Mama Stortinis Restaurant & Bar - (Near Puyallup, WA)

4 /5 Steve Seattle: Pleasantly surprised by this place! Though its billed as an Italian restaurant, its actually more of an Italian-leaning mini cheesecake factory, with the obligatory Italiano Burger. I had the chop salad, which was fantastic! Perfectly dressed and tossed, with an interesting combination of flavors and textures. I like my salads hearty, and this fit the bill! Got the seafood alfredo. Met my expectations, and the variety of seafood was good - little scallops, shrimps, salmon. Was it worth $30? Probably not, but Im not here to bicker over a couple dollars. Service: Great! Atmosphere: The place was full of happy-looking people.

5 /5 Christina P: Decided to try Mama Stortini’s because their happy hour menu looked great, and we were happy we did. The bar area itself is very small…cozy, if you will. There is a small bar top seating section to the side, two high top tables, and four regular tables, but no bar to actually “mosey up to.” The area was very clean, and there are two TVs for the sports minded. We found a table quickly as it was only about 4:30 pm, and we were greeted quickly by a friendly server. She took our drink order, and answered questions we had about certain happy hour menu items. The dirty martini is a true dirty martini! Tasty with a choice of gin or vodka. We also ordered three appetizers to share. First, the calamari with rings and tentacles. So very happy to have the tentacles, but would like more of them! The batter was excellent! Crisp and lovely. The calamari itself was cooked perfectly. Second, we tried the Spicy Prawns. Also perfectly cooked, saucy, with Calabrian chili for a nice kick! The arugula bed was a nice touch that paired well with the spice. Third option, the zucchini crisps. Honestly, we weren’t expecting sticks, but more flat and wide as they were described as cut lengthwise. The tempura batter again was excellent, but the actual zucchini was lost to the batter so we did not get a true taste of the zucchini. Overall, the food and service were lovely, despite the miss on the zucchini, and the lack of an actual bar to sit, but we enjoyed our experience. We’d definitely like to come back to try other dishes on the happy hour menu!

3 /5 Bill: Nothing special, we continually try and like this place but seems to fall short. At least the FINNALY added a kids pizza the the kids menu but it just the adult size with cheese only option the pizza is way to big for the plate and hangs way over the edge. Meatballs we ordered were cold but they made it right. But the mamas sandwich was spot on spinach dip app disappointed with only 5 small pieces of bread for dipping. Service was very slow.

1 /5 Gage McIlvrid: This was probably the worst service I’ve had, we had a male server that took forever to take our order and when he did, it was both his hands on the table talking and recommending just about everything on the menu with a full description of how he likes it how he would make it. After more waiting we finally get some food, he comes back later and takes our order. Again full hands on the table, when my girlfriend wanted penne noodles, he recommended something else and talking about how it tastes like dust and should get a different noodle. After that we get our food, he asks if I want cheese, he puts it on mine, then my mom’s husband was asked if he wants cheese, he said no. So the server decided to grab his knife, move his food over and then proceeded to put cheese on his meal even after requesting to not have any cheese and certainly didn’t want someone else touching his food. All the noodles were cut super short, all raw garlic, the drinks had old half cut limes in them as well. My spaghetti was extremely soupy and gross. The server did offer to get another one but after all that’s happened I refused and he took it off the check. Extremely strange service and made everyone feel uncomfortable, the food was terrible. The Kent Mama Stortini’s is way better, food quality, server quality and atmosphere. As soon as you’re sat you get water and service in probably 5ish minutes, we waiting probably 15 minutes just to get waters, and we only got 3, there was 4 of us, the waters were barely cold, ice already melting. Do not recommend this specific Mama Stortini’s.

4 /5 Josh Carver: From the moment we arrived to when we walked out, our experience was top notch. We were seated quickly, and our waitress Georgia went above and beyond with the service. She was friendly, attentive and made sure we were well taken care of. When we were served our entrees my pasta was supposed to have meatballs but there weren’t any in the dish. I didn’t even have time to say anything before Georgia came by with a small bowl of meatballs saying that she noticed there weren’t any on my plate and she wanted to make it right. Overall I highly recommend going here simply because of the excellent service.