Boise, Idaho · Grove Street
Italian Craft
From the Heart.
Handmade pasta. Local Idaho ingredients. A kitchen that believes food is the most honest form of love.
Explore the Menu Find the Table
Handmade pasta. Local Idaho ingredients. A kitchen that believes food is the most honest form of love.
Explore the Menu Find the TableÀlavita was born from a conviction that great Italian food has always been simple: exceptional ingredients, treated with respect, and shared at a table surrounded by people you love.
The kitchen follows the seasons — a practice borrowed from the trattorias of Emilia-Romagna, reinterpreted with the finest produce the Treasure Valley has to offer.
Every plate of pasta is rolled to order. Every sauce starts from scratch. Nothing comes from a can. That's not a marketing line. That's just how it's done.
Tagliatelle, pappardelle, black ravioli stuffed with crab and ricotta — each shape has a purpose and a pairing. The dough is made from semolina and egg, the same way it has been in Bologna for four centuries.
Àlavita changes its menu with what's available. Some dishes appear once and never again. That's not a flaw — it's the point.
