Johnny Cascone's Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in Overland Park

After arriving with my 17 month old daughter informed the host that I was there to meet a group of dog trainers. He had no idea what I was talking about but the hostess next to him did and I was promptly led back to my table. After ordering Sangria for myself and water with a lid for my daughter it took LONGER to get my child's water than my mixed drink.

Next I ordered the Anti Pasta Platter to share with the table. Because one of our group was a vegetarian I asked the server to plate the meats separately. I'm not sure whether he didn't understand what I was asking or simply didn't want to oblige my request but I repeated myself several times until he finally said okay. The plates came out as requested.

After waiting for the rest of our group to arrive we gave our orders just before seven. Unfortunately the meals were not served until close to an hour later. It took so long that our honorary guest actually had to leave before her meal was served. She had it boxed to take home Instead. My husband was less than impressed with his $18 chicken Parmesan (which he orders at EVERY Italian restaurant) stating that the sauce tasted worse than Ragu! He didn't even eat though we had it boxed to go when it arrived because by that time our child was approaching meltdown stage. I had ordered the Tomato and Mozzarella Salad which looked absolutely delicious upon arrival. Unfortunately I literally had to spit my first bite out mid chew. The tomatoes looked good but tasted rotten. I tried another bite just be sure and the taste worsened. I explained to the waiter that the tomatoes were off and he proceeded to argue that it was the combination of flavors of the plates. This can't be true because there was tomatoes and mozzarella on the appetizer I'd ordered which had tasted delicious. I finally had to firmly tell him that I knew what rotten tomatoes tasted like and these were bad and sent the plate away.

To top it of the restroom had no changing table and I had to change my daughter standing on the sticky floor. The soap dispenser looked like it had grime oozing out of the bottom. I was thoroughly disgusted at the thought of my child being in such an unsanitary place. What a waste of...

We've been going to Johnny Cascones's for year's, we usually make it our destination for Valentine's Day. The Good: The reservation was for 6pm and considering going on Valentine's Day we were seated at 6:30, which for as busy as they were as expected we were pleased with the time frame. The Gentleman at the front desk gave us a nice booth style table which we liked while the best of the Rat Pack played pleasantly in the background. The food we ordered was the lasagna and combination spaghetti/lasagna with a meat ball and sausage. All of the food was excellent and just as previous meals we've ever eaten the portions were plenty. The Bad: Our waiter was an older Gentleman with a thick accent, first impression was good but as the night went on he was clearly overwhelmed with his area of tables. He took our order for drinks and food order rather quickly, drinks and bread came back quickly as well. The time to receive our food was surprisingly quick considering how busy they were, a young lady brought our dinners to us and was pleasant doing so. We assumed our waiter would stop by our table to check that everything arrived to us as ordered, he did not. We actually had to flag him down which took almost 10 minutes after we received our order, we were both wanting the fresh grated parmesan cheese that he never offered to us on his own. Our waiter never came back to check on our need for drink refills, my wife had a coke that she finished without an offer of a refill. I had a very good glass of Amore Assoluto red wine I would have gladly had another of but our waiter never returned to our table except to bring us our bill which we had to ask for. So for the lack of service we received 3 Stars was our rating this time, we felt our $10 tip left to our waiter was fair for his efforts we received at our table. We've enjoyed our dinners and life moments at Johnny Cascone's for years and we'll be back, this time it just wasn't our...

I was supremely disappointed by this place. I had high hopes with how many recommendations this place had from friends and family. Perhaps they left their taste buds at home because this was awful. I would have much rather gone to Fazolis than this sorry excuse of italian.

First the place is dark, dank, dirty and smells of old carpet. The hostess wasn't welcoming and made it seem as if we were inconveniencing her. Our server was snarky, and slow.

I had ordered the chicken spiedini and my wife had the Ravioli. The bread they brought out was dry, tough and bland, the dipping oil, mercifully, was quite good. Our salads were soggy and were drowning in a soupy 'house dressing." When our entrees came out they gave me my wife's entree and her mine. After having to switch the plates around since our server vanished before we could say anything, I cut into my chicken, or at least what I thought was supposed to chicken. Instead what I had in front of me was a log of bread with some thin strip of what appeared to be chicken like meat inside. There was absolutely no sauce on the plate for the over cooked pasta or mystery meat bread log to add to the bland flavor. Adding salt helped some, but it was so lacking any kind of character or flavor it only ended up tasting like salted pasta with bread.

My wife's ravioli was also a complete failure. The red sauce tasted like canned tomato sauce with some bits of dried seasoning only to add some color. Again there was no flavor and was so acidic I have used it in a car battery. I didn't bother trying the ravioli's as the looked like mummified pharaoh testicles.

Needless to say, despite that we used a gift card and our dinner was free, I felt like I should have been paid by them to eat what ever it is they to pass off as food.

Avoid this place and go down the road...