Il Ritorno 449 Central Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

"Incredible service and attentiveness from Chef Sheridan and Joe! By far the best tasting menu experience I've had. Well worth it!"

"Dining with a special celebrity sports guest, we were taken to a private room for a more exclusive dining experience. The service was outstanding as music, temperature and ambiance were adjusted to our liking. Everything was very delicious and well cooked. Complimentary bread was served. Cocktails were delicious. Smaller establishment."

"Had a special birthday dinner here. Food, service, and environment were wonderful! We had the beets, fish eggs, and octopus as starters...all were excellent. Main dishes were crab spaghetti, grouper, and the filet...absolutely perfect. Finally the banana French toast plus the vanilla/chocolate espresso dessert was decadent! Big thank you to Chef Dani and team for all that beautiful hard work back in the kitchen! Highly recommend and we will definitely be returning!"

"We had Mushroom Spirale and Crab Spaghetti as the main dishes. There are stuffing within the pasta of the mushroom spirale that delivers a rich taste while dip into the mushroom butter sauce and spice on the side. The spaghetti was made with octopus ink and cooked in a buttery creamy sauce with crab meat. Very chewy and we loved it. The salad was very good and used a unique combination of fresh and cooked vegetables. Only thing is the tables for two people is quite small, not much space. Parking is hard to find too."

"***Summer Series Review*** I want to rate this higher. I’ve been here a dozen times and each time would have been a 5/5 rating. But holy moly this experience was actually so terrible. We did a 10 year anniversary dinner. Absolutely nowhere did it state it was a communal table. That we would crammed into a table of ten strangers, forced to share space, conversation, and dinner for THREE. HUNDRED. DOLLARS. We asked the table and they didn’t know as well. If you’re paying $300 a person to have a communal table and you do not disclose that, it is an absolute miss. Clearly a lot of the patrons thought they were on a romantic date night only to have that come crashing down when directed to the table. To start we show up and they try to seat us at a name/spot that isn’t ours. Then we have to wait twenty mins to be seated because they didn’t have a spot for us. We finally get seated snd they take drink orders. Everything takes longer because it’s an entire table ordering and receiving. The food finally gets started. When the course is being introduced the my did it on the opposite side of the table so we couldn’t hear it. The next course wasn’t even introduced. The third course they started doing it on both sides but one after the other so it was odd and disjointed. The food was good, but I’ve actually had some of their tasting menus that I thought were better. On the way out the manager asked our feedback which we shared as outlined above. To be honest, the most disappointing part was him saying that they had gotten similar feedback on the communal table. So not only did you get the feedback and choose to keep that format but you didn’t think to update your website with a disclosure around that? Especially in such an economically and politically charged climate we’re in. Just take a second to imagine what some of the conversation you may have had to endure was. A full refund wouldn’t even be enough to undo how terrible this experience was."