Chef Paolino Cafe - Ellicott City

The food is immaculate. This is my favorite food place in Catonsville, amazing pastas, desserts, and appetizers. Great calamari, great bruchetta, and my fiancé swears on the lasagna. You will not be disappointed, this is the last heart-of-catonsville restaurant and they deserve the best recognition

Love this place. Great pizza, salads, garlic bread, etc. Very homey and most of the servers have been there for many years. Owner is very sexist and will only hire men (based on personal experience and insider information from employees) but other than that I love the place.

Solid Trattoria with beer and wine as well as NYC imported Italian pastries and Oyster Bar on Wednesdays through the winter. Recently had their mussels in white wine and full size New York style sausage and mushroom pepperoni pizza (pics). Suggest you order the combo pizza which allows three toppings. Cheaper than just ordering two toppings on their own. Both the muscles and the pizza were delicious. I even dipped the pizza a little bit into the broth. Another recent visit had three slices, tomato, spinach and mushrooms (pic). They were all delicious. We also love the shrimp salad wrap. Great big shrimp and tasty. My vegetarian wife loves their baked ziti and Mom and I love their seafood pastas with white, rosé, or marinara sauces. A lot of their stuff uses homemade sauce which is fantastic. And we also love their garlic knots. The garlic bread tends to be too hard but the garlic knots are the way to go.

Giving 4 stars because it’s more of a takeout place, not full service. You order at the counter, then they bring the food out. It’s a pain to keep going to the counter to order if you want to add on: food, drinks, etc. I’m showing pictures of something from the menu other than pizza. I highly recommend the garlic knots! The small house salad is enough for two people. Oh, and the wine is reasonably priced.

Great selection of Italian cuisine... Nothing fancy, just good eats.. Comfortable atmosphere, great for families Catonsville Maryland, ya gotta love it