Ristorante Di Parma

The food was surprisingly much better than I expected. Their simple marinara was delightful! Soooo good! I can't wait to try something new.

The food and the place were ok. The service was good so I might go back. It felt like an outdated decor and ambiance but sometimes you get great food in these restaurants. I will give it a second chance to see what happens.

Decided to stop here before an appointment nearby, and I had time for lunch. Walked in at 11:30 AM, there were two employees cleaning from the night before, dishes, and drinks and bottles everywhere, the place was a mess. I worked in restaurants before, and you always clean EVERYTHING and "close to open." You never ever leave overnight food, garbage, and bottles and drinks everywhere. It had me wondering if their kitchen was even clean. Because I was hungry, I did take a chance in ordering the vodka pasta, as someone stated in a previous review, it was forgettable, and was not Italian at all.It is bad business practice to open the restaurant and cleaning from the night before. I would have thought the business owner should have allowed employees to arrive early to clean up the mess from the night before. It really does leave customers thinking, "is the kitchen clean?"

I went to Ristorante di Parma last week with my fiancé and a friend. We arrived and were the only ones in the restaurant for the next 2ish hours, and the waitstaff were kind enough to let us stay 15 minutes past closing. The music was a bit loud but maybe because it was empty. The bread was a bit stale, though I liked the dipping oil and vinegar. we were not offered more bread after we finished it. We ordered pasta dishes and a bottle of wine. Service was great, and the wine was excellent, but the food was a bit lacking. For $20 I expected more than a cup of penne drowning in sauce. I probably wouldn't come again but nothing was explicitly offensive here.

Good food and service. Nice restaurant for a large group and good for take out as well. Next time I'd order the salad dressing on the side and a different appetizer. This is my second time here and the pastas are consistently good!

The food here was very tasty but I felt like it wasn't quite Italian food, more like Italian and Mexican fusion. Our server was attentive and incredibly nice. My dad and I started with minestrone soups that were pretty amazing. My dad got a sausage based pasta dish and I got shrimp in a weird cream based sauce. Like I said, everything was tasty but it didn't seem authenticly Italian. I also think the same (delicious) red sauce might have been used for the soup and the pasta. I grew up in New York (where there is a lot of wonderful Italian food) and I've been to Italy several times but I'd never had dishes prepared in this way before. I've never been to *Northern* Italy, where Parma is, so maybe it's a regional thing. Our server offered fresh shredded cheese to add to all of our dishes. She called it parmesan but it looked and tasted more like mozzarella or havarti. I was a little weirded out that she held the block of cheese in a plastic bag and used a regular kitchen shredder to shed it on to our plates. It was hygienic and effective but terrible presentation for such a pretty restaurant.The restaurant was very clean with ample seating. When we arrived for lunch we were the only table. Eventually one other family showed up before we left. The restaurant played great oldies music, my dad sang along to most everything, and it seemed like they had a stage set up for karaoke. All in all we had a pleasant and informal meal that felt like we were eating Italian dishes prepared by a family member (we are not Italian btw). There was lots of attention and care and the food was delicious... though not quite Italian.

Decent food but lacking in variety and incredibly slow service. By the time she finally brought us our butter knives, the bread had already disappeared, and we had to request more instead of them offering as they should have.

Fide was a great server. The food was delicious! We ordered stuffed chicken, cioppino, gnocchi Gorgonzola, bruschetta, calamari fritte, and tiramisu, and I would order it all over. Maybe the stuffed chicken with mushroom had a tad too much salt, but all in all it was very yummy. Also, the focaccia bread was yum. Will come back again!

We ordered takeout here around Mother's day since our mom was craving Italian foods. The meal was very subpar and expensive for the quality we received... we were quite embarrassed we ordered from here and thought we should've just cooked homemade pasta ourselves. I had the linguine alle vongole with tomato sauce, one of us had the chicken signature dish, another ravioli of some sort, and forgot what else we ordered. The chicken was really dry and lacked so much flavor. The linguine alle vongole tasted like cheap store bought noodles with basic tomato sauce and frozen seafood. Lacked in so much flavor and came in tiny portions. The bread that was complimentary tasted like cardboard, we ended up tossing it. Trust me, I eat almost anything but that bread was not good at all. Overall the meal was underwhelming and we seemed quite disappointed after dinner. Perhaps it's because it was takeout and maybe the foods would taste fresher in restaurant.

This place is disgusting. No flavor, they cook with clearly cheap ingredients. Everything tastes like rancid oil!!They do not know how to cook Italian food thats obvious.Don't waste your money here. Beware.Hope this helps alot of you looking for a good place. THIS IS NOT THAT PLACE.