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Alessandro's

4.3 (99 reviews)
ModerateItalian
Closed 4:00 pm - 9:00 PM

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Casual
Loud
Outdoor seating
Good for kids

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Spinach and Garlic Ravioli (half serving)
Autumn H.

The food is incredible. I hope to go here again. They have lots of specials to try that aren't on the menu. The servers are knowledgeable and helpful, the restaurant is quaint.

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Michael B.

Local Italian restaurant that serves homemade pasta & dinners. The owner has made every dinner coming out of the kitchen for the last 25 years! His daughter waited on us was SUPER friendly & helpful. I had the Salsiccia Alla Cacciatora & it was fantastic! She had Petto Di Pollo Alla Roberto & loved it. Also had Crostini With Mushroom Pate for an appetizer. You should try it! Lastly, a cannoli split between us. The dining room is just...eh, but the food is probably the best Italian food I've ever had. Seriously. If you're near here, you've got to eat here! There may be a wait, but it's worth it.

Spaghetti Al Pomodoro E Basilico and Classic Meat Lasagna

Great food and atmosphere and very friendly!!!! Chef is from Italy and is open only Thursday through Saturday!

Cod dinner
Denise M.

Our visit was amazing. Food was delicious & service even better. The athletic Italian family Style was friendly & accommodating. Hope to return again.

Menu Oct'23
Greg G.

We love Alessandro's! The food and preparation comes from the heart. The small quaint atmosphere is awesome and the service is second to none. Thank you for this great dinning option in Saybrook! We recommend Alessandro's to everyone interested in a fine dinning experience.

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Awesome food and great service. Glad we found this place on our stop through. Homemade pasta from a real Italian.

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Atmosphere...so welcoming. Service...friendly and very efficient and accommodating. Food...perfection. This is one of my very favorites!!

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Great food with great service. Great selection and very fair pricing, also the Tiramisu is phenomenal.

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Don't go if you don't call. They may be closed for no reason during their posted open hours.

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Who cares about ambiance when you have great food and great service! A hidden gem on the Northcoast Ashtabula County Ohio

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Not only best chef great food great waitresses great atmosphere but outstanding family my favorite by far.

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Excellent food, great atmosphere, friendly service. I went with my girlfriend and we both enjoyed it.

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Beautiful authentic family restaurant. My ravioli had the texture of genuine home made pasta. The Orvieto wine was delicious.

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Small place where you can watch the owner cook your food. Loved this place. Portions aren't huge but the food was excellent!!!

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Everything is homemade and perfection! Small, quaint, kind of invisible. The food is amazing and you will want to have dessert too.

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Lago Enoteca

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Visited Lago for a bachelorette party and had an incredible experience from start to finish. They…read moreset up decorations for the bride's arrival, closed off a section just for our group, and even took time to sit with us and explain the different wines so we knew what we'd enjoy most. We ordered several cheese boards and a chocolate board to snack on while sipping, and they were absolutely beautiful and delicious (so good we took leftovers home!). The atmosphere was classy, clean, and incredibly relaxing; perfect for our special celebration. I worked with Rissa regarding our reservation and decorations, and she truly went above and beyond my expectations. Every woman in our group, especially the bride, was extremely impressed and satisfied. I would absolutely recommend Lagos and can't wait to come back to try their dinner offerings!!!

I had a lovely solo dinner here. I did make a reservation on a June Friday, but it was actually…read morepretty quiet. I had a table in the corner and got settled in with a book and ordered a Hugo Spritz. The cocktail was refreshing and light, and I really enjoyed it. I decided on a Cesar Salad, nothing too special there, but it was a generous size and fresh greens. I ordered a bowl of mussles, again, generous sized portion, and I liked that they had 2 preparations - garlic and white wine (always a good choice) or Diablo, and I went with the spicy tomato! The sauce was great, kind of spicy, with good crusty bread to dunk. The mussels themselves were OK, not the best quality seafood I've ever had, but still a nice dinner. And I also had the fried ravioli, which I cannot resist, ever, and dunked it in the spicy sauce. The house bread was a really nice foicaccia, with a confit garlic and butter to smear all over it. Really great. The service was excellent! She was knowledgeable about the menu, attentive, and also great at timing, kind of letting me hang out and enjoy my dinner. I'd probably go back to try some other fun menu items, and their chocolate and cocktail (and chocolate cocktail) menu is intriguing.

Piero's Pasta House - Pistachio cake

Piero's Pasta House

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When you walk in it is like friends, everyone looks at you because the seating area is so small…read more But don't let that stop you from staying. You can watch the chef fix your fresh pasta dish and have some good wine while you wait. We both had a delicious meal here. Don't forget to order the bread, yummy! Giving a 4 rating only because wait staff was not friendly

First and foremost, the pasta is NOT homemade......at least the spaghetti and fettuccini are not,…read morethey come from a box...the other pastas on the menu, I did not try so I do not know. Considering the size of the place I find it hard to believe that they have the capabilities nor the room to make any homemade pasta there, unless it made offsite. Second - no bread or water is complimentary, you read that right, you have to pay for water and bread if you would like it with you meal. No drinks are complimentary. When we said we would split a water the waitress gave us a very nasty look. A very small glass (maybe 3 ounce) of local Geneva wine was $10. Third - the prices are exorbitant. $28 for chicken parmesan.$20 for fettuccini (if you want chicken chunks of chicken, not a whole breast)) with it it is another $9.) Spaghetti is $18, but if you want 2 meatballs it is another $8, that is correct $4 for one meatball and you cannot order one, you MUST buy 2. dinners do, however, come with a small salad. Fourth - cleanliness is not a priority here. Not the cleanest tables nor floor, and do NOT go to the restroom and see what is behind the curtain....oh my god! one restroom, with 2 stalls....one stall labeled for men, and one stall labeled for women....you read that correctly also...one room, 2 toilets.......my my my. The place is extremely over-crowded, the couple next to us were less than 3 feet away. Finally - the food was good, but not THAT good: for 2 meals with one water and one glass of wine + tip it was $77.....needless to say we will never go back, much cleaner and better places to eat in GOTL for a lot less money that are just as good, if nor better.....and, i do not know how it is legal, they add a 3.5 % surcharge to your bill for eating in the place and not getting your food to go.

Mi Scuzi Ristorante Italiano

Mi Scuzi Ristorante Italiano

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We always wanted to try this traditional old school Italian restaurant when in Erie, but it was…read morefully booked on a Saturday last Aug when we attempted. It's located in Millcreek Mall & you can enter from mall parking lot or from inside mall itself. Our server was friendly & efficient with nice recommendations. I loved my pasta carbonara & our guest loved her spaghetti & meatballs (two HUGE meatballs). They have a nice happy hour & I had a French martini mixed well. We loved the zucchini blossom appetizer. The large wedge salad was good. And the garlic knot bread with shaved Parmesan is a nice touch, we got an extra basket. My husband & other male guest had the linguini & clams and were not as pleased. One said it was just ok, broth weak & unflavorful and the other guest gave it a 3/10 saying clams were overcooked & chewy. Desserts were good, we had pistachio gelato and strawberry shortcake. We would return & try again if in the area.

We stopped in for dinner tonight! Overall experience: 6.5/10! The service was great. She was super…read morepatient with us, and we really appreciated that. The appetizer we ordered was the Fresh Tomato Pepperonata... this was a 10/10... it was amazing and gr8 way to start the meal! Perfect way to get in your vegetables. Was a little disappointed that the server picked it up without asking us... since almost half the plate was still left. We also ordered the "Sicilian" with Chicken Pizzette. This was also a 10/10! Our favorite of the night. The artichoke, Spinach, and tomato combo created blast of flavor in your mouth. The Carbonara was a 3/10. The server mentioned it would be more creamy and saucy and we were ok with that. For us it was WAAAY to salty. Not sure what happened there. Could have been the prosciutto as mentioned by the chef, but unsure. They were gracious enough to take it off the bill. We'll be back for sure. If you're in the Erie area and craving Italian food, definitely worth checking it out especially if you're near Peach street.

Paradise Bay Water Front Bar Grille

Paradise Bay Water Front Bar Grille

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Writing this review hurts my heart a little bit, because I organized a large group of people to…read morecome here after a memorial for my dad. But he sure would have loved our lunch here if he had been physically present for it. It had all the things he liked: the option to eat inside or outside but under a covered roof, an easy-going and friendly atmosphere, and space for his favorite people. I planned this event from another state and sleuthed many dining options for 15 or so people. When I called the restaurant and explained our situation--we wouldn't know exactly what time we'd be arriving or exactly how many people we'd be--I received such reassurance that they'd be happy to have our business and that we'd be taken care of. And we sure were! Even though there was a biker event also going on and more people than I expected dining, our service was friendly and responsive. I was so surprised at how wide of variety the menu was! It was also really pretty to look at Lake Roaming Rock from the back patio. Most of us attendees live 1-2 hours from this restaurant, so none of us had ever been. Afterward we posted photos on social media, a distant friend shared a memory of them and my dad competing in a canoe race across Lake Roaming Rock in the 1970s. That just felt like Kismet. Paradise Bay, thank you for providing a great place to create more happy memories.

Today was a lake day. We were on the water the entire hot…read moresunny day. On the way home we stopped a paradise Bay in roaming Shores. It's not much to look at from the outside and the interior is nothing to brag about either. However, the food is really good. My wife had the barbecue ribs that came out hot and saucy, and when she picked him up, they were falling off the bones. Good sauce, good seasoning, and prepared fantastically. I had the Philly cheesesteak which was OK nothing to brag about. It was an actual chopped steak and not steakums. The steak was hot well seasoned full of peppers, but could have used more cheese. I ordered mushrooms and they never showed up but oh well. The french fries were interesting. I ordered them crispy and they came out kind of mealy. A couple things that truck me is not so good was that a sandwich and ribs came with a side actually the ribs came on two sides. I was charged for my french fries, which was supposed to be part of the meal. We were also charged $.50 for a glass of water which I think is kind of petty and something that a restaurant shouldn't do. Our server was a nice young lady, but she wasn't exceptionally attentive and surely didn't know too much about what was on the menu. All in all the food was good. The service was so so I'd come back again.

Alessandro's - italian - Updated May 2026

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