Roberto Italian Restaurant

When I moved to the east end I used to religously get eggplant parm from here because it was the best out of carinis, and portabellas. I had gone gluten free and no longer ate Italian food for a while but we decided to get a to go order today and it was kind of sub par. Alfredo lacked flavor (it’s Alfredo so of course still pretty good) but tasted like it was missing something. My pasta that came with my eggplant didn’t even have enough sauce to coat the noodles. The eggplant was good. It’s about the details to me, and Italians are typically good with the details...like givingenough sauce to cover pasta. I get this “trying to save money by being a little skimpy” vibe and there are a lot of other choices in the area and for 2 pasta dishes and a large salad costing $45.

Clean, nice staff, quick to receive our food. I was the only one gluten free and so thankful for options. I ordered the cheese ravioli. It came out looking beautifully delicious. It was luke warm. The ravioli was hard around the edges, however the middle and the meat sauce was delicious. They did serve gluten free bread to me and I will say after having Celiac for over ten years and trying just about everything out there, that this was my least favorite I've ever tasted. I'd recommended them getting their bread through Anna B's Gluten free bakery not far from them to serve. Might as well serve yummy good quality versus hard, no taste, brick like (wasn't completely cooked all the way so raw dough in the middle) bread. Check them out. I will be back and try something different. The other three in my party were extremely happy with their dishes: meat sauce spaghetti, shrimp scampi and Stromboli.