The Experience
Go Roma is a strange combination of counter service and table service, you order your meal at the front counter, fill up your own sodas, and pick out your own table. On your table you will find paper napkins and metal silverware laid out for you. Place your number in the holder and wait for someone to bring your food out. The food is presented on real plates giving you the more sit-down restaurant experience.

The Food
My wife ordered a half pizza/half salad meal and I ordered a Country-Style Rigatoni. The pizza/salad combo was presented on a rectangular plate with pizza on one side and the salad on the other. The pizza was thin crusty crispy flatbread with “just the right amount of cheese and just the right amount of sauce”. She felt it was exactly the right amount of food. She says it tasted terrific and in rare form, she ate everything on her plate, leaving no picking from me.

I had the country-style rigatoni that featured an Italian sausage, peppers, and garlic in a cream sauce. At first I thought the portion was just a smidgen small but it was quite adequate. The food was presented in a nice bowl along with a piece of bridge. Let me point out that this dish cost $7.85 (I spent $8.50 at Wendy’s for lunch) and tasted better than the same dish I have had at places charging three times the amount!

Summary
If you want top notch tasting food in a relaxed restaurant environment that is extremely easy on the wallet, you would be hard pressed to find better food than Go Roma. We spend more on food when the two of us go to Fatburger than we did tonight. We are instant fans of Go Roma and I can’t wait to go back and try some of the other items on the menu. We will certainly be going back many times and recommending it to all of our friends.

Website: http://www.goroma.net

When you get seated at your table you are given a clipboard with all of the available choices. You start with a protein and a size, your choices are Beef, Turkey, Veggie, and Grilled Chicker  at 1/3 pound, 2/3 pound, or 1 pound sizes. You then have 10 choices of cheeses, 18 toppings, 9 premium toppings, 17 sauces, and three choices of buns. There is also a good selection of starters, signature burgers, sandwiches, kids meals, and desserts.

Our Meals
My wife and I each went with 1/3 pound burgers each with a different selection of toppings and sauces and we split a 50/50 (half order of fries, half order of onion strings). The service was prompt and courteous and the food….well….simply put, it was terrific. The meat was cooked perfectly, seasoned well, the breads and toppings were nice and fresh and the fries were really good. The onion strings tasted terrific but were a little greasy. As much as we liked the food, my wife had a couple of complaints. First off, the 1/3 pound patty was larger than she would have liked, she actually couldn’t finish the whole thing. Secondly, the cheese was cut so thin that it almost wasn’t there, so ordering double-cheese is certainly called for if you are into your cheese.

Summary
We will certainly be going back and trying some other combinations and checking out some other starters. We have also heard good things about their milkshakes. As of this writing, their milkshake of the month is a vanilla ice cream shake mixed with white birthday cake and topped with sprinkles and whipped cream.

Website: http://www.thecounterburger.com