Rose's Restaurant

Wonderful restaurant. The food is good, nice ambience, good service, owners are congenial . We love going there for a nice time. Their itialian is excellent. Very nice place. Plus it's not a chain. Even nice tablecloths. Plus it's not overrun with people like an apple bees or Fridays . A very nice dining experience. Olive garden? Get real. I'll pass. Roses is 800% better. The owners at roses have values and respect. Congratulations. In a world of chain restaurants where the bottom line is profits and no scruples, Roses stands out. I congratulate you. Thank you.

We used to eat at Rose's about 8 years ago all the time when we lived in the area. Back then the food and atmosphere was great !! This time however, it was very disappointing. I told the waitress I wanted a catering menu and wanted to try some of the dishes for lunch. My husband ordered Seafood Provencale and I ordered meat Lasagne. I also ordered the Cheezie Garlic Bread and a pepperoni pizza. You would think they would want to get our catering order and serve us great food. Our first clue as to changes in the food was when my husband asked to hold the tomatoes and was told they can't because it is already mixed up. So the mix was made up ahead of time and not made to order..or leftovers. The waitress then told him the tomatoes were small and not very many. I asked to have everything brought out at once since we had to get back to work. However, this didn't happen. We got our stracciatella soup first which was great and the best thing we ate that day. Then we got the Cheezie Garlic Bread....this was just the regular long skinny bread you get for free with your meal with cheese and garlic spread on it. Nothing special and the bread was dry...with a doughy taste to it. After a long wait we finally got the rest of our meal. My husband's dish had lots of chunks of tomatoes...so much that he really couldn't eat it. The pepperoni pizza was ok but not enough to justify the price. Definitely not better than a chain Pizza restaurant like Papa Johns or Papa Romanos. I always ordered the lasagna when we went to Rose's. This time the noodles were over cooked and mushy. There was very little meat in the entire dish. It was very disappointing. Since our service was slow...we started looking around the place. Every table including ours had a Keno/Lottery ticket station on it. Also we had paper napkins which used to be linen before. We used to love Rose's because it was local and had great food and atmosphere. We didn't mind paying more for a local restaurant with good food. Now there is no way we would go back.

I didn't particularly find Rose's worth the price after three separate visits. The staff is friendly enough, but there was nothing particularly special about the food.

Wonderful food!