Involtini Ristorante - Calgary

We came for dinner following graduation ceremonies and were delighted. The fresh focaccia with the infused oil and vinegar was a delightful start for hungry children. Our meals were delicious! One of our diners said it was the best cannelloni ever! Service was attentive but not overwhelming! Winesday was a nice surprise (9 oz pour for the price of a 6 oz) but would highly recommend any night of the week!

Our default location for special events with mom. It's familiar and homey, the food is good and the service is friendly. The location is unassuming, in a strip mall in SW Calgary, but it's worth a visit. Try the chicken involtini.

The food was outstanding, tasty and plentiful. The service was fabulous. Staff is friendly and knowledgeable and appropriately attentive. Prices are a bit high especially in this economy and in a neighbourhood restaurant. Overall yummy.

This neighbourhood gem has gone downhill since they lost their fabulous chef. They really need to hire a new chef as this one does not put out quality meals for the price you pay. You get a better meal at Boston Pizza and it's cheaper!Service is very slow as well. However, if you like gelato they have the best ever!

We booked Involtini for our New Years Eve dinner, where they advertised a special menu for $75/person for five courses. There were multiple choices per course available.The service was excellent. Our server was busy, as was expected, but she always managed to catch her breath and be friendly and fully informative at our table, a rare skill that takes experience.The food, however, was an excess of flavours that seemed over the top based on our previous visit. My wife and I agreed that it was a combination of both the two of us not being modern cosmopolitan diners (a little on the traditional side) and perhaps the chefs just being given the green light to mix it up a bit.We were first served a basket of popcorn drizzled with lobster butter (?!), followed by an appetizer of crabbed stuffed mushrooms with lemon grass that left us tasting the lemon grass and not the crab, which was surprisingly bland based on the courses to come.The salad was a winner featuring spinach and arugula with smoked trout and roasted red peppers in a maple vinaigrette. The best course of the evening.My entree was a 6oz tenderloin medium (ordered medium rare) topped with a blue cheese and port Panko cheesecake sliver and mushroom demi glaze and served with marinated white asparagus of which I took one bite. The only thing I recall now of the entree is the blue cheese and pickled asparagus. Just too much.My wife commented that her stuffed steelhead, listed as topped with a saffron tomato butter sauce, was smothered in BBQ sauce, which she casually scraped off. We chose delicate proteins for our entrees and found that the extra flavours took centre stage and the fine cuts of meat and fish were not the stars. A look around other tables on the way out showed partially eaten sides as well. Our final course was a very good black forest cheesecake for me (the maraschino cherry added from the bar was unnecessary) and a tasty chocolate gelato for my wife. You will note this review is not about price, just a comment that good food doesn't always require the whole spice rack.