Villa Tronco Italian - Columbia

Great food and service; excellent locally-owned restaurant; definitely a Columbia institution.

I’m a little late in posting but we held my son’s Rehearsal Dinner here in June and it was fantastic! Everything we could have hoped for! The atmosphere is very lovely and intimate, the food was amazing! They were accommodating! We were very pleased with our event here!! I’m out of state but can’t wait to return when I’m visiting again!!

Family owned Italian restaurant in the heart of downtown Columbia, South Carolina. The food is hands down the best Italian ever! The seafood Alfredo is so rich and creamy. The atmosphere is both casual and upscale. They are only open for dinner. Great place for date night dining.

Started off fantastic great service, best crab cake I 've ever had, delicious house salad. My entree (seafood pesto) left me a tad disappointed, especially for the price. Huge portion of linguine the creamy pesto sauce was delicious, however my scallops weren 't quite cooked properly (underdone only browned on one side), one of the muscles was very gritty (hadn 't been properly cleaned) and all the shrimp had tails on. At a place as nice as this, I didn 't expect to have to spit out a bite due to biting down on a hard granule, nor put my fingers in my food to remove shrimp tails. When I told the waitress about the muscle she just said oh sorry about that . Not the reaction I was expecting, and since the others are the table were enjoying their dishes I didn 't want to make a scene. Willing to give it another try, but definitely won 't order a seafood dish.

Went here for birthday dinner. My raviolis were beyond undercooked, they were Luke warm. My husband had the veal piccata and the portion for the price was ridiculous, like a kids portion . The service was great, very attentive. That was a positive. The homeless and pot smell getting there and getting to car was not a good thing. I am not saying homeless people are dangerous, some of them were asking for money which is just not safe. The location was very undesirable. Overall, horrible and not worth the money, no authinic taste