Bolingbrook, Illinois, is a suburb of Chicago that's home to quite a few Italian restaurants. The restaurants serve a variety of pasta, pizza and other Italian dishes, and all are located within a few miles of many local golf courses, including the Bolingbrook Golf Club. The public course has received awards from several publications, including Golf Digest, Golf World and Golfweek.
Go Roma
Go Roma is a casual Italian restaurant in Bolingbrook, Illinois, that serves a wide selection of salads, soups, sandwiches, pizza and pasta. The eatery's thin-crust pizzas are made with quality toppings and cheese, such as Italian sausage, sun-dried tomatoes, oven-roasted vegetables and goat cheese. The pasta selection includes everything from simple spaghetti marinara to seafood-laden tortellini shrimp alfredo. A variety of panini are prepared on Italian flatbread, and lighter offerings like homemade tomato basil soup and smoked chicken and pear salad are always on the menu. Bolingbrook Golf Club is about seven miles to the northeast.
Go Roma
635 E. Boughton Road
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
(630) 739-2660
GoRoma.net
Salerno's Pizza & Pasta
Salerno's Pizza & Pasta is an Italian restaurant in Bolingbrook that offers a huge menu of Italian favorites, as well as ribs, sandwiches and seafood. The eatery's broad list of appetizers, salads and soups includes baked clams, stuffed artichokes, escarole and bean soup, and an antipasto salad with Italian cold cuts and cheeses. The house specialties at Salerno's Pizza & Pasta are wide-ranging, with dishes such as linguine with calamari, eggplant parmigiana and pasta e fagioli. Both thick- and thin-crust pizzas are available, and the restaurant offers more than 20 topping choices. Naperbrook Golf Course is about two miles to the west.
Salerno's Pizza & Pasta
899 S. Weber Road
Bolingbrook, IL 60490
(630) 226-1144
SalernosPizza.com
Francesca's at The Promenade
Francesca's at The Promenade offers diners a menu of pastas, pizzas, salads and entrees that changes every two weeks so the chefs can use as many seasonal ingredients as possible. The Bolingbrook restaurant's appetizer menu includes many authentic dishes, like mussels with spicy tomato sauce and specialty risottos. The thin-crust pizzas have fresh topping combinations, such as the quattro stagioni with prosciutto, artichokes, egg, olives and mushrooms. The pasta dishes and entrees, which are the least static of the menu items, feature hand-stuffed ravioli, homemade gnocchi, roasted meats and grilled fish. Francesca's at The Promenade also offers gluten-free selections and a children's menu. Boughton Ridge Golf Course is about a mile to the southwest.
Francesca's at The Promenade
641 E. Boughton Road
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
(630) 739-6300
MiaFrancesca.com
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