Nonna Emilia Ristorante Italiano

Went with some friends and none of us have been there in years. Still the same with great Lasagna. They were busy as always, but still seated in less than 20 minutes at 5:30 PM. Service was fine, but food is as always great. Prices are fair and portions are large — we were joking that the 3 of us could have shared one lasagna — nice to have some to take home for lunch for the next day. My wife ordered the Spaghetti Carbonara which she said was tasty, but a little rich for her. Meals came with soup or salad and garlic bread. Garlic bread was fresh and tasty. Soup was Minestrone which was OK, but not great. Overall still love the place.

So, I posted a pretty negative review about how hokey the lunch buffet was and how you go up to dish something out and you get yelled at by the older gals there. Seems they are lunch ladies and divy out the spoonfuls of carbs in a qusai metered way.
At nigt it’s pretty expensive for dinner. $ 17+ for lasagna is a bit much. Now that same lasagna is on the lunch buffet for 9.95.
Just beware of the lunch ladies. Do what they say or else!
Btw, my negative review was removed by Unilocal… I call shenanigans!

It’s always a gamble here on whether the service will be good or not, fast or not. Sometimes really long wait times for to go. I went last night and though they weren’t quick, the service was otherwise above average. Food is ok, hearty portions. The accordion player and décor are nice touches. Oldest commercial building in Washington county.

I had a disgusting hair in my salad. they were apologetic & horrified & replaced the salad immediately though I couldn’t continue eating the new one.
The chicken parmigiana made up for the snafu tenfold — simply the best I ever had.
The boyfriend got a pizza to go — had it the next day & it was amazing as well!
Will definitely go back but perhaps skipping the salad.

There is great atmosphere and a live accordion player! That portions were huge and it tasted great! They were also pretty quick and my drink was never empty. I had never been before and we showed up after dark. Parking was a little wierd.

They offer a lunch buffet that is delicious. You get a salad bar that is small but good. There is a few puddings for a dessert. Then there is a hot bar which as Pizza, meat sauce, white sauce, pasta and then the special for the day. Little expensive but worth it.
We also go for dinner some times. The portions are big allowing us to have lunch the next day. The food always taste great.
Service is good for the most part.

We’ve been getting take-​out calzones for more than 10 years. They’ve always been great, until now. The one we got tonight (combination), had flavorless meat, and the usually thick tomato sauce was nothing more than thin juice – no tomato at all. What happened? The separate container of pasta sauce was different, too: not as sweet/​tangy as usual. Our meal was a disappointment, and we hope it was just a fluke. We didn’t keep the leftovers.

Hands down theeeee best Italian food I’ve ever tasted! Food is outstanding, service is wonderful and we don’t plan on going anywhere else. Our favorite is the garlic bulb, meat sauce, pesto Caesar salad & piccolo pasta. Happy hour is the best and I could go on & on& on… Yummy!!!

My boyfriend and I went there for dinner today, on the recommendation of his co-​worker. We were not impressed in the slightest. The first thing i noticed was the INCREDIBLY dusty fake flowers hanging over the table. I scooted to the other end of the table in hopes that it wouldn’t drop dust into my food. My boyfriend then pointed out that the rest of the table had broken Easter decorations on it. After we ordered they brought us a small plate with 3 pieces of salami, 3 pieces of pepperoni, a piece of provolone cheese cut into three pieces, a little green pickled pepper, 1 piece of pickled baby corn, and a section of a carrot cut into 3 sticks. They were very good at opening packages of stuff. We were then served minestrone soup that tasted exactly like Progresso canned soup. My boyfriend thinks maybe it was. The garlic bread that came with it was pretty good.
I ordered tortellini with cream sauce, and it tasted very bland, and very much like the tortellini I have in my freezer at home, with Safeway brand sauce. I covered it in parmesan, salt and pepper to try and make it have a flavor, which helped but I still didn’t want to finish it.
My boyfriend had the «Pasta plate» which turned out to be a few different types of grocery store quality noodles all covered with a bland meat sauce. He ate everything but the spaghetti, because he said it was «really really not good.»
Our waitress asked if he would like a box, and he said he didn’t want to take it home because it wasn’t good. She just said «Oh.» And dropped our check.
We decided to forgo having dessert, because we decided we could pick up a tiramisu at Safeway ourselves.
We were very disappointed, especially since the prices were so high.
TL;DR: Everything was dirty, and the food was about the quality you can get buying noodles and sauce at Winco. Save your money and open your own jars.

Based on my experience of eating their takeout a couple times in the past year, I think their food is just ok. The positive is that everything tastes homemade, but the negative is that it tastes homemade by someone who isn’t terribly good at cooking. I agree with the Unilocal two stars description: «Meh, I’ve experienced better.»

I would give them NO stars if that was an option!
The worst customer service ever. .. Food has gone down hill so BAD. We have been customers for 20 years. NEVER AGAIN! Just hope we don’t get food poisoning. Oh wait YEP my whole family was sick throwing up or on the toilet all night. .. Eat at your own risk

Yay! The gal server we had last time is gone! At least today, anyway. The one we got was cute because we’d been sitting and chatting, with the menus closed and pushed off to the side and she asked us if we needed a couple of minutes. Sharon said, «No, do you need a couple of minutes?» Made the gal blush. She is a wit! This little gal is, so far, prompt and courteous.
The music is great, it definitely adds to the ambience.

So the 2 stars are for the awesome guy to played the accordion. 2 thumbs up for you!
Parking: Lot and street parking. It’s kind of a sketchy area so watch out.
Ambiance: They’ve created a homey Italian feel with an eclectic collection of anything remotely Italian and we went after Valentine’s day and there was gaudy pink and red randomness. Everything is a little tired and worn.
BUT…
There’s this accordion player in the evenings and he was so much fun! He played/​sang old cheesy songs like That’s Amore. We had a baby in our group and he played It’s a Small World for her. He really seemed like he enjoyed what he was doing.
Service: Sat in the covered patio type area for a LONG time. I was thinking this place much be good if people are willing to wait 30 minutes just to sit down. Our server was not memorable.
Food: So I purposely ordered the Linguine alla Vongole — clams with light cream sauce, emphasis on the light. I’ve never had a cream sauce like that — it was the heaviest «cream» sauce I’ve ever had, which was what I was specifically avoiding. Portions are HUGE as you can see when you walk through the restaurant and spy on other people’s food. They charge for splitting, but they give sizable portions of salad to go with it. Other in our party had the Veal Scaloppine which looked good. My son really enjoyed the kid’s pizza that he ordered. He’s 10, you have to take that with a grain of salt.
Recommendation: I guess this might be one of those places you go once just to say you’ve been there.

Having birthday dinner this place was great as usual. I had the lasagna and it was really well made. Others at the table had pizza and the rigatoni. I tried the pizza and it was good, deep dish similar to Chicago style. It was ok not my favorite but good. I prefer thinner crust but I didn’t order it so I don’t have much room too talk. I heard the rigatoni was really yummy.
Overall a good italian restaurant. The staff was attentive. It was a Friday night at 6 so very busy but it wasn’t a huge since it was dinner time we expected it.

Go to the buffet they said. Good Italian food they said. Great pasta and pizza they said.
I should not have listened to them.
First off, the place is the dark, dingy, kind of place you’d see a mob hit take place. Luckily, I sat with my back against the wall, facing the entrance. Even then, however, I felt as though something was creeping up on me.
It turns out that creeping feeling was the bad service and food.
When you think of a buffet, you think of your own ability to pile as much food as possible and eat the equivalent of the «entry fee» in food.
NOPE.
At Nono Emmona Pistoranto ItaliaNO, the owner/​part-​time giantess, decided it was in her best interest to guard the food, as though it was the Ark of the Covenant itself, and solely dish out big slops of «Italian» food like Norma the lunch lady from every movie ever featuring a lunch lady. I went in to grab a piece of pizza (with my hands, like people do with pizza), and she clicked her tongs at me, telling me she needed to be the one to serve it to me.
Well then.
I sat down in a booth two sizes too small and began my meal. Alfredo. Not bad. Rigatoni. Not bad. Lasagna. Not bad. Pizza. Not edible.
At first I was like, «This isn’t terrible. I’m starving anyway.». However, once the initial wave of hunger subsided and I realized what I was eating and where I was eating it, something awoke inside me that screamed at the back of my brain head to get out of there as fast as I could.
Upon further look (the lighting is piss-​poor on purpose, I suppose, to mask the Chef Boyardee-​like quality of the food), regret swallowed me completely and my hunger turned to rage.
Everything tastes as though it was made three days ago by a former Oliver Garden employee who lied about being Italian on his resume. It’s boring. It’s bland. And when mixed together on a plate, could probably be used to lay down the stone on the yellow brick road. Halfway through my lasagna, I ran into a wall of beef (?) paste that was probably some kind of leftover shoved into a blender with some olive oil.
The pizza, which looked more like the love child of Sloth from The Goonies and a yellow sponge, had a layer of toppings that could be pulled off in one piece, similar to a scab a few days after injury. If picking fleshly layers of inedible food off of other inedible foods is your thing, Nene Emandilio Reispitanro Italnaoraio is your kind of place!
The only redeeming factor of my experience was the fresh bread served with odd little butter wafers stuck between wax paper. I reluctantly approached the buffet again and asked for a small dish for some sauce so I could dip the bread into something else (at this point, more for texture, than flavor) and was intercepted by the owner/​Jolly Green Giant with even more attitude. When I asked for the sauce, she said «Why?!», with a disgust in her voice, and let out a curdled little sigh when I told her my reasoning.
Apparently the prepared canned sauce is only meant to be served with the over cooked pool noodles.
Needless to say, I have no intentions of ever returning to Naynay Armadillo Respirator Itialiano given this experience.
If, for some twisted sick reason I somehow want to recreate my experience, I will go to my nearest grocery store, find the aisle with the sauces and pasta, walk down it, and crash every jar I can find on to the floor before opening up boxes of noodles and spiking it on the ground like a football. I would then get on my knees and start licking the floor just to recapture that wonderful and authentic taste of Italy.

So glad I decided to try this place after reading the reviews! My Italian food craving has been satisfied.
I ordered the fettuccine Alfredo with chicken, a salad, and extra garlic bread. From the reviews on the fettuccine, I was a little wary but it was delicious! As far as I’m concerned, any more sauce would have been too much even though some of the other reviews thought it should have been more saucy? Liquidy? I’m not sure but it was perfect in my opinion. The bread was drenched in butter (may be most people’s thing but not really mine). It was still good. The salad was okay. The ranch dressing was okay.
I ordered takeout and walked up to the takeout area where the inside was quaint; old fashioned décor and a small waiting area.
The people working all seemed to be in good spirits and were friendly.
Parking was easy and finding the place was easy too.
I will definitely be back to try some of their other dishes and maybe I’ll eat in next time! I would recommend them if you are looking for Italian food in the Beaverton/​Aloha area!

I’m from Anchorage, Alaska and I am always on the search for food especially in a new state. If you are looking for a local spot you have to come here! Nonna’s has that very family-​friendly atmosphere with history illustrated on the walls; perfect place for a date or a family dinner without dressing too fancy. However, if you are dressing up, you wouldn’t feel out of place because the indoors is beautiful. Service was great, friendly, and importantly… fast haha. Portions are huge (the more the merrier!) Every person that passed by had to-​go box (es).
Price Range: Average of $ 15
Delicious, friendly, and filling. What more can you ask for?

I went here on a whim for the lunch buffet. It was really disappointing.
First, I go up to serve myself, as it is touted as a buffet. I’m grabbing salad and checking out the hot entrees. All of a sudden, I have a little guy next to me who barely speaks English telling me what I finally understand as «I must serve», and «You go other side».
I put down the serving spoon, move out of his way and apologized. I said I thought this was a buffet. No response from him.
Hmmm, OK.
Second, a waitress came ONCE through my entire experience. «Something to drink?» was the extent of her conversation to me. I got my water & never see her again.
A real economy of words.
Third, the little server guy comes back while I’m eating and asks me something I don’t understand. I finally suss out he has asked me «Something more?» I said I wasn’t sure. I’m still eating.
I then see him breaking the buffet down. I guess he was trying to see if I wanted more before that breaking down occurred.
The food was really meh. The hot food (thick crust pizza, penne alfredo and some pork sauce) was on par with what you would expect from a hospital kitchen. The salad bar was decent, though. But at 1:30, I was selecting from the very bottom of the lettuce leaves. Maybe they stop servicing the buffet around 1PM?
I don’t know.
For some reason, no bread was served or available. That must be a Italian restaurant first.
The place is kept really dark. There is a faint mildewy odor that permeates the entire place.
This visit was sad for me, as about 20 years ago I lived in the area and ate here on a fairly regular basis.
Now, I just cannot see a reason to return.

Highlights: live accordion player, quaint atmosphere, large portions, excellent minestrone.
Not so good: Poor and slow service, and average main dishes

I have been going to Nonna’s since I was a kid. Another local place with a lot of history in the area. They have wonderful service and food in the dining room. That rich tomato Italian food is always Delicious. Service is always outstanding here. The atmosphere is definitely romantic Italian.
They have the best pizza in the world, medium and extra large only! They have a separate takeout side that is always slammed. Order in advance and it will be ready pipping hot when you arrive.