Casual neighborhood family-owned Italian restaurant and deli serves up all the Italian goodies: chicken parmesan, sausage pasta, soups, stuffed peppers, beef braciole, or house pizza. Their desserts counter consists of chocolate cakes, éclairs, spumoni ice cream, and tiramisu. Don't forget to visit their wine shop just next door. Take-out orders welcome but no delivery service.
Roma Restaurant: 8524 W. Sahara Ave., 702-228-2264, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. daily; open until 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
This restaurant was reviewed in the March 2007 LVA; some of the information contained in the review may no longer be accurate. Here’s a little Italian restaurant on the west side that its patrons swear by. Casa Roma is a no-frills eatery where you can also pick up deli meats, cheeses, salads, and other Italian-cooking to go. Open for lunch and dinner, the ever-present specials board gives you plenty to choose from, or you can order the inexpensive pastas off the regular menu. We sampled one of our all-time favorite dishes off the board—filet mignon with porcini ($24.95)—and all the pastas are homemade. Lunch is a bustling scene with its own specials board, plus lots of pasta plates and salads, all under $10. The big sandwiches—Italian, roast beef, turkey—are tremendous and about $6 each. Homemade minestrone is $5.50. Or just craft your own antipasto (not forgetting to include the excellent calamari salad). The waiters are spectacular at dinner, which begins at 5 pm seven days a week. It’s open till 8 on Sundays, 9 on weekdays, and 10 on Fridays and Saturdays.