Visited for the first time with my family. We have an 8 and 1 yo. The whole staff was very friendly to us and the children. We all loved the atmosphere to the point where my older daughter now wants us to remodel our kitchen to look like the restaurant. The appetizer came out fast and was great. Our meals were all absolutely fantastic and just what I expect when I go out to a nice dinner. I highly recommend the Pear and Gorgonzola pasta, an offering that’s hard to come by at other restaurants. We would have stayed for dessert if it hadn’t been time to put the kids to bed. We will definitely be back again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Meatballs with Ricotta
Richard Levitt
Risotto rice underdone and crunchy. Same dish inedibly salty. Pasta Primavera vegetables overdone. Artichokes were not fresh and inedibly tough. Choke still present. Tiramasu was actually spoiled and had to be thrown out. True we went on a quiet Thursday in March but they were not on their game.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
ColleenW
Last minute pick for our vacation. Best meal of the week. All homemade pastas. Fresh and delicious meals. Plus... it's BYOB. We had seafood, chicken parm and stuffed pasta. All were delicious! Highly recommend!
SusanV
We had a lovely meal with 5 women who have been having a hard time. We were able to talk and feel relaxed and not feel rushed. Service was excellent and food was really good. I had beet salad and penne with broccoli rabe and sausage. Delish! Huge portions and delicious dessert ( tiramisu) After dinner we walked the 1/2 block to the boardwalk and loved the fresh salt air. We will return for sur
Bernadette
Everything about this place was top notch. The food was excellent. The service was attentive and always around when we needed her. Since it was a BYOB it was reasonable. Definitely will be returning
Familyofsix
The service was excellent from the moment we walked in the door. Very welcoming and friendly. The food is so good- I had chicken and my husband had veal. Perfect plates. Thanks for a wonderful meal.
StaceyJ
Food was hot and delicious. The servers are friendly, quick and smiling. The restaurant remodel is beautiful and the should have their liquor license soon - the new bar area is really nice!
We arrived really excited for the new years celebration.When we arrived there was no one at the front door to welcome you. We needed to walk to the back of the restaurant asking employees who we give our name to. When we finally found the host we tried giving our name twice before he checked us off the reservation list. Then we got the menus and saw it was a smaller menu. Nothing indicated on the reservation that the full menu would not be served. It took 3 hours to get our main course. And when we did the food was cold. So sad . Two tables while we were there walked out after their salads. Yelling how ridiculous the delay was. Since it was so late we asked for containers for our food and our dessert which they made us order in the beginning, to go. The waitress came back with none of the desserts we ordered saying they were all out. We sadly won't be back. The management overextended their resources causing a terrible experience .
CathyK
The food was pretty good. The ambience......not so good. I liked the old interior better. The new interior has little , if any, warmth. But the worst part of our evening was the noise level. It was ridiculous. I couldn't even have a conversation with my friend who was sitting right across the table from me. We were there New Years Eve, so I understand it could be louder than usual, but this was unbearable. The tables were practically on top of one another. We had a 7 pm reservation and did not get seated until almost 8 pm. We were told there would be live music, but there was none. Even if there was, you wouldn't have been able to hear it. Not a great experience. We couldn't wait to get out of there.
Ventnorose
Our NYE dinner was excellent. The waitstaff was professional and friendly. The menu was divine - four generous delicious courses for $75. Champagne flutes! ? Food well paced and hot and delicious. Music low! Outstanding job, Aroma!
My family went last night for Christmas Eve dinner. I am a vegan and I asked for a special dinner which they did make. There was a hair in my food and we told the server they apologize and said they would remake my food. I was waiting for a while, and I saw a waitress bring food to the table next to us and it look like my food. The waitress then came to our table and said sorry it’s taking so long for your food I said, are you sure they didn’t bring my food to the next table, it looks like my food , she said yes they did. I am sorry I will take your food off of your bill. My son had the casino appetizer and he said the clams were very chewy. He did have a short ribs and said it was delicious. My husband had the veal Milanese, and he said it was fair as I was leaving, I saw the manager he is the one who I told there was a hair in my food. He said he was sorry and I said to him that they brought my food to the table next to them and I am leaving your restaurant hungry and he did not say a word. We are not planning to return!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Munchkin
Had an early reservation at 4:30 so nobody was really there on a Wednesday night. Didn't really wait long for our meals to arrive and they were fabulous. My date was never there before and he was really impressed. We'll be back.
Anthony Cancela Jr
Great place, 5 mins from casinos. Really good BYOB Italian restaurant. Great service.Nice hidden gem!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
TeeTimeMike
We went back to Aroma after several months ago. They made some renovations to the place including placing panels to reduce the noice level as it was extremely loud during dining. The upgrades did help a bit to reduce the noice level. The food was delicious; especially the short ribs & veal aroma. As for the starters while the Caesar salad was good and the grilled octopus was just ok. They've changed the way it is prepared and gave slices (rather than a whole piece) in sauce with chopped broccolini (or broccoli rabe) but there was too much sauce & not as good as it used to be. The chocolate cake was rich and was a nice finish to our menu. The service was very good & nicely spaced out except that it took forever (25-30 mins) to receive our check, however, to be fair they seemed quite short handed. Aroma was a nice experience however we'd suggest going during the week as it is normally quite crowded on weekends.
R P
Treated horribly. Had to get up and ask the manager to put in an order. There were people who sat after us who got food before us. The manager was rude when we called her out for our mistreatment and bad service. We were the only brown family and we felt discriminated as we weren’t getting the service we were deserve like any other paying customers.
Visited for the first time with my family. We have an 8 and 1 yo. The whole staff was very friendly to us and the children. We all loved the atmosphere to the point where my older daughter now wants us to remodel our kitchen to look like the restaurant. The appetizer came out fast and was great. Our meals were all absolutely fantastic and just what I expect when I go out to a nice dinner. I highly recommend the Pear and Gorgonzola pasta, an offering that’s hard to come by at other restaurants. We would have stayed for dessert if it hadn’t been time to put the kids to bed. We will definitely be back again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Meatballs with Ricotta
Risotto rice underdone and crunchy. Same dish inedibly salty. Pasta Primavera vegetables overdone. Artichokes were not fresh and inedibly tough. Choke still present. Tiramasu was actually spoiled and had to be thrown out. True we went on a quiet Thursday in March but they were not on their game.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Last minute pick for our vacation. Best meal of the week. All homemade pastas. Fresh and delicious meals. Plus... it's BYOB. We had seafood, chicken parm and stuffed pasta. All were delicious! Highly recommend!
We had a lovely meal with 5 women who have been having a hard time. We were able to talk and feel relaxed and not feel rushed. Service was excellent and food was really good. I had beet salad and penne with broccoli rabe and sausage. Delish! Huge portions and delicious dessert ( tiramisu) After dinner we walked the 1/2 block to the boardwalk and loved the fresh salt air. We will return for sur
Everything about this place was top notch. The food was excellent. The service was attentive and always around when we needed her. Since it was a BYOB it was reasonable. Definitely will be returning
The service was excellent from the moment we walked in the door. Very welcoming and friendly. The food is so good- I had chicken and my husband had veal. Perfect plates. Thanks for a wonderful meal.
Food was hot and delicious. The servers are friendly, quick and smiling. The restaurant remodel is beautiful and the should have their liquor license soon - the new bar area is really nice!
We arrived really excited for the new years celebration.When we arrived there was no one at the front door to welcome you. We needed to walk to the back of the restaurant asking employees who we give our name to. When we finally found the host we tried giving our name twice before he checked us off the reservation list. Then we got the menus and saw it was a smaller menu. Nothing indicated on the reservation that the full menu would not be served. It took 3 hours to get our main course. And when we did the food was cold. So sad . Two tables while we were there walked out after their salads. Yelling how ridiculous the delay was. Since it was so late we asked for containers for our food and our dessert which they made us order in the beginning, to go. The waitress came back with none of the desserts we ordered saying they were all out. We sadly won't be back. The management overextended their resources causing a terrible experience .
The food was pretty good. The ambience......not so good. I liked the old interior better. The new interior has little , if any, warmth. But the worst part of our evening was the noise level. It was ridiculous. I couldn't even have a conversation with my friend who was sitting right across the table from me. We were there New Years Eve, so I understand it could be louder than usual, but this was unbearable. The tables were practically on top of one another. We had a 7 pm reservation and did not get seated until almost 8 pm. We were told there would be live music, but there was none. Even if there was, you wouldn't have been able to hear it. Not a great experience. We couldn't wait to get out of there.
Our NYE dinner was excellent. The waitstaff was professional and friendly. The menu was divine - four generous delicious courses for $75. Champagne flutes! ? Food well paced and hot and delicious. Music low! Outstanding job, Aroma!
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My family went last night for Christmas Eve dinner. I am a vegan and I asked for a special dinner which they did make. There was a hair in my food and we told the server they apologize and said they would remake my food. I was waiting for a while, and I saw a waitress bring food to the table next to us and it look like my food. The waitress then came to our table and said sorry it’s taking so long for your food I said, are you sure they didn’t bring my food to the next table, it looks like my food , she said yes they did. I am sorry I will take your food off of your bill. My son had the casino appetizer and he said the clams were very chewy. He did have a short ribs and said it was delicious. My husband had the veal Milanese, and he said it was fair as I was leaving, I saw the manager he is the one who I told there was a hair in my food. He said he was sorry and I said to him that they brought my food to the table next to them and I am leaving your restaurant hungry and he did not say a word. We are not planning to return!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Had an early reservation at 4:30 so nobody was really there on a Wednesday night. Didn't really wait long for our meals to arrive and they were fabulous. My date was never there before and he was really impressed. We'll be back.
Great place, 5 mins from casinos. Really good BYOB Italian restaurant. Great service.Nice hidden gem!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We went back to Aroma after several months ago. They made some renovations to the place including placing panels to reduce the noice level as it was extremely loud during dining. The upgrades did help a bit to reduce the noice level. The food was delicious; especially the short ribs & veal aroma. As for the starters while the Caesar salad was good and the grilled octopus was just ok. They've changed the way it is prepared and gave slices (rather than a whole piece) in sauce with chopped broccolini (or broccoli rabe) but there was too much sauce & not as good as it used to be. The chocolate cake was rich and was a nice finish to our menu. The service was very good & nicely spaced out except that it took forever (25-30 mins) to receive our check, however, to be fair they seemed quite short handed. Aroma was a nice experience however we'd suggest going during the week as it is normally quite crowded on weekends.
Treated horribly. Had to get up and ask the manager to put in an order. There were people who sat after us who got food before us. The manager was rude when we called her out for our mistreatment and bad service. We were the only brown family and we felt discriminated as we weren’t getting the service we were deserve like any other paying customers.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1