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    Arcaro's The Next Generation

    3.2 (31 reviews)
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    The pizza wasn't cut all the way through
    Kim H.

    Our 3rd and probably last time getting from this place. We have many other better local places to order from. This last time we got the grandma's 6 cut pizza ($13.95), gnocchi with meatballs ($19.45) and a side of fries ($3.50). The pizza was insanely greasy and the cheese and sauce both tasted like absolutely nothing. I ate one piece and was finished. The gnocchi was homemade, but was a tad overpriced. We will say this last time delivery didn't take as long as the last time.

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    Klines K.

    Arcaro's the Next Generation has a menu offering items such as : mini potato pancakes, fried calamari, wing bites, strombolis, soups, salads, calzones, kids meals including but not limited to, hot dogs and fries, an assortment of round and old forge style pizzas, hoagies, clubs, burgers, Italian Entrees, Platters, Desserts and more! Francine said hands down every single night they sell out of their Deep Dish Fried Pizza. -- On my visit, the Arcaro family and staff presented me with a variety of menu items to devour, photograph, and enjoy. First the Crab stuffed mushrooms, which are served every Friday and Saturday evening and were one of her late husband's favorite appetizers. Second, Housemade Gnocchi which is made every week and filled with Impastata rather than the usual potato you see in gnocchi dishes, and topped with homemade meatballs that are amazing! I had never had gnocchi served this way before and I really enjoyed the richness and creaminess that the Impastata gave in every bite! Garlic Parm Wing Bites- drizzled in a garlic parm sauce and served with blue cheese and celery, Im a wing bite fanatic so I like to try them everywhere I go! Double Crust White Pizza- My favorite menu item! Its baked to a golden perfection, and stuffed with ooey-gooey cheese and any topping you want. I just had mine plain and I was eating it for days! I love pulling the double crusts apart to see the cheese stretch fresh outta the oven. Old Forge Red Plain Pizza- As we know, Old Forge Style Pizza is the house and family favorite in NEPA. This is where my preference for pizza differs from the norm. I wasn't raised in this area. I was born in NJ, raised about an hour or so from here until I was 10, and lived in Ohio until I was 20. I was raised mainly on NY style pizza - you know the slices that are as big as a paper plate that leave grease behind and has thick crust that breaks your jaw and takes hour to eat? However, the pizza is terrible in Ohio, so when I move back here about 10 years ago, the first thing I ordered was Pizza. With that being said, I lived in Scranton for about 9 years... I lived close to Old Forge, and right next door to Maronis Pizza for 5 years. It just wasn't my style. I tried it from many different places and couldn't and still can't understand why it's so popular? This is why I am very serious about telling people I am not a Food Critic. Everyone's tastes are different and everyone prefers different flavors, textures, and styles of food. I am not saying Old Forge Pizza is bad or gross or terrible. I am simply stating it's not for those raised outside of NEPA. You either love it, or you hate it. What I will tell you is, I have tried a lot of Old Forge Style Pizza in the past 10 years... Arcaro's the Next Generation, may have some of the better OF pizza that I have tried. It's not exactly like Old Forge Pizza- it's thicker... yet not exactly Sicilian. The sauce tastes a little different, and that is why I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed their OF Style Pizza. The red pizza came out hot and fresh, and I recommend it to anyone in the area. As the double crust white pizza was my favorite, I would try the red pizza again. Holy Cannoli! Again, I will state I am not a Food Critic. However, I find something I like I will let you know- I am not shy when it comes to matters of the gut! I was hesitant on ordering a cannoli. I hate cannolis- yes I hate them. Mainly because they are stuffed with marscapone- an Italian Cream Cheese that my taste buds just don't agree with. When Francine told me she fills theirs with Impastata, or mixed ricotta, my eyes got bigger than my plate and I asked her for one. There is only one other place in the area that I have been to that makes them this way and it's up in Dunmore and I haven't been able to find one since. Needless to say I licked the plate clean and this was my favorite item I devoured that night. I can see myself stopping in for one or two..or ten in the near future. If you'd like information on ingredients in these dishes please contact Arcaro's directly.

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    I ordered a meatball parm hoagie and the meatballs didn't have any meat just bread rolled into a ball with butter. Very unhappy

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    Wow!!! Best pizza in the area by far! Super yummy apps, great service, and fun atmosphere! Can't wait to try everything.

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    3 years ago

    Pizza is fire! 10/10 recommend it to everyone I know ! Pricing is fair and delivery is always timely! This is a household fave

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    Order a pizza 45 minutes ago. They canceled on me. Say they are closed and they aren't. Will never again.

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    4 years ago

    An Italian restaurant should know the difference between a stromboli and a calzone. Fried apps came out dripping in oils. Service was great

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    Great tasting pizza. Good service. Clean and friendly staff. Call ahead because they are very busy. I have found my new go to place

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    This place is top notch. Salads to pizza and their pastas are simply delicious. 100% recommend.

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    This is the worst pizza we have ever eaten and we love all kinds of pizza! It tastes like cardboard! I would not recommend.

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    I was recently back in NEPA for a few days, and naturally, a visit to PAZZO was at the top of my…read moreto-do list. When I lived here, this was my go-to spot for amazing Italian food, warm hospitality, and excellent service, all served up with a dash of that Agolino family magic. (Spoiler alert: nothing has changed, and that's a beautiful thing!) The moment I walked in, I was greeted by Chef Sam Agolino himself, and it felt like running into an old friend. He hasn't aged a day (what's his secret?!). I met up with a buddy--another die-hard PAZZO fan--and we settled in for a night of catching up over some truly mouthwatering dishes. Our server was top-notch, giving us plenty of time to chat and reminisce without feeling rushed. Since I was driving, I didn't indulge in one of PAZZO's famous cocktails, but was happy to see that non-alcoholic beer was available. The menu still had some of my old favorites, which made it impossible to choose (in the best way). We kicked things off with salads and two orders of their legendary meatballs. Let me tell you--those meatballs are something I'd order every time I visited and tonight they were just as I remembered them - perfectly seasoned, tender, and absolutely divine. For the main event, I went with the Vitello Neapolitan: breaded veal and eggplant layered with fresh mozzarella over pasta. The veal was melt-in-your-mouth tender, the pasta perfectly al dente, and the sauce? Chef's kiss perfection. My friend opted for the orecchiette pasta and raved about every bite. By the time dessert rolled around, we were so full we couldn't even think about it. Dinner at PAZZO had me questioning all my life choices--like why I ever left NEPA in the first place. But then I stepped outside into the freezing Pennsylvania air and remembered why I traded snow boots for flip-flops in Florida. Still, great Italian food like this is hard to find down south, and PAZZO makes me miss it every single time. The Agolino family has been a culinary staple in NEPA for decades, and it's easy to see why people keep coming back. Chef Sam, Corinne, and the entire team--thank you for an unforgettable evening! If you're in the area and haven't experienced PAZZO yet, stop reading this and GO. - Would move back to PA (temporarily) for the meatballs.

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    3.8(43 reviews)
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    Good Italian if you're in the area, the service is friendly and portions are big. The restaurant is…read moredated and a no frills type of place, also note there are no locks on the women's restroom stalls

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    Arturos

    3.8(51 reviews)
    2.3 mi
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    This review was very mixed. We'd heard great things about this place and wanted to try a new place…read moreas we've started exhausting a lot of local places. The decor was great, the drinks were FANTASTIC, my food was about a 5 out of 10. I had the carbonara. Very oily and not creamy at all. I would have used a different blend of cheeses to make it creamier and less oily. My guess is they used Asiago. Not bad but not as great as I was expecting. My wife had the red beet salad. Shockingly a $20 salad with canned beets on it. Mediocre at best but the canned beets ruined it. If your getting a salad that features a specific vegetable wouldn't you want that vegetable to be the best highlight of the salad? That was the good part. The service I can't even explain. I'm not sure what happened because if it were like this everyday they'd be closed. We walked in downstairs and was told to sit wherever we wanted and then we were forgotten about. The bartender finally came over after my wife was looking her way for 20 minutes. Bartender apologized for forgetting about us. No waitresses anywhere. The AC I think was off because it was cooler outside on a warm muggy PA night than it was inside. The bar was about 3/4 full and there was one table seated and we noticed about 3/4 of the outdoor seating was occupied as well. Not super busy at all. We waited about 20 minutes before we were approached. We ordered water until we could got our menus and reviewed them. Water never came. Someone else came over and asked us about ordering drinks. We ordered drinks and asked about our water. Water never came. Drinks came. Then yet a different person came over a few minutes later to take our food order. We ordered water again since we were planning on drinking more. My wife's appetizer came out, meatballs. Pretty good, similar but somewhat different flavor than my Italian mothers recipe. When the app came out that person finally got us silverware, napkins and our water. Food came a little later. That's described above. During dinner we had to get up to get refills on water and were never offered additional drinks or anything. We finally stopped someone and asked for our check. My wife had to go to the bar to pay the bill. No one ever came back to the table. At one point earlier we were asked who our waitress was and we all looked at each other because 4 or maybe 5 people were at our table at some point but it was like we still couldn't get stuff we needed. My wife paid with a card she had forgotten to activate and it declined. The bartender gave her the slip and the card and never noticed or told her. She realized it at the table. We had to go back to the bar and pay again because after cleaning that one table everyone except the bartender would vanish. Finally we paid, sweating our asses off in a corner table with the most bassy sound system pounding for 2 hours we got out of there and went to a local bar for drinks. I would have loved to have enjoyed this place and loved to have had more drinks because their bar was the highlight of the experience but it was clear they didn't care about us at all. And we were sweating to death.

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    I've eaten here on three (3) separate occasions and tried the chicken fettuccine Alfredo, another…read moreAlfredo dish, and the homemade gnocchi. Unfortunately, none of the experiences were good. Each time, the food was disappointing. We always ordered takeout, and the noodles were consistently stuck together and kind of runny. The gnocchi was especially unpleasant, the sauce tasted sour and off, which completely ruined it. Comparing the sizes of the gnocchi as well, you can go somewhere else and get bigger pieces for the same price or less. While the pricing is pretty standard for similar places, the quality just doesn't justify it. The food simply doesn't taste good. I don't plan on coming back again, especially if I am looking for a genuinely good pasta dish.

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    Butternut squash gnocchi app with candied pieces and pepitas: the components worked brilliantly together

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    This is the 3rd year in a row that I've visited back home from Miami and Rikasa is always on my…read morelist! The rooftop has stunning views and is beautifully designed with outdoor seating of both Main Street in Pittston, overlooking the murals and the river. The rooftop is also retractable. We usually walk in early evening to head to the bar although reservations are recommended. The drinks are honestly the best drinks I've had anywhere! I've had a pomegranate martini and my favorite this year, guava martini! The drinks are strong and perfectly balanced and flavorful! I haven't had the food but I would highly recommend if you're looking to be transcended from the typical offerings of the area to a more sophisticated venue with great view! The weekly events and brunch I see shared to social media also sounds like they'd be fun!

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