Luce Restaurant

EDIT: Food Poisoning: The below was my initial review Of this restaurant. However, between 4-6 hours after eating, my wife began vomiting. She had a stiff neck, headache and body aches. Classic presentation of food poisoning. Sooo…these things happen from time to time, but unfortunately I cannot stand by my initial 4-Star rating. ORIGINAL RATING: This is a nice restaurant in downtown Middletown with large indoor seating, bar and outdoor dining. Wonderful place to do a large event under the tent with its own mobile bar and round tables. The bar makes quality drinks to standard and has the LARGEST selection of mixed drinks of any restaurant in all of Middletown. Their pasta dishes are rich, savory and delicious! . Personally, I would choose to pair some of their entrees with a different type of pasta. For example, the Veal Scallopini Luce Combo is served with orecchiette, but It would be amazing if instead they used a nice gemelli or pappardelle to absorb all the delicious sauce instead of just pooling in the orecchiette. The portions were very generous. The French onion soup was tasty. Follow-me for more food reviews!

This is my fifth time at this restaurant and I never had a problem before. However, this time we did. My husband and I went to have indoors dinner at Luce, one of our friends spilled his wine on the table making a mess. Instead of our waiter changing the table cloth, the waiter simply put several napkins to soak up the wine and replaced the plates back. It was disgusting. In addition, we all had to clean up the bench sit ourselves since that was covered in wine as well. At this point, we had to explain that when a table is soaking wet, the only solution is to change the whole thing. The waiter seemed confused and clueless about how to do it so we just asked to have a new table cloth brought to us and we did it all quickly and efficiently. At least the food tasted good... but, we tipped the waiter not so well...

Great service, great food! To start I had the sirloin tips with garlic mashed potatoes and a side of broccoli rabbi. The other dish pictured was a organic chicken over potatoes and spinach. For desert we had espresso and coffee with cannoli and hot lava cake with homemade ice cream. Everything was delicious! The hostess Nita was super friendly. The wait staff was kind! Definitely recommend this place!

Never ever go here! We found gum baked into the bread and upon asking for our meal to be comped (just 2 of us $70 bill) the owner came out and proceeded to berate me. He said “I don’t want your kind here.” I’m a 29 year old female and he is a much older man. I was not raising my voice, we actually kept the whole thing quiet so the other diners wouldn’t know. He came at me telling me since they buy the bread at a bakery they aren’t responsible. I did not yell nor raise my voice and he continued to get in my face telling me to never come back. I’m still shaking from the experience.

We had our son’s wedding rehearsal dinner here in the sunroom and it was perfect! The table setting and room was elegant and the service was top notch. Everyone was raving over the food. It was delicious. Every detail was taken care of by the owner and his superb staff. We didn’t even have to think…just eat! We are so happy and would recommend this restaurant to anyone whether it’s an event or a night out.