Linardos Villa

This place is cool.  Really, really cool!  It's in the heart of Springfield, Ohio.

Get this.  It's an old ( circa 1947 ) and old school Italian restaurant.

It's coolness is not from some slick, modern, corporate vibe.  It's coolness comes from the decor.

Decor?  Well, if you know the Top or you remember The Bexley Monk or the Jai Lai  in Columbus or maybe The Pine Club or the original Neil's Heritage House in Dayton and you love that retro, take you back to a simpler, more classy time, where the music is Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., then you will want to come here.

It's done in an old school Italian / Mediterranean style that I you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else.  Dark wood, leather seats, captain's chairs to sit in, stained glass,  Moorish light fixtures.  It's nothing like what you will ever see in a contemporary restaurant, period.  It's all about comfort and relaxing while you do dinner.  It's dining, not just eating out.  It's old but not worn out either.  Very well kept up it is.

And the food?  Well, I had the chicken marsala, which came with a small side of spaghetti, a salad and some warm honey wheat bread with real butter.  The butter was the old school style with the cardboard paper on the bottom and the thin one on the top.  Real butter, no margarine here.  A really nice sized salad came out first.  Everything fresh and very appetizing.  

The wine was only $4.75 a glass for William Hill Cabernet....a deal.

There are things you will find here that are hard to find anywhere else.  Frog Legs, Sweet Breads, Beef Liver, Bison steaks etc.  There's also an impressive selection of surf and turf combinations to choose from.  Like Greek foods?  There's also an very large amount of Greek foods to choose from too.  The menu is extensive folks.  You could eat here for probably two months without ever repeating yourself.  Prices are befitting an upscale casual restaurant.  It's a dress up a bit type of place.  I wouldn't feel comfortable here in a tank top and cut off shorts.

I'm ready to go back anytime.  Such a cool, classy place.....cool as f*ck.