Mangia Nashville
Italian restaurant · 8th South ·
Authentic Italian feast with dancing, live music & gluten-free options
Authentic Italian feast with dancing, live music & gluten-free options
"Because owner Nick Pellegrino’s wife has celiac disease, Mangia is an impressively celiac-friendly Italian restaurant — everything on the menu is available gluten-free. The Berry Hill restaurant, which only opens Friday and Saturday evenings and requires reservations, even has a dedicated prep area and fryer for the cause. From bread crumbs and zeppole dough to eggplant parm and even focaccia, everything here is safe for those off gluten." - Eater Staff
"I found Mangia Nashville is donating tiramisu in both gluten-free and regular versions." - Delia Jo Ramsey
"Mangia: open nightly from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Continuing curbside and delivery." - Delia Jo Ramsey
"Ask any self-respecting Italian-American about meatballs and you’ll hear one word: gravy. If a tomato sauce includes meat, it is gravy, not sauce, and it must be simmered for hours on a stove, preferably by someone who can legitimately tell you how it was done “in the Old Country.” Nick Pellegrino comes from that kind of family, and that’s one of the reasons he didn’t serve meatballs at all when Mangia opened. He was sure he’d hear a chorus of, “They’re good, but they’re not like my grandma’s,” so he held out — until he hired Salvatore Stacccuneddu, a man from the same town in Calabria as Pellegrino’s mother’s family. Stacccuneddu’s meatballs tasted like home to Pellegrino, and he knew they had to go on the menu. The recipe they serve now is a special blend of beef short rib and brisket, roasted in a brick oven and given a long bath in Sunday gravy. You can enjoy them, somewhat ironically, every day of the week except Sunday because, hey, even grandma needs a day off." - Ashley Brantley
"Family-style Italian spot Mangia Nashville has its very own bocce ball court, which makes for a fun hang in the Melrose neighborhood." - Kristy Lucero