What is your favorite Italian restaurant?

My favorite place is a little cash only joint in the Bronx's little Italy called Domick's. No menu, the chef makes what he wants and you'll eat it, and you pay what the manager tells you. Almost assuredly run by the mafia, but damn if they don't have the best osso buco and stuffed artichoke I've ever eaten.

I never ate at like an olive garden until I started MSing. I'm so spoiled as a New Yorker, living in the food capital of the world. I feel sorry for all of the suburbanites who think that places like that or Macaroni Grill are 'Italian food'

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I recently shopped the Olive Garden. I must say... The food was disgusting. I can't imagine it being on the list of top anything.

By the way, is cheesecake factory considered Italian?
If you consider the above to be Italian, then, um, sure.

Subway too. They have Italian subs.

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Sbarro's was a favorite of mine until the family sold it to whomever and the prices became just obscene...it's become a major NYC tourist trap...
Vincent's Clam Bar. Lots of runner ups but this venue is the closest to my home and my family LOVES them.
I have been to most of those places but nothing beats the small Italian family run restaurant down the street.

Silver Certified ~ Shopping all of Toronto and beyond
Shop2LiveinFL Wrote: and dspeakes
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> My favorite Italian place to eat is my parents'
> house on a Sunday afternoon. But I don't think MF
> shops my mom. smiling smiley

I had to laugh...wouldnt that be funny if you had a mystery shop at your mom's or aunts house! especially if it was a reveal shop and they got some sort of reward at the end.
Sbarros used to be my go to place for pizza while in an airport but luckily since then the airports have wizened up and started to woo restaurants with actual decent food in them instead of the hot dogs and fast food up priced but not upscaled food you used to have to eat in airports.
P.S.--Wolfgang Puck Express was really great for the money.

They had one a few years back in Hoboken, NJ and it closed for reasons unknown. Wish he would expand up here.
Are they still mystery shopped???

Famous Famiglia: It's as good as Sbarro's and more reasonably priced. Used to be shopped a few years back...
My mom was FBI also, and I managed to inherit a bit of the talent. If anyone wants to shop me, let me know when you're in the area.

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Nothing that's a chain. I don't get how Italian chains do any business in places like NJ or Ri.
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> Nothing that's a chain. I don't get how Italian
> chains do any business in places like NJ or Ri.

Or NYC or LI or Bklyn or Queens
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