Saturday was my first time visiting the village of Q.C... and I don't think I'll be back any time soon. Â It's only 30 minutes from where I live in Chandler, but feels like podunk Utah. Â Now, that's not the olive mill's fault, they're merely trying to run a business. Â I think the problem is, they're not really sure what they want to be. Â The tables inside are peppered throughout the building - and when we went, the giant menu was hidden - possibly due to not having certain items available. Â This was the case, two of what we tried to order, they were out of. Â So we got the warm olive appetizer, an Italian chopped salad, an olive pizza and the banana dessert pizza. Â The olives were nice, the salad was good, but both pizzas were under-cooked and disappointing. Â I do not recommend the food, but if I ever find myself in the area again I would consider the tour.
Review Source:I am sitting in the parking lot writing this review because the service and quality of food annoyed me so much that I didn't even want to wait until I got home. I understand that it's a weekend and busy, but after waiting for ice and iced tea to be filled/brewed, given an attitude by a server when I asked a question, and waited 30 minutes for my to-go sandwich I think their "it's busy" excuse is void. Here is my experience with the restaurant inside the QC Olive Mill:
There are signs on the wall stating that orders are made fresh and take time, so I didn't want to be pushy about my sandwich. But when I noticed about 5 other people pick up their order who had ordered after me I decided to finally ask. Oh don't worry, it had only been sitting on the line for the last 20 minutes because they "lost the ticket." Hello, didn't you see a customer standing there patiently waiting and looking slightly confused? Did you think to ask if the sandwich was hers?! From someone who worked in the restaurant industry, lack of a sense of urgency is unacceptable.
When I finally got my order all they gave me was a "sorry" and a $10.00 sandwich that resembled the size of a hockey puck. All in all I'm mad I made the drive out here and should have just stopped at the Firehouse Subs I passed on my way.
I visited for my birthday and was truly overwhelmed by the menu. Everything looked wonderful. The portions were large and the focaccia bread was amazing. As were the olives. This would be a great place to come with family, girlfriends, that special someone or solo. I look forward to visiting again if I'm in the area.
Review Source:Want a good breakfast in a great environment. Â Â Check the del Piero out. Â Â The place has been greatly improved, it is now much more open and great to see several small business banning together to really make the place a destination. Â The food is great. Â Â Â Urge you check this restaurant out. Â Â Â Well worth your time and effort.
Review Source:It has been a close to a year since I have been to The Olive Mill. Â I believe I have written a review under The Olive Mill itself, but not for this location which is the restaurant site.
They have made significant improvements and expansions since my last visit. Â The changes have opened up the floor and made it much easier to move around in the crowds. Â
The restaurant is a walk up and order type of place. Â They do offer beer, wines, champagne. Â Very nice little location for breakfast and lunches. Â They also offering pizza nights, live music in evenings. Â Nice choices of sandwiches along with some side dishes. Â I have not had a bad meal yet. Â I am disappointed that you have to go to the coffee shop to get your cup of coffee. Â (See below.)
Also offer some very good gelato. Â My favorite the Blood Orange.
There is also a coffee shop in this location. Â They offer expanded coffee drinks. Â But it is disappointing that you have to stand in this line to get your coffee that you ordered from the other line when you ordered your meal. Â They also do not have free refills?? Although a .50 charge for a refill is not bad, the fact that you do not have unlimited coffee when you go for breakfast is unfortunate. Â They give you the ability to buy fresh roasted whole bean coffee. Â But at the $12.00 per 12 oz bag, that is a little pricey for me!!
Here with family today to visit. Â We went for a late breakfast. We all had or shared a portion of the waffle. Â Very good. Â One had it with bananas, pistachio nuts and whip cream. Â Two other classic. Â The fresh maple syrup topped it off for me. Â I also had the Sicilian Breakfast Sandwich. Â It was good, but a little cold. Â Overall, this was a very nice breakfast and worth the little higher price that you might have to pay.
I am a little disappointed in The Olive Mill in general. Â They offer a very nice selection of fresh, local made olive oils. Â Different flavors along with balsamic. Their pricing seems to have increased. I really have to weigh whether the price tag on many of the "special blend" oils are worth it. Â I have always like that they offer wines from small vineyards. Â And they do have nice prices for some of the bottles. Â But I am disappointed that they do not offer the free wine tastings, as it was now $10.00 (but they did have an expanded offerings of wines to taste.)
This is worth the time and visit. Especially for someone out of town that has not been here.
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Just an update, I received feedback from The Olive Mill management. I learned that the wine tasting event that they held the weekend I visisted, which there was a charge for, was a special event. I was informed that on other regular weekends, the wine tasting is still free. Â And it is these tastings I have experienced some nice, well priced small vineyard wines.
Loved the food and I cannot believe how flavorful their olive oil is! I bought the roasted garlic one and it is amazing. We also bought the bleu cheese stuffed olives and my husband ate the whole jar in two days. My only negative and why I didn't give 5 stars is because it is kinda unorganized. We didn't know where we were supposed to go or what we were supposed to do to eat. But I will go back!
Review Source:A great place for breakfast and lunch. With a friendly staff that makes it that much more pleasurable. Favorite thing on the menu is the Kalamata but for breakfast the Croque Madame tops it! its served with fresh fruit and delicious potatoes. i eat here often, never have been disappointed.
Review Source:Went to lunch with the ladies last week for our annual birthday lunches,The atmosphere was adorable , the food was delicious, This was our first time here, We will be back for sure.. I had the kalamata Salami sandwich, it was very good. Can't speak for the other ladies on thier food, but we all decided it will be more then annual place.
Review Source:Wow!!! Is all i can say!! What a fantastic breakfast! The egg panini with sausage?? To die for! Hot and delish! I ate it for lunch and when we were there they were giving samples of their new gourmet pizzas and oh my Gosh they were amazing! We will be back on a Friday night to enjoy their Happy hour beers and pizza!
Review Source:More like 2.5 stars. Love the concept and the menu is appealing but it did not live up to my expectations. Del Piero was disappointing for me. The food was straight up COLD. Waffles, frittata, and eggs benedict as well as the potatoes that came on the side...all cold. And I should mention that this was a Thursday morning and we were the first people in the restaurant, so there is no good excuse for this. The food looked beautiful though, and the potatoes were absolutely delicious with skin on and a citrusy herb flavor. My frittata came atop their amazing focaccia bread and had very fresh tomato and perfect avocado on top. The fruit salad that accompanied our dishes was 90% honeydew. I wish honeydew could be abolished from restaurant fruit salad. Is it an expense thing I wonder? Regular cantaloupe is so much more flavorful if you are intent on serving melon.
I visited thinking this would be an actual restaurant with waiter service, but it is pretty much a Wildflower Bread clone with buzzers and self service drinks. Oh and you have to go order and pay for your coffee and tea at a separate location across the store. Annoying.
Ok friends, from a second generation Arizona native the first place of many great eateries that I have bookmarked across the Grand Canyon State for review is The Queen Creek Olive Mill. This is a favorite place to take our guests to for lunches, a couple miles from our new home in San Tan Valley. It reminds me of a California like bistro right here in the QC!!
To start with, I like the delicious Kalamata Family Recipe Sandwich: Â del Piero Kalamata Salami, genoa salami, capicola, herb roasted tomatoes, seasonal greens, provolone, and red onion with White Balsamic & Herb Crema on a grilled baguette. Â $9.99
Karolien loves the salad selection: Â Italian Chopped Salad: Â Seasonal greens, tomato, garbonzo, feta, salami, celery, kalamata olive, basil. Â Choice of del Piero Vinaigrette. $8.99
The Panini are top notch too and for gifts bottles of QC Olive Oil can't be beat. To top it off delicious homemade Gelato that our kids love! I would give this place 4 stars if the prices were lower or since you pay a lot make sure to give customers larger portions.
An added bonus are the many Olive Oil based recipes on their website:
<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fqueencreekolivemill.com%2Fdel-piero%2Frecipes%2F&s=d6c769ec0ec2f00a5dcf757ddd047b72ff1d386587989418c07b587f7d93c218" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://queencreekolivemi…</a>
As time permits more super delicious reviews will be posted so make sure to follow me here on Yelp!!!
My sandwich was tasty though didn't really excite me a whole lot. Nice that they have a few local beers on tap, Phoenix Brewing Co and Four Peaks the day I was there. If I'm in the area I'd go back but honestly not worth the drive from Scottsdale. The olives served with the sandwich were really good, only problem was I got five tiny olives, and a tsunami of potato chips. Would have preferred a third of the chips I got and 3x more olives!
You order and pay at a counter, get a buzzer, then pick up your food when the buzzer... uh... buzzes. So don't go expecting waiter service. A friend and I were there on a weekday for lunch, and the place was full of red hat ladies and ahem older persons. We felt a bit like we were dining at a retirement home, kind of an odd experience.
Not so sure about the "local" angle - is the oil actually made from olives grown on site? All the oils I saw for sale were flavored, I was hoping for a variety of un-flavored oils. Was planning on buying a bottle of a nice grassy/peppery olive oil but left without one. :( The whole experience is a bit too buzzword-heavy for my taste - local, organic. sustainable, GAHHHHH!!!!
We dined at del Piero for brunch. Â I had Belgian waffles cooked in olive oil topped off with almonds and blueberries. Â The waffle was extremely delicious and naturally tasting, so syrup was not needed. Â My friends got various other breakfast and lunch items, and they were very pleased.
The only recommendation I have is to bring a dining experience. Â I think it would have made the environment more relaxing to wait outside and enjoy the day, rather than waiting in a line inside to order food.
Went for the first time on MLK day for lunch. Â The food was very good, but it was EXTREMELY disorganized in there. Â Beware when going during Snow Bird season, as we had to fight the blue hairs to get in line. Â Most of the elderly were just kind of milling about aimlessly. Â
We went there this morning to try the breakfast. Â It opened at 9am and none of the chairs were down. Â We had to make our own table and the staff was still prepping for the day midway through our breakfast. Â The owner was hanging out at the table next to us. Â In case you had any question, he is apparently very important, as he loudly talked on his cell phone about board meetings and investments.
Looks like they've opened up the inside a little more and have added a flat screen TV. Â
The food is really yummy though, and its nice to drive about 20 min outside of Gilbert for a little feeling of being in the "country".
The advertised Food Network recommended Kalamata Sandwich was made incorrectly for all three couples that ordered it. Â It was remade with ice cold bread. Â
For an olive mill, you think they'd put more than a few olives on the plate.
We had visited a few years back and thought, since it got a recommendation from the Food Network chef, that the food would be better. Â Nope.
Overpriced for what you get, not very good, and vastly over rated. Â
Save your $.
i love the qc olive oil but after a huge build up of what fab food  del piero has  we were very disapointed with the breakfast i had the dpiero eggs benidict served on foccicia bread there was very little bit of very thinly sliced ham the eggs are served like a fratata and nothing seamed to well seasoned with roasted potatoes the wife had a sausage and egg w/assagio cheese also served on foccicia and ordered fruit side with hers which was slices of oranges. I guess the manager or owner ???decided to have a 15 min meeting with his staff right by where we were sitting and had to listenin to the inner working of business politics and scheduling not a fab experience
Review Source:Yummy food ! Â The food was a surprising delight to the Queen Creek Olive Mill. We hadn't planned on eating but everything looked and smelled so good and we had 20 minutes to kill before our tour of the olive factory.
So the hubby and I split a egg panini sandwich served on a Challah bread from Simply Bread that was simply amazing. Egg with a tapenade of Zucchini and who knows what else but it tasted really good. Â Mom had a
Banana Gelato , they must have thought  she said super size cuz it was a huge portion.  Every other  item they served  looked just as delicious .I was really tempted to get a brushetta snack as well, they serve large pieces of with their fabulous tapenades. Next time I am planning to eat there for lunch and try something new.
Del Piero uses all local ingredients. Â I had a better experience than Alex and Kelly. Â Maybe it's what I ordered. Â I got the bruschetta ($8.79). Â You get to choose 3 different toppings and you get 2 pieces of each. Â I chose:
1) Mushroom - roasted wild mushrooms topped with caramelized onions (delicious)
2) Caprese - tomato, basil and mozzarella drizzled with Tuscan Estate extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) (needed more salt and EVOO which I remedied by using the oil at the olive tasting bar)
3) Roasted peppers - roasted red bell peppers and local goat cheese (peppers were so juicy that it squirted across the table when I bit into it and the goat cheese was yummy)
All served on sliced baguette from the Willo Baking Company.
There are only a few tables inside but lots of tables outside in their beautiful olive garden.
Online menu:
<a href="/redir?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.queencreekolivemill.com%2FMenu.pdf&s=33f34268d4eb148016ed2fe4272ec929422a3c661210995b91f78e43dcd488af" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.queencreekol…</a>
This little restaurant inside the Queen Creek Olive Mill is very cute and friendly. We both had panini's which were very tasty, both came with olives that were dying to have a glass of wine with! The salads we tried, pasta and caprese both seemed like they were beaten to death. Â The pasta was so over cooked though the flavor was nice (I think the olive oil could be put on the worst food and it would taste great!) the caprese salad seemed to have just been over mixed so the tomatoes were to soft and the cheese had to much balsamic flavor. Otherwise the lemon aid was great as well as the sammies. Next time I want to try the gelato, all looked amazing!
Review Source:My recent lunch at Del Piero was pretty lackluster. The restaurant, a small eatery inside the Queen Creek Olive Mill, the Valley's first working olive farm and mill, attracted an older crowd (people in their 40s to 60s).We even saw someone wearing  a colorful muumuu,  which served as a loud reminder that we were in the Q.C. and not the O.C.
The options at del Piero are slim -- paninis, sandwiches and salads. There's no soda fountain, but the eatery serves up iced tea, lemonade and the hard-to-find Jones flavored sodas. My panini was blah and didn't wow, but I enjoyed sampling the olive bar. Be sure to try the large olives stuffed with Feta. I could have filled up on these alone! If you're up for a road trip (it took us nearly 40 minutes to get there from Tempe!), Del Piero is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays
through Sundays. It's  $5-$9 sandwiches, paninis and salads
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