BRAVO! Cucina Italiana

Found this place as a fluke, after getting gas at Costco and heading to the airport. I pulled in just look at the menu, and lo and behold, a manager walked up to me and explained the menu and offered some great suggestions. That’s the reason why I decided to have lunch here. I ate Outside, on a beautiful porch overlooking a man-​made lake with fans that cool down even 100 degrees to an enjoyable level. The food was amazing and the dipping oil for the bread was incredible, and the best part is I could buy some to take home!

Horrible! Service was worst I’ve experienced in years. 10 minutes to be greeted from server. Server wasn’t friendly at all. Food was no where close to what we have experienced at other Bravo’s. Manager walked in circles never addressing the 5 tables that were in the dining room. We will never be back!

Love the food, the service and this is what I call classy restaurant. I could eat here all the time. One of my top 2 favorites of all time.

What a great experience! One of our group had a food allergic, so our waitress Danielle brought out the executive chef for us! All of our food was excellent, service was great.

Eh. Just average. Average service, average atmosphere. Definitely a chain. Average food, nothing special. Kills me to spend $ 12 on a pasta plate I can make better at home. Probably won’t frequent here, but it is a step up from Olive Garden.

I used to come here regularly but haven’t been in awhile. I’m not a huge pasta person and the salad I used to get is no longer on the menu. I went this week and asked for just salmon and seasoned veggies. Everything was fresh and delicious and cooked perfectly. Waitress left plenty of bread and an oil for each of us at the table. It was a great meal and I was pleased to be able to order off menu.

Awesome food and atmosphere! I always order the Tomato Tuscan Flatbread… old style. It is nolonger on the menu but they always make it for me. It is delicious!!! I also love their salad Dressing! My go to Italian!

This establishment advertises themselves as an upscale restaurant. To me it was anything but upscale, it was more like an average place to eat. Our service was poor and the food quality is not what it once was. Even when paying the bill we were left waiting an extra half an hour to get the credit card back and being able leave. While the manager did provide dessert it didn’t make up for the bad experience. What was supposed to be a nice evening out ended up as a disaster.

It’s a good American-​Italian restaurant. Love the house bread and dip. That’s where my love stops. All pastas have cream-​based sauce. Even their popular diablo sauce has cream. One would think there would be some basic marinara or Arabiatta or pomodoro sauce — Naa. They don’t have even one pasta that uses just pesto sauce or even gnocchi. If you like Americanized Italian good, you will like this place. If you looking for authentic Italian, this ain’t one.

Not much to say. Courteous staff & good ambience.
I had the garden salad, dressing on side. Fresh & crispy. For my main, I had the broiled salmon with vegetables. Very good flavor and perfectly prepared.
Would have given it 4 stars but there were several language challenges when my table ordered.
I’d go back if in town.

Bravo is one of my favorite restaurant chains, so I like to come here often — and this location consistently meets my expectations. The service is great, and the food is delicious as always. My favorite go-​to dishes are the pasta woozie and chocolate molten lava cake. The bread and dip are also one of my favorite appetizers. Even though it’s about a 45 minute drive for me, I will continue to come back.

Wonderful as always! Great service, great food! The parking lot and landscape beds are filthy! Trash, beer cans, etc. all over! Get someone out there every day before you open to clean it up
Follow up by management means everything to me. Changed review accordingly!

I came here for a family dinner on Christmas Eve and my first impression was «fancy». The restaurant was very festive in the Holiday spirit and the place was definitely crowded. Call ahead and ask for a reservation on a busy evening! We got seated immediately while others had to wait for a while.
At the table awaiting us were dishes filled with an olive oil and seasoning for bread. It took long for the waitress to make her way over to us and get us some break, but I figured service would be slow since it was so busy. Once we finally got the bread, it was super delicious with the olive oil. We started off with fried calamari and spinach and artichoke dip as appetizers. The fried calamari was pretty basic but satisfying accompanied with marinara and a horseradish dipping sauce. The spinach and artichoke formaggio dip was fabulous with the parmesan flatbread. So far so good, until the main dish.
I ordered the scallop spicy marinara as my main entrée because unlike the rest of the menu, this dish had a lot of ingredients. It came with scallops, spinach, caramelized onions, basil and pesto. The presentation was lovely, but the taste… not so much. The scallops were very, very tiny buried in the overwhelming amount of pasta noodles and the dish lacked general flavor. The advertised «spicy» marinara was mild with no spice. The portion was huge and could be split between two people. I think if they went easy on the noodles with larger scallops and a more robust sauce, this dish would have potential. I would come back again, but definitely getting something else.

Bravo for a birthday party. It is a very pleasant restaurant for such a public event. They were very accommodating.
I ordered the glazed grilled salmon without tomatoes and feta, with the sauce on the side, and with asparagus, spinach, roasted peppers, and sweet potato mix for $ 18.99. The sweet potatoes were diced and different. The complimentary bread was delicious with the oil.

This is one of my favorite place to eat. I love their Mediterranean Vegetable Salad
and Margherita Pizza. They do have items that are gluten free also, however I really hope they will have vegetarian soup as that would be a perfect choice for winter days. Sean is my favorite server there, he is funny, friendly but still give you space to enjoy your food and company. Whenever I come in with a friend and order my favorite salad, he’d asked if i’d like spit the order in ½ or prefer to serve as my main dish. He always takes away our used plates and replace with new plates for our next course meal without being asked. He is very consistent with what he does and this set him apart to be one of my great server and I appreciated that a lot. I definitely will come back for sure.

We visit Bravo at least once a month. Service and food always very good. We did have one incident two visits back. For some reason the server was off her game. The kitchen staff was awol. Our food didn’t get made. Once it was prepared our meal happend in reverse. Entrée then salad and appetizer. We did get our entire meal free. And once we got the food it was very good.
We have been back twice since this and have had great service and food. Everyone has bad days the trick is bouncing back once you have failed. Bravo has bounced back.

A group of us from work took one of my co-​workers to Bravo for her bridal luncheon as a gift from the company. This was my first time eating in at Bravo since I’ve only had their catering. It was nice. The restaurant was fresh, clean and modern. The service was impeccable. They were very classy, polite and attentive. The food was great — you MUST try the lobster bisque! Even the greeter took note of where we worked and what we were there for so that she could acknowledge it on our way out. Details like that are what makes an experience memorable.
I’d definitely recommend Bravo. They even play actual Italian music while you dine!

RANCID CHICKEN. I had a horrific experience our for lunch with another person at this location. We both ordered dishes with chicken and both entrees had chicken that was noticeably rancid. You could smell that the meat had gone bad when bringing the fork full of it up to your mouth. How could the cook not have noticed it?!
Of course, we told our server about the food immediately, who acted like serving us rancid food wasn’t that big of a deal. We were not offered an apology or refund of any kind.
I used to love this place and would go at least once a month, but have not been back since this incident last year. I can understand that it could have been an accident, but the lack of any kind of acknowledgement from the server or manager makes me believe they don’t really care about keeping customers.
Service at this location had wavered between mildly attentive and dismissive before this point, so this was the final straw for us. Stay far away from this location!

A couple of my girlfriends are big fans of Bravo’s foods and we come here occasionally after work. It is a pretty decent chain, I say it is like Olive Garden but a little nicer. Their free bread and oil is delicious and addicting!
The last couple of times I have gone, I have gotten the Chicken Caprese
from their light menu [mostly because I doubt I could stop myself from not eating all of a dish from their heavier stuff, haha]. It is very yummy and I find myself wanting it every so often! I can’t believe it is as light as they say it is, hopefully they are not lying to me… Admittedly, I do find it a bit pricey though which is a bummer.
The other downside to this location? The staff occasionally comes off like they don’t really enjoy working here. They may be attentive but something just seems off about their attitude. The first time, the guy was attentive but seemed incredibly bored and awkward. The second time, it kinda felt like we weren’t worth the servers time and felt a bit rushed despite just wanting to relax and talk. I feel the service should fit the atmosphere and so far this has not been the case.
I am sure my friends will pick this location again soon and I hope to see service improve!

This is a pretty typical small Italian chain. The food is solid, but not very creative.
The restaurant is clean and well-​run, and they do a very good job providing space for a party or event (they have a large private room).
The food isn’t super heavy like certain other Italian chains – so this is a great place for a light bite or a steak.