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Portofino's Italian

Portofino's Italian

30 Orchard Park Dr, Greenville, SC 29615, United States

Fish • Pasta • Italian • Seafood


"I could not decide between 3 or 4 stars so I gave them four stars because the staff was so friendly and welcoming. Heidi was our server and she was absolutely delightful and very pleasant and a wonderful waitress. The tiramisu we had for dessert was fantastic I do not know if they make it in house but if they do huge kudos to them. The Crux of an Italian restaurant is the red marinara sauce and that is where they need Improvement. There were a lot of chunks of the plum tomatoes in the sauce and the remainder of the sauce was watery period what this tells me is that they need to use an immersion blender and fully blend all of the tomatoes to bring the consistency and texture of the tomato sauce to something that is more palatable. They also need to use red wine in their sauce and use fresh garlic and not the dried herbs that I can tell that they use. The red sauce needs a lot of improvement and unfortunately is such a centerpiece of all Italian dishes. They also need more garlic flavor in the marinara sauce. The meatballs were too dry and used dried herbs and not fresh herbs. To improve the meatballs they could use a combination of beef and pork or use a higher fat content with the beef. This is a nice Italian restaurant for people that are not accustomed to authentic homemade Italian food period. With a few tweaks this could be a very nice Italian restaurant. But as I said before the hospitality of the servers and the host and Hostess staff are absolutely phenomenal"