Salted Dough Bistro

I had the open faced ravioli with ricotta cheese, pistachios, truffle oil, scallions and lemon zest. Contemporary Italian at its best. No liquor license as of yet, but you can bring in your own bottle.

Food was good and the server was making an effort. Unfortunately I think they were under staffed and just opened

I know of an employee who use to work there. They quit because they were not paid on time, not getting paid full amount due and said owner serves old food thats moldy and picks food up of the floor and serves it.

So, so disappointing, so VERY disappointing.The entire "Little Italy" experience was terrible tonight from start to finish. And I don't say that lightly. I have spent my entire life from childhood on the Hill. These are my people. It has always been my "go to" place. I'm sad to say maybe no longer.You can not easily navigate the area anymore. It's nearly impossible to park. The past 3 times I've been there no valets were anywhere to be found. And if I could find one I would be seriously concerned about the safety of my car. I think I'll just wait until summer when it's comfortable to walk a distance and it's light out until 9PM.Well after the parking nightmare we finally got into the restaurant. It was cute, new, clean. There was no excessive noise. So far, so good.We had been forewarned they do not have their liquor license yet so we were welcome to bring our own wine; which we did... not a problem. A very pleasant young woman seated us, brought us glasses and opened our wine.After a short time she returned to take our order. So far it looked like we were going to have a great evening.Unfortunately, from that point on everything went sour.A full hour after we were seated we finally received our BREAD. Yes, you read that right. It took an hour to get bread! If we hadn't brought our own wine we would have been sitting there with only water. During that time I watched two tables get up and leave having never received anything but water. The rest of us were just gluttons for punishment. I felt bad for our poor server. She was trying so hard and was being thwarted at every turn. She was dealing with terribly disappointed customers and when she went into the kitchen to attempt to do something about it she would get yelled at in there.It was an hour and half when we finally received our appetizers (3 slices of prosciutto with crostini). Seriously... 90 minutes! I have made that dish myself in about 90 seconds.It was 20 minutes later we finally received our entrees. Now I must say, my lamb was very good and so was my wife's pasta.The quality of the product was good - the service was atrocious!For curiosity sake I asked if it would take long to get coffee. I was told they didn't think they had any... so, so sad.Well all we needed was to pay our bill. Our server returned to our table in tears with a scrap of paper in her hand. All she could say between her sobs was the printer wouldn't work. She hand wrote our total. It looked reasonably close to what I had anticipated, so we paid and we left.I am telling you, unless someone who knows how to properly run a restaurant gets in there immediately and fixes it they will be out of business in two weeks.Too bad... has a lot of promise.

I was extremely impressed with this restaurant. We had a pizza, the sweet pea gnocchi and the fish special and all three of them were bursting with flavor. Additionally, I'm gluten free and the pizza crust and the gnocchi were gluten free and homemade. I watched the gnocchi being made fresh through the window. It was honestly some of the best pasta I've ever had. I will say, service was slow, but we weren't in a hurry so we weren't bothered by it. Will definitely be going back.

BEST restaurant in CLE. Tried every appetizer and each was better than the other. Best braised octupus anywhere! Loved the goat cheese tart, stuffed peppers, salmon crudo, broccolini, meatballs. Everything was prepared in stunning fashion with the most incredible presentation. Killer Tiramisu. Staff is super attentive. Will be going back for dinner tomorrow. Highly recommend. Welcome to Little Italy!

The food was great, the mushroom ricotta gnocchi was definitely a highlight. The tiramisu was delicious. The owner brought us complimentary bruschetta and the wait staff was friendly and responsive. Wait times were a bit long since kitchen staff were short. This is definitely the best restaurant in Little Italy which is lacking fun, contemporary Italian restaurants. The ambience is nice and since they do not have a liquor license yet, you can bring your own!

run. sat there for 1.5 without food. small portion big price. the waitress litterally was so unhelpful and almost cried. the table next to us got a pizza with chorizo and it was eggplant. the manager tried saying it was chorizo. have you ever seen chorizo? have you ever seen an eggplant?