Paolo's Italian Restaurant

We've been to Paolos twice now. We've been to many other "Italian" restaurants many other times. Paolos is easily at the top of the list for our favorite Italian restaurant.

The food is excellent! The portions are "multiple leftovers sized." Since we've been there twice, we've had four different entrees. All of them were unique and incredibly good.

There is no bar. They will give you one glass of wine with dinner or you can bring in your own bottle and have them uncork it. (At first I was disappointed with this until I realized how much this cuts down on the overall bill. Much cheaper to stop at the state store in Northampton on your way to Paolos. But the state store closes at 7 pm.)

The atmosphere is the biggest draw back for me to Paolos. It reminds me almost of the Friendly's that my grandparents used to take us to in Plukerman, NJ. Better than a diner, but not a "nice" Italian restaurant. It's located in a strip mall and they need more space than they have. Tables are kind of close together (but I'm getting used to this as a East Coast fact of life). This isn't a soft light romantic Italian restaurant. You don't go to Paolos for the atmosphere. But the food does more than make up for that and for the usually long wait. We try to go during the week so we don't have to wait so long. We've also found that going around 8:00pm makes for less of a wait.

Definitely worth the food! Have I mentioned how good the food is? Even as leftovers!

PROS: Great food
CONS: Atmosphere

Posted 07/06/06 | Report Abuse

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