We visit Dan's a few times each year and always leave pleased with food, service and overall…read moreexperience. This weekend we celebrated my birthday - party of 5. It's one restaurant that never gets a fight from my whole gang because there is truly something for everyone on their menu. The backside of some of their placemats have games to keep us all engaged and off phones while we wait for the meal - silly, but something we always forget about until we get there. I had a buffalo chx club - I ended up taking half home. The food is tasty and their portions are certainly generous. We always look forward to our next visit!

Best Big Mac pizza around. Great dough, special sauce, hamberger, pickle, red onion…read more Came in to see the band on a Friday night, great sound, great drinks, great service.

West Warwick was built by people who went to work…read more Before it was even a town, it was a collection of mill villages along the Pawtuxet River. Textile mills went up, jobs followed, and neighborhoods grew around them. Those mills don't define West Warwick anymore, but they left something behind. This is still a blue-collar, remarkably parochial town. People grow up here and stay here. They buy the house down the street from their parents. Sometimes the one next door. Sometimes they never leave the house they grew up in. That shapes who and what survives here. West Warwick has never needed the newest restaurant concept or trendy ingredient everybody suddenly discovered six months ago. They don't need tweezers to arrange their lunch or a paragraph on the menu explaining where everything on the plate was "sourced" from. Nobody here needs their lunch explained to them. Keep it simple. Make it good. Make it right. Give people their money's worth. They'll decide if you're worth coming back to. Bill's Place West Warwick has been getting that answer right since 1974. Bill and Kiki Melanis migrated from Greece in the 1970s. They worked with family members in the pizza business before opening a place of their own. Seven tables. Fifteen stools. A small menu of pizza and grinders. That's how Bill's Place started. Fifty-two years later, I ce for lunch and ordered two things that would have made perfect sense on that original menu. A meatball grinder and a 10-inch pepperoni pizza. The grinder came cut in half on a plain plate. The meatballs are a house family recipe, sliced rather than left whole, tender and juicy, covered with sauce and melted mozzarella. When I pulled the halves apart, the cheese followed. No garnish. No little metal basket. No attempt to make a meatball grinder anything other than what it was supposed to be. It was just really good. Then the pizza arrived. Bill's offers three sizes, a 10-inch, a 16-inch large and an 18-by-12 square. I went with the little guy. Ten inches. Pepperoni. The top looked right immediately. Cheese browned across the surface. Pepperoni curled into little cups, crisp around the rims, each one holding its own little pool of oil. Pepperoni as God intended. Then I turned over the first slice. That bottom. Dark brown and gold from edge to edge. Blistered. Crisp. Oil and pan heat had put an almost fried surface across the entire thing. That's where you could see the care. Greek pizza looks simple. Dough goes into an oiled pan, sauce and cheese go on top, and the whole thing goes into the oven. Cook it wrong and you know immediately. This was cooked right. The bottom crunched. The edge crunched. Inside, the dough stayed light and soft. The sauce had enough flavor to stay present beneath the cheese. And the pepperoni contributed exactly what those little cups promised. A little crunch and a little heat. And grease. Good grease. The kind that ends up on your fingertips and requires a napkin, not an apology. While I ate, I kept noticing the interactions. The servers were young. Teenagers, maybe very early twenties. But when they stopped at the tables, the conversations weren't young. They knew the orders. They knew the families. They knew enough about what had happened since the last visit to know what to ask about this time. That's different from good service. That's familiarity. That's belonging. And in West Warwick, that carries a ton of weight. Fifty-two years of people coming through the door. Parents bringing kids. Kids growing up, becoming regulars, then bringing kids of their own. Maybe that's the best measure of a great neighborhood restaurant. Not how long the doors have been open. How many generations have contunued walking through them.

Bill's Place is always consistent with its amazing food, a local favorite and it's easy to see why.read more

The cioppono special on Saturday night was incredible! Ordered it with fra Diablo sauce. Ordered a…read moreside of garlic bread to finish the sauce. Lobster, scallops, little necks and shrimp were cooked perfect. Services was on point and there wasn't an open seat in the place. Jenna and Matt were on the bar and it couldn't have been any better. Great night out!

My go to spot for drinks and great food. Awesome place, the owner Jeremy is a great guy, bartenders…read more(Angie, Jamie, Matt etc) are fun and make you feel at home. The food is top notch. Had the mile high meatloaf and it was melt in your mouth good. I never have had a bad meal here. Even my son who is the pickiest kid loves it here. If you want a place that makes you feel at home, has great food, awesome staff, then this is your spot.

Frankie's is SO GOOD!!! This was one of the first places we tried when we first moved to RI and I…read morequickly became OBSESSED! The lasagna is OUT OF THIS WORLD! I have even gotten it without noodles (just meat and cheese because I was keto) and I felt like I was still eating lasagna. Their caesar salad is super good, as well as the mozzarella triangles. The calzone is HUGE and delish. The ambiance of the restaurant is cute, the service the few times I've been is a bit slow. I usually order take out.

Wow!!! I had the Mussels appetizer and the Swordfish with risotto and chefs kiss wow no pics…read morebecause I was too into it to remember to take any! Wow just so happy doing my happy food dance!!

Great place, great food. Service was a little slow. However I will go back! I do like the pizza…read moreover most of the menu.

Spectacular! Wife and I came here in March and again in September. Sat in the same cozy spot just…read moreinside the back door in the bar area. We both got sandwiches. Wife got eggplant and I got meatball and cheese with peppers. Both sandwiches were wicked good. Yes. WICKED good! We also got the breadsticks with marinara sauce. Again, wicked good. Our waitress was different for each of the two times we visited, but the service was the same spectacular service. They were both very friendly. Definitely recommend this place and definitely wanna come back.

Our Newcomers and Neighbors Club of NK held our annual fundraiser at Richard's Pub last evening…read more It was a huge success, benefitting the NK Food Panty and other charities. Working with Kim and Joann was a pleasure, they went above and beyond evey step of the way from planning the set up, choosing the menu and serving the delicious food and drinks. Everyone was happy- not an easy feat! Thank you, thank you, thank you! We'll be back for our opening social in September!!

Had a great night out with a party of 3 at 4 pm. The staff was excellent, and the food was great…read more The French onion soup and chicken wings are really good, and so is their hot sauce. I would also recommend the ribeye sandwich...it's one of the best!

Giuseppe's is a top notch restaurant and I've always had a great experience here. From the moment…read moreyou walk in, you are treated kindly by the very polite and professional staff. The atmosphere is very relaxing, with a comfortable yet slightly upscale atmosphere. The food and drinks are both amazing. Drinks are well prepared and the menu rotates with the seasons. The sangrias and specialty martinis are all so delicious and are expertly crafted. The pizzas are outstanding - toppings are all high quality and their weekly pizza specials are always unique and delicious. The salads, chicken entrees, and pasta are all excellent as well. I've never had a bad meal here.

Someone noticed our table wobbling. "I'll fix that for you right away." He wasn't our server. He…read morewasn't helping with our food at all. Just went and got a tool, came back, made it steady. Giuseppe's Pizzeria and Bistro is upscale in the best way. Dark wood, brick floors, pendant lights over a small bar. The lights are dim but the room is inviting and intimate. When we arrived, it wasn't empty, wasn't slammed. Nothing felt rushed. Everything moved at the right pace, giving us time to talk, time to savor, time to just enjoy being there. Even after we paid, no one hurried us out. The room was filling up around us, but we never felt it. Fresh plates for every course. Water refilled when it emptied (not before we noticed, exactly when). Every time we said thank you, our server said "of course" like she truly meant it. The focaccia came out warm. Tear it open and you see irregular holes. That takes hours, not shortcuts. They bring whipped garlic butter because it spreads easier, but the bread's good enough alone. Four meatballs arrived, tender enough they fell apart as I tried to work them through the sauce. Took surgeon hands. Pool the red sauce on your plate or spoon some over the top of each bite. Without it, they're bland. With it, they're quite good. The pepperoni pizza came out right. Char on the crust, pepperoni curling into little grease cups, cheese stretching six inches on those first bites. The sauce is light. The crust ends taste a little like char and semolina. I'm a sauce guy. Always have been. This pizza wasn't what I look for, but the people around us all looked happy to be there and with their food. Giuseppe's making the pizza his customers want. Fruit crumble for dessert. Fresh blueberries and peaches, vanilla ice cream. I enjoyed the peach side more than the blueberries, which was unexpected. The peaches were a little less sweet. The blueberries? Really sweet. Fresh and enjoyable. Giuseppe's fills up for a reason. The service is the best I've experienced in months. People were taking their time, talking, enjoying everything that was in front of them. They seemed like they knew they were somewhere special. They got it right.

This place is super close to my house, and the food is really yummy, bartenders are always super…read morefriendly! There are some really tasty options for non meat pizzas which is great! I only wish they were open later, at least on weekends. There aren't many later night spots to grab a bite around here, and this would be my first pick for a late dinner base on quality and taste!

We've had great sandwiches & other meals at Tumblesalts, but I do not recommend their pizza…read morestation! Their pizza was undercooked & dry, we asked for well done. And it was raw in the middle. We took a bite, spit it out, We ordered a Calzone as well, and the thing seemed to be made from cornmeal mush, and it was flat, sauceless and tasteless...absolutely horrible...like a dry piece of cornbread! FLAT as a pancake, inedible. I realize this may have been an off night, but if this is the norm here, do NOT waste your money! This was $60 including the tip. NEVER AGAIN. Adding: No we didn't contact the restaurant, it was late, we had traveled and were hungry. Ended up making us eggs instead that night.