With an ultra-affordable daily happy hour and private event spaces, Tavolàta is the perfect downtown meeting space

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In Italian, tavolàta means a dining table, especially one where people connect over good food and drink. You’ll find that and more at Tavolàta, downtown Spokane’s dining destination that this year won best Italian restaurant in the Inlander’s annual Best Of Readers Poll.

Try Tavolàta’s award-winning happy hour, daily from 4 to 6 pm. Sit inside and soak up the restaurant’s modern, eclectic vibe, or plant yourself on the patio with a view of nearby Riverfront Park. The ridiculously affordable $15-and-under food and drink menu offers shareables like croquettes and a salumi board. Pastas like tonnarelli with cracked pepper are scratch-made. And cocktails like the blackberry bramble with gin and prosecco are expertly crafted.

“We like to provide a great place to go out with friends,” says Chef Ethan Stowell, founder of Ethan Stowell Restaurants, which owns Tavolàta.

Dinner means more happiness and an expanded menu of appetizers, pastas and seasonal entrees beautifully prepared by chef Austin Conklin, who wowed diners when he ran Inland Pacific Kitchen.

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And for an even bigger smile to match your big event, Tavolàta has two private-entry dining spaces for as few as 10 and as many as 40 guests. The menu is available in three price-points and features Tavolàta’s most popular appetizers, pastas and entrees, from marinated olives to rigatoni pasta with spicy sausage to a mouthwatering New York steak.

Tavolàta has also made booking its private spaces even easier, Stowell says. “They can just go in, look at the menu, and with a touch of the button, get their party all squared away.”

More Reasons to Dine at Tavolàta

Nearly all of Tavolàta’s scratch-made pasta dishes are available at no upcharge for diners who need or want a gluten-free meal.

Tavolàta Spokane is just one of more than a dozen mostly Washington-based Ethan Stowell restaurants. Join ESR, the rewards club to earn points toward free appetizers, reward cards and invitations to exclusive events, such as a virtual cooking class with company founder, chef Ethan Stowell.