I am Sicilian Italian brought up on my grandmother's home made Italian food so I am pretty critical about Italian food. It tasted very authentic! I was impressed! The only things I would improve upon was that we had a reservation and still had to wait over 30 minutes to be seated, which being the restaurant is probably always so busy due to their great food, I could overlook this. The hostess area could use a little improvement, no one thanked us or told us to enjoy our night as we were leaving, nor greeted us on our way in, the downstairs was very crowded with tables, it was very hard for the girl who seated us to navigate us to a table. Other then the two minor things I was very impressed. We will return if not for the restaurant experience, for sure for the take out. It was very reasonably priced. The classic pasta dishes are select one to eat there, and select another to take home. So basically buy one get one free for $13-16. I got eggplant parmigiana but there were quite a few of the classic pasta dishes to select from, not to mention all the other great items on the menu.