Jimmy V’s Osteria & Bar

This a a great place, I like to go downstairs grab a beer and something to eat (from the Sheraton hotel).

A lovely dinning experience. Excellent service. Fun and live atmosphere. I had the braised beef ragout the fomaggio and Salumi tray and calamari
All 3 were excellent

The food is average… The atmosphere is average and the service is average… I have been here atleast 20x when I first moved to Raleigh but they changed management and the customer service kind of went out of the door… sorry I hate leaving not so stellar reviews because it is what it is.

I have eaten at Jimmy V’s on multiple occasions, at least once every two weeks. My visit on 01/​26/​2016 was the last time I will be eating there. The working lunch included a roast beef sandwich, a salad, and a bowl of chowder. The salad was good, the sandwich tasted like it had been left sitting on the counter, and the chowder had a very long hair in it which didn’t match anyone at our table. I will not be returning — there are far better and cleaner options in Raleigh.

My husband and I went here for Christmas dinner. Due to our work schedules, we didn’t get to spend it with family. This was one of the restaurants open and serving for Christmas.
There was a Christmas menu prepared, however, it was extremely pricey. We worked it out that if we ordered an appetizer, entrée and dessert from their regular menu, it would have still been cheaper.
The food was mediocre. We ordered the fried calamari. There was nothing special about it. Id you’ve read some of my other reviews you’d know I love calamari! :) I also ordered the butternut squash ravioli. It wasn’t cooked well and was rubbery.
The service was slow. My husband thinks it was because of the holiday. The restaurant was packed though. The tables also seem like they are close together and we could hear our neighbors conversation.
Although I appreciate that they were open on Christmas Day, I don’t think we will be going back there to eat.

We dined there after a 2 hour wait for food after we placed our order on Christmas Day. We were pleased that a restaurant was open on a holiday and would be willing to cut some slack on the food delay BUT we couldn’t even get beverages. Finally after about an hour they did give us some bread. I had the pizza. The kitchen must have run out of ingredients as there was almost nothing on the pizza-​sauce, cheese, sausage etc. The other entrée was a filet for $ 32. The meat was tender but completely tasteless and smothered in some type of sauce reminiscent of A1. We decided to slice the steak and put on the pizza which made an edible combination. I think this restaurant needs a Chef Ramsey makeover STAT!

First time here, Saturday night, empty :(drinks not made well, Jack & Coke (the coke was flat), Manhattan (very sweet) decent calamari. Service was excellent at the beginning but then he forgot about us.

Went for Sunday brunch while watching football… great setting. The brunch menu is a nice mix of omelettes, wood fired pizzas, panini’s, and salads. Mimosas and Bloody Marys, along with some specialty cocktails, too. The pizzas are pretty big and priced super well. I was surprised reading some of the reviews about the price here. I feel like they are worth it and well beyond the $ 12-​$ 15 they cost. We got the Rocco’s Pie and salad… plenty left for leftovers. The bar staff was very attentive and friendly. Love the exposed brick and wooden beams. Lots of sports quotes and Jimmy V pics/​quotes for the sports fans out there.

Jimmy’s was only a 3-​star experience for me. I got the braised short rib ragout. The meat was tender and the portion size was ample (as it should be for $ 28), but overall the taste of the dish didn’t come together for me. The olives and red peppers made it taste more Chilean than Italian. Don’t order this dish unless you really like olives.
Our waitress was nice, but she looked like she had just come from soccer practice. When I’m paying $ 28 for an entrée I expect servers to look a bit more put-​together.

This is a tricky review to write, because I haven’t been a fan of Jimmy V’s, but this pizza was great! Not long after they opened they jacked their prices quite a bit which doesn’t make for the best of customer relations, and the quality of the food has been inconsistent. But I have to give them props for the Tuscan Wood-​Fired Pizza. Grilled chicken, artichokes, prosciutto, olives, tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, and arugula. It was a little on the salty side for me, but I’m sure that was coming from the prosciutto (which is typically not in my diet). This is a 12″ pie, I’m a petite person, and I nearly ate the entire thing. I can’t say I’m going to rush in for an entrée, but I’ll definitely order pizza again!

I have to say this place is so honorable. Jimmy V speaks for himself and this place definitely carries on his tradition.
Our waitress Kelly was so professional and knowledgable it made the place more inviting. The atmosphere was very artistic and the place settings made it look high scale. Prices were great no matter what you chose from the menu. I started off with calamari, then ate an entire Jimmy V pizza, and finished it off with an amazing Cannoli. Every item was perfectly cook.
Kelly was always there to answer any questions and always had my drink topped off. It was such a great experience I even talked to the manager to let him know how impressed I was. Will definitely go again, and with family and friends. Highly suggest this place for dates, friend gatherings, and/​or family. And again, ask for Kelly. She does an amazing job. If I had it my way she would be the role model of what a perfect waitress is and I would implement her with training her peers and subordinates. Plus a certain percentage goes to the Jimmy V foundation. That says it all.

This restaurant is my husband and my favorite restaurant. When you go, you must ask for Kelly as she provides exceptional service. The food is amazing and not over priced as some other reviewers might have you think. The quality and taste of the food is top notch. This a five star rated restaurant.

Thank you, Jimmy V’s! Your staff was always friendly, polite and very, very helpful. Your food was wonderful and your prices, really important for someone attending a conference on a budget, were incredibly reasonable.
I ate in your restaurant several times and, as busy as you were, I never had to wait for seating. My favorite was your Cavatelli Cabonara, from which your kitchen very kindly made mine without the mushrooms, to which I’m allergic. Such accommodation makes a huge difference to this diner.
Well done, Jimmy V’s, WELL DONE!!!

I was in town for a convention and staying at the Sheraton. Having Jimmy V’s right there was so convenient. The people were wonderful — I am disabled and cannot handle a buffet breakfast but every morning, the waitstaff got it for me. So greatly appreciated.
I also ate a number of meals there and loved the food. The real treat was the homemade limoncellos. I really fell for those.
And the staff made everything better by being so very nice and helpful. I wish I was closer so I could go back again and again.

I tried the Valvano meatballs and a pizza. You get two large meatballs covered in mozzarella cheese and well seasoned tomato sauce. The flavor is very rich and authentic. The pizza was really good as well. The cheese was my favorite part of it.

I’ve been here for a conference and have really enjoyed everything here. The seating was prompt, despite the fact that the place was almost always hopping with business. The chocolate expresso brownie and the Pinot Noir were awesome. The shrimp grits ravioli was yummy and unexpected — great combination of flavors. I also enjoyed (at another sitting) the wood fired pizza. Can’t remember which one, but it was good.
Really impressed!

Had been wanting to try this place out. We don’t get downtown very often cause we live WAY OUT in Cary… LOL! Anyway, we arrived around noonish on a Friday. It wasn’t empty but also not a wait. We sat out on the patio area. It was a bit on the warm side for me, by Hubby was good so I endured. Service was quick and efficient. Our waiter made suggestions. I had a lot of questions. We were quickly served water and bread with a plate of olive oil and a basamic schmear.
We both ordered the «working lunch» special. $ 10. You get a cup of soup, a salad and a sandwich on focaccia bread. ALL the ingredients were super fresh !!! Each item was delicious. I would definitely go back. The table next to us got pizza and it looked delicious. Next time — PIZZA !!!
Try them out… lots of draft beer on tap.

Our high hopes were ill fulfilled at best. In addition to slow service, there was a bunch of bread near our table by our feet and the staff stood there talking instead of cleaning it up, and one even hit on a girl in our party in a creepy way.
I was impressed with the number of wines they offered by the glass, but my steak salad was a small serving at $ 18 and none of the members at my table thought anything was mind blowing. I suppose you are paying for location with Jimmy Vs. Nothing super offensive, but i would not return again given the abundance of banging Raleigh restaurants my dollar could support instead.

Good food but wasn’t super impressed with the service. My boss and I arrived for lunch on Friday around 12:30PM and was told there would be a twenty minute wait despite the fact that there were plenty of free seats (isn’t that a no-​no for places that specialize in working lunches? After all what business lets you have THAT much time for a lunch break?). We shrugged it off (maybe they were understaffed?) and took a seat in the connected hotel and waited… And waited… And waited… No one ever filled all those empty seats so after about 35 minutes I went to the hostess and asked how long it would be. She gave me a ‘oh crap we forgot about you’ look and quickly ushered us to our seats (one of the previously unoccupied tables). After that we waited about ten more minutes for someone to come offer us drinks.
Admittedly once we got our drinks things sped up a bit. Our waitress was by no means extraordinary (she basically did the bare minimum and was absent the rest of the time) but we received our meals (pizzas) pretty quickly, and they were actually very good! I really enjoyed my fig and pear pizza, as it was full of flavor and crispy (just how I like it!). We also decided on a few dessert items which consisted of the tiramisu and fruit and cream. The tiramisu was very good but the cream with fruit was almost sickingly sweet. I ate about half before the sugar jitters kicked in and I had to stop. The fruit was all very fresh though!
Also random note: I don’t know if we didn’t get it for some specific reason but they never seemed to offer us any of the bread that everyone else seemed to have… We probably would have declined thanks to our already carb-​full meal, but I just noticed walking out that everyone else seemed to be enjoying it. Odd.
All in all, unless work is paying I don’t think i’d come back. The service was just not there.

I enjoy coming to Jimmy V’s a lot! It has a great atmosphere and friendly waitstaff.
I recently came and started with the calamari — delicious!
I also order the Roasted Chicken Saltimbocca — it was amazing! Tender, juicy, flavorful! It was the perfect dish! I used to order the Short rib pizza before they took it off the menu, until the other day I was having a hard time finding something else I liked as much as the Short Rib Pizza, but glad I have finally found something!