Solo Trattoria Restaurant
A Freehold, NJ Restaurant Rating and Review

Solo Trattoria Restaurant
7 South St
Freehold, NJ
(732) 780-2337

Price	Moderate-Expensive
Fare	Italian
Restaurant Rating
Food	1 Star
Service	2 Stars
Decor	1.5 Stars
Overall Rating	1.5 Stars

Restaurant Review

Owners Piergiorgio Ceciarelli and Sam Shahin, from different parts of the world, have come together to run this traditional Italian restaurant in Downtown Freehold. The welcome greeting by either of the owners is very friendly and accommodating.

The decor is soft earth tones and soft lighting with three dining areas, the the middle dining area being a long narrow shaped room. When making reservations, ask for the back room.

The start of your meal is uninspiring, with bland bread rolls served in an unattractive stainless steel bowl, although the accompanying roasted garlic in oil is tasty.

The Solo Trattoria has a good selection of Italian entrees with excellent price value for under $20.00. This is especially true for lunch, and offers good price/valued.

Their lunch sandwiches are excellent with generous portions served on a choice of Tuscan Bread, Pita or Hoagie Roll, with a Small Salad and Rosemary Parmesan Potatoes.

If you enjoy good New England clam chowder, try it. It does not look or taste like New England clam chowder with it's fusion of corn giving it a slightly yellow color, but it's delicious creamy with hunks of fresh clams, with a taste that hard to beat in New Jersey, a state with a scarcity of good New England clam chowder.

For dinner, while there are a few good dishes, especially the pasta dishes, however, overall the food tends to be inconsistent, and unimaginative.

On a recent Saturday evening our restaurant editor tried two of the specials, the Red Snapper with mussels, clams and a marinara sauce with garlic, that was unimaginative and poorly done. The snapper was not fresh and tasted like two day old sea food that you would expect to have served on a Sunday evening at a mediocre restaurant. The other special was the Grilled Veal chops that were thin, tasteless, and unimaginatively presented.

The recommended dinner entrees are the lasagna classica all’Emiliana and the Rigatoni alla bolognese.

The desserts are basic Italian and unimaginative, similar to what you can purchase at the local pastry shop.