I seriously will not eat fish, (walleye) anywhere except at this restaurant. The breading is a fine breading, not the greasy beer battered fish you get at other restaurants. The portions are very good quality for the price. I elected to go with a cup of Italian wedding soup, ($1.00 more) instead of the salad, along with the coleslaw and really great French fries, bread and/or their famous Garlic Ball bread, really sticks to your ribs. No one in my family likes the same thing, that is why it's such a treat that they all find their own favorite and we can sit down and enjoy our meal! I cherish the concept of an honest to goodness restaurant, not a "Chain restaurant". read more

This is genuinley one of my favorite local restaurant's. The service is impeccable and the staff is there to make you feel welcome throught your experience. They do have a large menu with many authentic dishes and pizzas. I personally have severe food allergies and there kitchen was very accommodating for my alacart meal. To wrap up I personally would recommend this restaurant for all occasions. read more

I used to come here many times in past years, but we hadn't been back for some time. The food used to be really generous and more than enough for the prices. Also, the quality was very good. My wife and I just went there this past weekend, and were were shocked at how small the portions were and how the quality of food had gone down hill. I remember a dinner salad that was really generous, and now it is just a small thing that really disappoints. The Wedding Soup was to die for previously and came in this monstrous bowl. My wife and I used to be able to split it and still have some left over. Now, the "bowl" of soup comes in a large coffee cup with three really small meatballs and hardly any noodles.... and where is the taste? It tasted like warm water. Lastly, we ordered a side of clams.... these had to be the smallest clams I have seen in my life. They were less than 1" and they were not steamed,more like boiled (with no taste left). The garlic knots... this used to be awesome.... well, the bread we received was burnt on the bottom. Don't serve bread that is burnt on the bottom. Throw it out and make some that is done properly. The coffee... seriously, this was really watered down. Absolutely no taste. Come on gang, how can you mess up coffee? We were really disappointed as this used to be the place to go after church on a Saturday evening. In fact, we were worried that there would be a long wait. Not anymore... we were seated right away... that should tell you something right there. I hope the owners read this and pull the place out of the gutter as I would hate to see this place disappear as it used to have really good food at one time. read more

I just love this place. And have I told you how much I love their eggplant parmesan?! I truly appreciate that they leave it unbreaded, so you can truly enjoy the flavor without all the over abundance of breading. Monday is half price pizza night, yum!! And this is what keeps me coming back time after time after time. read more

We haven't been there in quite a while. Took family there this weekend and the waitress was awesome. However, the food took a long time to come out. As usual, we had a lot of leftovers. When I opened the containers today to reheat them, not only was a dish missing, an order of zucchini that I only ate 4 pieces of, there were only 3 in the container! Whomever was packaging up the food must of helped themselves. I realize you get a generous portion for the money but I expect to be able to take home ALL of what I haven't eaten. I have never liked the idea that they take your food to the back to pack up! This visit has def changed my mind about returning! read more

First and last time visiting here. We were hoping to share a meal but they charge an extra $3 to do so! Marinara tasted like it was out of a can, aglio y olio was bland and the chicken had gristle. Salad was decent but garlic knots greasy. Service was mediocre-had to ask for refill, ask for parmesean cheese, and after explaining our disappointment, there wasn't any suggestion to make us happy except more food which we didnt like. Didn't offer discount, no manager came by, no dessert on them. Very disappointing!! read more

Purchased a Groupon to give it a try. My pregnant wife was picking it up on her way home and they told her rudely, the voucher was for dine-in only. She stepped outside to call me to see if I still wanted to try it and I could hear someone yelling at her and asking if she wanted it. What a joke. They should be ashamed of this service. You'd think they'd be more considerate to a first time patron. Needless to say we will not return and will not recommend this place to anyone. I should have trusted the other reviews from Yelp. HAVE TO ADD THIS: My wife came home crying because they called to yell at her on the phone. read more

just heard the story about the woman with cancer who tried you use a groupon they paid for but did not present before the meal so the owner (wife) yelled and berated her. I am so disgusted I'm glad I have never eaten there, nor will I ever. read more

This restaurant is absolutely amazing. The staff is very friendly. Their pizza and ravoli is delicious. It's a very nice restaurant for the family and gives very good big portions. I would recommend taking leftovers home. read more

WARNING!!!! Do not waste your money on HORRIBLE service. Food is good, but it's not worth it for how badly you will be treated! We wanted to talk to the manager after we sent the waitress back three times and he refused to even come to our table! We have never been treated so poorly! And FYI I wouldn't buy a Groupon for this place! They have several rules that aren't listed on the terms of use!!! It really is sad. How are they still in business treating people so badly?! Ugh.. read more

Went for a Sunday dinner around 3:00 pm. I ordered the Tour of Italy and she ordered the Meat Ravioli. The lasagna was old and microwaved. The ravioli was not fresh either. Service was good and the salad, pasta, and cutlet were good. The breaded calamari was fresh but on the bland side. Total bill (no alcohol) was $46 plus tip. read more

I had the stuffed shells and my wife ordered the lasagna. We both loved their sauce! Wow. My one regret was loading up on too much bread. Roll out... read more

Mama Roberto's - Stuffed Shells - Pizza Near Me - Mentor, Ohio

Never again! We had lunch at Mama Roberto's this afternoon. Service was horrible, pizza was burnt, and we were charged $1 more than menu price for each salad. I called Rick to complain...prices are subject to change without notice!! Seriously? In all fairness, if prices are incorrect on menu, then the customers should be told what the new price is when ordering. read more

What happened to my favorite place to eat. It still has the table bread. But the lady at the front was really uptight. I do not know if she is the owner. But she needs to stay home if she is. The waitress was really nice. Wine was ok. Needs to feature some ones from our local wineries maybe? The salad was old. My sauce was really sweet this time. I do not know what is going on there. But I hope they go back to the old mama roberto's cooking. read more

What a treat!! Everything was fresh and made in house. Service was great, even though we came in near closing with a fair sized group. What a pleasure to eat real "homemade" Italian food!!! read more

I was able to experience true deliciousness at this restaurant. The bread knots are delicious, enjoyed the salad & homemade Italian dressing, and the calzones are packed full of flavor & ingredients. The sauce is so good & tastes fresh. I definitely will make special trips to visit this restaurant, since it's a 35 minute drive from my house. I will also tell my friends about this place. Great place and the staff are helpful, friendly and attentive. read more

It smells so delicious as you enter. The marinara sauce with bread was a great start with a salad. The food is big portions and delicious! (Even the men left with a doggie bag.) The chicken Marsala was delicious! The best. With big mushrooms. The staff is great. I'm very impressed and would go every time I'm in the area. Thanks Rick! read more

Great calzones. I am a little disappointed the calzones no longer come with a salad:/. Bread is addicting and brought to the table warm and fresh. Best cannoli I have ever had. I would recommend the toasted ravioli. Amazing !!! Large portions. read more

Great people and great food. I called on a Sunday afternoon for take out and they were closed but offered to make it for me anyways. So awesome. read more

We went on New Year's Eve night. I just got off work where I'm also a server and this place wasn't busy at all. After a week at s busy restaurant it was nice to have a meal with some friends and we had a great time. The food was amazing, only thing I can say is maybe a kids meal option? Service was excellent! read more

Saw this place featured on New Day Cleveland. Decided to come try it out. The service was amazing. Ordered the deluxe pizza and calamari it was awesome. Ended the meal with tiramisu. Definitely coming back here again. read more

They give you sooo much food. And the food is unreal, especially for the reasonable cost. Highly recommend this place!

We just moved from Pittsburgh, and this place was recommended by a friend. It was really good. The bread is fantastic and the stromboli is sooooo good because of the bread. Highly recommended! read more

Food was nasty, would have rather gone through a drive thru. Sure there was a lot of it, but it's definitely a quantity over quality thing over there. Their marinara is legitimately canned tomato sauce warmed up. The lasagna meat looked like cat food. Poor flavour, very heavy, Only good thing was the service. I wouldn't recommend it, but maybe something's on the menu are better than others. read more

As dumb as this may sound you get to much food, like each plate of pasta can easily feed a family of four it's a big waste of food if you ask me and the quality is very poor .. Good bread tho .. read more

Pizza is pretty good but disappointingly small and pricey for the size. Forget dining there on Friday night. Place is small and you'll wait a long time to be seated. read more

The calzones are amazing. Many different combinations to choose from when ordering one. The salad is just ok. The rolls are great. We don't go there often but when we do it's for the calzones. Regarding the decor, it's what you would expect. It's also clean. The Rock Hall/Cleveland music artwork on the walls is neat and I have never seen it anywhere else. read more

Best Italian food I have in a long time. Am here from Honolulu and cannot find Italian food as delicious as this. The cannoli is the best I have had since visiting Italy. By far the best Italian food in Northeast Ohio. read more

Huge portions...they got it! Great garlic knots...they got those too! Chicken Parmesan! yep they got it, BUT it tastes like fish. We asked to speak with someone about it, our waitress brings (what we assume) is a manager. We tell her the problem, ask for a replacement of just pasta and then get accused of trying to get free food. "Seeing as you ate 1/2 of it" she says (5 bites were gone from the chicken. 2 from me, thinking I was just crazy the first bite. Then one bite per other person I was with, thinking hey maybe I'm getting sick.) and walks away. When our waitress came back with our check, we asked to speak with the owner. Here to find out, that was the owner. We own 2 businesses in the area, owners DON'T act this way! So we paid our check, left all the food there and went elsewhere for a dinner. read more

Delicious food and large portions. We split the chicken parm and still took some home. We had very good service. We also split a calzone and it was amazing! read more

Not sure what the draw is for this place. Massive amounts of food, sure, but none of it tasty or satisfying. Easily the blandest marinara I've ever tasted, like chunks of unsalted canned tomatoes, basically. Even the calamari was flavorless, as if it was coated in completely unseasoned flour (served with the bland marinara, btw.) We will not be back. read more

Ok, the food is good..nothing spectacular, the sauce is a bit bland, but they do give HUGE portions of food. Except for the free garlic balls, which are hit or miss...when they're not overcooked or outright burned, they're pretty good. The problem is they're almost always at least overcooked and often times burned. The hostess-the wife of the owner-is a rude, condescending, nasty person. She has never been nice, but one instance takes the cake, and we won't be back. My elderly mother has to use a walker to get around. Walking is hard enough, but getting up and down from a sitting position is extremely difficult for her. We arrived one afternoon and I explained this situation to the Queen B, asking for a little understanding and for her to let us be seated, even though my daughter was meeting us and was a few minutes behind. Their policy is to not seat your party until everyone arrives, and I totally understand that. That is what she told me, so we sat down in the waiting area until my daughter arrived, even though only 2 of their tables were occupied. However...on a visit a few months later (we used to go there OFTEN), I was waiting to pay my bill when a man, I'd say in this thirties and relatively nice looking, came in. He told the Queen B that he was meeting his brother. She told him their policy about seating...and he said "Oh come on, he'll be here shortly and I'll have a beer while i'm waiting". To my surprise, THAT was a good enough reason for her to violate her own policy, but my mother's situation was not! She must've thought she had a shot with this much younger man-ha! read more

The absolute worse food I've ever eaten in my life. I ordered the lasagna and it was as large as a loaf of bread. To me that is not appealing. But then I tasted it and could not take another bite. I had to have them take it away. I have never done that before in my life, but the taste, texture, sauce, etc were so bad I knew there was no point to continuing. They were nice enough about it, but I'll never go back. read more

We all loved this place. Everything was very good! The portions are huge too. As in other reviews the garlic knots were amazing. The stuffed pepper appetizer was the best he ever had, according to my husband. My youngest loved the pizza. Their sauce has an excellent flavor. I highly recommend this place! read more

I've tried ordering to-go meals twice via Doordash. I'm a single mom and my children have been sick so I thought we'd try some local Italian food. Our first order was canceled by the restaurant within five minutes of confirmation from Doordash; the restaurant was "unexpectedly busy." I wasn't happy, but given that these things happen due to circumstances beyond their control at times, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and tried ordering again a few weeks later. This time, my phone rang with a California area code about 10 minutes after placing my order. I didn't answer so they immediately called back and it was the restaurant (note: call from the restaurant's land line when contacting a customer so we pick up). The employee told me that they did not have the item I wanted and instead offered a similar dish, so I said that was fine. Then he said that there was a $7 price difference between the two meals and I would owe and extra $8 with taxes ($21 for an entree). I cancelled the entire order because imo, they should have given me the replacement meal at the same price as the original entree because they had to change it. I will never order from them again and there's no need to visit the physical restaurant when this area is chock full of Italian places. read more

What happened to this busy and excellent quality place I raised my kids on??? I convinced my boyfriend it was better than Zappitillis but we were extremely disappointed and will never come back. First signs something is awry with this place is at 630pm on a Friday night in Mentor the parking lot is empty and there is no wait for a table. The place was over half empty and I thought never used to be like this. Server was nice and courteous which probably soften this review tone. Bread was hard and not quality it used to be. Salad was best part but 2 tiny olives and 1 grape tomato was funny ration of toppings. Great amount of cheese and dressing. Boyfriend got the loaf of lasagna that he rated 1 out 10. We both agreed no spices or flavor, noodles and some layering of bland meat possibly cheese combo with a tiny bit of canned tomatoes on top doesn't constitute iit should be called lasagna. 9 hours later it is not sitting well in his stomach. I got veal marsala which was a huge platter portion. However size doesn't make up for lack of quality. Large mushrooms were great in ok sauce but veal tasted like fish and breading was soggy. It was all you can eat walleye night and I suspect veal was cooked with the fish. I kept eatting hoping it would get better and it didn't. 9 hours later still sitting like rock in my stomach. I didn't eat my side of spaghetti that had not much sauce. I asked if I could get to go with more sauce added on top and was told I would have to pay for extra sauce! I never heard of such a thing! Stick with Zappitilli's down the street even if you have to wait for a table. The QUALITY and portions far surpass Mama Robertos bland food. read more

Eaten there several times, food normally good. Take out is an AWFUL experience. Pizza was ice cold within the 10 minutes it took us to get it home. Apparently they don't use heat lamps. Called when we got home and discovered the pizza had no cheese on it (?) very misleading Sicilian pizza on the menu. Does NOT say it has no cheese on it, and it's listed under the ingredients saying all pizza's have a blend of provolone & mozz. Don't bother trying to order garlic balls, asked for those, got home, and had 1 slice of bread in a box. When we called to let the owner know of our issues, she was downright rude and unapologetic and did not offer any resolutions to there many blunders. Such a bad experience, we will NEVER go there again, still shocked . read more

Someone call Ramsey. Bland, pasta tastes like pasta water . Big portions of garbage. No flavor in sauces. Really a very disappointing experience as so many people rave about this place. The only decent item are the garlic balls but those were still a bit burnt. read more

Tonight was disappointing. Olio e aglio was a 2 dollar up charge. When we questioned this as we had never been charged before the waitress basically called my wife a liar. My wife's salad came with Italian dressing that was pure vinegar. read more

I went there on Friday night for the all you can eat walleye dinner for $15.95. First of all, I don't think it was walleye but its smaller cousin, the sauger. I have never seen walleye fillets so small. They were very good though. next, they stalled bringing out more fish and limited you to only one peice about every fifteen minutes. It was hard to flag down a waitress too. The bread was good. I wouldn't go back for the fish, but I may go back for the Italian food. read more