Clearwater Restaurants

It was my sons (39) birthday and he chose Massimo’s. To celebrate my wife and I invited our other son, wife and 4 year old to dine with us. Just an excuse to be with family. Ok...to make a short story long...kidding... I love veal parmigiana and my other son loves chicken parmigiana and happened to see that bot are only in the lunch menu, so called to see why. I called the restaurant was told that, because each meal is prepared that day, they like “special” requests to be called in a day in advance. Okay...new guy...are you serious? I go to XYZ and ZYX and I can always get both !!! I said thank you, I’ll go to YXZ and get my parmesans...serious ?? A minute later, my Phone rings...gee...Massimo’s is calling. Serious...they could have just said “okay”, but loose 5 adults & a child $$$ ? Miraculously, guess what? The owner, chef can make the parmigiana dish for us. Cancel the other reservations, because...my son (for his B’Day) requester this restaurant, and my wife told me to give it a try. Here we are, all sitting at a table, enjoying family and awaiting (a never been there) dinner. Now, here we go..our server promptly introduces him self and dies all the typical “waiter” stuff ((Like XYZ restaurant) and tells us specials and (our Parmigiana) dishes. We started with bread & butter, because my 4 year old grandchild likes it and wasn’t bashful. Out comes the most delicious herbal butter (and plain) with warm (apparently) fresh lightly crunchy baked bread...gone in 45 seconds!!! We were then told that LOBSTER bisque was the soup of the evening!?!? WHAT? Here’s a guy from Boston and...what is the soup?! Now, the rest of the meal didn’t plateau, or get less delicious, but was a journey of pure pleasure. Bottom line..this is the BEST Italian restaurant in the Tampa Bay Area, hands down and the gentleman that served us, is the most detail oriented person I have ever had the pleasure of being served!!! I am ABSOLUTELY sold as was every one in our family! More

OpenTable Diner - 02/19/2019

The pork belly appetizer was the absolute best that i have ever tasted. More

OpenTable Diner - 02/18/2019

As always, food and service was outstanding. Would recommend to everyone. More

OpenTable Diner - 02/20/2019

Excellent!!! All around great service. Food was amazing. We visited twice in 1week while on vacation Highly recommend! More

OpenTable Diner - 02/19/2019

Excellent service and food. A definite stop every time we are in Clearwater BeachOur server Nico is always a pleasure to deal with More

OpenTable Diner - 02/18/2019