Iannucci's Hendersonville

Staff is exceptionally friendly and attentive. We had a large party and thus I got to try a number of their offerings. They are right - their lasagna is the absolute best anywhere. Carrabbas could take lessons from this place. The chicken dishes were excellent. On the downside, the pizza was rather lackluster and average. The pizza would benefit from a better sauce, which is not that hard to find and make; they also need to use less sauce. They need to be careful about cooking time / temp - each of the pizzas (outer crust / dough) were more than singed. Adding just a hint of sugar to the dough mixture would also create a better flavor for the dough. The only real negative here was the breadsticks. They were so hard several of our party could not bite into them. Worse, the breadsticks had an unpleasant, almost sour taste to them. 7 out of the 9 people in our party agreed about the breadsticks. Pricing on everything was exceptionally reasonable.

Great Italian Food. My family and I love this place. You can tell an authentic Italian restaurant from a wannabe as soon as you enter the door, even if you were blindfolded, for a real Italian restaurant has that Italian fragrance wafting from their kitchen, and Iannucci's causes your mouth to water when you enter--you can almost taste the air. The owner makes a wonderful marinara sauce every morning, and it's one of the best marinara sauces I've ever tasted--and I grew up just outside of NYC, where there are more Italian restaurants than you can count--just delicious with his warm homemade bread sticks. I usually don't eat white bread, but I do when I go to Iannucci's. My wife recently had the pasta with Italian sausage, and it was delicious; the portions were huge, a big bowl of pasta and two large sausages, for about ten bucks, and that comes with a salad and bread sticks. I had the Eggplant Parmesan and a side of pasta with the salad and bread sticks. The Eggplant Parmesan is incredible, just absolutely delicious, and as good as any I've had in the NYC area. Our two kids ordered a large House pizza, and it was very good, but I had asked if they could make it NY style thin crust, and it wasn't really that, but still very tasty. Their prices are more than reasonable. Many entrees are only $7, like their lasagna is only seven something, which is a great deal in this day and age. I highly recommend this little Italian restaurant. I don't understand it having only a 72 rating. It is much better than that. Perhaps some southerners, raised on Dominos and Pizza Hut do not appreciate the real thing, but Iannucci's has been serving food there since 1978, so a lot of somebodies around here have been appreciating it. To top it off, the staff is always friendly.