Taste of Italy

4321 S Chapel Rd, Carthage
(417) 358-2000

Recent Reviews

Casey thomas

This place has amazing food best Italian around!Way better then olive garden.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Modomio, Chicken Florentine, Garlic Cheese Bread, Tomato Basil Soup, Chicken Marsala, Chicken Alfredo, House Salad, Supreme Pizza, Chicken Parmigiana, Fettuccine Alfredo

Ron Hitchcock

As always everything was great!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Spaghetti Works, Side Salad

Jessica Hohman

Amazing flavor, tons of options, & they have gluten-free alternatives! My new favorite place in

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kaatie Hopkins

First time here and absolutely enjoyed it! Very large, wonderful atmosphere, and AMAZING food and service!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Eric Parker

Tried their pizza. Great taste, plenty of toppings.

Food: 5

AllyBear_ 360

Edit: I don’t have the wrong place unfortunately:/Food is from Sam’s club, they just add things to it. Overpriced

Zachary Wotawa

I might've just gotten unlucky, but I had the "tour of Italy". The chicken and lasagna tasted like a frozen dinner, the fettuccine Alfredo was decent enough. Italian cream cake was good though

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 5

Crystal Hollinsworth

Food was amazing, their soup was so good I moaned the whole time I ate it. Service was great and fast and parking was super easy

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Tomato Basil Soup, Chicken Marsala

Mary Traveler

Big spacious place! Had the Royal Sea- bass and tortolini that were the special, both excellent! Good side salad with there house dressing. Cannoli had a good taste but you could tell it was pre made and refrigerated.I do recommend this place and will go back when in the area! Thanks Chef Alex!Parking: You park in the precious moments parking lot!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ed August

Hard place to describe, but easy to love, you may not totally love it the first time. This is not some fancy pants overpriced Italian restaurant, this is a family restaurant, Italian style. And it's wonderful. Go back and enjoy it for what it is. The food is authentic Italian, complete with the authentic Italian chef who is very hospitable, funny, yelling in the kitchen and a terrific guy. A great Facebook follow by the way. If you want a glass of wine, bring it with you because there is no alcohol served. service can be just a tad slow when they are extremely busy, but be patient. Enjoy it. One of my favorites.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

William Miller

Great food and wonderful waitress. Will be back to try more dishes.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Jennifer Wesson

I think I just had THE BEST Caprese Salad and bowl of Spaghetti of my life! I ordered the Spaghetti Works, and it was delicious, full of so much flavor! The Caprese with capers was an excellent touch! I wish I lived here to visit again! I highly recommend making this a meal stop! Well worth it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Caprese

Alex Howard

TL;DR: Don't come here. Food is tasteless. You can get better ambience in an airplane hanger. Owner seems to have some questional ideals.We found ourselves in Carthage on March 8th, 2024 to get our wedding license. We had heard a lot of good things about this place and the reviews looked fine. I wish I had read the negative reviews, not because their content but due to the owners response - that would have stopped me from coming in the first place.The location is strange - attached to precious moments. We can look past that. You walk in - what is this place? Was it a warehouse? A meeting hall? It's huge, total empty space with 30 feet tall ceilings with seating, some decor here and there on the walls. Lights are flickering in several places. It was empty when we came in, so we were the first to be seated. We were seated directly under a flickering light. The server was extremely kind the entire time - she did wonderful. I requested to move because of the light, no big deal, thankfully.Seats were fine, table cloths were cheap plastic. The menus are well designed and pretty - printed on nice paper. The server was wonderful - kind and quick to requests. This, however, concludes all of the nice things I have to say about this place.The bread was delivered with marina sauce. It looked chunky and was off colored - I genuinely thought it was an alla panna (vodka sauce). I tried it... My God - it tasted like vomit. Thankfully the bread was palletable, but I couldn't believe how bad the marina sauce was. I initially ordered spaghetti and meat balls, but after we received our appetizer - mozeralla sticks - it came with another serving of Mariana sauce. The sauce was broken. It was entirely separated - I had to explicitly ask to make sure it was mariana because you can't tell by looking at it. I endeavored and tried the separated vomit sauce in hope the first was a fluke - nope! Still vomit sauce. Just separated this time. Mozeralla sticks were fine, I guess. They use a sweet garnish - not quite sure what - which gives the breading a funnel cake-esque taste.After this, I decided that there was no way I was taking a chance on the tomato / red sauce - we hadn't got our food yet - I requested Alfredo instead.The salads were fine. Lettuce was fresh. The Caesars sauce was strangely sweet, but it was fine.Got the Alfredo... Man. I can't emphasize this enough... There was no flavor. It was like I was eating a noodle and water soup. The sauce was extremely thin, the noodles were NOT al dente as the owner claims in his responses, they were soft. It's hard to call the dish gross because it literally did not have any flavor. Just the starch from the noodles.At this point, I had looked at the negative reviews and saw the owners very snarky remarks - implying his customers didn't know "authentic Italian" and how they "should go to Olive garden." It was clear that taking criticism wasn't this guys strong suit, so I decided to foot the bill and move on. Even if offered to be remade, I wouldn't have wanted anything from there.It's really unfortunate because the majority of the reviews for this place are stellar. I'm not sure if we caught a bad day, but the owners responses to criticism is unacceptable regardless.If you're planning to make a trip for this place, I highly recommend you make the trek to Pittsburg and go to Napoli's instead - a whole in the wall that doesn't make you feel like you're visiting a liminal space, extremely good _authentic_ Italian, and stellar service.Or, as the owner recommends, maybe go to Olive Garden. Even their food is better than this place.Edit: in response to the owners "you are mad you didn't get what you wanted":Yes. I am mad I did not get decent food. :) I paid for my meal and tipped your server!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 5

Scott Cloud

Wonderful service, food, and atmosphere! Will definitely be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rex Kritikos

Always the best Italian food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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