Lorenzo's Italian Restaurant

Mr. Ref here, this month was my pick and I picked Lorenzo's Italian Restaurant in Belton.  As I have stated in previous blogs, Italian is my favorite food, I love spaghetti, lasagna, pizza and any type of pasta, so I have picked Italian restaurants a few times.  This month I wanted to pick somewhere other that Westport, the Plaza, downtown or the normal type places we go.  I wanted to see if there are other places around the city that compare to the normal places we like to visit.  Plus I wanted to be able to drive up to the front of the restaurant and be able to park without roaming around for ten minutes looking for a very small spot that looks like it was made for a VW bug and not a normal size car.  Don't get me wrong, I love the quaint little places we go to eat each month and almost all of the time the food is really good and the company is great.  But there has to be some other mom & pop joints around the city that can compete with those type of places.

Quite honestly, Lorenzo's was good, but it did not hold up to our norm.  Mrs. Ref & I, and one other, forgot to blog last month and so we had to provide appetizers for all, we had Fried Ravioli, Mozzarella Sticks & Meatballs.  The Fried Ravioli & Mozzarella Sticks were fine, and I enjoyed them, but they seemed very similar to store bought and not freshly prepared.  However the meatballs were a different story, the meatballs themselves were very good and the red sauce provided was even better.  The meatballs were definitely the best appetizer.  This may sound weird, but for my main dish I had a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich and it was surprisingly good.  It wasn't the best I have ever had but the meat was tender and cooked very well, the onions and peppers were also very good, but there was not nearly enough cheese.  The cheese was good, but for me to make the sandwich perfect it needed more cheese so the whole thing would just melt in your mouth.  I also tried Mrs. Ref's Seafood Ravioli and it was very good and very tasty, and had large chunks of seafood in every bite.  I did like Lorenzo's and I would go back, but I would not make a special trip.  I gave it a 3.5 out of 5.