The pizza is very good, the spaghetti and meatballs too. The house red isn't bad. Very reasonably priced and friendly service. A great find in the neighborhood!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
William M.
Food was great. The woman behind the bar had to be flagged down and seemed annoyed at me for asking for a menu.
Michael B.
Food was amazing. The pizza was thin crust but soft. The waitress was kind and welcoming. Will definitely return.
Sharyn Yuloff
If you're on a restricted diet, you might have an easier time at a different
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
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I doordashed this food and it was not good at all… no flavor I had to keep adding seasoning to my spaghetti and minestrone. the two dishes were way too watery as well, and there was barely any sauce on my spaghetti. Should’ve listened to the reviews as I couldn’t really finish it.
Food: 1
Wendy C
Fresh and delicious on a cold Monday!Outstanding service.
Atmosphere: 5
Bryan S.
Walked by this place and went in on a whim. It was self seating, but we were greeted as we walked in. They had a nice robust menu and the service was fast. We had layers to drink so they left a pitcher for us. There was no rushing to get out of there and was definitely a great place for how relatively inexpensive it was for three people to eat. I am excited to go back.
Frances Phipps
Long term customers. Tonight was wonderful - clams in white wine garlic sauce and eggplant parmigiana. Truly delicious. Fresh cheese pizza bites on the house and vanilla/chocolate bombe also on the house. Prices can't be beat. Old time family atmosphere. Come as you are and have a great time.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tartufo Ice Cream, Eggplant Parmigiana, Fish
Hal Phipps
Great service and great food at reasonable prices.
This is one of my favorite restaurants! I feel like family every time I come here! The food is delicious and they often give you complimentary treats to go along with your order. The white pizza and rockfish are my personal favorites! The marinara sauce is always fresh. The fact that it is family operated is also great!
The food was good, especially for the price! The evening ended up with me and my friend getting kicked out of the restaurant by a hot-headed waitress before we even had a chance to pay. Thank you for saving me 35 bucks! Service was not so great. It took about half an hour to get the food we ordered, and then the appetizer came out at the same time as the entrees. Nobody checked on us after the food was finally delivered, even though we might have asked for some condiments if we had been given the chance. Time was getting tight, and I just wanted to pay and leave so I could get to a performance. I finally stood up to hunt down a member of the waitstaff, because I couldn't catch their attention when they were running to other tables, so that I could request the check. There was a performance we wanted to get to, and we still were going to make it with an acceptable time margin if we could leave within the next few minutes. All I wanted was the check so that I could pay and get out of there. Instead, they brought out complimentary ice cream. No, I want to pay and leave! I rejected the ice cream, because I had asked for the check, and they didn't listen and sent out ice cream instead. Then the hot-headed waitress-owner-cop comes out, claims that we are on video cursing out her teen waitress, and that she's going to press charges (or something), because apparently she's a cop, too. She is escalating this, because all I wanted was to get the check so I could pay it and get out. I'm not leaving yet because I am not in the habit of stiffing restaurants, so I'm taking her verbal abuse while repeatedly asking for the check until she orders us out of the restaurant and says we don't have to pay, while filming us on her smartphone. (By the way, we did not give permission to be filmed, so that's illegal.) And then she curses us in Spanish as we leave. Whatever, lady. Thanks for the free meal! And if you really are the owner of the restaurant and a cop, may I suggest that you rethink your career choices in both the hospitality and law enforcement industries. With your way of escalating conflict, you are not going to find success over the long term in either arena unless you take anger management classes and take them to heart. So, customers beware! You might be in for a spicy tirade if you don't toe the line of the waitstaff's excuses for crummy service! But the jackpot could be a free meal, so decide if you want to play!
Jonah Kantro
WORST RESTAURANT IN THE AREA!When we arrived, we had to wait for the waitstaff to check if we were allowed to eat there at all, even though there were other customers in the restaurant and it was well before closing time. Unfortunately for us, they said yes and showed us to a table. When we ordered, the waiter went around the table 4 times making sure she knew what we wanted instead of simply writing it down ?.All the food we ordered was depressing, to say the least. Their tomato sauce is cheap, sugary, and most likely comes out of an expired jar. Everything was bland and unseasoned. Go to Burger King if you want something with more flavor. I noticed on their website that they have live jazz music on some nights. As a jazz musician myself, I would much rather play a gig at McDonald's than here.The experience somehow got more ridiculous as we were preparing to leave. We were told that the card declined, and that they could try again. When we suggested that there was a problem with their machine, they insisted it was our fault (the same card was successfully used 10 minutes later to buy gas). As we were leaving the restaurant, one of the waitstaff loudly mocked a member of our group for informing them that their card machine was broken. I don't have anything against teens working in a restaurant, but they are missing basic customer service skills, a 5 year old could do better. An American Italian restaurant with live jazz is right up my alley, but sadly, this place is a rotting lost cause.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Deborah Wassertzug
You may be reading these reviews because you are curious whether Vicino is a good place to eat. Long story short: NO.We were curious. We decided to take a chance. We had just served dinner over at Shepherd's Table, working pretty hard for a few hours, and we were pretty hungry ourselves.We should have been wary when we walked in and there was no server in evidence, just one table of six people who looked done with dinner. When someone finally emerged from the kitchen, she told us to wait while she disappeared into the kitchen for another minute or two, before letting us know whether we would be authorized to eat there. (How I wish she'd said no.)We tried ordering garlic bread, and we were told that we'd be receiving bread with garlic and oil anyways, so we opted not to order garlic bread. Joke was on us -- we didn't get any bread until we'd nearly finished our entrees. I think whoever was in charge in the kitchen probably just didn't want to be bothered making something else.Let me reiterate that the service was awful. The two servers were busy hanging out with friend(s) in the kitchen, shrieking with laughter, and basically not doing much else.The garden salad wasn't bad, although the tomatoes seemed to be just on the verge of spoiling.It is a good few weeks after Christmas, but Vicino still has all of their Xmas decorations up, including strands of lights that blink at a rate that might trigger an epileptic seizure, even if you don't have epilepsy. This did not contribute to my enjoyment of the meal. I swapped out my dining chair, which was so wobbly it threatened to dump me to the floor mid-meal.I ordered eggplant parmesan as my entree. It was to be served with pasta. This meant I unfortunately encountered the marinara sauce twice. It has no flavor whatsoever. It's just canned tomato sauce, from what I could tell. By the way, my dining companions got their pasta way before I did. We had to ask several times for my pasta and for the bread. The eggplant was just okay. Edible.Once we received the bread (just in time for dessert), the waitress paused for a fairly long time, wondering where to put it. The table was covered with empty plates. She didn't seem to know what to do about those. I suggested she could collect them.We were each comped a quarter of a tartufo ice cream for dessert. I think this was in part to try to help us forget the meal, and in part to prepare us for the next event: having the wait staff inform us that our credit card had a fraud alert on it. We tried to run the same card again, same result. We tried the same account but with a card belonging to another family member, and lo and behold, it worked. I suggested there could be something wrong with their machine. They denied this -- and then as we were leaving, audibly mocked me saying so. Classy.At this point, we're just hoping they didn't also skim the card. And -- so far so good -- we're hoping not to get sick from the food. There are many, many more worthy restaurants in this area. Do not frequent this one. The food bears no resemblance to Italian food. And the restaurant staff bear little resemblance to restaurant staff. It felt like a bunch of teenagers had been tasked with running a restaurant for a reality show, and that they had opted to run the place into the ground.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Duna Monda
Vicino "s is the BEST Italian Restaurant ! The food is absolutely delicious! The portions are perfect! The workers are the utmost kindest people I have ever met. They go above and beyond!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sahna Davi
Either I came on an exceptionally bad night or the 5 star reviews are from people who've never had real Italian food before. I ordered shrimp francese, garlic bread, a salad, and calamari. The marinara is literally tomato paste and water, that's it. No salt, garlic, onions, nothing. The croutons in my salad were stale and even the garlic bread was flavorless. How does one ruin garlic bread? The calamari was the worst of all, a bland soggy mess. Easily the worst Italian food I've ever had, I should've known when I walked into a near empty restaurant on a Friday night the food was likely awful.
The pizza is very good, the spaghetti and meatballs too. The house red isn't bad. Very reasonably priced and friendly service. A great find in the neighborhood!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Food was great. The woman behind the bar had to be flagged down and seemed annoyed at me for asking for a menu.
Food was amazing. The pizza was thin crust but soft. The waitress was kind and welcoming. Will definitely return.
If you're on a restricted diet, you might have an easier time at a different
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
I doordashed this food and it was not good at all… no flavor I had to keep adding seasoning to my spaghetti and minestrone. the two dishes were way too watery as well, and there was barely any sauce on my spaghetti. Should’ve listened to the reviews as I couldn’t really finish it.
Food: 1
Fresh and delicious on a cold Monday!Outstanding service.
Atmosphere: 5
Walked by this place and went in on a whim. It was self seating, but we were greeted as we walked in. They had a nice robust menu and the service was fast. We had layers to drink so they left a pitcher for us. There was no rushing to get out of there and was definitely a great place for how relatively inexpensive it was for three people to eat. I am excited to go back.
Long term customers. Tonight was wonderful - clams in white wine garlic sauce and eggplant parmigiana. Truly delicious. Fresh cheese pizza bites on the house and vanilla/chocolate bombe also on the house. Prices can't be beat. Old time family atmosphere. Come as you are and have a great time.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tartufo Ice Cream, Eggplant Parmigiana, Fish
Great service and great food at reasonable prices.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tartufo Ice Cream, Garden Salad, Eggplant Parmigiana
This is one of my favorite restaurants! I feel like family every time I come here! The food is delicious and they often give you complimentary treats to go along with your order. The white pizza and rockfish are my personal favorites! The marinara sauce is always fresh. The fact that it is family operated is also great!
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The food was good, especially for the price! The evening ended up with me and my friend getting kicked out of the restaurant by a hot-headed waitress before we even had a chance to pay. Thank you for saving me 35 bucks! Service was not so great. It took about half an hour to get the food we ordered, and then the appetizer came out at the same time as the entrees. Nobody checked on us after the food was finally delivered, even though we might have asked for some condiments if we had been given the chance. Time was getting tight, and I just wanted to pay and leave so I could get to a performance. I finally stood up to hunt down a member of the waitstaff, because I couldn't catch their attention when they were running to other tables, so that I could request the check. There was a performance we wanted to get to, and we still were going to make it with an acceptable time margin if we could leave within the next few minutes. All I wanted was the check so that I could pay and get out of there. Instead, they brought out complimentary ice cream. No, I want to pay and leave! I rejected the ice cream, because I had asked for the check, and they didn't listen and sent out ice cream instead. Then the hot-headed waitress-owner-cop comes out, claims that we are on video cursing out her teen waitress, and that she's going to press charges (or something), because apparently she's a cop, too. She is escalating this, because all I wanted was to get the check so I could pay it and get out. I'm not leaving yet because I am not in the habit of stiffing restaurants, so I'm taking her verbal abuse while repeatedly asking for the check until she orders us out of the restaurant and says we don't have to pay, while filming us on her smartphone. (By the way, we did not give permission to be filmed, so that's illegal.) And then she curses us in Spanish as we leave. Whatever, lady. Thanks for the free meal! And if you really are the owner of the restaurant and a cop, may I suggest that you rethink your career choices in both the hospitality and law enforcement industries. With your way of escalating conflict, you are not going to find success over the long term in either arena unless you take anger management classes and take them to heart. So, customers beware! You might be in for a spicy tirade if you don't toe the line of the waitstaff's excuses for crummy service! But the jackpot could be a free meal, so decide if you want to play!
WORST RESTAURANT IN THE AREA!When we arrived, we had to wait for the waitstaff to check if we were allowed to eat there at all, even though there were other customers in the restaurant and it was well before closing time. Unfortunately for us, they said yes and showed us to a table. When we ordered, the waiter went around the table 4 times making sure she knew what we wanted instead of simply writing it down ?.All the food we ordered was depressing, to say the least. Their tomato sauce is cheap, sugary, and most likely comes out of an expired jar. Everything was bland and unseasoned. Go to Burger King if you want something with more flavor. I noticed on their website that they have live jazz music on some nights. As a jazz musician myself, I would much rather play a gig at McDonald's than here.The experience somehow got more ridiculous as we were preparing to leave. We were told that the card declined, and that they could try again. When we suggested that there was a problem with their machine, they insisted it was our fault (the same card was successfully used 10 minutes later to buy gas). As we were leaving the restaurant, one of the waitstaff loudly mocked a member of our group for informing them that their card machine was broken. I don't have anything against teens working in a restaurant, but they are missing basic customer service skills, a 5 year old could do better. An American Italian restaurant with live jazz is right up my alley, but sadly, this place is a rotting lost cause.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
You may be reading these reviews because you are curious whether Vicino is a good place to eat. Long story short: NO.We were curious. We decided to take a chance. We had just served dinner over at Shepherd's Table, working pretty hard for a few hours, and we were pretty hungry ourselves.We should have been wary when we walked in and there was no server in evidence, just one table of six people who looked done with dinner. When someone finally emerged from the kitchen, she told us to wait while she disappeared into the kitchen for another minute or two, before letting us know whether we would be authorized to eat there. (How I wish she'd said no.)We tried ordering garlic bread, and we were told that we'd be receiving bread with garlic and oil anyways, so we opted not to order garlic bread. Joke was on us -- we didn't get any bread until we'd nearly finished our entrees. I think whoever was in charge in the kitchen probably just didn't want to be bothered making something else.Let me reiterate that the service was awful. The two servers were busy hanging out with friend(s) in the kitchen, shrieking with laughter, and basically not doing much else.The garden salad wasn't bad, although the tomatoes seemed to be just on the verge of spoiling.It is a good few weeks after Christmas, but Vicino still has all of their Xmas decorations up, including strands of lights that blink at a rate that might trigger an epileptic seizure, even if you don't have epilepsy. This did not contribute to my enjoyment of the meal. I swapped out my dining chair, which was so wobbly it threatened to dump me to the floor mid-meal.I ordered eggplant parmesan as my entree. It was to be served with pasta. This meant I unfortunately encountered the marinara sauce twice. It has no flavor whatsoever. It's just canned tomato sauce, from what I could tell. By the way, my dining companions got their pasta way before I did. We had to ask several times for my pasta and for the bread. The eggplant was just okay. Edible.Once we received the bread (just in time for dessert), the waitress paused for a fairly long time, wondering where to put it. The table was covered with empty plates. She didn't seem to know what to do about those. I suggested she could collect them.We were each comped a quarter of a tartufo ice cream for dessert. I think this was in part to try to help us forget the meal, and in part to prepare us for the next event: having the wait staff inform us that our credit card had a fraud alert on it. We tried to run the same card again, same result. We tried the same account but with a card belonging to another family member, and lo and behold, it worked. I suggested there could be something wrong with their machine. They denied this -- and then as we were leaving, audibly mocked me saying so. Classy.At this point, we're just hoping they didn't also skim the card. And -- so far so good -- we're hoping not to get sick from the food. There are many, many more worthy restaurants in this area. Do not frequent this one. The food bears no resemblance to Italian food. And the restaurant staff bear little resemblance to restaurant staff. It felt like a bunch of teenagers had been tasked with running a restaurant for a reality show, and that they had opted to run the place into the ground.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Vicino "s is the BEST Italian Restaurant ! The food is absolutely delicious! The portions are perfect! The workers are the utmost kindest people I have ever met. They go above and beyond!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Either I came on an exceptionally bad night or the 5 star reviews are from people who've never had real Italian food before. I ordered shrimp francese, garlic bread, a salad, and calamari. The marinara is literally tomato paste and water, that's it. No salt, garlic, onions, nothing. The croutons in my salad were stale and even the garlic bread was flavorless. How does one ruin garlic bread? The calamari was the worst of all, a bland soggy mess. Easily the worst Italian food I've ever had, I should've known when I walked into a near empty restaurant on a Friday night the food was likely awful.
Food: 1