The Meatball Cafe #MadeFromScratch

This place is insanely delicious! Scratch-made pastas, desserts, bread, local beer!!! Pizza! It does not get any better! From the dipping sauce and fresh pressed breakfast juices, this place is great! Super fresh! Extremely friendly staff. Always a great time here. If you're lucky enough someone will play the piano! Some of the most delicious foods on South Padre Island!

We enjoyed this place greatly. The service was top notch. Our server Luis was very helpful and patient with us as it was our first time there. He made suggestions and very knowledgeable of the food and wine served. Definitely will be coming back. Omgeee the lasagna 🫠 and the Salmon dish!

While on South Padre Island, we decided to give The Meatball Café a try based on their Google reviews. We were not disappointed! This was the best meal that we had on the island. The atmosphere of the inside seating was intimate and perfect. The service was excellent! Our server’s name was Joel, and he was very attentive and made us feel valued as customers. To start with, the bread with dipping oil was great! Crusty on the outside and soft and airy on the inside. Just look at the photo and you’ll want some too! My wife got the Seared Sea Scallops, but instead of Tuscana-style on the menu, the cook was happy to do it scampi-style for her. The scallops were cooked perfectly, and she says this is one of the best scampi dishes that she has ever had. I got the Italian Sausage Milano. Outstanding! This was a great dish, and the sauce was phenomenal (I would probably had licked my plate if we had been at home!). We had absolutely no complaints about our meals or the service. The portions were also large enough that we both took leftovers to eat the next day, and our server even gave us a loaf of the bread to take with us. Yes, the food was just as good the next day (and I might have even licked my plate when I was done). I highly recommend that you go to The Meatball Café and eat their food! Based on our experience, you will not be disappointed. I wish we lived closer because we would be eating here all of the time!

Amazing meal! So good came twice in a week during our visit to try more. Excellent service, friendly staff and the wait for the food wasn’t bad considering was hot n fresh. Wish had a place like this close to us.

Though I’m I was born and raised in Brownsville, and visit regularly because I now live in Central Texas, I had never been to the Meatball Cafe. Sooooo glad we came and tried it out, in part to the great reviews online. We came for lunch, with three adults and four kids. We all loved it! The service was also very good, as we had a very attentive waiter and other staff that regularly asked how we were doing. We sat in the patio area which has air conditioning.

Off the to-do list. I've been wanting to come to this place for years. The wife got out of work early and we finally made it for lunch. Perfect timing around 1:00 p.m. low light nice and quiet very romantic ish. We started with calamari as an appetizer. It wasn't as great as we expected it to. It was cooked golden brown but very dry and chewy. We were brought bread which was good with the oil and herb. Wife ordered fettuccine alfredo with chicken. She enjoyed it very much and it had good flavor. I wanted the Best of both worlds so I ordered the lunch special of chicken parmigiana and then I ordered the lasagna. The main course was absolutely delicious, everything was cooked perfectly well served and had great flavor. The only negative thing I can say is the option to substitute. These meals both came with salad and I was hoping to trade them both in for the wedding soup without the upcharge but they wouldn't allow it. So I ended up with the wedding soup and a caesar salad. I'm not a Caesar salad kind of guy but it was actually pretty good. The wedding soup was not that great, it tasted like Mexican soup. service was okay, no one was rude they just didn't check on us very often. Would we go back, most likely yes.

Very good restaurant, the calamari was crispy and flavorful, my mojito was very refreshing, and my shrimp pasta was tasty, and the chicken marsala was robust in flavor, and the chicken Parmesan with spaghetti was cooked well and paired well with the spaghetti, overall not a bad place to eat at.

We had to wait a good bit for a server to come to our table, but let me tell you what!! The food was Amazing!!!! Can’t wait to come back here to eat. The Italian Nachos omg!!!! You must try, my sister had the Toscana soup and lasagna, I had spaghetti w/meatballs. We will definitely come back!!!