My trip to where I grew up would not be complete without a New Haven Apizza experience. This place was my Brother's recommendation, and it was a perfect choice. Clam's Casino was my selected pie, and believe me, it was hard to decide. Every bite was thin-crust valhalla, with the flavor of Clams melding perfectly with the classic combo of Bacon & Onion on red sauce. Yeah, I'm ruined until my next visit. Wifey bit on the night's special (Chicken & Sausage over Penne) and cooed with delight. I will take these mom & pop pizza joints over a fancy sit-down Italian resto experience 10 times outta 10. And thankfully, in this part of the country, they are everywhere... read more

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Really nice pizza - uniquely Branford Point. Crispy dough, great sauce. Amazing cannolis as well! read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - Leave the gun Cannoli, - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

The pizza is always consistent, the cheese is a good quality always fresh,The meals are fantastic with great flavor and good size portions, and the staff is always pleasant , the restaurant it's self is very clean and pleasant for a dining experience , with quality food. read more

After a late week night we decided on take out and our joint was closed for vacation. I got a steak and cheese with mushrooms and it was crispy baked roll and tender, delicious steak that really let the bread share its juices. Everything was ready as soon as I arrived and HOT!! The Caesar salad was fresh, crisp and covered with shaved Pecorino. I can't wait to work another late night.! read more

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Can't believe I never left a review for Pacileo's. Lived in Branford for 2.5yrs & this place was amazing. I lived literally half a mile from Pacileo's. Amazing pizza. Amazing calzone Amazing calamari. Very great takeout. I went here at least once a month. Top notch pizza!!! My favorite in the area. read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - Cheese Pizza - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

First time customer: Ordered a large pizza to take out with sausage and meatball toppings. It was delicious. Real New Haven style - thin crust, a bit charred. Plan to become a repeat customer!! read more

Solid spot in a convenient location near the water. They made slices available for an individual (so I didn't have to order the whole pie). It was also fresh right out of the oven. Prices were reasonable, staff was nice, and parking was ample. Hope you like cheese, because the slices were loaded with it. I'd certainly grab a slice here again if I'm in the area. read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - the outside of the restaurant - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

Nothing special, tried many different times. Burnt pizza everytime. Too many other great restaurants in Branford . Won't waste our time or money again. read more

Our normal place was closed which gave us an opportunity to try somewhere else. If could give less than a star, I would. $40 for a large pepperoni pizza, an order of Calamari, and a garlic bread is expensive. However, if it's well done, I wouldn't care. This wasn't. Half an inch of dry flour caked on the bottom of the pizza, which was basically the only crust there. Over oily. I choked down a piece, and that was about it. Calamari was ordered with cherry peppers (NY style), no cherry peppers when I got it home. Calamari wasn't well breaded, was soggy (some to be expected but this was awful), overly rubbery, too smelly (Calamari should have a seafood smell but this was borderline rancid smelling), and it was inedible. Garlic bread with cheese was ok. Wasnt cut except lengthwise, which makes one basically rip it, but.... Nothing to write home about, but I guess it's borderline impossible to screw up. Never ever again will I go here or the north branford location. Horrible and inedible. Don't go here. read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

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The food was pretty good A blackened chicken salad and grinder off their lunch menu so the price was reasonable. The grinder was good sized, almost couldn't finish it. The salad was fresh. The place still looks new and fresh. Our waitress was attentive and nice. My only compliant is the mellow pop music. I don't care for mellow pop music and it was a bit too loud. read more

Our go to local spot. Best local place in the suburbs ever. The wings were fried to perfection. The quality of the chicken perfect. The sauce was perfect Buffalo style. So now that I can confirm the food is awesome from their specials to their pizza, now I can be rest assured I don't have to leave town for great wings! read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - 56 years and finally! The best wings ever. - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

Reasonably priced, great portion sizes, yummy and delicious! Very clean and modern atmosphere. There was a large birthday party or some celebration here which made it very loud. Service was great too! Definitely will come again. Try the original one on Harbor St in Branford too.. Great for pizza or dinner.... Great place for families or large groups. Casual dining. Plenty of parking. read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - Chicken florentine minus the spinach with broccoli instead. Three nice size pieces of chicken. - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

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Let me start with the fact that my Wife and I were big fans of Abates. I loved their pizza and had many good meals there. We were devistates when they closed. Flash forward...... Someone told my wife that Pacileos had just opened. We thought we would try the port of fair. We got a large mushroom pizza and were not let down. Although nit as good as Pepes in new haven it wasnt bad. All in all reasonable price. We will be back read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - Mushroom pizza - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

Seemed kind of pricey this time around. Did the prices go up? We ordered two tuna grinders and a small calzone and it was well over $32, don't recall the exact amount. Along the same lines of not offering delivery, I'm sorry, but John and Maria's has got you beat. read more

Pizza itself was pretty good. The downside was how no one seemed to care about safety measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. No one was wearing masks or gloves (including the cashier who deals with various new people coming in and out) and the people working were standing very close to one another. They also didn't ask for payment by phone (which most other places do now to minimize contact). read more

If I could give this a zero, I would! We ordered two subs and a Greek salad! 38 bucks and the salad wasn't worth 2 dollars. The subs were awful and they don't itemize their cc receipts. We used love this place..We will NEVER go back. I don't even know what they charged us for each item! We only went here because Branford Townhouse was closed for vacation. Just awful and a rip off. Thanks but no thanks! read more

When I call they put me on hold they forgot that I could still hear everything that was being said I was going to order a good amount of food until I heard the lady complaining about everyone calling at once I think I'll not be ordering from this place again Bobby's pizza for good now read more

I thought maybe it was just me, but after reading other reviews, I feel so validated. I think they're pizza is pretty damn good, but unfortunately for them they've lost another customer - a regular customer who picked up a pie weekly! Not only did I call 25 minutes in advance on a weekday, but I waited another 15 minutes inside the place standing awkwardly next to a couple who was dining there because there was no other place to stand. Everyone behind the counter was curt and rushed and snippy, like they all hated each other, hated me and hated life. I can think of a million ways I'd rather spend my money. read more

The worst service ever; both on the phone and with deliveries. Usually would get a rude, abrupt female who rushed me off the phone; then I would wait forever for the delivery. I don't mind waiting if the food is good; the pizza was typically good enough; however, overdone most of the time complete with burnt crust. Tremendously overpriced..will not order from there again; the owners clearly do not care about the service issues or they would do something. Recommend you just go to Abate in North Branford read more

I've really tried to like Pacileo's because it's so close to our house. When they added delivery, I really wanted it to become a great standby place for us for nights when we didn't feel like cooking. However, it just didn't work out that way. First of all, it's relatively expensive compared to the other pizza places in town. The pizza is good, but not quite as good as the price would indicate. Add to that a charge for delivery--and the fact that we'd obviously tip the delivery guy--and it becomes silly expensive for delivery pizza. And even then, it's so close to the house that I might just do takeout, but they range from rude to downright nasty when you call, and they're bad about time estimates. So you end up with a pretty stressful experience, between calling and not knowing if you're going to get somebody on the phone who's just in a rush or who's going to be full-on nasty, to showing up and standing in a noisy restaurant awkwardly for 15 minutes because your pizza isn't ready yet. I'll probably try them again at some point, but so far, every single experience I've had with them has been decent at best. read more

Plain and simple: good food, awful service. I thought for sure that the other Yelp reviewers went on a bad night or had no patience, but I'm not exaggerating when I say the service couldn't get one thing right. I went with my family and we were very hungry for some good new haven style pizza. If we were on a time crunch we would have walked out of the restaurant for how long it took to get anything... Some salads never even came out. Something was forgotten on every dish/pizza. Again, we were lenient... The servers(s) were young girls and they were very nice but just couldn't grasp the concept of writing things down. The star of the night was the white pizza with canelini beans, escarole, and mozz. We asked for pepperoni too but it was forgotten. It was still delicious and the crust was PERFECT. Next time I'm in town I will order take out instead of dining in because it is worth it. read more

The place was ok. The service was good. The pizza was terrible. I asked if they use fresh clams on their pizza. The waitress said yes. We ordered a small white clam pizza, half with mozzarella, half without. The dough was pretty tasteless, the clams were fishy & rubbery. Definitely not cut fresh there. Boooo. read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - This is a small white clam. Half with mozzarella. Terrible. - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

I have to start by saying that I have always liked Pacileo's Pizza and other items on the menu and that the staff are friendly. That being said, I purchased this afternoon a to-go order, 1 large Mozzarella Pizza, 1 Small Plain w/ grated cheese and 1 Large Giant Salad that came with apple slices, raisins and walnuts. The total came to $43.15 with the salad costing $13...yes $13! When I arrived home I thought that they gave me a small salad instead of the Large Giant Salad and called them up to ask...the woman was very nice but stated No, that was the large salad you picked up. I was amazed. I did tell her that I was disappointed and she did say "I apologize" several times and was polite, but in the end the salad weighed less than 7 oz and couldn't imagine that would be defined as a large. I know things have gone up but there is a breaking point. It was just too expensive for what we received and sadly won't be going back..the food is good but the value was not. read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - Pizza Dinner...steak house price - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

Stay away from the delivery. Their customer service and delivery speed is awful. While the food is good at the restaurant, we have so far had two awful experiences with their delivery. read more

My fiancé and I decided to try Pacileo's for the first time. We have not been to the Branford location, but read the reviews which were not too positive. Our experience at the new location in North Branford was very positive, however. Perhaps with a new venue comes a fresh start. We had great service (although we were one of three tables at the time). The small pepperoni and barbecue chicken pizzas were very good. The only complaint would be that the sauce tasted a little watery. The atmosphere was nice; it's modern, sleek and comfortable. We would return for take out or to dine in. read more

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The pizza here is decent but I'll never get one delivered again. I ordered a pie for delivery and it ended up costing my over $30 with the tip. That's ridiculous. Last Saturday (4/20) my family and I went to the restaurant to eat. While we were there one of the staff members, who had been previously making pizza, was in the kitchen smoking a cigarette. That's completely unsatisfactory in my book and probably cost them a customer. read more

This is my first review ever of a restaurant (good or bad) but the experience tonight was absolutely awful. We come to Pacileo's from time to time for decent pizza in the neighborhood and have family and friends that frequent here often. We will not be returning after having multiple issues with the service. We as customers understand that Friday's are busy. But if you will treat your in house customer like second class patrons forgetting to bring simple things such as (water, Parmesan, straws for kids etc.) after having us wait over an hour to receive one dish (pasta) and promising "pizza would be out soon" after 30 more minutes waiting to have them bring us the wrong pizza there is no excuse. We decided we are just going to chop our losses and leave. We were told our pizza would "be comp'd." For future reference to this restaurant you can't "comp" something you never made/delivered. We paid for our time there, that should have been "comp'd", if we hadn't have the waitress wouldn't been able to afford her drugs that she was obviously on. We tried, but don't need to bother going back here again. We will encourage our neighborhood friends and family to go elsewhere as well. read more

I have ordered two take out meals. calzone and small sausage pie. calzone was excellent and good value. I got two tasty meals out of it. my second take-out order was the small sausage pie. I should have ordered a plain pie. the pizza was delicious but there was little sausage added to the topping. I had one slice that had one piece of sausage on it. not fair. pay for a topping you should get the topping on every slice. because the pizza was good I will go back and order a plain pie. read more

Pacileo's Apizza & Pasta - a slice of pizza - Pizza Near Me - North Branford, Connecticut

New Haven style, thin crust pizza... It's absolutely delicious! We order take out there once a week or so. Bacon and tomato is a favorite of mine. The bacon is crispy and crumbled up, and the tomato comes with basil and garlic. Their straight up cheese pizza is one of the only things my super picky 3 year old will eat! Everything we order there is crispy and perfectly cooked. It reheats well at home in the toaster oven too. read more

When your out-of-state friends ask you to take them for New Haven pizza, there's really no need to drive them down to Wooster Street. Instead take them to Pacileo's. This little pizza joint near the Branford Point makes the quintessential New Haven pizza. Their pizza excels at exhibiting all the key characteristics of a New Haven pizza: Extremely sloppy, messy, and flimsy Heavy & very stretchy mootz Chewy crust Oily Charred crust in several spots No garlic I've had their pizza several times and every time it's been amazingly good. Today was no exception. If I could have inhaled the slices through my nose I would have. And if anybody tried to grab one of my slices I would have easily gnawed off their arm. Nice imagery, huh? Pacileo's pizza is made in the style of Grand Apizza and Ernie's Pizza in New Haven, meaning it's slightly thicker than the giants on Wooster Street. Plus, it's not as charred. They have both dine-in and take-out. Now some pizza die hards might think I'm crazy but Pacileo's might very well give Marco's Pizzeria a run for its money as supreme pizza king of Branford. read more

This review is a few months late because I haven't had Yelp long. I give two stars for one reason mainly. The pizza I had was good and I understand that bugs get into places every now and then, that's sometimes part of the business. There was a dead cockroach inside of my silverware roll. Unacceptable. read more

Pizza sauce, cheese and toppings were ok. But.... the crust was tough. Seemed like maybe it was pre-made and frozen. No bubbles or air holes on edges. All the same thickness as if rolled out, not tossed. Definitely not in the class of Modern in New Haven or Marco's in Branford. read more

I LOVE Pacileo's! Been going there since it opened, and have never been disappointed. The crust is thin and delicious. The sauce is fresh, with small chunks of tomato. I often buy extra sauce to use throughout the week, because it is so tasty. The white shrimp pizza is absolutely to die for. The gluten free pizzas are scrumptious! The salads are crunchy and fresh, with a touch of cheese and croutons on top, as well as cherry tomatoes and cucumber. The eggplant parm is yummy, good portion, with plenty of mozzarella and just enough sauce. The chicken parm is fresh white meat, with a slight crunch, in that delicious sauce with mozzarella. The meatballs and sausages taste homemade. I have only had wonderful meals here over the course of a couple of decades. I highly recommend! read more

Just tried this local place for first time because my usual spot was closed. Oh dear. First off, the pizza was pretty good. My complaint is with customer service and quality control. We did a pickup, and waited for our pizza, even though we arrived at suggested time. The salad was a tin of romaine and an abundance of olives with pits. Yikes, pits? They forgot to include the dressing which resulted in a trip back from Branford Point, where we had planned to eat. The sandwich we ordered was not as described on the menu. I appreciate that covid has taken its toll on restaurants. That's one reason we have done takeout several times a week for the past year, but service and quality control should be expected. I won't be returning. Btw, masks need to cover your nose, staff! read more

I'm so disappointed! My spouse and I went to this establishment to enjoy a fabulous Italian meal and weren't allowed to do so because the waitress made a simple mistake which could have been corrected by simply admitting error. As my spouse and I entered the dining Room we were politely seated to our table and presented with menus. The waitress indicated she Would-be back in a moment to take our order. When she returned she asked if we would like something to drink. My spouse and I had decided we would like wine with our dinner. We requested a bottle of Pinot Grigio. For some reason the waitress must have misunderstood or was caught up in her own thoughts or perhaps she confused us with another customer but for whatever reason she brought back a bottle of red wine. I cannot recall the name of this wine but it was not what we requested. She pops the cork out of the bottle and she poured me a glass. I ask her a question as I pick up the glass to sip "Pinot makes red wine now?" And she says "oh you said pinot?". I respond yes I said pinot. She says I didn't hear you say that I made a mistake. She then tells me that I have to pay for this bottle because she opened it. I say I didn't order this particular brand of wine why do I have to pay for the bottle because you opened it in error. She then calls over her manager to defuse the situation because I became a little annoyed. The manager also tells me that I have to pay for this bottle of wine Because it is the policy of the restaurant. At this point I put $20 on a table for the bottle of wine I didn't want and stated I would like a bottle of what I ordered. The response was they don't sell bottles of pinot for table service. So now I'm really disappointed in the way my spouse and I are being treated And I asked " do you not want us to patron your establishment for dinner because your waitress made a mistake we didn't make the mistake." The manager then takes the $20 for the bottle of wine that we did not want and says in a very cold and non chalante manner " of course we want you to stay for dinner." I took her demeanor as I did not want her or her kitchen staff making or serving me or my spouse food. I was afraid very afraid of what they would do to my food in the kitchen So I decided that I could not eat there; we could not eat there. My spouse;My significant other, he was so disappointed Because hes Italian American And just really wanted some Italian food and also couldn't believe how we were Being treated. I am Black American and was just trying to change our evening meal up a bit and give him what he loves. We ended up vacating the premises with out the bottle of wine that we paid for and still hungry. Why would this restaurant treat us so poorly, disrespectful;as if we were irrelevant. MAKES ME REALLY SAD....... read more

The building and interior are beautiful. The food was phenomenal and reasonably priced. Everyone we encountered there was courteous, and prompt. We will definitely be back again. read more

Plain and simple, this guy is making you pay for his new pizzeria in North Branford. Ordered a small white clam pizza with bacon and I paid $22.50. Friscos who used to be his pizza maker charges $12.50 and his pie is superior to Pacileos. This guy is all in for himself. All of his prices on all of his pizzas are over the top and are not worth the money you are paying. He's all in for himself, not you. read more

Had the stuffed mushrooms for an app and then Hawaiian pizza and both were excellent. Very nice, clean restaurant with air conditioning. Staff very friendly, efficient, and helpful. Would definitely come back here if in the area again. read more

Restaurant was very clean and modern looking. Waitress was extremely friendly and personable. Fresh mozzarella was delicious! Both my mother and I had a different pasta dinner, and they came out perfectly. Pricing was perfect for amount of food. No complaints at all! Would definitely come to Pacileo's my next time around Branford. read more

Worst restaurant ever. I went here, with my family. On a Saturday night. Got there, they were empty! Finally sit down, after waiting 10mins to be seated. And the music is extremely loud, and the fish tank looks extremely dirty! We asked the waitress, if she could turn down the music. She said no. I was shocked, How rude!!!! read more