Malacari's Italian Restaurant & Winery

80-82 Wilkes Barre Township Blvd, Wilkes-Barre
(570) 846-2681

Recent Reviews

Kathleen Pawlik

Went for lunch and the service and food were amazing. Can'twait to try the the dinners. Don't miss out on this restaurant!!

Jeanine Rodrigues

My friend and I were there tonight for the first time and our last. The food and service was horrible. Grilled chicken was paper thin, vodka sauce and Pasta Premiva was blah, the best thing was the rolls. Needless to say we will never be back. Worst Italian food we ever had.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Tim Lavelle

You Need To Know? Arrived around 6;30 & we were seated immediately. The environment was very nice with a large bar & lots of tables. We ordered the arrabbiatta & spaghetti, Meat Ravioli, Linguine Alfredo, & a side of meatballs. We were shorted a salad but eventually we got it. The food was delicious Italian plates, however, they put the meatballs with marinara sauce on top of the Alfredo sauce instead of on the side like was requested was disappointing. The Alfredo sauce was fantastic but not mixed with the marinara. Would definitely return as the food was delicious! ? Now You Know! -TBH

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Bill Caruso

Great food nice staff.I will be going

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Stephanie Heckman

Excellent service! The food is delicious!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Susan Schuster

Our mushroom pizza was delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Heather Shaw

They have an amazing brunch on Sunday and I have to say the waffle station and omelette station were a brilliant addition!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Tommy Boy

Nothing memorable - Average at bestStopped in without a reservation, hostess made it seem like it was a chore to seat us in an empty restaurant. Waitress was friendly, ordered the stuffed mushrooms and 3 bean and ham soup for appetizers, mushrooms were unseasoned, just drenched in white wine, 3 bean and ham soup, good size portion just lacked seasoning. Ordered the Alfredo with the homemade pasta, explained to be “thicker” than fettuccine, it’s wider not thicker but very well made and tender, Alfredo sauce seemed to be out of a jar, extremely pasty and glue like. My wife had the Salmon Oscar, average again no seasoning. We’ve had better meals at small local pizza/pasta restaurants at a third of the price and 10 times more flavor. Sorry if you’re looking for good ice cream in the summer, this is a great place but falls flat and tasteless for Italian dishes!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 2

Stacey Fedrow

Their brunch is amazing! A lot of options and everything were delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amanda Marie

love meracaris ice cream but wow this was a bad experience. dead restaurant, terrible service. brought the wrong drink 2 different times. arincini balls were completely frozen in the middle. bread was super cold. 4 entres were fine, except one was terrible. tried to charge us for a wrong drink we sent back. extremely disappointed! :/

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

Chuck Y

Let's get the negatives out of the way first. Called around noon for a reservation the same day. Confirmed the date and time. When we arrived they didn't have the reservation. They seated us in the back room, against the wall, exactly where the waitress and waiters go back and forth from the kitchen. We asked to be moved and they did move us to another location.Now let's get positive. The service was very good. The food was delicious. They had 2 nightly specials. We missed out on the Lobster Risotto. Ordered the Steak Filet Mignon Special with asparagus and mashed potatoes. The filet was delicious, asparagus was done perfectly. The mashed potatoes were tasty but not hot enough to melt the garlic butter. The Shrimp and Garlic Capellini was very good and well proportioned and highly recommended.The desert was their homemade cannolis, which were a perfect ending to a very good meal.Although there were a few bumps in the road. We definitely will be back as the food and service was excellent.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Michael Lazowski

I hate giving bad reviews to local businesses. I really wanted this place to be good. The food was meh. Service was lacking. Had the Arinchi as an app and it was still frozen in the middle. The entrees were flavorless. Had the crab linguine, couldn’t find any crab. And for an Italian restaurant, we weren’t even offered Parmesan cheese. Plus… we ordered some of the specials offered at a discounted price and they were never applied to our bill.A positive is the place is really nice.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

Toni McDonald

Malacari’s is a true Italian family restaurant. The drinks are amazing and are expertly made every time. Love the bruschetta and so many great entrees especially the pork chop (best I’ve ever had). The wait staff is kind, friendly and attentive. Cannot wait to go back again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Brian G

Here we go,We have only gone for the breakfast buffet on Sunday, that's what my review is based off of. The staff is always great, very friendly, the facility is always clean, the wine list is very big, the Bloody Mary's are definitely a must have!! The food is always great, the only negative I have to say is, we have gone 3 times & the food is cold to luke warm at best. I see the sterno heater's under the buffet platters, I don't know if they are working properly or being monitored properly, it was very disappointing to be honest. Myself & my wife were half temted to ask the waitress if they could microwave our plates when we filled them.Eggs Benedict was great, bacon is crispy, breakfast sausage is tasty, fried potatoes are cooked nicely. I would seriously give a 5 all the way around if it wasn't for the cold food, that definitely needs attention, other then that I have no complaints on the breakfast buffet. Last time we were there they had an omelet station & we leaned more towards that because it was hot.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Kyle Mulligan

The worst dining experience I've had in quite some time tonight. Waited 50mins and still never got water! Horriffic service and the bar staff was either on their phone or looking for water marks on the martini glasses. Felt bad for the servers who seemed to be the only ones trying. Whoever colonel bluetooth was behind the bar sipping his wine and doing nothing to help the lone bartender on $4 martini night needs to reevalute his career choice. Absolute zero help. Table of 9 had to walk out.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

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