Echo Bridge Restaurant & Cafe

This is a quintessential back-in-the-day Italian restaurant/bar. It's been in the same location for decades. We enjoyed a quick lunch when we returned to the area. It's just as we remembered.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Not a fancy place, but the best chicken parm in the area, by far.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Great pizza. Great food. Friendly staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I got their version of the Big Mac burger and it was amazing. To be honest everything about that place is amazing, the folks that work there are really cool and made me feel welcomed and provided great service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Old school family style Italian in Newton. Separate bar area that is usually packed with locals and regulars. Great atmosphere, friendly service and solid Italian and American fare. Prices are reasonable and they will do half plate sizes for about a 40 percent discount which is what I did with their Eggplant and Veal Parm combo dinner as I've photographed. Their pizza is quite good too. Definitely recommend for a casual or family dinner.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

The tuna club was absolutely delicious! Waitress we had was wonderful.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was very good

They cook a steak right. And where else can you buy delicious lightly breaded smelt?

Nice place for a cozy meal!

Very quiet ambiance. They had my favorite, Heineken, 0.0 (N/A), and enjoyed it.

Atmosphere: 5

Service: 5

Good Italian food restaurant. Very friendly staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Parm, Cheese Pizza, Fries, Chicken Wings, Liver and Onions

So the first time I ordered from here I ordered scallops.. which are clearly advertised as "sea scallops". Any seafood lovers out there know there's a very big difference (in size) between sea scallops and fresh water scallops... fresh water scallops are significantly smaller than sea... what I got were very clearly fresh water scallops. I was very disappointed about that, but just kind of let it go. Today I decided to give them a 2nd chance, with a completely different dish. I will never order from here again. I ordered a TWENTY- TWO DOLLAR steak tip sub!! 22$!!! Not including the extra dollar to add cheese and 2$ for the Cajun fries over regular. After tip and everything it came out to almost 35$ (I also got a stuffed quahog). The sub was supposed to be rare to med rare... look at the pics!! That is defs NOT even med rare, let alone rare! The tips are soooo tough it's unreal!! I couldn't even chew it!! Just look at that sub, does that look like a 22$ sub??? I get this same sub from a different place for 14$ and it's AMAZING!!
And the stuffed quahog.. just wow! I ended up giving it to my boss before I decided to take pics, but I took pics of the shell so you can see how ridiculously small it is. In the pics you can see it's barely bigger than the lemon wedge and there's zero depth to the shell.... which is normally not that big of a deal. Even if the shell isn't super big or deep, they're usually STUFFED and like over flowing. Not these ones! The stuffing was level with the brim of the shell and there literally wasn't a single clam in it at all!! Despite the description explicitly saying there's TONS of clams in it. The layer of stuffing was soooo thin that it was literally crusted to the shell from the cooking process (if you know what I mean, almost like cheese gets when you put it in the oven super long). There was genuinely, MAYBE, 1 1/2 tablespoons TOTAL in the shell!! I was dumbfounded when I opened that bag... if I wasn't at work and out of break time, I'd of returned the food and gotten my $ back!
The one good thing I'll say is, the quahogs were only 3$. So I guess that's not a terrible price for what I got.... even though the ones that they sell at Stop & Shop grocery store are a buck 50 and they have a minimum of 20+ times the stuffing in them.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 2

A fantastic place with great food and good people I highly reccomend it

Regular costumer

Thursday night AVOID this place! Some guy doing jeopardy thing with speaker blaring. Saw 2 groups walk in and walk out. Don’t think EB can afford to loose customers like that. Mentioned to waitress it’s too loud. I dont think she even heard me!
it’s way too loud! The speaker is on higher level of restaurant ( yet it was facing rest of restaurant). We don’t finish our food. Just left. Way too loud. Also one of our parties meal came out 15 min before other two people’s pizza. This was always a cozy Diner. Ruined.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1