I've been here a couple of times before ordering delivery from them today (2/27/13). It was better those other times.
Today wasn't awful, but it was disappointing. I ordered the meatball panini and mozzarella sticks. The sticks were fine, if unremarkable; their marinara is decent, so that helps.
The meatballs and marinara in the panini were good, but a panini needs to be pressed and toasty. The bread on this sandwich was pale and white. The insides were warm, but it seemed more like that was because of the meatballs and sauce melting the cheese than it actually being pressed -- or even toasted. Sticking filling between two flat, thin pieces of bread doesn't make it a panini, guys. You should know better.
Last time I had it, their thin crust pizza was decent. So it's not all bad.
I was a big fan of the original Serino's in Addision, but this new location is just blocks away from my office. Â The Italian Sub is very good. Â This most recent trip my wife and I stopped in for a burger. Â In all candor, it was pretty awful. Â Zero flavor to the meat and both of our burgers were cooked a few steps beyond well done. Â The fries were OK, nothing special, but not bad. Â The Cheese Sticks were frozen and average. Â The place is very dark here at lunchtime. Â I can't decide if this place is trying to be a classic pizzeria or a sports bar. Â Service was excellent and staff is friendly. Â I'll stick to the sandwiches next time and avoid the burgers.
Another downside is that you cannot sit a large group together as the place is just a few rows of hard wooden booths.
Serino's is a family oriented restaurant with some great ideas and a bit of room for improvement. Â Our friends tried Serino's a few months ago and have been trying to get us to meet them here since their first visit. I met up with them this past Monday.
So a few important things to note. Monday if you dine in...it's half price pizza night. I don't think carryout allows for the discount. Also, nightly (I think) from 3-6pm is appetizer happy hour. Half price on all apps except wings. Woo hoo! Â Also, it may remind you a bit of the old Barnaby's in Schaumburg, but the big plus here is that they have free refills on pop.
My husband was stuck at work, so I had to order enough food for me, him and our 15 y.o. son. I ordered the beer nuggets, mozzarella sticks and an 18 inch pizza with half bacon and half sausage (well done). All half price! Â Our friends ordered the mozzarella sticks and a 14 inch pizza with half green olive and half sausage. Another note...half ingredients are charged at the full price. I believe the charge was $1.75 per ingredient, so it wasn't bad anyhow.
The previous reviewers are spot on! Â The food takes quite a while to get from the kitchen to you. Your order is assigned a number and when it's ready, your number is hollered. You walk up to the counter and take your food back to your table. Â
So, their app was ready first. They were done eating and my app was ready. The mozzarella sticks are frozen, fried sticks. This would be suggestion number one. Make a fresh stick. Charge an extra dollar or so and make it memorable. I'm tired of eating meh/unmemorable food. So then bring on the beer nuggets! Â These are the number one reason that I will go back. They were not overcooked and they were very flavorful. Most places dry them out so badly that you're choking on them, but Serino's does these just right. While I was eating my app, their pizza was ready. But it was wrong. They put the green olive and sausage all on one side and left the other side plain cheese. It was right on the receipt, but wrong on the pizza. They are not ones to complain so they ate it anyhow. My pizza was ready and since it was bigger and well done, I knew it would take longer, so that was okay. Ready for it?
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They put entire strips of bacon across the pizza!!! Â This is the first time that I have ever seen that done and I have ordered a lot of bacon pizzas. That was fantastic! Â Now, I wish the bacon would have been a step up on the quality chain, but it was okay. I didn't try the sausage side of the pizza. The edge is beautiful and it was cooked perfectly, but the bottom crust was soggy and floppy. I think there was too much sauce on the pizza. And I didn't love the sauce. Again, it was fine, but nothing special. I wanted to love their half price pizza, but other than the nice bacon presentation and pizza edge, I wasn't really impressed.
Getting carryout containers was a cinch. The gentleman behind the counter gave me everything that I needed to wrap up all the leftovers. The restaurant seemed clean and the staff was sweet. Apparently, they have some regulars who my friends recognized from previous visits. So maybe I ordered some of the wrong things. I would like to try a sandwich or a panini next time. But seriously, I could go for a basket of beer nuggets right now. I wonder what time they're open until...
I need to go back here.... Â Soon...... Â I checked it out on a Groupon and ordered one of their specialty pizzas. Â The crust was fantastic, the tomato sauce was just right, and I was really starting to think this was the end of Pizza Quest! Â But, alas, the novelty of having hot giardinera and Italian beef instead of my tried and true sausage and green pepper top my pie, didn't let me compare the way I would have liked to. Â One thing I did notice though wqs that the customer behind me ordered a small cheese pizza -- on a Friday night, with plenty of frozen pizzas to cook at home available and many pizza joints in the area, she took the trouble to walk into Serino's and order the simplest item of all, a SMALL CHEESE PIZZA. Â I'm thinking it must have been worth the effort and I'm dying to find out.
Review Source:Ehh. Serino's Pizzeria & Pub is relatively unimpressive. It's decent "Italian" bar food as I like to call it. The menu offers up a variety of sandwiches, pizza, salads, burgers, fried appetizers, and about two pasta dishes.
The bf and I were running some errands and couldn't agree on a place to eat. Since neither of us had been to Serino's, we figured we would give it a shot. He was craving pizza, and I was craving anything that would satiate my hunger pains. Obviously he went with the pizza. It was okay. It's greasy if you like that kind of thing. Since I don't ((like that kind of thing)), I opted to go for the Caprese sandwich which consisted of grilled eggplant, fresh mozzarella and tomato. The sandwich was good...but fairly unoriginal.
What I found the most perplexing was the lengthy wait to get a small pizza and a sandwich...especially when we were one of four tables in the restaurant. And for some odd reason when ordering a drink, you need to pick it up at the bar on the other side of the restaurant. Odd. Service otherwise was friendly.
Does Serino's work in a pinch when you're starving and want some food fast?? Yes. It does. Would I drive out of my way to get a pizza or sammie from Serino's? No. I would not.
I was one of the first regulars at Serino's before I moved away. I stopped by Sunday since I was in town. They have made a lot of changes to the menu. They didn't have my favorite Meatball Panini on the menu. But the young man behind the counter knew how to make it and it was delicious as usual. Now that's what I call customer service!
My only gripe is that you have to get your soda at the little bar in the back instead of a free standing soda machine. I'm not sure if they have refills anymore. This place has the look and feel of a Barnaby's with the tables and the bar set-up.
We have been there twice and each time have had good food and good service. Â Most of us don't want to get burned by bad food or bad service and this place delivers good food and good service. Â For a night out with my wife and family, or for a night out with one of my kids' ball teams, we know we're going to get god food and good service. Â It's clean too. Â Try the pizza.
Review Source:Delicious food with a little bit of something for everybody. Unlike other pizzerias, these guys use fresh ingredients and spices with a "home cooked" feel to their food. They serve beer and wine along with large screen tvs for sports which is a plus. It's also large enough for groups or families so it can be used for parties. You can tell the owner takes great pride in maintaining an inviting feel to the restaurant along with it's food. Thumbs up!
Review Source:Not the best. Not the worst.
Everything else is great, except for their pizzas. I ordered a large pepperoni and sausage pizza 2 days ago. It was horrible! The crust was soggy and thin and there was hardly any meat on there. It was so thin and poorly made that I had to use a fork to pick it up and eat it. For 10 bucks, I paid for something that had less meat than a sandwich I could have brought elsewhere for half that price.
Don't go here if you want pizza. I don't know the quality of their other menu items, but I bet it's going to be the same as the pizzas: horrible, cheap and poorly prepared.
I have tried numerous things at serinos since they changed their menu. The wings, pizzas and meatball sandwich are great, but the fish tacos are fantastic!
They have great lunch specials, but lunch can be crowded if you are in a hurry.
I highly recommend if you are looking for something casual. They also expanded the arcade games, which my kids love!
They've changed more than a few things since the last time I was here. For one thing, the place doesn't look like a dungeon anymore (thank you, full-height windows and southern exposures... and the strategies of dealing with them). For another, they changed their name and expanded their menu.
Which is how I ended up ordering their special cheeseburger. I don't remember the exact name, but it came back as just a burger with cheddar, lettuce, mayo, ketchup, grilled onions and raw red onions. I didn't specify how I wanted it cooked, and I didn't tell the cashier either, so mine ended up well done. That may have contributed to me thinking the sandwich was merely OK.
The fries that came with it were nothing to write home about... neither crunchy nor flavorful, sorta tasting like they were under a heat lamp. Too bad.
I think I would stick with the sandwich side of the menu for the time being, although I remember they had decent pizza (though not the best in Roselle, from what I can remember).
Their hot steak sandwich is so good I had to go back in less than a week for another one.
The chicken tenders appetizer was really good too, loved the bbq sauce that came with it  - not too sweet, not too hot.
The Italian sub is also good. Â I wish they were the "type" to serve french fries with the skins on, but oh well. Â They're crinkle cut fries and for that they are done well.
I'm only commenting on the things I've had there, not to say anything else isn't good.
Don't forget to grab a free basket of peanuts while you are there.
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