sugo's spaghetteria

just had dinner at sugo's this evening with six of our friends. my wife ordered the"special" which was red snapper on pasta with a white sauce.
it was disgusting!!
i told my wife to send it back and not suffer through it... especially for $20 at such a small portion. as long as we've been married my wife never complains. she only tells me about it afterwards!
i tell her that any decent restaurant wants to know if they served a bad meal immediately so they can correct it.
i tried a bite and it was truly bad!! the fish tasted old and it was so overcooked and dried out it chewed like leather!
i actually hope they call me about it!
sincerely,
pat ferrari 618-696-1851

love the food but they have the worst bread..........c'mon get some good italian bread, nothing worse than sitting down to a good meal and the bread is terrible.......especially disappointing in an italian restaurant

just had the red snapper over tomato risotto - excellent! i've not had anything bad here. the tiramisu is great too! my son loves the spaghetti @kathy carpunky

this is our go to place when we want a fabulous meal but do not want wait over an hour to get seated. everything on their menu is worth trying. i am a vegetarian. my two favorite meals are the fungi pasta and the pizza. tonight the specials were chicken spedini, tomato, basil, mozzarella salad and halibut over risotto. my guest tried the halibut and we both had the tomato salad . i also ordered the fungi pizza. the food was spectacular the the service was impeccable. the is probably one of the best restaurants in edwardsville.

great food and service.. we ate at sugo's in edwardsville for the first time. wow! what great food. and the service was top notch. we will definitely return often.

an italian poet only should review this establishment.. we drove through edwardsville repeatedly and i kept wondering what's sugos? it sits back from the main road and is a hard book to read just by its cover, but one day something made us go in. impressive. the interior is old timber furnishings, nothing flashy or overt gaudy italian villa like you get with bravo, just plain simple, inviting, while not private. the wait staff or as i will call them professional waiters, know their business and are exceptionally attentive. timing is perfect and prompt. the menu is the best i've seen for such a restaurant, simple with only a few select items. three appetizers and i suggest above all else the bruchetta. on our first visit i had the risotto pesto special which was insane and my wife had the spaghetti and meatball half portion with a salad. it that was the half portion then the full portion would've taken her two days to eat. it was huge. the second visit we did was about a week later and i had the lasagna. huge, baked and toasted at the end. i can't rave enough about how excellent it was. all fresh ingredients, moist and you could tell made to perfection with care. it was massive and took me two days to eat it. this isn't a get 'em in get 'em out restaurant. you go here for the dining experience. spend some time, relax and revel over the flavors and take in their savory wine list, which is impressive. please, don't order the white zinfandel here. i don't know if they have it but i hope they don't. please broaden your horizons and get the chianti. i tipped over 20% on a $60 lunch bill for two because the service was excellent and the food was excellent. we will be coming back and bringing friends and i highly suggest you go too for a romantic dinner.

lunch. i was there for lunch this week with a group of friends. we all pretty much ordered different dishes and everyone loved the food. our server was just fine too. the only problem was that it was a sunny day and with windows on 2 sides of the room and the blinds at half staff, it was difficult to see each others' faces. after we asked our server to pull down the blinds, she only lowered 3 or 4 about another 1/4 of the way. talking to my friends and only seeing a silhouette with blinding light behind was unpleasant. i will say that at night i think this would not be a problem and i also might go back for lunch when it's storming. it's my next place to get my husband out to some evening - delicious food, nice sized portions - at lunch anyway.

my wife and i are here for new years. it was incredible and the service was great. we are definitely going back. much better than the other italian restaurants in the area.

not what i expected. sugo's has flavorless food and small portions for an italian eatery. the wait staff was nice.

nice place. dined there tonight for the first time and was pleasantly surprised. i had the veal and my wife had the bolognese and we split a tiramasu. portions were just the right size for our appetite and the dessert was very light. my wife liked the interior, large mirror, rustic wall art, etc. the high ceilings did make the sound rattle around a bit but all in all it was a very nice meal and a great addition to the edwardsville dining scene.

trying new things, still enjoying!. on our most recent visit i tried the lasagna. it's huge portion, definitely enough for two meals. it is stacked high, yet has a very delicate construction that cuts easily with a fork and doesn't cause the whole thing to disintigrate all over the plate. it was very good. my gf had the tilapia special over pasta and red sauce, which is a little different with a fish dish, but she said it was still very good. i think she would have either preferred a spcier red sauce or a light garlic/butter/white wine type of sauce. good service and reasonable prices still make sugo's very attractive.
1/30/15 update: we've been back here about once a month on a regular basis. the babo's pizza continues to be a strong favorite. we've had the seafood specials several times and enjoyed all of them. the chicken spediini is very good too. they recently added soup to the menu and last night i had a great bowl of lobster bisque. the service seems to get better all the time (nikki did a great job last night) and the place was packed with a full waiting area, so it's clear that the word is getting around!



-----16 jul, 2013-----

try the specials. on our most recent visit we learned that there are designated specials for $5 on mon, tues and wed nights. i think it was a tuesday and i had the spaghetti with shrimp and spicy red sauce and for $5 it was an outstanding value! we are also big fans of the bobo's pizza which has sausage, balsamic vinegar and a few other nice touches. (just make sure you check your bill. i did get overcharged on a glass of wine recently).



-----28 apr, 2013-----

my impression keeps improving. i've been back here a couple of times since the initial opening and my other experiences have been better and better. it's still a bit clamorous in there with the noise, but the food is pretty good. one time we tried pizzas and found them to be good, thin crust, real cheese and a few nice twists, like a sprinkle of balsamic vinegar that added a great flavor. the other night we tried the seafood specials, one shrimp and one cod and both were quite good. decent prices, good wine, prompt service, all very solid.



-----30 oct, 2012-----

still getting up to speed. i tried sugo's during its first week in business for dinner on a friday night. the room is designed to look a little "rustic tuscan", and has a nice atmosphere. it is, however, a big, boxy room with concrete floors, lots of glass and bare walls and high metal ceilings with little in the way of acoustics. needless to say, the when the room is full it can put the "din" in dinner.
nikki was my server and she was very friendly and quick with a menu and a glass of wine. i ordered a house salad and a plate of the tutto mare pasta with seafood. i waited, but the salad did not appear. after a significant amount of time my server came by and said the salad would be right up, but within seconds another server arrived with my pasta, so i asked her to let them know i wouldn't need the salad as i had planned to have that first and they were very apologetic about the mix up. i do understand that a new place usually takes a few weeks to get everyone on the same page and get the timing down, so i didn't come in with super high expectations. the tutomare was good in flavor with a delicious garlic sauce and nice portion size; it had several good sized shrimp and maybe a little crab meat, but no other seafood that i could detect.
the place was packed, so they are clearly getting the once over by an eager dining community in e-ville, and i hope they have things polished quickly. i would like to go back and try a few other dishes.june 2015:  continues to improve (they've added liquor to their alcohol offerings), and the risotto impresses me every time i try it.  the specials tend to be very good and the babbo's pizza is a perpetual favorite.

waste of money. brushetta toast hard as a rock with cold tomato on top.egg plant a 1 on a scale of five. lasagna-you have to go out of your way to make it this bad. noodles overcooked overall watery no taste. we saw a couple at the next table ask where was the sauce for their spagetti and meat balls. it is your money waste it if you want.

awful! lasagna was huge but was the worst i have ever had. i felt compelled to eat it because i paid for it...i had to choke it down. it wasn't hot. very loud inside. my friend said last time he came his meatball was ice cold. the waitress committed the sin of all sins when we set a 50 down for a 37 dollar meal,...do you want change for that? she also tried to force a salad on us...felt like i was at the used car lot.

love it!. my mother and i went for lunch during the week. they have a special where you get 1/2 pizza or pasta combined with a 1/2 salad or soup for $9.99, with bread served. i got the chicken fettucini alfredo and the field greens salad. my mom got the mushroom pasta and the caeser salad. i practically licked my plate for both the salad and the pasta, and i left stuffed. so good!

my mom was a little disappointed in her pasta. she said it just lacked flavor. it was a mushroom broth and noodles, which is exactly what the menu described, but i guess she expected more? her salad was very good.

i have been meaning to go back to sugo's, but my boyfriend is always afraid because apparently i was breathing garlic in my sleep for the next couple days, even after a thorough brushing/flossing/mouthwash routine!

i highly recommend this place. i love the open room, the views of the kitchen, the windows. it's great!

having been involved in the restaurant/food service business for my entire life i have to say, sugo's in edwardsville is a fresh welcome suprise. it takes alot to impress my family. many places put too much into the atmosphere only to miss the mark on the food, others try to put too much on the menu and miss because you cannot put the time needed to create great food when it's an overwhelming menu. keep it simple, keep it fresh, make it you own signature. that's what i was taught in culinary school. we went to sugo's for a birthday celebration and they hit the mark on everything! for those who say it was loud--seriously?? i cringe when asked to eat at the 'pre made', run of the mill, copy cat, extremely loud, herd in herd out, 'fast food' establishments (applebee's, chilis, steak joints, pasta house, mexican joints, etc). our party was not all there and we were seated immediately, served drinks, and the best bread we've had the pleasure of enjoying in a long time!! so i dont understand the issues others commented on. like many americans, we expect italian food to be heavy on the spices, sauces, cheeses, etc, but 'real' italian fare is light and the flavor of the ingredients is what comes thru. not over burdened by sauces. our waiter was very good as were the rest of the staff. we all ordered a vast array of the menu and everyone loved their choices. the spaghetti and meatballs were the 'bomb' as my 3 adult sons commented. the atmosphere was open, clean, rustic, and very inviting. no overwhelming walls of crap like many places feel the need to have. the pasta was cooked the way pasta should be- al dente- not mush like most think it should be. too many times there are people who are in a foul mood when they decide to dine out, which in turn makes them the most critical, impossible to please, rude, and unappreciative ones to cook n serve. i say this due to many of the reviews i have read and life experience as a chef, mgr, wait staff. we will definitely be back to sugo's. try it n decide for yourself, you wont be disappointed.. oh and as far as comparing to bella milano--yes bella has very good food, the big difference is the bill at the end. if on a budget sugo's, if money is no option bella.. both places got it right..