First time eating at Traverso's food was yummy and has a very huge servings. I love how everyone are working together even the manager is all over the place to help and greet his guests. The place was super busy and all staff are working hard getting our food out quickly and bust the dirty table quick so the next guest can be seated quickly. I love how all the staff are very welcoming and treats everyone like welcome to our home. We came there to celebrate my mom's birthday. We all loved the calamari, bread, soup, pasta and some other food. I had salad, salad was good but it was drowning with dressing but it's still good. Usually when i get salad most restaurant does jot give enough dressing this place gives you a lot and becomes little salty but still like it. read more

Traverso's Restaurant - Bake penne - Pizza Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

Wow wow wow. What has happened to this once great neighborhood restaurant. We have been going there for 20 years, yes 20 years. Two brothers own this place and are complete polar opposites. One will appreciate your business and buy you a beer or glass of wine, while the other brother could care less. The last two times we did carry out because of pandemic. This last time will be the last. Too many kids working there who could care less about your order. Long delivery times 2+ hours. Wrong food being delivered without an apology. Portions are now over priced and literally 1/2 of what they use to be. We had pasta that was so over salted, pizza that was not cooked and chicken that was like eating rubber for the low low price of 90.00. Shame shame, please tell us why you have given up. The owner reached out and we had a nice talk. He was sincere and honest, and explained his challenges which I fully understand. We will be back for both take out and eating inside once we are able to. read more

The food is great! However, I am not sure they like military veterans or retired military.

I love Traverso's very good food. Food was a little undercooked. if you're looking for a quick bite to eat, it's great. The pizza is the best pizza in Chicago land. read more

Another amazing dinner!!! Just love the food here. From the bread, salad with house dressing and frankly any of the meals including pizza are delicious. read more

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This was our second time here, and had a great experience. The food was great, but also the ambiance and family feel which is what they seem to be going for really came through. This place will be a regular stop for us! read more

Nice, local family place. Cozy environment, fresh made bread, signature pizza, lasagna, and chicken marsala are some of my favorites. Also has a nice party room (we hosted a baby shower there). read more

Everyone loves to go there for a family birthday or event. The staff is great. The atmosphere is good for families. Best of all the food is great. Especially the pizza and fried chicken!! read more

I cannot tell you how many times we have passed by this awesome restaurant. My family had dinner there last night, and to say we enjoyed ourselves and were thoroughly impressed is an understatement. Excellent service, the staff are so kind. The food was amazing and we tried their lemon wings, pizza, calamari, and their lasagna. Each was done to perfection. The co-owner checked on us and his suggestions and kindness were icing on the cake. Their blue berry pie and cheese cake were delicious as well. I highly recommend this restaurant. We will be regulars for sure. read more

Arrived on a Saturday evening for our 5:30 reservation and was seated shortly there after to a nice table set for 6 We had two children who had chicken tenders and meatballs washed down by mint ice cream so a great success. The adults had pasta and salmon and also shared a pizza Great service as well as several visits from Paul to make sure everything was ok. A vey nice experience read more

Great family run restaurant with good food! The Traverso brothers are always there and will always make it right if anything goes wrong. Very comfortable and nicely decorated. Meals are plentiful and tasty. Pizza is very good with extremely thin crust. Bar area is great if you want to catch a game and they make you feel like part of the family. read more

My family and I were long time customers of the Orland Park location and we decided to try the Naperville location and that it was just as great. The owner greeted our table and was very welcoming and the service was fantastic. Will definitely be coming back read more

Always fantastic food and great service. Enjoy watching hockey in the bar and Love the pizza

It's been a while since I was there on a Friday night. Family oriented but was not a fan of ambiance or good.

The shrimp scampi was to die for, the potions were amazing! All around great meal with excellent service!

Good home cooked Italian food. Not too expensive, good service, and the owner is probably going to check to see if everything is ok. Don't skip the dessert! The cheese cake is to die for! read more

Traverso's Restaurant - Pork Vesuvius - Pizza Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

The staff is amazing and there is nothing better than their minestrone soup! Bread is always fresh and the atmosphere makes you feel at home. read more

The pizza was not what we asked for but I was impressed that the driver let the kitchen know and a new pizza arrived shortly.

Great place for large party - able to split bill. Food is delicious and you can taste the care they put into it. Some service was a bit slower but, again, we were in a large party and enjoyed the conversation. Comfortable environment and the manager/owner made his presence known. read more

Went there yesterday for the first time in years. Pizza was good but probably a little undercooked. The service was fantastic.

This place is awesome it's kind of a little hide away food is great service was fantastic highly recommend this restaurant

Quality food at a friendly family owned restaurant. The food is delicious and the staff is very friendly and knowledgeable about the food. Love the Pizza, spaghetti, and pork chops. The menu has lots of options and try the goosey cake for dessert! Try it read more

My family and I are new to Naperville. We have been trying to order from here for almost 3 months now and every time we try to order, wait times are over 2hrs and it feels like we always get a bunch of unprofessional kids who pick up the phones and could careless about taking my order. So much for trying to support neighborhood business. read more

We had a late luncheon in their private room after a funeral- a hard day for many. The server in charge, her help and the owner were terrific, just what everyone needed. Service was outstanding- cannot say enough, especially the server in charge (wish I knew her name). Food was excellent too. We appreciate the effort so much and will continue to visit Traversos. Thanks so much!! read more

Love this place. Food is always delicious and great traditional Italian food! Always enjoy going here - eating in the bar area is my favorite. Friendly staff! read more

Fresh food! Love the salads and pastas. The bread was also incredible. Happy kids means we will Be back. Also very impressive gluten free menu. read more

Real good Italian food! Not much ambiance but it is very family friendly which is great to have good Italian food where kids are not only welcomed but catered to with a kids menu. First time there, wife and I liked our pasta dishes and kids loved there's as well and were excited to know their menu items came with a scoop of ice cream for dessert. We will definitely be back many times over. read more

This is your traditional Italian restaurant with a standard menu. There were 5 in our party on a Friday. Most ordered the ravioli which were very good. I had the spaghetti & meatballs which was ok not great. Restaurant was busy for 5:00. Seems like they have some regulars in the bar area. Our server was good. Salad & bread was served quickly but the entrees took awhile to be served. The gooey cake was the best part of the meal. Save room for dessert. read more

Traversos is always our Calamari go to, aside from it being priced right it's just really good and always fresh. The baby backrib was really soft and taste very good. We ordered the thin crust pizza tonight but it taste very rubbery, nothing fantastic about it but I would still give them a 5 because they always deliver on time and we love their calamari so much! read more

What in the world happened! Who's making the pizzas these days? Have ordered take out twice since the pandemic. Each time ordered fresh basil after the pizza was cooked. No basil either time. This was not a problem when we dined in before the pandemic. This last time (6/9) there was hardly any cheese and the pizza was over cooked. There was little sauce and there was less sausage than before. The quality of the product has greatly declined. Have been going to Traverso's for many years so we notice differences. This is a new low. Would not recommend them to anyone. read more

I visited here with my family while we were on vacation. We had such an amazing experience we will definitely be back again some day. The food and service were excellent. I am gluten free and they had an extensive gluten free menu which was awesome! We had alfredo pasta, salmon ceaser salad, and lasagna for dinner and everything was amazing. To top it off we had the goosy cake, one regular and one gluten free, which may have been the best dessert we had ever had. Highly recommend. read more

Traverso's Restaurant - gluten free goosy cake - Pizza Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

Service took a while and gluten free pizza and regular pizza was awful. The cheese was weird, it was like it was non fat or dairy free.

We have been going to Traverso's for years. It's very difficult for a restaurant to have the best all the time. What I love about this place is that on those rare occasions, they always try to make it right and the owners truly care. The pandemic has been very difficult on the food service industry. My husband works in food service and the difficulties and stress have been unmeasurable. I have been to other restaurants recently that are experiencing shortages in staff and product and the management does not have an ownership position and could care less - they will still get paid. The owners and staff at Traverso's go the extra mile to make sure that your patronage is recognized and appreciated. I'm so glad this local gem survived these difficult times and I know they will continue to prosper for years to come! read more

Love this place! Excellent service, food, environment!! This is our regular date night. read more

Traverso's Restaurant - Pizza Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

Love! It's so nice to have a local restaurant that offers and extensive gluten free menu. Allegedly the Chef has a child who has Celiac Disease. The wait staff and management are well versed when it comes to potential issues. I often have an impossible time figuring out which gluten feee option to eat. Love the wings...lemon and buffalo. The pizza is delicious...thin and crispy. The sandwiches are great. The pastas are good too. Heck they even have GF fried chicken if that's your thing! Be prepared to wait bcs they don't take reservations for small parties. they do have a bar and food can be eaten there. read more

Still just okay. We had not been in years so I asked our server if the ribs were "fall off the bone" tender. Her response was she didn't know. They sell a lot of ribs. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay. They are NOT fall off the bone ~ the meat has to be wrestled off the bone. I had 3 which required a great deal of work and I told her if anyone else should ask that question ~ the answer is "no". Even the pizza was just average. We left sort of feeling like they really can't identify what type of restaurant they are trying to be. My husband had the chicken parmesan which he said was pretty bland. I can only say, if you are looking for real Italian ~ this is not the place. read more

We have been patron's of Traverso's for years but tonight we had the worst service ever. Our waitress, Char, was very rude and abrupt. It took over 90 minutes to get our food and even then, it was wrong. The manager, Michael, was very little help. We will not be visiting this restaurant again and will be advising those we know to avoid it as well. read more

Very decent - both service and food. Seems to attract an older crowd, not sure why. - I looked around, all white heads, haha! Items be ry reasonably priced, too. read more

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Best thin crust pizza around! My husband orders half sausage, half pepperoni almost every Friday. I prefer their sausage, but I can tell you it's the best thin crust I've ever had. read more

This "Italian" is much like the kind I grew up with. --before the US as a whole became more internationally traveled. Decent food for what it was, but not Italian in the real sense. It felt like a very homey environment though. Food served, much like I imagine my mom would have made, had she have known how to cook. Sadly however, I grew up with a mother who cooked eggs in the microwave , so this was not even the "Italian" I was served at home growing up. --Italian in my house was Chef Boyardee. ;) Judging Italian restaurants is tough for me. Am I rating it on real Italian (that I've eaten here and in Italy) or am I rating it on "American Italian"? This review is strictly "American Italian"; their food was so Americanized, they should just call it "American" and be done with it. ;) I give the food my husband and I ate 3-stars. The gluten free food my brother ate 3-stars and Wendy our waitress earned a 5-star. The fact that it is a family owned business is a 5-star. All together and Traverso's get's a 3-star from me. We will be back for sure. Why would we come back for what I consider to be "A-ok" food that also happens to be 5 miles from my neighborhood? Because my celiac brother was able to eat a heaping plate of gluten free fried chicken. His very first fried chicken since being diagnosed 2 yrs ago. He also was served GF bread and as GF breads go, he really liked his. I ordered the gnocchi with meat sauce. Would have preferred gnocchi with cream sauce but after having eaten a doughnut the day before, red sauce it was. Gnocchi was slightly gummy and a little too dense. They were not melt-in-your-mouth fluffy, like they should be. I still found them to be "A-Ok" though. Meat sauce was made of very fine ground meat, definitely had a fair amount of sugar added to it and very reminiscent of my grandma's cooking. --Close enough that I could have sworn she was back in their kitchen! My own red sauce only has enough sugar to cut the acid and full of sausage and short ribs. Good enough to elicit a marriage proposal I'm told. Theirs was too sweet and just not meaty enough with the very fine ground meat. Not bad, but nobody would propose over it. My husband really liked his spinach and feta stuffed chicken breast. I tried it as well. Chicken was cooked very well. Juicy. Had very nice flavor. His also came with polenta, which was completely swimming in sauce and just not visually appealing to me. --When it came out, I couldn't even tell what he'd ordered. I still liked it enough to steal an occasional bite from his plate though, but should I order polenta from there, I will be sure to ask them to only add half of their usual amount of sauce. Wendy might be my favorite waitress I've ever had. I liked Wendy's attitude and humor so much that I'd like to take her to lunch just to keep listening to her speak. She was exceptionally helpful; very knowledgeable of the gluten free menu; very patient with our table's questions and stayed on top of our table's needs without being overbearing, all while delivering comedic comments. If all wait staff at every restaurant could be that fantastic, dining out would be so much better for all. She earned the biggest star of the night; although, my brother might say she tied with the GF fried chicken. ;) read more