Noto's - Grand Rapids

Noto's use to be one our favorite Grand Rapid's restaurants. As we hadn't dined there in a while, we decided to go there with another couple to celebrate a birthday. Althoigh the interior is quite inviting, the meal was very dissapointing. For our guests, this was their first time at this restaurant. Both had different pasta dishes and ended up not finishing their servings. My wife and I had entre dishes with chicken and veal. Both were over cooked and had little taste. The dessert of cheese cake was excellent. Our server was very attentive and provided excellent service. Overall, the surroundings are very pleasant but the cost for a less than satisfactory meal, was quite expensive. None of us will be back.

Very nice restaurant to go to... I think especially for a special occasion or a date night! My family and I went there for an early dinner, and it was lovely because we were one of the only tables there. So, it was quiet and relaxing. All of our food was delicious, and there were no complaints about any of the food or how it tasted. The dessert options were especially great... as there were a lot of desserts to choose from. Everything that we tried was delightful... and everything that we didn't try sounded delightful! My only constructive criticism were these things... -For grating cheese at the table, I think a new cheese grater needs to be invested in. The one they currently use literally sprays pieces of cheese everywhere... including all over your lap. -Our waiter messed up my husband's order, and didn't bring him one of his side dishes. But other than these small things... I would totally recommend this restaurant!

Good food and wonderful ambience especially when the John Shea Trio is playing on Saturdays night.

We celebrated a special birthday dinner last weekend at Noto's. It was our first time at the restaurant. While it was definitely a classy place, two of our dishes were disappointing and no one ever asked about the birthday despite our mentioning it during the reservation process. All in all, quite disappointing given its high-end status and the prices.

We had high hopes for Notos but we ended up leaving. We had to wait for 10 minutes to be seated for our reservations while the host “found some menus”. The menus we were given were filthy stained with food. We then sat at our table for another 20 minutes without being greeted, given a wine list, or offered water. My husband got up to find someone. We overheard the host tell another server (manager maybe) that the server said she was “too busy” and couldn’t take us. So this server/manager told us it was our lucky day and that we got her. It was in fact not our lucky day, we continued to wait for her to return. When she did, she was less than helpful with the wine list and bordered on rude when she went to ask the bartender for an answer to our question. At that point, we left. Maybe the food would have been the saving grace but honestly, we didn’t want to give our business to Notos. They were not short staffed, just under managed. Very disappointing.