Uva Rossa

Great atmosphere. The food is always amazing and the wine selection is one of my favorites. The staff is great. I am so glad to have found such a great restuarunt close to home!

Miguel was our server on this busy night!
I highly recommend making reservations we had reservations for 815 and didnt get seated until 830 packed house from tables to bar area!

Food here is amazing! The meatballs are to die for! Excellent service! All around really great!

I love my local new restaurant that is beautiful, delicious, and takes you out of typical «Long Island»… truly special.

We were interested in having our daughters first birthday here so we came to dinner to try it out. Needless to say, we booked her party the next day. The décor and ambience was beautiful, the waitress was friendly and sweet and the food was delicious. We had the meatball slider, burrata appetizer and the pizza with prosciutto and arugula. Every single dish was incredible. Can’t wait for her party!

Unbelievable. I made a reservation for 9pm tonight for this restaurant. I show up at 9pm and they said the kitchen is closed. Unilocal says they close at 10. I told the waitress I have a reservation and she goes «yeah… Sorry» and literally walks away. How does an unprofessional place like this get such great reviews? So disheartening. Went out of my way because I’ve heard good things then I get treated like crap and dismissed. Terrible.

Uva Rossa pleasantly surprised me. Girl dates are the best I had a wonderful first experience dining here a few times with my girl friends.
I’ve dabbled with a few items on the menu, the burrata, stuffed dates, grilled brussel sprouts, insalata di palma and the Polpetta della nonna (meatballs). Everything is so delicious but I was expecting more from the meatballs.
Perks: there is a great variety, even for my pescatarian friends. Its 15 minutes from my house and down the block from my best friends place. I went on a Thursday and it was so crowded, Sundays were a little less crowded. The first time the service was slower.
I’d hope they open another location, Long Island needs more establishments like this, they give Salumi in Massapequa a run for their money.

Came here for lunch and shared baked clams and a pizza with mozzarella, prosciutto, arugula and tomato between two people. Everything was so fresh and delicious! We tasted a meatball and an eggplant meatball, both were amazing. The eggplant meatball is a must try, I’ve never had anything like it before.
The atmosphere is rustic and comfortable while still trendy. Really beautiful and clean! Definitely coming back for happy hour because the bar was stunning.

This restaurant is a very rustic renaissance appearance with a cozy atmosphere. The draw at UVA Rossa is Tapas small plates, a few entrée-​size dishes, and their selection of reasonable price wine. The restaurant was very busy and was quite noisy. Our server did mention that they were very busy, and we should expect delays on being served. They did provide our cocktails rather quick. The only small plate we ordered were the Meatballs, one being the eggplant ball as an appetizer. The Meatball appetizers seem to be too creamy for my taste. My entrée was the Pan seared salmon with onion, capers and lemon sauce over spinach which I thought was good. One of my companions had the Grilled Skirt Steak that was good, but a small portion for an entrée. Meanwhile, the wine was good for the price.

A cute little hideaway restaurant that has a cool ambiance & a great wine selection!
The menu has some great specialty dishes. the Pollo alla Uva Rosa was AMAZING… with the most delectable taste & the presentation is fabulous!
The service was great too!
I’ll definitely be back!!!

Went to Uva Rosa tonight, the food was great and the bar tender severed a drink called Prospect Park. Had this drink at Sarma in Somerville Ma and Uva Rosa now saves me driving 5 hours. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This has been my second time going here and it’s still the best. Staff is friendly and the environment is laid back. Not to mention the food is amazing and fresh. Eggplant meatballs are definitely a must appetizer. Really good place to go if your in the mood for real Italian food. Won’t be disappointed.

Upon entering this eatery, you feel like you are entering Medieval Times. The décor is dark Renaissance. However the food is delicious modern. I poo poo’d them when they told me reservations were needed on a Tuesday night! Well, the place was packed and with good reason.
Delicious crusty bread for the table along with a dip that I couldn’t quite place. Turns out to be a lose humusy mixture of cannellini beans, cheese, garlic and oil. Interesting!
No appetizers this time out. My pasta (Buccachinni) with clams and shrimp in a red sauce was fantastic and the other 2 got grilled skirt steak over arugula. The steak was seasoned and cooked to perfection.
Cappuccino was good but I should have looked at menu for prices. Fried ravioli with banana and Nutella was very good but not good enough to warrant a price of $ 11.50. It was more than most appetizers! I would absolutely go back but probably not order desert.

We came because we’d heard great things. Our experience was so uneven, I can’t imagine we’d ever go back.
The staff was friendly, the décor attractive, and, for a Wednesday night, the place was jammed. And loud. Very loud. When I see that many people, I have to assume they’ve had good experiences – and I try to remember that no one bats 1.000. Still…
We ordered 2 glasses of wine, appetizers and a main course. My glass of wine was appropriate in volume; my wife’s was about half of mine, as if they ran out as they were pouring her glass. No big deal for us – she only drinks about a half a glass anyway.
It then took two reminders and an hour – that’s right an hour – to get our appetizers. Why didn’t we walk? It was our anniversary and we actually were planning our vacation, so we didn’t notice until we realized we were pretty hungry, the tables next to us, who sat after us, were on entrees, and the bus boy had just brought our 4^th serving of bread.
When they brought the appetizers they were clearly rushed and, well. wrong. I think. We ordered the risotto balls which were gummy and lacking in flavor. We ordered an eggplant «meatball» which was mushy and tasted mostly of breading– if there was eggplant in there, it was well hidden. And we ordered a meat ball which tasted exactly like the eggplant ball. Exactly. As in, either they brought us two of the same or it was the worst meatball I’ve ever had.
Our entries hit the table a nano-​second after the appetizers– I guess they were looking to average out the minutes-​per-​course. My wife’s linguine with clam sauce was excellent, as was my Uva Rossa Chicken, a fried cutlet topped with figs, grapes and a delicious sauce. Really good. (My problem was that during the hour wait for the appetizers, I ate about a loaf and half of bread– I was so full that I took some dinner home, something I’ve done about the same number of times as the Jets have won a Superbowl.)
We split the dark chocolate gelato which was too sweet and not gelato-​ish at all. (Our mistake: our friends own an extraordinary gelato stand in Hampton Bays – we’re spoiled and should have passed on the restaurant’s version.)
So– can I recommend it? Nope. Is it a place I’d say stay away, stay away? Nope. We just may have hit it on a wrong night. But I would say, avoid the «balls» appetizers at all costs.

Located in the town of Malverne on the south shore of Long Island this wine bar has stole my heart. Absolutely amazing food and customer service. I couldn’t believe that this small-​town gem would be so amazing. Yes I’ve drove by this place so many times over the years but never would’ve thought what I was missing out on, oh I was so wrong. I could totally kick myself for not coming in sooner all these years and I’ve been missing out on this hidden little gem.
The food is absolutely to die for I started with the meat platter pencetta and the prosciutto 2 for $ 12 I then moved on to my entrée which I ordered the meatballs. I’ll be honest I’m not really meatball kind of person but the photos posted on Unilocal looked so good that I had to order. If you love meatballs you definitely have to try there’s they were absolutely spectacular the best meatballs I’ve ever had. they were soft, chewy and packed with just enough flavor and of course goes down great but a few glasses of wine.
Great customer service, tentative and not overbearing. Great spot for a romantic date night. I will definitely be a returning customer.

If I could give them 10 stars, I would. I am obsessed with this restaurant so much that my fiancé and I booked it for our engagement party and I’m counting down the days.
Polpetta Della Nonna MEATBALLS! Get them. Stat. I haven’t had a dish that I haven’t liked. Some I prefer over others (like I will always choose the meatballs no matter how good the next dish is) but I find that for the most part you can always get a freshly made, authentic meal here with a nice wine pairing.
The brownie crumble is also a must have as well as their mozzarella alla caprese and DEFINITELY try the tortino di risotto appetizer.
Some of the things I’ve read in these negative reviews are absurd and seem to be written by people that only have very few reviews posted which always seems fishy to me. Yes it’s loud– it’s an Italian restaurant! I’m pretty sure the owner never intended for it to be a quiet place. If a restaurant is great, it’s going to be busy and it may require a reservation ahead of time. Since when should an establishment be docked stars because you didn’t plan ahead and made reservations? I have been there more than a handful of times and to the one reviewer who said they have these so called «rules» about not being able to order drinks and an appetizer prior to dinner– seriously? We have ordered drinks and appetizers before our meals every single time and were never told we couldn’t.
Food is an individual preference but giving an establishment 1 star because it was too busy for your liking sounds like a personal problem. As for me, I will continue raving!

Literally JUST had dinner there. Ended up spending $ 60 per person on food for a meal with pretty good food and below average service.
When we walked in the host said the dining room was completely full/​reserved. Fine. We sat at a communal table at the front of the restaurant. On a Friday night, I believe a restaurant should be fully staffed. This one was not. There were two servers for the ENTIRE restaurant. It took 20 minutes for us to even give our drink orders. We were sitting at the table for an hour and a half and still only had our appetizers. The 3 bus boys didn’t really know what was going on. They brought us bread with a dip, and when asked what the dip was, they didn’t know. Getting any of the staff’s attention was like pulling teeth.
I don’t mind dropping $ 60 on a meal if it’s a high quality one, with high quality service. This one was neither. Definitely not worth it.
Should’ve gone to the pub down the street or the Chinese takeout place next door.

I went here for a wedding shower and it was probably the nicest place I’ve ever been to a shower/​party.
The restaurant is beautiful with plenty of parking and inside seating. The food is some of the most delicious I’ve ever tasted and the sangria is to DIE for.
The staff is incredibly kind and attentive and I just really wish I lived closer so I could be a regular.
Try the vegetarian meatballs, WOW! I’ll be back here again, watch me!

I really do not understand the hype about this place and how it could have an average of a 4 star rating. We tried getting in many times on weekends but it was always so crowded and we finally got a reservation for dinner on a quiet mid-​week night tonight. The eggplant meatballs that everyone speaks about should be called breadcrumb meatballs since that is the only taste you come away with when you eat them. I couldn’t taste anything that tasted remotely like eggplant. VERY disappointing and it was downhill from there — which is pathetic since that was supposed to be the «masterpiece» so many people write about.
We were a party of 4 and the fried calamari that our friend ordered was pretty good. My sister ordered a pizza and the crust was totally weird and tasted cracker-​like. Although I would never eat frozen pizza, I would venture to say that Ellio’s, Domino’s or Papa John’s are probably better. The pizza gets a solid ZERO rating. I had the chicken cutlet uva rossa which was a fried cutlet (very tasty) with a very sweet mixture of figs and other sweet stuff in the sauce over it (feh!) and the sauce ruined the entire cutlet. The barley, or whatever the side dish was, had no taste whatsoever and didn’t even have any salt in it, let alone any other seasoning. UGH! My husband had a pasta dish with a meat ragu sauce over it which he thought was just OK but I hated it and it needed more seasoning too.
We shared a crumbled «brownie» that came with gelato, whipped cream and a fudge drizzle and I have no idea how they can call that a brownie. The boxed Ghirardelli brownies blow this thing away since this was only a chocolate, airy, crumbled sponge cake. They should be ashamed calling this a brownie and even dessert stunk. I am sure you realize that there is no way I would ever go back there. If you want a great Italian meal, go to Butera’s. Every one of their restaurants is consistent and every dish is AMAZING! I have never tasted one thing there that I didn’t like.

Forgot to Check-​In in Friday… This place has character with its communal table near the bar and rustic entrance. Was surprised we were seated early. Hostess and waitress were both very friendly and knowledgeable. Beet salad was a nice light meal. Enjoyed their Taleggio and Moliterno al vino cheese platters as they paired well with their Tempranillo. Red sangria by the glass was pleasant (be careful as it is a generous serving by the glass and before you know it you’ll be surprisingly drunk). Sorry didn’t give them 5-​stars because I need to have the full dining experience before determining if it’s worthy of a 5-​star rating.