Too many pizza places in the area, and this one stands out! The vodka sauce is perfectly balanced; the pasta cooked perfectly al dente. Pizza is "really good", according to my teenage kid. That's saying a lot, when the comments list are "ok", "good" or "meh". We also had meatballs and ricotta which didn't make it to the post because it was gone before I had the chance to take a pic. Don't miss that one. The prices are so reasonable too. Will definitely be coming back soon to try other dishes! read more

Favale's Trattoria - Penne ala Penne alla Vodka - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

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Set right off the main strip in downtown Ramsey, this Italian restaurant is one to check out if you're craving a casual pizza restaurant with delicious food. Now they do have a ton of Italian dishes, which always look great when I see them around the restaurant, but we have only ever gone for the pizza here. Huge pies with a nice crispy undercarriage from their brick oven. Traditional Neapolitan style. We usually get one of the traditional and one of the white pies. I love that the white pie has a little hint of garlic which gives it a little something extra. Staff is always friendly and bonus and bonus it's a byo. read more

Favale's Trattoria - Pizza to go- cooked in their brick oven. Not greasy or too much sauce! Simple ingredients. - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

Sandwiches so disappointing!!!! After going for dinner, we decided to get sandwiches as take out. Meatball had too much oregano for my taste. Not enough sauce so sandwich was dry, a scant amount of cheese. Sausage and pepper hero was pretty good. Sauasage was tasty. Chicken Parm was awful!!! A few, very thin, slices of chicken so over-done it was tough and hard to chew. Again, not enough sauce and scant amount of cheese. Its not parm! Eggplant Parm was just okay. Eggplant was plentiful but dry, same problem not enough sauce and barely any cheese. Only item that is consistently good is eggplant rollatini. We are done with Favale's. Just not consistent and just not good all around. Sorry, was a favorite of ours, not anymore. read more

Favale's Trattoria - Chicken Parm - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

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Really enjoyed the grilled chicken in this visit. Had plenty of seasoning and arugula. Waitress was friendly. Food took some time to come out read more

Favale's Trattoria - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

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A few people have been telling us about this place and we decided to take a little ride to go check it out. We armed ourselves with our bottles of wine and we were ready for a great meal.. It's a small place, but it's decorated nicely and tastefully. My only issue was it was extremely cold in there. I get it that the people are making the pizza get very hot, but it was kind of uncomfortable and I had to keep taking my coat on and off. But that literally it was the only negative. We started with the arugula salad, which was absolutely delicious. Very fresh and crisp. The cheese on it was amazing. You could tell it was high-quality and we loved the sun-dried tomatoes. We then moved onto mussels in a red sauce they were very good. They were not stringy. They were not dry. The sauce was delicious but I would've said go a little bit later on the onions next time, but overall, it was very tasty. The pizza was definitely the stand out here. It came out much bigger than we thought it was gonna be and we usually are able to finish a whole thin crust pizza but we just couldn't do it. This time. The crust was cooked perfectly. Their sauce is absolutely delicious. I felt like I was eating my own families sauce. That's how homemade it tasted. We got black olives on it and I love the way that they were. It wasn't overloaded. They weren't wet and I have to say I don't know where they got their basil from but the taste was incredible. I do want to add that I found myself staring at the gentleman that were actually kneading the pizza dough... I am right from Italy and I felt like I was transported back home the attention that he was paying to the Joe it was definitely watching an art We will definitely be back here. Hopefully it'll be a little bit warmer lol but overall, this was definitely one of my new favorites. read more

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Great place for seafood pasta pizza appetizers salad and everything! We love it and it's a byob! It's very busy every night!

A neighborhood spot that is worth checking out! We've actually never had a bad meal here, it does get crowded but they do now take reservations. read more

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Used to love them. Sad because - not any more. Jo is SUPER rude on the phone when I called and asked them to fix my order- I paid for a topping it was delivered plain. They messed up my order (second time in a row) first girl was kind, and said she would send another pizza. An hour later i called back and they said tough luck - not sending the corrected order back. read more

Excellent coal fired pizza . Got personal pie with pepperoni. Nice smoky flavor. Thin style . Definitely going back. read more

Excellent Italian dishes. Great pizza. Casual atmosphere. Good for sharing. Friendly staff.

One of the best pizza places in Bergen county, especially if you're gluten free. Really quick and easy for a takeout pie.

Wow ! We started patronizing this establishment when it was called Ronnie G's of the famous Grimaldi family of pizza makers. Enough said, Favale's has picked up where Ronnie's left off and their pizza and entrees are superb. So if you're looking for a good pizzeria, give them a chance. You'll thank me later. read more

Favale's Trattoria - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

After chasing down One-Bite Pizza Portnoy reviews and pizza places all over Tri-State area - We realized the best pizza is right here in Ramsey. Pepperoni and Sausage pies are incredible but the plain pie may be even better! Depends on your mood. Wings are THE BEST. Chicken Parm is phenomenal and I can't wait to try the Salmon dish on our next visit. We are pretty much going every week it is so good. Service and Atmosphere are also excellent. BYOB is also huge. Don't have to break the bank on low end wine which is always way overpriced. read more

We ordered pizza and a salad from there last night and it was excellent! We ordered the margarita pizza and the house salad. The house salad comes with a great dressing on the side. Delivery was on time. The pizza has so much flavor and will be ordering again soon! read more

Favale's Trattoria - House salad - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

I love this place. crave it all the time. it's byob. prices are affordable. food is delicious especially the fried balls for dessert. it's not as good as delivery though so i recommend dine in read more

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Food was delicious and very fresh. Ordered takeout - it was easy and ready very quickly.

food is great but this is the second time that the delivery driver was EXTREMELY rude. You need to change the driver as I'm sure people are going to stop ordering (like us) because of him. read more

Favale's you dirty dawgs. You done made a new fan. And an important one at that if I must say so myself. (P.S. I must). I was down bad a desperate day - or - month ago. I needed some comfort in the midday to distract me from my despair. Like a lonely bear in the British Columbian forests, I wandered around with my heavy feet, and heavy heart. Looking to fill the empty and underutilized spaces of my chest and my mind. Looking to fill it with something that would rev me up. Salmon and Honey, like a bear in the wild? Or shall I go more figurative than literal bear... I thought to myself. I needed something to carry me over, AND to lift me up. Physical and mental... I'd take care of the rest. Lunch specials from the area's hotspots all rolled through me begging for me to order. But I needed something new, and just like that it slapped me on the rum and rubbed me on my tum. I knew I needed to get me some. A personal pie from a particularly picked and placed pizzeria, and I had recently been recommended to this shop so I gave it it's deserved try. Firstly, wonderfully priced personal pie... could get this everyday if I wanted to. Nice choices of toppings and ya can fill just 1/2 of the pie if you please. It's a smaller personal, but it makes it feel that much more personal. Sauce check. Passed those vibes. I love me a sweet sauce. - It brings me back to stirring up those tomatoes on a hot August Day. Wooden spatulas running around the edge-less and endless large pots, moving that defiantly bold red liquid to keep it from darkening. And those same wooden spatulas had done many a meet a greet with misbehaved bottoms of belligerent bambini. Mine being one of them. - Anyways... Cheese that'll bring you to your knees. Lovely light and feathery (yet) a doughy and chewy undercarriage. Cooked to get a minor char but what it really does it appeal the eyes. Indirectly stimulates the nostrils. I got some ricotta to top it off because I have class, and am a gentlemanly scholar but you do you. Just a real delightful pie here at Favale's. With a score of an 8.5, it ranks amongst the top pizzas in Bergen County. AKA the true food capitol. Blessed days you Romeo's and you Juliet's. Fair Favale waits for you to lay your own scene. (Educated nbd). Bye. read more

STAY AWAY! Favale's is an overpriced joke. The food, service, and physical space all speak to pathetic and ineffective management. Pizza: The draw of the restaurant and the reason to pay almost $30 per pizza, for mediocre standard supermarket quality items, is coal oven. The kid working the coal oven was more interested in pounding Saratoga sparking waters and watching the NJ Devil's on TV than in preparing the pizza. Aside from preparing food without gloves and a hat, the pizza's were all colorless (ie no coal charring on the bottom, crust, or tops), flavorless (and I mean tasteless and boring despite the toppings), and floppy. Service: To add another level of horrendous to the experience was the service. What a joke. The waitress was rude and uncaring. She was certainly not trained in hospitality. She was unavailable and uninterested. Management has certainly never explained the sequence of service. She is also unaware of the products the restaurant serves, from drink to food. In a typical unprofessional and unmanaged restaurant full of kids, I could hear her complain throughout the night about her tips to other employees. She sneezed on her hands and proceeded to touch food, computers, and serve without washing or sanitizing them. The service was as off putting as the cost of terrible pizza. With 4 staff members visible in the dining room, and at least 2 more walking in and out from the kitchen, the music shut off. Not one turned it back on for the reminder of our meal. Physical restaurant: From the outside, it looked dark and empty. Of course, the glass doors looked like they hadn't been Windexed in months. We walked in, and the place was so bright my father needed sunglasses. It was also upwards of 84s degrees. I measured it with my phone. The fans were off, and the doors were closed. Perhaps that's because of the fly problem. Flies attacked our pizza the entire night. Chemicals were visible everywhere, and hanging rags were dripping on the floor after being used to wipe tables. Don't they need to be stored in a sanitizing solution? Set up a proper station for the staff. Where is the management? Have they every worked in a restaurant? For $30 a pizza, they could build out some inexpensive infrastructure to house the cleaning products, etc. It would also free up the table they were using as a desk in the dining room. Towards the end of the night, the pizza cook starting cleaning and spraying chemical products everywhere. Eating my floppy, tasteless, and colorless pizza was improved by the smell of toxic chemicals bouncing off of the pizza station to our table. Just kidding. It was not an improvement. My father and I started choking. I was done eating at that point. My father opted not to get the dessert he had planned on getting since we left our house. After taking a long time to get the waitress for our check, we finally headed out. In the lobby on the way out, the automictic hand sanitizer dispenser was empty. I never checked the restroom, but I would imagine they were just as filthy as the service and dining room. In sum: The hanging pictures of Grimaldi's and Patsy's on the wall do not serve to place Favale's on the same plane as pizza royalty. They instead taunt the diner with thoughts of actually delicious pizza. Favale's pizza, people, and physical plant are all missing any management at all. The owners should be embarrassed and upset. Reach out. I would be happy to help turn your place around. That oven is so precious, and your place could be an efficient, delicious, and friendly money machine. AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS. EXPENSIVE AND GROSS. STAY AWAY. Management is on a permanent vacation. read more

Lunch Specials 1/2 Chicken Marsala w/ Soup & Personal Pie w/ Salad were Tasty. Same Price Cash & Card. Prices Were Higher Then Listed On Website Order Form. read more

Favale's Trattoria - Lunch Specials: Personal Pie & 1/2 Portion Chicken Entrée - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

One of my favorite places. Food is great. Pizza, dessert. Yum! The cannoli zeppolis, affogato.

I went to Favale's Trattoria for dinner. I got the Mussels for an appetizer ($12), which were small in terms of individual mussel size, but a decent portion. My main order was a large pizza with pepperoni, sausage, ricotta cheese, and eggplant. I could actually see the guy making the pizza from scratch in the restaurant, and the pizza definitely tasted high quality. The pizza was cooked just enough so that the cheese was a bit melted and the crust was firm but not too hard. The meats were tasty, though the eggplant seemed to be lacking. For $26, the pizza was a fair price if you have a discriminating pizza palette. For dessert, I got the Cannoli ($4), which was ordinary but a solid size. The service speed for the mussels and cannoli were quick. As for the pizza, it took a little while, but this was justified by the fact that they made it from scratch. Our waiter was friendly but not very attentive. The restaurant has a nice homey kind of feel to it with a decent amount of seating. There is a big parking lot in front of the restaurant. Overall, Favale's Trattoria is a great choice for authentic Italian food in Ramsey. I would definitely recommend it if you are looking for high quality pizza that is handmade from scratch. read more

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I have known Austin, the owner, since he was one-week old. He has taken his father's know-how and his own experience to a new level of home cooked Italian fare into a busy corner of Ramsey. Pizzas are amazing, thin, Neapolitan, amazingly fresh ingredients. The restaurant is very clean and the staff is friendly and attentive. You can bring your own from next door for an even better dining experience. I highly recommend the mussels. read more

Best chopped salad in the area. Wood fired pizza. For take out pizza they give you a bag type affair which is not as good as standard pizza type box. read more

The pizza is some of the best coal fired anywhere. Their Cesar salads are very genuine. The wings are spectacular.

Go here for the white pizza with hot cherry peppers and drizzle of honey! Sounds weird right? Don't knock it till you try it! Its addicting!! It's so amazing and hits the spot for the weekly craving because there's really nothing else like this in the area. I haven't had a good white pizza in years but this is awesome. They also offer a nice antipasta and all of the food overall is pretty good. The inside is a little small and a bit dark so it's a very casual dining experience but they will deliver if you call and the driver will ensure he has the right address so you can enjoy this bomb @$$ white pizza. read more

Easiest review ever... there is better Italian around the area. The food is fine here but you can go somewhere else and get better food for the same price. Everything was underwhelming. No problems with the food honestly but this place tastes like it'd be good italian for Kansas, not NJ! Go to Andres or Mezze Luna if you want GOOD Italian. Go to La Gondola or Kinchleys if you want GREAT pizza. read more

This place is consistently awesome !! Great pizza , pasta eggplant Parmesan . Priced well quick And friendly service read more

The crust on the pizza has definitely changed, and not for the better. We I'll not be returning here any longer. I wish they did not mess with the pizza crust read more

Just a strip mall regular Italian restaurant, but damn it's good. HUGE PORTIONS. Low key, relaxed atmosphere... great red sauce. Not the best most gourmet Italian food ever, but seriously I recommend.. it's a classic nj hearty fatty delicious Italian meal. The calamari is great too, also the zeppelle dessert is great. They provided me with a pitcher of water, a bunch of napkins and appropriate plates.. all without asking for.. so 5 stars in my book! read more

Favale's Trattoria - Chicken Parmigiana - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

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The food is so authentic Italian and the portions are excellent! There are a variety of menu choices. Their thin crust pizza is outstanding. I haven't had a bad meal there yet!! Also excellent for takeout. I highly recommend this small authentic restaurant tucked away in the center of town in Ramsey! read more

Wow! Beat brick oven pizza I think I've ever had! So glad I get to order from here all the time. Don't pass this place up!!

Best Italian in my neighborhood. Insanely great pizza and even better chicken parm. The service even on delivery orders is exceptional. We've never been inside the restaurant but I'm sure it's excellent. I love this place and will continue to order from them on a weekly basis. read more

Our large group ordered a few pizzas and several appetizers. Since we went at lunch on a weekday, it was not crowded at all. All of the food was phenomenal. It felt like eating a homemade meal at a friend's house. The vibes were fun and casual. Highly recommend and can't wait to return. read more

Great service. Very nice and accommodating as we had a child with us! Brought out food right away for child. Huge portions! We lived the garlic bread a must have! We ordered chicken Parmesan, penne ala vodka, spaghetti and meat balls, fried calamari and chopped salad. Excellent! read more

Ok my followers will be shocked over this high review for a North Jersey (Bergen is ancient Indian name for land of gavones) ... but Favales really impressed me even tho while we were waiting for our order I was convinced this would be yet another Pete the Restaurant Dick review. This isn't artisanal Napoletano style pizza but is very very good. Both the crust being tasty and not your typical wet cardboard thing and the toppings although again - this isn't an upscale artisanal place. You can expect canned olives here rather hand pitted ones done by someone's grandma in the basement - but the mutz and the sauce and the other side toppings are major cuts above your corner pizzeria. On top of that they have a nice red sauce menu of Italian American fare (which I'm still too much of a dick to try) and a cozy BYOB space. You see Jersey is still like Mississippi and Alabama with many antiquated laws. - I'm only surprised Trump doesn't have more fans here. But I digress. The pizza is excellent. The staff is attentive and friendly and doesn't appear to be the typical affluent kids who don't give a crap type - but nice kids and professional. Nice selection of great pizza - thinner crust but still almost as tasty as the fancy places. Reasonable prices. What's not to like here. One of the very few places I recommend in Ramsey and Bergen county in general. You know the others. By the way - a cut or two above the former Mr G. read more

Came here with family and the pizza here is on point. We ordered an order or garlic bread, Caesar salad, one pie full sausage, and one pie half pepperoni with onions. The food here was point and so were the staff. The staff here was attentive and friendly. Would recommend coming here to satisfy your craving for good pizza. FYI this place is BYOB so bring yourself a bottle. read more

Favale's Trattoria - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

Was surprised by name change as we are long time patrons of Ronnie G and it's an excellent authentic red sauce trattoria - the news is good!! same sweet waitstaff, chef, amazing pizza but some new dishes that were off the hook. I had shrimp parm that was so plentiful and btw not on menu & crazy delish and my P had pasta with seafood - even this big Gavone could not finish - we came in late for local standards but were not rushed and I just love this place! Bouno fortuna to this 'new' old fave in town - no reason to go anywhere else! Except the long wait lines encountered on weekends- now I know why lines are again - out the door! Also - the new owner took the time to greet us, make us feel welcome and explain 'specials' - quite a different experience from a high priced Greek taverna in town that seemingly relishes being outright rude to guests!!! Bienvenuto y abondanza reign here! read more

Favale's Trattoria - P and all the fish in the sea pasta - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

Delicious thin-crust pizza. We ordered takeout, but would dine in next time. Attractive interior, and staff taking precautions with their checkout set-up and masks. Conveniently located in the small strip mall next to the Ramsey train station, plenty of parking. We had a large pie with eggplant, ricotta and mozzarella. Yummy! read more

Favale's Trattoria - Delicious thin crust pizza, coal-fired oven. We ordered an eggplant, ricotta, mozzarella large pizza. Highly recommend! - Italian Near Me - Ramsey, New Jersey

Good always good at Favale's. Not only is the food exceptional, the staff is extremely helpful and friendly. Good food, good atmosphere.