Pellegrino's Italian Ristorante — Restaurant in Sanger

BYOB wish we had known to bring our own wine. We could hear them talking in the back kitchen area. Sounded like Italian so that was our 2nd good sign of what was to come. The 1st was the positive reviews. This is a small place within a very small mall type building. GPS took us right to it. We were greeted and seated immediately. Drink order and fresh bread basket was on the table within a few minutes, maybe 2 minutes actually. We travel through the area at least once a year and stop for two days. See you again, soon! Good menu selections and enough choices for anyone. A booth next to us had spaghetti meat balls plus a pizza. They needed to-go boxes. The booth behind us had 3 very large plates. And then, before we expected ours, we had just finished our salad when our meals were presented. My plate was a specialty with chicken, veal, and sausage with red sauce over fettuccine noodles. My wife the fettuccine Alfredo and both dishes were excellent. I tried their house dressing on my salad. It is NOT some typical variety with some spices added and then called house salad dressing. The waiter explained it and even asked if I wanted it on the side. It is unique and some might not like it BUT go for it if you want to try a true owners "house dressing". We will be back next time...

We were driving back from Oklahoma and wanted to try something new and different. We started search on Yelp for interesting places to eat and we found Pellegrino's Italian Restaurant. We pulled up and there was plenty of seating and we were shown to our table right away.

We had read in a review that they hand make their pasta. It seems that their spaghetti and other noodles are the homemade ones, but the raviolis are commercially made so our family stuck to the basics to get some of that homemade goodness. The wife and daughter ordered spaghetti and meatballs and I asked for spaghetti with brown butter and parmesan. The kitchen was willing to meet the request which was very nice.

In addition to the entree we also ordered dinner salads. This was the only disappointing part. The dinner salad is basically iceberg lettuce with a pepperoncini on it and your choice of dressing. I wish that there had been a little more to it, but the hot fresh rolls were delicious.

If you are on the highway and need to know where to grab a nice bite in a small town, this is better than all the fast food options at the other...

It’s really hit or miss depending on if the female owner is there. If she is there expect 5 star treatment. If she is not there do not expect any customer service. The male owner had to step in for their son when I was complaining about wait times. Also if you are at all bilingual or know common Spanish phrases then have fun being called a cabron by the owners child. Which means mfer in Spanish. They clearly do not care about keeping customers. My complaint was simple. Hey why do I always have to wait up to ten minutes when I come to pick up my order. Whether I show up on time or twenty minutes late my order will not be ready. That is because they are so disorganized without the female owner that they don’t make certain items until the customer shows up. So they are intentionally misquoting wait times to customers and then calling you a mfer when you complain to the manager… congrats on losing a customer in a small town. At least $2k in sales in the year and a half I’ve been ordering. I’ll gladly call the owner tomorrow if she is in to apologize for not...