The Ravioli House & Pastry Shop
102 East Bennett Avenue
Wildwood, NJ 08260
(609) 522-7894
https://theraviolihousewildwood.com/
https://theraviolihousewildwood.com/menu-n-bar
Open: Sunday-Saturday 10:00am-10:00pm (Seasonal)
My review on TripAdvisor:
The Ravioli House Restaurant and Pastry Shop at 102 East Bennet Avenue.
* I wanted to note that since COVID all the prices have changed so please check the website as my prices enclosed were reflective at the time of the visit.
Sometimes a shop does not fit the traditional pattern of establishments that I include on this site. They fall into a category that is more restaurant than a traditional store. Ravioli House & Pastry Shop is a combination of both where quality and service separates it from other restaurants and bakeries that I have visited lately.
The Pastry counter at the back of the restaurant
I came across the Ravioli House when I was attending the Firemen’s Convention every September. I was walking around Wildwood to see what the town was like after our main meeting and came across the Ravioli Pastry Shop which is the back part of the restaurant. It had an inviting entrance with the words “fresh Italian desserts” and that was for me. What a great surprise inside!
The sign for the Pastry Shop in the back.
The pastries here are amazing and are very innovative. There is a combination of traditional and modern Italian desserts to choose from. The eclairs are larger than their French versions and full of creamy vanilla filling. They are topped with a thick layer of chocolate frosting and this confection is a pleasure in every bite.
The Pastry Shop and Bar in the back of the restaurant.
They bake a usual cookie called a “Deliciousioso”, which is a type of Linzer Tart but instead of jelly it is filled with almond cream and then the sides are rolled in nuts. It has a subtle sweetness to it and you can taste the richness in the cream filling.
Having a Deliciousioso on a recent night
They are so delicious
Don’t miss these sweet treats
It is hard to choose from all the delicious pastries
All the delicious pastries I enjoy: the Peach dessert, The St. Joseph’s Puff, the Deliciousso and the Chocolate Cake dessert.
The St. Joseph dessert with Vanilla Cream
The St. Joseph Puff Pastry differs from a Cream Puff only in that it is filled with a combination of Cannoli cream and vanilla filling rather than a traditional whipped cream or vanilla filling. It large, dense and you can taste the sweetness in both the Cannoli Cream and in the pastry itself.
On another recent trip, I had the St. Joseph Puff Pastry with the Vanilla Cream, and it was amazing. Creamy and sweet on the inside and the same crisp outside. Both versions are worth a try.
The St. Joseph’s Pastries with both Vanilla Cream and Cannoli Cream are both delicious
The Cannoli’s here are filled to order and made in house. The Cannoli Cream is thick, rich and delicious and studded with chocolate chips. The outside shells are crisp and well baked.
The Ravioli House Restaurant:
The restaurant section is just as good as the Pastry Shop, with all sauces, pastas and dressings that are made in house and the quality of the food and service is top notch. It is a real home town restaurant as it has been owned by the same family for almost 50 years and the daughter of the owner still guards over the dining room and her mother, the owner still works in the kitchen and supervises the staff.
The Dining Room at the Ravioli House.
The Dining Room in the late evening
The new outdoor addition of the restaurant is seasonal
The best start to the meal: the salad with homemade Creamy Italian Dressing with their freshly baked bread
The homemade Ravioli here is excellent and was the meal of my choice on my visit in 2023. Little pillows of fresh pasta that are filled with Cheese, Meat and Spinach. Order the Ravioli House Trio with a side of meatballs and you will get to sample all three. The marinara sauce here is made with fresh tomatoes and garlic and is full of flavor.
Their homemade Ravioli is excellent
The Manicotti here with meatballs is very good. They are made with light as air pasta pancakes filled with a ricotta and Parmesan cheese filling and topped with their fresh marinara sauce.
The Manicotti with Homemade Meatballs
The pasta was light as air
The side of pork meatballs were amazing. So rich in the sauce.
All their entrees come with a freshly tossed salad along with their homemade creamy Italian dressing that is so good you will need extra bread to sop it up with when finished.
You always need plenty of their freshly made in house breads to soak up their sauces. When really hot, there is nothing like it.
Their fresh tossed mixed salads come with the entree and are topped with their homemade creamy Italian dressing
Another dish I can recommend is the Linguine in White Clam Sauce, which is made with fresh in house linguine and studded with fresh baby clams and steamers in a light white wine and lemon sauce which enhances the freshness of the seafood and not overwhelming. I had this on a recent trip for dinner.
The Linguini with Clam Sauce has two different types of clams in the dish
The pasta was perfectly cooked and the clams were sweet and tender
The Linguine is also good with their Bolognese Sauce, which is topped with a rich and flavor packed meat sauce of ground beef and chopped vegetables.
The Linguini with Bolognese Sauce
They must have given me a pound of pasta
The sauce was full of lots of meats and vegetables
When visiting for the 2021 Convention, I made my annual visit to Ravioli House again and this time because of COVID, they used the parking lot next to the restaurant for outdoor dining. So I had a nice table facing New Jersey Avenue and ordered my meal. The waiter could not have been nice enough and the service here is always top notch.
For dinner, I ordered the Chicken Pastina Soup, which was a rich chicken stock with chunks of chicken, carrots and tiny pastina pasta cooked to perfection in the soup. Each spoonful had a nice combination of flavors of the cooked chicken and the chopped fresh vegetables. It was the perfect way to start a meal on a early summer evening.
The Chicken Pastina Soup with its rich broth.
As part of my dinner, it included a house salad with crisp green leaf lettuce, tiny cherry tomatoes and chopped cucumber in a zesty house creamy Italian dressing that is also made inhouse. The dressing was just enough to add some zing to the salad. Each bite was crunchy and sweet.
The Tossed House salad
The entrée was a real feast when I ordered the ‘Trip Around Italy’, which was a sampler of the restaurant’s fresh pastas. The entrée included two large stuffed shells, two fresh cheese ravioli, a large portion of homemade Gnocchi and Spaghetti covered with a rich red sauce that was topped with a large meatball and a nice piece of sausage. The meal could have feed two people comfortably.
The “Trip to Italy” can feed two people
All the pastas were delicious and so well prepared. The Spaghetti was perfectly cooked and was a meal in itself. The Gnocchi was perfectly cooked and each piece of pasta was nice sized. The pillowy Ravioli and Stuffed Shells were filled to the brim with a nice cheese mixture of Mozzarella, Ricotta and Parmesan. The red sauce had a nice combination of spices that accented the fresh tomatoes used in the sauce.
I was completely stuffed when I finished the meal that I could not eat dessert. I had been eyeing the Napoleons when I was in the pastry shop before dinner, but I could not eat another bite. It was another excellent meal at the restaurant.
In 2022 and in the summer of 2024 (a month before Convention), I returned to the Ravioli House for dinner on my traditional Saturday night at 8:00pm meal and it was ‘same time next year’ with the owner who l left in the same spot last year this time. We even laughed about it.
I wanted something totally different this year and I had the Chicken Picante, which is thinly sliced chicken breasts sauteed in butter, wine and lemon and then was served with a side of spaghetti in a red sauce. It also came with a small house salad with oil and vinegar. This was the perfect meal.
The delicious home made rolls served with the meal.
Most of the entrees start with a fresh tossed salad with homemade Italian dressing
The tossed salad with a side of the homemade bread is the best way to start a meal at Ravioli House
The chicken was so tender, and you got two nice sized pieces with the order. The sauce had such a nice flavor, and you could taste the lemons and capers in every bite. Their red sauce is made from scratch, as all their sauces and pastas are and you could taste the spices, they added to it. The spaghetti was cooked perfectly and had a nice bite to it.
The Chicken Piccante at Ravioli House is a real treat
The full dinner comes with two large chicken breasts with a side of homemade spaghetti and homemade red sauce
When I came for dinner during the convention in 2025, it was picture taking time and I revisited the dishes I had before like the Manicotti and the Pasta Bolognese. This time though I tried the Fried Mozzarella for an appetizer and it was delicious.
The Fried Mozzarella with Red Sauce
The pastas here are all homemade
This includes all the stuffed pastas, ravioli and stuffed shells
On a recent trip to the Ravioli House during the Firemen’s Convention, I dined there for dinner and ordered the Lasagna dinner which came with bread and a House Salad. The meal was excellent.
The House Salad with fresh bread that I enjoyed before my Lasagna dinner
The Lasagna at Ravioli House is the type you might find in the Emilo-Romano section of Italy. It is layered with two different types of meat, two different types of cheese and slices of hard-boiled eggs baked between the homemade lasagna sheets and then topped with their homemade red sauce. It is decadent and delicious.
The Lasagna dinner also came with two homemade meatballs
They give you a sizeable slice of Lasagna loaded with meats, cheese and sliced hardboiled eggs
Yum!
I was so happy with dinner the night before, that I decided to have dinner there again my last night at the shore. The restaurant closes for the season on October 13th, so there will be no more trips until next year.
What I really enjoy about the restaurant is starting with their house salad with homemade dressing
The salads are so crisp and fresh
Dinner was the Shrimp Scampi with homemade linguine
After several days of fried foods and heavy sauces, I decided to order something lighter and ordered the Shrimp Scampi, which came with a lemon and wine sauce. It blended in wonderfully with the fresh cooked pasta. The sauce had a creamy consistency.
The jumbo shrimp were perfectly cooked and were sweet and tender
The meal was delicious and the seafood was so fresh
For Dessert and Visiting the Bakery behind the restaurant:
For dessert this time, I had one of the St. Joseph pastries with the vanilla cream. Talk about heaven in each bite. The pastry was sweet and tender for each bite and the vanilla cream had a sweet and luscious taste to it. I love all their pastries as I work my way through it every year.
The St. Joseph’s pastries come in both Vanilla and Cannoli Cream.
The Saint Joseph dessert is so special
Even the Whipped Cream that it was served with tasted homemade
All the desserts are made in house in the pastry shop next door
The service here is always very friendly and when it is not too busy can be very personal. Their wait staff has been very well trained and handle a busy dining room like an artist. Everyone is made to feel at home here.
The Chocolate Éclair was the star dessert in 2023
The restaurant is opened seasonally and will close in October until the beginning of April.
The Peach Pastry has been a favorite of mine for years. This was the dessert of choice when I visited during the Firemen’s Convention in 2024. I found out from the waiter that this dish was the creation of the restaurant owner, Teresa. It is one of her signature desserts.
The Peach doughnut
The Peach dessert up close
The inside of the dessert is filled with rich cream and is soaked in maraschino cherry juice. It is heavenly!
Take time to visit the pastry shop in the back of the restaurant where an assortment of delicious Italian baked goods are available.
The bake shop has a wonderful assortment of bakery treats
The assortment of cookies and puffs
The assortment of cakes and pastries
The seating area in the pastry shop allows people to talk amongst themselves
I stopped in for a late breakfast snack and tried one of the Delishioso cookies.
My dessert that morning
The Delishioso cookie
The delicious crème filled cookie
It was delicious
I stopped in for breakfast on my last morning of the Convention in 2026. I was getting tired of Pancakes, Bacon and Eggs and wanted something different. Since my dinners were so filling, I never got a chance to try two of the desserts I had wanted in the last two visits to the restaurant so I stopped in the bakery and had breakfast here ordering a Cassata Cake and a Napoleon with fruit. I could just about finish the Cassata Cake because the pastry was so large and very sweet that I brough the Napoleon home.
The Napoleon and the Cassata Cake with some hot tea with lemon
The Cassata Cake at Ravioli House is very dense and rich and should be shared
The dessert is filled with a mixture of cake, nuts and liquors
The Napoleon I saved for later
It is fun after a day at the beach to come in for a piece of pastry. The selection is wonderful and very creative.
It is nice to come to a restaurant where quality still matters and everything is made from scratch. That is very rare these days.
