We live nearby and wanted to try this place after we saw the positive YELP reviews. Once again,…read moreYELP for the win!! We started with the Arancini, a deep-fried ball of rice, pesto and mozzarella; rolled in bread crumbs. Never had anything like it before. It's amazing. Their tomato sauce is so fresh and salted perfectly. For your entrees, you "build your own"....choose your pasta, the sauce and the protein.My wife had the penne pasta, tomato sauce and meatballs. Very good. I chose the lobster ravioli with vodka sauce. Excellent. The bread is also terrific. Prices are fair. Service very attentive. It is a very minimalist dining room, boardering on spartan, but who cares, you can't eat ambience. We will definitely be back. Want to try their margherita pizza. Also saw another diner's entree of pasta with pesto sauce. This place lived up to its stellar YELP score!!

Pastaza in Trophy Club keeps things simple, and that choice pays off…read more The menu sticks to Italian basics. Nothing feels padded or overworked. What lands on the table tastes careful and confident, like a kitchen that knows when to stop. Sauces feel balanced. Pasta comes out cooked right, not rushed and not tired. Portions make sense. The dining room is clean every time I visit. That sounds minor, but it sets the tone. You trust the food before the first bite. Even the cheese pizza makes the case for the place. It looks plain. Then you taste it. The crust has structure without going stiff. The cheese melts evenly and carries real flavor, not just salt. It is the kind of pizza you keep eating without thinking about it, then notice the plate is empty. Pastaza does not chase trends. It focuses on doing familiar food well. That guardrail is likely why it works.

What a find! We were in the area and needed food for dinner (and had time to kill...rush hour)…read more Food: stuffed mushrooms, chicken parm, and tortellini...all fantastic! Do not fill up on the bread (it's delightfully fresh, and so good), or you'll need a to go box like us (rookie mistake on our end). By the way...the leftovers were just as good for lunch the next day. So go ahead...fill up on the bread!! The service is quaint and sassy. It's a family owned joint (we met. Vinny), and you feel like a part if the family from start to finish. The place is charming, not too bright (I absolutely loathe well-lit restaurants), and has that diner vibe. If you're looking for something unique and tasty, this is your new spot!! We will be back...soon!!!

Quiet little place in a strip mall. Went for a quick bite,…read moreand stayed for the atmosphere. Friendly staff, decent food, close to home, worth the trip. My wife had chicken fettuccine Alfredo, I want with the Stromboli. It was Everything we expected. No complaints.

Best New York/ New Jersey style pizza I've had the pizza had zero Flop lots of flavor and let me…read moretell you the service is great all workers are very kind the environment is very nice brings me back to when I used to live up in Jersey. Overall 10 out of 10 great restaurant

A hidden gem! It is…read moregood for a few occasions. Cheap lunch by the slice! Sit down dinner with the family in the restaurant part. BUT the best part is the bar in the back for watching games and getting drinks and easy dinner with friends. They do allow smoking in the bar just an FYI. But the owner is wonderful and the food has never failed me. Been countless times and still coming back.

Our office property managers had a pizza party yesterday with the Hook and Ladder pizza truck…read more 10/10 the pizza was fresh and delicious! The converted fire truck was also such a cute idea! Wish I had a picture of the pizza fresh, but I ate it too fast They also offered ENTIRE BOXES of pizza, so of course I had to get one.

Got to enjoy these awesome pizzas during the 4th July Festival!! I love the firetruck and…read more marketing vibe relating to this pizza business! They were even making these fresh on location, even rolling out the dough in front of drooling customers! The lines were long and you could tell they were a favorite food item for the night! Definitely will try them on location too!

Nice clean place. Atmosphere is fun and casual. Full bar. This is kind of like a Brazilian steak…read morehouse style, but with pizza. You order one of three fixed menus. One is salad, pizza and dessert pizza (I know, but give it a try). The other includes a choice of appetizer and the third is appetizer choice and dessert choice. Essentially, the wait staff brings different pizza around and you either try a slice or pass. They will keep bringing pizza and salad until you tell them no more. Our server was Ray (also a bartender), she was very friendly. If you want a full pizza tell the server and they will accommodate. I really liked the customer service. The pizza was fun to try different types (Brazilian Salami, pepperoni, margarita, and desert pizza coconut creme, nutella. Sweet pizzas. All different, not all ones I liked, but the whole experience was fun. And our server was fantastic at making us feel welcome and making sure we got what we wanted. Will definitely be back.

I can't give 1/2 stars. But I give 2.5 stars. It took about 5-7 mins for anyone to acknowledge us…read more We got sat and waited another 8-10 mins for the sever to come and offer drinks. The card was red and right away the pizza came. And that was the last time it was that fast. We waited in between every serving for a bit of time. At one point we sat for 10 mins waiting on more pizza. Once we finished and was ready for dessert that took forever. We asked for the dessert and the waiter said it'll be out shortly and didn't come back until we were ready to pay. It's a great concept and the pizza is good but could be done better.

Wise Guys Pizzaria in Roanoke is the bomb! I'm a pizza snob so I'm extremely picky when it comes to…read morepizza. The crust was as perfect as one can get to a Naples, Italy, derum semolina dough. (That's the one without the unbleached enriched white flour American products use.) I had the hand tossed original crust, specifically with white sauce, chicken, onion, mushrooms, asiago, mozzarella and parmesian. Delicioso! The house white wine in Cloe du Bois....very nice. The house red is Dark Horse cab. Jordan was my server. I loved her service, knowledge, and laid back professionalism. Her hair is gorgeous: long and black. She recognized me as soon as I walked in, despite being otherwise preoccupied. I appreciated that. While the inside is low-lighting, the ceilings are extremely high. There are several TVs tuned to sports. While there is a small patio out front along the street, the better one is the larger, covered patio (door found near the bar). There's a patio indoor/outdoor wooden Barton counter that is encompassed by the bar with raised windows on good weather days. There's plenty of tables on this back patio as well.

Rounding up here probably more like 3.5...but the service was really good…read more 6pm on Friday (day after Thanksgiving) for a quick dinner. Seated immediately, location was about 1/2 full. Bartender/Manager(?) took our drink order and brought garlic knots to snack on. Nice touch, guess this is like offering dinner rolls...? Either way, they were good and much appreciated. Decent selection of beers and even a few craft options avaliable too. Bar area was buzzing during our visit and it appears they have some drink specials throughout the week. They were showing the NFL game, so good spot to catch a game too. Seating is a mix of tables and booths, and a bar in the back corner. We ordered 2 personal pizza options (4 slices, 8 inch), 1 was a custom order and other was their menu offering with spicy marinara, sausage, jalapenos and pepper jack cheese. Pizzas arrived pretty quickly. The crust was larger than expected and was a little more doughy than expected. Not bad, just not what we were expecting for hand-tossed crust options. Toppings were appropriate, so no concerns there. The pizza was good, not great, no complaints...just average pizza, similar to what you might get from a delivery pizza place. The server was really good and seemed to be covering the entire place, and yet she stopped by multiple times to check on us and refill glasses. I think I'd like to give the location another try again in the future.

I found this place on Happy Cow because they have vegan cheese. Staff was very friendly and…read morehelpful. Food was good, a colleague got a salad and the portion size was great. I ordered a calzone, it was not really what I expected but decent. Wasn't crowded, restaurant was clean, decor was nothing special

Great place to eat that has great service and environment as well. The pizza is delicious and I…read morerecommend the Chicken Alfredo as well. If you are in the area I highly recommend!

I absolutely love N.Y. Pizza & Pasta. Their pizza menu isn't huge, but I've tried every single…read moreone--and I've loved them all. The flavor and texture of their pizza are truly unique compared to anything else in the area. It's not too thick, not too thin, but has this perfect firmness and bite that keeps you coming back. Definitely try the Pepperoni and the Lasagna pizzas--you won't be disappointed.

Food, DELICIOUS! Service, WONDERFUL! Ambiance was small and cute. This place is a hidden gem. These…read moreout-of-state visitors plan on returning.

Taverna Rossa is a nice restaurant where you can come for a date night, a meal with family, or…read moregoing out with friends. The first time that I came I wasn't too impressed with the green chile mac & cheese pizza but this next time after ordering something new, my expectations were blown away. We ordered the queen margherita pizza with the gluten free crust and the chicken parmesan pasta and everything was AMAZING. The pizza was cooked to just the right crisp with a very flavorful sauce, and the chicken parmesan had a perfectly cooked chicken with cheese on top and a delicious chicken alfredo pasta with 2 pieces of bread. The cooks were on it that night! Not only was our food amazing but our waiter did his job extremely well and was very personable. It was a 10/10 service and we will definitely be coming back!

Went here on a Saturday night around 5pm. It was busy, but we were seated immediately, which was…read moreawesome! We were brought upstairs to this little loft area, which felt....like we were being punished. Now we were only a 2 top, so I can understand that they may not have a spot or wanted us to take up a 4-top on a Saturday night, but it felt...CRAMPED up there. This place really does seem fun, but it was very hard to enjoy it up in the attic... As far as the restaurant, it was very clean and well kept, no issues with how everything looked. Nothing was really out of place, although it did feel like the upstairs was a storage area. We ordered the Killer Queso for an appetizer, which was served with fritos. Odd choice for fritos, but hey, all good, didnt take away from the appetizer. What took away from the appetizer was the fact that this felt like it was heated up from a can. The cheese was not really seasoned well and it was already clumpy, like it had been left out for a while. Then we ordered 2 pizzas; The Bees Knees (spicy red sauce, hot soppressata, fresh moz, basil, honey) and Local Goat & Fig (bacon, goat cheese, free moz, dried figs, balsamic glaze, basil). Here is where I continue to say that pizza is a very opinionated meal, so your taste may differ, but this was my take. Flavor was there, I liked the pizza, it had a nice crispy crust, however, as far as the bee's knees, there was no spicy that pizza at all, like zero heat. The Goat & Fig was good, like the flavors they put on that pizza. The crust did lack some flavor and could have used some olive oil maybe. There was a nice crispy to the crust, like I said, but ZERO crisp on the bottom of it, which is odd. they had a nice wood fired oven (at least I think it was wood, hard to tell from the attic). So you thin they could get a nice bottom, but hey, it is what it is. Drinks. Had a OB Hef and also a Prickly Pear Mule, both were DIVINE, best part of the evening! Staff. Well, lets just say, she started off like she was going to be fun, but really felt like we were annoying her to have been seated up there. I could understand with having to walk up and down a narrow staircase with food and drinks. She must have passed us 5-6 times and we had not touched any more of our pizza. She finally did bring us a box for it. Overall, price was not bad, the drinks were awesome, the service was meh and the meal was meh. I think that this place could be KILLING IT, and maybe it was just an off night, perhaps we will try it again with a bigger party to see how it is.

We planned to eat in downtown Roanoke, but there was a festival happening and the streets were…read moreblocked off. No parking. So we left and drove by Italian Bistro. We were treating our granddaughter to dinner and she wanted Italian so we decided to try it. Our experience was fantastic. The ambiance has a New York vibe. My husband ordered pizza which he loved. My granddaughter ordered chicken piccata and said it was good. I ordered sausage pizziola and it was so delicious. They serve one cab and one Chardonnay by the glass. More options by the bottle. I ordered a glass of the Cabernet and the quality was beyond the price. The server was attentive and kind. The owner stopped by to check on us several times. What more do you need? We will be back for more delicious dinners.

We took my in laws out to dinner last Sat night and to look at Christmas decorations the whole…read moreplace was decorated so nice! The meal was very good! Our waitress was very sweet, she had a full section and I know for a fact that she tried hard to make sure we had what we needed .. In laws we're happy. I got the chicken piccata and it was very very tasty ! We will be back ;) MK