Nick Marie's Esta Esta - Monroeville

Want an old-school Italian restaurant with old-fashioned decor and extra-large and well-prepared portions of traditional Italian food? This is your restaurant. Esta Esta is the anti-Olive Garden and generic pizza shop with a few other dishes. I love the fresh from 1960 decor which recalls all my favorite Pittsburgh Italian restaurants I remember from my childhood. For me, walking through their door is like time travel, look and feel, aroma, and menu all accurately represent the best of the fifties and sixties.

Place was great ambiance was very retro def seems like ur stepping back into the 70/80s... food was excellent had the chicken parm and the chicken was juicy and moist and most excellent and there was something about it it wasn't overly breaded where it was too dry or super crunchy and it had a nice garlic-y taste to it. Pasta was good and the chicken and cheesy tortellini soup was excellent... have seen this restaraunt since i was a child and I've passed it since i was a teenager... never went till today and i enjoyed myself can't wait to go again

If I could give this place a 0 I would have. Absolutely disgusting. You walk in and it smells like cigarettes. Extremely outdated thick red carpeting everywhere. I got the chicken fettuccine alfredo, and the whole dish smelled like raw chicken that had been microwaved. I couldn't even eat it. It came with wedding soup which was literally just spinach in an extremely salty broth. Was there with 4 other people and no one enjoyed their food even the slightest. We also got drinks that tasted like the bartender just mixed every kind of alcohol they had together. I have no idea how this place has 4 stars. Save your money, go somewhere else.

Old Italian ambience with really good food. I e never been disappointed. The staff are friendly and we have always had good service there.

This is certainly an interesting place. It is caught in a time warp. When you walk in, you are definitely transported back about 40 years. Aside from the dated decor, there is definitely a smell of stale cigarette smoke Covid has reduced their menu offerings, but the staple old school Italian favorites are there. We decided against an appetizer because entrees came with either soup or salad. I was really disappointed with the soup. It felt greasy and heavy. The entrees were typical old school Italian. Big portions and standard flavor. Definitely enough for leftovers the next day. The hi light of the meal was the meatballs. I typically don't even like meatballs but these were incredible. Full of flavor and juicy. I'd go back just for the meatballs. Overall an ok experience