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Kelsey's Pizza

3.8 (79 reviews)
ModerateItalian, Pizza
Open 11:00 am - 8:30 pm

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Good for groups
Good for kids

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a half eaten sandwich
Todd D.

Kelsey's Pizzeria, 1954 U.S. 1 Rockledge, Florida 32955- 1-Star (Chain Restaurant Rating) The original Kelsey's Pizzeria & Eatery was founded in 1983 in Titusville by a local guy, Nick, as a small local family business. Having considerable success, he franchised a few other Kelsey's throughout North Brevard. This particular franchisee on US-1 in Rockledge has a second on North Courteney Parkway in Merritt Island according to its website. Additionally, you can find a couple of other Kelsey's in Port St. John, and Cape Canaveral, if you are so inclined to check them out. Assuming they are like this one, I'm not. How many different boxes of pasta and pizza dough exist through purveyors? Countless, I'm sure. It's always the same. Most likely the least expensive. Hence the reason Italian restaurants become more and more tedious. No one makes their own dough and lets it rise overnight anymore. I don't care what anyone tells you. Fresh homemade risen dough would cut into the margin, meanwhile pizza remains the highest profit food item in the world next to bottled water. Many a stoner and those among the zaftig couch-potato set will tell you that all pizza is good pizza as long as it's smothered in cheese and pepperoni and delivered to their face. Not for this guy. At the Rockledge location, we were met by a pleasant server named Hayley who got all my inside comments. Something I often find lacking in a waiter. As usual, however, despite a direct request to box up my leftovers, she declined. So, I asked her who typically boxes up the take-out orders. She confessed, well...her. Yeah. Not the greatest of all time. The menu here was not diverse, just your typical Americanized pseudo-Italian fare. I ordered my baseline Fettuccine Alfredo, my point of comparison for evaluating the level of any ristorante's pasta game. Kelsey's fettuccine compared poorly. It literally had zero taste. Not even the creamy taste typically associated with Alfredo sauce. Alfredo di Lelio, owner of Alfredo on Via della Scrofa in Rome, who lovingly invented this dish of fresh-egg fettuccine with butter and parmesan--Fettuccine all'Alfredo--to nourish his pregnant wife in 1907, would be rolling in his grave. My second choice from the menu was a meat calzone with sausage, pepperoni, and ham. It was a dismal wreck of food. The calzone bread was the Sysco pre-rolled ball one thaws out and massages. The ingredients would have to have been stepped up to even be considered crappy. The Big Boy says, "Between ugh service and low-grade ingredients there are SO many better pizza options in Brevard. Skip the Kelsey's in Rockledge."

The cheesy "Garlic Bread"
Robert A.

I suffered this so you don't have to. For $7.50 they took A store bought baguette Soaked it in oil and salt Threw cheese sliced on top Heated it. Terrible by any measure.

Pepperoni, and Kelsey's Deluxe, and Greek Salad for 2!

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5 months ago

Very good food nice atmosphere they are always busy when we have eaten there and the service is quick

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8 months ago

It is our go to place in Rockledge for our favorite appetizer. Always great and quick and friendly servers

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4 months ago

Everything about this place is a treat and the food is top 10. We have never left there not satisfied and full, in a good way

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Kelsey's Rockledge really does it right. They delivered when my mom and I were unable to go out. The food is fresh, hot and delish!

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Love this place and wish they had one in south Brevard. Great service and great pizza. Eat lunch there whenever in the area.

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Kelsey's pizza and Italian food is a pretty good local spot for some good food. We mostly do take out, and the service is very quick.

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There to go menu is perfect for a quick lunch, ready in 10min. Meatball sub with greek salad both really good. Would recommend

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Don't care for the pizza but salads aren't bad. A quick place for lunch break. Prices are cheap if you're looking for a quick meal.

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I love their chicken Parmesan. It's fresh. I always get 2 meals out of it. Everyone is awesome.

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Best pizza around the Rockledge / Cocoa area. Sauce to cheese ratio is perfect and taste is authentic

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Always a good meal and friendly service. Been going there for years and have never left dissatisfied.

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6 years ago

I had the sausage and peppers with onions and marinara sauce with angel hair pasta with salad and 1000 island dressing and garlic bread

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Didn't think I'd be able to eat in. It's a very small interior, maybe 10 tables, and it's race…read moreweekend here for the space coast marathon and half marathon. But someone left a small table and they cleaned it and i sat. Server came over pretty quickly and said he'd be with me in a minutes. However, 10 minutes later he's cleared 2 tables (no one waiting to sit) and cashed out another check-all of which could have been done after taking and putting in my order. But, okay, nice guy and no real harm done. I'm just tired and cranky and hangry. Got a glass of Cabernet. I don't know why. This isn't a fancy restaurant and the wine tastes like it. Figured it would help me go to bed early for the race but first i have to be able to swallow it. Still, my fault, why did i order it in the first place? Stick with water soda or beer. Ordered mussels which apparently you can get in a white or red wine sauce. Missed that on the menu but i went with a white wine sauce. Also got the gluten free 10" pizza. So they both came out at the same time which is as bull because now one will get cold as i eat the other. I told the server that the mussels were an appetizer. He said they took a while because the shells wouldn't open-not a good sign considering i have an early morning and food poisoning won't help. The mussels were bad. I ate them, being a fat hungry man, but they were dry, the sauce was not flavorful, and half the shells were still closed. Now, shockingly, the pizza was very good. One of the better gluten free crusts i have had anywhere. I was sure i would take one bite and just give up but no. I really enjoyed the pizza. Weird. So I probably would have gone 2 stars for the bad, but friendly, service and awfully timed serving and awful tasting mussels and wine. But i have to go 3 for the pizza. And really, what am i doing ordering mussels and wine at a strip mall pizzeria? I must have lost my mind. Should have been pizza, and maybe soup or a salad. Might have been 4 stars if i had ordered with an acknowledgment of where i was. So, if you are gluten free, come here. I wouldn't if you are allergic or have celiac disease-there is surely cross contamination. But if you just don't like getting bloated and uncomfortable, you will enjoy the pizza.

Love this place!! The entire staff is nice and makes you feel at home. They also have great gluten…read morefree options and the sauces and other foods are great for anyone that suffers from IBD or IBS. Same great place that I have birthday parties at, to enjoying takeout for football.

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We had friends in town over the holidays and had great food and great time at Tuscany Grill!…read moreWaitress was so friendly and made sure we had a great time. Chicken Parm was the best we have had in Viera since moving here in August. Highly recommend.

When we walked in no one was available to greet us or seat us, waited about 3 - 4 minutes, looked…read morearound, almost ready to walk out when finally a woman showed up and greeted us, she seemed to be bussing tables. 1st bad sign but I assumed they may be short staffed so I shrugged it off. We were shown to our table. My wife ordered a dinner salad, she was told the dressing was garlic ranch. Since it was the only option she asked to bring olive oil. That was fine, but halfway through our meal I overheard a different waiter at another table say the choice of dressing for the salad was garlic ranch or vinegarette. Another "oversight". The waiter seemed nice. Later we realized when our food arrived that all of the tables seated after us were served bread with herb butter. I didn't complain but thought it was an oversight on the part of the waiter. I asked if the spaghetti and meatballs were good, the waiter said yes, very good. I decided to give it a try, the spaghetti was ok, but hadn't been properly sauced, it was as though the sauce was just dumped in the center with two meatballs. The sauce tasted like garlic and tomatoes, hardly any other flavor such as oregano or basil. The meatballs had far too much Italian flavored breadcrumbs and tasted like a meat-bread ball. The house salad my wife received and my side salad were pretty sad. Lettuce, 2 slices of cucumber, a small slice of tomato, and some shredded carrots. For a house salad at an Italian restaurant, it seemed pretty sparse. I expected an olive maybe, and / or a slice of onion, maybe a slice of green pepper, or a cruton or two? Go figure. Overall was disappointed, eveything about the restaurant decor gave me the first impression that it would be better. Coming from an Italian American family I know good Italian food when I taste. I know flavorful sauce and I know what a real homemade meatball should taste like. Perhaps other dishes and perhaps other wait staff are better. IMO there are better choices for Italian food in the area, doubtful I will be back to try something different.

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