Little Venice Restaurant

I came up to Binghamton with my uncle for a met game. So we decided to eat at Little Venice. We order the pepperoni, ham, and provolone egg rolls. My uncle order the meat lasagna and I order the homemade cheese raviolis with meat logs. My uncle like the meat lasagna, I think the sauce is to sweet. The meat logs were not that great. Also they brought all the foods at one time. The best thing we are was the egg rolls. In addition the hostess of the restaurant, he was great with us. I had reservation for 4:15. We wanted a table but they only had Booths. But he let us sit at a table that was resurveyed @ 6:00. He was great.

Let me start off by saying I’ve been going to this restaurant since I was a little kid and I am now in my forties. Needless to say, I’ve been here a few times. I’ll start with their tomato sauce… I LOVE IT! I have always been a fan of a sweeter sauce and this is one of my all time favorites. While the quality of food is always good, the actual meals themselves have been getting worse and worse over time. I’ve always been a fan of their ravioli and that is what I order 99% of the time. You can’t go wrong with it. Last week I ordered chicken parm. The chicken was like a piece of rubber. It was so difficult to cut, that the table actually shook as I was sawing my way through it. I was so disappointed. On the other hand, someone else at my table order the shrimp parm. The shrimp were butterflied, breaded and baked with cheese and sauce… it was delicious! My wife ordered rigatoni with meat logs. The rigs and sauce were great, the meat logs, were ok. As a lifelong patron, it pains me to hesitate to go there anymore. But there are so many other great Italian restaurants in the area, it’s tough to recommend LV over other places anymore. :(

Outstanding in every way! Binghamton’s best Italian restaurant, hands down!

Had another amazing experience here, as
usual. Our server was very attentive and professional. Try their red sauce with their homemade raviolis. They make their own ricotta which has a delicious sweetness to it and their sauce is excellent. There is something to be said about a restaurant that sells its own sauce in local grocery stores. So good!

A group of my friends and I went here for dinner during Binghamton Restaurant week. I picked the place as I wanted to try something new. It was a huge mistake. Everyone received dirty silverware and half of the place setting were missing. I ordered a caprese salad as my appetizer which was basically one sloppily cut tomato slice with a mound of mozzarella and a basil leaf. It looked very homemade and not in a nostaligic manner. I ordered rigatoni with vodka sauce as an entrée, which tasted like low grade pasta with sauce straight out of a jar. It was disgusting and felt like the efforts of someone that just learned to cook that day. My friend who ordered shrimp scampi (which i was originally going to order but didn’t, thank goodness) also looked ill prepared and lumpy and just plain gross. My friend’s boyfriend ordered a steak and received something that was about 2 – 3 oz in size with a limp tomato and lettuce leaf right next to it. The steak looked gray and disgusting. The steak was supposed to come with potatoes but the waitress didn’t acknowledge it until we asked her about it, only then did she say that the restaurant had run out of potatoes. At 6pm, an entire large restaurant runs out of potatoes?! Honestly, from the poor behavior of our waitress, the low quality of the food and dirtiness of the restaurant are things that can not be tolerated when you are paying for service and for the food. This was the worst restaurant experience I have ever had.

love love love this place. Homemade spaghetti and chicken cutlet parm are to die for.

Hour long wait, very nice people and good service, food was decent — I wouldn’t recommend the veal and steak my friend had wasn’t that good else. I would recommend traditional Italian option like pasta or spaghetti. I wouldn’t go back to eat here again, but if I did I would order a old school Italian go-​to item.

Spaghetti sauce is very special, they make it every day :-)
Bread is cold but service is good!

Very filling! The homemade pasta and sauce, were very good, And the appetizers were plentiful. The wait service was excellent, and very conscientious of all of our needs. Will definitely be back.

Just OK. Have dined here twice and it is quite popular. Get a reservation or, better yet, sit at the bar. Garlic knots are awesome but the house sauce is VERY sweet. Good sausage but not very flavorful. Spaghetti noodles are thick. Decent side salad.
In the end Italian is about sauce. Their sauce just tasted too much like plain tomato paste to work for me.
$ 34 with tip including two Bass Ales, Spaghetti and a dozen garlic knots

I was not impressed. I went to dinner with a friend before we went out to hear a band. It was early, 5:30 — 6:00 on a Friday and were more dressed up than the rest of the crowd. He had on a jacket and I was wearing a dress and vintage coat. We both had hats. We were not bums off the street.
We waited around to be even acknowledged by any staff as they walked past us for about five minutes before the hostess sat us off to the side in the mostly empty dining room. Our waitress seemed to think we were an inconvenience as the room began to fill. We had to ask her about the specials but she lingered with other patrons, chatting and laughing. Eventually, she took our orders and the food came. Our salads took half an hour to arrive and were room temperature. Our entrees took another half an hour after the salad plates were cleared and were also room temperature.
How was it? Glad you asked.
He got the veal parm. He was not impressed. The veal, he stated, was rubbery.
I ordered gluten free unbreaded chicken parm. I was very excited about this. It was decent, however, the gluten free spaghetti that came as a side was 1) So over-​cooked it was literally falling apart. I couldn’t pick it up with my fork. And 2) Sitting on the plate in a POOL of pasta water. It was gross. I didn’t want to pick it up.
So, did you notice I’m gluten free? I mentioned it a few times to the waitress too. I asked for no croutons on the salad and oil and vinegar dressing. I instead got a roll on the side.
I was offered cannoli for dessert. I declined. Instead I had gelato.
It had a pizzelle cookie, made from wheat, sticking out of it.
I almost stuck her tip in the gelato cup.

Nice little place right by the junction.
Had high hopes but disappointing. Prices are a touch high.
Calamari was burnt. Spaghetti had only red sauce on top, flavorless. Parmigiana was decent.
And salad was amazing.
All in all, 2.5÷5.

Solid italian place, but I think you either love this place or hate it. The sauce is unique and might not be your style with its sweetness. I personally love it. The italian egg rolls are awesome, especially the meat log ones and the chicken Alfredo ones. I do have to admit there are only a few things I get here so maybe the rest of their menu is disappointing but I really like the eggplant parm, manicotti, and alfredo. They have a really great lunch special where you get bread, salad, a meal with a side for around $ 8. The only disappointing thing I’ve had is the house dressing. It’s not very flavorful and my salad was swimming in it.
They remodeled recently and I think that was a huge step in the right direction. It’s much brighter and welcoming now but still keeping some of the old school charm with the paintings.
Service has always been good here too, waiters and waitresses have been very attentive. The place does reek like cheese, but is that really a bad thing?

Service was good. Food was delivery timely and hot.
I have to give our server props for bringing over a craft of water as I love to drink it still needed to be refilled. She brought it over without uneven asking.
The bread was cold but fresh tasting. The crust was too crispy for my liking.
The white garlic pizza was loaded with garlic but very good.
The chicken cacciatore was large and came with a side salad (or soup) and a side dish. The sauce is SWEET. If you do not like sweet sauce do not order any marinara meals here.
The chicken Alfredo was very flavorful. The Alfredo actually had flavor, rather than just the cream base you normally get. Nice job. Portion size was huge.
The dessert selection comes on a tray. The gelato is nice if you like the selection and portion size was right for dessert. The cannoli are not made in house, have confectionary sugar already in them. The top with whip cream. I could do without as the shell was soggy from sitting to long and there is no need for the whip cream or sugar.

My friends and I were in the mood for gelato, so we stopped by Little Venice. Upon entering, we liked what we saw: paintings everywhere and an ambiance that was warm and welcoming. However, the service didn’t reflect the décor; we stood at the entrance for several minutes, but no one paid any attention to us. Eventually, we asked a waitress for gelato. It took a long time before we were seated at a booth, eating our dessert.
The gelato itself was pretty good. I had the Turkish coffee, which was really delicious. Though the gelato was a little pricey (two small scoops for five dollars), I did enjoy it quite a bit.
Overall, Little Venice seems just okay. The gelato is averagely good (maybe a bit better than that because we were really craving it that night) but the service is abysmal. Decent. Don’t expect too much.

Every time I eat here I leave with a stomach ache. This is not a good thing. The food, I don’t know what they put in it.\, but it’s not good. More importantly, the customer service is horrible. One time our waitress literally just left in the middle of our meal and she didn’t say who our new waitress would be. Another time I almost wanted to slap our waitress because when I asked about a specific dish I was unfamiliar with her response was a very snarly, «It’s just pasta and sauce and a meat with some cheese». Clearly. That same waitress later threw out my «ToGo» box after I walked out to the car and forgot it. I promptly turned around and went to my table by the time I got there (literally about 3 minutes later) she told me my food was in the garbage (I had enough food in there for a second meal).
I’m not sure what the hype is all about and I’m not sure how they’re still around because there is an overabundance of Italian restaurants in the Binghamton area with far superior food and customer service.

When in Binghamton it’s either here or Cortese’s for dinner. Last night I was in the mood for spaghetti so this is where we went, and it was very good as always. It is a homemade, thicker spaghetti. The side salad was pretty good as well, although the blue cheese dressing I did not care for. The bread could have been warmed up and toasted. Desserts were tasty – I had the strawberry Oreo concoction – and just the right size. I like what they’ve done to the interior as the space is much more open and brighter than it used to be.

Binghamton is a sad place. It’s like a smaller version of Detroit. Urban plight and decay pockmark what was the birthplace of the modern computer.
Likewise Little Venice is a sad place. It’s like a smaller version of Maggianos, similarly pockmarked with the service equivalent of urban decay: Indifference.
No one seemed to care to take our order so we had to use our experience of flagging down a taxicab in a thunderstorm in Manhattan to get the waiter’s attention.
Once the food was ordered, no one seemed to care enough to bring us bread or refill our beverages. Which wouldn’t be such a big deal if the food arrived within 20 minutes.
Or 30.
Or 40.
Or 50.
You see where I’m going with this, right?
NINETY MINUTES after placing our order and after several complaints, we got up and left.
As we were walking out the door, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the waiter placing our presumably cold food onto an empty table.
If you’re unfortunate enough to visit (or live) in Binghamton and feeling the urge to CHOW, just say CIAO to Little Venice.

I had a very delicious lunch. service was quick and attentive. My meal was a lunch portion and just enough. I sat at the bar, which was very clean and orderly. I was able to eat in peace.
I would recommend the restaurant to any one!

0 stars if possible.
I’ve been to this restaurant twice and both times were not memorable. Actually the second time was pretty memorable since our waiter had to condescendingly insult my friend when he asked him what he ordered. I understand a party of 10+ is difficult to tend to, but the waiter was impatient and didn’t have to take it out on the customer. Lucky for him my friend is a nice guy and nervously smiled it off when I wanted to toss my water at the waiter. Keep in mind my large party had made reservations in advance so they should have expected it to be hectic. Aside from the service or lack thereof, the food was not worth the money I paid. The pasta sauce was too sour and the pasta was bland and cold. The best thing I ordered was the calamari on the appetizers. But I didn’t think paying 35 dollars for just some decent calamari was acceptable. I will not be coming here again, ever.