Bravo Cucina Italiano Northlake

Charlotte Restaurant Critic at Charlottecritic.com takes the time to distribute excerpts from the latest italian food experiences in Charlotte, NC.

This most recent trip to a Upscale italian Restaurant showed us its what is inside that counts!

If the Bravo Cucina Italiana North Lake Mall was designed to compete with Carabas and Macaroni grill, then they succeeded in creating an atmosphere, which is clearly more sophisticated and refined.

It really is a nice place inside, and will impress any date or make for an extra special feeling a night out with the wife. This was the intention for myself that fell short. The menu has a nice assortment with a good amount of all meats, seafood, pizza, and flatbreads.

This can make for a very nice wine sipping meal with excellent music throughout the great layout of the establishment. BUT Here comes the but, about halfway through our meal at 6:15 pm on a Monday the manager dimmed the lights far beyond what would be viewed as romantic.

I believe they did so to keep you from getting a look at the somewhat steep prices on the menu.

While we sat there in near blackness struggling to read the menu, and see that the average plate is about $17-19, which is a good price for the plate, but not the food on the plate. This is to say, they provided a huge plate with food neatly filling the middle 15% of the plate. While this may just be viewed as sophistication, in Italian food this appears that someone ate half my food before it arrived. I view Italian eating a filling large impressive plate, save the fancy half empty look for French food.

All in all the wife pasta with chicken alfredo was good, but the pork chops i received were raw and needed to be sent back, I get into more issues this place needs to address on our review website where we look at this Italian restaurant in Charlotte.

A complete look at our visit to Bravo Cucina Italiano Northlake Mall Charlotte