Trattoria Vaccaro

Hands down best "traditional" Italian I've had in Ohio. Despite the random location, the ambiance was incredible too. Very intimate dining, perfect noise level, service was great, high quality food. Everything really blew us away. I had the lasagna and my boyfriend had the pasta platter, so we got to try several sauces. The vodka sauce was a winner for sure, but their red sauce was unbelievably flavorful. We enjoyed every part of our dinner and can't wait to go back!

Came for a recent weeknight dinner with friends and enjoyed the experience. Arrived in time for a few drinks at the bar during Happy Hour and they did a nice job mixing cocktails for us. We then moved to the dining room for our meal.We started off by sharing a mixed greens salad and then an order of calamari. The squid was served battered and very crispy with a side of garlic aioli for dipping. I had my go-to Italian dish, the chicken parmesan. It was large enough for leftovers to make it home...a very hearty plate!Would look to come here again in the future, if we were in the area.

Classic authentic Italian with fresh yummy pasta! Wine selection especially their Super Tuscans were great. This was our 3rd time coming w a group and the service was impeccable. I tried the veal Marsala and substituted the risotto w the fresh linguine and ate every bit of it. Everyone else enjoyed their meal as well. The bruschetta and calamari starters were good too. Oh--and the freshly made grilled Caesar salad w fresh anchovies were a treat! Great do casual or fancy night out. Every town needs an authentic Italian restaurant like this.

One of our top favorite places to dine. We eat there on a regular basis and are never disappointed. The Papardelle bolognese is so good as is the lasagna, the pizza, I can go on-and-on throughout the menu.

Real nice place! Karen at the bar did a great job and the food was delicious! I had the pappardelle and bolognese sauce with meatballs. The pasta and sauce was great! Two things I would point out, the meatballs tasted and looked institutional like Cisco, and the only bread they had was focaccia, hate it. Good Italian place should have good Italian bread or rolls.... Just me.Great place, great people and good food!

So, it was a 4 for food quality and taste. Take prices into consideration maybe 3.5. We started with a seat in the hallway/front porch. Not the ideal seat in the house. Every time someone opens the door temp drops 10 degrees. We're treated by a friendly waitress and brought our drinks promptly. The bourbon list was almost double what some of the prices should be. You can't charge $18 for a pour of a $37 bottle. Silly. Anyways, the calamari was really good. Breaded but VERY tender. Wife had gnocchi with fennel sausage and she said it was great. I had the Nonnas eggplant parm and it was different but very creamy and tasty. We wrapped it up with a piece of cake that was delish. Theee downfalls-wife asked for a 6 ounce poor of wine and the waitress brought her a 10oz poor. When my wife mentioned "it looked like a lot" waitress stated thought you said 10 and then carved is the extra $6 for it. Second the seating, would have definitely rather been inside. The inside, though in kind of disarray, sure looked cozier than the porch. Lastly, pricing is a bit much for what you get. $180 for two people demands 4 star service and ambiance. This was not par to price. Although the food was good I can think of 50 establishments I'd rather spend $180 on dinner.

The food was outstanding, I started with a salad and had Sea Bass. The service was outstanding and her recommendations were spot on. The atmosphere, music, and overall environment was perfect. No time to take photos of my food as it was outstanding and I took no time to start eating.

My husband and I pick a restaurant each week for a "date night". We spend time looking at reviews and going through the websites before we decide. Sometimes we look for a dive, sometimes a specify type of food we are craving, or we may drive an hour away for a place looks extraordinary. On Tuesday morning, after looking at their website and seeing the low lighting, the ambiance and pictures of the food, we decided to stay closer to home and try a restaurant we have passed by many times, but never tried. I made a reservation for Friday night at " Vaccaros Trattoria". WHAT A MISTAKE!We arrived at the restaurant 5 minutes before our reservation. We stepped inside and the hostess then turned us around and took us back out to the front entrance/hallway. It was lit up brighter than a superstore with stark white walls, dirty cracked concrete floor, dirty red and black door mats and windows into the parking lot (no curtains) so each time a car pulled in the headlights were annoying. Meantime the parking lot lights constantly glared through the windows. Bulbs hung from cords and the heaters overhead would turn on from time to time with a whine, as it was cold due to the constant opening and closing of the door, which was about 4 feet from our table.You won't see any pictures of this on the website.... I asked about being reseated inside and was told that the seats were assigned when you booked the reservation, so all tables were taken. So, no matter how early you arrived or when you booked, they decided where to seat you. No notification that you really weren't inside the restaurant, but in an enclose entrance and not even a classy one and no ambiance. We thought about walking out, but decided we were there and would make the best of it and try the food, maybe it was worth sitting at the worst table in the restaurant. Unfortunately, that was not the case. We both order pasta. The meatballs were very good, but the pasta was overcooked, mushy and it was either broken before cooking or it just came apart due to being overcooked. The Bolognese sauce was pasty with no sign of meat in it. Very disappointing. The tables in this area should never be reserved or at least not reserved without the customer knowing what they are getting. They should be held for walk ins only, that way the customer could accept the seating or not. The only nice thing about the restaurant was our server. We tipped her accordingly as no server should be punished because of the short slightness of an owner.

Food has always been great, atmosphere is an awesome dinner spot, service is great. When in the area for business, I often go here with my team mates.

I ordered the linguine and clam sauce and it was so salty and not very much linguine. So disappointed. Complained and didn't get any satisfaction. We won't be back.