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Caffe Roma is tucked away in the west park. It is quite small with only 10 tables in the main inside room (an adjacent room had a private party, so I don't know if it's also normally open] I never heard of it until my sister had a recommendation for it from a friend.
The menu boasted a homemade pizza using Mama's authentic recipe. Whoever mama is, the pizza is what I've been looking for in Cleveland. $1.25 a slice; Mostly topped with diced tomatoes, some very lightly sprinkled grated cheese [parmeasan, I believe] and a light tomato sauce with some herbs sprinkled on top, delicious.
I've seen too much of the loaded mozzarella cheese with salty tomato sauce pizza around in Cleveland and this thankfully was not it.
Caffe Roma offers more sophisticated options than a typical Italian place at this low price range [no entree on the menu is more than $15-16]. In addition to just basic items like a type of pasta with your choice of sauces and eggplant parmasean, there a few additional items like a dish with capers, mussels, a pasta dish with red cream sauce and shrimp, and Spaghetti Carbonara [the entree, only $12]. My grandpa is a picky eater and he found it to his satisfaction. They added plenty of mushrooms and extra sauce to his plate upon his request. His main gruff was that the bread (complimentry) was not Italian, but was a set of rolls.
I noticed no music inside, which I actually liked.
On a Friday evening, around 6:00 PM, the place was bustling also with pickup orders, but the service never slacked off at all. The service was quite good with the 2-3 servers to the place coming by us and helping us out, and they were nice enough not to kick us out after we sat there for 10-15 minutes after paying our bill.
You can also bring your own wine although they do now have wine there.
A great place that has Italian food [more authentic than other places] on a cheaper budget.
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