Terra & Acqua

"This was my first "solo dining takeout" experience in a friendly, warm and inviting atmosphere. I had a nice glass of wine seated at the bar while I ordered a vegetarian pizza to go. The two bartenders were attentive and friendly. The environment is sophisticated without being stuffy. The patrons seated next to me were engaging. The pizza was delicious and I look forward to trying other choices from the extensive menu. If you're a solo diner, or not, consider making Terra & Acqua your go to for both takeout and solo dining. It's my new fav!"

"Wow. Terra and Acqua used to be one of our favorite everyday restaurants. No longer. I fear the owners have checked out and this restaurant will fail quickly like its sister restaurant Alta Marea did. Our dinner tonight was worse than mediocre. The waitress could not locate the wine we wanted or even figure out whether it was available. As she explained, “maybe if a manager or an owner was here” could that basic question be answered. We chose the daily special red. It was fine. The only high note was the fritto misto. That did not disappoint. Everything else did. The tri colore salad was a due colore. Zero radicchio in the salad. Hence it was just green. Certainly not 3 colors. The lobster ravioli were “ok” but lukewarm. That was a waitress fail because nothing was hotter than barely lukewarm. Clearly everything was sitting for quite some time before it was brought to the table. The cinghiale pappardelle pasta was also lukewarm and strangely contained a ton of black olives with pits and still had bay leaves in the sauce. Who does that? The pappardelle cernia, which is a cheaper version of a dish that used to be on Alta Marea’s menu, was also lukewarm. The fish was overcooked as well. Very disappointing. Perhaps the strangest dish was the ravioli zuccha. It was in melted butter. Not brown butter as stated on the menu. Not even lukewarm, it bordered on cold, and the tops of the ravioli were hard and dry and it had to be cut with a knife, not fork, because it was so gummy. Also, there was a random almond cookie tossed on top. Thankfully the diner did not have a nut allergy. As noted, there was no manager on duty at prime time on the busiest weekend of the year in St Augustine. We learned a manager just quit. I can see why. And if the owners don’t care enough to get to their restaurant to oversee it if they don’t have a manager to do so, well, they deserve to fail. Very sad. Hopefully Terra and Acqua will turn around. But we won’t be back any time soon."

"Good food , finally a well done lasagna! This is the place . Unfortunately pizza was close and a lot of menu options were unavailable that was sad I chose 3 of the unavailable items that really put me on bad moves. But after all I will recommend it and I will keep trying more plates"

"Not great. So many great references and previous reviews then really disappointing. The atmosphere was kind of bright and not impressive. We made reservations several weeks ago then got there to find that it was very empty. The only positive was the calamari appetizer which was excellent and earned the two stars it received, otherwise it would have been a one. The highly recommended lobster ravioli was flavorless and overpriced, so bad that they were embarrassed enough to take it off the bill. $20 for a cocktail is ridiculous. Not recommended."

"Great food but less than ideal service. Our server was slow and bread service came after our entree. The entree was good but cold. Pizza was oustanding. We were rushed to finish our dessert by the server."