Sophisticated eatery serving housemade pasta dishes, garlic bread & other Italian classics. Based on 230 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.3 stars. Price $$$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Curbside pickup ✔️ Delivery
Address:
92 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: (781) 237-6100
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Hours
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed
Holiday hours
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| Tuesday | 5–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 5–9 PM |
| Thursday | 5–9 PM |
| Friday | 5–9 PM |
| Saturday | 5–9 PM |
| Sunday | 5–8 PM |
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Reviews
Paul
We love the pappardelle with wild boar, as well as clams vogonle. The service was pretty good too, the waitress came and checked out a couple time to make sure things are right.
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Nadj
Excellent service and friendly staff, nice looking restaurant and great atmosphere. The food on the other hand is below average, hence my review. This is the second time we go there, as a party of 4 for a total of 8 different meals, and it was underwhelming across the board: overcooked chicken, well presented but average tasting pasta plates, the «house» garlic bread was just bad. In summery, it’s a great looking restaurant with great atmosphere and staff, but if you’re in search of good authentic Italian food, this overpriced restaurant is not it.
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Marissa Penta
I was very impressed with this place. We’ve lived in the area for about 3 years and this is now my favorite Italian restaurant. It reminds me of my North End days.
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Lori
The Manager Guy went out of his way above and beyond to make our dinner enjoyable! The food and drink were both excellent. My husband had the lamb chops and I the bolognese. Will our server was kind, professional, and plain awesome!
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Arkady K.
Went here with my wife for our anniversary. Regretted doing so within the first 10 minutes.
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Susie Elliott
My husband and I had dinner at Alta Strada over Memorial Day weekend and had a really pleasant experience. We ordered the garlic bread and meatballs for an app. I had the chicken milanese and my husband had the chicken parm for dinner. We also ordered drinks. Our waiter was great, very attentive. He recommended a white wine to go with the Chicken Milanese. All of the food was delicious! There was a slight accident when the woman (she might have been a runner from the kitchen) came to deliver the food. The chicken from my chicken milanese slide off the plate into my lap. She was incredibly apologetic, she felt awful! The server then came over to apologize and the GM also came over to apologize. Thankfully chicken Milanese isn’t a very messy dish and I picked the chicken up pretty quickly. It didn’t really get on my shirt. The girl quickly went off to the kitchen to have them cook me up a new dish. The food was delicious, the service was great. At the very end, the DM came over with his business card and told me that when I dry clean my shirt, to please send him the receipt so they would take care of it. That was very thoughtful! I won’t need to do that as my shirt is machine washable, but I really appreciate how they reacted to the accident and how they were trying to make it right. I wasn’t upset by the whole situation, it was truly an accident and the chicken barely touched my shirt. We would definitely go back there again, and would recommend it to others. The food and service were great!
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Frank Davidson
Ok. Appetizers were pretty good. Nice bread. Chicken Milanese was too thick and rubbery. Should be thin with a crunchy bite. Wine was good. Pasta about what you’d expect. Too expensive for what was on offer, but ok. Convenient location.
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Carol Lintz
Alta Strada is a busy, happy, pretty restaurant right in the center of Wellesley. It has been there for long enough to confirm that the food and experience are good enough to please a discerning clientele, and I would agree.
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Kuroi G
This place was disappointing to say the least. I went to the logan airport location as i was traveling. This was not authentic or even good imitation italian food. I got the mushroom rosemary pizza was was just terrible. It tasted like the pizza from my 7th grade cafeteria. The cheese is cheap and tasteless, there was not even a slight hint of Rosemary at all and im confused as to why this wasnt a white sauce. The red just trough me off the whole time. And the sauce doesnt even matter because the crust was unforgiving. Clearly premade and outsourced and just chewy. The smash burger was good, meaty and just what you want, but they gave me like 10 fries … why? I also got 2 glasses of wine which were good. For 60$ i feel this was expensive based soley on the quality. I should not be paying 60$ for seriously mediocre “italian” food.
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Nick Korbel
I went in thinking “it’s Italian, how good could it be?”
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