Da Baffone Cucina Italiana

Best Italian in the area and I've tried them all. Portions are generous and tasty. Service remembers us each time we come in and is attentive. Love the tortellini, can't beat homemade Italian. Only downside is that it is hard to get in as it is quite small. We moved to Crystal lake from Chicago and are happy we have this quality of restaurant close by!

We have never had a bad meal at this restaurant. What you get for your money and there will always be left overs you can not eat. The staff especially under the circumstances over the past two years has held it together. Good job Camille!!!! If you don’t want a real meal where soup or salad is offered and bread and oil and a meal you cannot finish then don’t go here. You will never leave hungry and I have brought customers from all over the world here and the complaints are always fantastic.

We called couple of weeks ago to order takeaway because not all of us were comfortable dining in yet, especially when the place is small and crowded. The person answering the phone was rude and wouldn't give us a minute of her time explaining a few basic thing about the menu, and told us she didn't have time after telling us that its "fine dining". I wouldn't call this place fine dining by any standard, it just a family restaurant which happened to have some decent dishes. Needless to say we didn't end up ordering and probably never will.

It was a Sunday night around 530 Might have been a bad night. We were greeted when we walked in with “do you have a reservation?” We said no, there will be two of us. The guy up front, turned around, shook his head and he seemed to be frantically trying to choose which of 5 open tables to seat us at. I asked if there was a wait and if so how long and he ignored me. He took us to our table slapped the menus down and walked away. Dillion was our server and he was fantastic. The food on the other hand left something to be desired. They were out of the wine we wanted, but Dillion had suggested a great sub, we went with that. We had the antipasto for an app. Very underwhelming. Cheap ingredients, deli meat, etc…. For $17 you gotta throw some better quality products on the plate. My fiancé had the chicken marsala and I had the veal saltimbocca. The Marsala was way to sweet, almost like maple syrup and the mashed potatoes were definitely dehydrated potatoes. The veal was grossly over done. It was literally like shoe leather and the sauce was a greasy oily mess. We had tiramisu and a cannoli flight for dessert, both were excellent. All in all, like I said, it may have been a bad night, but there are too many other good/great Italian restaurants in the area, to waste time going back to this place.