Ripa's Italian Restaurant Reviews

The family that runs this is so nice, the whole staff is so professional... and the food is beyond delicious!

Amazing food, amazing service, and the room was absolutely beautiful!!

Ripa's Restaurant is in Lancaster, NY. They can accomodate 300 people for a wedding. I had 202 and we were quite comfortable. They only have one wedding per date so I didn't run into any other bride on my big day. The food is outstanding. If you want your guests to actually enjoy their meal, this is the place to go. Unpretentious Italian food. We had it served family style and everyone enjoyed it.

I spoke to one contact person so we were always on the same page. At the last minute I wanted to add a cordial service after dessert. No problem. We also added wine carafts at the tables at the last minute. No problem.

The wait staff was helpful. The bar staff was helpful.

There were no disasterous bridezilla moments. Everything went smoothly and I got SO many compliments that our wedding was MOST enjoyable.

I would reccomend anyone who is having a huge family wedding to come here. They are welcoming and accomodating.

You can't beat the value. I paid less than $30 per plate including taxes and gratuity and open bar for a meal I would pay money for if I were on a romantic date for two.

I had 30 kids at the reception and they made allowences in my price so as to not pay for the bar for them.

CJ sound is already wired into their soundsystem. SO easy to get my DJ without a ton of setup time. But you could use any DJ or band you want.

Ripa's set up the room just like I wanted it. I needed to get behind our wedding cake because we did cake pulls with our wedding party. No problem. they also set up my gift table and seating card tables with my decorations exactly how I wanted them.

I would come here for any event in the future where I needed to accomodate a group of people for any reason.

Ripa's Restaurant was a great place to have our wedding reception! The food was great and everything looked beautiful! They set up all of our stuff for the reception just the way I wanted them to be set up and everything looked beautiful. The only problem we came accross was that there wasn't a lot of wait staff and the service of dinner seemed to take a long time. They really needed more staff for the size of our wedding. They also needed at least one or two more bar tenders. There was always a line waiting for drinks for the bar, some times a line almost 30 people deep!! They really needed a lot more staff then what they had working, but of the staff that was working they were polite and very helpful. Ripa's was a great location to have our reception, and other than being a little under staffed, I would hold any other venue that may come up at Ripa's.

The worst decision on my wedding was to have my bridal shower at Ripa's. We had my sisters there a few years ago and it was great so it was a no- brainer. The only plus was that the food was good. We arrived 45 minutes before shower started to set centerpieces. The older waitress worked the event was miserable and rude. She had put royal blue napkins under the cake instead of ivory, our theme. When the maid of honor and I searched her down the the Backroom ( sitting down with the other waitress) she got all huffy and said she didn't have any more ivory napkins- she was saving them for a funeral the next day. My sister had her take them from the head table, as the napkins clashed with the cake, and everyone was taking pictures of the cake. Next, the event started at 1, people started showing up around 12:50, and they didn't put out punch until the MOB hunted them down at 1:15. Every small request we had (napkins,punch, turning on the radio) was responded to so rudely, both verbally and non-verbally, that even the guests were making comments about how rude she was. That older waitress is clearly miserable- but needed to be professional and keep that to herself. We won't do business with them again- very disappointing after my sisters had been so great.