Ian W.
Yelp
We had a great dinner at DeAngelo's Ristorante after watching a full afternoon of hard hitting NFL playoff games. We were hungry and in a celebratory mood after one heated AFC game. My "local friends" back home won't be pounding their chests this year, hehe.
DeAngelo's Ristorante is a good family restaurant open at 4PM daily serving Italian American cuisine at reasonable prices and generous portions are given. The atmosphere inside is very inviting. Upon entering, the place has a cozy lounge/bar area with TVs and a comfortable dining room with wood trim, brick walls, holiday string lights, warm fireplace, and lots of moving dolls & snowmen.
We were greeted as we entered and we could sit anywhere we like, so we sat in the dining room near the fireplace. It took us a few moments to look over the extensive menu which offers pasta dishes, parmigianas, steaks, seafood, chicken, prime rib, appetizers, pizza, hot sandwiches, salads, and children's menu. Specials are offered as well. Most entree prices are $9.95-$17.95 with a handful over $20 and entrees come with salad and bread. There is a $2 sharing plate charge. The Tour of Italy for Two ($28.95) sounded really good, which includes small antipasta, chicken parmigiana, lasagna, manicotti, eggplant, stuffed shrimp, clams casino, broccoli and bread.
We were given a basket of hot buttery garlic bread, crisp outside, which was really good. The salads served on small glass plates were included with the dinners, a fresh mix of lettuce, baby tomato slices, cucumber slice, croutons, and creamy dressings on the side. For an appetizer, we had the Fried Calamari ($7.95) which were tender calamari rings with a crunchy breading, slightly greasy. These calamari were not Italian style (no marinara sauce), but American style fried calamari served with cocktail sauce for dipping, similar to what I'd get at a seafood restaurant on the east coast.
For dinner, my friend had the Chicken Sorrentino ($15.95) with a baked potato & sour cream (his choice). The chicken sorrentino portion was huge which had layers of eggplant, cheeses, breaded chicken, and sauce baked in the oven. I went with the Linguine with Red Clam Sauce ($14.95) which had lots of soft minced clams, little necks, chunky tomatoes, on top of a mound of linguine cooked just right and plenty of clam broth and lots of parsley sprinkles. The cook took the little necks out of the shell before serving since the shells were cracking. Both dishes were very tasty and filling.
Both of us needed to go boxes for the leftovers. We passed on dessert since the only offerings were cheesecake, carrot cake, and black satin cake, no tiramisu or cannolis offered as we were hoping for after a good Italian meal.
The service was good and the food came out in a timely fashion. The check including one Diet Coke ($1.75) came out to $43.85 with tax and before tip. Overall, solid good Italian food with leftovers for lunch!