Mr. G’s Italian Restaurant

Mr. G’s Italian Restaurant operates a location on McFarland Boulevard in Northport, Alabama, one of two locations the family of restaurants runs in west Alabama alongside a Demopolis storefront on US-80. The menu is built around handcrafted pizza, pasta, calzones, wings, sandwiches, and salads, positioning the restaurant as a casual, order-ahead Italian kitchen rather than a formal dining room, with the company describing its approach as blending a passion for food with a deep knowledge of the cuisine to produce classic, authentic dishes.

Pasta dinners make up a substantial part of the menu, with spaghetti served either with meat sauce for $9.95 or link sausage for $11.75, baked ziti for $13.50, lasagna for $13.95, and a chicken Italiani plate, boneless chicken breast topped with mozzarella and sweet basil, for $12.95. A half-and-half combination plate, priced at $13.50, pairs one beef cannelloni with one cheese manicotti, and shrimp scampi, shrimp served in a cream sauce over fettuccine, rounds out the more involved pasta dishes at $14.25.

Pizza is a clear focus as well, with specialty pies including a deluxe at $11.95, a meat lovers at $10.35, a barbecue-style pizza at $9.25, and a vegetable option at $10.35. Beyond Italian standards, the menu also branches into a Southern-leaning section built around a catfish platter at $16.95, chicken tenders, and wings sold by the half dozen or dozen, with a small basket at $11.95 and a large twelve-piece basket at $16.95, a combination that reflects the restaurant’s position in a market where Italian and Southern comfort food often share the same table.

Sandwiches round out the lunch-focused end of the menu, with a Philly cheese steak, hot roast beef, hot turkey club, chicken parmesan, and a catfish sandwich all priced between $10.50 and $10.95 for anyone who wants something handheld rather than a full pasta dinner. Online ordering is available through the restaurant’s own site, and first-time online customers receive 10 percent off their order, with an additional $5 off for every $100 spent through the online system over time. The restaurant also advertises that no tipping is required, a detail that sets it apart from many sit-down Italian restaurants in the area.

The Northport location, at 908 McFarland Boulevard, keeps hours that run Monday through Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., extending to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, and opening slightly later on the weekend, from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. That schedule covers both a lunch crowd looking for a quick sandwich and a dinner crowd ordering a full pasta plate or pizza to go, and the restaurant encourages calling ahead for faster pickup during busier stretches, a nod to the volume of to-go orders the kitchen handles alongside its dine-in tables.

With a second location in Demopolis, Mr. G’s has grown modestly beyond a single storefront while keeping its identity centered on quality, handcrafted Italian and Southern comfort food made with homemade salad dressings rather than expanding into a larger regional chain. The Northport restaurant gives residents on the west side of the Black Warrior River a casual, family-style option for pizza and pasta without needing to cross into Tuscaloosa, filling a niche among the city’s collection of independent Italian and pizza restaurants. For anyone working through McFarland Boulevard’s restaurant row, Mr. G’s offers a straightforward, order-ahead option for Italian standards alongside a handful of Southern fried plates, a combination menu that has kept the restaurant a regular stop for both pasta night and a quick catfish and wings order. The pricing structure, with most pasta dinners and sandwiches falling between ten and fourteen dollars, keeps the restaurant positioned as an everyday option rather than an occasional splurge, which fits its role as a family-style Italian kitchen serving a fast-growing stretch of McFarland Boulevard.