Germano's Piattini

My wife and I were visiting from Arizonia. Spent the day touring the Inner Harbor, when she had a striking brilliant idea to walk over to Little Italy for a late lunch/early dinner. Most restaurants closed by 3pm and opened again at 5pm. Germano's was the only lace opened it seemed. The place was empty. The owners were conducting business at the bar, but quickly welcomed us in. The ambiance was cozy and quiet. Our service was excellent. We were the only people there. She was informative and friendly. We ordered the fried calamari for starters. It was scarfed down quickly. I order the shrimp scampi and my wife had the gnocchi. Both were top notch! The gnocchi was so light and fluffy. My pasta was homemade and not too rich. We struggled to finish our plates but saved room for dessert. The cheesecake is an absolute must have! With a few beers the meal with tip was around $100. Worth every penny! I would definitely recommend. We will be back again if ever in Baltimore.

A small eatery in Little Italy. Staff is attentive, dining room decoration is nice. I had the Spaghetti with Two Cheeses and Pepper Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe which was made with good quality pasta, and the description is exactly what I got. Nothing fancy, and I liked it. The wife had Lasagna Lasagna Classica; she was not as satisfied with her meal, commenting that her Lasagna was much better. Her verdict was the meat was not fresh, and there was no Ricotta in the dish.

Delicious food in a wonderful old town Baltimore atmosphere. Amazingly reasonable prices for authentic Italian food. We loved the Beet Ravioli in Mushroom Ragu. Excellent wine list, fabulous service! We will go back soon!

Music was great! Worthy brothers. Food was excellent. Classy and diverse audience. Definitely not one note. Waiter was animated and engaging in the best way. There are a small amount of steep stairs that people might want to be aware of. But what's at the top of the stairs..."worth" it!!!

The music with dinner was fantastic! The decor is very nice, the setting was quite lovely, except the ceiling tiles; a little dingy looking ceiling tiles need to be replaced immediately, but nicely themed; painted, etc... Our waitress was melancholy, stressed and seemingly overworked with all the tables she had at once. At times, we ran out of ice tea, and waited a while for appetizers and food, but the service was not terrible I tipped 20%. The appetizers brussels sprouts wwere very good. However, the rest of dinner was terrible at best. Our party of three tried the bread, cheese pizza, and lasagna and they were all terrible flavor. The sauce on the lasagna tasted like a mixture of Ragu spaghetti sauce and carryout ketchup! The pizza was soggy, and the bread was hard as a rock, with no flavor at all the second batch brought out was a little warmer and softer but still tasteless. Not what you expect from a italian restaurant. My wifes work colleague made us lasagna the other day that was far better in every aspect taste, viscosity, warmth, presentation, spices, preparation, etc... HOWEVER... The live music The Carl Grubbs Quartet was simply amazing! Germano's Piattini supports live music from different local bands to play while having dinner. Because of this, even though the food was not good at all except the brussel sprouts me, and the cheesecake according to my wife I will happily eat their again music nights only. They must make some dishes that are good, right? I will exhaust them all for good obvionce, and live jazz music, which this place has!

The porchetta is very good. The waiters talk too often with you. Strange decoration for an Italian restaurant.

Very cute place, with ok food, bad service and great music, i will not go back sorry.

Nice service and good looking dishes, altho i was stomach sick that day so i unfortunately didnt get to try the pasta... i had some warm bread comes with oil and balsamic vinegar and then had the soup of the day, which was very tasty and warming.

We ate here at a classic Italian Dinner time 1:30pm, Sunday and it was a very enjoyable meal. The food was very fresh, from the eggplant to the beet ravioli and grilled octopus and the “piattini” menu permitted a sampling of lots of items think tapas. The service was attentive and we added a bottle of Chianti to round out a wonderful meal. Reasonably priced for this level of quality and we all highly recommend!

Quickly became our new favorite! Delicious and authentic Italian dinner, friendly service and a warm atmosphere. The Brussel sprouts and shrimp were delicious. Everyone loved the lasagna and we finished everything off with some of the best cheesecake! We left full and happy, and will be back for more.