Alyssa L.
Yelp
Since I moved to Delaware a year and a half ago, I've been searching for really good Italian food. I lived in Brooklyn my entire life up until moving here, in a predominantly Italian neighborhood for the majority of my life. I was surrounded by Italian restaurants, American-Italian really, with more traditional restaurants sprinkled throughout.
During covid, I've been looking for the comfort of good Italian food like what I grew up with, and a lot of people recommended Mrs. Robino's as being some of the best Italian food they ever had. So naturally, I had to try it out.
I always try to keep my expectations realistic so as to not be biased when I try new places, so I tried not to compare to the restaurants I grew up with or my Sicilian families cooking, and gave it a try.
I ordered the Chicken Alfredo Parm with Fettuccine. While the chicken was nicely seasoned and tasted pretty good on its own, there was way too much sauce, and it tasted like cream.
Alfredo sauce is traditionally made with butter and parmigiano-reggiano. Sometimes people like adding other things, like garlic, black pepper or herbs, but butter and PR are the two OG ingredients. Adding a little cream is an American modification, and I'm not saying it's a bad one! But it really ruins the dish when it's excessive. And in this case, it was all I could taste. Not the butter, and definitely not the PR. It was unpleasant.
The lasagna was decent, but the sauce was lacking a bit. That being said, the Canneloni Florentine was very good. It had a great flavor, good seasoning, presentable, and it had a nice white sauce... so not sure what went wrong with the alfredo there! But with everything considered, and because the Canneloni was so enjoyable, I would definitely come back and try other items.
I'm giving three stars for now based on my experience with the meal I ordered, but please remember that if you are curious to try this restaurant, you should try it for yourself. I also am in the minority here, so you should absolutely come to your own conclusions.