Pianeta - Truckee

This place has a great atmosphere and good eating. we often go to our jubilee. we love to eat it down, as it feels like they have their own personal culinary experience. the personal is always at the point. this is our favorite place in the city if we want a special night out.

We've been wanting to try this place for years and finally had the chance to enjoy the restaurant last week. The Caesar salad was large and delicious. My husband had a difficult time sharing his ravioli bolognese with me. Delicious. Pasta di Olio was a lighter option and good. Highly recommend adding the prawns. Cooked perfectly.

We happened to stop here after the glowing reviews on Yelp, in a search for something to eat. I'll start off with what I really liked about this place the ambiance and the service. The restaurant is kind of a split level, where only the hostess is at the platform upon entry, then you take a few steps down into the bar area. If you go up from the hostess stand, there's a whole separate section just for dining. We got seated promptly and our server was very nice and knowledgeable. We ordered the tomato basil soup and the seasonal salad as an appetizer (The seasonal salad had peaches, almonds, goat cheese, and almonds on a bed of arugula. The tomato basil soup was good, but I wish it had a little more heartiness, depth, and flavor. The salad was perfect, good mix of sweet and savory. For our main course, I got the pasta Bolognese and my mom got the Ragu. My gripe with the pasta here is that they advertise the pasta as fresh made, but I felt like the pasta was a little overdone, soft, and tasteless. It lacked salt, so I added a heaping spoonful of parmesan to the already-shaved parmesan in the dish, (which is brought out as the powdered version, but would have had a nice touch if it was freshly shaved). The Ragu was nice, but the grilled polenta on it was very charred and just tasted burnt. Lastly, I asked for some bread to eat with the sauce and they charged for bread, which I felt was a little nickel and dime-y. We finished off with the tiramisu, which was just ok (it's usually my favorite dessert It had a heavy taste of just cream no real taste of espresso and/or the mascarpone tasted more like whipped cream than mascarpone. I would be open to possibly trying other dishes at this location, however, it fell a little short for an Italian restaurant from my experiences.

This was a very pleasant surprise. We had been in the area for a couple of days attending a conference and decided to drive into Truckee for something other than ski resort dining So glad we walked in. We didn't have reservations but they had room at the bar for 3. Very cool ambiance. Bar tenders were busy but attentive and friendly. Turns out they own the place. Food was super good. Lots of wine to choose from. The food menu was concise with standard Italian comfort dishes, rich and meaty Italian Alps.

The food was absolutely perfect. I had the Chicken Marsala and it was cooked to perfection. The gelato was absolutely wonderful