Mezzo Bistro and Wine

The server was friendly, quick and pleasant. The food was kind of sub-​par. Calamari was undercooked so tasted mostly of flour and under-​seasoned. Picatta was over-​cooked but OK. The meatballs on the appetizer menu were HUGE for an appetizer and pretty darn tasty so they saved the day.
I would give it another try just to see if it was an off day or I could have picked better menu items.

This was our first and likely our last time eating here. The shrimp cocktail was okay but you can’t really scree that up. The caprese… the basil was good.
The pasta was cooked okay, the sauce was okay, the chicken was terrible in both our entrees. I am pretty sure it was either microwaved or frozen when the cooked it.
We probably won’t go back.

First of all the waiter forgot us. He literally forgot our table and started to take orders for other tables who came after us. Second it took a while for him to bring our order on table. The ambience was not so great table clothes were having stains on them. Now taking about food, there was nothing tasty thinking of which I would return to this restaurant. We ordered a tiramisu which was just a stack of cinnamon and it was not fresh. Really unsatisfied with this restaurant. Better not to consider even if you have a groupon available.

Love this little gem. Awesome Experience. One of our favorites places. Great food and ambiance.

If you appreciate a restaurant with a cozy ambiance and live music, as well as delicious dishes made from scratch, this is the place for you. In addition to getting wonderful service from your waiter or waitress, don’t be surprised if the owner, Shawn, stops by to check on you or fill your wine glasses. We had meatballs and shrimp cocktail as an appetizer. The meatballs were huge and tastier than your Italian grandma’s. The large shrimp were served with an awesome tangy sauce. My chicken parmigiana was scrumptious and I could only eat half. My hubby had baked ziti, and enjoyed it very much. We shall return to this awesome place!

Food is always delicious. I usually order the chicken marsala with mashed potatoes substituted for pasta. Recently, they did do an upcharge for the mashed potatoes, but the serving size was large. The food tastes fresh and the portions are large. They also serve a bread that has a unique, subtle herbal flavor. I like the bottled orange cream soda as an alternative to a fountain drink. Crème Brule is a yummy option for dessert. They torch it at the table which allows you to choose the crispness of the top.
A bonus is they often have Groupons which helps your dining dollars stretch further!

Crazy good food and service. The filet mignon is delicious. It comes with some of the best mashed potatoes I have ever had. Perfectly seasoned food and a decent wine list. This should be a designated date-​night place, a must visit!

Service was mediocre at best. Place was understaffed. Took forever to get order taken. Waitress had to keep running to answer phone while taking our order.
Food was good. Not great and not bad but good.
Prices were steep.
Décor and ambience awesome.

I wanted to try something differen and this has been on my bookmark for a long while so I came for lunch with my mom and mother in law.
They have a scaled down lunch menu until 4pm (according to their site). I ended up getting their chicken parmesan which was pretty solid! Crisp, not greasy and the sauce on it was homemade and had a nice balance. It was one of the better parms I’ve had in town. My mom enjoyed her chicken piccata thoroughly and I snuck in a bite and thought it was a solid choice too. My MIL got a sausage and peppers sandwich and really loved it because of their tomato sauce. It comes with a daily side which was a pasta salad she didn’t quite like, but you can request for other sides too.
My mom tends to over order so we got too many desserts. Crème brûlée is bruleed tableside which was nice since you can customize how charred you like your sugar. Pizza fritta (or we call in zeppolis) was actually pretty good. If you like fried dough like beignets you might be into these too. My mom took a cannoli home to my stepdad.
Our server was one of the bartenders and he was super friendly and attentive. Great service.
Based on our positive lunch experience, the MIL and I came back with my husband for dinner the following week.
She got the chicken parmesan based on my positive review on it and she enjoyed it as well. The husband and I split the chicken marsala which was pretty yummy with a perfect sauce and a snapper special from the chaulkboard. Unfortunately, that snapper was way overcooked and had a pretty strong fishy taste to it. We rarely send anything back to the kitchen, but this was not something either of us felt comfortable eating. Maybe not the spot I’m gonna order a fish again, but all the other dishes have been cooked perfectly with juicy chicken.
This time service was not as attentive and basic. The plus is that he took the fish back, took it off our bill without any issue, but we weren’t checked on. The hubby ate off his moms chicken parm and the marsala and we almost finished the dishes off before we were checked on to even tell him about the fish and request some drink refills.
We ended up getting the pizza fritta dessert again and a tiramisu. I haven’t had a good tiramisu in a while and that was light with just enough coffee.
Overall, solid place for some Italian in the northwest. Definitely would order the dishes we had over and over again (minus the fish). Check for groupons as well, I see them pop up fairly often.

Lunch menu has excellent prices for quality food. The brie portabello mushroom sandwich was mouthwatering! Crème brûlée for dessert, carmalized at our the table. Our server Armando was delightful and attentive. Atmosphere was very relaxing. Truly a gem of a place hidden on the north side.

We stumbled on this place. Without reading any reviews it was in the afternoon. The place was very quiet but we needed a place to meet up with a friend.
The atmosphere. Was very pleasant. We were greeted by our waiter promptly. She made a few wine suggestions at our request. They had a pretty good wine bar and the wine was good. The food was great the flavors were well defined. I would go back. If I get a chance.

So I ended up here last night because Don Michaels was closed. The restaurant is nicely decorated. The menu had a good variety. I assumed that the entrées came with soup or salad. We were a party of 3 and each ordered a regular pasta dish with chicken added and 2 soft drinks and water, our bill was $ 77! The food was ok but not like wow that’s good stuff. It’s overpriced considering all you get is white bread with your meal. I’m still in shock about the cost, service was decent. Our waiter apparently serviced the entire restaurant by himself.
This was a first and last time I will dine here, there’s other establishments much better with better prices

What a cute hidden gem on this side of town tucked away in a strip mall. This is going to be our new date night spot. The bf was so impressed he said we could possibly have our reception here.
The ambiance has been well thought out. It’s very dark, romantic, and cozy here.
The service was spot on but we were the only diners at the time.
I say check out the lunch menu for good prices because regular menu items were a little pricey.
The food was flavorful and came out in a timely manner and was piping hot!
There was enough to take home for later.
We didn’t try any wine, but we will save that for our next dinner date.
I loved the amount of seating in the place. There was the bar, the for mentioned private dining room, and at least 20 tables/​booths to chose from.
I really would like to see this place stay in business because its a great addition to this part of town which is otherwise known for it’s numerous fast food locations.

Oh my goodness! This place is awesome! The food and service were excellent. For appetizers we ordered calamari and the portobello mushroom. The mushroom was sliced and on a bed of fresh spinach, topped with 4 cheeses and a sauce that I wish I had gotten the name of. The cheeses were melted but the dish was not heated so much that the spinach was wilted. I didn’t eat the calamari but my sisters and daughter said it was good.
I ordered the gnocchi for the first time ever and it was delicious! I couldn’t eat a lot because it is a heavy dish but the dumplings were so tender. I tasted my daughters grilled salmon and it was also delicious.
Great food and great service. Can’t wait to go back.

Man, it seems that all of my favorites are going to crap.
I’ve never been this disappointed in this place. I will admit, the service is always hit or miss.
Last night, it was 100% miss.
We’ve had this waiter a couple of times now, and he is horrible. We hardly get waited on, he constantly forgets about our drinks/​dishes and he just doesn’t seem to care. It’s super frustrating.
Last night, we had:
Portebello mushroom — This is like soup. You have to eat it with a spoon or bread. Such an odd dish.
The filet — it was good. Not the best I’ve had, but cooked a bit over what I had asked. The gorgonzola is super over porwering, so be fair warned.
Sea bass special — this dish was not good at all. Super dry, tasteless and it didn’t even taste like sea bass.
If that was the first time we’d gone there, we’d never go back. They need to up their service an insane amount. They have 3 waiters that we get pretty often and they’re horrible. We definitely have some amazing favorite dishes here, but it makes us not want to go just based on the service. We shouldn’t have to constantly remind them of what they forgot to bring us or to get their attention just to order.
Merh.

Out late, cruising, desired some pasta, we just happened by Mazzo’s. Don’t know how many times we’ve cruised by saying we should try this place, tonight was the night.
We walked into a big party, large crowd enjoying music and drink, at first I thought we would be turned away, but we got seated and our service was excellant despite theitr busy party.
The portions are good size, the beet salad was plentiful, we’re big eaters my husband and I can put it away but the salad and parma pizza we got as apps was generous! The pizza was very good, love the figs!
For entrée, my husband got the spagetti and meatballs, two large, very moist balls, pasta just al dente. My choice was chicken riggii, peppers pasta chicken in white wine and sweet tomatoes, smothered with cheese! Very good, too much for me, I got a doggie bag!
It was a good meal, great service and got to take advantage of good music they had for the in house party going on!

Been here twice and this place has very good food and a good «Sunday sauce» that accompanies most dishes.
Pros:
–Generous portions of chicken parmigiana that are pounded out (as they should be) and includes a nice portion of pasta to go with it.
–Orienchetta (sp?) is very good, this place actually turned me onto the dish and I’ve had it both times now.
–Decent pricing and with that groupon that floats around, you get a really good deal.
–They are generous with the excellent sauce, not like some places that go cheap, each dish here is smothered in it.
Cons:
–Bread could be fresher, didn’t have that fresh out of the oven taste or even a made yesterday taste.
–The pizza is so-so…they are very generous with the cheese which is nice but the dough tastes very similar to a digiorno rising crust frozen pizza dough.
— This last time we went we ordered 2 entrees and a pizza. after finishing our pizza we had to wait an extra 30 minutes for our other 2 entrees… the timing was way off… perhaps the waiter forgot to put in the full order so service was a miss tonight.
Overall, I’ll be back again.
Stick with the pasta dishes and you should be content.

«I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?»
Bad movie reference, but I was definitely «whelmed» by my Mezzo Bistro dining experience. I went last Friday, and surprisingly there was no wait. We were seated immediately, and the waiter came along and told us about the specials. I did not get a chance to sample the bread, but the other girls ate every bit. I ordered the caprese salad appetizer and Pork Tenderloin with mashed potatoes instead of pasta.
The tomatoes in the caprese salad were anything but fresh. I ate around them, and enjoyed the cheese and basil. I did try the portobello mushroom appetizer as well, which was good if you’re into mushrooms.
The pork tenderloin was awesome. Very moist and full of flavor. The only thing I didn’t like was the portion. It was very tiny and costed about $ 19.
The service was really good. The space was a little crammed but there weren’t many people there, so it wasn’t too big of an issue. If you can get the Groupon, then go. If not, there are plenty of other places to eat with better food/​prices.

I LOVE Mezzo Bistro and Wine! The ambiance at Mezzo is perfect — The restaurant is dimly lit, saturated in red, and decorated heavily with Italian accents. It feels intimate and sets the mood perfectly for a romantic date or night out. Mezzo is like this hidden local gem that you find in a totally unexpected place.
I’m not gonna lie, there was a stretch where my husband and I visited Mezzo once a month. My husband loves his Tuscan Tenderloin ($ 19) so much, he declared that it was his favorite meal ever. I myself prefer the Vegetable Lasagna ($ 15). It’s loaded with squash, mushrooms, zucchini, and asparagus to name a few ingredients. More importantly, the Vegetable Lasagna is just dripping with cheese. Few Italian restaurants make a vegetarian lasagna (at least to my liking), so I have to get it while it’s hot! I’d also highly recommend the Insalata Salad ($ 5). It’s huge, fresh, and unique.
As much as I’d like to give Mezzo 5 stars, I have to knock ‘em down by one due to service. The service is inconsistent at Mezzo and your experience depends on which waiter you get. Joe is the best waiter at Mezzo — he’s friendly, attentive, and has memorized our order since we’re regulars. I’ve learned to ask for Joe when we come in, so word to the wise, make sure you do the same!
Mezzo is a great local restaurant that has outstanding food and great ambiance. Do yourself a favor and eat here.

This was good Italian food.
I had the Italian Wedding Soup, by suggestion of the waitress. It was very good with big chunks of chicken and small meatballs throughout. If I could change anything, I would preferred less carrots, but I’m also not a fan of cooked carrots. Still loved the soup.
Then I ordered the Scallop Special, which consisted of perfectly seared scallops over a big portion of cheesy polenta with asparagus on top. There was a citrus sauce on the bottom that wasn’t my favorite, but I didn’t care because the rest was so good.
I found out they make their cannolis from scratch, so we took one each to go.
This is a good place and glad we came.