At the beginning of the week I asked for mini-reviews of restaurants that you think we've missed. I've gotten four or five already. Here's the first of them by S, who says not to mention his name because he wants to keep going there incognito. EL
Papa Leone's Spaghetti House might be a place you'd want to review.
They're in Dundalk, we went there after we saw an article in the local
paper in Essex (East County Times).
Food is great, soups are great, portions are large and they had really good chocolate raspberry cake. The place is decorated w/ liquor 'miniatures' which is kinda cool. The marinara is on the sweet side but really good. The fresh mushrooms were amazing. And the place has a really cool/weird ambience. ...
It's one of the best new finds my wife and I have come across in a while. I normally wouldn't pimp a place out, but we like your blog and this place seems like some sort of hidden secret. Even the Chowhound people don't know about it.
Portions are large. I had the biggest bowl of chili I've ever had in a restaurant and took half home. Their bean soup was also great. Meal in themselves.
Homemade meatballs. Don't know where the sausage came from but spicy. Hope they used a local brand. The mushrooms were buttons cut in half, so big, not thin, and sauteed by themselves before dumped on top of the sauce. The marinara was good, just sweet, and that may because they use an old family recipe. Evidently the place has been open for 56 years. It was kind of like eating at someone's home, the waitress who has been there 30 years calls you "babe" and they go out of their way to be friendly and make you feel comfortable.
My wife had chicken alfredo and that was also delicious.
They also have a catering hall.
And the collection of liquor miniatures in wooden cases on the walls is amazing, there are a lot of old Baltimore brands that folks probably haven't heard of since the 50's.