Trattoria Roman Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio, Italian Restaurant Details

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Very disappointing! I stopped in for a Monday afternoon lunch on a recent visit to Cleveland. After having visited St. Louis' Hill District (their historically Italian neighborhood), I was looking forward to the same delicious home-cooked dishes in Cleveland's "Little Italy."
Unfortunately, the Chicken Parmigiana was very ordinary and processed. It definitely tasted more like restaurant-supplier Sysco's economical take on "chicken parm."
I'd recommend looking elsewhere for a more authentic experience with Italian fare.

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Really good food! Ordered Chicken Piccata with pasta. Chicken breast is so soft and juicy, not dry at all. Sauce is also delicious. The half BBQ pork ribs turned out to be huge! I don't usually eat much and I had half left. Everything is great. Will revisit for sure if I come to Cleveland again.

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Took my daughter and wife there last night. To start with the bread, whipped butter and bruschetta was very good. We order Calamari for an appetizer, cooked well, very tender, larger portion almost too much. The calamari was little too breaded for my taste, some had a little dough taste to it. I had the chicken Marsala, chicken was tender, sauce was very good, didn't touch the pasta side ( a lot of food.) I Wife had eggplant parmigiano she said it was very good, light nice flavor. She didn't touch her pasta side either ( a lot of food) Daughter had the Cavatelli. I tried it, it was very nice, the pasta was light not dense like some cavatelli. The sauce had good flavor. Two glasses of wine, appetizer, and three meals $70.00. For the price a nice meal.

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We wandered around little italy for a bit first, before being recommended to Trattoria on the Hill by a local wine shop owner. It was between this place and Maxis. Wait time was minimal, 10 minutes. Their bread and sauce was delicious. I ordered an antipesto salad, and it was hands down the best salad I've ever had. The salami was flavorful, and the olives exceeded my expectations. Only issue with olives, their not pitted =/. I order a classic Bellini, and joey a margarita, both were good. We shared a bottle of wine, and he ordered beef ravioli, which was excellent, I ordered the chicken artichoke pizza which was very good. The tiramisu was divine! Overall, 73 dollars. Pretty nice place, I'd recommend it :)

Food:

I'm going to give this a 2 because I think my expectations were far too high for the restaurant, thus I might have unfairly critiqued it going in.

The bread was not freshly baked. The Parmesan cheese was not fresh - it surely came from a store bottle (maybe Kraft?). The Italian wedding soup was $5 for a small bowl. The soup was like eating chicken and stars, and it was reminiscent of a cafeteria. I had shrimp and gnocchi - it was $12.50. The gnocchi had to have been pre-packaged, and the shrimp tasted like the pre-cooked shrimp you buy frozen at a grocery store (the entrée came out of the kitchen around 5 minutes after ordering [restaurant was over half-full]). The entrée had no flavor - none. The plastic cup of wine (Chianti) cost $5 and derives from the near-industrial-sized Rossi wine jug you can buy for $10 at the store. Also, the waitress was very curt.

Either a) charge the food for half the price, or b) use ingredients indicative of such a price.

One easy example comes to mind... a place called Moretti's in Columbus, OH offers fresh baked bread, homemade pasta with veal meatballs, homemade sauce, and real, authentic Italian wedding soup for $16 ($13 on Wednesdays): that meal is worth every single penny, and I would pay over $20 for it.

I'm being completely serious/candid when I say I can't, in recent memory, remember being more disappointed with a restaurant than I was with Trattoria on the Hill. I wanted to like it: I really did.