Food is absolutely high quality! Taste amazing and the smell ohh my god it smells like heaven. The service is amazing too all waitresses are nice. And it gives an authentic Italian vibe read more

We like this place! It's not fancy but has a small town, comfortable feel. The food isn't gourmet, but it's tasty. We like their all you can eat salad and pizza buffet. The staff is usually busy but friendly. Rafael's feels like home. read more

Driving through town and stopped here before hitting a few antique stores next door. They had a good variety on the menu, BUT we were drawn to the smell of the hot variety of loaded pizzas and fresh all you can eat salad bar. Service was great. Patrons were friendly. We left fat and happy! #Yum read more

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Raphael's in Ringgold is always solid. The pizza is really good and the BOGO deals make it hard to beat. The salad is honestly one of the best parts for me it's fresh and those big chunks of feta are so good. Definitely one of my go-to pick up spots after work! read more

The Buffet is excellent. Has a great salad bar! You can order a pizza for the buffet if they don't have what you like. Love the veggie pizza. Also if you don't do the Buffet, all pizzas are 2 for 1! Great service too. read more

Food was very disappointing. It is close to our house and I always figure it's hard to mess up pasta. I was wrong in this case. One of the entrees wasn't made the way we ordered it. It didn't really matter, the food did not taste good at all. read more

Fantastic hot food! We love it! We love our local Italian spot in Ringgold! we always recommend to everyone we know to come and enjoy!!

My wife and I came here for the first time recently after hearing good things. I decided to try a small pizza and she ordered the Chicken Parm. The waitress informed me that the pizza was buy one get one so major bonus right away, One for here and one to go. The pizza came and it was great. Probably 4-5 star pizza. My wife's chicken farm was good but not great. The chicken was a bit overcooked which is why I settled with a 4 rating. I took the spare pizza home and had enough for breakfast and lunch the next day. read more

Rafaels Italian Restaurant - a view of the dining area - Italian Near Me - Ringgold, Georgia

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My husband and i eat here at least twice a week. Food is always A-mazing and staff are prompt and courteous. The atmosphere is usually low key but they are times it can be busier/louder. There is a small bar in back. We love eating here! read more

I stopped in and ordered takeout but will definitely dine in next time. I ordered 2 pizzas which were buy one get one free! They were excellent and good price for the amount of pizza you get. I also ordered a chicken Parm dinner which came with spaghetti. The chicken Parm was excellent and the portion was huge. I had more than enough for lunch the next day and it was only $12! Can't wait to visit this place again when I'm in Ringgold. read more

Ringgold needed a good pizza place! The space isn't very big but worth the wait. They have a salad and pizza bar daily. It's a great way to try different pizzas without ordering a whole pie. The service is good and they greet you when you enter. They have a full bar and drink specials daily. read more

I was visiting family/friends whom recently bought a home in this little town. We were between shopping and a dinner later on so we popped in here for a quick light bite. I have to be up front and be honest I don't eat pizza so I ordered a sandwich. Everyone in my group selected the pizza buffet. I'm a New Yorker and I'm still price shocked at many things southern! So in 2021 where in all the small towns in the world can you get all you can eat pizza buffet for less than $10 that's decent? Here obvi! Everyone very much enjoyed the quick snack. However my simple sandwich took the better part of almost 30 minutes but the fries where hot and crisp. So all was forgiven. The location is downtown and not too far off the interstate. So if you really need a quick buffet of pizza on your way to somewhere else this a decent option. read more

Hot,fresh and delicious! Waitress was good and friendly. They weren't very busy and it was pretty quiet. Will definitely do it again. read more

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$12 pizza buffet/salad bar was actually pretty good. Now, weather or not the pizzas come in frozen or not eh I don't know, think smaller Costco pizza...same crust, same sauce, and definitely same cheese. They even send them out on those cardboard circles which is a big indicator. But I love Costco pizza so I can't complain and I enjoyed it. Salad bar had huge chucks of feta so just a cup of feta like that you'd be paying $12.99 at the store. The salad bar is small but had a decent basic selection. Ranch is great and they have those good pickles! The fried mushrooms don't have a lot of flavor but we're great too. I'll definitely be back! read more

Delicious pizza and friendly service! My daughter and I enjoyed it very much--both had personal pan pizzas and both had leftovers. Definitely recommend. read more

This is my favorite go to for pizza in North Georgia. The pies are fresh and tasty, the service is great and as for the price? Fantastic! They do a two for one deal that just adds to my happiness when ordering! They also do calzones, Stromboli, and so much more, they also have a salad bar and a pizza bar which are great too. They let you know up front when ordering the bars that if you don't see a pizza you want on there then let them know and they will make it and put it on there, nice?!? Parking is great, the location is much more accessible the their last one too. read more

Rafaels Italian Restaurant - Front window - Italian Near Me - Ringgold, Georgia

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The service was top notch and very friendly. Their food is great. The food was so good and we didn't hesitate to show my brothers and his family this spot when they visited due to them being so good. They even help create a good ambiance when they turned the tv on without hesitation for the kids to a kid movie. Highly recommend this location! read more

The pizza is tolerable. But after giving it a few chances, I'd rather get something from a chain like Pizza Hut (which I don't care for at all) Rubbery crust. Sauce doesn't have much flavor. Tonight we tried a few appz The mozzarella sticks definitely seemed frozen and store bought. No flavor. Super firm and not fresh. Same goes for the dipping sauce. Totally some canned tomato paste. Also tried the fried pickles. I'd say save your money on both. Over fried. Bland. No flavor at all. I really want a great local pizza option. Their food feels like what you see when you walk in. Minimal effort. Could be a rad space and good food, if they tried even a little bit. read more

Horrible experience. The service was absolutely appalling. Our server was rude to us from the second we walked in, but was nice to everyone else? This food was not even what I would consider decent. If I wanted a digiorno pizza, I would've just got one from Walmart and went home! No wonder the place was basically empty. Everyone working was just standing around doing nothing while our drinks got low. I am a server and I know most places don't let their employees just stand around, so i'm assuming management here isn't great. They might as well just go ahead and shut this place down bc it's never going to succeed. read more

Good food but a little pricey we had to tell the waiter 3 times how to run our bill through on our debit cards.

Excellent in every way. Great Staff that serves delicious hot food. Kitchen prepares your order so it is fresh and hot. Great tasting food! read more

Be careful when tipping based on the handset where you sign for credit charges because it highly over calculates or almost doubles the calculated tip estimates. We noticed on a total for $30 it saying a 20% tip was nearly $10. We told the cashier and she said that the tip calculator is messed up. So if that's the case, we recommend that you enter the tip manually because it is plainly wrong and they are aware of the issue and said nothing ahead of time. It could have been an honest mistake but buyer beware. read more

Gross! This is the worst Italian food I've ever had. I'm guessing everything is canned or frozen. The people were very friendly, but I'll never eat here again. We both had very bad food. Neither of could finish our food. We actually went somewhere else to get more food. This could be one of those places that has a higher rating because the people around here have never had good Italian food. Save yourself the trouble and go elsewhere. My marinara tasted like some sort of marinara and salsa hybrid. I couldn't choke it down. read more

We were staying at a local hotel overnight. Usually when we do this we go to the Mexican place in town but it was closed. This Italian restaurant was really good for a small little town. My husband had the calzone and really liked it. My Greek salad and Gyro plate were also very good. The salad was fresh and tasty. It did have water at the bottom of the bowl and it only had one square of feta, though it was great to have green pepper and cucumbers in the salad. Our iced teas were also good. But the best part were my fries...they were excellent!!! I wish the restaurant was a little cleaner but we had a great server, good food and will be back again! read more

Our server was so slow and it wasn't very busy at all. Maybe they need to hire more servers. We had to wait 5-10 minutes to get seated, at least ten minutes for her to ask us what we wanted to drink and even longer for plates for the buffet. My husband was so hungry he got a piece of pizza on his napkin because we were tired of waiting for plates. The service was just so slow. read more

This place was overall a huge disappointment. I'll say the positive note first, the actual setting of the restaurant is really nice, the decor is nice as well. The service was greatly lacking, we were the only customers in the restaurant and they still took forever to come get our order and we actually had to ask them for menus, straws, salad dressing, because the waitress was extremely forgetful. The food wasn't the worst food I've had in the area, the pizza is definitely a step up from Dominos, but just one step. I honestly would be shocked if they made their own crust, I think that they bring it in. They are an "Italian" restaurant and yet they have a lot of hamburgers on their menu, probably as many as they do pastas, which are located in the "dinner" section of the menu instead of the pasta section. They had very few pastas to choose from and the pasta that I got was flavorless and lack luster. I know this criticism is rough, but it's really just a plea to shape up so that we can have a great Italian and pizza restaurant in the area!!!! Here are some videos on how to make an authentic pizza, it'll change your life and you'll never go back!!! https://youtu.be/G-jPoROGHGE https://youtu.be/PCQ0maTaTMA read more

Love this place. The pizza and service are better larger chain pizza places with a fourth of the price.

Stay away from the cheesecake! Got really sick after eating it for the second time now. The first time was awhile back and I thought maybe it was a fluke so I gave them the benefit of the doubt and another chance. This time my whole family got sick. Not worth it. I suspect they are leaving it out of temperature routinely. read more

Went to Rafaels tonight the night of the Christmas parade. Busy night however as always great food and excellent service. The service team were running around all night and could have been more welcoming. Great team and operation we will keep coming back, a gem in Ringgold. read more

For what is worth the Chicken Stir was very good and salty. Just enough food - very tasty and the bread was a great surprise. The place seems clean, I've only been once and would return for sure. If your in the area LaFayette, Georgia and need a quick bite Rafaels will do you right on time. I would suggest asking to hold the salad. read more

Definitely not good for groups. Be prepared to wait with a big group due to Covid. Amazing food and positive staff that keep smiling and our polite through the chaos. read more

This is my favorite local spot for pizza. I don't have to mention the 2 for 1 special, but I will because it makes it even more of a draw. The pizza is always hot and loaded. The staff is friendly and patient, this is our go to Friday night take out choice. read more

Veal parm is terrible. Definately a frozen veal patty, and they don't drain the pasta well, so it was sitting in a plate of water. I ordered a veal parm and a small greek salad and everything comes out at the same time. My pasta and bread got cold while i was eating my salad. Wont be back. read more

Tried the meatball Stromboli, which looked a lot like a calzone). No need for the salt shaker! Sauce was salty as well as the cheese. Hope you like green peppers because the sauce was overloaded with them! Dining area is dimly lit and the ceiling tiles have all seen better days. Food was average at best. read more

I was plesantly surprised by this place. It's a small, casual place to eat but the food was very good. I'm not normally in Ringgold but visited this place due to being a member of Tradebank which is a barter organization and this restaurant is a member. There is another Portofino's that I visited recently as well, but the two places have different owners (used to be the same) and do not have 100% identical items. This restaurant as mentioned is small, casual and very informal, almost like a diner. But I love places like this when I'm looking for this kind of food. Everything we tried was very good except for one small item. We first tried bread sticks with marinara. They make their own pizza dough so this was that dough cut and baked into bread sticks. Typical and basic but was pretty much perfect as far as bread sticks go LOL. So soft on the inside with a nice chew on the outside. BUT the dipping sauce was not good at all. It tasted like a thick tomato soup. No seasoning at all. Up next was hot wings. They were not battered but perfectly cooked. The skin was crispy and delicious. The hot wing sauce was unique. I could not tell if it was from scratch or if they took an existing sauce and added to it. In either case it was very good. They have mild and hot. We ordered hot but they seemed very mild. That was OK. Again, very delicious. Finally we split a stromboli. YES!!! AND, they also have cal-zones!!! So many places think they are the same and will interchange the two names no matter what's inside, but this place knows there's a difference. We had a steak stromboli and it was SO good. The steak just melted in your mouth it was so tender. There was a very generous amount of steak as well. Two people can eat one of these and be full. Since we had already tried other things, we couldn't finish it and it was great reheated at home later that night. Also worth mentioning is they have gyros CONES!!! This is very rare in this area. Most places selling gyros have frozen slices of gyro meat that are reheated. After being spoiled on gyros sliced from a cone on my trips to Indiana, I had to get one to go. We reheated it for my youngest daughter at home and she said it SO delicious. The prices are very reasonable. They have a TINY buffet table for pizza but it was still appealing. It's more of 'all the pizza you can eat' instead of a typical buffet. When we were there, they didn't put up pizza until someone ordered the buffet first and then would keep checking with the customers who had the buffet if they were ready for more pizza to be cooked and what kind they wanted. It didn't take long at all for more hot pizza to come out when they were ready. The pizza looked delicious. Lots of toppings and generous with the cheese. I will definitely go out of my way to eat here again. read more

My brother and I turned off the interstate and just bumped into this sweet little place. Really great menu, all reasonably priced, And the meals we had were excellent read more

We were traveling from IL to FL and we found this Awesome little place on Yelp it has great food and better prices.

I love their food not once have I ever been disappointed. Customer service outstanding and staff is very helpful and very friendly.

A hidden treasure in Ringold GA. We stumbled across it when looking for a different restaurant

I loved this place. It's closed now. It was replaced with another Italian place, that's not nearly as good. There is another restaurant owned by the same people in east ridge. read more