Best italian restaurant in Salem, New Jersey (NJ) 2024

Went with family for a nice sit down dinner and it was a great experience with friendly hosts and the owner who visited the table. The fresh bread to start was on par with fancy restaurants out in LA. The red sauce was a little sweet for my liking, but the eggplant Parm was solid and thin, which makes for much better taste and well rounded texture. The salad pizza is a slapper, but feels more like salad and bread sticks than pizza as the pizza was mostly crust and no real amounts of cheese. That made it a bit crusty and harder to fold and collect the salad, but the salad was well dressed and tasty and worked well with the bread. I wish they actually served the pizza beer they have on display. Great ambiance. If the sauce was not as sweet and the salad pizza more well portioned with the pizza side of the ingredients, this would have been 5 stars. ~Nicco