Palmerton
Papa Al's

Papa Al's

346 Delaware Ave, Palmerton I-18071-1854, United States

Pizza • Lunch • Cheese • Italian


"A few weeks ago I came to Papa Al 's from out of town for a hot date. This restaurant was suggested to me by a coworker, so I gave it a go. I was hopeful that a little Italian spot with spark some romance in the palmerton area! The first sign of trouble was when we opened the menu and every food items price was crossed out in black permanent marker. Why not just replace the menus? The server was relatively new and had a hard time suggesting much of anything. We ordered the arancini with vodka sauce. It was served already cut open and slathered in a blush sauce. The arancini was not crispy and definitely wasn 't made with anything resembling arborio rice. More importantly the entire thing was bland and unseasoned, and the vodka sauce had never seen any of the core ingredients required for such a name including vodka. Unortunately this was the best part of the meal. I ordered their aglio e olio dish with red pepper flakes and anchovy A simple dish with few core ingredients. What I received was an oily, lukewarm dish of spaghetti covered in jar lic (preminced, jarred garlic), that was so fishy I couldn 't eat it. I can only presume that they added anchovy (preserve) oil into the pasta. Having made this at home a hundred times, I can guarantee it never saw a proper emulsion needed to bind the pasta and olive oil. My date ordered a pesto dish. What she was served looked more like an oily, microwaved pesto with a dark green hue more typical of burnt or wilted herbs. Moreover it tasted like dried basil was actually used to prepare it. Without eating much we quickly paid and left. Just outside we found the first trash can and discarded what could have been the worst entrees I had ever seen. Unfortunately, the bad food experience put a damper on the entire date and we never tried a second. I would advise everyone to steer clear of this place as it will surely be making people very sick, or featured on a restaurant rescue TV show where they 'll discover the owner no longer cares about what 's going out to the customers. Perhaps a little too late, I asked my coworker who suggested this place what they typically ordered. She said Pizza . We are no longer friends."