Jimmys is my favorite italian restaurant, check this short version of reveiw:\r
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Stanwood institution By Anna Poole, Herald Restaurant Critic.\r
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This restaurant is exactly what it is a pizza place for families, with servers who really like what they're doing. According to our hostess, Jimmy's has been in its location for 17 years, and longevity usually gives a restaurant a self-assured feeling. For us, that self-assured feeling translated into being able to relax because we were in the care of experts. The menu focuses on pizza and pasta plus grinders and salads. My friend and I were really hungry for our recent Saturday lunch, so we ordered appetizers, pizza and pasta. For our appetizer, we picked the Mediterranean sampler. It's a large platter with feta cheese, a bed of fresh spinach leaves, mounds of Greek olives, pepperoncinis and lots of thick tomato slices. It's all lightly sprinkled with olive oil and we added salt and pepper. I had more olives than I could eat. Everything on the platter was fresh. My friend selected spaghetti with meat sauce and added a couple of meatballs to. ""Pizza"" is the other part of this restaurant's name. So, pizza and a beer for me. According to the menu, Stella Artois is the No. 1 beer in Europe. It's a lager that has been brewed in Belgium since 1366. It went well with the pizza. We had sausage, ground beef, pepperoni, black olives and mushrooms on our large pizza.The crust was a successful compromise between thick and thin. Usually pizza places are good at one crust but not the other, or at finding a middle thickness. All the ingredients were fresh and flavorful as well as plentiful. My friend enjoyed my pizza as much as I liked his spaghetti. The meatballs were larger than expected and very good. The spaghetti was perfectly cooked and the sauce was filled with large chunks of meat. As she boxed our letover pizza and spaghetti, she smiled every time she came to our table, which was as delightful as was our perfect pizza crust.
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