Monte Cello’s Hampton

Well this Monte Cello’s fails in comparison with the others. The service was not attentive or friendly. The food was OK. The prices are high considering the quantity you receive. We ate dinner there and left hungry. We will not return

Yes, this restaurant looks like a swiss chalet on the outside, and the banquet room of a 1980s era Holiday Inn on the inside, but its not bad at all!!!
There is GREAT Italian food and there is good Italian food. The food at Monticello’s is just pretty good. The salad was totally lack luster and I wasnt expecting much. My friend ordered the crab ravioli and I ordered the chicken madeira. The main courses came out and they were both FANTASTIC.
The chicken madeira was good. The chicken breast was cooked perfectly, well seasoned, and most importantly – it was NOT TOO SALTY. It tasted like savory wine and I loved it. My friends crab ravioli was excellent. Its hard to put sauce on crab and not lose the flavor of the crab but they managed to do it.
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You’re not going to go broke dining here, and you dont need to dress up either – this is a casual family friendly restaurant with good food. If you’re shopping on McKnight Road and
hungry, consider giving Monte Cello’s a try!

The food is mediocre, and I have had nothing but terrible experiences with their service since they moved into their new location. The teenage girls who work there do not listen at all when taking orders over the phone. My order has been wrong literally every time. Food has also been forgotten entirely when I chose delivery. Find some competent employees before you have no customers left. I’m officially done with Monte Cello’s.

Great food could have used more refills. Would go back again.

Not my favorite Monte Cello’s restaurant.
I normally go to the one on Babcock but I was in the neighborhood and wanted pizza. There weren’t a lot of people in the restaurant and service was just ok. The hostess wasn’t the friendliest and didn’t smile much.
We ordered some fried cheese balls and a small pizza. The cheese balls were empty however the pizza was up to par.
Our waitress was very friendly and kept our drinks full. That always wins me over.
They seem to have a lot of takeout orders as well.
Overall not my favorite Monte Cello’s but if in the area we could stop by again.

Good service. Food is similar but a little different and more expensive than the one on 19 in Cranberry.

This restaurant is now at a new location, in the shopping plaza directly across from Alpine Pools on Route 8.
I like the new place much better, and during our last 2 visits, the place has been packed.
That being said, I have both good and bad to report.
The good:
–newer surroundings, good servers, clean restrooms.
–they finally figured out how to properly make a Joe’s Special Pizza. At the old location, a Joe’s Special was never really a Joe’s Special (crust was always too thin, and not as much cheese as the original from McKnight Rd). Also, the regular crust pizza is pretty true to the original Monte Cello’s.
It’s a pretty good bet to go with one of their pizzas.
–the shrimp in my dad’s entrée were huge, delicious, and appeared to be hand-​breaded.
–wife said the eggplant parmesan was good.
–daughter said her spaghetti with meatballs/​sausage was good.
–side salads, bread, and soups were pretty good.
Monte Cello’s are franchised. As such, I assume the owner of each particular restaurant is trained in the food prep of the original Monte Cello’s. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don’t.
The bad:
–father in law got the fish sandwich with fries. Fries were overcooked and served cold.
–stuffed shells were bleh. Standard fare like you’d get at Costco. Certainly didn’t taste homemade.
–the lasagna was absolutely atrocious. I tasted it and my daughter tasted it. It tasted like something that had been in a freezer for about a year, absorbed the odors of all of the food around it, then was re-​heated. Terrible. Worse than terrible. We each took one bite and didn’t eat the rest of it. Stouffer’s from your local grocer’s freezer is ten times better than this stuff.
It took a really long time after we ordered to receive our entrees. Certainly not the server’s fault, though. He was excellent.
I hope this place gets its act together with the freshness of some of the food.
I’ll go back, but I’m sticking with the pizza for now.