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Vespaio Restaurant Austin Reviews from The Last Year
Tasteful experience
An Italian restaurant on Congress Avenue is always busy. Reservations in advance are necessary. The food is excellent, balanced flavors and people with a stomach reduction are also taken into account.
A nicely matured, old-school Austin eatery - handily the best Italian in town
You definitely wouldn't know it given the extent to which Austin's grown since it opened, but Vespaio was one of THE hottest tickets in town for a solid decade (and it's been open over 25 years now). They originally didn't take reservations except for tables before 5:30pm, and even on an average weeknight it could be a 45-minute wait for a table (or more like 90 minutes on weekends). OTOH as an Austin native who's more than a bit sick of how bougie S. Congress has gotten – not to mention the near-Manhattan-level difficulty of getting a reservation at the latest eight-seat omakase sushi place – Vespaio has aged so gracefully that you'd never know it's older than nearly any other retail business or *any* kind within viewing distance. And while its founding chef has moved on, most of his original recipes are still used today. Vespaio definitely isn't the hippest Italian place nowadays; Sammie's on West Sixth is the main draw for Austin's new celebrity / tech millionaire set. Their prices are similar, too. But Sammie's is only a couple of years old and was rather obviously designed with "Instagramability" in mind: it's part of a "hospitality group" that has very, VERY specific design for food & interiors alike. (Meanwhile, Vespaio predated social media *and* high-speed internet!) And Sammie's simply isn't as good. I occasionally get a subpar dish at Vespaio – more than in the past – but at this point in its life it's matured into a smooth groove. If someone not familiar with Austin restaurants asks me what I'd recommend for a last-minute booking at a place that *doesn't* have bad food, Vespaio has been my main go-to ever since they *finally* added OpenTable for bookings in advance.
Food poisoning!!! Avoid this place!
Avoid unless you want to get SICK and be treated poorly! Decided to give this place a try on 8/25 and my bf and I got bad FOOD POISONING the next morning that lasted all day, and we had to cancel our evening plans. We shared a lasagna and pizza so not sure which got us sick, but this is the only meal we ate in common all week. We called and the manager apologized and said we’d get a refund but they had to investigate more and that the GM would call us. Never got a call. A week later I called back and after being placed on hold for 10 minutes and calling back 4 more times (the calls would go to VM so we called back on my bf’s number and they picked up the phone and the girl said “ohh yeaaa sorry about that”) we finally got ahold of the GM and he told us that the chef owner said he wouldn’t honor the refund we were promised because there should have been more people calling in but we were the only ones, basically saying “we don’t believe you”. A batch of food doesn’t have to be contaminated in order to get you sick…it was likely due to the way our meals were prepared. We were also asked by both a manager and GM if we saw a doctor or not. We did not see a doctor. We just toughed it out, but why does that matter? We were promised to get a call back on 9/4 from the other co-owner and even told “he’s really good about calling people back” but yet again, no call back. At this point, I’m baffled at their lack of accountability. Never have I ever experienced a restaurant with such a lack of integrity or regard for customers, and this is the only restaurant we’ve gotten food poisoning in our 3 years in Austin. Keep in mind our bill was only for 2 entrees, and they are risking their reputation over saving a small amount of money. On top of all that, we only ate less than half our meal and took most of it to go, and those leftovers had to be tossed. It’s been over 2 weeks now, still waiting on a call back. This has been so frustrating and they need to be called out.