Tutto Italian Restaurant

Known for its extensive wine lists and authentic Italian food, Tutto Restaurant & Bar is a highly-rated Italian restaurant in Vancouver’s Yaletown district.

Tutto has a vibrant atmosphere, colourful ceiling murals of Italian Renaissance, an impressive wine collection of varieties from around the world, and delicious food. The restaurant is housed in a historic brick building, which gives it extra charm. You also know it’s a noteworthy restaurant when you’re greeted at the front by a maître d’ and have your wines recommended by the sommelier.

The restaurant is an ideal place to take friends, for dates and for special occasions. It’s also great if you simply like Italian food and fine wines or classic cocktails.

In this article we provide general information about the restaurant. We also describe our own experience there for dinner.

Tutto Restaurant & Bar in Yaletown

Tutto Restaurant & Bar is an intimate, upscale establishment that serves authentic Italian cuisine with wine and other beverages. It’s a great place to enjoy traditional-style pasta, pizza, meat dishes and other Italian favourites. It’s not just a pizza and pasta joint. Far from it! It’s a classy place!

The dining venue is inside a historic brick building that’s been in Vancouver since 1908. The renovated interior, however, is both modern and classic. With its design partially inspired by the Italian Renaissance, the restaurant has a colourful mural on the ceiling in one area. There’s also Italian background music and other distinguishing features.

For large groups and social events, private dining options are available with set menus. The restaurant is a wonderful place to host business meetings, elegant birthday dinners and other celebrations.

For the restaurant’s official website, visit tuttorestaurant.ca.

Wagyu Beef Carpaccio at Tutto Italian — Wagyu Beef Carpaccio

Restaurant Address & Hours of Operation

Tutto Restaurant & Bar’s address is 901 Homer Street. It’s at the corner of Homer and Smithe Street in Vancouver’s vibrant Yaletown district. The restaurant is west of BC Place Stadium and just a couple of blocks from Robson Street, Vancouver’s most popular shopping destination. It’s also closer to West Georgia Street than most other well-known Yaletown restaurants.

Parking at Tutto is usually free after 5:00 pm. Metered parking in the immediate area is also usually quite reasonable at night (at least compared to some other neighbourhoods in Vancouver).

As of January 2024, the restaurant operates just five days a week. It’s open for lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Lunch starts at 11:45 am and dinner begins at 4:00 pm. The place is also open on Saturdays, but only for dinner.

Wines at Tutto Restaurant

Tutto’s Menu Description

Tutto Restaurant & Bar is only open for lunch and dinner. There are a few lunch specials, but for the most part, the menu is the same throughout the afternoon and evening. From our experience, the food is exceptional! Busiest times are typically from around 7:00 pm onwards.

Starters at the restaurant include focaccia bread, minestrone soup, meatballs, calamari, salads, and more. As of January, 2024, featured dishes are veal osso buco, braised lamb shank, braised beef short rib and surf & turf. The main menu also offers other meats, separated by sea and land variations. There are 10 different pastas and pizzas to choose from as well. Pasta options include gnocchi, mushroom risotto and Bolognese, along with Margherita, Dolce and Diavola pizzas. For dessert, there’s Tiramisù cake, ice cream with olive oil, and biscotti with berries, to name just a few of the options.

The drinks menu at Tutto Restaurant & Bar is particularly impressive. There are all sorts of champagnes and red and white wines from different parts of the world. Folks can enjoy drinks from Italy, Germany, France and Spain, among other nations, as well as local wines from the Okanagan. There are also Italian-inspired cocktails, on top of several beers and ciders.

To see the full menu, visit the Tutto Restaurant & Bar website.

Dinner at Tutto Restaurant

Happy Hour at Tutto

Happy Hour runs from 3:00 pm until 6:00 pm on weekdays (from Tuesday to Fridays). The Happy Hour menu is also good on Saturdays between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm.

Happy Hour menu items include focaccia bread & olive oil, calamari, garlic prawns, meatballs, carpaccio, prosciutto, pizzas, a few different pastas and a number of other items.

For drinks we’ve had the Tutto Negroni and White Peach Bellini. Both were excellent. As of January, 2024, Happy Hour highballs are $7 for a single and $12 for a double. Red, white and rosé 5 oz. wines, meanwhile, are $8.

We’re told that Happy Hour appetizers are the same size as the regular appetizers available at other times during the day, except for the pastas which are half portion sizes of the full menu entrées.

Click Tutto Happy Hour Menu to see the full range of specials available until 6:00 pm.

Our Experience at Tutto

We had dinner at Tutto in July of 2023. It was our first time at the restaurant and we are impressed. We were greeted by the very attentive maître d’ and escorted to our table. It’s a classy place, the seats are comfortable, and first impressions are all positive. Our evening there was a memorable experience!

The friendly and very professional waiter took our drink orders. Over the course of the evening we had Happy Hour cocktails, a glass of champagne and a couple of glasses of red wine. The sommelier recommended the wine based on our food order and her suggestions were excellent.

We arrived at the restaurant before 6:00 pm, so in time for the Happy Hour appetizers. We chose the Tutto Meatballs with garlic toasted focaccia (for $15) and Wagyu Beef Carpaccio (for $18). Both were delicious!

For dinner one of us ordered the Lobster Tagliatelle which was a pasta with Atlantic lobster, cream sauce and tomatoes. It was a real treat! Wanting to try a selection of things, the other person had Tutto’s Mixed Grill which included seabass, veal, a couple of tiger prawns, vegetables and arugula salad. It was also a good choice and all very delicious. The veal was exceptionally tender and not deep fried. The zucchini and asparagus were crisp and cooked to perfection. Everything was nicely presented. You could tell this was a higher-end Italian establishment with an accomplished chef.

Video of Our Tutto Experience

For an idea of what the restaurant looks like, check out the following video clip. It shows a few scenes from our dinner at Tutto in the summer of 2023. In the video you’ll see the outside entrance to the restaurant, a bit of the restaurant’s interior decor, and our Lobster Tagliatelle and Tutto’s Mixed Grill entrées. At the end you’ll also catch a glimpse of some amazing Tiramisù!

Our Desserts at Tutto

For dessert we had the Tiramisù and it was divine! We also had the Torta Caprese which is a flourless almond chocolate cake with vanilla gelato. To finish things off, the waiter recommended a digestif. Based on his advice, we had a Nononi which is a bitter liqueur. It’s made with a grape-based Italian brandy infused with herbs and botanicals. Wow! Was that ever a nice way to finish off our Italian dinner! Next time we might finish with the same, plus an espresso!

We loved our dining experience at Tutto and look forward to going back again. The restaurant is a place you’ll want to go to on a date, for a special occasion or to take guests who like authentic Italian cuisine. If you like Italian food, we highly recommend this place!

Other Information

For more information about the Italian dining venue, visit the Tutto Restaurant website.

Tutto is run by the Pinnacle Group which also owns the Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel in Coal Harbour, Pinnacle at the Pier at the Shipyards in North Vancouver, and the Pinnacle Hotel Whistler Village in Whistler. Other restaurants managed by the same Lower Mainland-based company include the P2B Bistro in downtown Vancouver and both The Lobby and Pier 7 on the North Shore.

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