Molto Bene — Restaurant in Town of Hempstead

I found this restaurant by driving by it one night. From the outside seemed like a cute little place to eat. I went for my birthday with 10+ pple. I am not sure how people give these ratings. This is tops 3 🌟 restaurant. I will begin with opening the front door. I enter and automatically smelled mould. I did see they had an odor absorber to try and help but that was not cutting it. Walked in the 2nd door and the smell was still there just not as strong. We made reservations a week prior and table was not ready til about 15+ mins later. Not even an apology. Barely got a smirk out of the guy. As we waited we eventually were seated but 2 guests needed to be moved so we could fit my party. Servers was nice. Food not so much. Appetizers- stuffed artichoke wasn't fully cooked. The mozzarella caprese the mozzarella was hard. Calamari was chewy. My chicken dish was not good at all. The sauce seemed like it was days old. 1st pork chop came out burnt. The 2nd one came out undercooked. We had a few pasta dishes the sauce did not taste good at all. Watered down. Where I was sitting the mould smell was still lingering. We got one apology from a server regarding the pork and was taken care of. Majority of our dishes were not eaten. Not one manager came over to apologize. We were finishing up and they basically cleared us out by spraying tons of bleach. I am not sure if they were cleaning the kitchen but the smell was EXTREMELY over powering. We left with headaches. I am not sure how this place got a 4.6star rating but there are plenty of others place that better. I would not...

This is a small imitate restaurant nestled in Bellmore. The service was excellent as you are,warmly greeted at the door. Everyone at this restaurant truly embodies the concept of customer service by being attentive and helping without being instrustive. The food is equally great, and our server George was knowledgeable about the off menu offering with help suggestions. For starters, sampled the baked clams, Vongole Al Forno, which are baked clams with seasoned bread crumbs, garlic, lemon & herbs, and shrimp cocktail, which were four jumbo shrimp that were large. I had the Linguined Di Pesce, which are mussels, clams, shrimp, calamari & scallops over linguine. You can have this with either fra diavolo or marinara sauce. I had the fra diavolo, which was spicy at the suggestion of our server. It was excellent. Also had Linguine Zucchini With jumbo shrimp in a white wine garlic sauce, my date opted for the regular linguine instead of the zucchini infused. They were very accommodating to make sure you were pleased with your meal. Overall, I would definitely recommend this restaurant, which is also wheelchair accessible with a parking lot. The prices were on par and the meals worthy of the prices. Reservations are accepted and recommended especially for the weekends as I went on a Tuesday evening and there was a good amount of diners. I highly recommend...

UPDATE: Went for dinner there again on Saturday night. The service was great and the food was even better. I got the grilled seafood appetizer which was shrimp and calamari and scallops and it was delicious. My husband got the baked clams and he said they were very good. For main dishes my husband got the pork Ossobuco with pappadelle pasta. This entree was huge and so good. We ended up splitting it and we took home some of it for the next day. I had ordered the whole ronzino which they filleted for me and I didn't end up eating because of sharing my husband's dish. The next day I had the fish and it was just wonderful. And that was a big portion too. Very impressed with the food and the great service. My husband can't wait to go back and order the pork Osso Buco again

Really delicious food and good service. We ordered the hot antipasti appetizer and it was huge. Enough for four people and was so good. Main meals were also good sized portions and really fresh and delicious. Love it that you can make a reservation. Only complaint is that it is very noisy. Hard ceiling and wood floor and the tables are kinda close. But the food and service is so good, it doesn't keep us...