Martino's Italian Villa — Restaurant in Kokomo

Our server was the manager of the restaurant and was friendly and helpful. I want to start off with that. I appreciate her and she gets 5 stars. However, this is the worst food I’ve had in my life.

The first thing that was pretty off putting was receiving a martini glass cracked down the side and badly chipped on the rim. Our server brought out a new glass which was appreciated. Then the salad came - wilted, brown iceberg lettuce with exactly one piece of onion. The “house salad.” Lol do not recommend. The garlic toast came and I’m pretty sure it’s the frozen kind you get at the store (but unseasoned)- one side was burnt and the other side wasn’t toasted and thus soggy and lukewarm. Now, my mom warned me that the fettuccine Alfredo wasn’t good, but I was craving Alfredo sauce and had faith that a restaurant could pull off the simplest sauce in culinary history. I make it all the time, myself. It’s easy. Ohhh I regretted it. First off all, there is no fresh Parmesan at this restaurant - only the cheep powdery junk. I took a bite of the fettuccine Alfredo and I have to tell you it is more bland than baby food. The noodles didn’t seem to be drained properly, had no flavor (salting your pasta water is the most basic, easy culinary standard.) The Alfredo sauce tasted like watered down skim milk with zero seasoning or garlic or anything! Plain heavy cream has more flavor. I honestly don’t think they even used heavy cream… or Parmesan cheese, or garlic. Or salt. I simply don’t understand how a cook could be this bad. I would rather eat canned grocery store sauce (still terrible) than this travesty. Oooof. I tried salting, peppering, and adding the “Parmesan cheese” and it was still inedible. There was a bunch of clear oil rolling off of the noodles too.

I tried a bite of my mom’s rolla vaca and it was decent. I’ll...

Would actually leave zero stars if possible. The food was utterly atrocious. A ten-year-old could easily make better meatballs . with less than 5 ingredients. Home made it says on the menu, hogwash OR the cooks should ALL be fired. Their meatballs were guaranteed frozen from Sysco and tasted like a ball of cardboard. Don't listen to all of the fake reviews on here. Well, maybe the folks are sincere who leave good reviews but are the type to leave 5 stars for McDonalds. The portion of spaghetti must have cost them at lest 30 cents and charged $12.50, sauce was almost tasteless but my wife ordered the meat sauce and it was actually edible. Their manicotti portions were pathetic. Garlic bread ranged from rock hard to soft and tasteless as well. I didn't realize I was eating at a nursing home cafeteria. The waitress was decent and made sure our drinks were filled. Had minestrone soup (I think that's what they said it was but looked more like dishwater and tasted worse), a tossed salad that had the far outer pieces of lettuce that are usually thrown away at normal restaurants due to the bitter flavor and downright awful appearance, it also wasn't cut up at all, just huge chunks and definitely not a wedge. The waitress had informed us that our dinners would be coming in 4 minutes at precisely 7:01. At 7:25, they showed up, just as pathetic looking as I expected after seeing the reviews, all of them far too late to escape this culinary nightmare. I highly suggest avoiding this restaurant like the plague. the atmosphere is completely nonexistent and the lighting is beyond annoying as the lights are so bright that a person might need sunglasses to keep from being blinded. ZERO STARS, I wouldn't even suggest feeding the food to a stray dog, it's...

It was not busy. Husband's sides came out before the combo appetizer. Combo appetizer should have been very easy for the kitchen as I have no doubt it all came from frozen bags, so all it needed to be was dropped. I don't recommend but it was just okay. Husband liked his chicken parm. I though the serving size was small with the chicken thin compared to breading and there was water pooling under the pasta. I had the fried cod. Two things I did not like: The cut was from the tail which is tougher and has a center line section that is not really edible as it is so tough. The breading was crispy but completely fell off the fish. With either cutting or picking the whole piece up, it just fell apart. My first question if I go back is what is actually made 'in house.' The cost is too high for me to pay for frozen items. It took just over 40 minutes to get anything besides drinks. The sides came out before the appetizer. The main meal even longer. The interior was light and the tables were spaced nicely. The server...