Portofino Italian Restaurant 456 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, NH 03054

"A friend gave us a gift card to Portofinos and we had the opportunity to go yesterday for my birthday. I can’t tell you how surprised I was in how absolutely delicious everything was. We had the harvest sangria with eggplant caprese. Our entree was chicken parmigiana and a dish my wife had call Laguna. Both were incredible. We were both so happy to have the chance to go to this wonderful restaurant."

"I've been told this place is a little slice of Italy, but I think the slice has gone a little stale. The atmosphere is definitely Italian enough, but add a touch of dive bar and old carpet, and that's what you should expect. The Alfredo and homemade pasta were good. But the tomato sauce was pretty mid. We didn't really even eat the spaghetti because it wasn't worth it. The chicken parm was good. Would probably not come again. However, I wouldn't be upset if I had to."

"Excellent quality but plain sauce, okay everything else. In so many ways everything about this restaurant was good and enjoyable, but nothing also felt new/unique. The main standout was it's high quality execution of just a very basic marinara sauce that I feel beats out all the competition in the area. They did a much better job of pulling the flavor out of the tomatoes or perhaps using higher quality ones, regardless it's the standout thing for me. Might change this rating up if I find something on the menu that really pops I will be back again because it's close enough and the sauce did impress."

"My pasta was soupy, not creamy, the beef was awful. Plates came out cold. the wine glasses were cheap and my white wine was warm. The service was good but I was disappointed with the food."

"I left here extremely disappointed. The apps were amazing, but my waitress Julie left a very bad taste in my mouth. She started chatting with us and we were enjoying it at first until dinner arrived. Dinner was watery, no sauce was sticking to my pasta and I had pointed it out to Julie which she said she would have the cooks remake it for me. She proceeded to talk very loudly and poorly about us in the kitchen, with us right outside the door. The food was brought back the same way, just more sauce added but still extremely watery. No flavor in the food, it all tasted frozen, very bitter. She was also bashing other restaurants we visit, which we’ve never had a bad experience there but they were closed today so that’s the only reason we chose this restaurant to go to today. Avoid this place if you can, poor service and poor quality of food."