Alta Strada

Pleasantly surprised by this restaurant. First of all I felt welcome and at home. The service is top notch and the food was excellent. The wine was exactly what I wanted. I'll have to back to get a better grasp on the menu items. I can highly recommend the Lune Pasta with mushrooms. The menu has starters, pasta, entrees, steaks. When the servers or any other asks you if you need anything else speak your mind. It's how we got bread to the table.

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.

I’ll start with the caveat that this is a takeout review. But this place was very disappointing. The Cacio e Pepe was an absolute joke; buttered angel hair with some scarce cheese and pepper on it for $24. I could have made that at home in 10 minutes for $2. The chicken parm was decent, but randomly came with broccoli with really threw me off. The bolognese was pretty good; good Al dente pasta with good flavor the ricotta dip was definitely the best thing, but could have used more crostinis. All around pretty disappointing for how expensive it was

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. This is an Italian restaurant, so to start, a big hunk of crusty bread is set on the table, with olive oil. It's good. The appetizers looked appealing on the menu and as waiters served them to guests around us, tbey looked good. I wasn't terribly hungry so just ordered an entree, Chicken Parmesan. A nice dish, decent portion, the tomato sauce was light and good, I was pleased. Roasted broccoli on the side. A word on service, which might be the secret to their success. Our waiter was funny and kind. We were with friends and wanted to talk, which the waiter understood and didn't rush us. Also, I changed my order and he was so nice to me in spite of my indecision. I should also note they have a very competent cocktail, wine and beer list. Our friend ordered a Martini with extra olives, and then when he wanted a few more the waiter brought more, neatly skewered. That's good service and gets an extra gold star from me.