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    Lombardi's Bar & Restaurant

    3.6 (136 reviews)
    ModerateItalian, Bars, Pizza
    Open 12:00 pm - 9:00 PM

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    Lombardi's platter, sautéed broccoli, and broccoli Rob sausage hot peppers potatoes. Very shareable
    Gerard S.

    Old school Pizza and bar known for its than pizza crust, reasonable prices, and welcoming bar. Not just pizza on the menu but plenty of choices including salad sandwiches and apps. Well known for lunch and dinner specials. Plenty of parking, easy access, and very friendly atmosphere. Plenty of sports and games on television surrounding the bar.

    Romaine Gorgonzola - add grilled chicken (so good!)
    T. G.

    Stopped by for an early dinner on a Sunday evening and sat at the bar.. very quickly it got pretty busy. Easy parking and laid back vibes - we will absolutely be back! We ordered the Romaine Gorgonzola salad with grilled chicken and famous shrimp scampi pizza - I heard from friends it's a must try and it did not disappoint! At first, we thought it was very watery/saucy but it was actually delish and not too saucy at all. It was plenty for 2 and we had some pizza left over which heated up great the next day. We will see you soon!! Thanks for a great experience!

    Linguine with clam sauce
    Daniel Y.

    A cross between a sports bar and a seafood nautical restaurant m, kind of a dark interior. Came on a recommendation and was told to try the special pie. It had chicken in a pink vodka sauce m, so that was ordered and finished. It was pretty good and I followed with the linguine and clams sauce. After some grated cheese snd chili pepper flakes it was a damn good meal.

    a pepperoni pizza
    Ronald K.

    Came here for the thin crust pizza, and pretty much that only. It's usually a bad sign when your drink order comes in throw away plastic cups but it's kinda a sports bar so whatever, I can deal. Wait staff is cordial and pleasant. But hey that pizza, soooo weird, the first three slices I thought I entered the pearly gates of pizza heaven. Once the pizza cooled a bit it was more like pizza hell. Suddenly the crust turned to cardboard and the cheese lost its flair. So my advice would be go with a group, order a few pies and woof down those first few slices!

    Cheese pizza.
    Emma G.

    Boy, do I miss the Lombardi's in Fairfield. The reviews for this place seem to be all over the map, but I'd be curious to know what percentage of reviewers have been to the now-closed Fairfield location - the atmosphere and more importantly the pizza were significantly better there, and I suspect the ratings here would take a hit in direct comparison. Unlike this particular restaurant, the Fairfield location was a standalone building, featuring a more sports bar-themed section and also a family-oriented sit-down restaurant area. It kind of gave off (and I don't mean this as any type of insult) an Applebee's vibe where you have a lot of local sports team memorabilia prominently displayed, and it was just comfortable, regardless of the specific environment within the building you chose to sit in. The Cedar Grove Lombardi's loses a lot of personality points in favor of its closed sibling. It's in a strip mall next to a supermarket, and the restaurant/bar is housed in a single, square room. Efforts have been made to spiff it up a little (the furniture looked new, and it appears that a fresh coat of paint has been recently applied), but the lighting and layout just makes the environment overall come across as impersonal, in my opinion. Due to the recent polar vortex weather, I decided to order a cheese pizza for lunch pickup to accompany a West Wing marathon (obviously nothing after Season 4 when Aaron Sorkin left - life is too short). Lombardi's website indicated that they opened at 11:30am. I called around 11:50am - no answer. I called back about 10 minutes later and got someone on the phone this time to place the order. Not a huge deal, but I don't think you should have to call a restaurant multiple times to order something. And I hate to say it, but you wouldn't have that problem with Dominos down the street because of their automated system that at worst would keep you on hold for a few minutes until someone was available to take the call. When I went to pick up the pizza, it took about six minutes for the waitress to finally go back to the kitchen for me to procure it - longer than it should have but it did seem like she was the only one out there (which likely explains why my first call went unanswered), and she was manning all aspects of the front, from greeter to waitress to bartender. The waitress seemed a bit harried, but you can understand that to a degree given that she was in charge of literally everything in the restaurant presumably other than making the actual pizza. The pizza was very mediocre. Lombardi's specializes in bar pies. I think the gold standard in the area is Star Tavern in Orange, and this is not that. A bar pie should have a thin, crispy crust, and this was doughier, especially on the outer edges, where it just didn't look cooked enough (you can see it on the accompanying picture - the density should be pretty universal throughout the pie). None of the ingredients were particularly tasty, though the sauce was PROBABLY the best, on the sweeter side. Optics-wise, it reminded me a lot of a freezer Celeste Pizza, which is probably not what they were going for. The price was pretty par for the course, at $11.99 plus tax. I won't be returning, and I'd recommend if you're in the area and hankering for this type of pizza, spend another 15 minutes in the car and go over to Orange.

    Andrew C.

    After a victorious Jets win in pouring rain, my friend had recommended that we should go to Lombardi's so I obliged. When I first entered Lombardi's, the clientele and general surroundings felt very homely. We were able to see some other exhausted but happy Jets fans arriving around the same time as us to enjoy some food. My friend had been talking up the calamari for the previous few days so I had to go for it. Unlike some of the past calamari I've had from other restaurants that had been frozen and rubbery, the calamari here was lightly breaded and very flavorful. For the main dish, I went with the fettuccine carbonara. There was a nice blend of creaminess, saltiness from the bacon, and fresh pasta to round it out. The portion size was also very fair for the price. Whenever I am in the mood again for Italian food, I will definitely consider coming back here. If nothing else, I would highly recommend the calamari. Happy eating!

    Half Cheese/Half Pep - NJ bar pie should have a char on the crust. How else do you get that cracker slice to stand straight. Respect
    GABRIEL C.

    Whaaa whaaa!!! This isn't the Fairfield location, theres no sports memorabilia, it's in a strip mall, I'm so fragile I can't handle change, whaaaa! So no, I have never been to the Fairfield location and I don't care. Lucky I looked past all these 1 to 3 star reviews and brought my family to this gem. I don't care if it's in the back of a run down gas station, good food is good food; and this my friends is GOOD food. The pizza is good, standard Jersey Bar pie. Is it the best, no, that's because NJ style bar pie is never the best pizza . The best NJ bar pie is where ever you grew up with, but as someone who knows his pie, this is above average and better than the near by Angelonis in Caldwell. Yes, that is a fact! The dishes, I'll preface this section with saying "there's is a wait". Again, good food takes time and our dishes took a while to come out but damn did they come out HOT! The guys in the kitchen must be machines, between take out and dine in orders where flying out. Back to the dishes, my Eggplant Parm was on point, my wife's Vodka Linguine, pulled high and super creamy. I ate it all, but my eyes ate also. The dishes that I saw come out of the kitchen where amazing. Large plates of mussels, broccoli rabe with sausage and potatoes, chicken scarpiello; everything served piled high, like those old classic Italian joints that just bring out food with no menu. I kept stopping the waitress to ask what that dish was! This is a nice place to bring the family and a good change from the many pubs. I appreciated the nicely dressed well aged women accommodating everyone, checking up on tables, just saying "hi". The wait staff was moving fast and hard to get their attention but they kicked ass and got me whatever I needed in a timely manner. Tips to dine in, get there between 4-5 for a weekend dinner if you have kids. Between 5-6 the place was slammed with diners and it could get tight. We are glad we came early and we will be coming back.

    Pepperoni
    Steph M.

    A hidden gem!!! I came here for the first time recently after living in the area forever. Their thin crust pizza is so amazing, I'm shocked it's not talked about as much as other popular places! The focaccia bread and sauce they serve when you first sit down are truly incredible. I could fill up on just that and be content. We ordered the calamari, which was super delicious and crispy. The two pies we split were the pepperoni pie and chicken francese. The pepperoni pie was super crispy and had a great taste to it. The chicken francese pie was awesome as well with a very generous amount of chicken on it! Can't wait to come back!

    Unsure

    We recently ordered two pizzas for pickup. it wasn't until after we got home that we realized they gave us one of the wrong pizzas. they were not very busy so I'm not sure what happened. The boxes we got were not labeled with our names so it's not clear how they keep track of which order is which. In fact I'm not quite sure what they gave us in place of the pizza we ordered. here's a picture. It's basically just a very thin crust with a thin layer of marinara sauce, not even cut into slices? It didn't look particularly edible and we just ended up throwing it out and not having the dinner we wanted. we called and they said they would deliver our missing pizza but it took an extremely long amount of time to deliver and so we ended up canceling it. The pizza we had ordered would have been sitting around for almost 2 hours before we got it. Not exactly what we had paid for. We asked for a credit on our credit card but we have seen nothing.

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    Great pizza, amazing sangria, and a cozy vibe--definitely a spot I'll be coming back to again soon

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    Love the pizza and the shrimp scampi with rice is so good! Great spot will be back soon!

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    Great Pizza and very large entree portions. Try the chicken scarpariello. No negative comments

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