Zarletti Mequon

had a wonderful date night at zarletti mequon! we were glad to have made a reservation because it was a comfortably busy spot at 6pm on a Friday night. started with a salad and meatball appetizer. both were delicious & a very generous portion. I enjoyed a margarita pizza, which had a nice thin but also chewy crust & delicious sauce & cheese.drink menu had plenty of wines, cocktails & NA options.

Let me preface this review by saying if the review was only about the ambiance I would have given this place a 5. SERVICE: Four of us went out to dinner to celebrate my dad's birthday. I had put on the reservation comments it was my dad's birthday. I even told "the birthday boy" to order first in front of the server. The waitress Kristan never once said happy birthday or attempted to make a comment about it being his birthday. Being a former waitress I find this extremely disrespectful. DRINKS:We ordered gin and tonic, a brut rose, and 2 beers to start. All good drinks.FOOD:My dad ordered red snapper which was a special. For $40, it should have came with soup or salad, a potato, and a vegetable. It only came with mashed potatoes OR vegetables. For how expensive it is, I find this ridiculous. Everyone else ordered the lobster ravioli which was good, but should also come with a soup or salad for $30.DESSERT:The tiramisu and cheesecake were each $8.00 and the best part of the meal. Total bill was $204..... for the amount of food we got with our meal I will not be returning. I can get a much better meal for cheaper somewhere else.

This place has a parking lot and is bigger and spacier than the downtown location. Our waiter was young and friendly. 9 out of 10 of us liked our food and enjoyed it. One friend ordered the special mushroom ravioli in brown butter sauce. When it arrived it looked good. There were abt 7 pieces. She gave 3 away for friends to try it. She ate 2 and spit it out. The filling was very salty. The others that tried it agreed. She called our waiter over and told him she spit out most the ones that she tried to eat due to the salty filling. He took her plate to the back to talk to the mgr. He came back and said he tried one and agreed it was too salty. He offered her something else to eat. So she got another plate and he later came back with a "complimentary" dessert. Then the bill came and both the ravioli and her second plate were charged. She asked to see the mgr and the person never came to apologize or anything. The waiter needed the mgr approval to take the charge off. He never reached her and he just took it off. We will not be visiting this place ever again. If the mgr did not have the courtesy to come and apologize then this place is not worth a second chance.

After reading some of the reviews, I really wanted to like this place. The ambiance was nice which was surprising for a strip mall restaurant. The service was on point, friendly and fast. It seemed they had it all together.When it came to the food, my friends and I were not impressed. One of them ordered a half salad which she really enjoyed. She said that the dressing tasted homemade.We all ordered different variations on the ravioli. Mine was the spicy Italian sausage ravioli with brown butter sage sauce. First of all the ravioli itself was hard as if it was slightly fried by the butter. The filling was crumbly sausage - I guess I expected something different. I have had this dish at other restaurants and I actually made this myself in Italy at a cooking class. Maybe that's what I was thinking I would get. Sigh. Not so much. My friends' ravioli dishes also left something to be desired.Overall, we were disappointed in our meal. They are willing to give this place another try - maybe for the pizza. As for me, I'll take a pass.

Went for the first time this week, and had an overall nice time. My in-laws are in town and we were all craving Italian, and since I'd always heard good things about Zarletti, thought it was the perfect opportunity. The venue itself is very cozy and enjoyable. Slightly dim-lit, a rustic wood and brick vibe, with high ceilings. I feel terrible I don't remember our servers name because she was super sweet and attentive! We ordered a few glasses of wine and a big plate of antipasti to start. Heck of a good appetizer packed with various meats and cheeses, lots of different olives, artichokes, and greens. Thoroughly enjoy fresh plates like this. The red wine (a cabernet I believe) wasn't well-liked by my father-in-law or husband, so they we're quick to move onto beer. A bummer that those draft pours came out fairly flat as well. Entrees we're a win for most of us. My husband's short ribs were divine. "Costolette Brasate" they call it on the menu. Well-cooked with lots of flavor and served in a rich sauce over creamy risotto. I ate some of it because my dish wasn't the best. I opted for the linguini scampi, and it just had little flavor. I realize it's meant to be more of a simplified dish with olive oil and herbs, but overall it was a bit dry and lackluster. Shrimp was A-ok.My in-laws loved their food. One went for the spaghetti and the other had the filetto di manzo funghi pasta dish, with beer tenderloin tips and mushrooms in a creamy garlic sauce. Both delighted by the flavors (and the massive portions, ha).​I wouldn't mind returning again to give some other menu items a try!

Really fantastic service from the host to the waitstaff to the food runners. I ordered a salad thinking it's probably going to be generic and I'll regret it, but I just didn't feel like pasta. Wow I was so wrong, this is probably my new favorite salad. I ordered the Italian chopped salad and it kind of reminded me of the Italian version of a Cobb salad, bleu cheese, crispy pancetta, loved that they added couscous in it there too to make it a more like a meal. To start we have the stuffed olives, they were good, but olives are so small if you stuff them with a sausage/beef mixture does it really taste like anything different? Not really, so it was just more like deep fried olives, still good though. Will definitely be back to try some more of their main menu and looking forward to updating my review

Had the chance to enjoy the new year's Eve dinner at Zarletti! Having heard so many good things about the food and vibe here at Zarletti, my husband and I finally made the trip here.Mequon location was great, plenty of parking spaces, nice building and decorations. We were greeted at the front door, and the server led us to the table. We had the house made cheese platter and two different pasta dishes! All tasted so good (carbs overload ) Service was quick and smooth, we loved the experience!

Great place for a larger group, the restaurant is very nice inside and provides a nice aesthetic. There are a lot of different options of which anyone should be able to find a favorite. The meals feel a tad over priced for what you get. I got the shrimp scampi dish and it could definitely have used more flavor. But, I tried other dishes others in my group ordered and was more impressed!

Wow what happened Owen retired and the customer service goes with him. Love McKenna she is the best waitress. We went there on our way home from Florida and we were told we could have a table but had to be done in 1 hrs. Wow pretty insulting since we normally get an appetizer a bottle or 2 of wine l, dinner and dessert. If you can finish that in an hour good luck. We sat at the bar and it took 50 minutes to drink 1 glass of wine and get out appetizer. We were told they were booked but theyvhad reservations available online. Then our friends got a table and chating with them they were not told they needed to be done in an hour. At the bar we were not getting even close to the same service we get from McKenna nor were we even offered bread service. Then I called the manager back after leaving, she never apologized just told me how she was doing us a favor sitting us ar the bar and not let us have a table while you could go online to get a table and the bar tender told us the only reason they were saying hst is they had several tables take 3 to 4 hours. Guess our business is only worth a prostitute hour. Not sure I'll be back till they have a manger that knows how to treat clients like Owen did. He hallways seemed to find us a seat, always seemed to go above and beyound. Still don't understand why we were told the are booked. Was it how we were dressed?? Even after we told the bartender how we normally had McKenna as a waitress, you would have though they would have asked us if she wanted to take us.

Very disappointing how Z has gone downhillLast few visits, fgood was meh. And expensive. Last night we ordered the $20 mushroom ravioli in sage brown butter. There wasn't a single mushroom adorning the meal-/ and inside the ravioli it was mostly ricotta. No taste of sage. The meatballs appetizer was bland, mostly bread crumbs. truffle fries good-- but aren't all fries?After years of enjoying Zarlettis we will not be back. PS. We had to ASK for the bread. staff was attentive (except bread), but chef/ front office cutting lots of corners seriously affecting quality & taste. sadly moving on