Verso Casual Italian Bistro and Pizzeria

My husband and I visited this place for the first time. Service and food is really good. I liked the atmosphere. I would like to see more beverage options. For some reason our chips were soggy. But the pizza we had made was really good.

Good food, intimate atmosphere. Service was a little slow.

This is one of my favorite restaurants in parma. Food is good, service is good. Don’t come here to drink beer because the selection is a little low, but the execellent food more than makes up for it.

Very small place. Servers were nice. I got apps to go and they were ready when I got there. I got the chips and dip loaded no meat, and the spinach dip. Was amazing. Should have charged maybe $ 1 less for no meat but still. All in all will get again!

Verso has been on my radar for a while. Finally visited for dinner last night with some relatives. The space is clean and I love that the tables aren’t too cramped. They also have an excellent changing table in the women’s restroom (the hook to hang the diaper bag is soooo useful but so often not present).
We had the Thursday night family special — large pizza, pasta, salad for about $ 23. It was a ton of food and a great value. I really liked the pizza cheese and the salad. The house dressing is excellent. The pasta sauce and pizza crust weren’t my favorite, but they weren’t terrible. We saw a calzone come out to another table, and it was enormous! I would definitely come back here to try some other things on the menu, and also highly recommend the family deal on Thursday nights.
And they use fresh, not canned mushrooms! :)

Our favorite pizza place in Cleveland. And there are a lot of really good pizza places in Cleveland. Unique pizzas and great stromboli. If you’ve never had a stromboli you should rectify that immediately.
Funny story, my wife was pregnant with our third child last fall and we went to Verso for her fav stromboli and had the baby two hours later. So it even induces labor!

Order the pizza rolls. They are a staple every time! I love going here for lunch (sometimes they can be slow since they only have one or two servers max at a time). I’ve gotten something different (with the exception of the pizza rolls) and have liked majority of it! The spaghetti is usually too watered down but one of my faves is chicken parm. Cute little place!

Four of us to dinner, had the prosciutto pizza which seemed like good choice no flavor…2 had the
Alfredo Florentine pasta, again no flavor.
So disappointed, yuck!

We came for the pizza, but fell in live because of the garlic knots and salad. Best garlic knots hands down. Plus the service was great.

Stopped in for dinner with my boyfriend. We got the awesome buffalo chicken salad and shared the delicious Wednesday night $ 5 pizza.
I didn’t care for the large portrait of Tina Turner at our table. In it, she was giving me disgusted side-​eye, like «You’re seriously gonna have another piece of pizza?»
It was pretty inexpensive and everything was delicious!

This is my favorite Italian place hands down. They do charity nights, have great specials, and their food is so fresh. Their sauce is DIVINE.
Favorite go-​tos: eggplant parm with the pasta to go because it’s hugeeeee
Tuesday lasagna night for my meat-​eating husband. 8 bucks and you get a huge piece of lasagna, bread, and a large salad. He also likes the barbecue chicken strombolli
My fav salad is the mango one without chicken and cheese. It’s sweet and spicy and filling.
YOU MUST TRY THE GARLIC KNOTS!!!

I checked the website the other night & the special was «Buy one entrée, get one half off». My husband & I decided on our order AND had a back up order incase it was a dining room only special. When I called, I specifically mentioned the special and asked this question. I was told it was valid on take out. Fast forward 20 minutes, at CVS they call to tell me it wasn’t valid on take out. When I ask if I can change my order, they at first said no, then yes. So I placed the back up order. Sigh. Honestly, honor your word, and when we picked it up, tell us going forward it’s dine in only. The call was tacky. However, I have to say, the calzones we got were amazing. So although annoying, we will go back.

Authentic Italian food… AWFUL service.
A party of 11, 2.5 hours and they «forgot» to put in part of our order… did I mention there were only 4 other people there and that they were the owners family, it was not like they were slammed. We have experienced bad service here in the past, but thought we would give it another try, needless to say last night was the last time we will go there.
I try very hard to support local business, but with an understaffed kitchen and wait staff that have no attention to service, it makes it hard.

From the street, it doesn’t look like much. Small parking lot with a beet up sign. But once inside, the atmosphere is great. Very clean and simple. The tables are spread out nicely, unlike many other smaller establishments.
The food was very good and reasonably priced. Was able to get two dinners, two salads, bread, and 2 glasses of wine for less than $ 40. The food seemed fresh with authentic ingredients. Will definetally be added to our favorites list of restaraunts.

I used to work for Ed years ago, he originally introduced me to the Vodka sauce and the gnocci. Italian food is probably one of my favorite cuisines. I ordered the Gnocci with the Vodka of course and i added two meatballs to it. The menu stated that it would be $ 14.50 for the dish, which would have been fine but I was charged $ 17.50. I assume the extra $ 3 came from the salad, but when the server automatically asked me what kind of dressing I would like, I assumed it was free. Portions were also a bit small. Didn’t mention that it would be extra from either the server OR the menu. Please state that otherwise. The server wasn’t very attentive, I had been waiting for a refill on my soda and she hadn’t checked on me until I was almost done with my meal. In fact, she had a friend who decided to randomly stop in. Apparently, friends are more important on the clock than your guests.
The salad. So, if I am being charged an ADDITIONAL $ 3 for a salad with my already expensive pasta dish, I think I would expect more than lettuce, cheese and carrots. Where are the rest of the veggies? Salad dressing was thick but delicious.
The gnocci. I very much thoroughly enjoy gnocci. Unfortunately, it was over cooked. Honestly, I remember Ed making the gnocci homemade, but I can physically see that these were frozen. The meatballs lacked a ton of flavor and were quite hard, also frozen. The vodka sauce has definitely changed… way too much garlic. I like garlic but that was a bit much. There was no thickness to the sauce, so it was difficult to taste with the pasta. Portion was extremely small.
I’m sorry Ed, but I’ve recently been to Antonio’s for their Vodka dish… but for $ 12 there, the portions are triple the size and I have extra to take to lunch the next day. For the exact same thing I ordered at your restaurant, I can spend $ 5 less and their vodka sauce trumps yours. I would get more food, a craftier salad with more veggies, and vodka sauce and meatballs that are full of flavor and NOT frozen.
Have you visited your competitors lately? If not, I think you should. You have a lot to learn…

This place has a BYO pasta, which is one of the reasons why I love this place! Comes with a side salad (unless you want soup instead) and delicious garlic rolls. Best place in Parma to eat in or dine out at!

Good prices and good food. They have some deals each weeknight. Good pizza and good mozz sticks. A nice cozy atmosphereI wish they had a better beer selection though. That is the main reason we don’t come here so often. They usually do have a great lakes beer though so I’ll get that.

Wow!
I have to admit, I didn’t think that this place would be as good as it reviews suggested. There is just something about a random pizza place in Cleveland that doesn’t inspire much. But boy, was I wrong!
We ordered four smallish pizzas and they were pretty darn good. My sister loved the Caribbean style pizza, I was enamored with my Shrimp pizza, and my parents loved the pepperoni and mushroom they ordered. I think the only thing that wasn’t up to par was the margarita pizza. It just seemed like it had too much cheese on it for the amount of crust and sauce.
Overall I was way impressed. And I said to my sister right after eating that I wished we had gotten a bigger shrimp pizza, since I liked it so much!

I drove by this place a thousand time going to and from work and thought «Looks cute, but it’s Parma… how good could it be?!» and never really gave it much more thought. Well, that is until I was desperate to not cook and I forced the husband to meet me there for dinner.
And I have to admit. It’s REALLY GOOD. The inside of the place is cute, with pictures of rockers on the walls and just enough seating to not feel crowded. The menu has lots of options — pizza, pasta, appetizers. The drink options aren’t very extensive (but they’re cheap so I won’t complain too much!) I tried the pappardelle bolognese and the husband had some sort of pizza with weird vegetables and we both loved our dinners. Our favorite part of dinner was the pepperoni roll appetizer that we shared (so good!)
The best part was that it was under $ 40! Not too bad! And I feel bad for giving them such a hard time for being in Parma.

I originally saw this establishment on a recording of the Robin Swoboda show… it looked really good. I decided to visit one day and try the sausage stuffed peppers and they did not have them so I left… After a few months I was able to return with my significant other for an early dinner
The inside of the restaurant is somewhat eclectic; I truly enjoyed the dark colors, rock memorabilia as well as music playing. Our waitress was nice and promptly took our appetizer order. We ordered stuffed sausage for the appetizer.
When stuffed peppers came out they were very fresh… sauce was fairly acidic but tasted really good in combinations with the cheese, sausage, & pepper. I have to say, I thought the portion of the sausage was a bit on the small side but the food itself tasted good.
When the waitress brought out the app. she took our orders which were Chicken parmesan and eggplant parmesan. These dishes included Salad, which my girlfriend was offered cheese for, as well as she chose a different sauce besides spaghetti which I believe was basil. I kept it simple with spaghetti noodles and sauce.
When the dishes were served I noticed the unique display of the food… the chicken was thinly cut with light breading and cheese on top. The eggplant parmesan was lightly bread and rolled and stuffed with ricotta and topped with parmesan cheese. The dishes were good tasting. The sauce was vibrant, much like the sauce with the peppers.
We had some things to do, so we did not opt for dessert. We were a bit taken back at the bill of 40.00. The food was good, but the price seemed to be a bit out of place for portions/​quality. I was also thrown back by the fact there was an upcharge for cheese on the salad which we weren’t told about until we asked.
The restaurant was good, and I would go back however I would try some different plates and try to watch the price points a little bit. I hear the pizza is good and pictures of the other dishes look fantastic as well.