Your Mom’s Italian Kitchen — Restaurant in Boulder City

Our prediction is it won't last more than 6 months. The menu doesn't tell you what some of the beers were, for instance just says hazy double IPA, but which one out of the more than a thousand there are? The waitress didn't know and didn't offer to find out either. The bartenders completely ignored me when I went to ask. The server didn't offer to tell us the specials, if they have any. The water tastes horrible, we live in Boulder City and drink the tap water and it's fine, so not sure what they are doing to make it taste so bad. The food is ok but it's not Italian, it's New York Italian at best. We will never be back, there are way too many better options in Boulder City and 1,000 in Vegas. Do yourself a favor and skip Your Mom's.

Owner's social media "expert" response;

First off — thank you for the detailed scouting report. With 390 reviews under your belt, you clearly know your way around a dinner plate and a comment box. Respect. 👏

Seriously, calling me fat, real professional. Yes we go out to eat a lot and have traveled the world and have tasted amazing food near and far. Not my fault your food is terrible and NOT even CLOSE to Italian food, take a trip to Italy and you'd know that.

Appreciate the bold prediction — we’ll go ahead and mark our calendars for that six-month doomsday countdown. Fingers crossed we survive just long enough to fix the existential crisis caused by… tap water and IPAs.

Tap water that tastes like sewer is a massive problem. It's not Boulder City it's something in your building and probably one reason your noodles taste just as bad, water is everything when making great noodles, a propper chef knows that. And knowing what beers you have on tap is important, you obviously have never ran a bar or restaurant before, hire someone who has, not someone who knows what tictoc is.

Given your experience, we’re surprised you didn’t recognize the Hazy Blue IPA on our tap list. It’s a best-seller on the West Coast and a fan favorite among our regulars — especially those who know their hops. If you didn’t recognize it, no worries, it’s not an East Coast export, just a local legend.

First off, you don't have regulars yet, second Hazy Blue is from Colorado, that's not local. Get your beer from Beer Zombie or Crafthaus if you want to think you are local. You want to carry the best IPA in the world it's called Pliny the Elder, not from Colorado or the East Coast. You are no beer expert, stop lying to yourself.

We’ve also got a certified spirits expert on staff who lives and breathes the science behind what we pour. Had you asked, you’d likely have gotten a mini masterclass, but hey, sometimes you just want a drink, not a TED Talk. Totally fair.

That would have been great if we could have even got one person to help us, but nope. Our server was horrible and the bar tender was clueless. So much for your expert that doesn't exist.

As for the water — you totally caught us! BC’s finest somehow manages to overpower our brand-new, top-of-the-line filtration system. Even it’s like, “I give up.” So yes, the water tastes like crap. We don’t recommend it. That’s why we offer bottled water, Pellegrino, and are exploring more bougie hydration options for refined palates such as yours.

We were never offered bottled water, and again it's not the Boulder City water, it's something in that building alone. Fix it, you should have never opened until you did. When it was the Tap the water was just fine, so it's something your amazing experts screwed up. And I don't have a "refined" water pallet, I prefer good old regular tap water, buying bottled water is such a huge waste of money and bad for the planet.

We’re proudly American Italian — scratch-made with premium ingredients, house-made pasta, imported single sourced olive oils, use Tallow (no seed oils), and told we have the best gluten free pasta and we make no apologies. Not everyone will vibe with it, and that’s totally okay. But when someone leaves a review this passionate — even if it’s not glowing — it’s clear we made an impression. So,...

Not sure where to begin. This afternoon my father, a dear friend of mine, and myself dined in your restaurant. Anticipating our visit all week, we made a huge mistake. Let’s take note to start, both my friend and I are 20 years plus of industry experience. As we walk in we agreed it was nice and definitely our style atmosphere. Being greeted by a nice girl we ordered our drinks. A Coors Light, a specialty cocktail, and for me a non alcoholic specialty cocktail. So it begins…Huge first fail. Not only did we wait for about 10 minutes for all of our drinks, the man, who I imagine to be the boss hands me the cocktail with alcohol.( I am one month from being five years sober.) So I always ask to be reassured, “sir is this the drink with no alcohol?” to which he nods, “yes” and with that walks away. Mind you, my friend’s glass is still sitting on the bar unmade with ice melting, now, not one worker in sight. Thank goodness we have a routine of cheer-sing one another or I would have had my first douse of alcohol in nearly 5 years and would not have been very happy. Now it’s been 7-8 minutes, with only patrons filling the room, as the lonely glass merely holding lousy ice cubes holds down the empty bar. Prettty bad. Ok we’re back in business a worked appears! “You guys ready” she asks, offering not one recommendation. I slowly glance at the sad glass just waiting for its drink. The pink shades her cheeks and she rushes to make it. Now, LUCKILY she catches the mess up I had luckily avoided, one the manager created. Looking apologetic, I informed her I had yet to sip it, allowing the color to return to her face. Now it’s time to order. Bruschetta with goat cheese and Ricotta with smoked salmon. For my father and I, a chicken parmigiana sandwich to split. Ok, we think let’s move on. We wait. And wait, hmmm. We wait some more. Again, not one worker in sight. Purposely my father uses the restroom only to witness them in the opposite empty room chit chatting at one table, with not one of them concerned with any of their patrons. Great. We wait some more. As you can imagine the three of us are not very happy. Finally we have to ask, “what’s the hold up for a sandwich and some bruschetta” in which she claims is on its way. About 30-35 minutes total it arrives. Now when I say boring, that’s being generous (unlike their portions.) The chicken sandwich appeared as if it had been under a heat lamp all month as the sauce has turned that weird maroon color, and for our dining pleasure, a handful of burnt chips accompany the meal. As for the Bruschetta, the cheese spread with the locks dumped on it, sadly topped off the entire experience. And yet still I think the worst part was, where was everyone AGAIN!? This is when the manager or anyone should have been walking around asking how things were and interacting with the guests. It’s only common sense?? By this time we just want to be anywhere but there. We pay the 72$ bill for a split, old Sandwich and some bland locks on bread, still leaving 20%. Ok, so maybe now would be the perfect time for a proper “have a nice day, thanks for coming, see you next time”? Possibly even saving the day. Nope, instead the three of us walked out in silence, in plain view of every worker sitting down conversing. Just a little tip. When you decide to open a business (especially in Boulder City) and guests who could have gone anywhere that day, but chose your establishment to support, do better. Not just for us but for everyone dining for different reasons. Unfortunately we will pass this along to many people and maybe next time just...

This was there opening day. We did make reservations for 5:30 and I did call the day before and added one person and the day of added one more and they were very accommodating. We arrived at 5:30 and were told they were a little behind and that we could go into the bar and get a drink and it would be 5 or 10 minutes. We ordered a mojito and two lemon drops and they were good. We were not seated at 6:10 so I went to ask I am assuming he was either the owner or manager! He then asked the hostess to help she was buisy seeting people because the restraunt was packed. She did get back to me and we were seated by 6:20. We did have our waiter come and get our drink order. We were told we would get our bread order with 4 different sauces so we could choose wich one we wanted with our dinner. The bread took awhile to come to the table. We then ordered our food! The salads came pretty fast but the meal not so fast by 7:30 we had to ask when it would it be comming and 10 minutes later it came. Two of us ordered the eggplant and 3 ordered the chicken Parmigian. One person ordered a salad with the avacodo. I ordered the eggplant wich was wonderful crispy on the outside light on the inside! The best I have ever had we both did get the wrong sauce but they brought a side of sauce very quickly. The opinion I got on the chicken parmigian was ok but not fantastick. The salads were good also. We did not get out of the restraunt until 8 o'clock. The manager or owner did come and ask us how were doing when waiting for our meal it was very buisy and we said ok. The waiters and all the kitchen staff were working very very hard and were very friendly the manager or owner I feel could of been helping. I know it was very buisy and I do like the atmosphere and hope they work out all the issue's we definitly need a good Italian restraunt in Boulder city. I would love to see lasagna on the menu sometime. We will give it some time and try it again because Italian food is my husbands favorite. I hope in time it gets better and I am sure it will! I realize the restraunt buisness is not an easy buisness. Wishing you all the best in the...