Angelo’s Spaghetti House

We just drove up to Angelos last night after a school event and found out it was closed! After many years of great food and service! The doors are locked and the signs are down… very sad! I called their phone this morning and there was no recording. Wishing Bernadette and her staff the best!

For Sunday afternoon lunch, we roll a group about 30 deep. Angelo’s has become a staple in our rotation. The Sunday lunch buffet is hot, fresh, and delicious. It satisfies even our pickiest eater (me). We call ahead and make reservations & the owner always makes sure we get to sit together. I also love how they support the community so make sure you drop some money in the jar for Animal Allies of Texas.

I moved into the area this weekend and we ended up getting take out from Angelo’s twice in the process. The first time, we went for the specialty sandwiches which were all ultimately some form or combination of meatball, chicken, sausage, or eggplant parm. They were all really delicious. A nice little surprise was the homemade waffle potato chips, which were salty, crunchy, and must have been finished with some kind of citrus spritz. I am from the Northeast and as much as it seems easy to put meatballs on bread and cover them with sauce and cheese, Texas (between Dallas and Austin) hasn’t been able to do that for me until now. I would definitely go back…
…so we did. A day later we ordered dinner meals. What is neat about this menu is they allow you to do a «Combination Plate» like you might see in a Mexican restaurant. I had never seen this at an Italian place and it was a neat concept that my parents enjoyed. It allows you to taste a bunch of different things. I had the Chicken Fra Diavolo which I was expecting to be a little spicier, but the taste was great. My wife got a small pepperoni pizza and this is where Angelo’s loses a star. The pizza simply wasn’t very good. It was overly doughy and was simply «technically pizza» because it was that combination of dough, sauce, cheese, and meat that is universally recognizable.
Would definitely go back. Will not order the pizza again.

***They offer gluten-​free macaroni as a substitute for most any pasta dish.***
We had great service here. Not overly invasive, not too cheery, never inattentive, never rushed. We enjoyed the open air seating in the front room — it was almost like sidewalk dining. The overall ambiance is laid back, somewhat intimate dining. The restaurant appears to have several wall-​separated areas with a few tables each, meaning you aren’t sitting in one cavernous dining area with everyone else. Despite having four other tables in our area, we felt almost as if we were dining alone.
I ordered crab shrimp tosca — a crab and shrimp pasta dish in a butter/​herb sauce. The pasta was cooked perfectly, not mushy like GF pasta can get. The crab and shrimp were generous. My wife had a sampler plate with shrimp pomodoro, shrimp in diavolo sauce, and sea shells. (I thought diavolo was a tomato-​based sauce, but this appeared to be a butter/​oil sauce, and had bacon in case you don’t eat meat other than seafood.) The portions were quite large. We both took home leftovers.
The only disappointment was the Italian dinner salad. It was just a small plate with chopped romaine lettuce (and croutons for my wife — they graciously left them offf for me). There could at least be some tomatoes, cucumbers and/​or olives on it. However, the dressing appeared to be homemade and was tasty.
Very nice place overall. We definitely plan to go back.

My favorite east dallas Italian dining experience! A little jewel of a restaurant ! Small and cozy! The garlic bread and marinara they start you off with is so good you may fill up before dinner! BE CAREFUL! You are going to want to eat every bite! During nice weather, they open up the glass doors, and have live music! The staff is very attentive, and make your dining experience amazing! Make sure to try the bread pudding! YUMMY! They also deliver! The portions are huge so make sure you take the rest home. You won’t be disappointed !

Went to Angelo’s for the first time last night with a group of 8. Let me start off by saying I usually have pretty low expectations for Italian restaurants in Dallas. That being said, I enjoyed my meal at Angelo’s. The ambiance is very cute– covered in gold lights, live music and with good weather, they opened the glass doors so you felt like you were on a patio. The wine list was pretty good for a small, homestyle Italian restaurant. The waiter was very attentive. My favorite part was the garlic knots with marinara that they bring out for the table– yum. Portions are generous, so my hubby and I share the eggplant parm. It came with a side salad. The caesar salad was just okay, but I thought the eggplant was pretty good.
All in all, the food was nothing to write home about, but a good choice for inexpensive, low key, homestyle Italian. Based on the food, I would probably rate a 3, but I am giving a 4 because of the service and atmosphere.

What a great end to an evening out with the guys. First and foremost — Thanks to our server Greg! Everyone there was great but he really made us feel special!!!
Dinner consiisted of the evening special of Salmon, then it was combos 1, 2, and 3 plus two orders of mussels, rolls, and desert. Oh, and since it was Sunday — a glass of Merlot, and a glass of Chianti — each only $ 3.
Everything was very good. I had the House Combo 3 — Seafood and pasta. I do believe that this was some of the best Shrimp I have ever had.
The Salmon special came with Cannolili for desert, and the staff sent out an extra Bread Pudding for us. Love it.
While we live in far north dallas — we’ll be back.
Grazie!

Went here for dinner. If I graded this place on atmosphere, it would get 4.5 stars, I love the front room with the open air feel.
The service? Pretty sure they were training a new guy, we took our dessert to go because we had waited so long.
Food is good. Overall this place is a solid 3 stars. Nothing amazing.

I love this little place in Lakewood! I’ve been once and ordered delivery twice & the food is delicious. Service is great and delivery very quick. I haven’t had anything but the pasta and ceaser salad, but I’m sure if the pasta is delish all of the other items are just as good.
If your looking for decently priced Italian food. This place won’t break the bank, its a quaint and cute place to go on a date or take your family to dinner. This is the place I choose when I’m wanting some good home cooked Italian food.

This is in a cute part of town with a little overly cutesy Italian decorating inside. Both the food and the service were meh. The three stars are really for the yummy garlic rolls and the tilapia special my friend ordered (which she gave 5 stars). The baked ziti and the chicken fra diavolo were more in the 2 star range — just had an odd flavor to it. Maybe too creamy and not in a good way. The portions are huge but if you don’t like the food, you really don’t need a triple portion of it. Service was also so-​so. I ordered a beer to begin with and he never came back and asked if I wanted more. We asked a couple times for shredded parmesan and the second time he told us that the cheese shredder was broken and it was one he had bought personally (really — an Italian restaurant with only one cheese shredder and the waiter had to buy it himself??).
It is a kid friendly place. Maybe the pizza would have been a better option based on some other comments but we had just had pizza for lunch.

I want to like this place, but I can’t. Being in Lakewood, just down the street from me, I want to love this small Italian, cozy restaurant.
I went here for lunch one time and the buffet was unappetizing. I couldn’t find one thing that I liked. In an effort to give it a second chance, my husband and I ordered pizza here one night for dinner and it was awful! I have never found pizza I didn’t like. It was super heavy, cheesy, and even luke-​warm when they delivered it.
I really want to like Angelo’s, but I just haven’t found a reason to.

I’ve been here for dinner a couple times, and the atmosphere is super cute and cozy and the service is great. The food is a little hit or miss — mostly good but sometimes just a little meh. However, I made a discovery today for lunch that I felt the need to shout from the rooftops:
sampler sliders.
You can get a lunch order of «sliders» for under $ 10, that includes a mini meatball sandwich, a mini sausage and peppers sandwich, and a mini chicken parm sandwich. Essentially it’s a half loaf of crusty french bread divided in 3, each «slider» stuffed with the goodness of cheese, sauce and whichever meat.
I got all 3 (one of each kind) but I think you could go all one if you like. The best part is, I was sure they’d be all gross and soggy by the time I got home, as you know hot sandwiches tend to do and aren’t the best choice for takeaway. Nope, they were still chewy and crusty and toasty and good.
Also, they come with home made crispy waffle fries/​chips. Yummmm!
The order didn’t take long, and I was able to peruse a Dallas Observer and have a complimentary iced tea while I waited, all in all not a bad deal for a weekday lunch in the ‘hood.

Truly love Angelo’s ! The atmosphere… Sinatra playing in the background… the friendly greeting I get when I walk in the door… the friendly waiter & waitress… watching people out of the huge window. all a-​buzzzz going up & down La Vista… my fresh and fruity peach bellini… and the food… mmmmm !
I particularly like the Chicken Marsala w/​bow tie pasta. My husband likes the Chicken Parmesan w/​Angel Hair Pasta… the sauce is light and soooo good! The rolls are garlicky buttery goodness! Try & save room for the Famous Bread Pudding w/​the MOST Delicious Cinnamon Cream Sauce… WOW !
I love this quaint friendly little Lakewood Spaghetti House!

Stated simply, this was probably the worst pizza… and the worst greek salad that I’ve ever had in my life.
I do appreciate a good, local Lakewood restaurant, but the pizza was so terrible that I’m at a loss for words. Perhaps I have grown too accustomed to Scalini’s pizza, but how can an Italian place screw up pizza? I will give them a pass on «Greek» salad (which, as I said, was terrible), but pizza?!

Somewhere between Bad and Horrible… My wife and I wrote off this place a dozen years ago after suffering through an incredibly insipid meal slathered with their infamous bitter-​but-​bland tomato sauce. Time heals all wounds and we took our chances again last night when lured in by a Groupon.
Last night we got two of their sampler platters. One had three pasta selections and the other had three seafood items (in pasta) along with a small bowl of bowled shrimp in a red liquid. They were accompanied by Caesar salads, which were tasty. The pasta sampler (which included their popular chicken parmesan) was composed of unappealing piles of glop with no discernable signature to any of the selections. Both platters were destroyed by their sauces and by overcooked pasta. Again, the «marinara» sauce had practically no spicing and no flavor to it. It was just tomatoes that had been reduced to a bitter mucilage. The shrimps that were in the red mystery liquid were so bitter that they were inedible.
I’m done with these folks. If my review helps, in some small way, to run them out of Lakewood, I will be a happy Unilocaler. The building would be a nice space for a restaurant with good food.
Incidentally, those garlic rolls are no big deal.

Great cozy atmosphere, and the food was excellent. The prices were very reasonable, the wait staff very friendly. We arrived shortly before closing, and it took a little long to finally close out our tab, but it was such a relaxing atmosphere, I didn’t mind the wait.
Great place for Italian food!

This place is friggin cute inside. It’s quaint with christmas like lights. It feels cozy, yet kind of festive. All that’s missing is a fireplace and some snow outside.
I hate to say it, but after having dinner here two times I’m not a huge fan of the food. The garlic rolls that they bring out first look so good, but they need more garlic (I miss Marco’s garlic rolls). I had lasagna the first time and pizza the second time. Nothing horrible, just nothing favorable. This food needs some spice in its life.
Our service was really good both times and if I remember correctly we got a carafe of red wine that was good and not too expensive. So I dunno. As cute as this place is I want to love them, so maybe in the future I’ll give them another try.

I hate it when I disagree with Unilocalers. I went for dinner recently and was pretty disappointed.
Firstly, I did love the décor – kitsch is kinda my thang. We started out with the huuuuge «garlic» rolls. I do LOVE me some bread, and these rolls were very soft, bready, and doughy. But… I tasted little to no garlic. Some of them you could see a speck of something here or there brushed onto the top, but the doughiness overpowered everything. Also, the marinara was good, but that’s just not my preference for dipping sauce for my bread – I prefer olive oil and balsamic.
The caesar side salad came with most of our dishes, and was aight, just some lettuce, croutons, and dressing. We were not offered any pepper or parmesan. Not really a big fan of caesar anyway, so it was meh to me. For my dinner, I had the Pasta Romano – penne pasta with a rich tomato sauce, italian sausage, pepperoni, olives, and roma tomatoes. It was good, but nothing mind blowing. I didn’t eat much because the rolls were so filling and I wanted to try the bread pudding that everyone raved about.
I also tried my guy’s crab ravioli, which was pretty dece but again, nothing mind blowing, and some beef ravioli with half alfredo/​half marinara sauce. I didn’t like the beef filling very much.
And the bread pudding… really? Is it that good? It was more doughy bread (may have been the same as the rolls) topped with cinnamon flavored cool whip. Again, it was ALRIGHT, but certainly nothing special – it didn’t even have a sauce! To me, it was akin to a dry tres leches cake… it still tastes good, but… you’re doing it wrong. Also it was not warm. Also it was $ 3.50, and not free. I thought that sounded too good to be true, Nick K. Maybe they stopped doing that.
I would definitely give them a try for their lunch buffet at some point though, because it definitely sounds like a great value. Maybe after the wedding dress diet is over: p

I’ve been quite a few times for lunch now and every time I forget to bring my Frequent Lunch Card. Seriously, I have stack of them right in front of me.
For their lunch buffet they have a few offerings, but they’re all pretty good. Today’s visit consisted of their Lasagna, Pork Chops with Gravy, Scalloped Potatoes, Shrimp Penne, Spaghetti Marinara, Lentil Soup, and variety of Pizzas. All were pretty good.
I had to hold back on the Pizzas. I ended up wasting precious stomach real estate by downing 2 Diet Cokes within the first 10 minutes. Doh!
I really enjoy their desserts. I actually look forward to eating them. I had a little bit of their Cookies and Crème, Banana pudding, and Strawberry Shortcake. Mmmmm.

Right. Diet starts tomorrow. I haven’t had time to go to the grocery store since being back in Dallas, so what does that mean? Does it mean I do something active like sweat to the oldies while dancing down isle after isle at my local grocer? No. It means I order pizza. Maybe I’ll dance while I eat.
This place is a little pricey if you are just lookin’ for a piece of pie, but when you are wanting something a bit more Sicilian, God Father or Italian over something Papa John, Pizza Hut or Domino, this is a good choice. I am thoroughly enjoying my Caesar salad loaded with huge chunky croutons and laced with a tasty dressing. Just a word of warning, when ordering delivery… when homeboy asks if you would like a side of their famous homemade dipping sauce at a lightening flash speed, make sure you know it is $ 3. Three dollars isn’t a big deal to me and maybe it does taste like buddddda, but I’m just letting you know before you check your bill to see that a small Caesar and small Marguerite pizza is 22 and change. Damn Gina!
It’s like when you go to get your toes done, and the nice woman workin’ on your digits asks you something really fast, and you nod a «sure». Twenty minutes later you’re walkin’ out with neon pink butterflies painted on your big toes. I’m not eight years old, and I’m not up on stage next at Silver City. (Though hot pink unicorns would be sweet.)
I was happy I ordered the classic Marguerite pie with sliced tomato, fresh basil, Italian spices and cheese (good and fresh) but they have a ton of other interesting flavors to choose from. Cajun combo, super veggie, Jimmy the Greek and Nickerbocker are just a few. Other menu items include 11 different kinds of homemade soups, pasta dishes including veggie lasagna, chicken choices, seafood fare, and garlic cheese toast. Their dessert options are abundant offering chocolate, strawberry, New York plain, turtle, and black forest cheesecake, bread pudding (Deno!!) topped with cinnamon cream sauce, Tiramisu, Milky Way Pie, German Chocolate and Italian Cream Cake and Cannoli’s. Whoa. Maybe I shouldn’t have found this place…