Our food was excellent. We started with the antipasto plate and was surprised with how much food was on it. Both the entrées we ordered were delicious with large portions. Our server wasn't very attentive but the food made up for it and was reasonably priced. read more

I don't recall giving too many stars and five stars is certainly a rarity for me! This restaurant knows what they're doing! Food is fantastic, inside and outside sitting, some very nice wines at a very reasonable price and a manager, Michael and staff that enjoy what they're doing and do it proudly and very well! Need I say much more! Try it for yourself, you'll be doing yourself a favor! Sincerely, read more

I'm having a hard time writing this review and it should be a 2.5 stars. Being Italian and raised with excellent food in the family I'm terrible to go out for Italian restaurants. However I have had some past success with this restaurant and their lineage of family owned restaurants. This will be my last time at guissepes. The calamari was recommended by the server and all I can say is if you love Burger King Onion Rings you will love these. Esp for the price. They are clearly mass produced preformed and taste the same way. Served with cocktail sauce from a jar. Highly dissatisfied. The red "sauce" gravy or whatever you call it was orange. And very watery. So watery that we tried to take it home but the way the leftovers were packed cause them to leak all over. Huge to go black bags. And off balanced containers in their caused that. I like to pack my own leftovers too ...kinda weirds me out when they dissapear in the back with my food and I cant see if they stuck their fingers in it, how they loaded it, etc. I think this place maybe has just cut corners on food costs to make up for overhead. The service has always been great, and that's half the battle in Tucson finding quality staff that give a shit. My eggplant parmesan was not great. The skin of the eggplant was sharp like and unable to cut and was like eating a foreign substance. I'm not exaggerating. I had to peel it to muscle it down. I'm a 240lb man and didnt finish it. Very rare to not do read more

I've eaten at the restaurant before but this is my first experience with their take out. I hope this was an anomaly. I ordered the eat plant parmesana and my mother the shrimp scampi. The eat plant was awful. The eat plant wasn't bad but it came without any sauce on top. The amount of pasta was ridiculously small and sat to the side, not underneath, the egg plants. The sauce was awful. If some kind of light red paste. There wasn't much pasta which was okay because the sauce looked just as bad as it tasted. The scampi came in the typical clam shell styrofoam container which allowed the thin sauce to escape into the plastic bag it came in. 2 star because she said it wasn't bad-just a mess to deal with. Why not serve it in a water tight container? If you can't get them, don't offer it. There was no bread or condiment packages. The restaurant didn't discount its food so this wasn't a cheap dinner. I'm trying to patronize the local restaurants during this time but will be taking my business elsewhere. read more

Went to Guiseppe's for New Year's Eve and had a really nice meal. Service was prompt and both the waiter and other staff checked in on us multiple times. Stuffed mushroom appetizer was good. Main dish portions were very good. One note: Eggplant Parmigiana could have used more sauce and cheese, but it was good. We left feeling like we had found a new place to go on the northwest side. read more

Went to dinner last Friday might to celbrate two wedding anniversaries and a birthday. Our reservation was 6:30. We finally got a drink order after 20 min. Finally flagged down our waiter to take orders about 7:30. By now people that arrived after us were eating. While waiting for dinner I had to go to the bar to plsve an order for more drinks. Dinner was served at 8:30! My mother-in-law was last to be served. Off course it was the wrong meal. They served the right dish abour 10 min later. The food was good as always, but I'm looking for someplace with better service. read more

Thank you YELP for the great suggestion. I ordered the linguine with clams and sausage. The sauce was absolutely fantastic. It had so much flavor! I wish I hadn't eaten any bread beforehand because I wanted to soak up every last drop and they give plenty of sauce. The meal was wonderful. I had a dinner salad also, the greens were fresh, dressing tasty. The bread was fairly plain, didn't stand and it didn't need to with what I ordered but by itself it wasn't noteworthy. The staff was pleasant and helpful. Definitely would return to this place. read more

I LOVE this place. My boyfriend and I went here last night for our date night and it was the best. They had live music, the food was awesome! And the staff was amazing. We've been going here for about a year and we will continue to go. We have recommended this place to several friends and they always have positive feedback! read more

I love this place! We're always promptly seated and served. The food is delicious and there are always plenty of wait staff to assist. The prices are reasonable and this place is just a win all around. It is very rare these days to go out and have a meal for two, wine for less than $100. Here, you can actually do that. read more

Whenever I am in the mood for some good Italian food this is my go to place. The food is great and the prices are on par with other Italian restaurants. The only bad experience I have had here had to do with rude customers. Definitely beats Olive Garden! I would rate 5 out of 5, but I like to be honest as possible when rating Italian restaurants. The food is really good, but only the best Italian eateries get five stars. I would definitely recommend this place. read more

Oh my goodness I love this place so much!!! Honestly best Italian food I have ever tried anytime I want Italian food this is where I go it's definitely in my top 3 favorites!!! Highly recommend, plus authentic desserts it does not get better than this place!!! read more

Having my favorite pesto salad with chicken! I get it without the pasta to make it a paleo dish, yum! read more

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This was the first time we have been to this restaurant. We are from out of town and found the restaurant on yelp. The location was easy to find. Derive was great. The waiter kept the bread coming and our cups full. The food was awesome. My brother and I had the meatball risotto and my mom has the cannelloni. So much food we had to get a takeaway bag. Will definitely eat here again. read more

Sorry, we must have got here on a night off. From the service to the food. It was not good. We heard the food was really good and authentic. Not true. Sorry, but this place has some class, but the food was not that good and the service was ok. Update: the manager did compensate the food and offered an apology and promised to make our next experience better. read more

Went in for lunch the place was about 1/3-1/2 full. The service was very slow. In the waitress defense she was doing all the work while other lady that either owned it or managed it walked around and sat outside talking on the phone. She would come in to fill up her beverage then go back outside leaving one person to handle it all. The food was good just to long a wait. read more

My daughter and I had Chicken Marsala. Everything was delicious EXCEPT some of the chicken breast filets were rubbery. Probably won't be going back for a while. Service was adequate. read more

The staff was very helpful and mostly attentive. The dining room was clean and quaint. The food was mediocre though. The Chicken Parmesan was overcooked and dry. The sauce was flavorful, but too thin to adhere to the pasta. Requested some grated Parmesan cheese (note: it wasn't offered) from the waiter to help thicken the sauce, which allowed it to be consumed instead of just floating at the bottom of the plate. Interesting note: this Italian restaurant does not have Lasagna on it's menu, which is typically what I order to review / compare to other restaurants (as well as home cooking). So, if you're reading this, hopefully you won't be as disappointed as I was when I started to place my order. read more

I wrote this review for another site. I loved Guiseppe's. It was my first visit. Loved the ambiance, service was great, and I had the best sausage sandwich ever!! Prices were comparable to other Italian restaurants. I will definitely be going back there, and I don't live close. read more

Best Italiano in Tucson! Spicy sausage penne is fricken amazing! Their lunch specials are legit too! Only critique is: the garlic bread is not the best... they should re-think how they make it! read more

I'm from California and am visiting my brother in Tucson. My sister in law and I had lunch here yesterday, 4/18/11. The food was good and the prices are cheap. I had the sausage penne for $8.99. The Ragout (Bolognese) was thick and meaty. I will say that the meat was a bit overcooked. I also had a small green salad that was nice but not exceptional. My sis in law had the Salmon with rice pilaf for $9.99. That was great. I'm amazed at the reasonable prices for a finely prepared meal. The portions are huge. The sausage ragout was great even though overcooked as I said. I really liked it though. The décor is 80s. Not slick like the chain restaurants. We sat outside in a shady loggia.. The staff was professional and attentive. The menu is limuted. There are only about 7 entrèes so it might not be the best place for kids. Thi place is great for cheap and excellent Italian cuisine. read more

I appreciate, very much, management's commitment to take care of an issue that was certainly not within their control and I've always loved the food and service at Guiseppe's. Thank you very much for addressing, as you said, a bizarre occurrence that is absolutely out of the ordinary. read more

Pricey for what they have to offer. We have eaten here twice now, and service was spotty both times. Today they were sold out of the parmesan potatoes we ordered to go with our lunch, and my chicken parmesan sandwich was quite chewy. My salad tasted like it was only dressed with straight red wine vinegar. My hubby liked his Italian cheese steak sandwich quite a bit, though. read more

Delicious, great service, reasonable prices! We had the antipasto, caprese salad, and roasted red pepper soup and it was all great. Our waitress was Poppy and she was super attentive and professional. read more

Had a great meal there on Saturday night. We went for early dinner and had happy hour pricing before 6 PM.

FLATTENED CURLED WIRE IN PASTA. My wife and I went to Guiseppe's for dinner on Saturday June 24th. We have been there three times previously. This time we ordered Tomato Basil Bruschetta appetizer, minestrone soup, and Farfalle Bolognese pasta. The bruschetta was good, but applied excessive burrata cheese in proportion to the bread and tomato. The minestrone soup was sour -- vert different from the minestrone soup on our previous three visits -- and we believe it was spoiled. The pasta contained a flattened curled wire. The waiter explained that it appeared to the kitchen staff to be from a stainless steel scouring pad. Although this item was not charged, this was not the point and we felt disappointed. Otherwise, the wait staff is very friendly and helpful, and the ambiance is calm and enjoyable -- as I have mentioned in two previous reviews on TripAdvisor. read more

We had an awesome meal here! We were only in Tucson for the night. We didn't know where to eta on New Year's Eve. After a terrible experience being turned away from Bird because we didn't have reservations (they were empty) we read about this place on Yelp and called them. So glad we did because they got our party of 3 in. We had antipasto platter and then a variety of dishes. My son raved about the seafood soup. The portions were HUGE. We had great desserts. The thing that made the biggest impression for us was the service. What an incredible staff. Service was awesome. I really wish we lived in Tucson because we would make this restaurant a regular place. Thank you to the staff for giving our family a great meal and a memorable evening!!! read more

My wife & I had a 6pm reservation at Guiseppe's on February 14, Valentine's day. When we arrived they had no seating for us in the dining room & seated us in an adjacent room, which reeked of cigar smoke. (The room shared a wall/door with a cigar store.) We immediately asked to be reseated & were given a seat outside. Although a little cool in the evening, it was okay. It took quite a while before we saw a server. We each ordered a glass of wine. The server returned with 1 glass of wine (not 2) & told us it was on the house. Why? Because they ran out of our wine of choice! (Which was a common, inexpensive White Zinfindel wine.) Could not believe that at 6pm on Valentine's Day that an Italian restaurant would run out of wine. Making it even more ironic, is that in the same shopping complex there is a liquor store, maybe 200 feet away. I suppose no one thought to check the wine inventory & if low, walk 200 feet to the liquor store & buy a bottle or two. Wouldn't you think they might know they would sell a bit more wine than usual on that special day? Guess not. The service was very, very poor. Actually terrible. It took a long time for the waiter to come take the order, refill water glasses, refill bread basket, etc. I think we saw the waiter one time & another timewhen I needed to attract the attention of a servre for more water. (Remember, they had no wine.) The food was terrible. I have eaten Italian food often and say with no reservation that the food at Guiseppe's was worst Italian food I have had, even when compared to the food at any of the many chains (e.g. Olive Garden, Marcroni Grill, etc.) Both of our dishes were tasteless, that is bland as could be. We are 66 years old & have more Valentine Day's with each other behind us than in front of us. Guiseppe's single-handedly took one our of few remaining Valentine Day's & made a major disappointement. It certainly, however, is one we will always remember, but not in a good way. I cannot imagine a reason why we would go back & certainly will share our most horrible dining experience with our many friends. Just so disappointing. If it is Italian food you & yours are craving, skip this place. It is just awful. I know we will. read more

Brought friends of mine here recently for dinner & again different friends for lunch & each time got raving comments both for food and service! As for me have been coming here with friends and by myself for a few years now, and call it Home Away From Rome - excellent food, wonderful owners - has both inside & a lovely patio with view of mountains. Please go and support this little local restaurant of ours - you wont be sorry for sure but begging for more!! read more

Based on just the food, I really enjoy this place. The spaghetti and meatballs were great. The appetizers we ordered were freshly prepared and delicious. However, our service was nothing to write home about. It took awhile to order, the food took longer than it should, and we waited a little too long to get the bill. The food holds up to scrutiny, but the service needs improvement. read more

Gave this place only 4 stars because it was difficult to find, not much signage for the place. But this place is actually quite quaint, lovely outdoor seating, great upscale place with amazing dishes, even made a chicken parm when its not on the menu. Great prices for a place that definitely has a more upscale feel than oreganos or sauce. read more

We arrived on a Friday evening with no reservation. Luckily we got there when we did because we were seated immediately, but shortly thereafter there was a long line out the door. I was happy with the ambiance and enjoyed watching the busy servers interacting with the patrons. Everyone seated seemed very happy. My husband ordered the Meatball Ricotta and I ordered a chicken dish with spinach and cheese. The server recommended I request extra spinach like she does. She was spot-on! It was scrumtious. I tasted my husband's meatballs and they were melt-in-my-mouth delicious. We were extremely pleased with the meal. And it was just over $20!!!. So impressed! We did not drink any wine or have desert. My only concern was that it was very noisy!! We were at a small table for two against the wall, and we could barely hear each other. Everyone around us was having a wonderful time.. but I am not so sure it was just that. I think there was something about the acoustics. Anyway.. I will definitely go back. I was very pleased. Plus, it makes me feel closer to my Italian heritage. ;) read more

You get a lot for your money at Guiseppe's. They serve up well-prepared, quality Italian food for very fair prices. And as much as I love old-time Southern Italian joints where every dish is smothered in marinara sauce, Guiseppe's tends to be a tad more creative and upscale, with none of the affectations that are often part of "creative" Italian food. The prices, though, are wonderfully old-time, like a refreshing blast from the past. The atmosphere is warm and unpretentious with mostly friendly (although sometimes slow) service. Love the lamb osso bucco. Usually I don't like tiramisu, but theirs is so good that it's almost impossible to resist. And while it's true that Guiseppe's doesn't seem to have a reliable system for managing reservations at this point in time, their good food and incredible value make this place worth the wait. read more

Went there in the rain with friends. Hadn't been in a while. Very yummy. Good portions, delicious sauce -- not too spicy (thank the Lord). Nice glass of Sangria. Good service. Definitely will make another visit soon. read more

I've been putting off writing this review because reliving the experience stresses me out but here goes...It was my sisters birthday last week and she had a gift card for Carrabba's but decided last minute to go local instead and try Guiseppe's. We had 3 adults and our 3 kids ages 2,4 & 7 in our party. They were able to seat us outside within a few minutes of arrival which gave me high hopes since it was friday night. One waiter grabbed our drink order and from there everything went downhill. I ordered the stuffed mushrooms which I actually thought were ok but my sister made a good point that she didn't find any actual mushroom, just filling. I took the filling and put it on the bread that was brought to the table and thought it was tasty. Thank goodness we ordered an app because from the time we ordered our food to the time it actually came was over an hour...an hour in which no one came to the table to check on us, no one to refill the tiny bread basket, no one to see if they kids needed anything while they moaned about how hungry they were. I was the most annoyed because I waited tables from the age of 16 through college and there is NO excuse to ignore a table. I quickly realized that the kitchen was backed up, but c'mon! That is when you need to be more attentive to your guests. Bring them anything you as the waiter can get your hands on the keep us happy. Our kids are really well behaved and we always have coloring books in our purses so they kept their heads down and colored most of the night but every 15 minutes or so they painfully let us know how hungry they were and asked when the food was going to come. Water glasses were empty, our one bread basket was long gone and the waiters were attending to other newer tables. When the food finally arrived there were no apologies, no explanation or anything. At this point I'm just plain mad and want to get out of there ASAP, but it was a birthday celebration so i bit my tongue. My sister liked her pasta dish, not sure which one it was. My brother only ordered a salad, as did my niece. The chicken on her salad looked a little off so we told her not to eat it. I ordered the eggplant parm and when it finally arrived I just asked for a box. The waitress said "oh do you need to leave?" I replied 'no i'm just not hungry anymore' "OK!" she says with smile. ugh!!!! I had also asked for a tiny side of alfredo sauce and I think it was $4 extra on the tab. seriously? it was about 2 ounces of sauce. anyway...I cut off a bit of the eggplant parm and noodles so my daughter could eat and she liked it. The eggplant was like a sponge of oil and the amount of spaghetti served with the eggplant was minuscule for the cost of the dish. I guess the point is, we could've gone to Carrabas, had huge servings for the same price, probably the same flavor since this was nothing outstanding and had better service. The staff had so many opportunities to redeem themselves but never even tried. We won't be going back. read more

By far the best Italian in town ! Perfect I can explain what I feel here . Service is great ! Food perfect! Unmatched in Tucson !

They make you wait thirty minutes even if you have a reservation. They don't tell you they are out of something and offer you a substitute. They just figure you're an idiot, give you something else, hope you don't notice, and then argue with you when you do. The food takes over an hour to come out. The food was decent, but nothing great for how craptastic the service was. read more

We enjoy a visit here whenever we are in Tucson. The food is fresh and there is such a selection! Love their house Chianti. We normally have two salads and share a meal so that we have room for dessert! Yum! read more

No good!!! Their red sauce is too sweet and has wine in it that you can tell hasn't been cooked down. I ordered chicken parm and it was so thin and had no crunchy crust to it I will never go back here!!! read more

I have had better food on an airplane, and that's just the beginning. Made reservations to go out for my mother in laws birthday (visiting from Australia). My wife checked the yelp reviews and seemed like a good place to have dinner. 6:30 pm on a friday. Pretty busy as we got there. Seated fairly quickly on the patio for a party of 5 including a 7 and 11 year old. Drinks arrived shortly after and they dropped a basket of bread. Never given bread plates or silverware/napkins (all the other tables had them) until I asked about 1/2 hour later. Had to ask for water. That's right..... water. Ordered app- antipasto. Came out in a reasonable amount of time, and it was pretty good. Then it happened. The wait... Literally took well over an hour for our dinner to come out. All the while trying to get a few more adult beverages, each round taking more than 15 to 20 min to get to the table. Finally dinner was served.....The meat balls for the kids were cold and hard. The veal parm I ordered was a bowl of mush drenched in sauce with a couple of noodles hidden beneath. Nasty. I had three or four bites and I was done. My wife had the chicken guiseppe, and my mother in law had the grilled pork- both terrible. We sent all the plates back and asked for the check. They tried to be nice and gave us some desserts to go, which were the best part of the meal, at home. I've worked in the food industry before and it isn't fair to blame the the waiter- he is at the mercy of all the other departments. Ours was decent enough and extremely apologetic. Showing me that this type of thing must happen a lot when they get busy. The manager came out as I reluctantly signed the bill and asked us to wait another 5 min so he could get us something. After sitting 2+ hours for a terrible meal, anticipating Gordon Ramsey jumping out from somewhere and shutting down meal service- you want me to wait another second? Grabbed my kids and split. My wife being interested in what he was going to bring, hung in there. A 25$ gift certificate for the restaurant... We are going to send it to my worst enemy this year for Christmas. Wouldn't go back there if it was free..... read more

My wife and I went here based on positive reviews. Unfortunately, we were disappointed. The service was absolutely horrible. Our drinks went unfilled to the point where all of the ice melted in them. Also, the food took over an hour to arrive. We were told that it was because they were busy, but I've been to plenty of busy restaurants and they do not have that problem. The only reason that they got 2 stars instead of 1 was that my dish was good (sausage with penne). But my wife's (alfredo with chicken) was dry and disgusting. So disappointing. read more