Dolce Vita

This place can't be beat! The owner, Frank, has been the same for the last decade and runs an amazing restaurant. Take out or dine it it's one of my favorites. It's nice to see how the place has progressed over the years as well, the just added a new wall and mural of Italy, it looks amazing. Cozy feel allows for it to be family friendly and also romantic feeling especially if you go closer to dinner. They have a dinner specials menu so its not only typical pizzeria menu items but also fine italian cuisine. I personally love the place for its $20 pizza special, you get 2 large pizzas and a two liter. My family loves when we have pizza nights every week. BEST local pizza you will find with EXTREMELY fair prices. I would pay a lot more for what I get from Dolce Vita. FAMILY FAVORITE!

For years I used to love to come here for pizza, cheese steaks and hoagies. In fact I would only get my pizza from this place because I liked it so much, even though there were closer pizza shops. Then on my last visit the owner did something I couldn't believe.

I was early for picking up my mushroom/pepperoni pizza and told the person at the counter that I was there for my pizza. He said something to the owner who I saw hovering over a fully cooked mushroom pizza on the prep table. The owner was frantically placing pepperoni slices on the pizza and got this nervous look on his face after the worker told him I was there to pick up my pizza. The worker tells me that the pizza will be a few more minutes. I watched as the owner placed the already cooked pizza back in the oven for several minutes. I was like, what the heck is going on here?

I took the pizza home and found that the bottom crust was burnt, the cheese was congealed like a pizza that had been cooled and reheated, and the pepperoni slices were still raw and just oozing oil out of them. It was a terrible pizza.

Based on what I saw and how the pizza was I came up with 3 possible scenarios. 1)They messed up and my pizza hadn't been made and they were trying to get out of a jam, 2) the owner had given my pizza to someone else just before I got there and he was trying to cover his tracks or 3) someone ordered a mushroom pizza earlier and never picked it up and the owner thought he'd save himself some money and just recycle the pizza and got caught in the act because I showed up early. I can't be sure obviously but regardless of what ever was going on, I didn't get the freshly made pizza I ordered.

I can deal with mistakes that people make like someone accidentally leaving off a pizza topping or giving the wrong size pizza, but when you purposely try to pull one over on the customer like that it's totally unacceptable and doesn't deserve me even saying anything.

Dolce Vita lost me as a customer that day. I've gone elsewhere for my pizza, cheese steaks and hoagies ever since.