Villa Nova West

This was my first time eating at Villa Nova.   My wife and I ordered a large pizza and two side salads on a fairly quiet Wednesday evening with no others in the dining room and about 6-8 people sitting around the bar.

SERVICE:  Our waitress was very nice, pleasant and attentive.  She gets four stars!

ATMOSPHERE:  Very low-key, somewhat dark, neighborhood sports bar feel.  Would be a good place for after a softball game or maybe to meet up with friends after work.

SALAD:   The salads had very fresh ingredients, but the italian dressing was bitter and not very flavorful. With a different dressing, it could have been just fine.

PIZZA:  We ordered a large, half pepperoni and sausage, and half onion and mushroom pizza for about $13.  What can I say... it was not very good at all.  The sauce was almost completely flavorless.  Tasted like they just opened a can of tomato puree and dumped it on the pizza without any additional seasonings.  It needed garlic, onion, salt... something - just some form of life!  Ditto for the crust. Tasted exactly like a saltine cracker without any salt - just a slight flour flavor with no additional taste at all.  The pepperoni was adequate, but the sausage was also decidedly bland and under-seasoned.  Lastly, the mushrooms were from a can, so were a bit rubbery and unnatural tasting as you would expect.  Overall, we agreed that we have both had worse pizza before (though we couldn't remember when), but usually when pizza is this poor, it is because it has either been burned, undercooked, or the victim of some other mistake.  In this case, the pizza was just so bland as to be almost flavorless, and therefore definitely in the bottom 5% of all pizzas I've had in the last 20 years.  It will fill you up, and you won't be disgusted by it, but it is also just completely uninspiring and flavorless.  I honestly enjoy Domino's pizza much more.

I'm sure I'll go back to try Villa Nova's burgers or other bar food at some point down the road, and their beer selection looks decent.    If the management comes on line and says they have a new sauce and crust recipe, I'd also give it another try, but as of now, it is definitely at the bottom of my list for pizza in Lancaster, PA.

Suprising drafts on tap. They do the classic pub food w nice twists here n there. I enjoy the service, food, and atmoshere. Its average but: its nice to have consistancy in life.by OÍ

A good place to watch football, many screens (kinda randomly placed in spots) all the games are on. Great wings and I've never had a bad sandwich or sub while there.  Kinda partial to the calzones (A GOOD VALUE @ $8, can feed two people with one).  Cosmetically not much of a building to look at from the outside, but a great place to casually watch football and eat some wings.

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