Dine-In Italian Restaurant Menu in New Bedford

Ma Raffa’s Italian Restaurant in New Bedford serves dine-in Italian food, homemade thin-crust pizza, pasta dinners, seafood, chicken, parmigiana dinners, hot sandwiches, appetizers, salads, lunch specials, and children’s meals.

Located at 85 Rockdale Ave in New Bedford, MA, Ma Raffa’s has been serving family recipes, Italian comfort food, and classic New Bedford pizza since 1956.

Appetizers

Start your meal with Ma Raffa’s appetizers, including fried macaroni and cheese bites, mozzarella cheese sticks, Ma’s calamari, Shrimp Ma’zambique, chicken tenders, buffalo tenders, bone-in chicken wing zings, cheese pizzadilla, French fries, eggplant fries, onion rings, homemade meatballs, sweet Italian sausages, toasted garlic bread, cheese garlic bread, and fry basket samplers.

Soup and Salad

Ma Raffa’s offers minestrone soup, Italian salad, antipasto salad, chicken antipasto, tuna antipasto, Gina’s Garden Salad, and buffalo chicken salad.

The antipasto salad includes ham, salami, pepperoni, olives, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, pepperoncini, roasted red peppers, shredded white cheddar cheese, and house Italian dressing.

Dinner for Two

Ma Raffa’s Italian Platter is a dinner for two with spaghetti or ziti, lasagna, meatballs, Italian sausages, veal patty, Ma’s homemade tomato sauce, and garlic bread.

Hot Sandwiches

Ma Raffa’s serves hot sandwiches and grinders, including meatball and cheese, torpedo, crispy fried chicken parm, baked chicken parm, veal parm, eggplant parm, Italian grinder, veggie grinder, ham grinder, baked chicken grinder, roast beef grinder, bacon grinder, tuna grinder, buffalo chicken and cheese, grilled chicken BLT and cheese, sausage and cheese, linguica and cheese, and steak and cheese.

All grinders come with lettuce, tomato, green pepper, onion, and cheese.

Homemade Thin-Crust Pizza

Ma Raffa’s is known for homemade 14-inch thin-crust pizza made with Ma’s original recipe. Pizza options include plain cheese pizza, one-topping pizza, premium topping pizza, white pizza, Alfredo pizza, and gluten-free crust options.

Pizza toppings include bacon, black olive, broccoli, linguica, garlic, green pepper, ham, hamburger, mushroom, onion, pepperoni, pineapple, sausage, and spinach.

Premium pizza toppings include anchovies, chicken, clams, eggplant, meatball, roasted red peppers, tomato, tuna, and extra cheese.

Specialty Pizza

Ma Raffa’s specialty pizzas include The Mama Mia, The Attilio Combo, The Nunzio Veggie, The Stefano Supremo, The Rodeo, The Buffalo Chicken, The BBQ Chicken, and The Chicken Alfredo.

White pizza options include The Godfather, The Mad Cecelia, The Ma’zambique, and The Athena.

Italian Classics

Classic Italian dinners at Ma Raffa’s include baked ziti and cheese, baked lasagna, four-cheese stuffed shells, ricotta-stuffed manicotti, and cheese ravioli. Guests can also add meat sauce, meatballs, or sausages to Italian classic dishes.

Parmigiana Dinners

Ma Raffa’s parmigiana dinners are baked with two cheeses and tomato sauce. Options include crispy fried chicken parmigiana, baked chicken parmigiana, veal cutlet parmigiana, eggplant parmigiana, and meatball parmigiana.

All parmigiana dinners are served with a side of pasta, fries, vegetable, or salad.

Spaghetti or Ziti

Guests can order spaghetti or ziti with tomato sauce, Alfredo sauce, meatballs, sausages, meatball and sausage, fresh sautéed mushrooms, veal cutlets, combo meatball, sausage and veal, butter, garlic butter, or upgraded meat sauce.

Chicken Dinners

Chicken dinners at Ma Raffa’s include Ma’s Chicken with Marsala wine, garlic sauce, onions, peppers, mushrooms, and tomato sauce; Buffalo Chicken Pasta with buffalo tenders, ziti, spinach, mushrooms, black olives, roasted red peppers, and spicy hot garlic sauce; Chicken Messina with spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, olives, red peppers, and ziti in garlic sauce; Chicken, Broccoli, Ziti and Cream; and Chicken Milan with buttery garlic sauce, broccoli, and ziti.

Seafood

Seafood dishes include Shrimp and Ziti Ma’zambique, Shrimp Scampi, Spaghetti and Clam Sauce, Baked Haddock, Shrimp Carbonara, and Shrimp Primavera.

Vegetarian Sautés

Vegetarian sauté options use the same flavors as Ma Raffa’s chicken and seafood dishes, prepared without chicken or shrimp. Options include Pasta Messina, Pasta Primavera, Pasta Ma’zambique, Pasta Milan, Pasta Broccoli and Cream, and Buffalo Veggie Pasta.

Luncheon Specials

Ma Raffa’s offers luncheon specials on weekdays until 4:00 PM, including plain cheese pizza, hot sandwiches, soup, salad, small plates, Italian dinners, and specialty dinners.

Lunch options include meatball sandwiches, Italian grinder, tuna grinder, minestrone soup, salad, toasted garlic bread, chicken tenders with fries, spaghetti or ziti with tomato sauce, baked lasagna, baked ziti and cheese, stuffed shells, manicotti, ravioli, baked haddock, chicken parmigiana, veal parmigiana, and eggplant parmigiana.

Children’s Menu

The children’s menu includes fried macaroni and cheese bites, chicken tenders with pasta, fries, or vegetables, cheese ravioli or pasta with tomato sauce, one meatball with pasta, fries, or vegetables, and cheese quesadilla.