There’s no mistaking that Mamma G’s Ristorante Italiano used to be a Friendly’s. The kid-friendly ice cream chain suffered its own (not so) happy ending at the 2133 E. Henrietta Road location more than two decades ago. But with its largely unchanged exterior and small dining room that, too, appears to have minor updates over the years, one could generously call Mamma G’s humble, an unassuming spot that’s easy to miss on a busy road.
But the food could not be more different.
Italian food is the specialty, specifically from the Abruzzo region of Italy, a mountainous and coastal region east of Rome from where the owners of this family-run restaurant hail…