Nino’s Italian Restaurant

I have to admit, I was hesitant to pay «that much» for a plate of pasta. I’m so glad I listened to all of the positive reviews and went to Nino’s finally after living in North Ridgeville for close to a decade. This is seriously the best Italian food I’ve had outside of NYC. Portions are huge but do not taste mass produced. The canolli was amazing. Definitely tastes like Italy landed on Center Ridge Road. I just can’t say enough about how delicious this food is. I can’t wait to get back to Nino’s!

Consistantly the best Italian food on the west side! Tommy has an incredibly well trained kitchen staff who deliver excellent food every time. We have never had a bad meal there in over twenty years of frequenting this establishment. The prices are a little high, butt the portions are enormous! It’s easily two meals for us.
The only complaint is that they do not have high chairs, so don’t plan on taking small children without your own seating for them.

Delicious Food, excellent service, nice wine selections, and the homemade cheesecake is one of the best I have ever had (and I am not a cheesecake fan). It is all cheesecake and no crust… wonderful, creamy, airy goodness. I enjoyed the pasta vito: for someone who does not make choices easily, I was able to have both the beautiful red sauce and agilo e olio sauce in the dish. Absolutely 100% amazing! Oh and the garlic butter… I can not forget to mention the galic butter… Oooohhh and their homeade italian salad dressing! I did not have one thing I did not love at this place!
As for the atmosphere, a cute, intimate setting– great for a date night.
I will definately be back!

After reading rave reviews about this place for years, I decided that it was about time to take a drive from the East Side and find out for myself. Upon entering you are immediately greeted by staff and promptly seated. The interior is low-​lit, but has a very warm, inviting ambience that suites the atmosphere. Now for the food; it is of exceptional quality and comes in generous portions that are quite satisfying for even the most prodigious appetites (such as mine)! Nino’s is as good as it gets and I look forward to eating here quite often!

My favorite Italian restaurant in the Cleveland area. Their meatballs are to die for. The garlic butter and bread basket is so so so good. Their house salad had tri colored pasta in it and their Italian salad dressing is amazing. Penne and meatballs is my go to but you have to try their lasagna at some point. There is nothing like it. We would order trays of it for holidays and family gatherings. Triple chocolate cake, yes please! It is huge! My family has been going here for years and years now. Definitely one of our favs and hard to top! Nino is always there cooking in the kitchen! :)

Our all time favorite authentic Italian restaurant. Their marinara sauce is the best in the city north, south, east west. Lmn

This place is so good, I am craving it just writing about it. It has been here a long time, although this is my first time here. I came with my friend Sherry, who had her rehearsal dinner here 24 years ago. So it has been here awhile.
It is Family owned and that must be why it is so good. They care about what they serve and how they serve it!
We came here on a week night. We were greeted by the owner when we came in and were seated right away in the dining room.
Service was very good even though they got quite busy.
Dinner was magnificent! I got the FantaSea. I loved it! The portion was huge it is Seafood and in a White sauce. My friend Sherry got the Eggplant Parm, it too was fantastic!
We had an appetizer of Calamari. Of course with all this food we took a lot to go. We were far too full to have dessert. Will have to try it another day.
Ladies room was clean and lots of parking in the huge parking lot they share in the strip mall. This place is well worth a try.

I love this pace for Italian. The garlic butter is absolutely amazing. I also love their sass which has some pasta salad and meats inside of it. The cavatelli is vey good.

I must’ve ordered the wrong thing and came at the wrong time. The atmosphere was stale. There was practically no one in there, I could –see– the dust collecting on the wallpaper, the décor was overdone, old and gaudy. Maybe it’s better for dinner in low-​lighting when you can’t see it and when there’s a better crowd to bring a warm, friendly buzz, because at lunch when we went, there was none.
My husband ordered a spaghetti dish, so it might’ve been better, the sauce was watery –or was it that the noodles that weren’t drained? All I ordered was a side of shrimp and they were clearly frozen and overcooked. The butter I was given didn’t drown out their sub-​par flavor for which we paid too much. Could’ve gone home and cracked open a frozen pack of my own shrimp, let it thaw, heated them up, and dipped them in a sauce for a LOT less and had a LOT MORE minus the dusty, old atmosphere.
The experience put us off so much that, despite the other great reviews, I don’t think I could make my husband ever come back here with me. We’d have to be invited again by friends, and they’d have to twist our arms to come. Then again, even Bucca’s isn’t good enough for me and Olive Garden is meh. The only Italian restaurant I’m excited to go to is Corleone’s in Parma.

We had some friends suggest this place to us and they are true friends. From the time we walked in til the time we were leaving, we were treated with politeness and many smiles which let’s you enjoy your meal even more. I went with the veal parmesan while my sweetheart went with the lasagna, both were very good. The service was fantastic as well. We finished with the cheesecake, and that sealed the deal, one of our new favorite places to eat. Enjoy to everyone that goes there.

I was surprised to see that I have never reviewed Nino’s! My family has been coming here for a long, long time. It’s fabulous. The atmosphere is very quaint and intimate. We were most recently here last night with another couple. We shared the appetizer special of fried zucchini and eggplant. It was perfectly cooked and not greasy. I tend to order the eggplant Parmesan with a meatball on the side because I can never choose between the best meatballs I’ve had since my Nonna passed, or the best eggplant Parmesan in the state.
The eggplant Parmesan is actual eggplant — not too thinly sliced that all you taste is breading, and not too thick that you can’t bite through the skin. It’s perfect.
Yes, portions are huge. It’s run by an Italian family. Have you ever been to dinner hosted by an Italian family? It’s just like that.

Absolutely love this place! My favorite is the Chicken Martina!

Overall a really good italian restaurant. It is very very americanized though. Sauces have garlic on it and the carbonara is not really authentic. However I found the pasta here much better than Dante in downtown. The service was spectacular and the glass of Chianti was excellent! The fried mozzarella was fresh but the marinara sauce had garlic. When I mentioned the garlic, the server said «it is Italian it needs garlic» WHAT? NO NO NO NO and NO! Garlic is American way of cooking italian to mask bad taste of the sauce. Real italian marinara sauce has FRESH tomatoes, olive oil, salt and that’s it!
Still a great place to eat however the pasta portion is huge and can feed 3 easily. Such a waste of food. They should reduce the portion and lower the price as this restaurant it is not on the cheap side.

I ate at Nino’s with a group on friends on Saturday night. The place was packed, and after trying the food I understood why. The bread, salad and eggplant appetizer were all delicious. For my entrée I tried the pasta Pompeii, excellent! The only change I would make would be using plain artichokes instead of breaded. Breaded just didn’t fit the dish. Someone else at my table had their red sauce which was equally delicious. I would absolutely eat here again.

Drove by this place for years. How can there be a good restaurant in North Ridgeville?
Recently met an older lady who married into an Italian family. She told me that the mother-​in-​law took her sauce recipe to the grave and Nino’s was the only place that comes close in taste and quality. I decided to give Nino’s a try.
It was cold and frigid outside, record breaking February weather. I was surprised to see so many people had ventured out to eat. The place was fairly busy for a sub-​zero Tuesday night.
Everything about this place is amazing. I ordered chicken parm and was delighted to see that they didn’t pull a lump of chicken out of a SYSCO bag. It appeared to have a homemade crust.
The sauce was pure and smooth. I don’t like chunky sauce. No huge hit of garlic. No aftertaste when I got home. A perfect tasty blend of flavor and texture. Nino’s serves plenty of sauce with their entrees so you don’t have to beg for more.
The staff is so nice, but it doesn’t matter. I would go there anyway.
As for their prices, I never mind paying for quality. The portions are large and the flavors are spot on. This is not Olive Garden, not even in the same league.
I drive by Nino’s several times per week. There are a lot of cars parked out front everytime. They also do carry outs.

We had lunch at Nino’s, after seeing it on New Day Cleveland. It’s been years since I visited an «authentic» Italian restaurant. It was quite a delicious experience, not to mention the hospitality of waitress! The owner even came to our table and carried on a delightful conversation with us. Best Italian food in Lorain county… if you’re looking for authenticity, great ambiance and delicious food! Look forward to our next visit. (Delicious herbed butter to go along with fresh bread!)

Very good, but prices are a bit high for North Ridgeville. They are very busy on the weekends and would definitely bring in more weekday business if they lowered their prices. Prepare to wait for a table on the weekends quite a while.

In all travels throughout this country, I have finally found Mecca… the slice of heaven called down home Italian!
Simply THE best small, family run hole in the wall anywhere!
Small, intimate atmosphere coupled with the family wait staff screams Little Italy.
Portions are HUGE, even for split plates! I enjoyed the three meat pasta which included meatballs, sausage, and a pork neck! The homemade meat sauce was perfectly flavored! Simply delicious!
Another in my party dined on chicken parmesan. Best ever eatened!
Everything fresh, everything homemade. Affordable for Italian places.
The only problem is how to get there on a weekly basis…400 miles seems excessive to drive… but…for this food, it would be worth ever penny.
Nino’s is now on my «must list.» Every time I pass this area, you will find me here.

I’ve been coming to Nino’s enough now to finally update my rating to 5 stars. The food is sooo good and the service is outstanding. When I think of Ninos, I think of old school Italian and that’s exactly the impression that they want you to leave here with. Cheers!

If I’m going to be on the west side and feel like some Italian, Nino’s is now the place I’ll be going to. I’m not just saying that because I ordered a whole bottle of wine for myself, I’m honestly not…
Their meals were well priced (all you Unilocalers saying it should be half off, go buy yourself a Subway sub because I don’t know what you’re talking about), amply sized, well served and delicious!
I ordered the stuffed gnocchi, which came with a salad. The gnocchi was extremely rich and in a creamy blush sauce. Typically I’m happy with a standard old gnocchi and maybe stuffing it was over-​doing it, but man… they were delicious little bites of puffiness. The only downfall was that by the time that came, I was already full. The salad we ordered (which we ordered with cheese, a must do!), was HUGE and I cleaned up every last little bit of pasta/​lettuce bits.
We also ordered a small «old world» style pizza with sausage, and a side cup of provolone. Apparently this is the way to do it, and I whole heartedly agree.
So if you’re keeping a tally, before my meal I had pizza, a huge salad and I haven’t even mentioned the herbed butter bread. So in short, I ate probably two little gnocchi bits before having it boxed to bring home.
Good thing I had that whole bottle of wine to wash it down with, huh?