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Emilia's

Emilia's

2333 Arthur Ave, Bronx, NY 10458-8103, United States, 10458-8109, BRONX

Beer • Wine • Pasta • Italian


"Don't run! you have to go to emilias. if they want to have one of the best Italian meals they have ever eaten, then emilia is the place my wife and I woke up this morning and decided to go. we also let my mother come (they grew up a block of arthur ave.) we heard so much about the zucchini bags, and they delivered! too perfected with the correct amount of prosciutto and mozzarella. this is a mouthwater remover that you cannot miss. please do not give up nonnas Sicilian meatballs, they rival everyone grandmother meatballs with a characteristic hauch of pig and johannisbeer, simply amazing. after we have slept on an espresso martini, dove in her subtitles gnocchi con burrata court. omg! this plate rocks. the gnocchi is homemade and is so light and airy and melt practically in the mouth. coupled to the burrata, the aromen of this plate are impeccable. we have intercepted dinner with nowzio's homemade cheesecake and affogato. the cheesecake was absolutely incredible, and the affogato was a perfect mix of ice and espresso. we had the luck to have a table back and sat next to the greener of the restaurant and his wife of 58 years (nunzio and francesca.) a wonderful couple that over neapel vs scherzte. sizilien. she's out of neapel and he's out of sicily. as it turns out, this is the inheritance of my wife sicily and mine is neapel! we had a wonderful conversation with them and felt like family when we were gone. five stars .."

Il Giardino Del Dolce, Inc.

Il Giardino Del Dolce, Inc.

2859 N Harlem Ave, Chicago I-60707-1638, United States

Italian • Desserts • Sicilian • International


"This is a review of their ability to handle a large event order. NOT their products. Product tastes great. This was a wedding order...emails leading up to placing the order were friendly but....super slow response times and questions were not fully answered. They also forgot answers we gave to questions they had asked us. They didn't have enough staff for a tasting. Ok.. but not even one free slice of cake to taste? We bought samples anyways and the quality was there even on a random weekday from their case. If I wasnt so dead set at having a cannoli cake and heard good things about this place I would have looked elsewhere regardless.... Then scheduling a delivery was a total mess. First it was they could only deliver 8 am to 12 noon. After begging them they suddenly could deliver 12 to 5pm. Then the cake didn't show up. Nothing showed up. We called. No answer. We emailed as a shot in the dark. They happened to read the email...responded an hour plus later and got the desserts there another 40 min after that. They said it was a new secretary who tagged the order wrong for the next day. My sister in law ran to Tony's before we had heard anything back. They ended up reimbursing us for the stuff we got from Tony's. Only after me asking them to. If we hadn't asked for that they were only offering a 100 dollar VOUCHER. We had a large wedding cake and 2 trays that wouldn't have gotten to the event if we hadn't emailed them the same night...yet at first just a 100 dollar voucher? We lost the floral we had for the cake during the switch and thus il giardino cake looked naked because we werent expecting to need much frosting decor because of the flowers...... they did follow what we were looking for on the design of the cake but with out the flowers it looked wrong. I get it its a small business but from what I know its been around for a long time. Must be because of the pastrys because it's not for the event order coordination or customer service."