Verducci’s

AMAZING! Fresh & prepared foods as well as ingredients you can buy for a dinner at home. Coffee /​wine /​desserts are delicious! Sandwiches and pizza are bomb!

Four friends and myself dined at Verducci’s at my suggestion. I have been here many times, and the food and service were always top notch. Not so this evening. Our server brought us a basket of stale bread and a dish of what appeared to be salad oil with some tasteless red specks in it for dipping. No plates on which to set the bread. No pepper on the table either. I ordered chicken piccata in a wine and lemon sauce. I could taste neither wine nor lemon and the sauce was thickened with flour. I have never been served this dish before without the piquant taste of lemon. It was served on a scoop of watery and tasteless mashed potato with some mushy zucchini. One guest ordered eggplant pram but was served chicken pram. He had to wait another 10 or 15 minutes before his food arrived, The sauce on the spaghetti was the most frightful shade of orange I have ever seen. A likely victim of a blender or food processor. The meatballs while large were rather tasteless. I do no think we will be going back anytime in the foreseeable future.

Great food and great service! We come here several times each year during our family vacations to St. Pete! They have great dinner specials! They have opened their market next door, I hear wonderful things — looking forward to checking it out next visit!

My tagaliatella allla bolognese was a plate of hamburger helper, the most disgusting mess I’ve suffered through. My three companions likewise had lousy food. Even spaghetti and meatballs was awful. How do you screw that up? Food arrived cold and one in our party waited ten minutes for her entrée, after everyone else had been served. The server was nice, but we saw little of her. If you have $ 15-​$ 20 per entrée to throw away, this is the right place. The best part of our evening was the valet attendant, who was friendly and very helpful. Every other aspect of the evening was disappointing. Cannot, for the life of me, understand why there was a crowd. Maybe we caught it on a bad night, but we’ll not try it again.

It’s a great little Italian market and bakery. They sell fresh pastas, wine and baked goods. Pick up one of their amazing cannolis.

They definitely treat you like family here and make sure that the quality is always there. We can rely on them every time! If there is something you want, they can figure out how to make it for you. A little secret, they have amazing breakfast! You just have to ask!