The Patio – This Week’s Restaurant

Bev has been wanting to go to The Patio Italian Restaurant in Madisonville for some time so we selected it for this week’s lunch out.  Before discussing the restaurant, let me give you a little background on the area.  Madisonville is the seat of Monroe County which is a very rural and mountainous county just south of us.   Madisonville, with a population of 5100 people has a downtown that is about three blocks long and the county (pop.46000) is full of pick up driving good ole boys and a home to southern mountain food.  Yet Monroe County sports a very good Mexican restaurant Cielto Lindo Mexican Grill in Vonore and this fine Italian place in downtown Madisonville along with Donna’s Old Town Café, with the more typical food for this area. 

We got to The Patio a few minutes after 1pm and the place was still packed from the lunch crowd and we had to wait for a table to be bused.  Out meal began with breadsticks and a bowl of their marinara sauce. For her meal, Kathy had a 10” pepperoni pizza ($8.25) which she said was very good.

Bev opted to go with the 14” House Special ($17.75) which had Cheese, beef, pepperoni, sausage, ham, mushrooms, peppers, onions, olives, tomatoes, and Feta cheese.  We each ate one piece (she likes the leftovers for breakfast) and both thought it was very good.

I decided to go lighter and ordered the Antipasto Salad ($9.50) with Italian dressing and I thought it was excellent with fresh crisp vegetables, plenty of meat and cheese and a decent dressing for these parts.

The Verdict:

It was a very good experience with good food and excellent service and we’ll go back but the next time I’ll try a pasta dish to see how it stands up to the real deal Italian I’ve had in the past.

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Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

02/08/24 meal date