Casa Calabria Restaurant & Lounge

Terrific food. Meat ravioli plus cheese tortellini and others had gnocchi with meat sauce, fettuccine Alfredo and a steak salad. Everyone loved their meals. If you chose full dinner option you received a soup and salad.
The soup was good and the dinner salad was terrific with cheese, sausage slices and fresh tomatoes.
The meat sauce was excellent and of course everyone loves the garlic bread, though it is swimming in butter. But it tastes great.
The full dinners will cost $ 21 or a bit more but you receive plenty so I have no problem with the price. They offer smaller meals or ala carte at lower prices.
Great service, very friendly and the atmosphere was warm and comfortable plus there is a very nice bar area.
I recommend this place very highly.

We dined here with a party of ten. Service and food were excellent. Prices reasonable. I don’t believe anyone had a complaint. Lasagna and chicken dishes nicely presented and hot. Great pizza too. As others have noted, the garlic bread is A+. Overall extremely satisfied.

Pleasant atmosphere, but we were disappointed with the signature lasagna dish. It was very heavy on the cheese and skimped on the meet /​pasta. Our waitress was very to the point and could improve her social skills. We had the steak and lobster ravioli previously, which were very good. Their cheesecake is good as well, but it is extremely heavy.
Overall: Nice place, could have had a better dining experience for the same price everywhere.

Best thing about this place is the awesome service. I had a question about beer and the server said she was unsure so she grabbed the bar tender. He came back later to check on us. Food was good, decent portions. My husband brought home leftovers he was excited to eat later. They serve bread toasted and soaked in butter that everyone enjoyed. It’s kind of slim pickings if you don’t eat bread and pasta buy it IS an Italian place.

The Italian beef tips are amazing… But not for $ 35. This is a very expensive restaurant for what you get.

Would have loved to have eaten here but despite a literally empty restaurant, they told us it was an hour wait. Unfortunately for them we decided to go to Thai House down the road. Best decision ever.

The garlic bread lived up to my expectations. The ambience and service were excellent. The wine selection was superb. My son and I had wonderful steaks. The grilled shrimp was also excellent. The lasagna was too cheesy, soupy with too little meat. It was nearly impossible to eat due to the cheese boluses with each bite.

Casa has good Italian-​style food and a nice atmosphere though my wife said it is a bit crowded. They are well known for their heart attack-​butter ladened garlic bread. They are really good. My son had the petit filet steak (med-​rare) and said it was excellent. My wife and daughter had the three cheese stuffed shell pasta and loved it. The Casa has a good selection of pasta dishes. Unfortunately, they raised their prices and I feel it is a bit overpriced.
Food is 4 stars but overpriced making it 3 stars.

For the UP this was a great place. It was recommended by a friend of ours who used to live in Marquette. I had the lasagna and my wife had the steak salad. The lasagna was very good if you like a lot of cheese. My wife said her salad was good but it has to much dressing as my side salad did also. May want to ask for dressing on the side if you don’t like a lot. The garlic bread as stated in other posts was outstanding if you like butter and garlic. Our kids thought it was the best thing.

Came for a late lunch/​early dinner during our day trip to Marquette. What a great choice! We sat in the bar, which I’m usually opposed to, but it was just as formal and cozy as any dining room! Got the half order of lobster ravioli and the lasagna. Both were amazing and food came out fast. Service was wonderful, and the free bread was a nice touch. We’ll be back!

This is a classic down-​home Marquette eatery that is fighting valiantly to stay relevant in a progressive Marquette food scene. The food is decent (when you get everything you ordered) and the service is friendly. Unfortunately, ownership is confident that their restaurant is the best thing since sliced bread. This status apparently allows the restaurant to charge exorbitant prices for their product. My wife ordered a $ 15 chicken Caesar salad that was literally romaine lettuce, a few pieces of shaved Parmesan, and dressing. The kitchen forgot the croutons. I ordered the Pasta Milano which was quite nice. The garlic bread was great!
What really puts this restaurant at 1 star is the crazy pricing on their craft beer and the arrogance of ownership. When I called convinced that being charged $ 5.35 for a 12 oz. can of KBC beer was a mistake, the owner told me that this was a fair price. While I cannot tell a restaurant what to charge for a particular product, I can let everyone know that this is not the place to enjoy a fine brew. If you ask ownership, they will tell you that there is no need for complaints about expensive beer (they believe you will pay for it). To them, this restaurant gives a lot back to the community, so you should feel good about paying a big bar tab…
If you decide to try out the Casa, bring your Christmas bonus and a philanthropic mindset. If you are concerned about your experience, talk to the owner (he is more than willing to argue with you). He will be more than happy to tell you about his family’s 24 restaurants and highlight their position as the restaurant with the most parking spaces. The Casa’s convenient location may seem appealing, but I would strongly encourage anyone that is looking for a satisfying experience to look up the road or across the street. There are plenty of restaurants in the city making interesting food and charging a fair price while giving back to the community. Don’t let this restaurant’s longstanding tradition and reputation fool you. Based on some of the other reviews, it seems to be fading fast…

Am finishing my meal. Extremely clean. Best waiter is Todd. My order was incorrect possibly by my error, but was made correct with no problem. Very good restraunt and if I lived any where near I would come back. Garlic bread is a sin to eat but OMG as my daughter says.

Hmm. A salad consisting of yellow chunks from the core of an iceberg lettuce head and unripe tomatoes, combined with lasagna swimming in mediocre (and underseasoned) marinara and drowning in congealed mozzarella made this an overpriced and incredibly underwhelming dinner. It wasn’t revolting… that is the best I can say about the food.
However, the waitstaff were friendly… so that was a definite plus!

Will not take a reservation for parties less than 5. So if there are only 4 of you be prepared to wait. Too bad the food really isn’t worth more than a 15 minute wait.

Called and talked to an employee over the phone about gluten free options. He listed a lot of options, including one of their soups (I love soup and it is normally what I order for meals). Then when we arrived our waitress tells us that there are only two options, and neither of those options are the soup. I start asking questions about their food and the waitress just walks away when I am in mid sentence. Eventually she came back, so I decided to get the gluten free pizza and my boyfriend (also has gluten allergy) got the gluten free lasagna. The pizza was nothing special, I could have got the same thing from Dominos (would have been a lot cheaper!), the lasagna only had one small noodle in it, the rest was cheese and sauce. They must have not been carful about cross contamination because now my boyfriend is very sick from a gluten reaction. Another complaint is that there was a table of about 10 children being very loud, the parents did nothing to quiet their children down. I asked the waitress if she could nicely say something to them. She said she would and never did. My last complaint is I went up to speak to the manager and he just ignored me like I was not even there.
In conclusion, my boyfriend and I, and two of our friends will never go here again. IF YOU WORK IN A RESTAURANT LEARN ABOUT FOOD ALLERGIES!

Nice looking restaurant. We went on a Sat night at about 7PM and had to wait about 15 min to get seated even though the parking lot and extra parking was full. People were nice, service was good. Excellent HD TV with the baseball game on in the bar area where we sat. I ordered Chicken Parm on page 3, while Chicken Parm on page 4 you could get ala carte, dinner, etc. I am glad I got Chicken Parm on page 3 because with the delicious salad and amazing bread, I only needed the 2 patties/​no pasta. Page 3 Chicken Parm was about $ 12.99. Page 4 you got Pasta as well and the dinner cost was about $ 20.49, but it came with salad and soup. Our waitress said many people get the ½ portion or ala carte and adds a side salad. It’s a cheaper option than the dinner. My wife got the full dinner Chicken Parm and didn’t eat the pasta. Ugh! My wonderful daughter got an $ 8 Mac and cheese which she liked. My son got noodles and Alfredo which were ok he said. We had plenty of bread, which again is Amazing! 20 years since I had been here Nd the bread is still the same. Probably not a place to visit if you are on a diet, so if u are… Just stay home and eat some carrots or something.

5 stars for garlic bread alone. They can serve whatever else they want and this place would still be 5 stars.
Pizza is really good too– thin crust and just the right amount of greasy. The other entrees are hit or miss — they don’t have vegan options because they’re an Italian restaurant in Marquette.

Be careful if you’re watching your diet.
The garlic bread is delicious, and dripping in «100% AA Wisconsin butter» according to their menu. Dinners come with a seemingly endless supply :-)
I ordered the lasagna with meat sauce, their signature dish. Everything about it was delicious — the sauce, cheese, pasta. My serving actually had too much cheese — there was significantly more cheese than pasta. I stretched the cheese over three meals, and I still got lots and lots of cheese each time.
Italian wedding soup and antipasto salad with house dressing were also terrific.
Ordered a decent bottle of zinfandel (Zombie, I think) for $ 15.
We had a table of ten mostly unrelated people, who arrived at staggered times. Two wait-​staff served us, and they were great. No problem splitting tabs, bringing food in waves, etc.
I recommend this place!

What happened here?! This place used to be one of my favorite restaurants. I haven’t been back in years, but we had a family event there recently that ensured I won’t be back for many years to come. It took until most of the way through the entrée course to get our waters refilled. And the non-​water drinks were slow in being delivered from the bar that was approximately 10 feet away. The male waiter was apparently very displeased about being there, and snapped at a number of people in our party. One person commented that she ordered something she didn’t really want because she didn’t want to anger him further by not being ready to order. That’s what you want in a dining experience!
The only thing I had worth eating was the caesar salad. My FIL’s steak tasted like it was left out to spoil, put in the freezer to get freezer burnt, then boiled. Both he and my husband felt sick for the rest of the night after one small bite each. The steak itself was also comically small. The garlic bread had zero flavor — no garlic and no butter. Or, if there was butter, it was unsalted butter because it was bread sitting in ½″ of oily, flavorless stuff. The pizza was blah, but edible. I ordered gnocchi with tomato cream sauce, and asked for an add-​on of mushrooms. The add-​on mushrooms for the small a la carte was not cheap, and what I got was bulk canned mushrooms (for those of you who have had mushrooms from a bulk can, you know there’s a different flavor). Regardless, canned mushrooms?! $ 2 to add ¼ cup of canned mushrooms to my $ 8 plate of pasta? Seriously? It’s embarrassing.

I had dinner here a couple weeks ago and the food was okay. I had the Butternut Squash Ravioli and the actual raviolis were great but I didn’t care for the super sweet sauce. (The menu did mention that it was topped with a drizzle of maple syrup — I would probably order this meal again, and just ask them to skip the drizzle.) Three people at my table who were eating different dishes with marinara said the sauce was way too spicy, but everyone who ate the pizza raved about it.
I would give this place another try, but not with a large group. I thought the service was crazy slow and just overall really chaotic. For example, we were there for an hour before anyone took any food orders. Also, after the meal orders were taken no more drink orders or refills took place. Although I suspect our servers weren’t very experienced, they were super nice. No one in my family complained about the service, and everyone from the area said that this place competes with just one other restaurant for Best Italian in Marquette, MI.