Rossini's Italian Restaurant occupies a building that for many years was Walt's Dairy Bar. This family operated restaurant serves hearty portions of Italian food.The décor is simple and consists nice roomy booths with a second small room with tables.
A popular pizza restaurant, they do a steady business in take-out. Their crust is delicious, thin and chewy and they offer good selection of toppings. I love their Hawaiian, served with precooked bacon, pineapple and ham on a white pizza. It is perfect. If you want your bacon precooked, you have to ask for it specifically on most pizzas, on this one it comes that way.
They serve schicciata which is a stuffed pizza with potato, sausage and either spinach or broccoli. Their calzones have lots of options. You can order them with sausage, meatball, mushroom, pepperoni, peppers, eggplant or broccoli along with ricotta and mozzarella. The calzones are served with a cup of tomato sauce.
In Connecticut, hoagies are called grinders. They serve them in one size here, 12 inches. They make vegetarian, cold cuts such as roast beef, turkey and ham or the more Italian style like eggplant, meatball, sausage or chicken or veal parmigiana.
A couple of homemade soups are always offered usually one of them is chicken noodle and the other minestrone. They have a good selection of appetizers, fried mozzarella, fried calamari and of course garlic bread.
What kind of Italian restaurant would they be without lots of pasta dishes? They have basic marinara, just plain butter, meat sauce, anchovies, garlic and oil, Alfredo, puttanesca, primavera ala vodka and if you ask them they will make a fresh pesto for you. One thing that we love about Rossini's is that they are willing to create a special dish for you. Just tell them what you want and they will put it together.
They have a full menu of entrees, chicken, veal and seafood. From the simple to the sublime, Marsala, piccata, parmigiana and Milanese, you can't make a bad choice. They also serve American entrees steak and BBQ ribs and also a few daily specials.
Our favorites are the Baked Italian Specialties, things like baked ziti, Rossini's Special Eggplant and lasagna. We usually have the sausage and pepper parmigiana which is as it sounds like sausage, peppers and sauce covered with cheese and baked to gooey perfection. Entrees are served with a tossed salad, pasta and a basket of Rossini's magnificent chewy bread.
If you really can't decide which of their parmigiana dishes to choose, the perfect choice is Tony's Combination with combines meat balls, sausage and eggplant and bakes it with a cheese topping. A really excellent choice.
If you have any extra room ask to see the dessert tray or do what I do, enjoy a delicious cappuccino.
There is plenty of free parking at Rossini's Italian Restaurant. Prices are competitive and certainly in line with everyone else in the area.
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