Greetings from the beautiful Costantino’s Venda Bar & Ristorante.
Undoubtedly the most elegant place in Providence, Rhode Island, for food and drink, Costantino’s Ristorante opened its doors on the evening of June 19, 2002. This Italian wine bar and restaurant is located on DePasquale Plaza, across the square from Venda Ravioli at 265 Atwells Avenue, in the heart of historic Federal Hill – the Little Italy section of the capital city, where our family has been making pasta in the Old World tradition for over 70 years.
Costantino’s Venda Bar & Ristorante is renowned throughout Providence and beyond for our authentic Italian cuisine, award-winning wine list, and exceptional service.
Lively area staple offering Italian comfort classics, a sizable wine list & seasonal live music. Based on 953 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.1 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
265 Atwells Ave, Providence, RI 02903
Phone: (401) 528-1100
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Hours
| Wednesday | 11:30 AM–12 AM |
| Thursday | 11:30 AM–12 AM |
| Friday | 11:30 AM–12 AM |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM–12 AM |
| Sunday | 11:30 AM–11:30 PM |
| Monday | 11:30 AM–12 AM |
| Tuesday | 11:30 AM–12 AM |
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Reservations: opentable.com
Reviews
Darren Branner
Would strongly recommend a reservation. The atmosphere was great. Indoor seating was more intimate while outdoor was fun with a live band playing Sinatra. My wife and I shared an aperol spritz and a red sangria. The red sangria was amazing. The calamari was awesome. Anything with the vodka sauce was great. I ordered the chicken parm, and it was a little thick. The tiramisu was the cherry on top. Would highly recommend.
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Mr. Branham
Holy cannoli let’s just say first of all come in here. It’s like you’re in a mob movie. We came on a perfect night. They had the Frank Sinatra band playing and it was perfect. They actually were very, very good. They also have a live singers with them as well. The food was great. I had to take a star away because the marinara sauce taste runny. I didn’t really taste any tomato. I taste just water. That’s kind of what it tastes like to me. However, the lobster ravioli is the best dish there and then the eggplant as a appetizer is a must. It’s very decadence very light creamy that eggplant is perfect. The chicken parm anything with the marinel that they had just was kind of watery. Now the pasta you can tell is fresh, but the the marinara was just almost want to take two stars away from it for just that. However, I can’t because the atmosphere brings another star up. So you have to be careful when you come here. Because if the food’s not good, the atmosphere is going to make you feel like man. This is great but the marinara sauce just did not do it for me. I’ve had a lot better but this place is a must. If you’re in the area you do need to go to it and sit outside if you can
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Antia Frias
Everything was amazing. If you come here please ask for Matthew. Our server was great. Friendly and very knowledgeable of the menu. 10/10 would recommend. Go ahead and get the bottle of the Santa margherita brut rosa. You won’t regret.
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A. M. (A3)
While our server was friendly, the hostess initially was not and ignored us for 10 minutes. It was a holiday Sunday so that is understandable, but still, at least say you are busy at the moment and will be with us shortly. Once we sat, as mentioned, our server was friendly but we did have to wait quite a bit between visits due to the sheer amount of people. The outdoor seating was very nice and the chicken Parmesan was very tasty, as was the pasta. There aren’t many quiet times to come here, but I’m sure it would make things quicker.
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Holly R
My husband and I’s first date was here exactly 10 years ago so we decided to go back. Everything was excellent! We had calamari, wedge salad, pork ragu, and cannelloni Al forno. Service was fast and we loved sitting in the plaza.
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Nina C
My partner and I went here for an anniversary dinner I was able to reserve a table online in less than a minute. It was a little confusing on what door to go in from but the one with the big sign above it does make sense as the entrance even though it’s a few doors down. we got there 15 minutes before our reservation but we were seated right away. The menu was online which I’m pretty sure became popular after covid hit and places started to reopen. my partner brought up that you go out to dinner to not be on your phone the whole time and looking at the menu on your phone feels weird. At least that’s how he felt about it but of course it has benefits like less germs spread and such. A rather big party came in right after we had been seated so it was a little hard to hear each other even though we were right across the table from one another but it wasn’t overly loud. And we got our food incredibly quickly considering the large party which we were both impressed by. We got an appetizer I forgot the name of it but it was the mushroom one (I think there was only one mushroom appetizer). My partner doesn’t love mushrooms too much and he really liked it. I love mushrooms so of course I enjoyed it as well. I got the alla vodka pasta it was so rich and delicious. My partner got the chicken parm and he really enjoyed that as well. The service was great our waitress and the person she was training checked up on us frequently and were very friendly. Parking was a pain but besides that we really enjoyed ourselves. Thank you!!
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Melissa Malone
We were told by our server at another restaurant to try Venda out. Made reservations on OpenTable and when we arrived we went to the bar. Gave our name and then we were asked if we want to eat here or the dining room. So we opted for the dining room. It was two doors down. We went there and waited for about five minutes before the hostess there was back at her station. We stated our name and said that we would be in the overflow seating. She then proceeded to walk us across the courtyard to the deli. When we walked in there were three or four plastic tables with table cloths, and plastic chairs. We said will go back to the bar area and see if they have the original table. Not sure about the overflow, but it definitely was not the experience we were looking for. So going back to the bar we got a hightop table for five the atmosphere was really nice, the food was amazing. Best manicotti I have ever had! Overall experience for the food is a definite 5 and we highly recommend. Service was 3-4, so I gave a 4.
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Jesse Knust
I had the best birthday date at Constantinos last night. She let us move to room upstairs with the big Japanese mural and it was just us. Our server was very attentive and helpful, I cannot remember her name, I think she is new, but she went above and beyond to give us a really lovely experience. It’s gorgeous in that room, I’ve never been sat in there and it was so sweet of her to let us move. The food was outstanding, but thats no surprise to us being patrons of Venda Ravioli. We were very happy and enjoyed every part of our experience. I’d say it’s the most romantic date we’ve been on in years, just dreamy.
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Madison Gaudencio
I’ve been here before for lunch and the pasta was great. For this review we just had drinks and dessert. I wish I remembered the names of these but the one with the pistachio topping was delicious. It didn’t resemble the consistency of a pudding, more of a custard. I thought it was the perfect amount of sweet. There was someone that did come around for campaigning outside to the tables which I found odd for a dining experience. Nonetheless it was still good.
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Brianna Forte
One of the worst dining experiences ever. Made a reservation for Saturday at 7:15PM, was shocked to wait 20 minutes in line to check in for a reservation with one miserable hostess working. We were seated in the back of the back of the restaurant where we were all packed like sardines. We were back to back to back with other tables completely crammed. Our waitress who never introduced herself (I believe it was Summer because that’s what was on our check) let us know the bar was really behind because there was only 1 bartender.. we waited 45 minutes for our first round of drinks, ordered appetizers then when we got the appetizers I had to ask 3 times for silverware. Extremely inattentive staff, had to ask/wait for water multiple times (it was very hot and humid out) and were never offered grated cheese, I requested and had to get up and get it myself. Finally, as we were anxiously waiting to leave we were brought the incorrect drinks and extra drinks than the number of people they were with. At that point, we just wanted to get out of the table and paid for the drinks we didn’t want. Overall, I noticed a huge decline in service and quality. Extremely unfortunate as we’ve always enjoyed going for the ambiance and live music. I understand the staffing constraints post pandemic, then maybe they should have closed sections considering they didn’t have enough hostesses, waitstaff, food runners, bussers or bar tenders. On a positive note, we did end up transitioning to the bar where Adam was great and attentive!
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