Whipped Butter & Salad Dressing Great On Yeasty Bread
 

Spicy Veg & Sharp Cheese Are Delicious
 

Good Salad
 

Great Soup
 

Braciole Was Fine
 

Eggplant Discs Are As Close To Long Lost Favorite As We've Found
 

Trio Of Awesome
 

Especially The Cheesy Lasagne
 

Couldn't Resist Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cannoli
 

Or Peach Bourbon Cheesecake
 

Having heard about this place, my brother had tried to take us here before, but we got all confused about the name and ended up behind a bowling alley eating unfortunate pasta and drinking free homemade wine. With our heads on straight we took another short cruise across the PA line to Sharon and found Muscarella’s. Amidst several hulking and empty steel buildings this restaurant is bristling with life. It appears small from the outside and they have a nifty little sign on the side of the building that lets you know how long the wait is with a traffic light system, so if you happen to be driving by you can tell if you’ll be sitting or standing. Once you get inside the place is dark and cavernous and seems to go on much further than the boundaries of the outside walls. The booths are incredibly spacious which makes more sense once you’ve eaten there. If you are a regular, you are going to need a large booth.
 

The menu is expansive and they have a list of thirteen sauce options which you can mix and match with your order. We tried lasagna (which is meatless depending on the sauce you add) one with Traditional Sauce and one with Bolognese, Cavatelli with Traditional Red and meatballs, and friends right down the date, I ordered the best thing at the table. I tried the Filet Gorgonzola which consists of fettucine noodles in a Gorgonzola sauce with grilled filet mignon tips and portabella mushrooms.

Most of which could be topped by any of the following:

• Our Traditional Old World Red – with meatballs or our homemade loose sausage

• Bolognese – traditional Italian red meat sauce

• Marinara – our meatless tomato sauce with chunks of bell peppers and onions

• Pink – a light blend of Old World red and Alfredo sauces

• Spicy Red Pepper – a Pink sauce of lightly blended Marinara & Alfredo sauce with red pepper seeds

• Vodka – sautéed Prosciutto with plum tomatoes, blended with cream, Vodka, & Italian cheese

• Sun Dried Tomato – a Pink sauce of blended emulsified sun dried tomatoes & seasoned cream

• Roasted Pepper – oven roasted red peppers finely chopped & blended in a light cream sauce

• Alfredo – our white sauce with rich flavor of cream & Parmesan cheese

• Gorgonzola – a blend of Gorgonzola cheese and Alfredo to create a pungent sauce

• Olive – a rich cream sauce combining Italian cheese & variety of Italian olives

• d’Oglio – a blend of seasoned extra virgin olive oil with fresh garlic & herbs

• Pesto – fresh basil, garlic & pine nuts puréed in extra virgin olive oil with Romano cheese

The Cavatelli was good. The Traditional Old World Red Sauce has a real fresh flavor resulting from the chunks of green pepper and onion. The meatballs are made from a more coarsely ground mix giving them more texture than most and they fall apart in your mouth releasing well seasoned meatiness. The lasagna doesn’t require meat, something I didn’t think I would ever write, although the meat sauce is excellent. Between the layers of pasta are unusually thick layers of seriously seasoned and sweet ricotta cheese. Simple and perfect. I have been watching my diet for the past couple of weeks or so and was ready to have a little naughty, okay super naughty. Gorgonzola enhanced Alfredo, thick al dente noodles, mid rare filet. Heaven, and tons of it we actually turned it into three meals. Certainly the restaurant was built to feed the families of thousands of steel workers. The mills are mostly gone but the place is still packed, good enough to pull people in from all over, and they can add one more to the list.