We visited Spadafora's the first week it opened and was very disappointed. My husband had undercooked scallops surrounded by mashed potatoes! A friend of mine visited for lunch and was also disappointed. After driving by Spadafora's for the last several weeks, we all noticed more cars in the parking lot and a sign that proclaimed "best Italian Restaurant from Pittsburgh Magazine" My friends and I decided to give it another chance. We have a girls night out for dinner once a month and like to visit local eateries rather than the chain restaurants. There were 4 of us and were seated at a table that could seat four if the chairs were placed on all 4 sides of the table. However, the ownership placed two chairs side by side, leaving the other sides of the tables open. If we would have tried to eat, we would have been bumping each other. We asked the waitress if we could move the chairs around and she said go right ahead and make yourself comfortable which we did. While we were eating, a gentleman came over to us (we think it was the owner) and asked if we could move our table around so he could seat a party of three at a table beside ours that could barely seat two at best. He wanted to put the third chair right beside our table.The chairs actually would have been back-to-back. We tried moving the table around but now we were blocking the diners to our right. He gave up and the folks had to wait until a table opened up. (Not an unusual occurrence in a busy restaurant).
We were all OK with the fact that the restaurant is tightly packed with barely enough room to move between the tables. We were comfortable where we were. But we were really annoyed that our comfort and the comfort of the folks dining to our right was going to be compromised by the owner trying to shoehorn three people in a space that was barely suitable for two. We all wanted to love this restaurant and put it on a "must do again" list - we all live rather close and it's nice to frequent a neighborhood restaurant, but felt the owner was more interested in jamming another paying customer in rather than risk them walking out the door due to their inability to immediately get a table. Our comfort did not matter at this time, since we were already eating our dinner and payment was assured.
If you go, plan on being very close to your fellow diners and you may be asked to share your table with strangers!!
The food was OK. I had the gnocchi with the pink sauce. The sauce was good, the gnocchi was heavy. My friends liked their dinners - veal parm, lasagna and Mediterranean pasta. House salads were ho-hum. Wine list is not very extensive.