Il Fornello - North Providence

I got food poisoning, called the restaraunt to tell them my boyfriend and I had a great dinner but that I got sick from the Scallops...Got a call back from the Manager of this restaurant only to have him tell me I didn't have food poisoning, I just had a bad reaction... you've got to be kidding me. I eat scallops, shrimp, lobster dozens of times every year especially being from Cape Cod where it's actually fresh. We came into eat around 7pm on Monday March 7th, and I woke up at 1am, 6 hours later, puking up everything. I called to tell them we had a great dinner, great service, but I had become very ill, and the manager or whoever he was, tells me it wasn't their fault, I just had a bad reaction. I can ASSURE you, I will NEVER return here and I will be sure to tell all my friends and coworkers to not eat here too.

I got food poisoning, called the restaraunt to tell them my boyfriend and I had a great dinner but that I got sick from the Scallops...Got a call back from the Manager of this restaurant only to have him tell me I didn't have food poisoning, I just had a bad reaction... you've got to be kidding me. I eat scallops, shrimp, lobster dozens of times every year especially being from Cape Cod where it's actually fresh. We came into eat around 7pm on Monday March 7th, and I woke up at 1am, 6 hours later, puking up everything. I called to tell them we had a great dinner, great service, but I had become very ill, and the manager or whoever he was, tells me it wasn't their fault, I just had a bad reaction. I can ASSURE you, I will NEVER return here and I will be sure to tell all my friends and coworkers to not eat here too.

I’m retired from the restaurant/hospitality business after 40 years. This place never ever lets me down! The owners mom is from Italy and the sweetest nicest person you will ever meet(she reminds me of my mamma) huge portions great drinks and price friendly a great value for an authentic Italian trattoria/osteria. Try it you will love it!!

6/30/23 7:30 pm So where to start. We walked in and everything seemed fine. The place looks clean and neat. We sat outside and ordered rice balls as an appetizer. Chicken Marsala and Linguine with Clam Sauce and a Salad that came with our Entrees. All of it was horrible. The clam sauce tasted like it was from the can and so did the Chicken Marsala. The Salad had dead leaves in it! We left it on the table and told our waitress we did not like the food. Service gets 1 star because the busboy who served our table was very polite and friendly. The waitress seemed very busy even though the place was 2/3 empty and when we got the bill and saw we were charged in full for everything even though we did not eat the entrees.. we realized the type of people running this place. Stay away!! These are the type of owners who care about money over everything else! If you have ever had authentic Italian food you will automatically realize what I am talking about immediately. We should have walked out after the rice balls but we decided to give them a chance on the entree. For that I will take the blame and pay my bill and leave but I have no idea how this place has so many stars. I 100% believe the owner is NOT Italian! No self respecting Italian restaurant owner would serve this.. on that note most restaurants will offer to comp a meal if you don’t like it or offer a discount or something to compensate. They did not and not that I wanted a discount but it’s the offer that counts. It’s shows you care about your customers which this place obviously doesn’t.

This has been our go to restaurant since moving here 5 years ago. Never disappointed. Specials, menu items, it doesn’t matter… you can’t miss. I am always pleasantly pleased with the prices as well.