My parents like this place, so we tagged along with them for a Sunday lunch. Â According to them, there is live acoustic guitar some nights, but the ambiance was next to dead at the time when we were there. Â Only 1 other table of people. Â Simple brick interior, tables throughout, nice looking bar to the side. Â Large flat screens throughout. Â Food was actually quite good. Â We started with the fried calamari (largest, tastiest calamari ever - try this!) and a side of meatballs (just okay for me, although everyone else seemed to like them). Â We did a large brick oven plain pie. Â Amazing pizza here. Â A thinner crust but it's awesome. Â Crispy and light, good amount of cheese and great sauce. Â Seriously, seriously good pizza. Â We also did a linguine bolognese, which I found to be kind of boring. Â The chicken francaise was good, but way too much garlic. Â Like huge chunks of it. Â I like garlic, so that was okay with me, but my husband said it was garlic overkill. Â I'd say this place is more like 3.5 stars, but I'll make it 4 since it's my hometown and we need more good restaurants here.
Review Source:We had lunch recently at Dino's. I ordered a grilled vegetable sandwich and while the veggies were good they were served on totally stale, dry bread. When I pointed it out to the waiter his response was complete disinterest. This is not surprising as he was on the phone for nearly the entire hour+ that we were in the restaurant. I am not kidding when I say he kept the phone at his ear each time he came to our table to bring us something or take an order. My kids ate a pizza and it looked very good and they were happy with it. Â Food was mixed and service was poor.
Review Source:I would definitely pass on this place. They try to make a thin crust pizza but it flopped all over the place when you try to eat it, thus making the cheese (whatever small amount of cheese on the pie) slide right off so you are basically going from eating a mouthful of cheese to just crust with tomato sauce. The taste of the pizza was not anything special. If you do go and it's cold out, bring a sweater. It's very cold and drafty there.
Review Source:I have eaten in Dino from day one.  I agree there was some rough items and noy so great items.  Today jan 2012 this is a weekly spot for us.  The owner Chet  is always adding new items.  Calzones.  Shrimp and avacado  freelance pizza.  Check out the menu on the web.  It's better than most in the northern valley.  It's worth a trip from any where
Review Source:I really like Dino's and wish their lunch specials stuck around. I am pretty glad "Mrs. Personality" no longer works there too.
The food is always good, hot, served quickly, and I feel like I am eating authentic italian cooking, not like some of these other pizza places.
The prices for alcohol are fairly reasonable and I have never had a bad thing on the menu. The only thing I would change is the consistency of the tomato sauce; it's just a little too watery.
I've been here twice and I've had excellent pizza both times. I am a big fan of thin crust pizza and their coal fired crust was excellent. The ingredients were fresh and service was friendly. Their Braccali Raab could stand to have more garlic - but that's the only negative I've seen so far.
Review Source:The coal-oven wings are outstanding. Â I cannot overstate how excellent they are.
I've edited this review to improve the rating from 2 to 3 stars. Â Tried it again tonight, and I have to say the quality of the pie was significantly better. Â Perhaps they are reading the reviews. Â Crust was executed much better. Â My kids do rave - RAVE - about the white pie from this place (hold the shallots, for the kids). Â The fried calamari was really excellent, and every time I have the oven-roasted wings I like them more and more.
Still pricey though!
But the wings alone are worth a trip. Â Get them!
I am always looking for above average to good pizza in the area. Had two home deliveries from Dino's in the last two months. It easily beats the competition, however, I am looking for something in par with Manhattan (or Queens, where I work) quality pizza. In both instances the pizza was good to excellent although a notch below Manhattan's Pattsey's for example . I Had plain, pepperoni, mushroom and sausage pies, all big pies.
Finally I decided to go to the restaurant to experience the place. I ordered small pie (half mushroom half pepperoni), chicken parm hero and sausage / peppers sandwich. Also, we ordered fried calamari for appetizer. The waitress was helpful and attentive. I got my beer and the drinks in a reasonable time. The calamari arrived after a long wait, it was disappointing, very hot, too oily, saggy (not crisp) and very bland, not a good start. After a longer wait, finally our food arrived. The pizza met our expectation was crisp and flavorful. The sausage and peppers sandwich was above average (Begged my son for a bite to taste it), the chicken parm hero was nothing to brag about. The quick lunch set us back 60 bucks (small pie, two sandwiches, one appetizer, one soda and one Coors lite + tips). So it is little pricey for a pizza joint, however I don't mind paying if the food is very good. So far only the pizza made the cut .
If Dino's is aiming high they need to improve on their skimpy menu, you have to be very good to justify charging more than the competition , just because you are in Old Tappan does not translate into higher prices. Also, should consider serving bread or something before serving the food. All serious places do that to compnsate for the slower srevice. Oh the beer selection was petatic, consisted of Coors lite and some othe drafts. When I asked for Becks the waitress was puzzled.
Yes they are located in Old Tappan not Westwood, although Westwood and Old Tappan share the same zip code, it makes it confusing sometimes on search engines and navigation devices.
Very Good overall for the pizza , other selections need improvement. Hope it only gets better as they fine tune the operation, The northern valley could benifit from decent pizza joints
A recent local paper review touted Dino's as having been built by two construction partners and specializing in thin crust pizza. Always a fan of a good thin crust, my friend and I decided to check it out during a weeknite. I'm always wary of places that do not have a decent crowd around dinner time and Dino's was no exception. The nearby Charlie Browns was packed. The place is spacious, big brick oven, decent size bar, and small wooden tables that seemed to beg for customers. We sat at a table and perused the limited menu. The prices immediately jump off the page. One appetizer special of 3 meatballs for $9.95 raised red flag number 1. The salad for two at  $9.95 for me had better be one hell of a salad. I was shocked at the size of it since it could easily serve four people. Tomato wedges, some onion, greek olives,carrot sticks and pepperoncini all sprinkled on top was nothing to write home about. The oil and vinegar on the side was plain and ordinary and my friend's caesar dressing had a strange kick to it. We came for their "unique coal fired' thin crust pizza and so we opted for the large house special Mozzarella pie (some places call it a Margherita Pie) @ $18.95. That's a lot of dough for a pie consisting of tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil. The pizza arrived and looked exactly like the description. I just had a feeling this was not going to be good. I was right. Two of the tomato slices were not ripe at all and I had to cut out the green middle parts. Strike #2. If there are only three ingredients on a pie they all better be perfect for that kind of money. The outside crust was perfect but the rest of the pie was totally undercooked and folded like a wet noodle. The pizza had absolutely no taste to it at all. If i have to add salt and grated cheese to  get any kind of flavor out of a pizza it's Strike #3. I got past one slice and called the young waiter over. Wrap up the remainder of the salad and bring me the check. Three beers, a salad and no charge for the pizza $26.00.  I'm all for giving new places a chance but if you are going to promote yourself as a new coal fired brick oven thin crust pizzeria with Old Tappan prices you better have a pretty darn good tasting product before sending it to a table.  And as an owner if you think that pizza was above average and worth $18.95 you don't belong in the restaurant biz.
Review Source:I really wanted to like this place. Â We could use a decent pizzeria in the area. Â
This newly built restaurant is large and has a nice bar area and many flat screens all around the restaurant. Â
On the Saturday night that we were there they even had a very good musician playing acoustic guitar. Â I wish I knew his name. Â
We started with a small salad. Â It was by far the best part of the meal. Â Probably the reason I am giving this place 2 stars instead of 1 star. Â It is a very large salad that could have easily been shared by 2-3 people. Â It was well dressed and had hot peppers, onions, chickpeas and greens. Â
Next we had the coal fired wings with onions and foccacia. Â The wings are cooked in the coal fire oven and come out sauceless and very dry. Â The wings are a good size and meaty. Â They come with onions which are carmelized and a necessity to give the wings any flavor and provide much needed moisture. Â The foccacia was pathetic. Â It was three small pieces of what I would describe as something like pita bread. Â Bleh.
Next came out our pizza. Â We got it half plain and half olives. Â The pizza arrived and was egg shaped and looked great. Â It was obviously shaped by hand and looked promising. Â Wrongo! Â It is a pretty thin crust that was very burnt and very dry. Â The cheese and sauce were minimal. Â The cheese didn't taste like a fresh mozzarella. Â The olives were too salty. Â We were so disappointed.
I wouldn't return unless I heard from a reliable source that they made some major changes to that pizza pie.
***The restaurant is in Old Tappan...not Westwood!***
***www.dinoscucina.com***
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