Message from Ristorante Marcellino
Salvatore Torcasio and his family opened up Ristorante Marcellino back on March 17, 1997. After nearly three and a half years of bringing fine Calabrese cuisine to Waltham, Massachusetts, they decided to take a short break from the restaurant business. On November 18, 2002, Ristorante Marcellino re-opened to bring back the fine Calabrese cuisine that so many patrons had been missing. The family owned and operated business strives on the belief that each dish should be made to order using fine ingredients such as extra virgin olive oil, homemade pastas and sauces, and freshly made bread in their wood burning brick oven.Ristorante Marcellino is looking forward to bringing back the traditional Italian cooking that owners Salvatore and Giovannina were brought up with in their hometowns in Calabria, Italy. Come and join us soon!
Editorial by Citysearch
Waltham restaurant serves familiar Italian favorites in warm, welcoming environs.Key Points
- Award Winning Italian Cuisine
- Open daily for lunch
- Function Room Available
The Inside Scoop
- The Extras - Live music is featured most nights.
Latest reviews from Citysearch.
Best pasta(true italian) Lobester fra Diavola to die for.
The bread is better then the one we had in Italy, authentic antipastai like sopressata homemade and capicollo wich You can't find in stores. Well worth the visit. Also to mention rare wine that we never tasted before abosolutely unique and delicious.
Pros: food quality real Italian food family owned
Cons: hidden location
Posted 12/09/09
Finally, i say finally a place where they serve real italian eatery.
What i liked so much about this place is that the atmosphere is great, the owner is always around and he makes sure that everyone is happy and full!
The "salmone fiorentine" that i got was very tasty, the salmon wood grilled, my husband got the veal chop, it was delicious.
Be aware there is no butter on the table so dont expect it, just like in italy..
Pros: Great hidden location behind moody street, food is excellent
Cons: No foreign wines, just italian wines
Posted 06/16/07
We were expecting a quiet, romantic Italian restaurant. The tables were packed together so we could barely move our chairs and it was noisy. Some of the dishes were good (chicken, steak) while others weren't (crab cakes, lamb). The mashed potatoes on all of our dishes were cold and bland. The tomatoes in the caprese salad were tasteless. The waiter couldn't tell us the difference between the lamb dishes on the menu. The girl who brought us our check was just wearing jeans. We weren't impressed at all. Not like the reviews we had read. Very disappointing.
Cons: Ambience
Posted 02/20/07
I really want Ristorante Marcellino to be excellent, but it is only "good." It has the potential, but standard dishes like Pasta Aglio Olio are often re-interpreted by the chef from meal to meal. When I visited Marcellino for the fifth time, I ordered a mixed green salad that, when it arrived, was clearly Iceburg lettuce mixed with bits of radicchio. I also had the aforementioned pasta dish. Instead of receiving the comfortably spicey/garlic pasta I'd enjoyed in the past, I broke a sweat trying to eat the over-peppered concoction.
Marcellino doesn't fall completely short, though. It boasts an intimate dining area that isn't so closely packed as to make you feel like you're eavesdropping on your neighbors' conversation, and there's parking.
Pros: great ambience, good parking, not crowded
Cons: , little variety, drill sargent service
Posted 01/17/05