Caffe Dolce Vita
(401) 331-8240
59 De Pasquale Ave
Providence,
RI
02903
41.8241
-71.4271
Neighborhood: Federal Hill
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Romantic Italian restaurant serves a selection of dishes including pasta, pizza and offers an extensive wine list and outdoor dining.
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Anonymous
July 14, 2008
Unfortunately it seems the owners of Cafe Dolce Vita became more interested in blending into the new hotel that was built next to it than remaining true to their original quality. Dolce Vita used to be my favorite quaint little cafe to grab an after dinner cappuccino and yummy desert. Now it looks like a cheesy, glitzy diner with absolutely none of it's original charm. It's really too bad. Providence lost one of it's greatest cafes.
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robprov
April 24, 2008
It was 20 minutes before a waitperson even acknowledged us after being seated. It was another 20 until we got our first drink order, and a subsequent 20 minutes to put in our appetizers and another round of drinks. The calamari was cold and mushy with a thick buttery cheese-like sauce which made it a soggy mass. Plus, it was cold. Calamari is supposed to be crispy. After about 2 hours of this we finally got our meals literally THROWN at us by a RUNNING waitress (not our original waitress). After eating our meals with no follow up from the wait staff we waited another 20 minutes for our check, which never showed up. We had to go inside and track down our waitress to get our check. There we found our waitress was actually the bartender! So it was no wonder she never came back. We had to jog our bill/credit cards back and forth from our table to the bar like we were the waiters. We didn't get to keep our leftovers because we would have had to go get our own containers and we were just too peeved at that point. I'm surprised we didn't have to bus our own table after we were done. Never again. Oh, and a couple that got seated before us didn't get their meals until we were just leaving...I could tell they were even more p.o'd than us and rightly so.
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sophiegras
April 01, 2008
I went there with friends after a show at the theater to end the evening nicely. Bad... very bad idea!!! It was a windy night of March, and the only table available was close to the door. Fine... it could be worse. While my friends ordered desserts, I ordered a cappuccino (I had my back against the door, I needed something warm). My friends ice cream and store made cakes came fast, as did my cappuccino served in a glass (like an Irish Coffee without the Irish) and heavily sprinkled with cinnamon. Weird for an italian caffee: it should be sprinkled with cocoa! This was not the end of the story. The worst was the lipstick on the glass... I don't wear lipstick, even in my carnival days, and obviously it wasn't my kind of shade. I asked the waitress to serve the cappuccino in a clean glass. She took another glass at the bar in front of me, and poured my cappuccino in a still wet glass from the hand washing sink. This was disgusting! (people who work in food service will now what I mean). Conclusion: if you want a drink there, bring your own straw and vinyl gloves and order something strong enough or hot enough to eliminate the germs in your glass. About the desserts my friends ordered, I didn't bother to ask: I will never go back to this dirty place anyway.
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American Express, Discover, Visa, MasterCard
Restaurant Special Features:
Local Favorite, Romantic Dining, Family Style Dining, Lunch Spot, Group Dining
