atmosphere, attentive knowledgeable staff, and delicious food! The music is at a comfortable level that is audible but not too loud.

Amicis used to be so good years ago. We visited for a birthday celebration and the service was just fine but the taste and quality of food was not. My shrimp was tiny and overcooked with my Alfredo. Our soup came out at room temperature. The servers did bring out hot soup when we let them know.

This is a beautiful space to have a family gathering. We had a family style luncheon for 25 after my mother's funeral services. the food was delicious, the drinks were good, the service was on point. loved the fireplace in the space, made it very cozy feeling during a difficult time.

Happy as a clam Went to Amici before they closed and finally tried their food! We ordered the baked clams and margherita pizza and we got the house bread which was so soft Abe delicious! The baked clams were our favorite part, they were SO TASTY dessert was tiramisu and it was outstanding !!! The service was so sweet and it's sad to see them close down! When you walk in it's like an old Sicilian restaurant

The best baked clams & lasagna I've ever had.. Old school charming Italian restaurant with a fireplace and great Chianti Shout out to Mary for all of her help

Not the most memorable meal I've had. Felt very much like I was eating from at an Italian family home on a Wednesday night. If you're close by check it out but there are many options all over the city that I would recommend.

So this is second time here and the food is ok but staff service is slow. The restaurant looks bigger from the outside and always cars in the lot. Based on our experience, it's an older clientele based Italian restaurant. Food is average. I have had the chicken parmigiana twice. It's ok but internet omens adding the meat sauce. Kids had shrimp and pasta and noodles. They offer soup or salad but on both occasions they only had mini stroke soup. If you like an intimate place and have time to spare - definitely give this spot a try. In my opinion not much of a kids spot as they don't have a lot of kids food options.

Not sure why there are negative reviews here but I had a good experience. We came as a party of 30+ and had a catered meal with all the courses. My only complaint was the chicken. It was rubbery and very fatty. The Italian sausage was to die for! Loved the ambience and the staff was excellent! Would definitely come back if I'm in the area

Avoid this place. I came here for my birthday lunch with my grandma. We checked the website for their dining hours, which states that they open at 11am for lunch. We showed up just after 11 and a worker (dressed very unprofessionally, pants falling) said that they didn't open until 3. He said they didn't know how to work the website. Huh? The site remains inaccurate, and I'm sure more potential customers have been disappointed.

I've been here more than 5x in my life. I am 32 & a mailman. I've been to many restaurants. I've had my fair share of seafood in my life. I go here every year once or twice. Most of the time with a date. This place has THE BEST BAKED CLAMS EVER. Better than Baltimore. Better than Boston. Better than downtown Chicago. I'm serious. I don't know what it is but again, the baked clams are so so so so so great. The pasta portions are huge and you get what you pay for. Meaning, it's an Italian restaurants so yeah expect large portions with lots of sauce and meat. Highly recommended. I don't know why more people don't go here. Poor outside lighting? Older wall decor? I'm not related, idk the owners but I love this place. If you're reading this, you should go here.

Had takeout for Valentines day. Ordered Veal Parm, Veal Marsala, Calamari and Terrimusu. WOW....The bill came to $90.00. The food was good to average but not worth $90.00. There are other Italian restaurants in the area worth trying. Michael, Morton Grove

I'm sad to report that this is a restaurant that has given up. And it's a shame. The ambiance is old school romantic. It's cozy and dark and even has a glowing fireplace. But even the romantic vibe can't make up for the sub par food. It seems they are taking drastic steps to cut corners, and so they are offering up quantity over quality. While my pasta dish was overflowing, it was not good. I have never experienced watery pesto. There should not be water in pesto, and mine seemed like a full glass of water had been poured into my dish. My partner's cream sauce was also so watery it was splashing off his plate. I really wanted to write a good review, but it's clear that the staff here is tired of trying. Maybe Chef Ramsey could come and give them a jump start!

We had a lunch after a funeral service in a private room at this restaurant. Everything was very nice. The food was delicious and plentiful. The service was outstanding. The people were absolutely wonderful. Would definitely recommend them.

We had a surprise birthday party for my wife. My wife was completely surprised. We had eight adults and seven kids in a private room. The food and service were excellent.

I went into this experience having seen the reviews, and kind of dreading it, and unfortunately they didn't show the reviews up. I'd say the reviews are accurate. Our server was fine, but had trouble remember what dish went to which person. Food was... interesting. Ordered the chicken piccata which in my experience usually comes with some sort of angel hair pasta on the side or below it. The sauce was thick, like it had been sitting and congealed, and then they served penne with red sauce on top on the side? What the heck is that? If the penne had not had the sauce and had bene plain I could see it, but the flavor of the sauce did NOT go with the chicken. Honestly - the best thing we had (on a table of 7) was the children's chicken fingers. Really disappointing.

Came here for the first time in a few years the other day, and I now remember why I haven't come here in a while... my friends and I thought it was nothing special. We came here on a weekday evening a couple weeks ago, and the place was dead. Upon walking in, we noticed the decor inside is cute, but the lights are super dim and it smelled very musty. There were a few older men sitting at the bar and a family sitting in a booth next to the bar, but we decided to sit on the patio outside. To begin, I ordered a sangria and it was pretty good, but it had a weird after taste to me. My friend ordered an appletini that she finished in 2 seconds, so she really loved it! And as a table, we ordered the fried calamari for our appetizer, and it was amazing. Delicious flavor and great texture. For dinner, we all ordered different pasta dishes. My spaghetti with meat sauce was pretty good, but nothing special. It came with meatballs (although I didn't ask for them, but I wasn't charged extra), and I hated them. They had a weird texture and just didn't taste fresh to me. My friends tried them, too, and nobody liked them. One of my friends ordered the shrimp pasta and she enjoyed the pasta, but didn't eat any of the jumbo shrimp because it smelled and tasted EXTREMELY fishy. They also still had their tails on them and she wished they didn't come like that because it's much more appetizing to eat the shrimp with the pasta and not have to worry about choking on a tail. My other friend ordered the ravioli and she enjoyed it, but there wasnt much in the plate. It was like 6 large ravioli noodles. Lastly, my other friend ordered a gluten free pesto pasta dish, and at first they didn't give her the gluten free pasta due to a miscommunication. However, the waitress did apologize and bring the new dish, but then the pasta had no pesto and it was very disappointing. My friend ended up barely eating her food and she didn't bring it home because it lacked flavor and was very plain. Service wise, our experience was okay. The waitress did seem a little annoyed at my friend for saying she received the wrong noodles in her pasta. We also received our soups pretty slowly, but our food even more slowly. It took literally an hour to receive our entrees after our soup. It did become busier as the night went on, but nobody ordered anything too extravagant to take that long. Not sure if the older woman helping out the waitresses was the owner or manager (or both), but she was very sweet and checked up on us at the end. Overall, there are tons of other Italian restaurants around here that I like better. I wouldn't be opposed to stopping by again, but it's nothing I'd crave or choose over somewhere else.

Food was gross. My spaghetti was sitting in water. Friends dish was way over salted. Server was nice.

Great neighborhood restaurant. Always a great experience. Love their lasagna. Beautiful outside patio, with ivy leaves and flowers . Enjoyed a great meal dining affresco!!

Been here several times. Very nice traditional Italian Resturant and bar. The food is great and the fresh bread is perfect.

Let's start out with a few positives. The staff was extremely attentive and pleasant. My wife and I found our server, Pedro, eager to please. There seemed to be the intention to observe safety and cleanliness protocols. However, the olive oil bottle on the table was greasy, leaving my wife to believe that it was not regulary (if ever) cleaned and was presumably covered with other people's germs. Also, I noticed the smell of mildew - especially towards the rear of the restaurant towards the restrooms. The decor is quite old - a confusing combination of flagstone surrounding a fireplace, and rec room wall paneling above which is the type of artificial peeling plaster found in Italian ruins. The latter had a couple of busts that represented Roman interiors. Various bric-a-brac and unremarkable prints adorned the walls and window ledges. There were no less than five different types of light fixtures - three different chandeliers, wall sconces, overhead recessed lighting, and a string of Italian lights. The tables and chairs were clean and generally attractive, although we thought the backs of the chairs should have uniformly been either black or brown - not some backs being black and some brown. In short, Amici's drastically needs updating by a good interior designer. The bread that preceded our order was flavorless as was the breading on our baked clams appetizer. On the plus side, our salmon dishes - Salmon San Remo for me and Salmon Pesto Gamberi for my wife were amply portioned, well-prepared and seemingly fresh. (However, my wife ate little of hers, because she questioned the staff's diligence in keeping the restaurant clean.) All in all, we unfortunately feel that the positive qualities of the restaurant could not overcome its negative qualities - particularly with so many better Italian restaurants in the north and northwest suburbs.

Amici, I have passed by so many times, and never considered stopping in until a friend mentioned it. I came with a group of friends for a girls' night. We had a reservation and were seated immediately. For a Friday night it wasn't too packed. The menu is pretty standard with some extra specialties thrown in. If I'm reading Italian it's going to be pasta and I went for the Pasta Paesana, penne with sausage, peas, artichoke hearts in a tomato cream sauce. It was pretty good, and a decent portion (enough to have leftovers). Service wise the food took quite some time to come out, but the waitress was extremely apologetic about it. Decor, it is a little kitschy but cute with the lights. Overall it's a decent neighborhood place for Italian, but not the best.

I really enjoyed the atmosphere of this place. The decor was updated but rustic. The food was classic, everyone at our table got something different and we all enjoyed our meals. For dessert I had the imported Tortufo and it was so good! High recommend. Yum!

I was looking for a reliable, easy place to host our fun but casual wedding and I am SO GLAD I FOUND AMICI! After reaching out to probably 8 different restaurants that do events throughout the area and having NONE of them respond, I received a quick email reply, phone call, and was given a phone # to text at any time about aaaany questions I may have. They were so flexible! The food was so good! The food was constantly refilled- my guests (80 total) were STUFFED by the end. Prices were beyond reasonable and their event room has enough charm that one does not need to spend crazy money on decorations. They even cut me a few deals. We got to use their terrace for a reception before dinner? SO nice. Parking? Room for EVERYONE. I read some negative reviews on here and was shocked :( Amici deserves a good amount of positive feedback!! They made our wedding day SO. EASY. All I had to worry about was having a blast :)))

They have chosen to disregard the dine in restrictions due to covid and are seating customers crammed into the small bar area. I haven't even tried the food yet but will never visit this restaurant again seeing as they have no respect for health and safety or for local laws and regulations.

After passing the restaurant many times we stopped in. We were there during happy hour and ordered 3 appetizers at $3 each-all delicious, especially the sauce! Shared the bruschetta, meatballs topped with mozzarella and rolled stuffed eggplant. Domestic beers were also $3. Definitely will be coming back for dinner, restaurant has a charming bar and staff was welcoming.

Our party of six arrived about twenty minutes before the nominal 4:00 weekend opening, but there was no fuss about seating us at once--and, indeed, we found that another party had been there for a half-hour and were already on their entrees. Amici has two dining rooms separated by a big bar area. Decor is rustic Italian, familiar and I might even say comforting. Background music runs heavily to Sinatra. Bread, menus, and drinks list came at once. The wine list is fairly small and moderately priced: just 17 wines, by the bottle ($26-48) or by the glass ($7.25-$12.50). The beer list is mostly industrial lagers; about the only interesting items are the local Revolution Anti-Hero IPA and Belgium's Delirium Tremens. I went with the latter. The menu is a pretty conventional range of pasta, beef, veal, chicken, and seafood dishes. Five pizzas, in 12" or 14" size, at $14.95 to $23.95. Soup and salad (either/or with most entrees) came promptly: a somewhat underseasoned minestrone or the soup of the day, spinach egg drop (who knew Italians did egg drop?), and a garden salad in creamy garlic dressing. Entrees, however, were a bit slow in coming. I ordered the rigatoni paesana: pasta in a cream and tomato sauce, with sausage, peas, and dried tomatoes. Excellent! I also sampled my wife's shrimp Amici, said to be their best seller: jumbo shrimp and broccoli in a garlicky white sauce, over linguine. Also ordered by our party, though I wasn't able to sneak a forkful: veal piccata; mussels; linguine in clam sauce. Dessert selections ran to a big four-flavor spumoni topped with whipped cream and chocolate sauce, and an excellent, big-enough-to-share slab of tiramisu. Small but clean restrooms. Surrounded by a big parking lot. On a PACE bus line to and from the CTA Blue Line's Jefferson Park station, but transit probably isn't a particularly attractive option here in (inner) suburbia.

I won't go back. Party of five only four got our dinners. Not good service. Food was just OK nothing special.

The Alfredo sauce is SO SO SO good. I did a make your own pasta and just did linguini with Alfredo and peas. Had some wine (was fine) but the pasta was so good I'll be back specifically for that! Our server was very friendly and helped me to choose between the Alfredo and Pesto, great place!

I hate giving bad reviews. The pizza was bland. We drive by herectwice a week and never go back.

Veal with mushrooms was okay. It's more like a soup honestly, too much spice and the potatoes tasted like boiled. The spice was too sour and the potato was tasteless . And our waitress was strange. I asked out pics to be taken to what she said she can't touch customers phone because of covid. Well okay, but I touch my phone and then I touch the plate, the menu and other things as well which she also come in contact with. I said it's okay we don't need anything, but she even called for the host and asked her instead to take pics which seemed to be too much fuss. There was way too much noise at that point . The host also said she can't touch the phones and by that point there was too much noise. She also said that she will need to wash her hands . Yes you would need to wash them regardless the phone. Especially when handling the food. Maybe it's better to wear gloves then ?! I didn't understand her rationale about the phone and it left an unpleasant impression. It's okay if you don't want to take pics but I don't need to hear that because of the things mentioned above. P.s. I loved their interior and the design . It's very welcoming and has warmth in it.

Our server, Trish was great. She was very attentive but was not overbearing. Food- we had the chicken marsala, penne vodka with added shrimp, and the stuffed mushrooms appetizer. They brought out house bread and a little bowl of marinated chopped peppers/onions/olives. Both were good. We also ordered a pitcher of red sangria which was DELISH! Definitely recommend it. For $22 we got several glasses each out of it, so worth it. The stuffed mushrooms were good but I found the sauce they put on them a little weird. It was almost a gravy. Wasn't the best I've had. The penne vodka was delicious and it was just the right size, wasn't huge. My friend liked the chicken marsala but said there were barely any mushrooms, but he ate the whole thing. We were too stuffed to try dessert. I would go back again and try more stuff!

My friends and I came here for a birthday dinner. Her favorite food is Italian so we wanted to dine in at a nice Italian restaurant and not your typical Olive Garden. I've ordered out from this place maybe twice when I used to work at an office in Niles and it was always good. However, when I came in with friends, the food was very disappointing for all 4 of us. When we got there on a Tuesday evening, we were seated right away. The place itself is very vintage looking, except it smelled very musty and moldy. I had to hold my breath a bit. We were offered to sit either outside or inside so we went with outside so we can breathe and plus it was a nice evening out. After getting seated, it took the server a while to get to us. We ordered drinks which were all good. Prices are okay. After we got our drinks, we still waited around a while. Server eventually came and took our order I think 20-30 mins later. After we placed our order, the bread bakery came.. that's supposed to come first when seated not after we order? The bread basket was very stale anyways so it didn't cause us to get full for our meals at least. Food took a while to come. It wasn't even busy and there were enough servers. The table behind us got seated after us and got their food before us. They had a bigger party than we did. Food finally came and it just wasn't pleasant. My friend ordered the gluten free pesto which they said the noodle would be different but gluten for her and she said that's fine. They ended up giving her a regular dish so they had to take it back and make it again. The server rolled her eyes too. That really pissed us off. It affected your tip sweetie! Don't be in business if it's so hard to accommodate dietary restrictions!! My friend waited another while for her food to be made again. She ended up getting it eventually but there was barely any pesto in her pasta. The chicken tasted bad too. She dug to the bottom of the plate in case it all fell through and it just had to be mixed, but there was barely anything. We all tried her pasta and it was so bland. It tasted like just noodle and oil. My friend got the meatball spaghetti and the meatballs were really bad. They had no flavor, no juice, and almost tasted like freezer burn. My other friend got the shrimp scampi and the shrimp were pretty bad tasting too. I got the ravioli and it was okay. Portion was smaller than expected and I still felt hungry. Overall, we were there almost a good 2 hours. Most of it was spent on waiting. We didn't make our mini golf plan after dinner because it was too late. The food and experience was just so disappointing. We all left so sad. The amount we paid was not worth it at all. We told our friend we'd make up her bday dinner again because this really ruined it. We honestly were better off going to Olive Garden. I hope things change.

We were very disappointed in our recent take out from Amicis. We have been going to the restaurant for years but hadn't been since Covid. The food doesn't taste the same at all and my husband said all the help had changed. Wondering if it has new owners. His eggplant parmesan was tasteless and the marinara had no garlic or seasonings. My sausage and peppers had an oily sauce huge potatoes, partly done peppers and soggy sausage. Yuck!

I had high hopes for this Italian restaurant. The place was very cute when you walked in and had nice decor. We went to dinner at 7 pm on a Friday night and were the youngest people in the restaurant by 55 years. Not a necessarily a place where young adults seem to frequent to eat at whatsoever. The bread they gave you to enjoy with dinner was just toast, what Italian place gives you toast as bread? The soup was small and filled with so many vegetables that there was no broth in it. Once the dinner came, the chicken parmesan was one of the worst I ever had in my life. The pasta was literally Barilla pasta heated up in the microwave. Additionally the shrimp linguini was bland with no flavor and was not appetizing at all. By far one of the worst Italian places I have ever eaten at. The waitress was nice and service was acceptable. The food came out very fast, but every time the waitress came around to check on us she snuck up from behind and talked so loudly that it scared everyone at the table. I will not be returning to this establishment.

After spending many hours here needed to write a review . From the fresh warm bread to go with their amazing and tasty soups , to the delicious pizzas ( sausage and spinach) and my favorite Linguini Aglia Olio with a order of mussels , great bartendars , nice staff , warm and cozy place

There is absolutely no question that the food here is phenomenal, but they are getting steamrolled on Yelp. I can't believe all of these negative reviews. It's likely that they don't care, as their customer base is mostly boomers. But if I'd never been to this place and I was strictly relying on Yelp reviews, I would take a pass. I think it's safe to say that they need to get it together from a customer relations standpoint. But if we're just going by the food itself? A+.

I was skeptical about this place, I have driven by this restaurant about 100 times and never gone in until today . We ordered the Zuppa De Pesce and it was a big portion and really good . The bread that they give you for starters was fresh and warm and delicious with the oil on the table This place is worth stopping by to try it out . Glad I stopped in and will become a regular

We ordered through Grubhub and the driver delivered the wrong meal =( We called the restaurant who immediately sent a manager out to deliver the correct meal. The food was delicious and the service was great!

First time to Amici and had a wonderful meal. Started with the bruschetta which was probably the best I've had, soup and salads were both good as well. I had spaghetti and meatballs which was good while my wife had the rigatoni portobello which was also very good. Service was great, never had empty glasses and our waitress was pleasant also. Our bill was what expected to pay for a mid week date night. I'll definitely be back when I'm in the neighborhood.

The food here is so bad. We went as a group and I tried the mussels appetizer. Horrible. The taste, texture, everything was all wrong. I've made and enjoyed mussels from the freezer section, they were much better than these. They tasted... old. They did give me ravioli to replace it at no extra charge, but that was unfortunately not great either. The sauce and cheese had what I can only describe as a "mealy" quality. Go to Olive Garden instead, or get reservations at another Italian place.

Great food and atmosphere I love the pizza there and they have great service I always order the calamari too

Went here today and was extremely disappointed. Ordered a chopped salad which was supposed to come with chickpeas, gorgonzola and bruschetta which were non existent! When questioned, I was told that they had "run out". As common courtesy it would have been nice if we were told. I was very disappointed for having to pay for ingredients which I didn't get. Our waitress Santina was very polite and her service was amazing. Would not recommend going to this restaurant purely for the false advertising of food and being charged for ingredients I never received.

Very rude staff. I brought my parents here after a funeral and we sat for 15 minutes while all 3 staff members blatantly ignored us. It wasn't busy at all. We got up and left. It's a shame this place is so close to a funeral parlor because I imagine people who are already grief stricken come to this place and feel worse.

Second time here, had to give it a 4.5 for sure. It's so under rated!! The Restaurant decor may be out dated, but that plays into the charm and old authentic feel. New favorite Italian spot! Try to the pizza appetizer, it tastes super fresh!

We ordered the eggplant Parmesan and the meatball appetizer and both were delicious! This is the best eggplant Parmesan I've found in all of Chicago.

Not too impressive any way you can look at it. I get the impression they've been around for a long while. The drab, old decor, not updated in a long while, was the first clue there. The food we ordered was not imaginative or all that good. Their drinks are way too expensive and stingy. They don't even serve wine in real wine glasses, not to mention how limited the wine selection was. So as you can see, I was under impressed. There are way too many good restaurants in the Chicago area to waste your time here.

I ordered 2 entrees. Plain old spaghetti and meatballs with meat sauce and Ribs. The pasta and sauce was very good. The ribs were OK. They were fattier than I like and the sauce was sweeter than I like. Not bad, I just have high standards as I have been eating Gale Street Inn ribs for a long time and have yet to find anyplace that measures up. I also wish that they offered soft drinks with their delivery.

Went here to celebrate my husbands birthday and our family moving out of state. We've passed by many times and I'm so glad we stopped in! There were quite a few older people here. Our server Mary was lovely and very attentive to our entire group. This is definitely a family restaurant. We had a few drinks and enjoyed the music. The desserts are amazing! Overall I would definitely come back again. I just wish we had come in sooner!

The bread was super hot and fresh. Butter was cold and hard. The calamari appetizer was also fresh and hot and very good. The Caesar salad dressing taste more like ranch dressing and had a little bit too much on it but was also fresh. The minestrone soup was Hardy. Some pizza was fresh the vegetables were fresh but lacked flavor that's why they got 4 stars. The service was excellent

I love this place any of there dishes are delicious have a grate wine list and friendly wait service the is one of my favorite places

Loved this pasta place! Especially during covid times! They always serve you a lot when you order to go and it's delicious! One of my favorite pasta places to order from Uber eats!