"We have been wanting to try Maria 's since we moved to Dekalb in June and finally tonight, our family got to celebrate on our 16th wedding anniversary here and we thoroughly enjoyed our time at this wonderful gem. Just like out of a scene from Billy Joel 's Scenes from an Italian Restaurant I felt transported. The staff and owner are awesome!. The bread was fresh and the rosemary garlic olive oil with the parm set the mood. The eldest son had spaghetti and three meatballs (HUGE meatballs! , our other son had spinach, pepperoni and garlic pizza, our other son had bread because he just wanted to come and celebrate. I had the killer Bari Pannini and my wife had the Caprese Pannini. I got the parm fries and my eldest had the lemonchello cake. Everything was truly awesome! The atmosphere, ambiance, food, service and prices were all perfect. We 'll be back again. We promise. I feel like we are part of the family now. Visit this place! You won 't be sorry. Don 't listen to the negative Nellys out here who aren 't happy with their own selves. It was pretty epic in our eyes and we moved here from Chicago. We know food. We know Italian. This is good eats and good times."