@ladybeachbum : The Mediterranean salad was my favorite too. I would always have them make it even though they took it off the menu. The one thing I miss is their crab 🦀 cakes!! They got rid of those about 4 years ago

Their baked Ziti is so good and I always have leftovers for the next day. Their bread knots used to be better but still okay. I will say that the one in Atascocita is the best Italian restaurant in a 20 mile radius.

@Mommy : Never tried the baked ziti. I always get the lasagna. And I agree the garlic knots used to be better. They are good when they are hot.

@FenderBass : You should try Brooklyn Pizza's pasta dishes, delicious, very inexpensive and healthy potions (meaning alot). I'm from an Italian neighborhood in Chicago, they wouldn't have lasted a month, food is way too greasy at Italianos, and those over chewy Garlic knots, yuck. I have always preferred good hard on the outside soft on the inside Italian Bread. But then if you don't really know great Italian food, how do you know better. I have never been to an Italian restaurant that has charged extra for any sauce. It's way out of the norm.

@chasinghosts : I really like the Italian dressing Brooklyn Pizza's uses on their salads. I go there for a meatball sub a salad quite a bit. One of the very few places with a decent meatball. Italiano's doesn't even cook the meatballs in sauce. They serve a round hamburger and pour sauce over it, sauce is added when meatball is placed on plate.

@FenderBass : I like the Italian and the Ranch dressing at Brooklyn. Their Tiramisu is amazing too, but I don't get it with the raspberry sauce, just like it plain. I've been told by several people that had worked there that they are Serbian, not Italian, which is closer to being Greek. Have also heard that they have a high turnover because they treat their employees terribly.

@FenderBass : Lol maybe that's why I don't like the meatballs at Italiano's. When I make home made meatballs I cook them in the Pomodoro sauce.

@chasinghosts : I have never tried Brooklyn Pizza's pasta dishes. But they sound right up my alley. Good food and big portion sizes LOL

@Weathergirl5 : In defense of all Italian food in this area, I am a 69-year-old New York Italian, nothing worse when it comes to being way to particular about our Italian food... LOLBTW, our meat (Meatballs, Italian sausage, pork ribs, beef, ribs, etc.. ) spend 4 to 6 hours cooking in our red sauce... and finding good Italian sausage to use in our sauce is also a huge challenge... LOL

@FenderBass : Your meatballs sound delicious. I cook mine about 3 to 4 hours. Simmering in my sauce. Now I'm going to have to make meatballs soon with all this talk!!

@Weathergirl5 : LOL! I'm a big eater and the Baked Ziti is enough for 2 meals
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@FenderBass : @FenderBass : IKR? I'm 63 so set in my ways too. Closest decent sausage that I've found here is Kroger's sweet Ital sausage. Hot is almost too hot and not flavored right, and mild is just bland so I opt for the sweet. I miss my Minelli Brother's back home. Noone makes better sausage than them. Cincinnati (Kroger's home base) has a large Italian community and so they got the kinks out years ago. 95% of my friends are Italian and they would agree unless they had a good butcher up in Chicago to compare it to.

@Weathergirl5 : Enjoy....

@chasinghosts : That is My kind of meal then!!!

@FenderBass : I'm from Long Island..... Do yourself a favor and Google Brothers Pizza. By far closest to NY pizza you can find down here. Two best run locations are N Shepherd and highway 6 and I 10. Blows Brooklyn pizza away!