Little Angela's Ristorante

Delicious food, large portions. Friendly and accomodating staff. Pleasant atmosphere.

I’m a foodie! I’ve been to this restaurant twice, first time was amazing, second time was my worst experience so far out of the restaurants I’ve been to.I was told there’s new management. I went to have lunch at 2 pm with my girls on Valentine’s Day, we were 17 women. We knew the wait was gonna be long but not that long, since there were only 2 other tables with 2 ppl each. The waitress was very rude, loud & mean, took her forever to bring the menus(we had to ask for them), didn’t have her name tag on so don’t know what her name is, messed up all our orders & gave different plates to different ladies. Which made our wait even longer to get the orders right. I ordered clam sauce with linguini(pic attached), it was so disgusting and liquidy that I only ate 2 forks and asked for something else(she said that she was gonna charge me for it anw). Instead I ordered Greek salad which came with with grilled chicken & shrimp & vinaigrette dressing, and after a long wait(all the ladies had done eating but me), she brought me a different salad that had different ingredients, no shrimp & with ranch, & kept on insisting that’s what I ordered. Then she said she’ll add the shrimp & get me different dressing & finally brought me a vinaigrette one but I didn’t get the shrimp until after I was almost done with my plate. We asked for napkins/tissues about 3 times but kept on dismissing us, we asked her the 4th time, she said they didn’t have any napkins, they’re out, she can only get us the cloth ones(which smelled terribly). How can u not have napkins at 3 pm on a valentine’s day?! I have to mention that the manager was there, saw everything and didn’t say anything or apologized to any of us for what happened. We asked for separate checks, she brought one check with everything on it saying that because the orders were messed up, they had to make more food(which wasn’t our fault) so the manager told her to make one bill and add a discount(which was barely anything). We had to split the check between us equally($24 each) which isn’t fair bcs some of us didn’t order that much but still had to pay it.

My wife and I have been going to Little Angela's for years since they opened and the food has always been delicious and decent service. You wait a little bit, but you can see why when you taste the food. Last night, my wife and I took my mom there for her birthday. We were seated pretty quickly but then that's when it started to go downhill. It took 30 mins before we even got water and bread, another 30 mins before we got to place entree orders, then we sat for an hour and a half before our food came. I asked manager three times what was taking so long, nothing but "we're very busy sir and short staffed tonight". When we finally got our food, my wife and mother in law had eaten one mozzarella stick in 2 1/2 hours each, so starving to say the least. As we had finished the manager asked if everything was good... no. I told him how horrible the service was and same excuses with no attempt to do anything about adjusting the bill, which I asked for. What's interesting then is the former manager came by separately to give us the scoop. She explained that there was new management and this new manager that I had spoken with had just let go two of their servers that very night because he didn't like their attitude. Really? On a Saturday night? And servers that had worked there for years when the restaurant was doing well? She at least comped one of our meals, not the new manager. When we got home I got horribly sick from the food. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!!!!!

Best Italian in Richmond! Nothing compares to it except up in New York or New Jersey. This is a restaurant, not a pizzeria. The wait is just as long as any other fine restaurants. Food is fabulous, great wine and liquor selection, never disappointed.

Great restaurant, great food. Extremely short staff but our server, the only one there never missed a beat! She was pleasant and efficient and managed all of her tables including three big tables with style and grace. No one ever complained. All restaurants need to rotate their staff through this organization for customer service training. Oh, did I mention the food was amazing too?

Had this place on my radar for some time now. Took my girlfriend, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. We both agreed the pizza was one of the better ones we've ever had. Good selection of appetizers and deserts. My girlfriend wants to go back soon as she was impressed with their seafood selection . Highly recommended....