Ciao Baby! - Barrington

My fav italian restaurant around! Everything’s always amazing.

Everything was perfect! I was looking for a local restaurant, not a chain, which can be hard in suburbs. You choose your pasta and sauce and toppings! I loved it and the salted caramel Gelato was so good!

Love everything about this place. Food is great, staff is great, prices are reasonable. Bacala is the best ever here. Insanely huge and incredible carrot cake.

Very nice restaurant. The food was very tasty and staff very friendly and helpful.

We have eaten at this restaurant several times and it has always been good...until today. I went to lunch with a friend and we both ordered sandwiches. I ordered mine without mayo as I can't eat mayo for health reasons. I emphasized no mayo with the waitress. The sandwich arrived slathered with mayo that was not visible from the outside and I found out it was there when I got a mouthful of it. I gave it back to the waitress and nicely explained I couldn't eat it for medical reasons and she took it back. By the time I got another sandwich it was 15 minutes later and my friend had finished everything on her plate. I packed most of mine up to go. We ordered gelato which took inordinately long to get given the half full restaurant and which had what I think was a piece of glass in it. I did not tell the waitress as I didn't have a half day to wait for someone to scoop more and I didn't want it anyway by that time. What was disappointing was that there was no adjustment to the bill for the difficulties and apparently not enough sense of responsibility to fix things in a timely matter or care that service was poor. I have to say that this was an aberrant experience that has never previously happened at Ciao Baby. It will not keep me from returning for more dinners but I think I will go elsewhere for lunch. They don't seem to have their act together at midday.