So Italian

Been here to eat a few times. Tonight we used a Groupon for pizzas. Pizzas are homestyle and delicious. Pasta dishes are average. The service has always been good.

Found ourselves in Brownsburg around lunch & wanted to try something locally owned.  So Italian fit the bill with homemade Italian dishes at reasonable prices.  The lunch combos offered the most variety for the dollar.

Inside is cute, counter-style cafe.  Order at counter, seat yourself, served by staff, clear your own table.

My opinion of the food will differ from most Midwest Americans.  I was born in Naples, Italy and this stuff is NOT local American diner's version of Italian.  This is homemade, cafe-style Italian food.  

Loved the pasta menu - you can choose between 4 different pastas and 9 different sauce options.  The Amaticciana sauce is very authentic - I wish there'd been more.  Would have been fun to have farfalle as a pasta option, but enjoyed my capellini (angel hair).

Pizza slice had a good, crisp crust & certainly was NOT packaged.  Nice sauce & cheese.  Would prefer the sausage be pulled, uneven bits instead of perfectly rolled little balls.  This gives the poor impression of packaged pizza sausage.

Tomato basil soup is thick and very fresh.  Husband liked the lasagna but insists he prefers mine.  Maybe it's my fresh ricotta cheese, maybe it's something else...

Brownsburg is lucky to have So Italian & it will be my first place to return if back in town.

I've been driving by So Italian for a few months now on my commute to work, and it took a deal from Living Social to finally motivate me to stop by with my son for a visit.  My son is 9 so half of the experience is paying attention to how well he's treated.  The other half, of course is the food.

This is a slightly cafeteria style place in that you stop at the counter, place, and then pay for your order.  While some might disagree with me, this doesn't bother me because somebody still brings your order out to the table, and there' no waiting around for your bill when you're finished eating.  They do have  child size portions of pasta so my son ordered the fettuccine with Alfredo sauce, while I went with the meat-piled pizza.  I don't want to sound like a pizza snob from the big city, but I did just relocate to Indianapolis from Chicago, and I have to say Indy's pizza sucks.  Indy has two major problems with their mom & pop pizza places like So Italian - 1. Pre-made crust and 2. bad quality, probably frozen, mas-produced sausage.  I can forgive one, but not both.  

I was pretty pleased with So Italian's pizza.  The pizza came out pretty quickly, and cut New York style.  I wish I had gone with a less salty (not a knock on So Italian, anytime you have ham, bacon, pepperoni, and sausage on a pizza it's going to be salty), and flavorful pizza so I could have really tasted the sauce, and quality of the meat - the crust comes out thin and bubbly, so I'd assume it's hand-tossed, and while I wasn't blown away by the quality of the sausage (I'm used to large, home-made chunks), the ingredients were pretty good.  The staff was also good with my son; again since it's cafeteria style you have to get your own drinks and utensils.  When they brought my son's food (with a plate of animal crackers) to the table and he asked about a fork, one of the guys ran and picked one up for him.  Having his drink included in the price of the kid's meal is also a nice little bonus.

There are a lot of good options for lunch and dinner that I plan on trying, including a dinner sampler that includes a half-portion of lasagne, a portion or pasta w/marinara, and a portion with Alfredo sauce + soup/salad for $10, Italian subs, and calzones.  

Now if they only had cannolis...