Albas Restaurant

We had great treatment from all of the staff when we had a Tuesday surprise birthday dinner with a party of 13. Delicious food and wine, plentiful bread sticks, CONSTANT water refills (let’s be honest, that’s how I judge restaurants!), dessert displays, cost check, valet parking, etc.

Alba’s is the best. They have perfected traditional Italian food and coupled it with unparalleled service. if you don’t get the caesar salad (made right at your table) as a starter you’re doing yourself a disservice. All of the veal is off the charts as are the pastas. I’ve been going here with my family for years and they are incredibly welcoming and accommodating. It’s a pleasure to spend a Friday or Saturday night here and we always enjoy ourselves.

Absolutely love this place. Great food. Great service. Very warm environment. A bit pricey in comparison to other italian restaurants in area. Definitely worth it for special occasions

After awhile of being told I had to check out Alba’s, I finally got a chance to get there for my wife’s birthday and unfortunately we both left a little disappointed. I don’t know maybe i just overhyped it in my mind. First off the service is fantastic, had a great comfortable feel and very clean. The food on the other hand didn’t seem to have that wow factor, we ordered a couple of appetizers while they were good just nothing fantastic. For dinner we had a veal dish and the rack of lamb and once again it was just ok .
I dunno maybe i overhyped it but I felt there were no WOW taste’s and I was disappointed on a over $ 200 meal .
Maybe one day I will try it again but I feel no need to get back there soon.

Never had a bad bite at Albas in maybe a few dozen meals. The ceasar salad is the best I’ve ever had. The Branzino is perfect. Both are prepared tableside and can be customized in any way you like. Veal chops come out perfectly cooked and juicy — I eat every bite then gnaw on the bone the get the last scraps. When you arrive, they out out bread, olives, and chunks of parmesan. The olive oil on the table is excellent, fruity and spicy.
Love the staff and they love us. We go all the time, me, my wife and four kids. Everyone from the valet parking guy on is friendly and attentive. Sometimes funny. Sometimes it gets busy and it can be hard to get someone’s attention. Life. They’re trying, they’re staffed appropriately, they just get overwhelmed.
Back to the food: I grew up in New York City and am pretty familiar with standard Northern Italian fare. They do it great at Albas, and throw in some southerners like spaghetti with clams — excellent. My wife loves the dover sole and the spaghettu carraterra. The deserts are really, really good. Try a poached pear or the italian cheesecake.
The wine list is heavily weighted towards Tuscany. I’m more of a Piedmont guy, but they have excellent selections nonetheless. Lots of them. High prices. Reasonable prices very much to be found and plentiful, but I wouldn’t say bargains exactly. If you’re not splurging, go with the Chiantis or the Rosso di Montalcinos. I’ve never found the staff particularly helpful when it comes to the wines. They won’t make a bad recommendation, but I’ve never gotten the off-​the-​charts great selection that I wouldn’t have made myself.
Albas is pretty world class, right here in Port Chester. If you live nearby and haven’t tried it, I recommend you do. The place is overrun with regulars — there’s a reason for that.

If you want to celebrate a special occassion, this is your place. Terse, but attentive waitors. Depending on what you order, they will prepare the dish right in front of you. Get as many courses as you can here because you will not regret it. It’s on the pricier scale, but the food is worth it.

Alba’s is a first class restaurant. Just had my son’s rehearsal dinner there, and couldn’t be happier! The event coordinator was professional, attentive and friendly.
The service was perfect, the food excellent — we had penne w/​a light olive oil garlic, cherry tom, olive sauce — mmmm — next, mixed greens, then chicken w artichoke heart white wine sauce, or striped bass grilled w/​lemon olive oil w wine, tira miso — my husband said the best he’s had — capaccino or tea or whatever. Great pinot grigio and chianti… the room was elegant but had a warmth that made everyone comfortable… free valet parking was super efficient — just leave a tip — and what else can I say? We loved it!!!

Really a bad experience. Waiter ignored us. Food took way to long to arrive. Food was not hot, nor tasty. For us it was a complete waste of money. We eat normally at r Pieros, which is personable and delicious — we regret trying Albas.

Great for sitting outside in the summer. There is a nice view of a waterfall. The sound is very relaxing. Great food too!

What makes Alba’s such a great experience is the interaction with the staff and the idea that they will make whatever dish you really want. Just tell them what you want and there it is. I always ask them to make me baked stuff clams since I don’t get them very often where I live in LA. My family has a Christmas luncheon there every year, and let me tell you, if you go at lunch you get a lot of attention from the staff. The food is really great including the desserts. And we have a bunch of tough Italian food critics in our crowd. Ask for Nick as your head waiter and you won’t be disappointed.
Have fun! Wish I was there too!

Alba’s never ceases to excite with it upscale atmosphere and food compare able to some of the best Italian around. Contrary to popular belief, the service at Alba’s is caring and quick and they treat you like family. The food is incredible and I can’t say enough about the staff. Sam, the owner, can whip up anything you like. Call ahead to get the lasagna

Good food-​service was not great. We were never offered dessert. At least three waiters. Bustling and noisy. Could be a fun bar if the bartender wasn’t so overwhelmed that he skipped drink ingredients.

Still have yet to ever hear from anyone at the restaurant, I cant believe they would treat us so poorly and essentially ruin my wife’s birthday by totaling forgetting to bring her cake as I had asked, I would have had more respect for them if they would have contacted me but to date they have never reached out to me to even begin to offer an apology and I will not forgive nor forget until they do the right thing for my family and apologize

Went on Easter with my family.
We’ve gone here numerous times in the past, so when we were scrambling last minute to find a restaurant, we decided to go with a safe bet.
As always, the food was amazing. I got the penne alla vodka this time around; the pasta was al dente and the cream sauce, while delicious, was super rich. I could only eat half my plate (maybe having 6 glasses of water while waiting for my food was a bad idea), so my grandpa, after eating his fish dish, ended up polishing off the rest of mine.
Dessert has never been very good at this place, which is disappointing. The food is exceptional, but the sweets are not worth the money or calories. I got this brownie sort of cake, and it came with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The former was soft, had nuts in it, and was relatively tasteless; the latter was icy and just not good. Do your stomach and wallet a favor and don’t even consider it if you come here. I took one bite and was tempted to spit it out. The rest of the plate remained untouched.
Remainder of the family got a coconut cream pie (the best thing at the table, but was incredibly bland and the crust was inedible), tartufo (icy), a bowl of strawberries/​blueberries (weren’t sweet at all), and a cheesecake (meh).
Now here’s my issue with the place: the staff. We’ve had, out of the handful of times we’ve gone to Alba’s, two decent waiters. The rest are not pleasant to be around. On Sunday, our waiter was quite possibly the worst we’ve ever had. He was condescending, arrogant, and… well, an all around douchenugget. He rushed us and got into an «argument» (I use this word loosely) with my grandfather over the pronunciation of a region the waiter was from. My grandfather grew up in Italy, too. He has the ability to sniff out all the people who can speak Italian, Spanish, or Albanian. He gets along with EVERYONE he meets when we’re out at family lunches and dinners. And while it never got nasty between the two, I was still shocked our waiter had the audacity to continually tell my grandfather that his pronunciation was wrong. It was such a petty thing to bicker over and left a bad taste in our mouths. Everyone at the table was calling him an ass – even my grandmother, who thinks the world of everyone she meets.
After that little show, our waiter was nowhere to be seen. Another waiter ended up serving us dessert, and once my grandfather got his coffee, the douchey waiter came back and practically flung the check at us. Never once did he ask me what was wrong with my dessert, and he did not comp us for it. Everyone told him to hand me the bill because I was treating, and he behaved as if he was surprised I would even be paying the meal. Yes, guy, I have a job. I can afford a family dinner every once in a while.
After that experience, we’re leaving Alba’s as a last minute «crap, can’t find another place to go to» restaurant for future family events. Even the amazing foods can’t make up for the terrible staff.

I wanted to like this place. I just couldn’t. The people were nice enough. My chicken tasted fishy and dry.

Going to Alba’s for a few years, at least once a month. Great, old-​fashioned European style service, and excellent meals. Pricy but well worth it.

Great service, great food. The waiters are friendly and attentive. Make sure to get the antipasto!

Great service, treated like a v.i.p and received continual attention. Had the Dover sole and enjoyed the experience of watching the deboning by Nick. Highly recommend this place. Great bar area as well

Excellent service. Delicious food. Superb mixed seafood with garlic and olive oil. Fair bread greatly improved by fragrant olive oil. Excellent breadsticks. Broccoli rabe was perfect; not bitter or tough. Salmon fine, but portion a bit small. Desserts very tempting, but we resisted. capaccino perfect. Atmosphere a bit too formal, but the food made up for it.

A first rate Italian restaurant with somewhat formal service and a beautiful setting. I’ve been several times for special occasions and found our treatment just fantastic, whether with colleagues after an event or for my grown son’s birthday.
The menu is traditional Italian, but with grilled meat and fish, as well. The table-​side prepared Caesar salad is fantastic, equal to Pietro’s in New York. Individual dishes have been memorable: spaghetti carbonara, veal with crabmeat and cognac sauce and the cornish hen; however, some specials have been just outstanding, once in lifetime kind of dishes, like the pasta with shaved truffles, which was just amazing (though very expensive!) and worth every penny to see the look of transcendence on my son’s face. It was the kind of meal that we will remember for years.
The restaurant has been remodeled with a highly-​polished finish. The fireplace and rugs in the main dining room are very elegant. The parking lot has been expanded to accommodate the crowds and it looks like there are various private dining possibilities available. All I know is that it is one of the few places in the area where I am careful to be nicely dressed (at least business casual), not because of any requirement, but because I want to look as nice as I feel when I go here.
Albas is among the best Italian restaurants I have seen and, for me, the place to go for that cuisine. Highly recommended.