Review Chianti Ristorante - Saratoga Springs

Overall 9.5/10..I go out to eat all the time and this place was just different. Josh the barteneder was 10/10 very helpful and just welcoming. Food was great from the apps to the desert. Would highly recommend stopping in and trying it out. Prices are very fair and the food quality is as high as iv’e seen.

Enjoyed Saratoga Restaurant Week. Everything was amazing. Dessert can be a little better.

Great food! Love the carpaccio and calamari here, and the short rib was fabulous!

My partner and I sit at the bar and order the bar specials. They are relatively small but delicious. The restaurant itself is large and noisy but the bar always seems like a friendly place to eat. Great Northern Italian food excellent servers and a very cool atmosphere.

I recommend sticking to the basics at this restaurant. My pasta was good I ordered the Norma. My husband’s was so horrible. He order the filet mignon risotto and it looked like dog food. Is was a watery serving of risotto with little chunks of meat that looked more like ground beef. It was overpowered by way too much truffle. The server was nice by taking the app off the bill.

We decided to come here to celebrate my boyfriends birthday while on vacation from NJ because we really wanted to have a nice, fine dining experience and it was everything and more! We originally booked an 8:45pm reservation (because that's all they had left), but our table wasn't ready when we arrived 5 minutes early so we waited around a while and they decided to offer us seating at the bar around 9pm because they close at 10pm and they didn't want to rush us to eat. We were a little disappointed because we wanted to have a nice romantic table for 2 for this special night, but we settled for the bar. They were very apologetic and after the bartender said that he wouldn't mind coming in and out of the bar to serve us if we moved to a high top table nearby because they were short staffed, we did just that. Everyone was so accommodating, friendly/ sweet, helpful and made us feel very special. We were extremely thankful and gracious for everyone's hospitality. The food was absolutely delicious! We ordered a bottle of red chianti (they have a very large wine menu of all prices which was fantastic), a carpaccio appetizer that had gorgonzola and truffle oil and 2 duck entrees which were both amazing. The duck had a black cherry reduction that paired perfectly with both the duck and vegetables. Because it was my boyfriends birthday they brought out 2 huge Nutella cannoli's with a candle (that was to die for and needs to be on the menu permanently) and we also ordered chocolate covered profiterols filled with a light, not too sweet cream and some espressos. We had no complaints whatsoever. They were nice enough to give us all desserts and espressos free of charge as an apology for waiting, which we greatly appreciated. The ambiance of Chianti was very romantic, upscale and definitely on the fancier side, which we loved. Again, we had a great time and loved every part of our new dinner experience! The hostess was helpful and sweet and our bartender/ waiter was super great and conversational and outgoing. If you're looking to go out to eat at a delicious Italian restaurant with a fine dining feel, in a very cute and quaint town, Chianti is highly recommended! If we are ever in the area, we would come back.

I have been to this restaurant many times for many different occasions and loved it, the staff was always super nice and the food was always great. That doesn’t seems to be the case anymore. Recently my parents went to Forno for dinner and waited 15 minutes before they could even speak with someone at the host stand. When they finally got a hold of someone the person who they were being helped by was rude and combative. Then someone who came in after them and had a reservation for a later time was sedated before my parents. Now that’s not all, I tried to make a reservation for my birthday 2+ weeks in advance at Chianti and had something come up a week before. We had trouble getting through to someone on the phone in the first place but when I finally got through I ended up on hold for several minutes for them to come back with nothing and it appeared from what I was told they didn’t have my reservation in the book even though I had the confirmation text on my phone. I then go on hold again for 15+ minutes and hung up because no one had gotten back to me. I’ve read the reviews and it seems like my parents and myself aren’t the only ones with problems like I’ve described. It’s a shame because we’ve always loved going to Chianti and Forno for years but it doesn’t look like we’ll be back any time soon.

Went in for a quick meal last night at the bar. Josh was awesome, the three appetizer specials were to die for! You should try the grilled octopus anytime it’s on the menu!! What a meal! Can’t go wrong when you visit.