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    West Side Pizza Restaurant

    3.9 (91 reviews)
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    Closed 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    Side of fries-yes, I already ate half!
    Nancy B.

    I have been getting pizza from here for the past 4 years. It's absolutely the best (Greek) pizza I've ever had! Yes, who doesn't love New Haven style pizza? This place is the whole package. I always order a small cheese pie and when I pick it up, I ask if they put extra anchovies on it?!?! It's been a running joke ever since I started getting my pizza from them! The crust is thick, crunchy and buttery tasting! The cheese is like it was torched slightly, love the crispness of it without it tasting burnt. The sauce is sweet and light, very tasty! I guess the other great thing about West Side Pizza is the owners and staff. They are gems. Always friendly and polite, kid around like you're family. LOVE LOVE LOVE this place! I'm terrible for taking so long to review. 5 stars, 2 thumbs up and a satisfied tummy!! Oh and to break tradition, I order a side of fries. Amazing! Lightly salted which makes me very happy! Well done West Side!

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    Ian L.

    One of the last places I visited before all the restaurants shut down for dine-in. Comfortable food in a comfortable environment. Our server loved to talk and I loved it. Very sanitary with that hand sanitzed as well. Haha. Had a half pepperoni and half sausage pizza with some french fries. The fries were fries, just as I would expect and the pizza was cheesey and greasy in a good way. I did not feel skimped out on meat or anything really. The food took a little longer than usual but I'll let it slide because it was still really good. Nothing too crazy really it was just a basic and comfortable pizza. Comfort is a great thing, no matter how long you wait or the price you pay, you know what you're getting and that's really all I could say about this place. So yes, it's that decent pizza restaurant in the neighborhood, one of those and I love these type of restaurants. It's like the definition of a small local business. Nothing special but it doesn't need to be special. Good food overall.

    Broccoli pizza
    Olivia N.

    West side is the best pizza in the area!! The perfect amount of cheese, grease, and the perfect crust thickness. It never disappoints! We order takeout here frequently

    Medium Hawaiian pizza was great
    Louise V.

    Mixed review for my first visit here. I recently ordered a medium Hawaiian pizza and a small cheese pizza. The Hawaiian was great! But the small cheese pizza was completely burnt. That was disappointing. For $36+ for the total, I was not happy to get home and find burnt pizza.

    Roast Beef Sub!
    Rick S.

    These guys are doing it right. When you order a large sub, you are ordering a LARGE sub! I ordered a roast beef and it gave me leftovers for the whole weekend. And boy was it fresh and delicious

    Pepperoni Pizza
    Shayan B.

    This place is a classic pizza staple to those of whom lived in the area (or grew up like myself). People get pizza from here because they do the classic, Greek style, thick squared pizza. In terms of layering - every layer is perfect: from the sturdy crisp bottom, the soft and warm middle dough, the right amount of sauce, the more than normal amount of cheese, and then the extra crunch crust. The pizza may be a bit oily to some, but nothing a few napkins can't dab away. Corner pieces are always fought for. We usually get extra pepperoni / extra crispy or the sausage pie This place had been around for a while. Nothings changed since when I had this 20 years ago which is a good thing. Now that I moved, when I visit my folks I try to at least get my fix and order takeout. The staff are great people and run by a family. If you live within takeout order distance - once you try this don't be surprised if you have their pizza on at least a biweekly basis.

    Medium Cheese (Greek Style Pizza)

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    Very good pizza at a fair price. They really load up the toppings, which were exceedingly fresh.

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    Great pizza and service. My first visit and I felt like part of the family. I couldn't stop eating the pizza it was so delicious.

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    The pizza was very good and the service for takeout was as promised . No complaints good pizza

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    The pizza is Greek style which is thicker, but not pan. We think it's delicious and have been going there 10+ years

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    2 years ago

    Incredible pizza. My husband drives 15 miles to get his large pepperoni once or twice a month! His absolute favorite style of pizza!

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    Great pizza!!! Great service. This is one of the last great greek style pizzas in the area. Only doing take out since covid

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    Best chicken cutlet grinders in the area! Super friendly staff. Glad I found this restaurant.

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    Great food wish we could dine in and not only do take out. Great pizza, salad and Mac and cheese bites!

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    Sally’s Apizza

    Sally’s Apizza

    3.3(136 reviews)
    3.3 mi
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    Our first time trying New Haven style apizza and it was genuinely a great pie! This restaurant was…read morepretty spacious inside, with plenty of parking next to the building. We ordered the triple appetizer, and the kitchen gave us chicken tenders instead of the arancini that we ordered, so they gave it to us on the house. The servers were attentive and kind, and quick to fix our order. - Arancini, (4.25/5): I've never cared for Arancini but this changed my mind- the ball was perfectly cwisp and fried, with a not toooo mushy cheesy center - Calamari, (4.5/5): so good! I love lemon on mine, and it came with this addictive sour spicy mayo dip- top notch sauce - Meatballs, (4/5): tasted pretty standard- not too dry and very beefy with acidic tomato to cut through the meat - Chicken tenders, (4.5/5): surprisingly very good - very juicy with crackly batter and had a great dipping sauce - Small Calabrese Apizza, (5/5): wow! this pizza is sooo light and airy. I am not a big crust person, but I ate the whole slice. the dough is so chewy, the pizza itself was flavorful and light. the waiter recommended us to get a small since we got appetizers... but tbh the 2 of us could've tackled a bigger pie as certified big backs Very happy to have tried Sally's!

    This is such a bad representation of Sally's. It's not even Sally's…read more Dined in with a coupon for a free pizza because the last time we came here it took them over an hour to serve us. I wanted to give them a second chance. Sometimes businesses have bad days and I don't like to judge based off of one experience unless it's super bad. Well, this time was worse. Ordered the chopped salad. All you could taste was dressing and it was soggy and swimming. Barely any meat. Then the pizza came. One half had pepperoni and hot honey and the other had meatball and ricotta. The pepperoni side was literally disgusting. Like the salad, it was completely drenched in hot honey and sickly sweet. It was pooling on my plate. You couldn't taste the sauce, cheese, and toppings. Speaking of the sauce, there was little to none, had no flavor, and it was canned. I know canned sauce when I taste it. This was especially shocking because Sally's is known for their sauce. I'm very disappointed because I usually love the sauce at Sally's l, but this wasn't it. And then there's another problem: the pizza came out burnt and cold. New Haven style is slightly charred, not BURNT. It wasn't just the crust; it was also the undercarriage. See the photos I attached. It also took 50 minutes from the time our order was placed to get our one pizza when the restaurant wasn't even at half occupancy. Service was terrible!! We weren't even offered red pepper or parm with our pizza and weren't asked if we wanted dessert. Not like we wanted to stay after that mess, but it would've been nice to be asked. Our server was never near our table and it took a long time to get the things we wanted. We felt completely ignored all night. I feel like this is totally understandable on a busy night, but the place wasn't packed by any means and there were only a few tables occupied. We had to wait an extra 20 minutes after we finished our pizza before our server came around again and just handed us the check and walked away without a word. Not coming back.

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    Stella’s Pizza & Italian Restaurant - My Broccoli Pizza !!

    Stella’s Pizza & Italian Restaurant

    4.5(43 reviews)
    4.5 mi

    Wonderful.. I love their wings yummy great taste. Pizza is very delicious. Will comeback everyday…read morefor that chicken wings lol Good service.

    So my previous review from Jan 2025 said the crew was friendly. Well... the one guy working the…read morechefs station, and the front of house, was friendly. Guess everybody else went home early. Ambience doesnt count, its still a takeout place. But the rest of that review stated that other than an 'oops' on the pizza toppings, everything else was...ok. This time? Total flop. Tried some different stuff this time. The philly cheesesteak grinder was the most edible, but dry, with stuff on one half, but only partially on the other half. The roll was the best part, something I mentioned in my previous review. The cheese ravioli? Guess we would call that a 'wtf'. The frozen ravioli I make myself ,with a jar of Francesco Rinalde in a pinch, embarrasses this. Isn't there supposed to be cheese in cheese ravioli? These things were strangely missing the ricotta. Also grabbed a dry eggplant florentine with a nice bland sauce. I don't recall the sauce here being... underwhelming, but this time... yah...underwhelming works. The Italian grandma with the big wooden spoon has left the building. Prices are still low in comparison to say, Vito's down the road, but keeping your prices down by buying cheap ingredients isn't the way to do it. Perhaps the owners should take any money they are saving on ravioli's and buy a salt and pepper shaker to start, might help. Am I presuming the almost five stars is based on the Yelp reviews of yore? I gave em a four last time!! Try again folks.

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    Village Pizzeria & Family Restaurant - Hawaiian Pizza

    Village Pizzeria & Family Restaurant

    3.8(163 reviews)
    4.9 mi
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    The pizza you get in central Connecticut is very special to me. I've lived in a bunch of states and…read morehave been chasing the square, sauced, and toppings filled pizza from places like Village Pizzeria for years now and absolutely nothing comes close to it. I was in Connecticut for a wedding a few weeks ago and ended up in old Wethersfield around dinner time, so obviously we had to return to my wife's old pizza place to order up a pizza. The place was absolutely packed when we arrived so we decided to just order a large pizza to go, half pepperoni and half sausage and meatball. The pizza took maybe twenty minutes or so to make and when it was done, well, it looked absolutely spectacular. My half of the pizza was the sausage and meatball and it was like a whirlwind of nostalgia punching me in the mouth with each and every bite. The crust was perfect, the sauce was perfect, the toppings were perfect, and the overall pizza was everything I've been craving for over a year since my last visit to the nutmeg state. Overall, Village Pizzeria & Family Restaurant is everything you expect from a central Connecticut pizza joint. The restaurant looks cozy and nice inside, the staff was super busy but still friendly, and the food was top notch. This place is definitely an old Wethersfield gem.

    I ordered the Chicken Marsala and received watered down, over cooked shells over chicken. I…read morerequested the shells have the olive oil, garlic and spices over the shells which didn't happen. The bread that was given with the meal is a cut hardened grinder roll. This is the second time that this has happened and nothing changed from the first time that I advised them. I figured that they learned from my first bad experience with the same meal, but they didn't!

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    Village Pizzeria & Family Restaurant - A perfect pie.

    A perfect pie.

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    Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana - Doppio Roni

    Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana

    3.7(419 reviews)
    6.7 mi
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    I enjoyed this pizza place a lot! I believe they are known for baking their pizzas in an extremely…read morehot, coal fired oven. The crust is tough and crunchy with delicious charred flavor from the high heat firing. We tried their tomato pie with mozzarella which I quite liked. It was on the blander side but with the oregano and garlic, was quite palatable. We also got their famous clam pie but we were not terribly impressed. To me it almost tastes like a clam pasta on a pizza. It's basically just what the name implies. I wouldn't go out of my way to get it again but the tomato pie was great. Our service was stellar. The people checked on us frequently and got us all the drinks we wanted. They helped us pack the pizza in foils so we could out the leftovers in our hotel fridge. A word of warning! The pizza is huge!

    So, I'm sitting here, about an hour after having a white clam pizza and I still taste garlic. Not…read moreclams, not cheese, not crust--just the allium family's most fart-prone, overhyped stepchild. I may or may not be contemplating a couple of Tums. I'm conflicted on this 2/5 rating since I wish there was a 2.5/5 option here. There are some promising things about Frank Pepe's: a coal-fired oven, photos of the same white clam pizza I ordered that look more like pizzas I had in Italy than the one I got, and other options for toppings that might work out better. Perhaps asking for light garlic and maybe the addition of the calabrian chilies from the seasonal special pizza (or pickled jalapeños, if available) would've fixed the balance (and topping palatability) of this pizza. A different pizza also may be substantially tastier, but goshdarnit, we're close enough to the ocean that I'd like to think the white clam is a slam-dunk. It's even listed in neon in the window! As ordered, unchanged, off the menu, though, I feel like I need to leave this state for a pizza just to feel something. Connecticut calling itself "the pizza state" has thus far been a lie; a cruel joke wherein a few outstanding outliers try to gloss over the fact that most of the state's pizza is mid-to-bad. "Mystic Pizza" being one of the state's most famous audiovisual exports sort of fits given that the availability of standout pizza here appears to be a mystical unicorn I've yet to find after moving here last year. Pepe's gets serious props for using large chunks of clams that don't look like the typical, uniformly cut, restaurant-supply-can chunks, but they were a bit rubbery and almost completely drowned out by the amount of garlic. It's like they were cooked too long, and the moisture from the clams evaporated accordingly. The crust had a little crunch to it as well, but lacked the crispy bubbles and heavier charred spots I expect from this style of pizza and from the assorted menu photos. Either go foldable or go harder on the fire--anywhere in between lands in disappointment territory. Commit to a bit. $8 a pint is a bit much for basic beer selections like Sam Adams and Peroni, too, but that's sort of my least concern. We live in Hell where everything is expensive lately, and at least beer prices haven't shot up as badly as gas prices. I probably should've ordered the sangria in hindsight. White peach? Here for it. Also, the staff was friendly, and service was prompt. I really should give it a second chance with a more traditional tomato-sauce pizza, or maybe a margherita. If you go, expect it to fall short of the hype unless whoever made the nicely bubbly white clam pie in the photos posted here is manning the oven. Unless you like garlic as much as I like cheese, consider asking to go light on the garlic for a better-balanced pizza if you order this one.

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    Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana - White CLam Pie

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    Lenoci’s Italian Kitchen - Siracusa - roasted eggplant, roasted peppers and fresh mozzarella

    Lenoci’s Italian Kitchen

    4.5(85 reviews)
    5.0 mi

    My office has ordered lunch from Lenoci several times in the past, and most recently today. Lenoci…read moreis located in Old Wethersfield right next to Noci Gelato. We placed orders for 12 of us over the phone today, we went to pick up the goods around an hour later. I got their Italian Sandwich this time. Previously I've had several of the salads. I think collectively my office has had their entire menu. From sandwiches, to salads, to pizzas, to lasagna and more. Every single meal has always been super fresh, where all you can hear is "mmmmmMmmmms..." My lunch was served on a freshly baked Italian hoagie roll, filled with roasted peppers, ham, tomatoes, mixed greens, capicola and provolone cheese. In addition to each and every single ingredient being super fresh, this was also a very large portion. I could have easily shared the other half with someone else, had it on another day or ate it right after the first portion... which one did I do? The restaurant it's self is little and very cute, it was full at 12:00 o'clock today. If you're looking for a quick and fresh lunch or dinner around the Wethersfield area, Lenoci's will check each of your boxes.

    What an amazing summer lunch spot!! Located in beautiful historic downtown Wethersfield, the front…read morepatio offers comfortable, shading seating while you watch the world pass by. The girls were lovely and patient with those that didn't know the menu. Offering specials and favorites alike. For me the multiple tables of Italian men eating their soup and bread lunch, while catching up on the gossip is something you do not see nowadays. Again a lovely spot.

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    Lenoci’s Italian Kitchen

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