Not sure what the hype is about. You have a choice of salad, pizza, and pasta. You order at various…read morecounters, wait, then tray it back to your table. If you want more then you go back and order it, wait again, and take it back again. There isn't any waitstaff. The hubs had a calzone which was spicy and tasty. I had the bologanese which was sticky instead of creamy with hardly any bacon flavor. The kids had pizza with no WOWs. We didn't have high expectations of dessert so we opted to skip it. The decor was nice. They had bar height high chairs so you weren't only stuck at the benches. It was raining when we went but they had lots of outdoor seating. For the price and quality of food, it's a definite pass for us. Who would of thought an Italian Lubys wouldn't have the folks lined up around the corner?!

While in Frankfurt, I fell in love with the concept of this restaurant…read more Once you arrive, you get a card and you have 3 stations, pasta, pizza and salad. When ever you order, you give the card and they add the amount of your purchase to that card. At the end you just go to the cashier and give the card, that is basically your bill. Now, to the meal! The pastas are made to order and you are viewing while their are cooking them. The pastas are made in the restaurant and you can choose what pasta and ingredients you want. Carbonara is my favorite! But all from the bread to the salads to the pizzas....this restaurant is a must to visit! Guten Appetit!

Made to order Italian. Menus in English. Good food. Just a few of the positive attributes to…read moreVapianos. We started with a glass of Chianti and water "no gas". The antipasti plate was well made with a wide variety of items. Our main dishes were made in front of us with any customized ingredients we wished. Pasta was cooked perfectly and lasagna, even though pre made, was enhanced with extra cheese. The only downside to this "fresh made to order" concept was the wait staff. We were an intrusion on his day and made is life harder by being here. Don't come expecting good service but come for good food.

They need to edit there hours, they close early when they are slow…read more The last time I was here it was good. The staff i

Perhaps I'm not as with it as I used to be,* but I've never heard of Vapiano. Apparently it's an…read moreinternational chain. I only knew it served pasta, and I was ravenous and walking by. Upon entering, some guy just handed me a card of some kind and jabbered at me in German. Not wanting to seem like more of a moron than I am, I just nodded and walked past. Apparently the cards are like those punchcards you get at Katz's: the staff records what you ordered and you check out at the end. (Don't lose the thing, or you're going to owe them $50.) In any case, you get in line, grab a tray and then order from one of the a la minute cooks. There's pizza and pasta, but I usually avoid pizza outside of NYC because I eat entirely too much pizza in NYC. You can choose from a host of different types of pasta, and then you choose your sauce combination from four different price tiers. The cook then makes it all happen in a [traditional Italian] wok. You then go grab a seat wherever you can find one, and stuff your face. Strange ordering system aside, I see this chain taking America by storm because it's a fat man's DREAM. I know this, because I was even satisfied by the enormous portions, although the drastically overdressed salad turned me off a bit. However, the bread was excellent, the fresh pasta of surprisingly high quality, and the sauces we chose were not half bad. It is a cafeteria atmosphere, but the prices are correspondingly cheap, and I do like the touch of having fresh basil and rosemary on the tables for your use. I'm generally not a fan of chains of any kind, but I've had much worse meals for much more money, and I'd do it again. _____________ *I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me.

I had been to Vapiano before. It really used to be much better. I speak german, so my experience…read morehad nothing to do with that. To be honest, I went in with the expectation of getting decent food, but I certainly wasn't expecting anything spectacular. What I got was horrific. I came in and was greeted, but the guy at the counter didn't even say hello. I thought to myself, "Okay...whatever. His thing." I then proceed to the pizza counter, where it was not at all clear where I should order. The cook then just ignores me, and keeps chatting with his colleague. I stand there for at least two minutes. Un-helped. There is no one else at the counter. The guy behind the counter looks like he has seen batter days. He messed up on the computer and had to void my order. I ordered a cheese pizza and a bottled ice tea. The cook puts around six or so pizzas into a compartment, and rings everyones buzzer at the same time. My pizza is cold when I get it. And burned. The guy didn't even bother to cover more than half of the pizza with tomato sauce and cheese. It was so dry. Like dust. The whole thing cost me 11 Euros. Total rip off if you ask me. Cross this one off the list. Couldn't even eat half of the pizza because it was not even a pizza. It was a burned cracker.