Mama Mia 44sw - New York

What a great discovery. Was in NYC and need a spot for pre-theater dinner with my Niece. Mama Mia was a short walk from the parking garage and and even closer to the theater. I ordered the Aperol Spritz. It was perfectly made. Our meal consisted of aside of Meatballs. Perfect Grandma Style Meatballs. Crispy outside, moist and full of flavor inside. Smothered in the houseMarinara. Samantha had Basil Pesto with Chicken and Sundried Tomatos. She cleaned the plate and it was a huge portion. Shereally loved it. I had one of the best Eggplant Parmasean dinners ever. Thin layers of creamy....almost meaty Eggplant stackedhigh. Smothered with delicious Grandma style sauce and perfectly finished with cheese. Not fancy. Attentive staff and service.Here it's all about the food. Generous portions, served hot and full of slow cooked flavor. All that with fair prices for thequality of the food this is a solid neighborhood spot. Mama Mia has been in business for 51 years. They're clearly getting thefood right.

I came here on a whim after trekking towards hell's kitchen from 12 ave. I chose to dine here because of it's proximity to port authority and it isn't nestled in a part of hell's kitchen where it was too hectic. We chose to sit in the covered outdoordining area which had nice views (from the street level of course) of the midtown skyscrapers and where you can clearly heareach honk that makes up the cacophonous NYC rush hour traffic orchestra. Then menu was pretty extensive but what was nice isthat it had a section that marked off the most popular dishes. I got the vongoli di napoli, penne pesto and the meatballs.Overall take away was that the food was palatable, i did wish that they were served hotter. The vongoli di napoli was just veryslightly warm when we ate it. We had to request a basket of complimentary bread to mop up our sauce. The bread itself wasnothing to rave about, maybe it was even a bit stale. But it did the job of picking up leftover sauce. I left dinner thinkingthat there are plenty of other places in hell's kitchen to checkout, so it might be a while before I return.

I have no idea how it?s rated over 4 stars. This was by far the most boring and bland Italian food I?ve ever tasted. The two stars are really only because the service was good and so was the wine. The photos may look okay, but the food is verydispleasing.

I have been going to mama mia 44 southwest for years before/posttheater. eating is always good, great.

Very attentive service, delicious dinner salad, but the margharita pizza is only regular pizza with a basilikum leaf on it and it is not as eating as pizza shop discs.