lucchese's italian restaurant

food is amazing. i've been her severaltimesfor lunch and dinner and the food is always perfect. the hostess was very obviously unhappy that i entered the restaurant on a friday night 15 minutes before closing time, but the waiter was very nice. i don't think that the hostess knows that i drive over an hour to get here. oh well, she'll get over it. :-)

love lucchese's! great food & service!. lucchese's is one of our favorite places to eat in town! my wife loves the chicken linguine and i usually have one of the specials. the pizzas are excellent as well. service has always been great and the staff very friendly...there have only been a couple oftimeswhen the service was a bit slow, but they were very busy so it was understandable. there are lots of regulars on friday evenings so make sure to have a reservation. drink specials are great during week days- we love $1.75 imports on wed and 1/2 all glasses of wine thurs!!

very nice. i have eaten there manytimesand have not been disappointed. good atmosphere,food and drinks. my favorite dish is chicken marsala and have never felt rushed during dinning.

typical generic elkhart food. i have tried this place 3timeswhen traveling from texas on business..very blah and generic italian food. i am not surprised, since this are of the midwest is not known for the greatest of foods. my partners and i did try the new restaurant across the way though, last week, and thats where everyone should be eating..the new smokehouse...best wings and sausage i have ever had!!

always undercooked. my co-workers and i ate here severaltimesand every time my pasta was under cooked. i also felt rushed to eat. i have no idea how this restaurant could possibly be tops in elkhart. there are so many other restaurants that are waaaaaayyyyy better. try antonio's for good authentic italian.

worst....service...ever!. i have been to lucchese's threetimesover the past month because i needed to attend meetings or was invited. all threetimes(with different parties, combination of lunch or diinner, and with different servers) the service was horrible! not only were they rude, but we always felt rushed to hurry up and eat. my friend asked for more water and the server, literally sighed and said "okay". a different day, i was in a party of four and we asked for seperate bills (was never asked in the beginning what we preferred) and the server (female, older woman) seriously said to us "well, i can do that, but we are really busy and it will take an extra 15 minutes to do that". in all three times, we were never asked how our meal was or if we needed anything further. i was beginning to think that maybe i was a curse to this horrible service, but some friends that i dined with agreed that the place has definately gone down hill since moving to cr 17. on a plus side...the food was excellent. however, i have also heard rumblings around town that the restaurant is experiencing tough times. wouldn't you think if that were the case, more emphasis would be placed on having good service? i am one of those customers who still left honorable tips, won't complain to the management, but i will never, ever come back to eat or invite anyone else to eat at lucchese's again.