Kinsey’s Italian Cafe

My fiancée and I found the restaurant by searching Unilocal for a restaurant near our location. We hit the jackpot with this nice little restaurant in McCordsville. It was kids eat free and we took advantage of the opportunity by each ordering a signature pasta dish. My sampler included meat ravioli, lasagna and spaghetti with meatball. My fiancée ordered the cheese trio with manicotti, tortellini and baked ziti. Both were very large portions and both very flavorful the exception of the ziti which was not memorable. The entrées are accompanied by a fresh side salad topped with tomatoes, red onion, green and black olives and feta cheese. The garlic knots were a favorite. We ordered the kids fettuccine Alfredo and I tasted it and it was creamy and delicious. Next time the Seafood Fettuccine will be a likely choice for me.

I have been here before several times before my vegan days and even once for a party in their back room. Tonight I went there for the first time as a vegan and I called ahead to see if they had anything I could eat there. Turns out they had 3 different types of pastas that were made with no eggs or dairy and they had a super duper tomato based sauce that was also made without using any animal products.
Our waitress was adorable and super sweet and efficient. She was on queue with checking in on us, bringing us what we wanted and being TOTALLY cool with my vegan order. I even asked for a few sauteed veggies on there if they could and they did that for me all while only charging the regular price for spaghetti and meatballs. Even the garlic knots came out butter free and totally vegan. What awesome stuff. I really felt they respected my wishes and truly did all the could for both myself and my non vegan honey. We had a delicious, and I mean DELICIOUS, meal. it was so tasty and so well rounded. Sauce was delicate, well seasoned and flavorful. The fettuccine pasta was perfectly cooked and absolutely perfect. The veggies and the sauce were amazing.
In the past we always had severely delicious food here as well and I have not ever heard anyone i know say an off word about this place. It is small and cozy for a lovely romantic dinner. The ambiance is excellent and the service is top notch.
I will definitely be going back and I highly recommend this place for not only offering stuff us plant based folks can eat but also for serving top notch quality food at affordable prices to everyone who likes to eat. My partner is not vegan and he said that his Cajun Chicken Fettuccine was outstanding.
Thanks for your time and considerations.

Highly recommend. Ate there with friends for the first time last night. Double stuffed pizza was huge, even with 4 people we had 4 slices left for take home. Save room for their salted Carmel chocolate brownie with pretzel crust. So good and large enough to share.

Stopped here a few years ago and it was decent specially if u live around town and dont wanna drive far to satisfy some italian craving.

Sadly dissapointed. Stopped on a recommendation from a Co worker. Place was empty except for us. The wait staff and possible owner were having a great old loud time in the restaurant. So loud, we could not talk to each other. I ordered cheese manicotti and husband had three tortellini. Both were served hot however, they were microwaved. Asked waitress if food was prepared on site and she said no everything but the bread was frozen and reheated!!! For the price of dinner, I am very disappointed. Would not return.

I can’t believe these reviews. This place is generic and not good at all. We were not able to get seated at a popular restaurant down the road so we came here out of sheer starvation. The inside is beat up and run down. Food is mediocre and the overly friendly waitress is only nice until she gets her tip. If your enjoying the conversation with your friends and finishing the bottle wine (cheap gross) don’t be surprised if they start vacuuming around you. So rude. They all started staring and turning off lights, it was 9:45 on aSaturday night! Small town, small minds. We will not be returning.

This is our favorite local place! Great food, and service. Very unassuming building but very nice inside. We love their pasta and «marauder» pizza, in honor of the local high school.

Once again, the best kept secret in town. We had the wings, Alfredo and baked ziti!
All were perfect! Waitress was awesome and attentive! For those of you that don’t like Simiri’s, this place is right down the road and 1000 times better!

My favorite!!! I’ll eat here over OG any day!!! I love the garlic knots & the seafood, Italian sausage fettuccine !! Yummy!!!

We love going here for very tasty Italian food at a very reasonable price. While it does not look like a gem of a restaurant from the outside, you will likely be impressed with the overall quality! The people who work there are always very friendly too. This place beats Olive Garden in my book any day!

Best restaurant in McCordsville /​Fortville by far! When my husband and I are doing low-​carb we love their garlic parmesan wings — good size and tasty! When we aren’t worried about carbs they have plenty of other choices to indulge in. Tonight we enjoyed their white pizza and Greek salads. The pizzas are huge and delicious. I’ve also had their fettuccine Alfredo and it’s equally yummy. We never have room for dessert but they have cannolis and others. The service is always outstanding, and the personal touch of the owners who always check on their customers is refreshing. Highly recommend!

Excellent service, excellent food. The whole entire place was completely packed and we went I left with a full belly and I’m pretty happy man! A little hidden gem on the side of town as I don’t think there’s really many good locally owned places in this area at all. So if you’re on that side of town you should definitely check it out.

I’d pondered stopping in to Kinsey’s Italian Café on many occasions while serving a church in Hagerstown, Indiana. Every weekend for several months, I’d drive by Kinsey’s and find myself intrigued by its sign decorated in the colors of the Italian flag. I’d think to myself «This seems like a unique restaurant for tiny McCordsville, Indiana» and then I’d continue on my merry way.
Today, a holiday for state employees, I took the time to drive out to McCordsville, a small town on the border of the Marion/​Hancock County line, and I decided to finally visit Kinsey’s Italian Café.
Kinsey’s is located in a small strip building right on W. Broadway in McCordsville. For Indy residents and the directionally challenged, Pendleton Pike in Indy turns into Broadway in McCordsville. There’s only one accessible parking spot, not truly ADA compliant, but workable. There’s several other parking spots and it is not really that difficult to find a spot that will work for a chair.
The front entrance has one fairly light door going in, though it’s a pull-​out door rather than a «push.» The spring on the door isn’t the greatest, so I had to stretch a bit to get it to close.
Once you go in, you’re smack dab in the middle of a modestly sized, simply decorated dining room with light Italian touches, white walls, and a smalltown Indiana feel. I instantly found it comfortable. There was a «please seat yourself» sign out, but the only server working, Mickie, was at a table nearby and instantly started serving up hospitality. She allowed me my pick of tables and moved an appropriate chair to accommodate the wheelchair. In what had to be a weird occurrence for Kinsey’s, about five minutes after my arrival another couple arrived and one of the two adults also was in a wheelchair.
Mickie took my drink order, the usual unsweetened iced tea, while I browsed the menu. It was clear, and later affirmed, that they are consciously expanding their menu beyond the already comprehensive Italian fare they offer. While the menu had dinner prices, Kinsey’s also offers smaller luncheon fare that are lower price. The luncheon specials include a side salad and garlic knots. I will admit I sort of compromised my crave — I was actually in the mood for Italian, but when I spied a tenderloin on the menu I instantly wanted to try it. A friend of mine is The Tenderloin Connoisseur and I’m always trying to steer him to a new place. Mickie also informed me that they’d only recently started hand-​breading their tenderloin and already made their own breads. To summarize their menu, they serve up appetizers, salads, pizzas, calzones, Italian specialty dinners, subs, a variety of sandwiches, desserts, and more. They have daily lunch specials in the $ 6 – 8 range, though dinner prices are in the more moderate range (think in the teens).
They offer dine-​in, carry-​out and catering.
While there was no question that the tenderloin was truly hand-​breaded and served as ordered, I must admit that I was quickly disappointed with this selection. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t good. It was simply a hand-​breaded tenderloin. I appreciated that the thickness was consistent and the texture was consistent, but I found the meat itself to be too chewy and the overall flavor to be somewhat bland. I was glad I’d ordered mayo, which I don’t usually do, because that eased the the texture issue quite a bit. Still, it’s not something I would order again. It came with chips, though you could upgrade to fries or onion rings — I upgraded to fries for $ 1.75. They were good — lightly browned and slightly crispy. The serving size for both items was quite abundant and with a meal just over $ 11, you got a good amount of food for the price.
The iced tea was good and I received a «topping off,» a refill, and one for the road. So, that was definitely awesome.
While I’ve seen several reviews mention teen servers, on this visit only Mickie was around and she was top notch throughout my visit. She was friendly, hospitable, and genuinely interested when I critiqued the tenderloin in a less than positive manner. I didn’t ask for nor expect a refund/​discount — again, it wasn’t bad. It simply wasn’t something I’d try again. Next time, I plan to hit their Italian menu.
So, if you’re keeping score (and you should be), that’s good access, average tenderloin, terrific service, and a pretty darn good value. I even listened to Mickie deal with a customer’s order issue and resolve it without ever getting a «tone,» not always easy when you’re representing a smaller, local business. I also found Mickie’s service of diversity worth mentioning — with only a few customers, this particular smalltown Indiana business had black, white, disabled, and a child all amongst their clientele. Mickie treated each person well and managed the dining room quite nicely the entire time.

My daughter and I stopped at Kinsey’s Wednesday evening. The tenderloin I ordered was delicious. The serving size was enough to take the other half of the sandwich home for lunch the next day. My daughter ordered the lasagna and she loved it as well! The service was prompt and attentive. We will return soon!

This place is a hidden gem! The food is always amazing! The atmosphere is nothing special, but if you can look past that, the food and their prices are worth it! Portions are HUGE and prices are good, plus they have great coupons on

Tonight was our 4^th time eating here in a months time. They are the bomb! The salads are fresh and delicious. I had the lunch portion fettuccine alfredo and it was huge, well-​priced, and delicioso! The chicken wings are awesome. We get 20 at a time. They come in multiple styles, but our favorite is the garlic parmesan (which they make themselves) — which we dip in hot sauce and ranch. And of course while dining at this fine Italian Café you can’t forget to end your dinner with some cannoli. The service is fast and friendly. And the owner even came and talked to us to ensure we were satisfied. Highly recommended.

So glad to have Kinsey’s in the area. Great italian food! The marinara sauce is wonderful and enhances all of the entrees. The lasagna and chicken Parmesan are our family favorites. Entrees come with salad — crisp greens with tomato, olives and cheese & garlic knot rolls, cannoli for dessert is a great choice! The have a great beer and wine list too! Not a formal setting– but great food at great prices.

After a very long day of work and fun my wife and I wanted to go out to eat but wanted something close by. I searched our nearby restaurants on Unilocal and came up with Kinseys. We have lived in the area for about a year but had not tried this place and we could almost walk there. It’s located in a pretty run down looking center but thankfully the inside is better kept than the outside. I ordered the Spinach Abbruzo and my wife ordered the Chicken Cattatorie. The meals were started with very fresh salads that were a perfect start to the meals to come. Both entrees were served piping hot and in very large portions. The flavors were great both entrees were packed with flavor. My wife’s chicken Cattatorie had some of the most flavorful marinara sauce i have ever had. The garlic knots were a very nice accompaniment to our meals to help sop up the rest of the sauce left in the bowl. We finished things off with a salted caramel brownie with a pretzel crust. This will definitely be a go to spot for us especially with it so close to home. The servers were all very friendly and we had a great experience overall.

I have high standards for Italian food, and Italian restaurants usually let me down. My husband and I have been to Kinsey’s twice. On our most recent visit, I ordered the fettuccine alfredo and my husband ordered a combination plate (lasagna & spaghetti). We both felt the food was too greasy/​buttery. I literally had to use my napkin to sop up the pools of butter in my dish! I also wasn’t convinced the alfredo sauce was homemade… which is a big deal to me. The service has always been pleasant, and the prices are decent… But we probably won’t be back.

Fantastic food. Good service. Great prices!