Delicious food. Reasonable Prices. Friendly Service. Â
We were introduced to Little Italian through a our child's PDO program/ church fundraiser. Â Â We are pretty new to Naperville and had never tried this place before, but since it was a fundraiser event we decided to get carry-out. We ordered two specialty sandwiches (chicken italiano & italian char-broiled chicken sandwich both came with fries), an order of breaded zucchini, spinach/tomato/onion thin crust pizza. Â oh, and the brownie cheese cake; yeah, we went all out- but only becuase it was for the sake of the fundraiser-really! :) Â Well, to our surprise the food was pretty darn good. Â The poorest part of our order were that the fries were so/so & little soggy by time I got home and got dinner out- but I just heated up a frying pan to crisp the fries back into shape and they were good. Â The sandwiches were very good, my husband especially liked the italian char-broiled chicken sandwich. Â I absolutely loved the sauce on the pizza and on the chicken italiano sandwich, the sauce was great! Â Loved the sauce!
The pizza was wonderful. Â
I will be ordering here again!!
In a word - lousy.
Gee, why so negative you ask? The same crappy crust, greasy cheese and boring sauce you've experienced at every other forgettable pizza joint in Chicagoland are all you'll get here. Â Dining in is even less appealing. Â Somebody said cute decor? Â You're kidding right?
For those who consider this good pizza, all I can say is wow, you really owe it to yourself to seek out some better alternatives. Â I have had pizza in literally hundreds of restaurants all over this country and others, and this place is almost at the bottom of my list. Â (Pizza with hamburger on it eaten on the west coast was worse)
Not recommended.
Little Italian serves some of the best pizza that I have ever had! Seriously, if you have never had it give it a try, because it is amazing.
Having said that this place has some other issues. They can't seem to get pick-up times right. They have told me times to show up before and I have had to wait an extra ten minutes or so on more than one occasion. Most other pizza places I pick up from have the pizza ready when they say it will be ready. I realize Little Italian can be a really busy place though, but they could use some improvement with organization. I have ordered from here many times and there have been a few occasions when my order has been messed up or forgotten about and I ended up waiting 20 minutes for no good reason, so I have experienced some slight problems with picking up a pizza from here.
Eating in at the restaurant goes very smoothly though. The wait staff is excellent and the food is really good! So I would mostly recommend Little Italian, especially because the pizza is as good as it gets!
Little Italian has been consistently excellent for YEARS. Â They are one of my all time favorites. Â They use great ingredients and they use them well. Â They have expanded their menu in recent years but I have never had any reason to try anything but the house crust pizza with italian sausage. Â Also very well liked by my friends and family, so don't just take my word for it.
Review Source:Used to be our go to spot for pizza, but like many others I have been disappointed in the management. Add that to the ever increasing price of their pizza and we had to find a new spot. A tip on declining quality; they used to have a plastic mesh under the thin crust to keep it crisp, it was gone last time and the pizza suffered.
Review Source:The decor can use an update.
We like the spinach pizza (creamed spinach). It is different. Â My husband likes the Italian Beef/Gardiniara pizza too. Â But the rest of the menu is just OK. Â Typical bar food.
We do like to go into the little bar and hang out just because we like Elaina the bartender. Â We are in our late 40s and sometimes you want to hang with an older crowd. Â The bar has a nice feel. Â But not for everyone.
Service is good great. Â The servers in the dining room are always very friendly and attentive.
I've been going to this place for years, as it is close to home. They never disappoint no matter what toppings I choose. They are friendly and the pizza tastes good the next day too. I just moved back from chicago and this is one of the few local places that live up to my admittedly snobbish taste in pizza.
Review Source:Some of the best thin crust around. Â I've never been a fan of dining in here and haven't in years but it looks like they've done some modernization to the dining area but still nothing that would make dining in at a strip mall appealing. Â Stick to their pizza and take your pie to go and you won't be disappointed.
Review Source:Really not even close to the best pizza in the area. There are a least 10 other pizza places that I rather eat at. So I tried this place because of the nice reviews on Yelp. Good/Great thin crust? Wow? People need to get out more. It was not crisp at all and the cheese slipped off the entire piece ever time I took a bite. Sauce was too sweet and pastey. Serious everyone, I get the nice local appeal but do not rate this place as one of the best pizzas you ever had or the best in the area. I would give it a small notch above pizza hut or papa johns at best.
Review Source:I have grown up on Little Italian. Â We used to get it every week. Â It is my favorite pizza!!! Â I don't live close anymore, but love to go when I can. Â
Their house crust is on the thicker side, which I love. Â The sauce is great and they are generous with the toppings. Â They are real toppings too, not those fake sausage balls. Â I haven't had the pasta in years, so can't comment. Â
They have a nice dining area which is good for groups and families too. Â When I picked up a pizza last night, I see that they also serve gluten pizza. Â Not sure what that is, but they are getting on the gluten free craze.
Do not come here.
The pizza is ok but the manager is a complete jerk. A family friend was having a birthday party for her kid (who has celiac disease and can't eat gluten). Naturally she brought food from home for the girl to eat, while everyone else ate their pizza.
The manager saw that she brought her own food and immedietly began to hassle her. She explained the situation and the manager just exploded in her face asking things like "how dare you bring food into MY place of business". To sum up the story both the mother and daughter ended up in tears. I don't care if the pizza is edible, that is just bad business.
This is my favorite pizza place, period. Â I'm sure some of it is nostalgia since I've been coming here since the early 80's. Â There is something about the pizza that I just love. Â They put a ton of cheese and toppings on each pie and the ingredients are always really high quality. Â I went here with a group of friends the other night, most of whom had never been and they all loved it. Â The service was a little slow, but nothing horrible. Â The prices are very reasonable and the portions are large. Â It's in an ugly strip mall next to a 7-11, but don't let that scare you away, its worth it.
Review Source:We've been ordering pizza here for over 10 years and we've never had a bad pizza. Â This is a great local place. While we normally pick-up the pizza, we have at various times decided to eat in the restaurant. The place is usually full of families and the bar area loaded with regulars.
Review Source:"Little League Teams, Locals, and Family Night Out"
You need places like Little Italian in today's world, and I'm so glad it has survived. This is a quaint place outside of downtown Naperville and its perfect for locals to grab some pizza and spend time with friends and family. Honestly when you see commercials where little league teams are going to pizza hut after a win you have to be happy that a place like Little Italian exists. They have great pizza, that oooey gooey square slice pizza that people grow up loving. They have quality ingredients including their pepperoni and sausage. The staff is all smiles no matter how packed they get. Now that I live in Manhattan I miss this place more then ever, just a quiet local place that me and my friends can go to have a great conversation and share some drinks over some Za!
This place is great. When I moved to Naperville last year, one of my first mission's was finding a great pizza joint. Â Well, I lucked out, and its only a few miles away! Very reasonable prices on pizza, and always hot and fresh!
I love that this place is consistent.
This is a total "crave" place of mine!
This is a two-part review. Â Part 1: Â LI is our main place for pizza; we really like it and I would actually give it 4 - 4/12 stars. Â Part 2: Â We had not gone in to sit down in the dining room for many years and did so this past Saturday. Â The menu is limited, unimaginative and the flavors are more bland than Prego or Classico. Â Also, the seating in the booths hasn't changed in years- too low! Â I'm 6'3 and felt like the tabletop was just under my chin. Â Bottom line: get the pizza to go and you will be satisfied. Â P.S. Â The bar is good while waiting for your take-out order.
Review Source:We've picked up the near weekly habit of having family "italian night" (and it's usually pizza!) at Little Italian Pizzeria. We ALWAYS ask for Kelly to be our server, but everyone treats all customers with the best service, so no matter what you're safe.
Plan ahead by calling in advance and letting them know what you want, and when you're arriving, and you'll walk in like you own the place no matter how packed it is! It's a wonderful way to have a little family time. They even have trivial pursuit question cards on the table  to spur a little competition while you wait.
Great service, great food, excellent value!
For taste, it's probably one of my more favorite pizzerias but we've had a few incidents that make me not want to go back.
The staff is nice but we've had a few incidents... once a hair in the pizza BUT we called they drove all the way to my house in a rush to deliver a new one.
A few times we've gotten the wrong order, and once my boyfriend picked up a pizza and tripped on their slightly icy sidewalk while heading out the door and while he didn't fall, the pizza flew and over half of it slipped right out of the box and on the ground. I had been waiting in the car so when he came back and had no pizza he was reasonably embarrassed (no one likes tripping in public) and wanted to know what we should do since our pizza was now on the ground in front of the store. He's pretty positive that the counter staff saw, said nothing, and then walked away... which is why he didn't immediately head back in. I worked a at pizza place for 10 years and if a customer had tripped on ice outside our door, we would have kissed their ass and made them a new pizza in a jiff. Not little Italian.
I went back in with my main man and immediately the girls at front went to get the manager. Maybe it was because they saw us walk back in after scraping the pizza up but maybe it was because they originally saw him trip (due to THEIR icy sidewalk) and did nothing. The manager came up and was friendly but I don't think she got it or cared much. She chuckled and said needed to take a look. She goes into the back with our pizza and comes back with the same box and says she was able to salvage some of the pizza... that very same pizza that laid on the dirty, snowy, icy sidewalk outside that everyone walks on. Uhm, Earth to Lady... just because it doesn't look infected, doesn't mean it isn't. No, 80% of that pizza touched the ground because of your failure to salt your sidewalk all the way and you just gave it back to me to consume?
We look at her, half smiling, not knowing if she was kidding or not when she asks if we want to put in another pizza. Phew! Yes, please! We wait a little less than 15 minutes, she brings the pizza out, tells us to be careful with it, we smile and get ready to leave when she says $16. PS- she wasn't kidding about the salvaged pizza... she actually gave it back to us to eat the rest of it. Welcome to Crazy town.
WTF?!?!?! You have got to be mother freaking kidding me. I was in shock... I didn't know what to say. My boyfriend paid the $16 ( I think his esteem was lowered by the tripping) but what I wanted to do was roundhouse kick the pizza out of her hand and tell Little Italian to suck it. I still cannot believe that they still charged us... she did give us a small percentage off our pizza BUT it should have been free since we already paid full price for the pizza their icy walk ruined AND they should have apologized their asses off.
It's really a shame because they are really close and I like their thin crust (not the Little Italian Crust) pizza. For food they deserve a 4 star rating but for poor and negligent management skills they get a 2.
Rest in Peace Little Italian.
A large group of us met here recently for a mini-family reunion of sorts. Â Our waitress was excellent, the food was simply not very good. Â I had a couple fried appetizers which were a bit sub-par and some regular crust veggie pizza. Â Don't get me wrong, the pizza was edible and if I lived any where near their delivery zone I would probably order pizzas a couple times per month, it simply wasn't anything more then a run of the mill pizza place.
Review Source:On Sunday night (10/14/2007) we visited with some friends in South Naperville and ordered delivery from Little Italian. Â I hadn't had Little Italian in years. Â I grew up with it in Darien, IL which was where it all started back in the 70's when Mike Maglieri built his dream.
We had one large cheese, one large sausage & pepperoni and one large with everything. Â Also ordered were a couple salads.
The pizza is medium crust in general (you can order it thin or thick) and it arrived hot although a little later than anticipated. Â The salads were good and they sent along individually portioned salad dressings of all types (which worked great for our group of 9 adults).
I can't speak to eating in the restaurant as Emily has, but if you go to a pizza place and don't order pizza, I would imagine your experience may vary. Â I can't imagine what it would be for someone who doesn't eat meat, although there are plenty of pizza options for that unless you're a strict vegan.
As I've said 100 times, I can eat pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Â This is one I'd recommend to people who are looking for a decent hearty meal.
Years ago I worked here, before they remodeled. The atmosphere got better, the food a whole lot worse. Â My husband and I biked here this summer, all there was on the menu for me was a salad, because I wasn't going to spend $8 for steamed vegetables. Â He did not enjoy his meal, my salad consisted of a small pile of lettuce and one slice of tomato.
Needless to say we biked home and then drove to the city for some real food.
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