MaMMa Rosa — Restaurant in Barnegat Township

Tonight, I came to try the Mussels Marinara, recommended to me by friends, but wound up ordering the Daily Shrimp/clams/scallops w vodka sauce Special with Chicken pastina Soup. This is a nice, lovely family run place with emphasis on quality!

There's a few tables beyond the cook's area, nothing unlike any other pizza joint; no atmosphere or music- just a TV playing a food channel with very low volume- no decor on the walls, but clean and relatively quiet. The faint sounds of the staff talking, dishes, and pots being washed was a slight distraction. Besides the excellent food and attentive, courteous service, there's not much else to comment on.

I was served a beverage, and hot, fresh Italian bread/butter came right away.

The soup bowl was medium-sized but very hot & very flavorful: a nice chicken broth with celery, carrots, chicken & pastina.. altogether, it's really very tasty and filling.

My entree was awesome. I ordered the homemade Linguini with my dinner special, which was fabulous. The plate was full of the best and freshest homemade linguine, cooked perfectly. The shrimps were huge, not overcooked, and plenty of them. Same with the scallops and fresh clams. The seafood was sooo fresh, so delicious, and a very good-sized portion. The plentiful, rich vodka sauce was amazing as well. So much so i sopped up every drop of this delicious sauce. This is what Real Italian is supposed to taste like - right down to the fresh garlic slices which in my opinion, really made the sauce pop without being overpowering.

There are a lot of things on their menu i will be back for to try often.

They have a really great dessert menu as well.. try the Death by Chocolate and Tiramisu.

Well done! Very...

This place, and their bagel store, needs better management ASAP! We’ve given them so many tries and always have an issue with our orders and yesterday was the last time we’ll order from them. Most recent issue- we ordered three hot subs for pickup. We waited the 45min to pickup our order. My husband went in to pickup our order and the three young kids couldn’t find the ticket. After searching for it they found it in the garbage and proceeded to enter it into the register to have my husband pay but our food order was never entered into the system and they said we’d have to wait another 45min. My husband told them to forget the order. My husband went back in to speak with the owner and was told there wasn’t even bread to make the sandwiches. The husband and wife owners were both there and the wife said “sorry, I’m not sure what you want me to do.” Not a peep from the husband. At the same time, another person was coming back because they left one of the dinners out of his order. We’re locals, we ordered from here often but NEVER again!! Save yourselves the hassle and order...

We had a horrible take out experience. We received the wrong food and were overcharged for our order. When we called to rectify the situation, the owner refused to get on the phone and handle the issue. He stated he was too busy. They did not provide any other information, a call back time, or instructions to us.

We gave them the benefit of the doubt and called them back two days later to rectify the situation. At that time, the owner requested the food back (TWO DAYS LATER) before he would even refund the incorrect dinner or the salads that we did not order. He stated he would not return any funds if we had his product still. (perishable food and he refused to get on the phone when we called the day of). The food had been thrown in the garbage. He also would only provide a credit to his store. When we communicated that we would not be going back (since this was not the first issue we had here), he hung up the phone.

Unfortunately, we wanted to share this so that others can avoid ordering from here so that they do not have a...