Just found our new Friday night pizza spot. I can eat certain pizza from certain places. Being from New York I'm a for hard thin crust ny pie guy. This place hit the spot, and took me to Brooklyn first class.. Cheesesteak was really good too. Reminds me of fair cheesesteaks. Can't go wrong with this spot. Chef Gram
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Robert Nesbit
still the best PIZZA IN ALBANYParking: glad it's back open for take out
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: All the Way Pizza
Kimberly Campbell
Awesome service!!! Thank you so much for the great customer service! We have been coming to Gargano’s for years and have created a lot of wonderful memories there and so happy you have reopened for takeout. Wishing you continued success and many more years of delicious food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Melody O.
Closed. And we miss it. Eggplant parmigiana was my favorite. Tiramisu-yum! Beautifully decorated with fountains and murals.
Heidi Rodis
Went with my family and had a great night! Great selection of Italian food. Not that big of a menu but what the menu lacks in quantity, it makes up for quality! Service we received was impressive. Waiter was friendly and personable. We went here because one of their former staff members suggested it to us and we were not disappointed. Okay, I'm a bit disappointed that they said they haven't been serving pizza since the plannedemic but that's minor. They had impressive Italian wine selection and server knows good recommendations. If you're going to get salad, try their in-house blue cheese dressing. Veal piccata was really tender and the Alfredo pasta was rich and creamy but not over-the-top.Ps. We also enjoyed the murals inside the restaurant.
Brenda Glass
Worst experience.The owner does not care about his customers at all. We had not been since February bc of bad service before but my family wanted to take me there for my birthday dinner. They might as well close down, they pretty much don’t cook anything anymore but baked spaghetti. They don’t even serve butter for the bread and the owner refused to let us have some from the kitchen. Won’t have to worry about me ever stepping foot in your business again. No wonder you don’t have any business anymore.
Kip Dunlap
This place is legendary in my family but with the recent reduction in their menu, some things need to change.It's understandable that with reduced staff, some items won't be available. Gargano's should be able to denote that by printing an updated menu. And while the manager who waited on my party was extremely pleasant, a little more communication about beverage options would be helpful in placing an order, again, menus.Some items don't seem to be generous enough portions to be a good value, even with the salads - which are fresh and come with plentiful dressing to their credit. I had the manacotti which were tasty, but scant.I look forward to dining here again when Villa Gargano returns to its former glory.
Charles Manning
Excellent food prepared and displayed the staff is wonderful attentive good wine they have cappuccino but no pizza
Big Al's Eats
Even with staff shortages and no pizza bakers the food is still second to none, and our long time waiter took excellent care of our party of 20. I certainly hope Gargano's makes it through these tough times ?
Friendly staff, with a dim lit setting. It feels like you are sitting outside at sunset in Italy. The food is very filling and the dessert is delicious. I definitely recommend visiting this restaurant for an evening in Italy.For my recommendations on what could be done better is the furniture could be updated. The seats felt like they were coming apart and the ceiling could be renovated to help enhance the immersive atmosphere, also the restaurant has not served pizza or wings since covid began. Besides that, this was an excellent night out!
jen hutchinson
The eggplant Parmesan is delicious! We really enjoyed our meals here. We will be back for sure
Brenda D.
As usual they have fallen by the wayside. Unless they change they will be gone before much longer. We ordered a parmasean chicken and a spaghetti meatball. $41 for them now, but they gave baked spaghetti and 1 meatball and charged $3.50 for the one meatball. It was a call in and if they no longer sell meatball spaghetti they should have said so. It was still on the web page. They also put this crappy liquid cheese all over so that makes it worse. I will never ever enter that place again and inflation has not made these 2 items almost twice as expensive because they use to be $28 for both. Also they no longer serve pizza, I guess it is really because they cannot charge what they want.
Typhani R.
A long-running Albany favorite for Italian home cooking. Been in operation as long as I've been alive which is a testament to their service. I recommend the Eggplant Parmigiana. It's sooo good! The staff is friendly and personable. I like how they get to know their customers so you feel right at home. Bon Appetit!
Shelly
First time visiting. The food was very good. We did get the salad with the house Italian dressing. The dressing was way to much vinegar. Wasn’t able to eat it.Other then that rest of food was great.
Just found our new Friday night pizza spot. I can eat certain pizza from certain places. Being from New York I'm a for hard thin crust ny pie guy. This place hit the spot, and took me to Brooklyn first class.. Cheesesteak was really good too. Reminds me of fair cheesesteaks. Can't go wrong with this spot. Chef Gram
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
still the best PIZZA IN ALBANYParking: glad it's back open for take out
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: All the Way Pizza
Awesome service!!! Thank you so much for the great customer service! We have been coming to Gargano’s for years and have created a lot of wonderful memories there and so happy you have reopened for takeout. Wishing you continued success and many more years of delicious food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Closed. And we miss it. Eggplant parmigiana was my favorite. Tiramisu-yum! Beautifully decorated with fountains and murals.
Went with my family and had a great night! Great selection of Italian food. Not that big of a menu but what the menu lacks in quantity, it makes up for quality! Service we received was impressive. Waiter was friendly and personable. We went here because one of their former staff members suggested it to us and we were not disappointed. Okay, I'm a bit disappointed that they said they haven't been serving pizza since the plannedemic but that's minor. They had impressive Italian wine selection and server knows good recommendations. If you're going to get salad, try their in-house blue cheese dressing. Veal piccata was really tender and the Alfredo pasta was rich and creamy but not over-the-top.Ps. We also enjoyed the murals inside the restaurant.
Worst experience.The owner does not care about his customers at all. We had not been since February bc of bad service before but my family wanted to take me there for my birthday dinner. They might as well close down, they pretty much don’t cook anything anymore but baked spaghetti. They don’t even serve butter for the bread and the owner refused to let us have some from the kitchen. Won’t have to worry about me ever stepping foot in your business again. No wonder you don’t have any business anymore.
This place is legendary in my family but with the recent reduction in their menu, some things need to change.It's understandable that with reduced staff, some items won't be available. Gargano's should be able to denote that by printing an updated menu. And while the manager who waited on my party was extremely pleasant, a little more communication about beverage options would be helpful in placing an order, again, menus.Some items don't seem to be generous enough portions to be a good value, even with the salads - which are fresh and come with plentiful dressing to their credit. I had the manacotti which were tasty, but scant.I look forward to dining here again when Villa Gargano returns to its former glory.
Excellent food prepared and displayed the staff is wonderful attentive good wine they have cappuccino but no pizza
Even with staff shortages and no pizza bakers the food is still second to none, and our long time waiter took excellent care of our party of 20. I certainly hope Gargano's makes it through these tough times ?
The food and service was absolutely horrible!
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Friendly staff, with a dim lit setting. It feels like you are sitting outside at sunset in Italy. The food is very filling and the dessert is delicious. I definitely recommend visiting this restaurant for an evening in Italy.For my recommendations on what could be done better is the furniture could be updated. The seats felt like they were coming apart and the ceiling could be renovated to help enhance the immersive atmosphere, also the restaurant has not served pizza or wings since covid began. Besides that, this was an excellent night out!
The eggplant Parmesan is delicious! We really enjoyed our meals here. We will be back for sure
As usual they have fallen by the wayside. Unless they change they will be gone before much longer. We ordered a parmasean chicken and a spaghetti meatball. $41 for them now, but they gave baked spaghetti and 1 meatball and charged $3.50 for the one meatball. It was a call in and if they no longer sell meatball spaghetti they should have said so. It was still on the web page. They also put this crappy liquid cheese all over so that makes it worse. I will never ever enter that place again and inflation has not made these 2 items almost twice as expensive because they use to be $28 for both. Also they no longer serve pizza, I guess it is really because they cannot charge what they want.
A long-running Albany favorite for Italian home cooking. Been in operation as long as I've been alive which is a testament to their service. I recommend the Eggplant Parmigiana. It's sooo good! The staff is friendly and personable. I like how they get to know their customers so you feel right at home. Bon Appetit!
First time visiting. The food was very good. We did get the salad with the house Italian dressing. The dressing was way to much vinegar. Wasn’t able to eat it.Other then that rest of food was great.