When you find yourself craving Italian food while traveling through the Beaver State, stop in a restaurant that prepares classic Italian dishes in comfortable dining areas. Numerous Italian restaurants in Oregon offer traditional Italian favorites, as well as modern Italian dishes inspired by local produce, meats and cheeses.
Located in Portland, Oregon, Mamma Mia Trattoria prepares home-style southern Italian cuisine. The restaurant's dining room boasts nearly 100 mirrors and 20 crystal chandeliers. Mamma Mia's dinner menu selections include minestrone soup, thin-crust pepperoni pizza, linguine with clam sauce, pasta-less eggplant lasagna, penne with broccoli and veal Milanese. Lunch menu items include eggplant parmesan sandwiches, three-cheese manicotti and Caprese salad. Mamma Mia Trattoria's wine list features selections from Oregon, California and Italy. The restaurant offers on-site event planning services.
Mamma Mia Trattoria
439 S.W. 2nd Ave.
Portland, OR 97204
503-295-6464
mamamiatrattoria.com
Located in the town of Medford in central Oregon, Red Rock Italian Eatery & Barra offers authentic Italian cuisine in a relaxed, casual dining atmosphere. The restaurant boasts terra cotta walls lit up with strands of tiny sparkling white lights. The restaurant's menu includes appetizers such as fried ravioli and deep-fried calamari; salads such as pesto chicken salad and spinach primavera salad. Entree selections include grilled flat-iron steak, house-made meatballs with marinara, veal parmesan and cheese-filled ravioli. Red Rock's pizza selections include the Capone pizza with salami, ground beef, onions and pepperoni and the Milana pizza with grilled chicken, broccoli, tomatoes and onions. The restaurant's bar houses several flat-screen televisions.
Red Rock Italian Eatery & Barra
17 W. 4th St.
Medford, OR 97501
541-773-6840
redrockitalianeatery.com
Located about 50 miles south of Portland in Salem, Oregon, DaVinci Ristorante offers Italian cuisine in its upscale, brick wall and wood-accented dining room and bar. The restaurant's dinner menu presents selections such as pancetta-wrapped prawns, Gorgonzola cheese and pear salad, seafood fettuccine, house-cured pork chops and calamari steak. DaVinci's happy hour menu includes Dungeness crab cakes, beef tenderloin salad, pancetta pizza and pulled pork sandwiches. The restaurant's seasonal wine list includes selections from the Willamette Valley and Napa Valley, as well as Argentina and Australia. Da Vinci hosts schedule wine tastings and live music entertainment.
DaVinci Ristorante
180 High St. SE
Salem, OR 97301
503-399-1413
davincisofsalem.com
