Marsala Pizza of Estero

Pizza was good a couple years ago but now it's over cooked and always black on the bottom. They need to clean the stone in the oven. Also the attitude of the staff is poor. I really don't think they give a crap if they have customers. Maybe when they are out of business they will care again.

This place used to be a lot more welcoming.  I guess new management took over?  I've heard rumors of it closing and talk of distaste in regards to service.  Last time I stopped in, we weren't seated for 15 minutes as the server was talking to the owner.  Once we were seated, the server never came back, and the prices made us happy to walk down to Beef o Brady's and eat some equally amazing food.  If you want Italian, go to Angelinas

Amazing! The pizza Signor Marsala and his son (and at least one more very experienced chef, I am sure) put out is the finest, most professional, tastiest, most perfect "New York style" pizza we have eaten since we left New York. And that was many years ago. Lot of pizza under the bridge since then. We like Chicago style too, we loved Great Plains Sauce and Dough in Iowa, but This Stuff is GREAT!!!

Just found this place by accident on a lunch run southward from FGCU (it's at the edge of the Stoneybrook and next to a Publix, of all things). Easy to get to: head for the Miromar outlets and then head left into the Shoppes at Grande Oak instead of right into Miromar (assuming you are southbound). Just to the right of the Publix is "Marsala Italian Eatery and Pizzeria." That is the place, whatever the name here on Yelp says.

Not only is it owner-operated, it is FOUNDER-operated. Try sitting in the back right corner booth (directly under the poster of Louie and Rick at the beginning of a beautiful friendship), and read the article on the wall, look at the pictures. Signor Marsala is the real deal, he has traveled the world, he has had pizzerias in New York, and his Margherita and Marsala pizzas are both reasonably-priced and so good that even if you share one of the very ample 16" (they also serve 18") pizzas, just two of you will gobble it up. Seriously, I never eat three slices, but I ate three slices. Wow, just wow. Signor Marsala was in that day, and came over to keep us from eating it too soon and burning our tongues -- he told us about his sons and how he and his wife chose the Fort Myers area as the ideal place to settle oh so many years ago now, and about his amazing crew of grandchildren -- there's a huge picture of them in the corner as well -- as he said, it looks like a school, there are so many smiling young faces! And if they are eating Grandpa's cooking, no wonder they are smiling!

Mindful of other (respected!) reviewers' experiences, the pizza is probably the best thing on the menu, but to be fair, we should at least try an entree. So in a little while, we are heading back here to try something other than pizza, although it's going to take some serious self-control not to just order pizza again... good thing we've been using that gym membership, I get the feeling Marsala Italian Eatery is going to single-handedly step up my treadmill hours! Eh, I'll read a book; it is so worth it. By the way, like my gym, the TV shows Faux News, but the sound is down (good choice if you're male, you get to watch the deep-necklined, short-skirted blondes without listening to the silly or catty things they are saying) and Frankie or other Rat Packers or similar era are the music track -- authentically representing our host's preferences. May they continue to bring him joy.  I grew up with my Mom's generation listening to that music, and with pizza this good, I'm not watching the TV anyway :-)