Ciana Ristorante Italiano

Wilmington now has a fantastic Italian restaurant! March 19, is the first time my wife and I tried this restaurant, and we will definitely be returning. Everything about this restaurant is outstanding. Our wonderful server, Ashley is so upbeat friendly and knowledgeable that she explained the various delicious offerings of the very unique and vast menu. I opted for a Ceasars salad with my meal, and it was honestly the best Ceasars salad I have ever had, incredibly fresh lettuce and very unique and tasty dressing.
I had a wonderful dish with fresh shrimp,mushrooms, onions, and angel hair pasta, and it was amazing.
My wife said that her veal parmesean was out of this world.
The fresh bread is also on point! There was no way that we could eat the whole meal, so that means that we have another meal.
The prices for what you get and the service is very good.
We look forward to returning to try some more items from this very creative and delicious menu.

Owner response

Stopped in for Lunch and it did not disappoint! The meatballs and marinara tasted like home.
I never order red sauce except for at my grandmothers table and Ciana did not disappoint.
Can’t wait to come back for dinner.

so full disclaimer, that we tried this place because it was close to where I was getting my car serviced.
I just wanted to kill an hour with a nice meal with my grandmother and kiddo.
It’s kind of tucked away in that little strip mall on the other side of new center near target.
I didn’t even know it existed until looking up restaurants near the area.
That being said, DO NOT SLEEP ON DINING AT CIANA! We went for an early Thursday dinner around 4:30pm and the place was empty (after the meal this blew my mind because it was all incredible).
The man who sat us was very friendly.
Our server Ashley was attentive and made great recommendations.
For starters we had the fried mozzarella.
For mains we ordered scallops a la vodka with angel hair, the stuffed eggplant and my kiddo got the free kids pasta and marinara.
Both the adult entrees came with a a choice of soup/salad.
We had the fagioli which was their soup of the day- it was an excellent choice. My grandmother and I also decided to order two dishes to go for our men folk.
To go we got the lasagna (huge portion & came with soup) and my grandmother got the chicken parm (even bigger portion and got the Side Caesar).
Our husbands were ecstatic! Extra bonus- Our server had it timed it so well that our to go order came out the exact same time that we were ready to request boxes & the check.
I could not have asked for a better place to have a meal with my family. *** I did not take pictures of the take out plates.
They were packed away, so perfectly I didn’t want to ruin the “fresh from the oven” ambience for the fellas, lol.
But I did take pictures of our main dishes this evening. **saw on Facebook that tonight’s Thursday special was BOGO 50% off of dine in entrées but we were not informed of this while we dined in this evening.
It was not applied to our bill either.
However, even though that’s a bummer it doesn’t ruin a great meal.

Owner response