Mambo Italiano

The Apex Italian restaurant Mambo Italiano is located on West Williams street in the old Cinelli’s space.

Raleigh Restaurant Review

Mambo Italiano 770 W. Williams Street, Apex
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We first stopped into Mambo Italiano as part of our never ending mission to find the best Italian restaurant in Cary, a restaurant that has good Italian food like you can get in New York. We stopped in in the afternoon and met the owners; they are a couple from Long Island. Mambo Italiano has a family style menu and we ordered a couple of appetizers to bring with us to our friends’ house on Saturday night. We ordered the cold antipasto appetizer, the hot antipasto appetizer and the fried zucchini. The hot antipasto appetizer has eggplant rolletini, baked clams and stuffed mushrooms (wouldn’t recommend the clams but the other two were good).

We have since visited Mambo Italiano for dinner, and it’s a great place for a meal with friends or family. On the weekends, sometimes,  they have live music. On our most recent dinner visit we took pictures to share with eat2winraleigh.

We ordered the Veal Milanese and the Chicken Marsala individual portion entrees. Mambo Italiano has family style and individual portion entrees on the menu.

Veal Milanese

Chicken Marsala

And for dessert, we had the made in- house cannoli.

Cannoli

The Raleigh-ite:  I have ordered the eggplant parmesan and the chicken marsala at Mambo and they are both good meals. The highlight for me though, hands down, is the house red wine. Wow, its outstanding. A fruity wine, but still has a deep red texture. Mmmm. And its cheap.  The brocoli rabe, and the freshly prepared cannoli are yummy also.

The NYer- Mambo Italiano is tied with Daniel’s Italian restaurant as one of my favorite places to go for Italian food in the Cary area. The Italian food is fresh home cooking; the owner’s wife is the chef. She makes very fresh cannoli’s; who doesn’t love cannoli’s ? Very busy restaurant with live music.

Do Over? We go to Mambo’s frequently because it is close to where we live in Cary and the NYer likes their red sauce. Also, because they have Restaurant.com coupons to make the meal cheaper than a lot of restaurants in Raleigh!

Related posts:

1. Vic’s Ristorante Italiano Restaurant Review
2. Bella Italia Restaurant Review
3. San Carlo
4. Cinellis Restaurant Review
5. Daniel’s

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