Fairfield County Neighborhood Italian Restaurants-Solid Food with reasonable prices
Along with all the downtown trendy Italian restaurants in Fairfield County, there are a good number of neighborhood Italian restaurants that consistently serve solid food (with some flair and innovation) at reasonable prices >>entree with salad/pasta/bread in the $16-24 price range.
These restaurants are not fancy, and not overly large, but consistent, clean and usually leaving the customer full and very satisfied. No greasy red sauce taste.
A few of our go tos...................
Franco Gianni's .....Trumbull--Long Hill Green
Maione's...................Fairfield---Stratield Rd
Stella's......................Stratford--Accross from Sikorsky
All of these reputedly are pizzarias, but their pizza is NOT the winner, their cooked meals are.
Please share your neighborhood secrets in the rest of the county.
By bagelman01
on Apr 14, 2011 06:09 AM
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funny - I think of Stellas as a greasy red sauce place. Cinzano's in Fairfield fits the bill though of solid, non-trendy Italian.
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Cinzano's
1920 Black Rock Tpke, Fairfield, CT 06825
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Like Cinzano's, but have only been there for lunch. They do not give both pasta and salad with an entree, but a choice of either pasta or salad. Nice decor.
Stella's has very good Milanese, Marsala, and Picatta, I don't order red there.
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Cinzano's
1920 Black Rock Tpke, Fairfield, CT 06825
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You just gave away our "secret". We eat there twice a week. The only thing I would change are the hours. They close the kitchen at 8:30 weekdays. There pizza is the best around, as well as their fried calamari. Their staff is friendy, and service is great.
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Franco Gianni's Pizza
8 Broadway, Trumbull, CT 06611
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Yes, you must dine early, full up by 5:30 deserted by 8:30.
Don't agree about their pizza, since I'm a New Haven native I find it much too thick. I drive up 25 to Julian 'sfor my Apizzza.
My brother comes from Milford every week just for their Pasta Fagiolo, complains that they won't sell nit by the quart to go, only as dinners. Today's his 65th birthday, and I order a massive qty for him as a borthday gift.
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