if it actually had some red sauce it prob would have been good. dry dry dry. no fan here. pizza 101

We were a group of 12 people. We went at 2 PM which is a great time of day for them to put together enough tables. Everyone really enjoyed whatever they ordered. The only negative thing that I have to say is that I have been going there for years and this time their garlic bread appeared to be just leftover rolls that they put some kind of oil on. Nobody ate theirs. When you go to an Italian restaurant, you really expect the garlic bread with real butter. They have the best lasagna that I have had anywhere else ! read more

Food was delicious- service was great. I got take out this evening it was delicious and service was excellent. I dining room was packed as usual. I always enjoy the food. Every thing I order and every time it always consistent, tonight was no exception. Food is great and excellent portions. Prices are reasonable. read more

The food is delicious and the staff is very friendly. I highly recommend the pizza. Plenty of toppings and cooked just right! read more

Petrella's Italian Cafe - Supreme XL pizza - Italian Near Me - Pensacola, Florida

Had another great experience at Petrella's eating the all you can eat sketti on Monday nights! Can't beat the atmosphere or the service! Don't miss out on this hidden gem! read more

Petrella's Italian Cafe - Two salads and bread - Italian Near Me - Pensacola, Florida

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Closest to getting Italian food like up in New Jersey, delicious all the time. Very clean inside and very efficient. When the Italian urge hits this is where we go. read more

Amazing food, quick & friendly staff . The best Italian food I've had in Pensacola. Large portions enough for two to share & be full. Worth every dollar spent, inside dining or to go options either way the food is great! read more

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Picked up dinner this evening for my husband and I. We ordered the chicken fettuccini Alfredo along with an order of the spaghetti and meatballs. The spinach and artichoke soup was so yummy, I dipped the garlic bread in the soup which was incredible. We only had to wait 35 mins for our food which isn't bad for a weekend. read more

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Best Italian restaurant in town. Great service every time. We love coming here once a week. read more

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Great food, great service, the wait on weekends can be as long as an hour plus, bring your appetite as the portions are large

Always a pleaser ! Pizza are good also. They do meals for large groups. Lunch specials are great! read more

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Food was delicious and the portions are huge. Took more than half home and it was even better the next day. Server was friendly. Not very big place but cute. read more

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Stopped in for a late Lunch. Service was very good super fast ordered a lunch and had a salad in two minutes. Ambiance is ok it is a strip mall next to Publix and Philly Cheesesteak. So the side salad was fresh and good. WOW The restaurant has been here 24 years!! We tried two different dishes: Chicken Alfredo The chicken was cooked very good, the sauce was creamy. The Pasta Rustic was also very good and you get a side of bread. Great Food Great Service read more

Petrella's Italian Cafe - PASTA RUSTIC - Italian Near Me - Pensacola, Florida

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Delicious food, with welcoming staff! Every we'd they have lasagna night with salad and garlic bread for 8.99$ if I'm not wrong! Restaurant plays old Italian music, I have tried multiple things on the menu and all have been great and have tasted just like family recipes! Highly recommend going any day and if you go on we'd go earlier than later! Alexandria is an awesome waitress with a bubbly personality that alway's treats my family with much respect and remember's our preference's every time we go,above and beyond service and hospitality!! (Forgot to take picture's of the restaurant read more

Petrella's Italian Cafe - We'd Baked Lasagna night! Great every time. - Italian Near Me - Pensacola, Florida

Petrella's is so amazing ! Wish the building was bigger because I think they have outgrown their space . But that just shows you how amazing they are because they are always Booming I always like to go here when I am looking to get a good spaghetti or lasagna and you can't go wrong with Lasagna Wednesday's . I also enjoy their house salad or Greek salad and their broccoli soup is DELICIOUS ! Oh and don't forget their appetizer: Fried Mushrooms are delicious We always receive good service from anyone in the establishment. read more

We came for a birthday meal. Across the board, everything was outstanding we had spaghetti dishes, mine with chicken. The portions were enormous & the food tasted so great. Our server was impeccable.. I went home with enough food for three people. I will be returning soon!! Mike read more

Food is amazing! Servings are more than generous!! Our favorite place to go!! Very accommodating. Great catering options.

Hubby & I really enjoy the in house made Minestrone soup here. YUM YUM YUM! I also love the Cesar salad & Calamari. The service is excellent, the servers are very engaging & sweet. We rarely find ourselves on this side of town, we are way overdue for a visit :)' Will Return. Recommend. read more

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2 stars is for the service, which was outstanding. The food however? Large portions and affordable, but they were mediocre at best as far as taste goes. For the most part no flavor at all. No idea where all the "amazing" food is that I read in reviews before going. And the garlic "knots" were not nots. It was pieces of dry bread with butter, I didn't taste any garlic at all. Won't be back. read more

I liked the pizza it was really good. Ordered bruschetta for an appetizer and the only complaint is it didn't come with mozzarella but it was still really good. read more

Best Italian restaurant in Pensacola if you ask me! They could do better with their salads but I'll let that slide for the main course!

Petrellas is the best Italian restaurant in our area in my opinion. They have affordable prices and great specials through the week. Take out is available if they are packed. The quant atmosphere inside adds to the experience. read more

Had an excellent dinner recently. Wait was about 40 minutes to be seated but well worth it. Friendly hostess and server, nice menu, very large portions at reasonable prices. Will definitely be back! read more

I got a salad which was good. Everything went downhill from there. Service was honestly amusing from how horrible they are and treat people. I even asked for the manager and a line cook came out. I ordered the chicken piccata and I'd honestly gagged from how bad it was and dared a family member to try it for $10 who went and threw up. The special being spaghetti on Monday definitely should not be considered special in any way. Even my kids wouldn't eat it. I have no idea why people wait outside for 30min to come eat at this disgusting dirty place. read more

Great choices and very fair prices. Servers took good care of our needs. They also do awesome catering.

honestly, the service was great but the food is extremely oily and overpriced. it's also extremely cold inside the restaurant. the bathrooms are very clean but the food was just not very good. read more

Amazing food! We place a togo order once a week and it never disappoints! Service is always great!

Not worth time or money. Lots of people rave about this place, so I gave it two tries. Bread is like great value fake butter toasted on loaf. Eggplant Parmesan, pasta, and Italian wedding soup all tasted like cafeteria food at best. I wanted to like this place but no...just no Server was great and ambiance nice read more

This place is nothing short of amazing! Melody was our server and she was so nice and accommodating. The food was absolutely delicious and the ambience was really cute and comfy. I felt like we were at grandma's countryside cottage in Italy. I appreciate the experience and will be back, for sure! Thank you, so much! You all are awesome! read more

Petrella's Italian Cafe - Crab and shrimp Manicotti Pasta Rustica - Italian Near Me - Pensacola, Florida

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Food is amazing as well as service. It is small so will most likely have to wait to get seated but the food is definitely worth it.

Awesome daily specials for a phenomenal price, well prepared, large portions and tastes great! Excellent service too!

Great food. Great service. Great ambiance. Lunch portions shown also include a side salad with options for a small up charge. My only suggestion is to plan your trip (s) as they do not accept reservations and space is limited but service is prompt. 2 personal thumbs ups... you can also order their daily specials To-go if time is not on you side and...they serve Coke products. Winner! Winner! Italian dinner! read more

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Great service, good atmosphere, and very reasonable prices--at least at lunch, when entrees range from about $14 to $17 and come with soup or salad and garlic bread. The flavor overall was fine, but definitely didn't knock our socks off. The minestrone side was good, but a bit light on flavor. I don't mean this to sound insulting, because it's not a bad soup, but it reminded me a bit of a good canned minestrone. Fine. Nothing particularly effusive I can say about it. The salad side was honestly my favorite part of the meal, not because it was particularly special, but because it was larger than expected and it's hard to mess up this basic of a salad. Was it indulgent? No. It had exactly one cucumber slice, two grape tomatoes, and maybe three small rings of onion, with some croutons and a sauce cup of dressing. But it was, by far, the best thing I had, mostly because it felt fresh and didn't feel like a brick in my stomach. The garlic bread was disappointing. It was a simple, standard, fluffy baguette like you'd get at Wal-Mart halved and saturated with melted butter/margarine and, if there was any, very little garlic or herbs. I'm used to getting much better bread at Italian restaurants, with maybe a pat of whipped butter to spread onto it or an oil-and-vinegar dip. This felt like something my mom would serve on family spaghetti night but somehow even less satisfying. Sort of too wet and salty but still bland. Too fluffy, no nice crust. I didn't end up eating mine, and my partner mostly used his to sop up the overly abundant cheese in my dish. I got Alfredo spinach manicotti, and I wouldn't get it again nor can I recommend it. It tasted, if I'm being charitable, just okay, by which I mean it tasted like greasy cheese and not much else. The manicotti itself was fairly pleasant, since it was at least a bit milder. But the entire dish was literally submersed in a sea of melted cheese that had seemingly been overheated and had separated slightly, becoming so stringy and greasy I had to constantly pull at it like I was eating a cartoon pizza, and which I had to wait to cool so I could peel the entire layer off to eat the manicotti beneath it. The small amount of spinach that topped it was mostly lost to the cheese. This was one of those dishes I didn't look forward to eating the leftovers of and which I can't imagine most people--even true cheese lovers--would be able to actually eat as is. It was just so so heavy, like eating one big block of mozz melted in butter alternative. I have to admit that even finishing half left me feeling kind of...gross; a feeling I for some reason subjected myself to a second time with the leftovers. (Another reviewer says this dish is ordered frozen rather than made fresh, which kind of sucks if true, but maybe that means the other food would be better?) My partner got the portobello-topped chicken, which comes with a massive pile of spaghetti. He said the noodles were good, though there didn't seem to be quite enough sauce to get a good coat on all them, so some were dry. The chicken, though, was very tender, and he enjoyed the mushrooms. All in all, we might give it another shot, just because it's an affordable place and close to my OB's office, but I might just go with a salad next time, because I'm not sure I trust the entrees. I think they could really elevate some of the basics here, and reign in the excesses. Just having a better bread or actually using some garlic and spices on it would help. Maybe add more subtle flavorings and rely less on the overload of fats. I rather oddly didn't detect any garlic in anything we had. It just kind of felt like everything was missing...something. read more

My husband and I went to Petrella's for their all you can eat Spaghetti & Meatballs Monday Night Special for only $8.99 per person. It includes a delicious salad, the yummiest buttery garlic bread, and spaghetti with meat sauce and super tasty meatballs! The salad was terrific... and the dressings seemed homemade and fresh... I had the blue cheese (awesome), and my husband had the thousand island (awesome too)... lots of veggies and the best croutons... truly a meal in itself!!! The all you can eat is truly all you can eat... but the portions are so generous, i challenge you to get seconds... although we did get seconds on the meatballs (yep... they allow that)!!! Our server Ally was like the energizer bunny! She was taking excellent care of so many tables masterfully! She was so friendly and made everyone feel like they were her only guests! We live close by, and have been here multiple times... and each time it's really great! It's no wonder this place almost always has a full house and has been a staple around here for decades! Give this place a try sometime (you won't regret it), and support local small business! Promise I'll get more pics next time! read more

Petrella's Italian Cafe - Only snapped for picture... spaghetti & meatballs! Look at that yumminess!!! - Italian Near Me - Pensacola, Florida

Great service and awesome food. Stopped in at lunch and we ordered fried cheese logs, baked lasagna and shrimp carbonara. Everything from our salads, the appetizer, the bread and our meals tasted fresh and delicious. The service was great too and Alexandria was very friendly and attentive. We will definitely be back. read more

This is amazing service. The food was excellent, and the ambience was OK. Their salads were fresh and crisp. The chicken Parmesan was a nice size. Piece of chicken sauce was very good. The baked ziti was very good. I haven't had the pizza yet, but people are saying it's very good. read more

We went back today for dinner. Our server Keri was amazing and our Caesar salads and Shrimp and Crab Manicotti was delicious. There was plenty to share and we enjoyed it so much. And the prices are very reasonable. This place is a perfect spot for a date or meeting friends for a great meal !! You have got to try this place !!! read more

The food and service were great! We had the pizza and it could've been cooked a little longer. It was luke warm when we received it. Otherwise, we enjoyed it. read more

When we relocated to Pensacola our goal was to find decent Italian food. Our new neighbors recommended Petrella's and decided to try it. The place has an old school feel which we loved immediately. Amazed at how welcoming the restaurant employees were to us newcomers. Especially our server Kelly was just fantastic. We've become huge fans. read more

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Cozy little Italian restaurant in a strip mall, serving delicious Italian favorites with there own twist. Our server was great, anticipating our needs and suggesting options we were happy with. Huge Antipasto Salad started us off. Followed by our very large pasta dinners with garlic bread. So many leftovers, we're already excited to eat tomorrow. Delicious Italian Food with history in Pensacola. read more