Vernon's Cafe — Restaurant in Weathersfield Township

AWFUL!!! I have never seen a restaurant that is so incompetent at handling Friday night reservations. I show up at the time of my reservation and I am told that irregardless of my reservation that I would still have to wait. However, I was understanding of not being seated immediately. As I stood at the entrance, I spoke to several different couples who were also waiting. One couple had arrived before me but had no reservations, two other couples mentioned that they had called while driving to the restaurant to get their names on the list. One other couple came in after me and had no reservations and didn’t call in advance. My date and I stood there for over 35 minutes while they seated every person that was in the lobby. What made matters even more ridiculous was that instead of allowing people who were standing in front of the doors to sit at the bar and order drinks, they had about 8 seats that had cards saying those seats were reserved. Finally, when we were the last couple in the lobby they had the nerve to tell us that once a table came available we would be next. Why would I bother making reservations hours earlier if they are just going to randomly choose who they want to seat? I had enough of the rude treatment and decided to take my business elsewhere. I will never return to this restaurant, I would rather go hungry. Don’t make reservations at this restaurant, they are a joke. They are...

We finally made it to ramen night! 🍜

The first batch of rolls we got sent to the table were hard and cold. We ordered the fall panzanela kale salad and the naked polpette meat balls as starters. Best salad I’ve had in Youngstown and the meatballs we very good as well! Freshness was next level.

More bread came out that was a bit more fresh (after we asked). We had 4 drinks and 3 of them were made wrong or showed up wrong on the bill. The vodka soda we ordered came back with juice in it and no soda. Twice. But there’s nothing like ordering an expensive whiskey (buffalo trace) and getting something else poured in your glass. It’s very obvious when it’s different I don’t know why people try to do this to customers. This happens to me all the time at restaurants.

My wife got the pork ramen, I got the chicken. It was fun to eat and the broth had great flavor! Noodles were fresh and easy to eat. Would I get that dish again? Probably not. But it was a nice experience. This review may sound negative, but Vernon’s always does a better job than most restaurants in Youngstown. Keep it up guys. We...

This place is the best food I can find. My family drives from the west side of Cleveland any chance we can to visit Vernon and Dennis and the fine staff. Food and wine is the best around and is much better that any New York City Italian restaurant. Very similar to the places in Boston's North End without the excessive cost.

i suggest going there with 4 to 8 people so that you can sample the fine italian appetizers. The peppers and oil with the fresh bread is a must to start. We enjoy the beans/greens/sausage, the stuffed hot peppers, all 3 types of calamari are good but the bean stew with the grilled calamari is something special. For the main event, i love the red clam sauce, seafood linguine, drunken chicken or the veal chop. Wife likes eggplant parm and fettuccine alfredo. If you want something special, just ask and Vernon will cook it up. Also they have homemade cavatelli all the time.

With all that great food, we rarely eat dessert, but on occasion we take one of those speciality pizza's with an order of...