We moved to CA from Dublin 12 years ago and enjoyed our dining experience even more during our…read morerecent visit! Everything was amazing, atmosphere, knowledgeable service,wine list, all the food (especially the bread) and the warm ownership presence and pride! BRAVO!!!!!!!

REVIEW BY: Avila.Eats on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube…read more Service: friendly, talkative, and great suggestions. Waters kept full. Ambiance/Atmosphere: inside is a nice open high risen ceilings dining room. Tables are well spaced and comfortable. Well set and the restaurant is well lit without being too bright. The soft music is nice while enjoying your meal and talking is no issue. Food: 1. Bread service is crunchy outside and soft inside. Bread by itself is good but nothing crazy. The pesto olive oil dipping oil is what makes it. 6.75 2. Steak Oscar is tender, juicy, and well seasoned. The bernaise sauce has a nice flavor that pairs excellent with the crab. Tender but slightly fishier than I'd like. 7.5. Asparagus is just asparagus, no exciting flavors. Risotto is soft and creamy. Decent flavor. I'm not a big risotto fan. 6 3. Bella Vista Sausage chicken pasta is creamy. Rich and flavorful. The sausage is spicy and well seasoned. Tender and juicy. The chicken is tender and juicy and pairs great with the alfredo sauce. The noodles are perfectly cooked. The peppers add heat, sweet, and a great pop of flavor. 7.75 4. Lasagna is packed full of meat. Shortrib bolognese is tender, well seasoned, and packed full of meat. Sauce is tangy but not over done. Cheese is plentiful and gooey. 8.5 5. Tiramisu is delicate and flavorful. Smooth and creamy. Excellent flavor and perfectly done. Coffee flavor is noticeable but not overpowering. 9.5 6. Cannoli shell has an excellent flavor. Cream is smooth and airy. Chocolate adds a nice flavor and richness. The pistachio flavor is my favorite and adds that great pistachio flavor. 8 7. Chocolate torte is warm and smooth. Decadent rich chocolate flavor with a gooey center. Taste like a fudgy brownie mixed with a lava cake. Super rich and indulgent without being sickly. 8.5

Stopped in on a Thursday for a date night after a friend recommended it! The wait staff was very…read morefriendly and helpful without being overbearing or pushy. I got the house wine and my fiancé got the beer and an espresso martini! All great! We got the crostini (mushrooms and ricotta) as an app - very delicious though the flavor profile wasn't exactly what we expected. The complimentary focaccia that came out was also delicious! For dinner we split the rigatoni (very popular per our waitress and we can see why - delicious and the short rib was tender and plentiful) and lasagna (special for the night and also quite good)! The restaurant was cute, smaller but not too small they couldn't do larger groups. Overall, delicious and would recommend!

We had a very nice dinner at Novella. The food was excellent. We started with the shrimp appetizer…read moreand the meatballs and both were excellent. My wife and daughter shared the Caesar salad and it was very good. I had the Fra Diovlo lobster special and it was excellent although it wasn't remotely spicy which was disappointing. My daughter had the sweet potato ravioli and it was excellent. My wife had the salmon and she really liked it but my daughter and I didn't loved it. It was very citrus forward . The service was fine but nothing more. We did not like our table as we felt like we were at the kiddie table between the bathroom and kitchen with no lighting and lots of traffic. You could tell it was an afterthought for added seating at a popular restaurant. I was also unimpressed with the wine options and I didn't love the one I ordered. We will go back for sure.

I am surprised I have not been here sooner. Not Italian decorated at all. Just a normal restaurant…read more& bar. I was pretty upset it took forever for anyone to realize my mom & I were even in the restaurant when they have a noise that goes off whenever someone arrives. Other guests had to let us know what to do. Everyone was weirded out. The waiter finally came out & just slammed us down menus. He was the least happiest waiter in my 29 years of life LOL. We ordered shrimp cocktail..amazing but you only get 6 shrimp FYI for $11.99. We also got cheesy garlic bread. That was awesome too. I loved the sauce. My mom got some pasta that wasn't good at all. Just pasta & sauce. No flavoring, no seasoning. I would never order it again. I got an old world pepperoni pizza that was a kids size. It reminded me of a lean cuisine pizza, pretty embarrassing if you ask me for $13. I would never order it again. If I was sharing that with someone I would have been mad with the size of it. They should warn people on the menu of the sizes. It just says "Pizzas" with the different flavors. I would try it again but there are so many other basic bar food places in Powell that are much more awesome. I wanted to ask the waiter what his problem was as we continued being so kind to him. It was clean inside.

Absolutely love the spaghetti and meatballs. I come here at 1x a month for them and the taste is…read morealways right on point.

Saw this Food Cart on Facebook and decided to check them out in Westerville. Mangiamo means Let's…read moreEat in Italian. The owner is Joe Cockrell, anyone that knows anything about Westerville history is going to know his grandfather Buzz Cockrell who owned Cockrell's Restaurant for around 30 years. Had a nice talk with Joe. On to the food. I ordered the Pork Cutlet Sandwich. OMG!!!! Huge sandwich. Add a nice sauce to it, topped with a mild cheese and a little basil sauce and you have a phenomenal meal. The pork was nice and tender with a nice crust to it. Joe has been doing this for around 8 years and working towards a full Food Truck. If you have the opportunity check Joe out, super talented chef.

Catering arrived 2 hours late with only half of our order. Said we'd be refunded but have…read morecompletely ghosted us since.

Amazing! Met a few friends here for my first experience at Claudiana's. It's a little fancy and…read morewould be great atmosphere for a romantic date night. The pasta was scratch made and absolutely delicious. I joined the clean plate club that night! Service was excellent and our server was very accommodating and knowledgeable as one of my friends is a vegetarian. I'm looking forward to finding a reason to go back for more!

We had a great time at Claudiana. I had a reservation for a Monday night, but didn't really need…read moreit. We got there early and were promptly seated. The staff had some confusion as it appears that they had another group reservation at the same time. No real impact to us other than the staff ignored us until they worked things out. We ordered cocktails and appetizers. The Mediterranean salad was good as were the other apps. Eventually, we ordered our dinner. That came out shortly after. I had the shrimp and sausage arrabiatta which was a little spicy and tasty with fettuccine noodles. No dessert for us this night Good food. Never rushed. Our waitress answered our questions and addressed dietary concerns.

My boyfriend and I came here on a whim and were pleasantly surprised! The ambiance inside is…read moreupscale yet still felt modern and casual. The service was very good with frequent check-ins and explanations by the staff. The full menu is available but they also have a very reasonable four course tasting menu. We went with this. For $38, you get a savory cannoli, a bread of your choice, a salad of your choice, an entree of your choice, and finally a dessert. Each was a very unique mix of both Italian and other flavors like East Asian and Indian. It was all very good and we would like to return.

The restaurant is set up nicely and unique. We came in during restaurant week and I suggest no one…read moredo that! We knew it would be busy, but was not ready to be waiting more than an hour between first course and second course! Several things did not go well. We had to wait an extra 10-15 minutes post our reservation time for the table to be ready. I found the portion sizes to be on the small side. I ordered the butter chicken pasta, which was really saucy so it was a shame to waste the remaining sauce once the pasta was finished. They give no complimentary bread, which would have been a nice addition to the pasta. The flavor of the butter chicken pasta and the hot chipotle chicken dip were good, but portion could have been larger for the price. Since the wait was extremely long between courses, I was offered a free refill for my mocktail, but when I got the check I was charged for it. I did not bring it up because after more than two hours of dining in, I was ready for it to be over. The mango creme brulee was not cool enough and so it did not set properly. The tiramisu tres leches was just okay, and they had ran out of the brownie dessert completely. I don't see myself coming back with so many nice Italian restaurants available in the city.

I have always enjoyed the Cameron Mitchell restaurants and Valentina's did not disappoint, just…read moremake sure to make reservations. We had Kori as our server. She was spunky and brimming with information from drinks to food and her recommendations were on point. I had the carbonara with shrimp added and my husband had the chicken parmigiana. The Linda Evangelista and the Tuscan Limonata cocktails are a must. We shared a slice of Brûlée lemon tart for his birthday, and if you like lemon like we do, then you will love it! We will certainly be returning and hope to have the pleasure of getting Kori again!

Probably the best chicken parm I've ever had. I got extra white sauce on the side too, which I…read morehighly recommend. The Caesar salad was amazing. I don't think I've ever had a Caesar salad where I didn't care about the croutons. The dressing was that good. My drink was amazing too. Great pour. Loved the bread and oil. Very good atmosphere. Great service. Everything was delicious. We'll definitely be back.

Marcella's was a pleasant surprise. We were both big fans of the food and the service from our guy…read more EB was incredible. None of the appetizers sounded great. Well, the meatball sounded good, but I knew that I was going to get one with my spaghetti and meatballs, so I elected to just go with the bread. The bread was phenomenal. We were given some olive oil and some pecorino Romano. We loved the bread. Let me tell you, it is a great place to eat, but it is loud and it was filled with people. Now I know why. I really enjoyed the spaghetti and one huge veal, meatball the meatball was incredibly tender and fell apart with one touch from the fork. Sauce was solid. My friend got the fettuccine with meatball. The meatball has some of the spaghetti sauce on it and he said that it mixes well to almost taste like a vodka sauce or a creamy spaghetti sauce. Overall, a really great experience. I will definitely be back.

Long ago Marcella's was one of my faves (specifically the SN location). Creative drinks, basic but…read moregood Italian fare and a great happy hour. Those days are long gone. The Polaris location is large and has a decent patio. The bar/lounge area is pretty big too, that's where we were sat when we came in for a weekend meal. Started with drinks and some apps. The cocktails were small and kind of meh. They only had 2 drafts, Stella & Peroni. I like both but it was strange that they had no other selections. The worst part was by far the food. Arancini - 6/10, nice crispy texture but the taste was a bit unexpected, like the added a bit too much Gorgonzola. Calamari - 7/10, a bit chewy but with a nice crisp, missing something fresh. Beef carpaccio - 2/10, Marcella's used to have an absolutely delicious carpaccio... this was a bit of an abomination. Beef slices too thick, crispy flatbread that broke up when I looked at it wrong, a white sauce on top that made the whole dish worse. Absolutely do not recommend. Dinner was a few pizzas 2/10 (read: precooked flatbreads with subpar toppings). The crispy potato "pizza" needs to be taken off the menu. Garlic sauce, cheese and these awful, overcooked potato chips. It was inedible - all 5 people at the table tried it but put their slice down after the first or second bite. Pizza Margherita DOC was a very salty, tomatoey thing. I think the grocery store version would be a better choice. We also shared the Pepperoni Sausage with mushrooms which was better, but it was undercooked and watery. Our friends got the Carbonara Pasta and said it was ok, but did not want to take their leftovers home. I don't get the hype or appeal of Marcella's whatsoever. Our server was fine, the food was terrible, ambiance is meh. Will not return.

This review is for the store located near Polaris Costco. Like an Italian grocery store there are…read morefresh meats of all kinds (chicken was on sale today), some veggies, lots of dry goods. Check out the gluten free pasta and flours. There are cheeses and breads and pastries galore. There are cheese curds, canned fish and olive oils. Premade meals are in the cooler. Order a sandwich to go. There is a large wine selection. The set-up is nice. Employees are friendly. This is definitely a stop when in the area.

We made a reservation for dinner, which I highly recommend since its super busy! They were running…read morea little behind so we wandered around the liquor shop and grocery store while we waited. Once we were seated, we had great service and the cocktails and food were both absolutely delicious!

They have a separate vegan menu, and the gnocchi and apple cake we had from that were both…read moredelicious! I didn't eat much of the ice cream that came with it, but the cake itself was good. They also have seasonal mocktails, which was great to see. The lavender one was tasty! Good service, no complaints there. Great night out!

If you're looking for a great spot for an evening out in Dublin, give Mezzo a try! Located in…read moreHistoric Dublin, the atmosphere here is perfect for a date night, a nice meal on the patio with friends, or a dinner with the whole family. The service is friendly & knowledgable & there are options for everyone! The combination of peppers with the calamari gives it the right amount of pop that keeps you going back for more! I really like the hearty flavor of the ragu and campanelle is such a fun noodle; the bolognese is fantastic! The salmon with maple glaze, Brussels and sweet potato purée is another perfect pairing, that makes this dish taste amazing! Be sure to stop by!