I was excited to try this place because I heard good things and its hard to find authentic Italian. Â I was a little disappointed.
First of all they sat us in the Florida room which felt more like Alaska than Florida. Â It was COLLLD. Â The server was very good about adjusting it because he said we weren't the only ones freezing. Â But then others would adjust it again and we were on and off freezing for the entire meal.
We started with drinks and appetizers. Â We tried the meatballs and the Prosciutto Mozzarella Crostini. Â They were both really good. Â The meatballs were smaller than I pictured and it came with 3 and some extra sauce and garlic bread. Â The crostini was delish but it was heavy on the sage butter and one crostini in and I was finished because of the oversaturation. Â
The fresh bread was great! Â Came out warm and with butter or oil to dip. Â For our entrees my husband got the penne with sausage and peppers and onions. Â He said it was just okay. Â Nothing to write home about either way.
I ordered the pappardelle with bolognase sauce. Â It was SUPER salty. Â The noodles were homemade but I couldn't stomach the amount of salt in the dish. Â The other members of my table agreed. Â Here's where things took another star down. Â I was so excited that a lot of their entrees came in half size portions. Â Since we had all of the appetizers this was a great option. Â I ordered from here and this is exactly how it was pictured in the menu.
Choice of pappardelle, spaghetti, fettuccini, penne, rigatoni, or thin linguini with Marinara sauce. Substitute Bolognese for 1.50
Small 10.5 / Full 13.5
So I got the SMALL pappardelle with bolognese. Should have been $12
My bill came out and they charged me 17. Â I mentioned it to the waiter and he said it doesn't come in a small size. Â He adjusted the bill and made it out like they were doing me a favor. Â I wanted to show him that I wasn't off my rocker. Â and I showed him the menu. I don't think he got it. Â Turns out there's an entree
Pappardelle Bolognese (House Specialty)
Pappardelle pasta and our own homemade meat sauce, Bolognese style 17
And he just thought that's what I wanted. Â I even asked him when I was ordering the differences in size and I told him I wanted a small and he didn't say anything then... shady.
Anyway he did adjust my bill. Â I went home rather thirsty from salt and a little sour that I was made to feel like my bill adjustment was my fault so I don't think I'll be rushing back. Â
Oh the dishes come with soup or salad which is a plus :-)
This was an awesome family owned Italian restaurant. Â ALL the food is made fresh daily including the pasta. Â The wine was excellent and the glass was generously filled. Â A wide variety of deserts, all made fresh by the owner. Â Both the husband and the wife came around to each table separately making sure you are enjoying the food and just small talk. Â Our server Ryan was always making sure we had what we needed. Â He even gave us updates on how long until our meals were ready, not that we waited that long. Â I highly recommend making reservations! Â They use Open Table online. Â I highly recommend this restaurant.
Review Source:Staying in the area and searched Yelp for highest rated Italian food. Have to say that I was quite impressed with my order. I did get take-out, and it was ready for pickup within 10-15 minutes. The eggplant appetizer, amazing! I wish I would have ordered the large. Their marinara sauce is very fresh, a bit on the sweet side, had I eaten in I would have added a bit of hot pepper. I also ordered the small ravioli which was also very good. I really wanted the gnocchi but they no longer offer it for take out (bummer). I would definitely go back, prices are good, I feel like I got a ton of food for $19.
Review Source:Came here for lunch with my boyfriend. Never again. Ordered the meatball appetizer and they came out cold. The Fettuchini Alfredo with chicken includes chicken the same grade and taste of that found at subway restaurants, my ravioli tastes like it has cream cheese inside...our waiter just brought a bread basket to the table...at the end of the meal? Don't eat here.
Review Source:Highly recommend for families visiting Hershey. We easily got a reservation for 7 people. Delicious bruschetta. Calamari app could have been more well done. Loved my Shrimp and Artichoke dinner. My husband was a little disappointed with his Shrimp Risotto but everyone else in the group was very happy with their choices. The little homemade ravioli for kids were amazing.
Review Source:Fist time visit and glad we picked it. Aftwr reading online reviews, we narrowed our choices and were very pleased with the final choice. Excellent Italian cuisine...freshly made to order! Â The waitress was knowledgeable and friendly. Over all great experience. A family of five all left with full bellies and more than satisfied! We would definitely go back!
Review Source:We have tried this restaurant three times and we are finished and will never go again. Â They have a gluten free menu which includes pizza. It was terrible and it wan't even the crust! Hardly any sauce and the worst tasting cheese and toppings. Vegetarian that included a few mushrooms and some onions? This is Vegetarian pizza? Oh, we paid extra for the veggie pizza. Â :( Â I have also tried their regular menu and both are so incredibly over priced... it is a sin. Â How do you charge 17.00 for pasta with red sauce and a tiny salad? Â This isn't an upscale place mind you... it's a neighborhood restaurant that is terrible. Â How does one screw up Italian food, really?
My husband ordered eggplant parm and it was so tough he couldn't even cut it with a regular knife. We asked for a steak knife and the server said they didn't have any, okay... now what. Â
Honestly, the service is okay, maybe even good, but that just doesn't cut it (excuse pun) when it comes to food and price. Â I don't have grand illusions but give me a break. Fix the darn men and get better cooks.
I really would love to give this visit higher stars but sadly I can't. Â We have previously eaten lunch there and thought the food was excellent and were excited to try again for dinner. Â
We were fortunate to get a last minute reservation through open-table for 8 pm on Saturday night. Â Glad we had the reservation as the place was packed with few groups waiting. Â We were seated right away...and the promptness ends there.
Our waitress must have been new...I can only hope she was new and will improve as I don't think I have experienced such poor service before. Â Slow in getting drink orders (family of 4 - 2 adults and 2 kids 10 and 13) Â we had beer/soft drinks on order and that took 15 minutes to arrive. Â Sensing it was going to be slower than usual we adjusted our orders to eliminate the appetizers and go straight for the entree. Â But unfortunately she didn't want to take our order after dropping off the drinks - we had to wait another 10 minutes. Â It was 8:30 by the time she took our orders!
The food was average to poor. I ordered a salad and papperdelle with bolognese. Â Normally excellent and would have been but for it arriving at the table tepid. Â The shrimp risotto featured undercooked rice, onions and shrimp and was not in the least bit creamy. Â The crab cakes were excellent, but sadly served tepid again. Â The last meal was the chicken strips for the kids meal which were served piping hot.
The owner came by to check on us and we expressed our disappointment over the risotto and the temperature of the other dishes (not the strips though!)  She offered to remake the risotto but by that point it was a little after 9 and we were done.  When the waitress came back several minutes later to check on us, she offered dessert on the house to make up for the meals (nice offer) and we took her  up on it.
After another 20 minutes for the desserts, a flustered looking waitress appeared at the table to tell us they are all out of vanilla ice cream for the chocolate lava cake, but if we really wanted it she could run next door to get some. Â Before we could decline, my son said yes and off she sprinted. Â Literally. Â So I took advantage of this break to stretch my legs. Â I kind of wish I hadn't. Â The restroom clearly showed that this restaurant had been slammed. Â Overflowing trash bins in the stall and overflowing trash bins by the sinks. Â But what bothered me was the employee who was taking a break just tossed her used paper towel into the overflowing bin instead of tidying up.
Back to the table to catch our out of breath waitress delivering our desserts. Â They looked great, especially as she used the dessert plates to shove the dinner plates out of the way to make room for the desserts. Â Yep..all the plates were on the table..bread plates, salad plates, soup bowl and 4 large entree dishes and now 4 desserts. Â The lovely aroma of garlic mingled so nicely with my creme brulee. Â And again the owner stopped by to check on us. Â I felt compelled to let her know that the waitress ran next door to get the ice cream...not one of the 2 hostesses standing by, nor any of the busboys (who didn't actually bus) but our waitress. Â She laughed and said she would speak to her. I also commented on all the dishes left at the table and again received a warm smile and promise to talk to the waitress. Â However, she did not pick up a single dish.
So my final review on this is the food can be excellent and the desserts are amazing, the service is a critical component of the whole meal and in this case was terrible.
Went with a party of 8. Â Everyone really enjoyed their meal. Â I had the grilled gnocci and my wife had the shrimp and scallop scampi -- both were great. Â This is a local place, where the owner comes by at the end of the meal to make sure everything was okay. Â They clearly take a lot of pride in their operation, and it shows. Â I'd definitely recommend it to anyone visiting Hershey
Review Source:I've been here a few times over the past 3 1/2 years and I've always had a great meal. Most recently, I got a large Old Fashioned pie that had 4 cheeses and a really great pizza sauce. It was fantastic and I'm definitely going to get another pie before I move out of the area in June, it's that good. I remember the dinners being very good as well and it's super conveniently located right across the street for the Hershey Med Center. Definitely a great place!
Review Source:They were out of a lot of the dishes that people described liking on here so I was disappointed that I could not try the grilled gnocchi.
Other than that it was a positive experience. Â We definitely had leftovers that tasted even better the next day, unlike what another person described. Â Enjoyed the food and the wait staff and will return!
Visited here on a Saturday night with my husband and some friends at our friends' suggestion. My husband had one of the specials that night - two crab cakes. He verified that it was real crab when he found a shell, but overall, he said they were good. I had their small plate of spaghetti and meatballs and enjoyed it. You could definitely tell that the pasta was homemade!
Our friends both had the three cheese ravioli; they said it is one of their favorite dishes there. They had their 18-month old with them and our server brought her some crayons to keep her entertained.
I don't usually order desert, but when I saw that they had cannoli, I had to order one. It was pretty good; not the best I have ever had, but not the worst either.
The food was good, but the restaurant itself was very noisy and dark. We didn't find it romantic, just dark.
We plan to return and I look forward to trying some of their other pasta dishes.
My wife and I came here for a nice dinner while staying at a nearby hotel. The food was very good. My wife had the Grilled Gnocchi and I had the Italian Sampler. Both dishes were excellent; I especially liked their red sauce. It was one of the best sauces I've had at a restaurant.
The only negative I found was we felt rushed. Our server was nice and efficient, though almost too efficient. Our food came out before my wife finished her salad, which I didn't appreciate. We were trying to enjoy a glass of wine and a relaxed dinner, while they were thinking "next"!
The restaurant was nice as long as you sit on the right side of restaurant as the left side serves pizza. There's a small but nice bar in the center hall, that looked like a nice place to sit during the week with a glass of wine and share a pizza.
The rush aside, I'd recommend this place for some good Italian food if you're in the area. I can't imagine there are that many to choose from.
My girlfriend and I really enjoyed the restaurant. We had 8 o'clock reservations and arrived 10 minutes early and were seated right at 8. The wait staff was friendly and attentive throughout the night. We ordered two appetizers (Mushroom & Spinach Arancini and Garlic Shrimp) and both were very good and priced right for the amount of food. For dinner the girlfriend ordered the Pappardelle Bolognese and I ordered the Lobster Ravioli. Both were very excellent and the homemade pasta was a plus. We each had wine with dinner and their selection is very nice and broad for those who wish to have wine with dinner. Â The atmosphere was nice, perfect for both a family or a couple on a date night. Â We will definitely be returning, and inviting friends to join us.
Review Source:First time ever in this joint. Place seems very cossy. Sitting at the bar. Waitress is on top of everything. Very polite, asking if I needed anything. Â Calamari was lightly breaded, very nice. Sauce was slightly spicy which is ok by me. Meatball appetizer is delicious. Garlic bread is a perfect compliment. Meat sauce is hearty small bits of tomato. Again, my waitress is very, very polite, catering to my every need. One of the best waitresses I've ever encountered. For dinner, I had the woodsman pizza. Good combination of olives, mushrooms, pepperoni and roasted peppers. In short, the pizza was a lock, loved it. Laura was my waitress. Highly recommended.
Review Source:My wife and I went here last week for dinner. While the ambiance was very nice, the food was slightly less desirable.
I ordered a simple chicken dish, which the 20 dollar price tag seemed a bit high for. My wife got the butternut squash ravioli. Her dish was far superior to mine. The ravioli was great and the fig sauce was very tasty.
Mine on the other hand was a huge let down! When my meal arrived, I was shocked to see it. I thought perhaps the waitress brought out the wrong dish. It was a TINY chicken breast SLICE, a pile of sticky over-cooked pasta, and a few slivers of mushroom. On top of that, there was a thin slice of dried out prosciutto. The dish tasted OK, nothing more.
20 bucks is an outrageous price for what I got though. Italian food is some of the cheapest to produce. If I don't leave an Italian restaurant with leftovers, I don't go back. Especially when it's twenty dollar plates!
Our bill topped 50 dollars and all we had were entrees, no appetizers. She had a beer and I got a water. I don't mind paying higher prices if the quality and portion size warrant it. This simply didn't.
I left the restaurant with my stomach and wallet empty. I would not recommend this place to anyone who's hungry.
My wife and me were here on my wife's bday and we just saw the reviews and thot of trying.. My wife ordered the grilled gnocchi and she fell in love with it.. That was the first time we ate a gnocchi and we ate gnocchi in other places after that and nothing matched this.. The service was brilliant and the waiting time was minimum. Will definitely revisit if we come to Harrisburg again!
Review Source:After a day of riding roller coasters at Hershey, we had worked up a pretty big appetite, and what better way to fill a hungry tummy than Italian food? Â This place is set away a bit from the main touristy area of Hershey, and we were seated quickly in their sun room area. Â Despite it being FREEZING cold in there, it was a nice little room.
I ordered the grilled gnocchi and the boyfriend ordered the sampler plate, which consisted of chicken parm, lasagna, and fettuccine alfredo. Â The grilled gnocchi were really, really good and the texture was perfect, although I could have done with less "other stuff" in the dish. Â There was way too much sausage for the number of gnocchi on the plate, and I should have ordered it without peas. Â I hate peas and figured I could just pick around them, but with the amount of sauce and other stuff on this plate, it was near impossible in practice. Â I was still a huge fan of the gnocchi... just wish they had been more plentiful than the other components of the dish. Â The boyfriend seemed to like his plate well enough, though he said it was nothing out of the ordinary.
Overall, a quick and pleasant meal, though I wouldn't put this at the top of my Italian dining experience list.
A true Italian dining gem with a setting for everyone. The dining room is a wonderful place (think Olive Garden but classier) for date night. The food is perfectly crafted and the wait staff was extremely kind & observant.
Never tried the bar or pizzeria, but friends give high ranks and based on my experiences in the dining room, it's hard to think it would be anything short of great!
The owner came around to each table and engaged with each party to make sure they were taken care of. Not just a simple question, but a confident & friendly conversation. What a guy! :-)
Another BIG plus: the kitchen works with local ingredients/farms to make dishes more local and more supportive of the local economy. Kudos!!
Surprisingly Delicious in Hershey:
I had dinner there tonight on an Open Table reservation. I was seated almost immediately in a cute little alcove with a table for two - lovely and quiet and away from all the noise of the bar and the diners with small children. I had the grilled salmon with spinach risotto and it was delicious. The salmon was perfectly cooked, the risotto was perfectly cooked and the sundried tomato butter on top of it was melting as the dish was served. The wine list includes some house wines as well as some "premium" wines by the glass. My server was attentive but not intrusive and made no mistakes with my special requests. The price was reasonable and there was very little delay between the time I was seated and the arrival of my salad after I gave my order. All good! I will definitely return to Piazza Sorrento the next time I go to Hershey.
You know how you go to a restaurant and GF options are presented as a GF "menu?" This place has a 2-page true GF menu, which includes entrees complete with sauces, a variety of desserts, and even appetizers! The soups were both GF and one was a pasta soup that the non-GF patrons were eating unaware! That should make a statement for the food right there!
In addition to the superb food and variety of options, I could eat with peace of mind. When I called, they provided confident and intelligent answers to my food preparation questions. They even volunteered information, such as knowing to boil the GF pastas separately. (Seems like common sense, but if you are GF, you realize people sometimes lose a bit of sense when attempting GF! Not this place!!!) When the GF dishes arrive at the table, there are even paper tags laid on the plate to certify to you once again that the chef understood your need for GF and was cognizant of that fact during preparation. It was so nice not to have those doubts lingering in the back of my mind.
Oh! And you know how we normally get to sit and watch the non-GF eat their Italian bread dipped in olive oil and herbs? Not this time! My daughter and I were offered GF rolls too! This was the first time in a very long time that I felt like a normal person eating a meal out!
Stopped by here after a day at the Lancaster outlets. Saw it and decided to stop. They were busy at 7:30 pm, so we sat at the bar and got service immediately. Scott, our bartender, has great customer service. He allowed us to sample 2 wines before choosing 1 and alerted us to it being cheaper if we got a bottle. We declined, but appreciated the head's up.
I loved my appetizer: eggplant involintini (small rollitini). Â My mate enjoyed the bacon, mozzerella crostini. For dinner, he liked his half portion of lasagna and I the buffalo chicken pizza (with extra hot sauce). Â Another person helping in the bar was happy to find out the brand of hot sauce for us promptly. Great service here!
This restaurant is beautifully decorated and would be a fun place to take a date for a romantic dinner. Â The service was friendly, and the food was delicious.
I had the chicken marsala with risotto. Â The risotto was sooo creamy and the chicken was tender and served with a delicious marsala and mushroom sauce. Â The only thing I didn't love was the creme brulee, which wasn't sweet enough for my taste, but overall I had a great experience and will definitely be back the next time I'm in town!
I love this place. Â Good food, good happy hour, good service, and they recently openned an outdoor patio! Â One side of the place is Mr. Sorrento's, which is a pizza and sub place. Â The other side is Piazza Sorrento's, a nice sit-down Italian restaurant. Â
My friends and I go often for the happy hr specials - $2 pints, $3 22oz drafts - and good beers like Sam Adams and Troegs, not this bud lite happy hour stuff. Â Some of my friends tried some of the fancier cocktails and weren't overly impressed. Â The grilled gnocchi is fantastic, and the parmesean peppercorn dressing is delish.
Two thumbs up!
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