Reviews for Nonna Lisa's Italian Restaurant in Mackinaw City, MI

Why are 0 stars not an option? This place is just about the worst I've ever experienced (and this is coming from a person who... waited over an hour for drinks once). Almost $20 for a tiny caprese salad (see pic) with old spinach, no basil, 6 slices oftomato and 5 small boconcini balls. Margherita pizza tasted funky and used dried basil instead of fresh. Thursday night andthis was the only place open when we arrived. The restaurant was practically empty. We stood in the takeout line while the girlat the desk took phone order after phone order and got distracted by a dude/friend who didn't even work there) while a queueformed behind us. Eventually the manager came out and took our order after about 10-15 minutes. We sat and waited for over 40minutes (surrounded by the terrible horrible stuffed animals) and eventually the pizza came out. Then we waited another 10±minutes for the salad to come out, so the pizza went cold. And the salad was absolutely the worst. Wish I had just gone withoutdinner ???? Read more

i ordered the seafood portofino and it was so delicious!! even the noodles were amazing. the atmosphere is strange - they have... tons of stuffed animals (taxidermy style) EVERYWHERE. it was so overpriced though :/ server was very nice and gave us a discount Read more

Ambience - it depends if you like to be surrounded with stuffed animals while eating. (I am not a fan of that) Service -... good Food - Ok Location - Great. Enjoyed fireworks@09:00 pm on Friday before the dinner I ordered Gnocchi Sorrentina and GardenMarinara. Read more

Dinner was absolutely fantastic. The service was friendly and helpful as well. The pricing was medium to high, but the portion... sizes were really big, which was nice. Glad we chose to have dinner here. Read more

Love the decor. It was very rustic with lots of exotic animal mounts, including Zebra. Food was pricy, but it's a tourist town... & we were on vacation, so we chose to eat there. I had the shrimp scampi and it was very good! Came with a baked potato &steamed veggies. My husband had the Italian salad and liked it also. Read more

I ordered 1.Alfredo Fettuccine with grilled Chicken : Worst possible grilled chicken ever. It was burnt. If you grill chicken... for 1 hour the chicken will become hard like rubber. I usually never waste food but in this case I couldn?t eat ???? Usually Ireview things which I really like but this is exceptional case. 2.Pizza (Make your own) It was an average pizza nothing great.I felt it?s bit over cooked. Ambiance 5/5 Food 2/5 Price 2/5 Staff 5/5 I like the ambiance. You can find most of the wildanimals of North America continent. Read more

First and foremost the food we got was amazing! We had to go back a second time. For appetizers we had Bruschetta, we created... our own pizza with our fav toppings and got the Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo (the reason we went back twice). The steak wasextremely delicious and the sauce didn?t taste like a regular Alfredo sauce, it was creamier and cheesier. The decor definitelydoesn?t scream Italian, it was all taxidermy but it was pretty and I actually enjoyed snapping a few pictures of it. The staffwas very friendly and quick. Would definitely go back when I visit again. Read more

One of the best Italian restaurants we've been too. Pizza is super delicious with the best quality meat toppings. What we love... the most is the seafood portofino pasta, one of the best pastas we've ever had. I have never been a fan of the mussels but Ibecame a convert with their succulent and juicy blue mussels. The scallops were perfectly cooked. We'd love to eat there againif we ever go back to Mackinaw City. Read more