An ad for a local restaurant.....

If you ever come to Weirton, WV....

Published on September 13, 2005 By Rightwinger In Misc

Get off 22 at the Downtown Weirton (Main St.) exit, come up about, oh, maybe a quarter mile or so. Across from the Exxon station is a fixture of the downtown area.
Mario's Restaurant, as I understand it, has been around for almost 50 years, and is the home of one of the Upper Ohio Valley's most famous contributions to culinary excess, DiCarlo's Famous Pizza. I gorged myself on it as a high schooler, and still do when the yen strikes me.

It was there, in Weirton in 1960, that the Mario Dicarlo family opened the first Dicarlo's pizzeria. They spread like fire in a dry cornfield, and now there are DiCarlo's from East Liverpool in the north at least to New Martinsville in the South. Wheeling, WV has two or three, I know.

Anyway...Mario's is what you want, though, if you're looking for authentic Italian food. Mario came to America after WW2 (he fought in the Italian army...there's a picture in the bar of him in his uniform), so you know it's the real deal; he's been retired for some time now; he's 82 now and his son Danny runs the businesses, but Mario still comes in every day and BS's with the customers and checks things out in the kitchen and looks at the office work.

My wife and I went there for my birthday last Wednesday. I got angel hair pasta with meat sauce (the sauces are all homemade, too...the tomato sauces, to me, have kind of a....bittersweet 'tingle' to them. Delicious.) and a side of grilled chicken thrown on top for good measure. My wife got the daily special, rigatoni with meat sauce, and it was all delcious. The Italian bread is fresh-baked and incredible. The crusts are hard and the bread is soft and has a faintly sweet aftertaste. We didn't have dessert, because the portions are enormous; I barely finished mine, but she got a box to go.
Their veal and chicken parmagiana are fantastic, too. I usually get either of them, but finances being as they are....
But then, we were pleasantly surprised to find the bill to be less than 18.00. That included our dinners, salads, the bread and our drinks (pop and water, of course, but still). we were full...stuffed.

So, if you're inclined to be n Weirton, WV anytime....stop in at Mario's.

It's-a the best-a!

Comments

drmiler

on Sep 13, 2005

And how would one get there from Pittsburgh?

Rightwinger

on Sep 13, 2005

And how would one get there from Pittsburgh?

Just take 22 (the Parkway) West and stay there....head past Robinson Town Center and past Imperial. Follow the signs when you get to Weirton. As you approach the exit, there'll be a large war memorial on your right; flagpoles, a tank, AA guns, a helicopter, plane.....can't miss it. Try it, you'll like it!

"Why do we drvie on the Parkway and park in the driveway?"---George Carlin

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