Senti

Ambience was nice but my meat was undercooked and they brought it back 20 min later very dry, not impressed wouldn’t go back

Dry, overcooked food. Slow service. Money would be better spent elsewhere.

Arrived on Friday at 7:45 for our reservations. Took about 10 extra minutes to be seated so we appreciated the beautiful art and décor. It was not super busy which was nice– less noise. We ordered the lasagna and salads and were very pleased. Brian, our waiter, was very courteous. The music was at a soft volume and it was mellow jazz very conducive to conversations and dinner. Some contemporary Italian music would have been great. I would definitely return.

The place is perfection for the nights you just need to be able to trust the chef. Clean yet inventive. I highly recommend the scallops. The wine list never disappoints. I especially love the wine bottles on tap. It’s an upscale tasting room in front and restaurant in the back. The décor is clean and modern. I can’t think of a better place to grab some appetizers and a glass of wine, maybe it will turn into to dinner. Franco is always showing face and making the place perfect. It’s amazing to see someone like him put as much time and dedication into his work. I can’t imagine finding a more perfect place for a classy yet relaxing night out. The menu ranges from salmon to lasagna so there is something to satisfy everyone in your party. Next time you are in need of an easy night out, let Franco and the rest of the Senti stagf take care of you!

We have had dinner here twice now. Both times we felt the food and the service were top notch. In addition, the atmosphere is upscale without feeling stuffy. The restaurant is a «cool» kind of place and it felt very New «Yorky» to be here. It is open and airy and the small bar is even a great place to pull your chair up and have some great wine and a bite. All in all, we feel this place is well worth it to eat here and enjoy the food and the atmosphere.

Been here a few times. Ambiance is very nice. Big windows looking out on Butler Street, great little outdoor area for summertime. Inside, elegant white furnishings and really comfortable seats.
The bar has a wine machine – you know, one of those things that you buy a card and can use it to dispense wine and get various tastings. The people I was with all love it and found it novel – not really my thing; would just as soon order from the waitress or bartender, but I can see the advantage of being able to taste various wines.
Food was good – we spoke to the owner who shared that he grows some of the food himself and sources almost all of it locally. Service was always great. Definitely a nice date place or good for a business dinner (which I’ve used it for a couple of times).

Went here for dinner last night with a friend. I loved the atmosphere. It’s decorated chic and modern but, had a more casual vibe to it which I liked. You could wear a dress or nice jeans if you wanted. The prices are reasonable for the area it’s located in and for how nice it is on the inside. Entrees ranged from $ 18-​$ 25. The only thing negative I would say is it seemed like a smaller menu with maybe 6 entrees to pick from. Although sometimes I find it nice to not have so many choices. Overall I would definitely go back. For $ 43 plus tip I got a salad, entrée, glass of wine, and dessert.

Dined here on a Saturday afternoon with a group of 8 friends during the Pittsburgh Restaurant week. I would give the place a 3.5
Firstly, the ambience was really impressive. Large windows, clean modern interiors, white wall and modern art. The waitress was very knowledgeable and answered all our questions and took our dietary considerations into mind.
When we had called, we did mention the restaurant week menu, which was a pretty simple menu: salads, entrée and dessert. There were no options between them except that we could replace the kind of meat in the entrée. What was not impressive was that they took forever to get our dishes to come out. Almost 30 minutes for the salad !?! Then another 20 for the entrée. And the dessert took some time to come out too. Most of us were not pleased that the service was this slow, considering there were hardly any other customers in the restaurant.
That being said, the food was on the impressive scale. Our salad consisted of carrots, oranges and candied pecans, and was delightful. The Farro con Scelta was good too, nothing to call out. I was looking forward to the tiramisu, but was disappointed. The restaurant week tiramisu was a much smaller version of the regular one, with much more cream, and less cake. A friend got the regular sized version and I could see the difference between the 2.
Overall, this place has really good potential to up their game, and make the experience better.

Great wine, food was forgettable. Chicken was a little undercooked, soup was very bland.

Short Version: this place mess up pork belly. If you are a true foodie, you know what that means.
Long Version: We had to much high hope for Senti. From the online articles, reviews to friends’ recommendations, we thought this would be another hit spot for us foodies in PIttsburgh. Unfortunately, it was not. While the ambience was nice and I can see the owner’s visions in the settings, the food was very disappointing. First, it was not well plated: no art on the plate here :/​. Second and most importantly, the food was very underwhelming. My first dish was pork belly with grilled polenta. The pork belly was clearly reheated multiple times and completed dried out and over cooked. It was chewy and hard to eat. I was impressed how much they can mess up a pork belly dish. The grill polenta was along the same scale, very dry due to multiple reheating cycles. For entrée, I got their salmon dish. The salmon was good, but nothing special. They re-​use the same grill polenta from the appetizer in this dish. It did not go well with the salmon, and again the polenta was very dry and clearly reheated and not made fresh. Lastly, the presentation might be one of the worse I have seen. It reminded me plates from a local diner at 11pm. Overall, for the price of the food, I definitely would not recommend this restaurant. Try Cure down the street or Spoon in east liberty. There are so many good restaurants in the city at this or a lower price level.

This is a interesting restaurant with a modern flair that is well worth a visit. Service staff was competent, pleasant, and a little offbeat, which was fine with me. I liked that they had interesting cocktail specials (all involving blood orange flavor the night we visited).
The pasta was definitely good, but not great, which some 5-​star reviews have suggested. It’s not like eating in Italy, but the recipes have interesting twists. Recommend the tagliatelli puttanesca which was soft, rich, and delivered the right level of puttanesca spiciness.
Desserts were similarly good.
What I liked most about this restaurant was the value of a gourmet experience and the laid back atmosphere. It’s classy, but not stuffy. One feels welcome to linger and enjoy the whole meal.

Underwhelming.
Came here for Restaurant Week with a group of 7 other friends. When we walked in, it felt like we were going to get a treat. The dining room is bright and fancy and at the time, was filled with many other guests who seemed to be enjoying themselves. The service was friendly albeit a bit haphazard (e.g., forgetting my drink, not being able to get their attention, etc.).
I ended up going off the regular menu because aside from the entrée, the dishes on the restaurant week menu didn’t appeal to me.
I decided to go with two appetizers: a seared scallop dish and a pork belly dish.
The scallops were seared nicely and well-​seasoned. I think they must be working out what they want to put on this dish because the complements were not the ones listed on the menu and didn’t quite work for me – the mushrooms were a bit overcooked and limp, and I (and this is an unpopular opinion) am not a fan of sweet potato but also it did not seem well-​cooked. Overall I was ok with this dish.
The pork belly was utterly disappointing. It tasted almost like it had been freezer-​burned and was tough rather than tender. It came with polenta that was listed as grilled but was actually fried and it tasted alright but dried out and did not add much to the dish.
I got the Budino al Café for dessert. The glazed donut holes were fine though barely glazed, and the coffee pudding was flavorful though was a bit… spongier (?) than I’ve had for a budino. Maybe this is the style but it was difficult to see how the donut holes would be eaten with this. Also, again, overall ok.
The rest of the table also seemed unimpressed by the meal. Pretty much everything was either not great or only ok. (The osso bucco off the Restaurant Week menu seemed to be one of the better dishes.) Unfortunately (or fortunately?), with the multitude of great restaurants in Pittsburgh, there isn’t a reason for me to return.

Our appetizer was cauliflower soup, and our entrees were fettuccine and gnocchi. The food tasted good but not worthy of our repeat business. The restaurant was not busy with customers, but the waitress was a little slow in taking our order and bringing out our food and drinks. Dress code is casual.

I went tonight, and a wonderful time. The décor is one that is very modern, comfortable and very inviting. Being a very selective eater the waitress really made the meal a great experience. From the wine selection to the food everything I tried was a delightful especially the coffee pudding. You truly get the experience of higher class dining from the ambiance to the quality of food but at a fraction of the price. This restaurant is just a wonderful addition to Pittsburgh.

I wanted to like this place, but I didn’t. From the dry sausage, bean, and pear dressing accompanying my ok pork to the pleasant but inattentive service to the, IMHO, tacky white leather décor, I just did not enjoy it. some of the food is ok, but nothing memorable. The wine selection is nice. I left feeling annoyed, and when I finally got the waittress’ s attention to get the check, was glad to close the door behind me on a totally forgettable dining experience. I will not return.

It was our first time in Pitts., and we went to Senti based on a recommendation. It was fabulous! Starting with the service, atmosphere and OMG, the food! It was a great night and a great end to our trip. Well worth the visit, if ever you want great, authentic Italian food.

Dinner was fine, but as another reviewer wrote, a forgettable meal. I don’t see any reason to have a return visit. We ordered all the specials: beef carpaccio and goat cheese tart for apps, and the lamb and scallops for mains. The beef carpaccio was on the tasteless side and the goat cheese tart was unremarkable. The lamb and the scallops were cooked perfectly, but again the dish was just fine, nothing memorable about it. The descriptions for all of the dishes sounded much more impressive than the actual meal.
The one thing I did like quite a lot was the dessert. We got the tiramisu and the nutella mousse. Both were delicious! So if you go, definitely leave room for dessert.
We ate inside, but the outdoor patio looks quite nice. And they seem to have a happy hour deal during the week that a drink comes with a free antipasta. The space is large, and actually felt very un-​pittsburgh to me, but I couldn’t place why.

Although I bookmarked Senti MONTHS ago, I didn’t have the opportunity to dine there until recently. Reservations were made for 4 people at 7:15 on a recent Saturday. When I walked into the restaurant, I was immediately surprised by the décor– floor to ceiling windows, white furnishings, exposed duct work. The appearance of the restaurant is very clean and modern. After looking over the extensive wine list (wow!), I went with a wine I was familiar with while hubs asked the waitress for her opinion. We were both very pleased with our selections.
Our waitress was knowledgable about the menu and was able to answer questions regarding my current dietary restrictions. I started my meal with the mixed salad. Great start, good size tasty dressing. The accompanying bread was also delicious. For my main course, I decided on the pork medallions which were accompanied by grilled radicchio, white beans and sausage. The pork and the sausage were both cooked perfectly and very flavorful. The beans were a miss for me as I would have preferred a pasta (gnocchi). Service did seem to be backed up most likely due to a large party that was receiving their food before we received ours. Overall, I enjoyed my meal and will certainly be back.

I stopped by here this past Friday night for dinner with my wife and another couple. We had reservations for 7:15 and arrived around that time to be immediately seated. The inside of Sentis is quite interesting and modern. They have a nice lounge type area with a bar and then a number of tables behind that. There is also another room that it looked like they were using for a rehearsal dinner the night that we were there and so we didn’t really get to see it.
My wife and I decided to start off our meal by splitting the fritto misto. It consisted of fried carrots, zucchini, peppers, calamari and shrimp and was quite good. The breading on it was rather light yet crispy and everything was seasoned perfectly. I was especially impressed that the calamari was tender as most places tend to over cook it and make it rubbery. Then for my dinner entrée I went with one of the specials for the evening which was lamb t-​bones. It consisted of 3 lamb medallions over top of some gnocchi, peas and mushrooms and had some dollops of puréed carrots and a smearing of black garlic on the plate. The lamb was cooked perfectly and tasted pretty good. Senti let the flavor of the lamb come through and didn’t try to hide it. The gnocchi was also decent although I think that they were a little denser than i would have liked. I did enjoy the flavor produced by dragging them through the black garlic though.
The bottom line for me is that I would head back here again in the future. Everything that we had was pretty tasty and I enjoyed the atmosphere.

So, we thought we would be here for a drink or two and dinner, and it ended up being an EVENT.
I don’t even know where to begin.
The sommelier was so extremely helpful in navigating us to the correct wines for our taste and mood, and when we hadn’t yet hit «the mark» on the wine of the evening, she continued to put forth excellent choices. At one point, the manager assisted us with even more insight.
As for food, we were welcomed with marinated olives and decided upon two dishes for appetizers: the scallops and the mushrooms, both of which were exquisite, particularly the scallops which were perfectly seared.
Our entrees were the steak and pork tenderloin. Here’s where we had a bit of a complaint. The steak was AMAZING. Medium rare to a T! Beautifully seasoned and a texture that melted in my mouth, then pair the wine with it and BAM! WOW!
The pork was another story. In fact, we questioned if it was the same chef who cooked the steak. Pork tenderloin medallions over a bed of white beans and chorizo and pearl onions. The tenderloin was overdone and dry, and there were supposed to be figs in the bed. There were three slices of figs. This dish wasn’t even in the same ballpark as the steak.
I would comment on the dessert, but we opted for bubbles. Quite a lovely selection of prosecco and brut, we landed on a brut rose that closed out our evening. My goodness, what an evening.
It was an absolute pleasure to chat with the sommelier and the owner, and I sincerely look forward to dining here again.

Senti is a refreshing experience with authenticity and soul. The immediate impact of the ambiance is open, bright and welcoming. The owner adds to the experience with his genuine warmth. The wine selection is fantastic and you should arrive early to take advantage of their fun wine machine. This machine allows you to taste small pours of potentially higher priced wines. Just enjoy it, it is fun! The food is authentic Italian with fresh pastas and seasonal ingredients. We loved the tiramisu and definitely have the amaro if you enjoy after dinner drinks. The perfect spot for a celebratory experience with friends!

Let me start by saying I love the emerging and constantly evolving Pittsburgh food scene. The options are ever changing and pushing the limits. I also love Edison bulbs reclaimed wood and that industrial ambience that every single recent location has. That being said from the moment you walk in Senti you realize it is different. It’s bright. It’s authentic. It has a warm Italian welcome of the sincere and genuine owner.
The menu is legit and is a true taste of Italy with fresh ingredients and home made pastas. The wine list is superb. The service and setting is great.
Try the burrata appetizer, the lasagna and the tiramisu.
This is a perfect location for a romantic night out or a celebration with friends. Yes I will still be interested in that brand new restaurant down the street with a new take on pork and chalk board painted walls but today Give me Senti!

Senti: A good, but forgettable meal.
A friend had been wanting to try this place and I am always down for something new so was excited to check it out. Most reviews are correct in that the place does feel a bit like a hotel lobby, but to its defense it does feel like a swanky NYC sushi restaurant, which I was totally comfortable with.
The menu looked interesting, but it was the specials that sung to us during our visit. Ordering the Bronzino and the salmon, we also wanted to try a mix side dishes: the bread pudding and fried polenta. We were both pleasantly surprised by both but were quickly distracted with dessert.
The best part of our meal was absolutely the tiramisu. It’s honestly the only part I remember because I remember thinking it was the perfect balance of having a coffee flavor with chocolate.
I probably won’t go back, except for maybe a glass of wine and more tiramisu!

Dined here last night solo at the bar. Interier kind of feels like a swanky hotel rather than a restaurant.
I didnt order an appitizer or drink since I was dining alone. For my entrée I got the salmon entrée and let me tell you, I judge a restaurant by how well their cooked salmon entrée is and Senti knocked it out of the park. It was served with sun dried tomato risotto and mixed veggies. It was amazing. Bravo! Then I treated myself to a piece of tiramisu. It was obviously homemade in house and delicious.
I enjoyed my dinner completely and will be returning to see what else the menu has in store! Great job Senti.

A new restaurant I’m always going to give leeway on. They’ve got to have some time to work out the kinks and get into a good rhythm. I totally understand that. That being said, my experience at Senti was totally fine. While I was not blown away, I do see potential.
It’s a beautiful space, they’ve really made it a swanky restaurant. It’s pretty big too. there’s a decent size bar/​lounge area and dining room. It’s all decked out in white colors, you kinda feel like you’re in Miami, except now it’s the dead of winter and anything but.
We had very friendly and attentive service. Our bread basket came promptly, as did all our drinks and food. While my negroni was good, I felt it was a little heavy on the compari and not enough gin.
My main dish was the swordfish and gnocchi. It was plated beautifully. I’d say my fish was very good and I loved the crispy skin, the gnocchi and sauce fell a little flat. I feel as if there could have been a little more flavor to the dish.
I was very impressed with the tiramisu. It looks liked it had been freshly made and then sliced from a big pan (a generous slice at that) and it was very good. I like tiramisu when it’s more cakey, and that’s what this was.
I’m interested in coming back and checking out there wine selection and seeing how they progress and time goes by!

Very good new restaurant! The bread is homemade as well as the pasta dishes. I had the gnocchi, and my husband had the lasagna. The wine was very good as well. The highlight of the dinner was the desserts! We had tiramisu, pana cotta, apple tart, and a flour less chocolate cake. Each was better than the last! The restaurant is very modern and trendy. Franco was the manager at Lidias and decided to open his own restaurant. Much luck to him and the team!