Italian Restaurants in Akron

Dontino's serves Italian food for lunch and dinner every day of the week. According to their website at dontinos.com, the restaurant prepares daily specials and can arrange banquets on Sundays. Guests can order a pasta entree like spaghetti, baked rigatoni, or lasagna. Dontino's advertises specialties like a veal cutlet, made with their own breading and served with an oil and garlic pasta. The menu also contains pizza and sandwiches, such as meatball, and salami submarine sandwiches. The wine list offers red and white selections by the glass, or by the half or full carafe. Patrons can also order domestic or imported beer. This Italian restaurant is in north Akron, near the Cascade Valley Metro Park and several golf courses, including the Valley View Golf Club.

Dontino's Fine Italian Cuisine
555 East Cuyahoga Falls Avenue
Akron, OH 44310
(303) 928-9530
dontinos.com/

Luigi's Restaurant is open for lunch Monday through Friday, and dinner every day. The restaurant's homepage, luigisrestaurant.com, claims that Luigi's was the inspiration for the fictional Montoni's restaurant in the syndicated comic strip Funky Winkerbean. Patrons at the restaurant can order a small or large pizza with a variety of toppings, or a sandwich like an Italian sub made with capicola, salami and red peppers. Luigi's prepares pasta dishes with plain, meat or mushroom sauces. Customers can also order a spaghetti meal with olive oil and either tuna, anchovies or garlic. Several pasta dishes are baked and served with meat sauce. With its location in downtown Akron, patrons to Luigi's are within driving distance of golf courses like the J.E. Good Park Municipal Golf Course.

Luigi's Restaurant
105 North Main Street
Akron, OH 44308
(303) 253-2999
luigisrestaurant.com

The Spaghetti Warehouse operates more than 20 franchise locations across the United States. Their website, meatballs.com, lists the Akron location as having lunch and dinner hours every day of the week. The menu offers entrees like grilled chicken florentine, served with spinach and artichokes over fettuccine pasta with a garlic cream sauce. There are dishes for two, like the lasagna feast that boasts 15 layers. Diners can order wine by the glass or bottle, try a cocktail or sangria drink, or have a domestic or imported beer. For dessert, the Spaghetti Warehouse features a spumoni ice cream sundae with chocolate, strawberry and pistachio flavors. The nearby Firestone Country Club maintains private golf courses and hosts premier golfing events, such as the 2010 World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational, in Akron, Ohio.

Spaghetti Warehouse
510 South Main Street
Akron, OH 44311
(330) 374-0025
meatballs.com