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With so many wonderful Italian restaurants in Manhattan, you have to wonder why Da Umberto remains popular. While the service is exemplary, the atmosphere warm and the tables comfortably spaced, the food is terribly ordinary or maybe worse, the wine list is quite limited, especially for Italy, with shockingly high mark-ups and the prices in general lead you to believe a top celebrity chef is behind the stove. For years, I’ve read about the charms of Da Umberto and finally took an old friend on Friday night. Wish we had gone to any of the other wonderful Italians I've enjoyed in the past. For a lot less money, we would have enjoyed our food and had a great bottle of wine for probably half of what we paid ($360 with tax and tip for two). The specifics of what we ate and what we sent back are hardly necessary. From my humble point of view, the value proposition here is way out of balance. I can now say that I tried Da Umberto and got it out of my system. Way out of my system.

love this restaurant ! little italy can almost be passed by if you aren't careful....love the food the service is awesome...little pricey but you can always request to sit at the bar if you wanna cut cost and time. love love love !!!

This place is delicious, fantastic, lovely atmosphere and wonderful service. Truly a top-notch, A+ restaurant. My husband and I go as very often, at least once (usually twice) a month.

This was my second visit in 6 months. What a mistake it was to return. I took my wife and our best friend to Da Umberto to celebrate our friend's birthday and our anniversary, late November, 2007. The service, though efficient, was punctilious at best, e.g., no one asked us how our food was.The maitre d' forgot we were waiting for a guest to arrive. When the guest found us, the maitre d' looked at me as though I had dementia. The room we were in was one of the noisiest I have ever encountered anywhere in my world travels. While the food was good, I'd say the price to experience ratio is way off. I would never return, and would not recommend this restaurant.

This place came very highly recommended to us. We are very picky and expect wonderful if we are willing to pay the price for it. This was just ordinary food. The appetizers were ok, nothing that special. The main dishes were nothing to rave about at all. The homemade pasta was covered in a pasty, salty tomato sauce. The 24 hour marinated cornish game hen tasted like 'jerk chicken' and the chicken with cherry tomatoes basil and balsamic was good, but certainly not anything better than what i make at home. The desserts were not great either, looked like they were sitting out there for hours or may be even days. Not worth the 100 per person at all. For this price I want extraordinary.

Been there a handful of times, can't figure out if I like it there or not. Certainly there are 100's of better places in the city that are not nearly as expensive, but something about Da Umberto does draw me back.....very pricey, great service, desserts kind of sucked, but the apps were very good and my main dish was delicious...wine by the glass was a rip off by the way..that kinda pissed me off...you know what, now I'm not going back, I'm angry...

Went here for office party-nearly injured by sloppy staff who broke glass behind me with shards flying-did nothing to make up for this upset. More importantly the food was so average for the price -veal scallopini-rubbery and greasy. Also how annoying is it once again for waiters to push the bottled water without asking if we wanted more-ridiculous cost at end.