Despite a slight decline during our last visit (compared to the first time) we decided to give Enzo's another chance. This visit was about the same. The food here is delicious. That's not the trouble. They have an excellent seafood salad (one of the best around), delicious white clam sauce, and pretty much everything else we ordered was good. Everyone liked their food. The thing that's off here is the service. We arrived and stood at the hostess table...for a while. Servers saw us and went about their business. After about 5 minutes, someone finally sat us. I didn't know if it was a hostess or one of the servers. We had a reservation, but am not sure if was even needed on this Sunday night. Food comes out a bit slow, but not that bad. They even have a warning on the menu that everything is prepared fresh and may take time. And, the food didn't disappoint. I really just think this place needs a maitre'd, or host of some sort and they also always seem a bit short staffed. Servers scramble. Our first visit was still the best, but I would still return if in the area. The food is good, it's BYOB and no credit card fee. read more

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Called day beofre Good Friday to place our order, knowing is a very busy day. Agreed upon pick up time as they do not deliver. Foccaccia bread was always the best. Never had the pizza but ordered several. At agreed upon pickup, order not prepared. Foccaccia bread had uncooked sauce and no seasoning. Had a houseful of people. Couldnt do anythinga out it. The pizza also Extremely salty. Very surprised. But wont be back. read more

The serve my favorite Pizza focaccia. Which is a fresh tomato based pizza with garlic, olive oil, no cheese etc. I was very happy they offered this and the staff was kind to me and my wife. read more

Embarrassingly we've driven past countless times and never popped in. We had a get together and someone brought a focaccia with fresh mozzarella from Enzo's. It was delish. My wife and I decided to go grab another one of these a few weeks later. We called for takeout. Kid who answered the phone had no personality bordering on rude. The food was ready when he said and we also ordered cold antipasto salad. Everything was really good and enjoyable. I'm a little concerned about the numerous 1 star comments on this place. With minimal investigation you can tell they're not all real. Yelp used to filter these things out previously read more

the food was just ok, the server should learn not to reach over customers when serving. not worth the price tag, no need to go back...next! read more

Went for Dinner and had the hot antipasto it was excellent the eggplant , clams and shrimp were so delicious and having the pillow dinner rolls with olive oil dip was top notch . I ordered the Veal parm and was hoping it was better than what I've had around town and without a doubt it was the best I've had in years . My wife had a shrimp and scallops marinara which was also delicious. The pasta was fresh and the sauce was delicious. My service was excellent . I couldn't ask for anything better. The dinner room is really clean and the tables set with linens very clean and it had a nice ambience. read more

It breaks my heart to say this, but what once was my favorite Italian restaurant down the shore, has gone downhill. The owner and his daughter are lovely as are the wait staff, however, the food has gotten worse and worse. It started in early summer and we came back multiple times and it has not gotten better. Overcooked food, marinara sauce that has little flavor, some entrees are ok, others not good. I hope they reinstate their quality controls in the kitchen that once were. read more

Server was mediocre. Food quality was extremely disappointing!! We were so excited to try here and left hungry (sent full plate back) and irritated. I've said it before. We don't mind superior prices for superior food. We feel ripped off when we pay superior prices when we could get tastier food from the supermarket frozen food aisle. read more

Had the special which was Branzino Marechiare. It was excellent. The pasta is homemade and the vodka sauce was delish. The Enzo salad was very food. And the bread and dipping oil are soooo good. read more

What a disappointment. Cafe italia was our go to restaurant for years when Donato was the manager, hosted many large parties there, never had a bad meal. Haven't been for a while, brought my friends there tonight and was embarrassed that I recommended it. Portions were small and frankly not good. A mere shadow of what was. Have to say our server was fantastic, she gets five stars, but overall experience not good at all. read more

Five stars! Excellent Italian restaurant with fair prices! The BEST focaccia bread in NJ!! Great for families and groups too! If you're looking for great Italian food in a nice atmosphere, casual enough to have fun and laugh, but with excellent Italian food and service, this is your place! I was delighted with every course here, I love the atmosphere and all of the service was top-notch! It's not fine dining, but the food is! Just great for couples but also groups and families! Let me just start by saying that the fried calamari with marinara sauce was perfection! Very rarely is this dish just right. The calamari was cooked perfectly, super tender bursting with flavor. The marinara sauce was delicious and hot. Great way to start any meal! I mentioned earlier about their focaccia bread. There's something you need to understand, this is the best anywhere! If you ask them they will even make it for you and put it in a box cold so that you can heat it up at home or at a party. I have to tell you that this will be the favorite appetizer or dish at any party! Everyone will ask you where you got it! To me it's better than pizza. It's just bread with a delicious tomato sauce and no cheese. If you live within a half hour you should try this focaccia bread! You could argue that there focaccia bread is enough to get this place five stars! For dinner I had pasta with vodka sauce and a delicious salmon with pesto. Everything was delightful and excellent. I don't remember if the pasta was homemade, but I remember really loving it. Unfortunately this place is 45 minutes from my home, so I won't be able to go that often. But this would be a regular spot for me if I lived nearby. Very highly recommended! read more

Enzo's Caffe Italia - Salmon with pesto sauce and pasta vodka sauce very good - Italian Near Me - Toms River, New Jersey

Yum!!! Focaccia. Just get it. It's delicious! We also tried the chicken parm pizza and ordered some mozz sticks and garlic knots. We had it delivered and the food was great total was about $50 - my friends order from here a lot and they love how consistent it is! Anyways get the Focaccia- it's seriously THAT good. read more

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Not sure what happened to Enzo's. The food used to be really good and the service was good as well. Now it has fallen off dramatically in both areas. I will say that one customer received the attention of the entire wait staff but that left the rest of us with apologies for the wait. The food was just so so. We'll not be retiring to this establishment since there are plenty of good places to find in the area. read more

Ordered some takeout and was really excited to try this place. Had a good rating on door dash. Shoudl have checked here first. They forgot half our order and when I called to offer to come pick it up we were met with a rude. "There's nothing we can do" and they hung up. Really disappointed and will not be trying this place again. read more

Horrible food I went and they left a hair there this guy very loud screaming at the workers poor workers !!!!this is a horrible establishment they really to improve and I will never be coming here again AND SO SORRY TO THE WORKERS hope u get paid enough for that rude guy read more

I drive by this place all the time. Recently a neighbor took us there. Overall, the food and service were very good. We have been back several times since our first visit. The menu had a lot of items that looked good, so I will have to visit often so I can try them all. On of the appetizers we had was the stuffed zucchini flowers. They were delicious. The food was very good, came out hot and relatively quickly. I especially like the foccia. read more

Nice destination if you're down the shore. Good friendly service. Try the seafood - will be back.

Great dinner with a wonderful appetizer . Nick was very helpful and made some dinner suggestions. Service is great with a relaxed atmosphere. I highly recommend the chicken special with the zucchini special appetizer . Would we go there again, yes and soon! Thank you Nick for a nice evening. read more

Came with group of 6 around 4pm. Host was very short and snotty with us. Said we couldn't sit together, though there were at least 3 large tables that were empty. She demanded we all be there before she would even look for tables. My mother-in-law walks slow and was only a minute away in the parking lot. We left. read more

Since we are having our kitchen remodeled we have been ordering a lot of takeout. We decided to try places we either have never had or haven't had in a long time. Caffe Italia came to mind, so I got on the phone to place an order for delivery. Big mistake. The service over the phone and delivery guy were good, nothing wrong there. It was my meal that was inedible. The order: shrimp scampi, zuppa di pesce, fettuccine alfredo with grilled chicken, mozzarella sticks, and an antipasto. Shockingly, it was the fettuccine alfredo that was just awful. Disgusting. The alfredo sauce was thin, bland, and tasted like water. Absolutely no flavor at all (they probably forgot to add cheese into the sauce). The fettuccine was extremely overcooked. It was my fault for not asking for my pasta to be cooked al dente, but this was extremely over done. Just mushy. And we have the chicken. Chewy, dry, cold, and there were very few pieces of it in my dish. I kept complaining to my parents how awful it was, pushed my meal aside, and had my mom try it. She agreed on how awful it was, and said to call the restaurant. I told her not to bother, ate a few mozzarella sticks, but she persisted. I had her get on the phone as she wished, and the guy had a friendly, apologetic personality. It took some time and effort, but I did end up receiving money off the bill.. which was $86 before tip!!! For three meals, an antipasto, and an app for delivery. That's more than $25 a person. The antipasto was a serving size of one person, and was $14. WAY overpriced! My advice, check out some other great local Italian restaurants/pizzerias for much better, authentic Italian food. Linda's on Fischer, Lisa's on rt. 37, or Johnny G's are the way to go. Friendliness and an apologetic personality doesn't cut it for this guy when all he wants is a quality meal for dinner. Ended up sitting home with nothing else to eat. Not cool! read more

The food was delicious!! Shrimp scampi was generous with very large shrimp. It was good but they used lemons and capers. It needed less lemon more garlic. Chicken massimo was tasty I would definitely recommend. The veal cutlet was tender tasty and enough for two meals. Service was excellent. All the servers and manager were attentive and cordial. The ambiance was nice but to be honest the place was empty. It was hard to figure out why but we were pleased overall read more

Terrible service. We waited over an hour for our entrees and we didn't even order drinks or appetizers. There was a table of 12 that came in after us and they had a continuous serve of food. We'll never go back. read more

Will never order from here again ...ordered a well done large pie half onion half plain ...well done SPECIFICALLY so it wouldn't be a soggy mess needless to say it is a soggy mess and I had to reslice the pie because they didn't ... worst pizza I've probably ever had .. read more

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All in all not horrible but I wouldn't go back. The service was great but the food was ok. Antipasto was not good. Cold pre made. Focaccia was pretty good, nice and simple with some garlic in the sauce. Veal cutlet was decent but swimming in in flavorless marinara. The wife's vodka sauce did not look good but I'm not a vodka sauce guy. I like simple old school Italian. This places food seemed more American than Italian. Again, great service and really nice people. Glad I tried it. read more

Great place for Italian food with very nice staff and good food, especially seafood. Got my seafood salad with olive and herbs, new thing to me but it tastes so fresh. Unlimited bread. BYOB is even more affordable. Come after lunch hour so it's so nice and quiet with 1 or 2 birthday party read more

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I had the focaccia at a graduation party from this establishment. It was unbelievable. It was cooked just right and there was plenty of seasoning in the dough and tomato sauce that was present. It was so simple, but just great. Will I go back? I did not go, but would love to see what this place has to offer. read more

Had a fantastic dinner here Sunday evening and the service was great. Love that it is BYOB. The server was very knowledgeable about all the food and made very good recommendations. Ordered two of the specials , the crab salad over fresh mozzarella was delicious and the pork special was incredible, super tender fell right off the bone. The bread that was brought to the table was warm and the olive oil and spices had a lot of flavor. We also ordered the mozzarella sticks which were just as good as you would expect and the price point was amazing for those only $5.50 (because you know some places charge upwards of $8 to $10 and there's simply just mozzarella sticks) but the price was on point and the marinara sauce that came with it was perfect. The other entrée that we ordered was shrimp and scallop Provençal, which had so much seafood, I choose to have over penne, I like that they gave me options for pasta to choose. Very clean and well decorated inside. We will be back! read more

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Used to have really good pizza but they recently opted to stop selling regular pizza. Instead, now they only sell Sicilian or Focaccia pizza to "make their establishment more upscale". Very disappointing read more

I have family who live in Toms River, so I find myself passing this place to often around the corner from their neighborhood. However, I stopped in a few years back on a trip home from Seaside (not family-visit related). I remember the food being good and everyone being satisfied. The staff was very friendly and attentive. Despite that, I still have not found myself back in here for another meal. Maybe it's the location - right after the bridge heading home from Seaside, who wants to have dinner at a nice sit down restaurant with sea salt in their hair? I don't necessarily recommend this place to people, but I would say give it a shot. Maybe I should practice what I preach and stop in myself. read more

Enzo's Caffe Italia - Italian Near Me - Toms River, New Jersey

Definitely not as good as it was a year or two ago. I ordered the gnocchi dish with grilled chicken--they put 3 measly chicken strips on top, and the gnocchi was very mushy. My friend ordered fettuccine Alfredo and asked if they can add grilled chicken to it -- he had an over abundance. I guess they don't know how to sort things out in the kitchen. We even joked and he said I think I got your chicken! My husband ordered the garlic with cheese as an appetizer. When they brought out the toasted bread, my husband asked the waiter where the cheese was, and he seemed confused. My husband suggested that he just bring it into the kitchen and ask them to put the mozzarella cheese on it, but he said no, but I can take it off your bill--that's odd. They appeared to be very shortstaffed, and after quite awhile, we were informed the kitchen was backed up. Sad to say because we always loved it here, but will not rush back anytime soon. read more

I have had pizza at every pizza joint in Toms River. Most places are decent or better. But I always try to find even better. I completely forgot that Caffe Italia has a pizza place in the back of the restaurant and also does delivery. I eaten at Enzos other places as well and know that you can trust the quality of his food. With that said in the last seven days I've gotten delivery from Caffe Italia for pizza, chicken Parmesan sub, chicken francaise dinner and gnocchi with vodka sauce. There's Sicilian pie rocks. The food was delicious and my family loved it. And the delivery was on time and professional. I actually had my wedding rehearsal dinner there in 1997. I can't believe I forgot about this little gem. read more

It's a nice place to eat. Good atmosphere. I'm addicted to the focaccia square. It's one of the reasons I come to toms River every weekend LOL just for that square. If you're in the area try it. I think you'll love it. Enjoy read more

What good pizza!! I was pleasantly surprised!! Haven't had much luck since we moved down here But the calzone OMG perfect!!!!!! Order was ready when I got there. The counter people were smiling and nice to all the customers coming in . We will definitely be using them and can't wait to try the dining room read more

The clams were horrible. Couldn't tell the difference between chicken parm and veal parm. Very disappointing

No gluten free menu, ordered Grouper special and it was not grouped but I knew it was tilapia ! We asked if lentil soup was vegetarian because one of us was a vegan. The waiter said "It should be but I've seen the add chicken broth" !!! WTF !! Then she asked him when he cane around again and he said it was vegetarian. The place was very hot in the rear room read more

Ordered some food to go tonight. Ordered a foccia pizza and it is ice cold. Ordered two salads: one Caesar on Dijon Caesar salad is a huge pile of lettuce with a sprinkle of Parmesan and 6 croutons. Dijon salad has blue cheese instead of Gorgonzola and is also mainly lettuce. The dressing was dumped over the salad - never seen a salad "to go" come already dressed. The dressing was not Dijon but instead just chunky mustard. And like I said completely ruined the salad with way too much. The staff was cursing at each other when we picked it up which is not only rude, but insanely inappropriate. DEFINITELY will not be going back. read more

I have lived in town for many years and never tried it. Now I wish I had a long time ago! My family and I had dinner there last night. The food was superb, plated beautifully and made to order. The atmosphere was wonderful and the service was fantastic!! Nick was so friendly and welcoming. He certainly helped make it an experience instead of another dinner out. Absolutely one of the best restaurants in the area. I will be definitely visit regularly. read more

The owner or whoever the short guy is who runs the place is extremely rude. My wife is allergic to dairy and when we received our order there was cheese on the pasta dish. When I specifically mentioned, when I placed the order my wife is very allergic. Mistakes happen, but when I called to speak with the manager, he did not apologize and he hung up the phone on me. I couldn't believe it. Needless to say, I have never been back. There's much better pizza restaurants near by and their owners are appreciative for your orders and are pleasant. In the end it's their loss because I was a weekly customer. read more

Two different menus online be careful . One reflects higher prices. Owner yells when you ask but apparently it's a common thing. Owner thinks he's a little tough guy. read more

Service was amazing. Server and bus boy were so attentive & made us feel at home. Food was authentic italian, gnocchi de la casa was almost as good as my grandmas italian home cooking. A gem in the seaside area. Hard to find food this good around here. read more

Enzo's Caffe Italia - Gnocchi de la casa - Italian Near Me - Toms River, New Jersey