Joe's Casa Di Amici

Absolutely our number one choice in the state line. Steaks, pasta shrimp dejonge and pizza are some of the best we've ever had. Haven't had a bad thing from the menu yet!

On point every time! The food is perfect! Love you & all you do!! Thanks Joey!! See you Friday!!

Came by on a snowy Friday night and there was no wait for our group of six. I'd really rate this place 2.5 stars if I could. We were not given a bread basket. In an Italian restaurant. Not that I would classify this food as Italian. It's very American and the menu is limited.The special salad was decent. I ordered the chicken parmigiana and it wasn't anything special, but the pasta was al dente, so there's that. The service was unremarkable. I was wanting to order an espresso after our meal but the checks were delivered before I was given a chance. Overall, if American Italian food is your jam, you may like this place. I also felt the food was overpriced for what we got. And I have no qualms about spending for a good meal.

Excellent food and service.The old Maria's menu. Great Italian Restaurant.Joe's is a great place to take your family.

Don't listen to the naysayers. Joe is the finest Italian cook in the Rockford, Beloit, Janesville, Madison corridor. Go to Joe's! The food is amazing! The garlic bread, house salad for the table and entrees are all to die for. My wife and I are picky, we don't like many restaurants, Joe's is a staple of ours, we live in Madison, WI and drive down twice per mo; if we lived in Rockford we'd go every week for sure. Joe has the old school recipes DOWN PAT! The menu is limited bc what he does, he does oh so well. Here's what to get: the garlic bread and salad to share are absolute MUSTS! Then the two entrees (of course there's other entrees on the menu, but these two are the superstars) to choose from are his chicken parm (INCREDIBLE) OR his salmon with the honey horse radish glaze. It's always very difficult for me to choose from the two of them. Trust me. Joe's Casa is worth the trip. We're lucky restaurants like this still exist. It's not trendoid or hipster in anyway, it's good down to earth Italian-American food that's the best you're gonna find. Seriously, it's as good as anything in NYC or Chicago. The sauce is a super old recipe that Joe's dad perfected working at the old Rockford institution Marie's, which stood for decades, I think since the 1940s or '50s!

2nd time here and the filet was delicious and perfectly cooked to our desired temp once again. Joe and his staff are awesome! The Shrimp DeJonghe, garlic bread and special salad was fantastic! Martinis were on point especially the chocolate one!I highly recommend Joe's for dinner with no kids!

Extremely Dry baked potatoes severed , frozen t bones over cooked to extreme well done served to table ( steak knife was like a butter knife trying to cut shoe leather ) . Servers got bad attitudes and stated nothing they can do about food prep and cooking they are only servers. Owner wasn't surprised and didn't even have the decency to compensate for the hour and 15 minutes being there . Everything was perfect until dinner was served ! Upon glancing over to the kitchen noticed it was a bunch of young kids cooking. There was no chef and no older professional cooks. It was all young people, laughing talking not caring about the food walking around, taking nothing seriously in kitchen area . Café Greco. was one of the best American Italian establishments in the USA and was my to go place for many years with friends. I myself have had supper at well over 200 Italian restaurants across the United States . I've never ever been treated the way I was treated in this establishment absolutely horrific ! The owner had no remorse as he stood there in a white T-shirt at the front door as patron walked by highly embarrassing . For myself this was my first time ever here and I will never go back nor will I ever recommend to any of my friends . I have a lot of friends that come in from East Coast and West Coast. We will go out of state or to Chicago because it was very disappointing being in loving Rockford to be treated like this, and one of the best so-called Italian restaurants in Rockford Illinois. FYI - I always order the best on the menu and the best appetizers on the menu . Always choose best beers and wines on the menu as well . I do not go cheap so for this to happen for me and have to review like this is very disappointing James

Heard good things about this restaurant so gave it a try. Disappointed that the menu was very limited from other Italian restaurants I've been to. We went early since the place is small to get ahead of the crowd. I've had better waitress service at a diner than I did here. The bar was out of Moscato. The ambiance is not impressive, but can be forgiven if the food rocks. The signature of any Italian restaurant is it's sauce and here the sauce was excellent. When the bill came it shocked us.....1. The meal was to include a tossed salad.2. The meal apparently did not come with bread so we ordered Garlic bread. ($5.00)3. We were charged $4.50 each for a specialty salad. Our salads were iceberg lettuce w/french & crumbled blue cheese. Should we have said something? Perhaps .... this error could not be attributed to a busy waitress and if this is normal restaurant policy then it wasn't worth adding insult to an already disappointing evening. Husband & I usually tip generously and had I been alone this waitress would have gotten $0.02.

The Best food in town! What a treat to feel like being at Maria's again! Bravo Joe and Maria for bringing this place back to town.Steaks, the Best! Tortellini, the Best! House salad, so good. Great ambiance with bar and such friendly staff!.. our first stop again once back to Rockford.

A family friend recommended this place as a good place to eat. About everything that could be ruined was. We were a Group of 9 and had reservations for 6 pm. They lost our reservation and weren't going to accommodate until we showed a confirmation as proof. Then we wait to be seated for another half hour. Takes forever to get our drinks. Finally a salad, greasy, brown spots in the lettuce, and mushy. After each person gets a bowl of pasta and the birthday girl got a couple cocktails. The pasta was not cooked al-dente and the sauce was flavorless, just tomato paste with water. I coulda cooked this meal better blindfolded. Anyways my biggest gripe... the total was 400$. I hope this place goes out of business and joe goes back to being a greasy mechanic . Because at least at the shop we expect to get scammed, not at a "restaurant" it's his house btw. This place sucked.