Ristorante Machiavelli in Seattle

the coziest Italian place on the hill. Pretty casual family vibes restaurant. Great prices. There’s usually a little wait as the dining room is small, but they have the cutest bar where you can get a drink until your party is called. The nicest people work here.Favorite menu items are the carbonara and the gnocchi.

have never bought Alfredo sauce that is anything as good as I can make at home and this restaurant was no exception, however the Alfredo was better than most.The linguine with prawns sauce was thin and not as oceany as expected.The fettuccine bolognese was also thin but decent.Not quite sure if worth the money but very filling, and a safe meal.

Two things came to mind when I walked into this place. 1 - it smelled amazing. Maybe it's just bc the rest of cap hill smells like weed, but it was a welcome change of pace as far as smell goes. 2 - Machiavelli was the Italian you chose to go with? There were no other Italians that came to mind, you went with the guy who invented political scheming? I mean fine, I guess, but Ristorante Machiavelli reads like a name that some B level director would name the restaurant that the mob owns in his/her B level gangster movie. Anyways, I was waiting at the bar for 15 min and decided to grab the house red wine. The wine was decent but they poured it in this tiny ass cup, I felt like I was Kahwi Leonard palming a basketball drinking out of it. Surely you have real wine cups, Italian Restaurant. Anyways after we were seated we got served bread pretty quickly - rather than the usual olive oil and pepper to dip, they went with an olive oil and balsamic vinagrette combo, I was not a fan p...