Award-winning restaurant featuring authentic, unique, Italian and Mediterranean cuisine.
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Here’s what actually happens when you celebrate your birthday at Tartufo: You walk into your private upstairs dining room—already set exactly how you wanted. Your guests are impressed before they even sit down.
The food comes out perfectly timed. Real homemade pasta, fresh seafood, dishes that taste like they came from someone’s Italian grandmother’s kitchen. Your friends are asking where you found this place.
Then comes the best part. When it’s time for cake, our team brings it out with candles lit, no awkward coordination needed. You didn’t have to remind anyone, plan the timing, or worry about whether someone remembered to bring matches. It just happens, exactly when it should.
Since 2004, we’ve been the restaurant Lowell families choose when they want their birthday celebration to actually feel special. Not just dinner out—an experience that makes the birthday person feel like the center of attention they deserve to be.
We’re the award-winning Italian place that does authentic Abruzzese cuisine the right way. Homemade pasta made fresh daily, seafood that tastes like it came straight from the Italian coast, ingredients sourced because they’re the best, not because they’re convenient.
What sets us apart for Lowell birthday celebrations is simple: we’ve done this hundreds of times. We know exactly how to make your private dining experience feel seamless, personal, and memorable. Your celebration isn’t just another booking to us—it’s another chance to prove why families keep choosing us for their most important moments.
First, we talk through what you want. How many people, what kind of vibe, any special requests. Our upstairs private dining room handles everything from intimate dinners for 10 to bigger celebrations for 45 people. We’ve seen it all, so we know what questions to ask to make sure we get it right.
Next, we plan your menu together. Family-style sharing plates if you want that communal feel. Individual entrées if you prefer something more formal. Mix of appetizers and cocktails if you’re going for a party atmosphere. We work with your budget and make sure everyone’s dietary needs are covered without making it complicated.
On your birthday, you just show up. Your room is ready, your food is timed perfectly, and our team takes care of every detail from the first course to that final cake moment. You get to be the guest of honor at your own party instead of the coordinator.
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Your birthday celebration gets our entire upstairs dining room—elegant chandeliers, large windows with golden drapes, and a full bar that’s exclusively yours for the evening. No sharing space with strangers, no worrying about noise levels, no awkward interruptions.
The food is what makes people remember your birthday months later. We’re talking authentic Italian dishes prepared the way they should be: homemade pasta, our famous veal chop, fresh seafood specials, seasonal ingredients that actually taste like something. This isn’t generic banquet food—it’s the same quality we serve every night, just prepared for your private celebration.
For Lowell residents, this means you get Boston North End quality without the drive, the parking hassles, or the tourist crowds. You get authentic Italian cuisine, professional service, and a private space that makes your birthday feel as important as it should. Plus, we handle all the coordination so you can focus on enjoying the people you invited.
Book 2-3 weeks ahead for most dates, but if you want a Saturday night or you’re planning around a holiday weekend, give us a month. Our private dining room books up because it’s the kind of space that makes celebrations feel special—intimate but elegant, private but not isolated.
We need that lead time to coordinate your menu, set up the room exactly how you want it, and handle any special requests. The planning conversation alone takes time because we want to get every detail right.
That said, if you need something last-minute, call us anyway. We sometimes have availability, especially for weeknight celebrations or smaller groups. The worst we can say is no, but we’ll try to work something out.
Your private birthday celebration includes exclusive use of our upstairs dining room for your entire party duration. The space seats up to 45 for dinner service or holds up to 55 for cocktail-style celebrations, and it comes with a dedicated bar just for your group.
We handle all the service details: professional waitstaff who know how to make birthday celebrations feel special, custom menu planning that works with your budget and preferences, and timing coordination so everything flows smoothly from appetizers to that final cake moment.
The birthday cake presentation is our signature touch—we bring it out with candles lit at exactly the right moment, no coordination needed from you. We also accommodate decorations within reasonable guidelines and handle special dietary needs without making it a big production.
Yes, and we don’t make it complicated. When you book, just tell us what dietary needs your group has. Gluten-free pasta, vegetarian options, common allergy accommodations—we handle this regularly and know how to do it right.
Our Italian cuisine naturally works well for many dietary restrictions. We make fresh pasta, so gluten-free versions are easy. We have plenty of seafood and vegetarian dishes that don’t feel like afterthoughts. Most restrictions just mean choosing different menu items, not creating entirely separate meals.
For parties with multiple dietary needs, family-style service often works best. We can prepare several different options so everyone finds something they love while still sharing the experience that makes birthday dinners memorable.
We feature live saxophone jazz on select evenings, and it’s perfect for birthday celebrations—sophisticated enough to feel special, but not so loud you can’t have conversations. When we do have live music, it adds something really memorable to the evening.
We can’t guarantee live music for every date, but we’ll let you know when you book if your celebration falls on one of our music nights. Some guests specifically request these evenings because the jazz creates such a great atmosphere.
Even without live music, our private dining room has the kind of ambiance that makes birthdays feel important: soft lighting, elegant décor, and an intimate setting that naturally encourages celebration and conversation.
Our upstairs private dining room handles birthday celebrations from intimate gatherings of 8-10 people up to larger parties of 45 guests for seated dinners. For cocktail-style celebrations with appetizers and mingling, we can accommodate up to 55 people.
The room is flexible enough to work for different celebration styles. Formal multi-course dinners, casual family-style sharing, cocktail parties with passed appetizers—we configure the space to match what you want your birthday to feel like.
For very small celebrations under 8 people, we also offer semi-private seating in our main dining room. You still get special attention and birthday treatment, but with the energy and atmosphere of the full restaurant around you.
We work with a food and beverage minimum rather than charging separate room rental fees, which means your actual dining costs count toward the total. This makes private dining more affordable than venues that charge room fees on top of catering costs.
The minimum varies based on your date, time, and guest count, but we’ll give you exact numbers when you call. We offer everything from prix fixe menus that simplify planning and budgeting to à la carte options that let you customize every detail.
No surprise charges or hidden fees—we’ll provide a complete quote upfront so you know exactly what to expect. Our goal is working within your budget while delivering the kind of birthday celebration that makes people ask where you found such a great place.
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