Adelio's Restaurant — Restaurant in Lumberton

I was excited to try this restaurant based on the Google reviews. My wife and I love Italian food and never pass up a chance to eat it! The building is in the downtown historic area that is a bit run down and not ideal for an upper scale restaurant. The building inside is industrial chic and has the typical exposed brick/beams/ducting.

The menu looked very interesting featuring a great looking Italian dishes with meat, poultry, and seafood. I ordered the manicotti as this tends to be my favorite and my wife and my wife had angel hair with vodka sauce, both came with salads and bread.

The salads and bread took about 12 mins to reach the table and its hard to be disappointed by a side salad. Well this salad was a huge disappointment. The house Italian is so vinegary it is unpleasant to eat and overall the salad has one small piece of tomato, one small slice of onion (literally one ring), and 6 pieces of rough chopped lettuce. The Ranch dressing though was quite good. The bread was very lightly toasted and had no other seasoning.

The food came about 30 mins later and it looked very good. I feel for the price the portions at this restaurant are inconsistent. The pasta dish was large as were most of the other entrees but the manicotti was disappointingly small and the pasta dish cost less? The two small manicotti felt lonely under the cheese and tomato sauce. Now, the tomato sauce was good and the cheese was cooked until slightly bubbled. The manicotti noodles were mushy but the filling was good. The pasta was just ok. The vodka sauce was unfortunately bland and I doubt was tasted for seasoning.

Lastly the bathrooms here are in a state that should be addressed due to things being broken. I mentioned this to a staff member and they said that's how they are. One sink in the men's room is missing a handle, both stalls have broken locks (one has no lock or handle, the other's lock is not functioning), and the floor was very dirty looking. Finer dining restaurants should not have issues I would attribute to a...

Went here for lunch today and was very disappointed. Upon entering, an older man with an accent greeted us. My aunt and I asked if they had lunch specials and he said, "Yes." I asked what they were, as we were trying to decide between eating at Adelio's or Kendra's Kitchen, and he flatly said that our server would tell us what they are, as if it was beneath him to tell us himself. Not very welcoming.

After looking over the menu and asking the waitress about the day's specials (she omitted telling us there was also a soup of the day, until I later asked), I was excited to see the "Panini Caprese: Perfectly grilled, fresh tomatoes and basil, mozzarella and balsamic." What I received was a poor substitute for what I was expecting.

The two items that were true to the description were the panini and mozzarella. The tomato was a single slice akin to what you would get on a fast food burger, pink and tasteless; I was imagining halved or diced heirloom tomatoes. The basil was a few very small strips sprinkled in spots; I was imagining fresh, possibly whole basil leaves, bursting from the edges. Grilled red peppers were added, which I do not like and which were not supposed to come on the sandwich, and there wasn't a hint of balsamic to be seen or tasted.

Fellow Foodies out there (and yes, there are Foodies in Lumberton) know that without the balsamic (and the abundance of basil and amazing tomatoes, for that matter), the above sandwich would be bland and lifeless, and that's precisely what it was.

To add insult to injury, the Caesar salad was slathered in dressing to the point that the lettuce was no longer crunchy, though it was topped with tasty croutons. Yet if I hadn't eaten this before my sandwich arrived, I would have gone back to work even hungrier than I am as I write this. There was no time to get anything else to eat. I also thought it was bad customer service that they still charged me for the accompanying salad after the epic fail on my entrée.

Next time, I'll definitely be going...

If I could give this place less than one star, I would. Reservations were made two weeks ago as we had a very large party. When we arrived and everyone was seated, our drink order was taken. We waited 40 minutes just to get our order taken. As the food arrived to the table, most everyone's entrée was room temperature, not hot. You would assume after waiting for 40 minutes, the food would have been smoking hot! My husband ordered flounder strips and someone else at our table ordered the same thing. My husband's strips were battered in something other than what the other strips were battered in, they looked nothing alike even though they were the exact thing. Or at least suppose to be. One plate had lettuce, the other plate didn't. It was mentioned to the waiter but he said "oh, it's the same." No on ever asked how the food was. Finally after everyone had eaten, the waitress came by and my husband asked her about it. She took the plate to the kitchen and nothing was returned in it's place. I ordered Chicken parm that was absolutely horrible. The chicken taste like it was cooked in the microwave a few times before getting placed on my plate. My niece order mozzarella sticks and it was the last thing to come to the table. Everyone at our table had to walk over to the register to pay for the food. I ask to speak with the owner. That was like speaking to a hole in the wall. He didn't seem to care. He asked the cook about the strips and the cook informed him they were fried in the same batter. I have dealings in the restaurant business and when something is fried the same way, it has some resemblance. The owner wasn't very helpful about the situation, didn't apologize, didn't ask how to make things better. What he did ask - "what do you want me to do." The waiter obviously mentioned the situation to the owner at some point. When I began to explain what was going on, he said, "oh, he said something to me about it." I will never walk in that door again. The only thing good there is the...