Barbarino’s

Not a fan. The pizza was just ok. What I can’t get over is how nasty this place is. I wanted to take a shower after going. The table was so sticky that my arm kept sticking to it. It smells, and the kitchen looks like someone got murdered in it. Surly there’s got to be a health code they need to pass, right?

My girlfriend Lisa and I went here for the $ 22 strip steak dinners. ¹⁄₃ of her steak was pure fat! The steak had good flavor, but ¹⁄₃ not being edible? Terrible value and ruined the birthday dinner. The baked potato was tiny like the potatoes one buys at the supermarket. They do have good bread, the caliber of Santo’s Restaurant.
We have been to this restaurant before. We will not be back to this restaurant. The owner was shown the long cut of fat from the steak and had nothing to say. What could he say? Poor quality, poor steak value, but service was descent. Complete waste of money and at best worth half of the +$ 50 paid!

Great local Italian restaurant. Staff is always very friendly and accommodating. Food is great!

Wonderful food that comes out piping hot; caesar salads that are the best of any other restaurants; service exceptional; cozy atmosphere; more food that you can eat so that means leftovers! Consistent food as well as consistently good service. Nice bar and outside patio for those who like that. Would highly recommend that, if you haven’t been here, you should try Barbarino’s.

Overall quality and value good. We really like server Nicole. We’ve had her on our last three visits and she is fantastic!
The presentation is top notch. We like the casual atmosphere!
They have a great customer reward program!

Plain and simple this place sucks. The kitchen at it’s best produced mediocre ‘italian’ pub grub. At it’s worst the cusine is inconsistent and sub par. To add service is slow, mgmt/​owner rude. Save yourself the agravation and go somewhere else.

Barbarino’s is one of our favorite local restaurants. The food is always good and reasonably priced. The staff is friendly and helpful. There is always something on the menu to satisfy your craving and the pizza is great.

Food has always been okay but the service is not. It seems we always have the same waitress every visit and we are made to feel like an inconvenience and there is no communication throughout the meal. It’s weird. But the pizza and wings are okay but we wouldn’t make a special trip based on service. Haven’t tried any of the entrees. Just don’t feel very welcomed when we go — maybe take out is the answer?

Danielle and I (mostly I) wanted to try a different Italian place tonight. I’d never been here and some of the reviews had me a little scared. I’m glad to say it was actually pretty good.
Danielle just got spaghetti and meatballs. i tried her meatball and it was ok. I like them a little more dense. I had the angel hair ala vodka. also pretty good. lots of sausage in the sauce. i also had a cup of French onion soup which was pretty tasty as well. nothing mind blowing, but the service was good. the food was good. we will definitely consider going again.

I see a lot of low ratings for Barbarinos but it is one of our favorite places. Yes, the décor is a little old fashioned but that seems to be apart of its charm. The food is great with generous portions, nightly specials and good soup. My pizza has always been baked perfect, never under baked. The prices are a little high, but it’s like that everywhere you go, not just here. If you sign up for their rewards cards you receive discounts. On the weekends they have some nice bands and a big bar area. Wait staff has always been nice. The one issue I have is the dining area is extremely cold in the winter and when myself and others complained, no one seemed to care.

Horrible customer service. I won’t be back because of it. Ordered a pizza for pick up. They told me twenty minutes. I came after 30 minutes and was told I was a few minutes early and the pizza wasn’t ready yet. When I pointed out I was in fact late, they admitted to burning my first pizza and threw in a second one as I was standing there, after having paid. They were not very accommodating, did not offer a refund or any sort of compensation for the extra 15 minutes I waited. This to me is just a common sense thing to do. Most other places would’ve at least tried to make it right. One of the boys working there said a manager would come out, but no one ever did. I would be more understanding if they were super busy but there was nobody in the restaurant dining in (this was before 5pm) or picking up carry out.

Barbarino’s has consistently good Italian food. Side salads are very big and fresh. bread is fresh loaf out of the oven. yummy.
Their Italian food is really good, served up in cool big bowls and plates. The place had a facelift and looks great. The bar is really nice, almost classy looking. The owner has been there for years and is dedicated, present and very involved. Wait staff are great, many have been their for years. The patio is awesome. We eat outside most of the time in the summer. Good wine selection. If you like different menu items try their specials. It’s pretty good. Oh they had a good band playing music you can eat to.

I got some take out pizzas from Barbarino’s on Saturday. I must say the pizza was really good — WAY OVER PRICED, but good. I would actually say it’s the best mom and pop pizza around. While I was waiting on my pizzas, I enjoyed a few beers at the bar. The bartender was nice and helpful (I think her name was Sara) and was willing to assist me with some special instructions on one of my pizzas. The bathroom was disgusting, this is a must fix for the owner! Boogers on the wall –never a good thing and it looked like the urinal hadn’t been cleaned in days (it had a beard).
All in all the food was good, but $ 51.00 for 1 large one topping, 1 medium cheese and 1 small cheese and 3 draft beers is WAY too expensive.

live in california, visited parents july 4^th, took home pizzas from barbarinos, are you kidding me! incredible, open a shop in San Fran! delicious! cant wait to visit cleveland area again to get that pizza

Wing night at Barbarinos was a experience! Don’t take them home with you or they will charge you another 40 cents each. I never felt so nickel and dimed! I was also charged an extra 50 cents for dressing. I will avoid this place!

I had a coupon for this restaurant and I like to try new places, so we thought we would check this place out. We went on a Friday night and sat out on the patio. At first glance thought it was a cute little Italian place. They told us they would have music later, but we opted to sit outside because it was so nice out. The food was very average. There was a cream sauce pasta which was good, but the pasta with the tomato sauce was very bland. The salads were iceberg lettuce with hardly anything on them. The food was not what you would expect from a nice Italian restaurant. The server took awhile to get to us. He forgot to bring us the waters we asked for, until about 15 minutes later when we had to wave him down to ask again. My first wine glass had a lipstick smudge on it so I sent it back. When the server came back he made a comment «I think I brought the wrong glass for this type of wine, oops hehe.» I had realized it was the wrong glass before he came over anyway, which isn’t a big deal, I’m not that picky, but the fact that he didn’t even offer to correct the problem is clearly not good service.
After all of this we were thinking this restaurant wasn’t very good and we wouldn’t come back. Then we got our check. They had charged us 50 cents extra for each glass of wine, so we were over charged one dollar (two glasses). While one dollar isn’t a lot, when I pick something out on a menu and see a price, that’s what I expect to pay for it. We asked our server about it and he told us that it was because a band was playing so on Friday and Saturday nights they charge an extra 50 cents for each drink. At this point the band had JUST started to play and we were outside so we couldn’t hear them anyway. Regardless of whether we could hear them or not, that should obviously be printed on the menu! The server walked away after we paid, and never returned. We saw the hostess cleaning a table nearby, and asked her if there was a manager we could speak to, as we didn’t think it was right to charge us more than the menu price. She left, and after awhile came back and said the owner was not there tonight and the manager just gave her 50 cents to give back to us. This was so insulting. What kind of manager doesn’t even take the one minute to go talk to a table, or look at our check to see we were overcharged for 2 drinks, not one? And then to just send the hostess over with 50 cents was infuriating. We left the 50 cents on the table and walked away. I have never been so insulted by a restaurant manager. I’m not sure if it is even legal to quote one price and charge another. Obviously we will never return, and tell all of our friends and family about our bad experience.