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Teatro Goldoni Review

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Teatro Goldoni

$$-$$$, Italian, Downtown

User Rating: ** 1.6

Fodor's Review:

Named for an 18th-century Venitian playwright, this restaurant with a colorful interior is a showcase for chef Fabrizio Aielli's modern-meets-traditional Italian cooking. For a first course, try an unusual pasta dish, such as chocolate pappardelle with a royal boar ragù. At the center of the menu is a selection of fresh fish, which may be grilled, roasted, or cooked in parchment paper Venetian-style. There's also a wide selection of vegetarian entrées. Listen to live jazz here on Friday and Saturday.

Member Reviews & Ratings:

Just horrible food. Could Hardly Believe It.

Posted by TuttiTenor from Washington, DC on 8/7/07

We eat out at mid and upper DC restaurants every week. It's a great food town. Went to Teatro Goldoni for DC Restaurant Week to try a new spot. What a horrible disappointment. The entrees were basically out of a can. Tortellini with a meat sauce which was a poor imitation of Chef Boyardee -- inedible. A salmon dish with the fish cooked to something worse than canned fish: dry and tasteless. This is an upscale DC eatery? Save your money. A restaurant which won't try to make 'specials' actually be special isn't worth risking another visit.

FOOD: 1.0

ATMOSPHERE: 2.0

SERVICE: 3.0

VALUE: 1.0

RATING: 1.6