Mattone Restaurant and Bar

Don’t know what all the fuss is about. Nothing was wrong with our food but there was certainly nothing special. And when have you ever ordered/​had eggplant parm that it didn’t come with a side of pasta? Other much better places. Won’t go back.

Really a pleasant dining experience! Chicken Sorrento, Il Mattone pizza, cannoli, & proliferatoles (sp?) — cream puffs stuffed with gelato & topped with chocolate sauce – all was excellent! Plus staff was very friendly! Highly recommend this restaurant!

Fantastic il mattone pizza and the chicken sorrento was crazy good. But their gelato stuffed cream puff dessert was absolutely the bomb!!!

Lots of places have good food. The food is good here but the owner is a rude jerk. Take your hard earned dollars somewhere that your business will be appreciated.

Mattone is 1 of my favorite places! I can not say enough great things about their food. Their pizza is our «go to» whenever we order. Their clamari is a perfect size for an appetizer. Flavor is wonderful as well, not too chewy.
They are always creating new dishes and I love the variety that is offered. The service is always great, dine in OR delivery, always spot on. We had Sunday brunch there once for Easter. A pretty decent spread and a chance to try quite a few of their dishes.
A definite must try if you are in the area. Love love love!

Havent had a bad meal here yet ! The pizza is great and I love the Chicken Parm. It hurts my head trying to decide which to get !!

Great salad and friendly staff but they put hardly any toppings on their thin crust pizza. It is hard to tell the difference between a cheese pizza and a sausage pizza.

I must say– I have never had a bad meal at this place. The lemon chicken is worth ordering. Meatball app is great. Excellent pizza as well. A casual place with nice servers and above average food.

This is one of my favorite places in town and very possibly my favorite Italian restaurant in general. It doesn’t look like much from the outside, in fact when we moved to the area about a year ago I wasn’t sold on going the first time we went, but since then we have been back a TON!
Every time we have been there the service has been great and I really enjoy the ambiance and décor. If you do delivery from there and spend over $ 30 they throw in free doughnuts with Nutella and strawberry sauce — soooo good! All the food I have had there is good. All of it. I have yet to be disappointed.
My favorite item is the Crispy Stuffed Chicken. Lemon cream sauce on a crispy breaded chicken (doesn’t taste greasy or heavy) that is stuffed with risotto and peas on a bed of spinach… ummmm just thinking about it makes me hungry for it. It’s kind of expensive at $ 17 but you get two huge stuffed breasts and it is plenty for two meals so I am fine paying it. My husband loves their Chicken Lemone. I also really enjoy their ribs, pizza (regular and wood oven), veggie Panini (soooooooo good! even if you are not a vegetarian), chicken parmesan, lasagna, basically all their pasta dishes, and they do a lot of really tasty specials. One of my other favorites when eating in is their brown butter. I can’t get enough of it! The portions are large and you always feel full and satisfied.
I also had my baby shower here in the small private room. It was a GREAT space for parties and my friend is planning on having her baby shower here as well. Fits around 40 people comfortably with tables for food, gifts, cake, etc. We had cake ordered from Araceli’s in La Grange and since they pair with Mattone’s there was no cutting fee (also really good bakery!). Again, the food and service was great! I have no negative reviews for it. They were very accommodating and the prices were reasonable.
I’m probably going to order food from here this weekend because now I can’t stop thinking about it.

Pretty damn good thin crust pizza. Some things on the menu are hit or miss but when they are a hit they’re pretty good. Cute ladies as well. :3

Mattone Reastaurant & Bar 9 E. 31^st street LaGrange Park I ordered the Crispy Stuffed Chicken w/​lemon sautéed spinach /​side of Meatballs. The food was cooked very, well hot and tasted ok; the meatballs were ok but too soft for me. I had Mussels they were ok as well some were not opened. Mattone’s brick oven… what I didn’t like, the guy that was working the oven would put the pizzas stick the part that go’s inside the oven he would put it on the floor instead of hanging it. The server was pleasant the place looked clean just not for me.

Nice to find a sit down restaurant so close to home.
Had a wonderful Caesar salad and didn’t even have to ask for extra sauce. Nice amount of croutons as well
Bread came out with butter and cinnamon butter. Talk bout but buttering your bread on both sides
Ordered the chicken parmigiana and my mom ordered the crispy stuffed chicken.
Chicken parmigiana had a great sauce and linguini was wonderful, however I didn’t find the chicken to have much flavor on its own. The breading was too soggy
I tried a small bite of the crispy Stuffed Chicken and wish I had ordered that seemed pretty good. The sauce didn’t seem to make the chicken breading soft… on the other hand it was stuffed so it held more juice inside where as my chicken parmigiana was a bit dry.
Also ordered the Steamed Mussels. Slightly spice flavor but not to the point you need to reach for the water… right away.
It’s a nice clean Italian restaurant. I want to come back and try the pizza and pasta

My wife & I come often the food is great and so is the service. But really ticks me off is if you order a family size pizzas give you a free liter of either Pepsi or Diet Pepsi, with no option for non-​caffeine, and you can’t even buy soda non-​caffeine. Obviously the chef or the owners don’t care to give the delivery or pick up customers an option. You can have any soda as long as it’s Pepsi! I’ll change my star rating when you bring in Mist soda.

I’ve been to this interesting place twice and discovered 2 different places… one is a great brick-​oven pizzeria with excellent Pizza Margherita (flat, ultra-​thin crust with EVOO, mozzarella, basil and tomatoes), and it has a lovely atmosphere with a quasi-​sophisticated setting. Its kinda nice, and found the service is very eager to please.
The other side? Well, this was unexpected, and a very, VERY nice turn for this up-​and comer… I was able to try the Naga Jolokia pepper, (also known as Bhut Jolokia or the Ghost Chili). This is rrated by the Guinness Book as the hottest pepper in the world.
OK…when I walk into a place where the joint says that the hot wings are HOT, I have quick interest in the menu entry.
I am a FIRM believer that eating ultra-​hot things are good for you, because they help me: My breath is deeper, my vision is a little sharper and it helps with other things as well. I have read that in India and Bangladesh, many say that ultra-​hot peppers are good for delaying age…
I hope so, because the «Ouch» wings at Mattone’s are the hottest food I have ever had.

Gave it yet another try! Soooo many pissed off patrons @ the bar!!! Owners Alert! You need a dedicated bartender for restaurant floor drinks. Everyone at the bar was pissed because of the poor service.

I think my review would be better if I had the opportunity to sit in the main restaurant. However, when I visited Mattone’s, I was seated in the «party room» for an event. The ambiance was very dull. White table cloths, and beige walls! There was nothing festive and it’s the holiday season! The pizza was good, but nothing special. The brushetta was solid too. Service was okay, although I had to wait often for my water glass to be filled (but I drink more water than the average person :-/​). My overall impression of the place was solid italian food but nothing special.

Even though this restaurant is the town where I was born and raised, we had never ventured here. With my birthday coming up, my parents decided to treat me here for a dinner. We didn’t know how crowded it would be, and made a reservation for 5pm on Sunday… totally not necessary, at 5pm we were 3 of about 6 people dining. Business did pick up around 6 though, so a reservation might still be advisable later on.
Walking up to the restaurant was a little off-​putting. Knowing how quiet it was inside the restaurant (after the fact), it seemed strange to note how dirty the entry door was. You could see tons of handprints on the glass! Not a good first impression.
Things smoothed out after that. Our server was super kind and efficient. My mom, an avid coffee drinker, was concerned that the server would disappear when the coffee cup was gone, but Crystal, I believe her name was, was on top of things with coffee and soda refills like a hawk! Much appreciated.
Bottles of chilled water were given to each table, which was great. Warm, crusty, italian bread came out shortly after being seated with a regular and cinnamon butter. The cinnamon butter was very good, but potentially just a little too sweet. Barely over the line, though.
I ordered a rigatoni dish with mushrooms, artichokes, onion and sausage that was FANTASTIC. Surprisingly, the pasta wasn’t the number one item in the dish. I felt like I would run out of noodles to pair with the large pieces of other ingredients. Everything tasted so fresh and went together well.
My dad ordered the chicken Mattone– a wood fired dish with a huge portion of chicken, peppers,& wood fired potatoes. He proclaimed it «Excellent!», and went home with TWO boxes of leftovers.
My mom had the Mattone burger, which had cheese and a bacon jam. She didn’t qite realize what bacon jam meant, and wasn’t totally a fan of it. I tried it– it was sweet and oniony, kinda grainy in texture. I thought it was interesting, and probably wouldn’t mind it on a burger. The burger was large and came with tons of skinny shoe string fries. These were crispy and ok overall.
I definitely enjoyed my experience here. I would not hesitate to come back and maybe even book a party.

Update! I’ve had my bridal shower here as well as my husbands surprise 30^th bday & I was BEYOND happy with both events. For my shower we had the entire restaurant area to ourselves. Now I might be biased, but the food chosen for my shower was the the best bridal shower food I’ve ever had. You know how food at events like that are usually bland or blah? Well this was honestly delicious and tasty, and our guests had nothing but great things to say! (And we all know how picky a large group of women can be lol). Each lady had their own tiramisu for dessert– honest to god it’s the best tiramisu I’ve ever had. And the sweet waitresses always made sure I had a full glass of wine, which came in handy while opening up all those gifts :)
My husbands surprise 30^th was awesome too-​thanks to Vito, who is great to work with. We had the large hall located down the stairs, open bar with salad, pizza, & pasta. (They have some of the best pizza in the area here). Vito let me decorate however I wanted to (turned it into a golf theme since the husband is a golfer), and it was totally cool to bring in a cake from an outside bakery.
Thank you Mattone! I know we will be back for our next happy life event :)

BF and I had recently moved to the area as I work in the area and am no longer able to drive. He wanted to take me out for Valentine’s so we decided on Mattone’s as our to-​try place.
Our reservation was for 6:30. I’m almost positive we got out of the car at 6:18 (while a minor detail, this will be important later!). We started with the fried calamari. BF wanted cocktail sauce while I wanted marinara. They charged an extra 75 cents for both sauces but it wasn’t a big deal. While we waited for the app, waitress came by and told us about the specials. The calamari was very good. It wasn’t tough or gummy as calamari can get. There wasn’t an excess of tentacles like you get some places.
6:40 and our plates are brought to the table. What??? It’s Valentine’s day. We have maybe been in the place for 20 minutes, eaten an appetizer, and now our plates are already at the table!!! This kind of service is out of control! BF had the pork chop special. I don’t eat pig so I can’t really comment but he said «You ordered better. You always do. You need to start ordering for me.» I ordered the Rotolo special. It was a thin tri-​color pasta with a ricotta and spinach mixture rolled similar to a cake roll then sliced topped with a vodka sauce. My only complaint about this special is that they topped it with an excessive amount of Parmesan that took away from the flavor of the vodka sauce.
One warning. The space is fairly open and can get fairly loud. If you cannot handle loud spaces very well, this is not an ideal place for you to go.

From the outside I got the feeling this was the kind of place the folks would go for a 4 o’clock dinner. A long wooded ADA approved ramp along with the plain worn exterior gave me that impression. But once inside I had a completely different reaction. It was modern yet rustic with an open wood fire and lots of highlighted stone and steel wall detail. The lighting cast a yellow glow making me feel cozy and warm all over despite the cold outside.
We were seated right away and a had complementary bread and cinnamon butter at our table moments later. I’m not a big bread a butter fan, but when you put cinnamon in butter I’m all over it. We started with a chop salad. It was a pretty basic chop salad, in this case simple was a great thing. The dressing was amazing. Perfect blend of oil, vinegar and seasoning. The hubs and I shared the El Mattone Neapolitan pizza (sausage, red peppers, red onions, oregano and mozzarella). I loved the crust, it’s light and thin yet soft and little chewy. Each item we ordered was simply delicious with a little extra flare that took it from ordinary to extraordinary.