Vito's Italian Kitchen

“This place was an indeed a last minute great find on our end, our waiter was super personable and funny. Out of everything on the menu, these two dishes were super popular! half of the family chose the Orecchiette della Mamma and the other half chose Gianni’s Baked Rigatoni, which was quite funny! I have to say, Orecchiette della mamma was so unique, I’ve never seen anything like it in any other italian restaurant i’ve been to & I’m very satisfied to tried this dish, it was so delicious!”

“Very happy with Vito's Italian Restaurant, stopped in for lunch after running an errand in Harrisonburg I had the Katarina (ham and capicola) sandwich with a side salad and my wife had a Greek salad. Both were tasty and the portion sizes were generous. The service was great as well; would definitely return in the Harrisonburg area.”

“It feels sad to give this place a low rating, because the service is great but the food says otherwise. My family and I went out to eat for lunch. The food came fairly fast, but did not taste good. The chicken in the salad was really overcooked, and the salads weren’t the most fresh. The pasta was swimming in oil, even though it was supposed to be a white sauce. The chicken in the Brant wrap, was over salted. The nice part about our lunch was the outdoor seating. We will not be coming back unless the food gets better. It’s sad when you pay $300 for meals that no one enjoyed.”

“Let’s get right to it. The garlic knots were good, but they were swimming in way too much olive oil for me. I know some people like that, but I don’t. Otherwise, not a bad first food impression. It is a cozy atmosphere. The lighting is just bright enough for dinner conversations and to set a good mood. The wait staff were very friendly, very helpful and the meal came within a respectable time even though the restaurant was full. The price was also very attractive. For the portion sizes I think this is borderline cheap. All of these are high praise. However… the food while it looked good, we were not impressed. My wife ordered the chicken marsala and after two bites sent it back to the kitchen and got herself a cheese pizza instead. I got the Pappardelle Alfredo with chicken, and I was not impressed either. Both sauces had a little bit of a chalky taste to it. Like it was made from store-bought powdered box sauce that wasn’t mixed properly. I also didn’t care for and the chicken. You can tell that it was recently thawed out before they threw it in the pan. Anyone who’s ever cooked anything in your lives will know what I’m talking about. When you defrost chicken and then cook it in a short space of time you get that little chewy almost rubberyness to the chicken, and that’s what I had tonight. The pizza my wife got was decent. And it had better be, because if you mess up cheese pizza, you really have no business in this game. Unfortunately, the cheese pizza was the highlight of our meal experience tonight. I did not like my meal, though I finished most of it, and my wife had to return hers because it was just not worth the effort to chew. I hope this was just an off-night, because I have scanned through several of these reviews and they were all glowing and gushing about the food quality, and I unfortunately did not experience any of that tonight. We’ll be back in the area a few months now, and we’ll try it again, and see if the experience repeats, or this was just one of those nights where the actual chef was out and there was a substitute cook in the engine room. We’ll see.”

“$2.50 secret upcharge for vodka sauce which was practically nonexistent. I got there to pick up my takeout order and she told me $20 for my chicken Parm sandwich, I said how’s that? And found out about it at that time. I get that I asked you to substitute vodka sauce, but you’re supposed to say that’ll be an additional $2.50 is that OK? At which point I say wait a minute is this Vinny’s? And then hang up because that’s where I was really trying to call. Don’t multitask at stoplights, folks. And by the way there was hardly any sauce at all, about near the driest chicken parm I’ve had. Well, never again.”