My partner and I have walked and driven by Aiello's on many occasions and decided to finally stop-in for dinner. We brought 6 of our friends along for good measure.
Aiello's sign in front denotes "East Coast Italian." Having lived on the East Coast for many years, I know what that means and it's VERY hard to find out here in the Wild West. Needless to say, we were skeptical. Let me reassure you that Aiello's delivered.
The menu was large and loaded with many "East Coast Italian" specialties you don't often see in these parts. That said, I opted for the Chicken Parmigiana--which is my standard "litmus test" for assessing the quality of any Italian restaurant. My meal was amazing.
We enjoyed great wine and great food--all very reasonably priced. We also greatly enjoyed the comfortable atmosphere created by the owner and staff. We especially loved Joe who came to our table on several occasions that night to chat-us-up and see how we were enjoying our meals.
I was particularly impressed that, though we ended up splitting the bill five ways (not really cool on our part), our server didn't bat an eye and returned very promptly with five accurately prepared receipts.
The whole experience was a combination of East Coast quality and authenticity with West Coast casualness. We will definitely return--probably to try Aiello's "back door" carry-out pizzeria next time.