"The front of the house service is very attentive, warm, and polite here, which is refreshing. Brelundi restaurant is a full service restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. They offer both alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages such as wine, and imported sparkling mineral water. They will offer you bread. They are making house cured mortadella, etc, which really impressed me. I enjoyed their eggplant Caponata on their anti pasti plate, whose sauce is sweet with golden raisins, and their buttery proscuitto. The eggplant is cubed and braised in the marinara sauce as is traditional. They served kalamata and large green Spanish ? Pitted olives with the Antipasto. They served the Antipasto with fried chick pea flat bread whose name eludes me Crespelle ? It has a nice, nutty flavor though was a teeny bit greasy.They sell imported pastas. The restaurant pretty much aims to make diners feel welcome as in complimentary dishes used to be sent out to diners frequently, which I know for a non Italian might be a difficult concept to comprehend. This is the cultural practice of abbondanza. A family place. My entire immediate family save myself ate here once and had a fun time. I was invited but was trying to heal a rift so didn 't attend. Our family tradition kind practice of the silent treatment continued with gusto. : )Reportedly, my immediate family enjoyed the Arancini on that visit but were completely confused by the executed practice of Abbondanza at Brelundi restaurant that evening. They told me that I missed a good time.Not to fret ! I returned with my sibling and had pizza, and she had the soup, which she likes.My immediate family still pigged out on the free Tiramisu and other complimentary desserts that were generously sent their way that evening, so no worries there. It 's my opinion, but not necessarily creed, that gift horses shouldn 't be looked in the mouth. I think now post pandemic and with steeply inflationary times the generous free desserts at Brelundi became a bygone luxury.The restaurant has a patio and patio dining in warm weather. They now serve breakfast. Their pizza is good. The restaurant is located next to the Waltham Watch Factory Museum on the Charles River in Waltham, in the actual old Waltham Watch building, which is an enormous, long, sturdy, renovated and repaired red brick factory warehouse building which incidentally rents large converted studio Condominiums. Diners can stroll on the beautiful Charles River way and even out on the dock all the way to The Cove park in Auberndale, MA. Pretty dogwoods and apple trees abut the path."
