I was pretty stoked about going to this place after all the raving on here about it.... and from everything I've heard from anyone around here.
I gotta be honest, it's not that great. Â The service was awesome, and the house salad makes me want to give this an extra half star! Â Seriously though, that house salad was amazing. Â Big ol' olives, and the croutons were soaked in that dressing oh-so-pleasantly. Â My girlfriend and I were fighting over them in front of her daughter to show her how to act like grown-ups at a restaurant.
The cannoli was AWESOME as well. Â I really want one right now. Â Seriously, the best one I've had around here. Â
The chicken marsala was one of the better ones I've had too... A VERY generous portion there! Â There's still half of it in my fridge from Valentine's day... maybe that's gross, considering it was a week ago.
Now, I've been around the world a few times, so maybe I am too hard to please, but the pizza here was just not THAT special. Â I would have rather had a stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut, or maybe even a deep dish from Domino's. Â If you're going to go pizza here, do yourself a favor and just get pepperoni, don't bother with all that peppers and bullsnap they put on there. Â It's way better that way.
Overall- would I go there again? Â Yeah, probably. Â I think if I would rather try something new though. Â And maybe because I went on Valentine's Day, my pizza wasn't quite uptosnuff....
Hands down.....best pizzeria I have EVER been too. Was here on business and the locals brought us here for lunch.....jaw dropped at the pizza ovens and dough making operation and happened to see the extra large pizza coming out....HOLY CRAP it's the size of a tire...no kidding. Had to try the meatballs as an appetizer..and they were amazingly good.. The pizza is unreal.....perfect crust, toppings were great, .we were drooling to come back and we did...several more times. I would drive those 5 hours again in a heartbeat for another pizza.....New York Pizza be damned this is great stuff!
Review Source:I am addicted to Red Rose's house salad! Â It is DELICIOUS, HUGE, and served family style to be shared. Â I've even gotten it to go many times and it's fine, but needs to be eaten the same day because it comes pre-dressed and turns into a soggy, limp mess if it sits for too long. Â You can EASILY feed a party of four+ on a house salad and a large pizza, with plenty of leftovers to take home. Â This is seriously the best deal going....fresh, well-prepared food at very reasonable/low prices.
My only complaint is that the dining room is cavernous and brightly lit, and can feel a bit cafeteria-ish. Â I wish they would dim the lighting and help it feel more intimate, but it is what it is...a place where families and friends can gather and share a meal, pass babies around the table, laugh, reminisce, and call for another pitcher of sangria.
Let's be honest here - no one wants to go to Springfield, but if you have to go, Red Rose is your diamond in the rough. Â I would put Red Rose's pizza up against New York pizzerias any day. Â It's a big restaurant and you feel a bit like you're walking into a scene out of the Soprano's when you walk in, but the pizza is amazing. Â Seriously. Â That pizza is a reason to drive to Springfield. Â Get the house salad, get a pizza, a couple of beers and relax. Â I haven't tried anything else on the menu. Â I can't not get the pizza. Â It's impossible. Â I'm hooked.
Review Source:Decent pizzeria/Italian restaurant. Nothing remarkable about the food, but at the same time, nothing to complain about. One perk is the pizza and salad size: in our party of 4, we had a large pizza and house salad, neither of which we could finish. Make sure to call ahead on weekends, we had nearly an hour wait despite the restaurant being massive. At least they had a full bar with reasonable prices...
Review Source:Stumbled upon Red Rose on our first time in Springfield and had a lovely dinner with portions too big to finish. The excellent Red Rose salad for 2 would feed two *couples* or more! Order its as a side salad, if you can....but order it for sure! The tortellini soup's broth was freshly made, good as a Jewish mother's chicken soup....with very good noodles. The margherita pizza was excellent. A grinder sandwich disappointed, as the chicken breast was fried, which surprised me. But, as with everything else we ate: the ingredients were fresh, largely (if not entirely) homemade, served with skill by very pleasant wait staff. I will order a little differently- certainly want to try one of their great-sounding and smelling entrees (and generous) when I go back....and I will go back! Edda Caputo and her children have a gem of a restaurant that is great for couples, families, groups, everyone: don't miss it.
Review Source:Just went here the other day with the family, Â it was very good and I'm just mad I put off going there for so long. Â The pizza is amazing. Â It's a nice upbeat place with a homey feel. Â Very nice and polite staff. Â Great service. Prices are great. Â Definitely will be going more often!
Review Source:Best Pizza in Springfield, IMO. Great dough, tasty topings, and a pretty sizable menu. Only issue at RR is I'm not a huge fan of the big dining room. Not anything wrong with it - just not my cup of tea. Service has always been sensational there and it's not uncommon to see the same waitresses working there over an extended period of time. It's a super-well run restaurant. Private bar/room off to the side is really underrated. Nice, spacious little bar area back there with a solid selection of beers. There are 3-4 restaurants in Springfield that if you're in the city, you have to go to. This is one of them.
Review Source:I love the Red Rose and I've never left there hungry or disappointed. The pizza is legendary, but I wanted to yelp about my favorite thing on the menu, the chicken marsala which comes loaded with delicious mushrooms and diced prosciutto ham which not only makes it unique on the plate, but amazing in your mouth! If you'd like a sweet and salty pasta dish this one will make you smile.
I can't give a five star rating to a pizzeria with a family style menu, that rating is reserved for the places that make gourmet food that costs too much. The Red Rose makes honestly good food for a perfectly reasonable price. The service is always good and to those who say otherwise, I think that if you have a good attitude, you'll always get a good attitude in return.
This place get 3 stars grading on a curve. Caveat: The pizza in Western Mass is awful. This is one of the best of a poor bunch. That said there are lots of other options. It's old school Italian American dining. The eating space is noisy and big. The service is so-so. But you are going with tradition here. You and your family have been going to this place for years.
Good, not great eats.
Great service and really delicious food!
We went there for a school recognition ceremony and they served salad and pizza. Great house salad! A little heavy on the dressing but the addition of olives, red onions, cucumbers, parmesan cheese and croutons were a yummy treat. The pizza was crispy on the bottom and cooked perfectly. Â I had a piece of cheese, pepperoni and veggie. Â The vegetable pizza had the usual veggies: broccoli, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes but it also had chunks of ricotta. SO creamy and a nice textural contrast. Â
I would definitely go back!
Opened in 1963, three years before I was born. Â Quite an accomplishment! Â Hard to do for any business, much less a restaurant. Â It's not hard to see why they have not only survived, but also flourished. Â Incredible attention to detail, accommodating to customers, great balance between growth, willingness to change, and tradition.
In my opinion, the best pizza in all of Western MA. Â Amazing dough, perfect sauce, just enough toppings. Â What else could you ask for? Â Well, how about a completely addicting dressed salad? Â Antipasto that could feed a small country? Â Baked dishes, just like Mama used to make. I could go on. Â Nothing fancy, just great food.
From dinners for 2, to complete banquets, somehow these guys make it all work, no matter how busy and chaotic. Â My only caution to you, especially if you are from out of town, would be to pre-plan a return visit, or at least make sure you have connections. Â Their pizza is addicting. Â I live in Western MA. Â I am not allowed to cross any of the bridges onto the Cape, without a trunk full of pies for my cousins. Â It's not always fun knowing that your visit is second in anticipation, but I can understand.
I love this place. I've been stopping in for takeout orders with the occasional sit down dinner probably since I was about 12 or 13. Their pizza is that wonderful combination of soft doughy balanced with a crispy thick crust. I love the peppers they use. I love their bubbly teenage girl waitresses who are allowed to show cleavage and sass almost as much as I love the waitresses who act like my mom and call me Sweetie. It's my kinda place.
Try the wings.
Nice italian resturant close to downtown. A definate stop for great pizza after hitting six flags in agawam. The resturant itself is huge and the menu and food coming out to tables looked very good. I myself love the pizza. The pizza is made in its own pizza kitchen. About 6 or so cooks flipping fresh dough and making awesome pie's. The pizza kitchen is open viewed so you can watch them make it. Along with the huge dining room is also a large lounge as you walk in. already cant wait to hit bazzaro and the red rose again!!
Review Source:The East Coast gets a bad wrap for people being rude... This place is the perfect example of why!!
The food is ok. Â I can't say there is anything that has been terrible when we've been here, but there also hasn't been anything that was just absolutely amazing either.
The service... Each time we've been there we've been seated immediately. Â That's great considering they've been quite busy. Â The problem is it takes a while for someone to come by to take our drink order. Â Then 20 min later when they come back with our drinks we're ready to order, but they tell us, "Just a moment," and leave again for 20 more min. Â After we order we don't see our server again until the food comes. Â Drink refills? Â Forget it! Â I've never gotten them here!
Needless to say we stopped eating here and we I stopped sending people here that were coming in for my coming in for my work. Â They all complained to me for sending them here!
We wanted pizza and heard good things about Red Rose on Yelp, so we ordered a medium pepperoni and mushrooms ($16.05 total) and it took 25 minutes to make.
After picking the pizza up, we went back home to Holyoke, MA, went to the apartment and got out the pizza. Â It was a medium thin crust and thin in the middle. Â By the time we started eating, it had cooled down a lot, so I think the pizza might be better eaten inside the restaurant. Â (The restaurant is large and has excellent, friendly service).
I did like the pizza. Â It has generous toppings and cheese. Â The medium looks pretty big, but since the crust is thinner than I normally eat, the medium goes pretty quick. Â I would like to try the pizza again, but next time we'll dine in instead of taking out and driving 10 minutes home.
Xie Xie!
Delicious pizza! They make it in front of you but fair warning: canned mushrooms and peppers. Their bread is amazing but the last two times I wasn't offered any which was very disappointing. As for the house salad, the dressing is home made and amazing! The mozzarella sticks are nice and thick and crispy but the marinara needs more salt, which is also made on premise.
They got rid of the booths after the tornado and looks much better, not as stuffy. But it's weird that there is one entrance door for bathrooms and then two more doors for specific genders which leads to confusion to new comers because it seems like there is just one unisex handicapped bathroom. Also, there is an issue with going to the bathroom because there are chairs on either side of the main entrance where the waitresses sit. It's really awkward especially when you hear your waitress on the phone in the next stall.
Really good pizza. Â I had the buffalo chicken pizza which was spicy with a thin crunchy crust. Â Most of the other pizzas seemed to have a thicker crust, which is the kind I normally prefer but I found the thin crust here to be well above average.
The waitress was great, really attentive, not slow at all. Â The restaurant was quite crowded but we were seated right away.
The atmosphere is much nicer than most of the pizza parlors in the area with ample parking across the street and some even in the street right in front of the restaurant. Â Overall a solid choice for pizza or Italian food in Springfield.
My experience at Red Rose may not be representative of the norm, because I was there for a Saturday afternoon birthday party. They get high marks for the private room to the left of the main entrance, which is a nice space. Service was attentive and friendly as well. The food-- we ordered salad and a half dozen different pizzas-- was just alright, however. The salad was somewhat heavily dressed, and the pizza was average. (I didn't think it had enough sauce, but that's a personal preference.) The soda was a little flat.
Overall, Red Rose wasn't outstanding, but it wasn't terrible.
Two days before I'm writing this review, Red Rose Pizzeria was destroyed by Massachusetts' strongest tornado in over 55 years -- its second strongest ever - an F4 that leveled much of the historic South End, the Ridgewood Historic District, and the Old Hill area by Springfield College.
Red Rose, hopefully, will re-open better than ever. It featured the best pizza and also the best meatballs (aside from my Mom's) that I've ever had.
Madeline Albright, the former Secretary of State under President Clinton - a well-traveled lady by any measure - declared Red Rose's meatballs to be "the best in the world."
High praise, indeed.
Well, if you have nothing else to compare this place to. I would have to say this is the best pizza in Springfield. Homer Simpson would be proud, and probably very drunk to say that! I had the tortellini alfredo. They were dry, Â and I had to use my fork to cover them in the flavorless cream sauce. I did try a couple of pieces of pie. One with just cheese and the other with pepperoni, sausage and green pepper. It was acceptable as the dough was made fresh. But I like to taste of all the ingredience. This pie could be served at a retirement village and not upset the skeletor's living there. Done!
Review Source:I stopped here with my son after Yelping for a nearby place. I filtered my results according to ranking and this was the highest rated and closest place. The store was packed at 12:00, which was pretty surprising considering how large it was. We were seated within 5 minutes and ordered the Medium sized house pizza. The pizza was pepperoni and pepper. I would say that the pizza was average, nothing to write about (even though that's what i'm doing), but the atmosphere was well above average. I think that most patrons were regulars and visited at least once a week. I'd like to come back and try one of the many pasta dishes they have. The pizza was very large at 15.00 and we took most of it home to eat tomorrow. This was a solid three stars, mostly for the atmosphere and the attentive waitstaff. I may update/upgrade the ranking if the pasta yields a different result with the palate.
Glenn.
I have some fond memories of going here after basketball games when I was a kid and it being a big deal. Now that I'm grown I wonder if this is the same pizza I had back in the day. By far the greasiest pizza in Western Massachusetts. Folks talking about this being "the best pizza" are insane. INSANE I SAY!
Review Source:I have eaten a lot of pizza, mainly all over Massachusetts, in NYC, and out here in California.
This place is one of my top 3 pizza places in the US!
It's just perfect 'squares' western mass style pizza. Â Everything works together so well, between the chewy but crunchy cornmeal crust and delicious cheese. Â Just seriously phenominal pizza, period. Â Go!
One of the best and most consistent pizzas in Western Massachusetts. Â Great staff, best ingredients, freshest sauce and very family friendly. Â This was a regular restaurant when I lived in the area and is a must visit whenever I travel in the area. Â You will never go wrong with a Red Rose pizza.
Review Source:I just finished my eggplant parm- and it was delish! Got take out- more than enough for 2 people... and I'm no bird-like eater (actually, birds eat a lot, so maybe I am a bird-like eater.) Anyhow, the marinera sauce was great- tart and flavorful, and the eggplant was light, fluffy and had just enough cheese. My dining companions had pizza and spaghetti with meatballs, and they said everything was great. Wish I could have eaten more.
Would have given 5 stars, but we got take out and I only tried the eggplant parm, so I cant comment on the service, or other dishes
It's unnecessary to go into detail about this place. There are only a couple things you need to know...
Dynamite pizza. There's no doubt that it's the best in the western MA area. Also, I have never had pizza outside of New York City that I've found to be exceptional. However, this pizza is better than even a lot of the pizza in NYC. Â
The best eggplant of my life. I am an eggplant fanatic, and I am proud to say that this place has the best eggplant that I have tasted. I've had eggplant parm in restaurants in Rome (Italy), Little Italy in NYC, the North End in Boston, and countless others, and this eggplant takes the plate. It's tender, sweet and perfectly breaded, then it's complimented with an ideal red sauce.
The Red Rose is often crowded, and it can take up to an hour before you're seated. Â The service is stereotypical Italian, they are both entertaining and efficient. Before you are seated, enjoy the bar area by having a wine from their extensive selection or a beer from the tap. The food is undoubtedly worth the wait.
They're on my blacklist.
I heard nothing but raves about this place for DECADES until one day I was finally talked into going by two friends.
It might sound like a joke, but the three of us...a Black man, a Puerto Rican, and a Jew...met up outside the restaurant.
When we entered the restaurant we got a weird look from the hostess who immediately brought us to a table...a SINGLE table...segregated from the rest of the restaurant by a half-wall.
We sat at the table for a few minutes looking at each other. Â Finally we all asked "is this REALLY happening?" Â We began to discuss why we'd been sat where we were sat and quickly became upset and dissatisfied with the treatment we'd received.
We got up and made our way towards the door, passing the hostess who asked us why we were leaving...so we told her we didn't appreciate being quite literally segregated away from the rest of the restaurant. Â Her reply was "oh, you guys look like the types who would want to sit in the smoking section."
We kept our cool and walked out, never to return.
To this day I have still never tasted their pizza and I don't think I ever will.
wow, wish they had pizza like this in virginia. Â
that's right i flew all the way to western massachusetts to try their pizza!
okay, maybe that's exaggerating a bit but since i was in the area and had heard how good this pizza was i HAD to try it. Â it definitely lived up to my expectations. Â we ordered a party size pizza with the intention of taking a lot of it home and munching on pizza leftovers all weekend. Â the pies are HUGE and they do not skimp on the toppings. Â i would not classify their service as "slow" since they are making good quality pies from scratch - you can even look through a window into the kitchen and watch them in action.
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