Best Italian Restaurants in East Walnut Hills

This  was my first visit to mama’s and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The atmosphere was very nice and the food and the festive music was very enjoyable. Enjoy the bread and the spaghetti and meatballs and the cookies were very very good.

We came for lunch and to celebrate a birthday. Staff was gracious and gave a complimentary glass of wine for birthday. Children enjoyed food. Staff was attentive. Bread service and a pasta meal was good for lunch, if we came for dinner would order a few sides to share.

Service was incredible and all food recommendations were wonderful! Our server (I can’t remember the young man’s name, but he had dark hair and a mustache) knew the menu inside and out, was not pretentious when we asked questions, and coursed our food perfectly. Huge shoutout to him! The staff works together as a team to ensure your food is served immediately after it’s ready and your table is always clean and ready for the next course. Love seeing that teamwork and that everyone knows exactly what’s going on. The WC was exceptionally clean! The oil packed tuna and Branzino were amazing and the wine list was fantastic. I was impressed all around and can’t wait to come back.

They don’t miss a beat EVERY TIME WE GO! It’s an experience they change things and they’re all good. Except the new truffle cocktail. Definitely a weird mix of flavors that don’t play together well. All in all a great experience!

The food was wonderful; extremely flavorful, well seasoned, well portioned, and truly seemed like a curated menu. The cocktails were well made and the whiskey menu had some questionable pricing but I was able to find a diamond in the rough (GTS @ $25/oz) Almost everything we got was exceptional. The shrimp scampi fell a little short for the table though, the flavor was very good but nothing special and the portion felt small. The truffle Mac honestly didn’t feel like anything special but was good, not mind blowing, which is acceptable in my eyes for a side. The butter cake was HUGE and just absolutely stellar additionally it was large enough that it could’ve been shared between the 4 of us. What we ordered: The table ordered a round of cocktails/ pour of whiskey. Starters - Rock Shrimp scampi and Burrata Entrees - New York strip, filet, and Orecchiette Sides - truffle Mac and Cheese & Elote Desert - Butter cake with salted caramel ice cream