Task 30 - Maria's Italian Villa Restaurant (Milford, MA)

(30) Eat in 10 New Restaurants (3/20)

  

Restaurant: Maria’s Italian Villa
Location: 67 Medway Road, Milford, MA 01757

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Having worked in Medway for nearly 5 years and eating out regularly for lunch I had never been to Maria’s and decided to give it a try for lunch with the boys.

Maria’s touts itself as an Italian Villa with homemade American-Italian food designed to satisfy a hearty appetite. In a town of chain restaurants this sounds like a recipe for success but Maria’s falls short of a win.

Its interior was divided into smaller more intimate rooms which gave hope to a quite meal with good conversation, but the bright glow from the Keno screens over powered intimate ambiance.  It was also very cold and we were forced to put our coats back on to be comfortable.

Our waitress was what I would refer to as a “Townie” and I’m sure after work you would find her in the bar having a rowdy night with the locals chatting loudly. She was nice and fairly pleasant but proper etiquette and table side manners left a much to be desired.

We each ordered from Maria’s lunch menu which offered the “Best of Maria’s” according to our waitress. Each lunch special starts with a soup of your choice. We all selected the Italian Wedding soup. For our entrée’s I ordered the Housemade Eggplant Parmigiana and the boys ordered the Italian thin crust pepperoni pizza.

The soup was hearty and satisfying but a bit on the cool side.  It was packed full of more than just broth but lacked flavor and taste. Each of us felt the soup had its pro’s and con’s.

The entrée’s took entirely too long to come out and left us feeling abandoned at the table. My Eggplant parm with rigatoni was a total failure. The pasta was cook to about an inch of its life and the pasta drowned in a canned sauce with no flavor. The eggplant parmagiana was clearly not freshly made. It was piping hot on the outside and ice cold on the inside suggesting it had been a poorly timed microwave reheat. The breading was soggy and the eggplant chewy.

Sadly the thin crust Italian pepperoni pizza left the boys disappointed. It was more like a greek pizza in style and was dripping with oil and soggy at the center.  It too shared the tasteless flavorless sauce as the eggplant parmagiana.

We exited quickly and all commented that 5 years in the area and we had never eaten there and laughed that we hadn’t missed much.