stopped for dinner and a couple beers while traveling solo for business.
each of the beers on the sampler flight was good, but none of them really blew me away. still, there was a good variety (pale, lager, red, stout, scottish, etc.).
ordered the large Veggie Dream, and it was pretty good. thin, crispy crust, i maybe would've liked a bit more sauce, but that also might have made the crust a little soggy. good cheese and toppings (roasted garlic, olives, peppers, tomato, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.).
definitely a good place for casual dinner and a couple drinks. it was fine alone, and i can imagine this being a good place for groups or families. (there's a bar side and an under-21 side.)
i would consider coming back if i were in Evansville again, but i would also look around to consider another local establishment.
Pizza is always top notch. I'm not a fan of thin crust but the way it's made here works well. If you have special diet needs (such as I did at my last visit) they were more than willing to accommodate my "hamburger with nothing but pickles and the pizza topping zucchini sauteed." I would have rather had pizza but the other items are great as well!
Review Source:Being a Buffalonian we have high expectation when it comes to pizza & wings. And we should because Buffalo has the best pizza and wings ever!
That being said I really wasn't to geeked about trying this place at all after we yelped it. Especially after getting there and finding out it was thin crust pizza. I mean, who likes pizza with thin crust?
Boy was I wrong. This pizza was amazing. The topping selection was enormous and I actually really enjoyed the thin crust as well. The only thing that I hated about this place was the smoking. I cannot believe they allow people to smoke inside a restaurant. But still, I will definitely visit this place the next time I return. But the smoking keeps them from getting 4 stars.
Pretty decent! Â I really liked the Thunderbolt beer, very strong. Â And I liked the pizza, not anywhere near my favorite but really good. Â I ordered the cheesebread because it was recommended, I was disappointed with it. Â While the bread was fresh, it was nothing more than a sliced baguette with a little butter and cheese.
Seat yourself, bar seating available too.
Looking for a good place to eat and have a beer, I stopped in Turoni's with a coworker. Though pretty dimly lit, there is a fireplace and a few TVs in the bar area which also has tables.
The beer specials are great and the number of home brews is plentiful. We got a stout (which was the Wednesday night special) and I was in heaven.
The pizza is tough for me to judge. The toppings and the variety of specialty pizzas are fantastic. We shared a Hawaiian pizza and a Mexican pizza and the toppings and overall presentation of each were great. The crust, however, is really awful. It's thin (which I usually love) but very hard and flavorless. It's honestly a bit like cardboard.
Overall, I'd come back because the ambiance, service, price, and menu options are all great. It's not the worst pizza I've ever had in my life, but it's not the best either.
I accidentally walked into the bar and forgot that most states still allow smoking in the bars. The other side is the family seating. I don't think we are allowed into the brewery but you can see it from the outside!
The place is dimly lit with older benches and tables and decors. Service is good and so are the prices. I ordered Vinny's Lager which is basically a Pilsner. The Iron Man was great. Pizza sauce with garlic, spinach, mozzarella cheese, artichoke hearts & mushrooms. mmmm mm. They have small, medium, and large sizes. There are also sandwiches and salads. A kiddy menu is also available.
Evansville's only microbrewery! Â (Gerst isn't made in town, it's brought in from Nashville I believe.)
I love the Stromboli. Â I love the amazingly low prices on craft beers ($3.30 for a flight of 5 or 6 samples of beer? Â SOLD! Â Also same price for one pint of the good stuff.)
I prefer the Main Street location as opposed to the Weinbach location. Â
Service sometimes leaves something to be desired, but really, most places in Evansville are like that. Â
The pizzas are also good if you enjoy thin crust.
one of my favorite pizza places of all time. Â i visit evansville once a year, for about a week, and probably eat here atleast 3 times during that week. Â this location is the original one, and it's awesome inside. Â lots of character. Â i'm originally from this neighborhood, and this place hasn't changed a bit. MMMMmmmmm.......
Review Source:we went to turoni's 3 times when we visited indiana. i love it. the pizza is yummy. the poppers are great. the beer is good (though i wish it were more bubbly).
sadly we only went to the one on main st once. i love it that it looks the same as when i first went there over 20 years ago.
we visited the newburgh establishment twice...it lacks the patina of age and awesomeness that the main street location oozes.
Ho-kay, wait!
I accidently reviewed the other Turoni's before I remembered that there's two locations, haha. Either way, they're both great. This one, however, is the one we went to the most growing up in Evansville. We'd get hot dogs and chili in little cups or pizza or the fugdge brownies. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.
This place was part of my childhood and I wish I could find something equally as good out here in Arizona.
Ok, this may be the best pizza in Evansville, I'm not sure. But if it is, that just means E-ville's not a pizza town. Visited Evansville as a halfway meeting point with family. None of us know the town, so we were in Yelp's hands. Great reviews for Turoni's on the iPhone, so we went for Saturday lunch. Meh, it was ok. I'd like to give it 2.5 stars, but 2 seems mean, so I'll round up to 3.
The place itself is pretty cool---very casual, laid-back pizza joint. The service was good. Nice waiter, made some suggestions for us and knew his beers. Lisa had the beer sampler and seemed to like a couple of them pretty well. Mandy was liking the pumpkin ale. Â My favorite thing was the little garlic cheese breads we had as an appetizer, though they were served with marinara AND that weirdo liquid cheese you get on stadium nachos. What up with that?
I wasn't crazy about that marinara, but it was passable. Same with the pizza---St Louis is home for me, and we're ALL about the so-thin-it's-a-cracker pizza. We add this weird-ass provel cheese, and I never thought much about it, but apparently it does wonders for that crust. (Like, I'd NEVER put provel on a regular-crust pizza, but will never again have a thin-crust without it.) Mandy had the steak sandwich, which was just ok. It wasn't bad, but it was enhanced by an obscene amount of mayo, which tells you something. And, her fries tasted like funnel cake.
So, nice people, but just-ok food to my taste. If I'm in Evansville again, I'd go there if you were paying, but otherwise I won't be in a rush to go again soon.
Terrific pizza, terrific service, terrific beer, terrific ambiance. After visiting Eville countless times, I was left with the impression that all that existed were chain restaurants (hugely popular in the area), or country clubs. Boy, was I wrong.
At a chef friend's suggestion, I visited Turoni's after spending time at the local Humane Society. Turoni's was a godsend after dining too often at the chains. The service was incredibly polite, the beer was excellent, and the pizza - vegetarian - was super-fresh and delicious. I can't wait to go back!
P.S. - the ambiance can't be beat. Nice and cozy, with a great touch of history. Even the menus are unique and worth going for!
I'd give this place 4+stars if I was waaay into pizza. Don't hate - not all of you are waaay into sushi right? But I do partake often enough because the BF can eat pizza on a daily basis. So where did they take me when we went to his hometown? Yes, ding ding ding, you won a prize! If I was going to consume a piece of pie, I'd go for the works... load 'em up boys! But the BF doesn't eat meat *sigh*. The veggie pie was quite good actually. Nice thin crust, sauce had good flavor... and um... the veggies were plentiful!? *lol* Love the hometown family feel of the place. Even tasted a variety of their hops, but I'm more of a gin martini gal! Sorry to disappoint beer & pie peeps!!
Review Source:Stopped in during a wonderful Evansville visit with Andy P. on our road trip from Dallas to Connecticut.
Definitely a great place to go, and if, like me you grew up in Suburbia, USA, here, you will feel home here. Â And, the menus are really cool.
I'm rating the pizza a notch below Andy did because I've spent a total of about 15 minutes outside the Northeast, Â which means I have really high pizza standards. Â But, they try, they really do. Â I'm not a huge beer fan but they brew there own so I got one, and it was OK.
So, cool place, decent pizza, go and feel at home.
Ambiance: 25/25 stars
Food: 15/25 stars
Service: 20/25 stars
Bathroom: 18/25 stars
Probability of going back: 10% (I don't live in Evansville)
An oasis of awesomeness in a deserted downtown Evansville!
Having lived in the Pizza Capital of the World, New Haven, CT, I'm a bit spoiled when it comes to amazing pizza. So I can't really give the pizza 5-stars. It just doesn't really take it to that 'next' level. That being said, this place was pretty awesome.
First of all, it's both old and a brew-pub, which are two things I've never seen go together before. I don't know if it's always been a brew-pub or the brew pub was just recently added, anyway, I don't drink beer, so I didn't have any, but Randy S. said his beer was good, and it did smell good. The ambiance was awesome. It's really an American pizza place. The kind where little league teams go for pizza dinners (as was made obvious by the trophy room) and families go for a treat. I really love that vibe and this place really had it. The decor is dark and somewhat dated, but that's what gives it character. I was very impressed.
So what of the food?
Well we started with a salad. It's just the typical mixed salad that has the dressing in a little plastic cup on the side. Whatever, not good, fair... but that's not the point.
Then the pizza came. First of all, when you live in New Haven for 4 years, you just learn to do without the small things, like complicated orders, so every time I order something like "a medium 'everything' pizza with meat on only half, and no green peppers on the meat half" I always expect it to come out with meat on 3/5 of the pizza and red peppers all over it and a surly waiter being like, 'what, you want it like it is, or you don't?'. Not so at Turoni's. Our order came out perfectly and was really tasty.
The crust is mega-thin. It's really basically a cracker, but in a good way. The toppings are that sort of comfort food level toppings with very good sausage. Randy S. got veggies and I don't think a pizza joint in Evansville should really have to do veggie pizza well, but I think he thought it was 3-star. My end was 4-star.
It wasn't absolutely amazing, but if I lived in Evansville, I would go all the time. It was really yummy.
This is the exact kind of place you want to hit on a road trip: local, has character and is good. When we got in there I said to Randy S., "I feel like I am on top of the world."
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