Three Tomatoes Trattoria — Restaurant in Lebanon

Between spending 1 month in Italy (Venice to Sicily) earlier this year, growing up in NYC with monthly Little Italy dinners, and spending 5 years of my 20y+ industry career WORKING in an Italian-American restaurant, this place is LEGIT. Been coming here for a very long time, just never left a review. Just kept going back despite being 1hr from home now.

Last night my husband and I were in the area, and as I searched restaurants, I was surprised/mortified from the recent bad reviews. Let me remedy that for the TRUE foodies out there. Not the 63% of Americans who think they are according to recent surveys. We had a FANTASTIC meal.

1. This is WOOD-fired pizza. Not brick oven. Not sheet-pan baked. Its not "burnt" its just "cooked correctly". Ingredients properly spread/melted. If you want a sloppy loaded slice, walk around the corner. They got what you want over there. We eat A LOT of pizza all over the world. Have family that cooks it for a living.

2. Chicken Parmesan is NOT a thing in the homeland. Pollo in ANY form isn't. Its Italian-American. Never saw it once on a menu. So don't complain when you get dark meat or it doesn't look like KFC. Your Sicilian Nonna was making due stateside with what meat she could find. She knew HOW to cook, just didn't have her homeland ingredients. And that was NEVER chicken breast before.

3. Atmosphere. Sure, could use an update, but nothing is OFFENSIVE. It can be loud, hot, and seemingly cramped, but it seemed spacious and comfortable compared to most European restaurants I've been to. I have reverse culture-shock everytime I come home and go to work in this Industry because I have so much room between tables! Sit in a Sicilian Trattoria with a large group of local 70yos hooting/hollering one table over on a weeknight in January, bumping your chair every 5m when you can't even squish out to find the bathroom while you're wearing 5 layers of clothes INSIDE because its just people/kitchen heat. THEN complain about THIS atmosphere.

Back to the food and not the disgusting reviews.

Perfect Negroni and nice mix of wine options. Fantastic Sauce across the board (Baked Burrata Special and 2 Pies, the 3T special and the Pollo Rosso). Superb service at the bar (Amy is Amazing) and quality kitchen skills we could watch. Couldn't ask for a more "authentic" meal stateside.

Molto Bene!...

Wow! What a find as we just wandered through town! We grew up in Boston, ate at many North End restaurants and have been to Rome and Naples, Three Tomatoes Trattoria is as if it was pulled out of any of those places and transported to the woods of New Hampshire! Wood fire oven, all the Italian ambiance, the wonder smell of garlic and tomatoes roasting, plenty of wonderful choices for food and drink! We stated with an app of muscles which was a mild start while we were snacking on our fresh bread and garlic oil. I went with Veal and wife did Chicken Parm. Mine came with egg noodles and a bountiful sauce that my wife was jealous of! Her Chicken Parm was good fresh crispy with a delightful marinara and spaghetti. If we lived here I would go a couple times a week just to get through trying the whole menu and different dishes. Drinks were crafted perfectly! Make reservations, we thought since it was a rainy slow day would be alone, when we entered we were asked outside or bar, was stunned since there was a full staff standing around and only 6 patrons. Well we found out they were planning and prepping! When the Opera House ended in 30 minutes the place was at capacity! We felt a bit bad for our bartender he was very nice and on cue but when it filled up it was very hard for him to keep up with food and drinks, yes, he made them all for the whole restaurant and was serving and tending to 16 people eating and drinking at the bar. He had to go enter all his food orders and go back to pick it up! Desserts were melt in you mouth amazing! Lemoncello Mascapone cake was sweet yet light and so good!...

I’m honestly extremely disappointed in tonight’s dinner. We went out for my mom’s birthday dinner, which I reserved a table for and mentioned her birthday. I had to convince her to go because she was having such a bad day she that didn’t want to go anywhere. I promised her a good dinner at her favorite restaurant and was expecting at least the bare minimum. Sadly, terrible service- one of the worst experiences we’ve had, and definitely takes the cake for Worst Three Tomatoes experience. Not only did no one acknowledge her birthday, but we only saw the waitress maybe 4-5 times throughout the whole dinner (we had a reservation for 7:15 and were sat a couple minutes early… we’re just leaving now at 9:08pm🙃). We had to actually leave the table twice because we were waiting so long for the food, water and check. She didn’t come to our table for the first 20 minutes of being sat to which she told us she’d be right with us. We waited over an hour for our water and food-which was flavorless and dry to say the least. People who were sat long after us were getting served and were in and out seemingly quick. So much so that the entire restaurant was cleared out on our side of the patio by the time we decided to get up and ask for the check, instead of getting dessert like we had planned. And we even waited on that! We actually weren’t even done eating when one of the bussers came and asked if we were done with our salt and pepper! I’m genuinely so disappointed in this experience! Not sure if...