Joe's Restaurant

Wow! I just left this restaurant, and I'm so happy! Thr food was exceptional, the staff was so nice and genuinely hospitable, the owner was the most humble and nice. I tried: Burrata salad ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ The mussles on red sauce❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ The veal with lemon sauce❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ The veal with mushrooms❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ The spaghetti bolognese♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Wow! I'll definetely comeback!

Firstly, I love the classic family feelings I get from Joe's. I recently moved to the Ridgewood area and want to find my neighborhood Italian place. I can tell it's a very beloved place. I gave it five stars because these small businesses need all the support we can give. Here are my positives: Portion sizes are generous. I ordered the small antipasti, garlic bread Parm, and a entree with a couple beers. It came to $50 and could have fed 3 people healthily. The services was so great. Attentive but not hovering, polite but not fake nice. Everybody was helpful and efficient with any requests I had. Their sauce is special. It's definitely their specialty. I want to go back and just get a simple plate of pasta and sauce. What I didn't like: The antipasti wasn't great. The greens had some very wilted leaves, some were almost dry. The cheeses don't feel like they're made in Italy. The meat was not great. It was just sliced salami I could get from the corner deli. The olives were good and I enjoyed them very much. The olives really tasted like Italy/Greece. The garlic Parmesan bread was ok, but I had to ask them to bring their red sauce for dipping. With a little red sauce on the side for the garlic bread it becomes a great side dish. Without red sauce it's too dry. I'm not going to talk about the entree I ordered. I think I just ordered the wrong thing... Next time I'll keep it simple, their pasta is authentic and fantastic. I learned my lesson. My least favorite thing about the whole experience was the music. They need to have a better playlist or music curation. Some Italian folk music would be so beautiful. Or just something ambient and light like classical guitar. Instead they had very generic and cheap covers of top 40 pop songs playing with a heavy beat and annoying American vocals. It didn't match the authentic Italian style of family restaurant. It sounded like a JCPenny shopping mall. Overall, I love these places where you can get a good large meal to feed a family and support a small family business. 5 - Stars! With a couple little improvements I can see myself wanting to come back here every week. I was happy to tip over 20% and I will be back!

The food is super good here! The sauce is amazing and that’s the most important thing to me being Italian haha! Above all, service is incredible as everyone is super friendly and welcoming. Only thing I would say is maybe the service could’ve been a little faster, and maybe decor updated a little, but overall I would come again and again and again.

Just went today for my second time. And I must say the food does not disappoint. It's without a doubt one of the best Italian restaurants in queens. I had a table of 10 and Nasa was our Server. He was incredible, he constantly was checking if we needing anything. He was very polite and gave us outstanding service. I highly recommend Joe's trust me you won't be disappointed.