The Traveling Wheelchair

170 Water Street
Village Landing Marketplace
Plymouth MA 02360
Phone: 508-747-0015
http://www.patriziasitaly.com/site2/

While Christmas shopping with my mom, Ric and Josh at Village Landing Marketplace in Plymouth ; we stopped for lunch at Patrizia’s Italy Trattoria. We heard from a friend that Patrizia Galassi opened this new Italian Restaurant in which she cooks and serves traditional recipes just as they were made in northern Italy 200 years ago. She learned to cook from her mother and grandmother while growing up in Italy. We wanted to try her authentic Italian cuisine and see how wheelchair accessible this new restaurant is.

The main entrance lead us into the bar/lounge area. The entry door is not automatic but is plenty wide enough to fit my chair. This bar/lounge area is NOT wheelchair accessible. It has only tall bar tables and a tall bar with no wheelchair accessible seating.

We were kindly greeted by the hostess and asked for a table for four. She told us the dining room isn’t wheelchair accessible from the bar/lounge because of a few steps. She asked us to go back outside and around to a side door that she said she would unlock for us.

Once at this side door, she had to unlock the door and move a dining room table so I could wheel into the dining room. While doing this she had to ask other customers who were enjoying their meal to temporarily move from their table for me to wheel by. I found this embarrassing for both me and the other customers.

The dining room is very cozy, yet it is very crowded for the tables are set so close together. Once we were at our table we looked around at the nice décor.  The tables in the dining room are all of a good wheelchair accessible height and I comfortably fit and was able to enjoy my lunch.

The food is freshly cooked and delicious. We found the price of a Panini served with a fresh side salad reasonable for $7. Our meal was worth all the hassle of getting inside. Our waitress was very kind, courteous, respectful, and friendly and the service was great!

Outside is a patio dining area which is open during warmer months. It is NOT wheelchair accessible from inside the restaurant due to the inaccessible threshold at the patio doors. Yet you can access it from outside.

The restroom is NOT wheelchair accessible; the door is too narrow and the room is too small to fit a wheelchair inside. There is a public restroom located in the Village Landing Market Place right next to the restaurant that is fully wheelchair accessible and you may even want to ride on the pony ride in front of the public rest rooms, like my friend Ric did when we were here last summer :-)

I give Patrizia’s Italy Tracttoria of Plymouth TWO STARS for wheelchair accessibility only because I could enter the restaurant and the table was of an accessible height. In order to earn the other THREE STARS they would need to install an automatic entry door so a person in a wheelchair can enter independently; lower a section of the bar so a person in a wheelchair can get a drink at the bar; place at least one accessible table in the lounge; place an accessible ramp or sloped floor at the steps leading from the bar/lounge to the dining room OR designate the side dining entrance as a wheelchair accessible entrance that is kept unlocked and move the table in front of this side dining room entrance that blocks wheelchair access; place an accessible restroom inside this restaurant; and place an accessible threshold at the patio doors leading from the lounge to the outdoor dining area.

I give FIVE STARS to our waitress for friendly, courteous and quick service and FIVE STARS to Patrizia Galassi, an excellent Italian Chef for her food was outstanding and delicious!