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    Melilli Cafe & Grill

    3.5 (57 reviews)
    ModeratePizza, Bakeries, Italian
    Open 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    Quiet
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating

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    Gluten Free Italian Combo Wrap
    Allie K.

    My husband mentioned he had some awesome subs catered for work, and a few months later, we've been to Melilli's a couple of times! Service is always prompt and friendly. We've tried multiple menu items. For gluten free options, pizzas are available, and all grinders can be made on gluten free wraps. At first, this was a turn off for me, but it was actually quite delicious. We've tried the Italian Combo and the Melilli Steak this way. They're great at allergen modifications, and there's plenty of delicious food to eat, no matter what you order. Other menu hits as mentioned by the friends we brought along the last visit include the chicken parm and the chicken fingers- high praise from a little one! We'll definitely continue to return to Melilli's.

    Egg sandwich
    Dee C.

    Ordered a breakfast sandwich with egg, cheese, sausage patty. Fresh and very tasty on a hard roll. Staff was friendly as well.

    Mushroom Ricotta and Mozzarella Calzone
    Agusta S.

    Okay y'all I FINALLY tried this place after a year of telling myself I'd circle back and OMG I'm so glad I did. This is probably the best calzone I've had to date since moving to this great state of pizza and it's all about the dough. The flavor and fluffiness of their crust is everything. The sauce is amazing, lots of flavor, and the cheese isn't overwhelming. I'm not a fan of the enormous amounts of ricotta in my calzones so for me the balance was perfect! And I swear even the mushrooms had flavor. And they weren't cut too thick like a lot of places do, so it was just the cherry on top. It's also as big as my thigh which is insane LOL The team was friendly and the atmosphere inside definitely feels like a small town bakery, which I love. I will absolutely be back and highly recommend y'all treat yo'selves on the way home on one of these frigid windy days!

    Julia M.

    I don't know what the negative reviews are about. My husband and I have been going to Melilli's since they were in Cromwell. We have never had a bad meal or heard an untoward word from anyone. After living in two cities with very strong pizza opinions, NYC and Chicago, I can honestly say, Melilli's pizza is my favorite pizza on the east coast outside of New York. Pepe's is great, but it's a different experience. Tonight we had an antipasto salad with a large pizza in the dining room. It was way too much food, but we planned to have leftovers for the Patriots game at home. Service was very welcoming and accommodating. When people called in, I could hear them immediately tell the callers there was a 40 minute or an hour wait for pizza. They make everything to order, even the salads. They make their own crust and it's a crispy on the bottom, very well developed crust. I have found that reviews for pizza places are very polarizing. EVERYONE thinks their favorite kind of pizza is the perfect pizza. If it's not your bag, move on to another place. There's a million of them out there. But if you want to sit back and have a nice meal cooked by a family who are bringing their Italian traditions to your plate, then come here.

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    Great sandwiches! 16" long which are easy to split with your buddybakery items are fab toodon't forget the pizzas!

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    5 years ago

    Consistently top notch food and service. One of my favorite all around places to eat breakfast and lunch. Keep up the great work!

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    The breakfast I had took twice as long to cook and yet still tasted somewhat cold. The food overall was just okay.

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    They make the best egg, bacon and cheese breakfast sandwich all day long. I love them. It's always a treat to have one.

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    Food is mediocre at best. Service not as good. Staff is generally indifferent or even snarky if you ask to may questions.

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    Amazing people and food taste great they really make it feel like your at home and it reminds me of…read moregrandmas cooking

    If you prominently post a sign in your restaurant that says "This isn't Burger King. You don't get…read moreit your way. You take it my way or you don't get the damn thing", you better be freaking phenomenal at what you do. Because you're announcing to the world that you don't really care about providing good service. Yeah. Yeah. It's meant to be a joke. But really, it's not. The person who would post that sign, really thinks they know better than you do. I basically get a slice of pizza from any restaurant I haven't been to that has a Slices sign. I was in the plaza for Giulia's Pizza and saw that slice sign. So I went in. I am only evaluating Giulia's based upon their Slice Selection and my slice of pepperoni. People who order a whole pizza may have a completely different experience. I have recently been to 4 other places that also feature pizza slices in the Newington, Berlin and Rocky Hill area and those visits establish a baseline for this review. Of the five places, Giulia's has the fewest choices. Cheese. Pepperoni. Veggie. In terms of display, Giulia's displayed the slices in the least appealing way. They were just kind of sitting there. No heated case. The cheese pizza seemed the most recently cooked, but the Veggie and Pepperoni had been sitting for a while. The tops were solid and the crust looked thicker than I would expect for a non-Greek Style pizza. I decided to try the pepperoni. It was brought to me more quickly than I would have expected after I ordered it. Not surprisingly, it was undercooked. It was OK, but the cheese was a bit of a mess texture-wise. The sauce didn't pop for me. The pepperoni could have been cooked more. The crust was chewy in a way that I didn't particularly enjoy. Of the places where I have recently had a slice, this was my least favorite. I've seen and heard this Burger King saying before. I don't think a business does itself any favors when it posts a sign like that. It's hard to root for the person who posts that sign. But you can get away with it . . . if you're great. At least with respect to the slice part of Giulia's business, Giulia's is not great. Two Stars

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