Papa Joe’s Italian Restaurant

We had a great dining experience all around, from the cute blonde(KC) hostess, to the waitress, to the food.We definitely will be back!

We were famished after painting with the lemurs at Chase Sanctuary and were pleased to find Papa Joe's on our drive home. Apparently Sundays are a very popular time for Papa Joe's so we ended up being seated outside in their covered area. Our waitress was actually happy to serve us outside as it was a beautiful day. The food was yummy. My chicken piccata had a nice creamy lemony wine sauce. We enjoyed the ambiance of eating outdoors except for some bees that decided to join us. We still managed to enjoy our meals despite them.

We live in Homosassa and drive the distance to Papa Joes Italian Restaurant because they have delicious food. Made a reservation and got seated immediately by a most friendly host. All dressed up for the holidays and looking so festive. Our waitress took such good care of us the whole time. Started with Fried cheese appetizer, it's served with fresh fruit and so lemony and delicious. I ordered the Lombardo and it was a huge portion and was fantastic, so good. Husband ordered Fettuccine Lorenzo and like mine was a huge portion, he loved it. We also was served garlic bread hot out of the oven. We had such a wonderful meal and our bill was very reasonable for the amount of food you get, we also both had food to take home to enjoy again.Highly recommend dining here, Papa, you did good!!! Debbie

Awesome atmosphere and friendly staff. We had lasagna and pizza. Good base and flavor to the lasagna...pizza was okay with a bit of a doughy crust and sauce that was not too memorable.

As always good everything was perfect. Hubby had a pecan crusted chicken with cheese tortellini and was thrilled . I had a seafood pasta shrimp , mussels ,clams,calamari and white fish atop a linguine with white wine garlic sauce . Both meals we perfectly prepared and our server Lara was friendly and very efficient. Now to the only problem of the evening yet again . We have dined here a dozen times this year and we always have the same " bad" start . The young lady who runs the desk never has a smile , barely says 2 words and stands there with this " I don't want to be here look " tonight we walked up and said hello we have a reservation and she replied " gonna be a few minutes " finally 15 minutes later ( restaurant was not even 1/2 full she grabbed 2 menus and said follow me . I don't understand why anyone would want this to be the first impression your restaurant gives . We will keep coming because we love the food but for someone new I'm not sure .

We stopped by on an impulse during a late afternoon motorcycle ride. The place was packed but we were seated and served quickly. My husband got the lasagna which stayed beautifully hot in its own crock. The salad with creamy Italian dressing was the perfect accompaniment. My orange roughy and tortellini with the citrus cream sauce was the best I've ever had and I'll be sure to order it again. Service, ambiance and food quality earned it a five star and saved as a favorite stop for sure!

It was packed on Friday night..thank goodness we had a reservation..people everywhere..we were seated within 5 minutes of arriving and were told it would be a few minutes as well...I saw the wait list on the desk and wow..cannot imagine standing for an hour for a table..make a reservation! We were seated promptly..server came right over and took drink order, was hoping they had Aqua Panna in the glass bottle since it was Italian Restaurant.thry had Papa Joe purified water in plastic bottles and got that instead...ordered the combination which let you pick from 10 choices and you choose 4, got double Lasagne, Sausage and Peppers and Baked Ziti and a cup of soup...it was served piping hot...service was excellent too...ordered dessert to go and the Cheesecake is delicious...

Elise was our great waitress! I had one of Papa Joe's signature dishes Soprano Chicken that also came with amazing pasta! My husband loved his seafood signature dish with scallops and shrimp! We tried to walk in Sunday at 7pm and was told approx 1 hr wait so we were so glad that we decided to make a 5:30pm Tuesday reservation!

This restaurant has a good variety of food from dinners to pizza. The portions are a good size, more than likely you will have enough for lunch the next day. The restaurant is nice and clean. They do offer some great looking desserts to finish your delicious meal.

in my opinion a good italian restaurant needs good bread (or garlic bread) good ceaser salad with homemade Caesar dressing, a good antipasto salad ( roman, ham, salami, cheeses, tomatoes homemade italian dressing) Didn't have any of the salads the garlic bread was not very good. It tasted like hotdog buns with garlic butter, and that toasted very well. . they're black and chicken with potato was very good and their pasta with sausage, chicken, green pepper, tomato onion with a tomato sauce on linguine was pretty good.