Oh Oregano's, one of my first and favorite Arizona-born restaurant loves. For starters, if you've never been to an Oregano's and are in the area, stop what you are doing and go inside right now! This especially rings true if you're visiting Phoenix or are in town for a short period of time. Although the food has gone down in quality, it's the atmosphere, nostalgia, and service that makes this a great place. Food: In terms of Appetizers, we ordered the Wings which were cooked to perfection. The spicy flavor with the Italian blend was right on point. We also ordered a favorite, the Chicken Caesar salad which had a great flavor, but was honestly lacking when it came to the chicken. Regarding the entrees, we also ordered the Alfredo in the Dark with Chicken. The sauce was a bit watery, the dish looked significant smaller than how it used to be served, and there was a lack of chicken when it came to the dish. For dessert we had the fan favorite- Pzookie! (Pizza Cookie) Honestly, you can't t go to Oregano's without ordering the Pzookie, it's like going to Cheesecake Factory without the Cheesecake. I really feel like they were the pioneers when it came to this dish! The service and interior atmosphere was really great at this location, the servers were very attentive and the decor was on point. My one gripe with Oregano's is that they have really skimped out on their chicken, which is really evident when you compare their Chicken Caesar salad and Alfredo in the Dark to their previous versions. Overall, I would recommend checking this place out! read more

Oregano's - Chicken Caesar salad - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

First time coming to this place. It was recommended. We came in wanting good pizza & we got some amazing pie. Chicago style thin crust with pepperoni and roasted jalapeños and the oreganos favorite salad. Really good food!. Definitely coming back!. The service was quick and good. The inside was nice and cool with this crazy heat and had a chill and relaxing vibe to it. read more

Always amazing! But our table attendant was over the top amazing as our high maintenance teenager had a meltdown trying to decide what to eat! Our server gal came up with a solution and made our lunch amazing! I failed to remember her name and I'm sorry for that! We sat in center section and she was lovely and very patient! The food incredible good, clean and fun atmosphere! read more

Hankering for a sandwich and not just any old sandwich. A friend suggested Oreganos so I thought I'd give it a go. Every now and then I crave a veggie sandwich but didn't know if it would be on the menu. Yup it was and man oh man was it delicious. Served on a toasted sub roll, it was layered with mozzarella and Parmesan cheese and loaded with fresh veggies. There was not a limp veggie in the lot. Crisp and delicious. The coleslaw side and chips were okay and the dill pickle was a nice touch. But the star of the show was the sandwich. Take a gander at the photo and drool. read more

Oregano's - Awesome & Delicious Veggie Sandwich - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

This place is good, but not great. Our waitress was so sweet and efficient! But, regarding the food it's mediocre. I regret not trying some of their more popular items because maybe I would have enjoyed it more. Again, the food isn't terrible and the staff was great, food is just mediocre. read more

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Great pasta place to dine in or take to go. Love the spicy options but The Lady Is A Scampi is definitely our favorite. This location gets really busy and has a great room for larger groups. read more

Always a fan favorite within our friend groups! There is almost always a wait when we go but it is always worth it! My favorites are the Big Rig pasta and the honey gold wings. Both are so delicious however I don't think you can go wrong with anything you order. read more

Being from Chicago, we love !! Of course we find one with an amazing story! Not only was this thin crust pizza with Wisconsin cheese amazing; The start of Oregano's began on the north side of Chicago during the Great Depression when the owner was born! When you go you can expect to hear Frank Sinatra & swingin' Big Band records just a wonderful tribute to living in the 50's. His simple philosophy about life: the key to happiness is friends, good food and music. The service was awesome! read more

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We just moved here from Wyoming/Colorado and are very familiar with Oreganos as it was one of our favorite restaurants in Fort Collins, Colorado. We enjoyed our food and drinks, and our service was friendly and attentive. However, the bar area at this location sucks! Very limited seating because most of the bar is used for take out. Also the location of the bar is not ideal for flow of traffic as people go tp and from their tables. read more

The food was good , well i can say its better than olive garden in my opinion for the chicken Alfredo. Me and my family agreed it's good even there food was good to . The service was good to . Had no issues it was my first time here and the experience was good. My family is familiar with this place i came here because they recommend it, we were meting here as a family for lunch , and not bad read more

Two stars for our server Eric who was terrific and his service top notch. Salad & bread were Yummy Pasta was terrible. Alfredo sauce was A for awful was separated and flavorless and under sauced. Eric was great and replaced it with a smile making it easy for us. Chicken was fried until just...too crispy Again, not Eric's fault. It should have been a 1 star We'll try again of course and hope I can kick it up a star This is a family favorite read more

I had a bad experience with this chain during Covid. This time I had gluten free pizza and it came out fine. Food was very good.

One of our favorite italian restaurants. We ordered the Chicago Stuffed Thick Crust pizza. The wait was well worth it...it was awesome! The food was great, as was the service, and tge atmosphere was a fun crowd. This is one of several Oregano's in the Phoenix market. We've eaten at several, and it's always been a great experience. Cold beer & fabulous menu is great for all. Check out Oregano's for your italian taste buds... you won't go wrong. Period! read more

Yum! We are new to the area and ordered Oregano's for takeout. The online order process was a bit cumbersome on a phone so I ended up ordering it by call. We were quoted 25-30 minutes and slipped on over for pick up. They have things nicely organized for pick up. Unfortunately, the call in pick up girl was very overstretched and we ended up waiting more than 50 minutes for our order. A bit of a bummer, especially because by the time we got our food and drove home it seemed pretty cold, like it might have been forgotten in the back. Either way, microwave fixed the cold food issue. I enjoyed my "Alfredo after dark" and my spouse's ziti was delicious. Kid's meal was a good size when adding a meatball. We'd order again! read more

Oregano's - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

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I am incredibly disappointed to write this review about Oregano's Pizza Bistro, a place my family and I used to love. Unfortunately, our most recent visit was ruined by an appalling experience involving a higher-up manager named Michael. David, our favorite server, has always been the highlight of our visits. His exceptional service and warm personality made each meal memorable. However, during our last visit, we witnessed something that left us deeply upset. David and Michael seemed to be talking about payment of some sort which seems simple enough to pull your employee somewhere private but this manager decided to do it at the front of the restaurant. Michael then degraded David in front of us and other customers. His exact words, "If $25 makes or breaks you, you have bigger issues," or something along those lines overall they were not only disrespectful but entirely uncalled for. David remained composed, but it was clear he was humiliated. No employee should ever be treated this way, especially someone as dedicated and hardworking as David. His amazing service is the only reason we kept coming back to Oregano's. Witnessing such mistreatment has left a bitter taste in our mouths, and we will not be returning to Oregano's Pizza Bistro. It is heartbreaking to see good employees being treated so poorly, and we cannot support an establishment that allows such behavior. If you value respectful treatment of staff and good service, I would advise you to look elsewhere. This experience has been enough for us to take our business elsewhere, and we hope management takes serious steps to address this issue. You just lost 3 valuable customers and the rats didn't scare us that were in the female bathroom CEILING but a manager did. DISAPPOINTING!!! Hopefully David leaves we will visit him elsewhere. This review is now being censored. read more

We ordered take out pizza and it was a big disappointment. When we opened the box it looked as though the pizza had been thrown in the box. It was not cut in their usual square fashion but haphazardly cut. The pizza was not done in the middle. I've always enjoyed Oregano's crispy crust and this one was far from it. I'm very disappointed. read more

It was good. Nothing that took us from. Good to "great", but still good. They have delicious wings and the chips that go with it and addicting. Love the crunch. I would always recommend this place. read more

Oregano's - This is us waiting for our food - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

Stopped in for dinner and had an awesome experience. Started with the host Jaquelyn was very helpful and had a great attitude the whole time. Food was yummy as always!! read more

First time at Oregano's and they are cool! We ordered a stuffed chicago pizza, lots o broccoli, and a pineapple alcohol drink, they were good. We were trying to have only a pizza and a drink, but since they said it would take about an hour to get the stuffed chicago pizza, we ordered a Lots O broccoli, which was a good choice. It just came with broccolis topped with parmesan cheese and oil, but it was so good! And wait for some time, our stuffed pizza came! It didn't take an hour, we actually got the pizza in 30 mins. And omg... I didn't check the size when I ordered, but it was huge!!! A huge stuffed chicago pizza for 18 bucks? Well I think this is a deal. It came with like 10 pieces and we could only had one and a half pieces each lol we were too stuffed that couldn't have even two pieces each. We ended up taking the rest at home, but really happy about it since we can freeze it and warm it up and eat it like it's freshly cooked :) oh and there are 6 pieces in my freezer lol read more

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Food was great!! Seriously would recommend this spot, Pan pizza is definitely a must when hitting this spot. read more

The food, service and ambiance were outstanding. Nice and quiet, elegant place to enjoy a great meal.

The pizza came out with meatball size sausage. They made a second pizza and it came out cold. Very disappointing when this was once my favorite pizza place. read more

Oregano's - Oregano Pizza - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

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Horrible Horrible!! Worst Chicken Parm. Ever heard of seasonings? It was so bland!! Also my hubby got a pasta with beautiful shrimp on top. He was so excited until he bit in to one and they were raw inside. He told the waiter and said just cook this one. You don't need to make a new. They literally just put it under the heat lamp. 15 minutes later it came back exactly like it was and cold to touch in the middle. They tried to pull a fast one and it could have got him sick. Be very careful!! Go to Carrabas they have great Chicken parm. Very very disappointed !!! Plus because I don't like fettuccine noodles and asked for regular spaghetti noodles they charged me an additional 8.00. Rip off!!!! read more

We experienced some disappointments the last time we ate here my kiddo has always loved them so we tried again tonight. They've done something awful to the bistro calamari (it wasn't good last time either,) that's made it taste bland and fishy at the same time. They don't put nearly enough of the seasoning they used to (it was unique and made their dish craveable, so to lose it is sad.) The "marinara" for dipping tasted like bland plum tomatoes that have been too long in the can and were just crushed and served as a sauce. Bland and metallic tasting. So almost no seasoning, terrible (crime against humanity) marinara and there were no lemons! Our server had taken off for parts unknown so it was stone cold before we were finally able to get some to try and save it. Mission failed. As I mentioned, the service wasn't great. There was a weird incident with seating. No hostess. I don't know if it was staffing shortage or something weird they're trying with having servers seat their own tables or seat other servers tables but we waited a while and then when someone finally came, she looked at us awkwardly, entered something into the console and then didn't acknowledge us and basically ran away. Odd and sort of rude. The ranch tasted funny for our salads. I'm wondering if they changed supplier and their ingredients aren't as good? I dunno. It was just so disappointing. End of an era for us. read more

First I was so looking forward to eating a deep crust, that's why I chose oregano's. We started out with calamari good than get the pizza the crust look totally different like not buttery crust but flat bread, I said weird but ok we eat the pizza and I said what the heck is this crap, did not taste good at all. All the flavors are wrong. I asked and they said they changed crust. Not this sucked. Disappointed. I don't think I ever said a pizza was bad but this was crap!!! Don't skimp on quality go back to what it was this was not better. I usually eat the crust but not this one so gross. Do better read more

Service was not acceptable. When we got there no one was sitting next to us. The people on the other side was already given they're bill. Then a group of ladies were seated next to us. The waitress then took our beverage order. She took they're beverage order. Then another group of ladies were seated. She took they're beverage order. She finally came with our orange juices with no straws. She brought they're entire beverage set up (wine, hermosas,etc.) The other table got they're beverages. And we're still waiting. Then both tables got served they're main meals. We were ignored. Still we have not received our meal after 30 minutes of waiting. read more

I love this place! The food is delicious, I am Vegan and love their salads and side orders. My granddaughters had ravioli and my daughter and son in law had pizza. The atmosphere is great. All around enjoyable. read more

Saturday night at this place is bumpin so beware. Took them about 2 hours to have my wings and Italian wedding soup ready. But sooo worth it. The golden Italian wings were fantastic. Not since Zipps have golden wings been done so well. I would recommend getting them well done as they are not lying about the jumbo. The Italian wedding soup is so flavorful and warms your soul. They do good food here for sure. read more

Oregano's - Saturday night fever! - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

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Hadn't been in a long while, a very long time 20+ years. Thin pepperoni pizza-awesome, Alfredo dark-good (nothing to write home about), lemon pasta with chicken-chicken a little tough would be best grilled, but pasta is great, Italian wedding soup-great too. Maybe it's better in person vs take out read more

The hostess with the dyed red hair has a horrible attitude and this is the second time we've encountered her. She could Care less about all of the people outside in the cold. We waited nearly 2 hours for a table while there were multiple Open tables. She wouldn't even look, she just stood at the hostess stand. Just because we asked her how much longer she snapped at us and wanted us to wait. Two hours!!! It was cold and they didn't put the heaters on. We ended up leaving and not eating. Will never go back read more

I came by on Saturday at 8:45 PM. At 9 PM, we placed our order for a Chicago stuffed, two topping pizza. Our waitress told us a thin crust pizza takes ~30 minutes, pan takes ~45 minutes, and Chicago stuffed takes ~1 hour. We opted for the Chicago stuffed knowing the restaurant closes at 10 PM. Our pizza came out at 9:30 PM. Great right? No, our pizza was very much undercooked and the crust was very dough-y tasting and bland. They were definitely rushing our meal, which I don't appreciate. The mac and cheese was really good and a tad spicy (similar to pepper jack cheese/jalapeno infused cheese?, but it wasn't enough to salvage the god awful pizza. I've had several deep dish pizza - some from Chicago and some from Oakland, CA and this place has NOTHING on those places. read more

Great food fast and very clean this is my pizza place for Arizona and I'm from Chicago

Service was excellent. Food has fallen. We ordered the thin crust with a few toppings. The crust was black around the entire edge, the sauce was only really near the edge of the crust, and the cheese was so thick in the center that it congealed quickly and was rubbery. I had been looking forward to Oregano's all week and this was a pretty disappointing experience. Another note: when a child under 10 asks for a flavored lemonade, they don't need a giant GLASS from the bar for $5 because they are likely only going to drink 20% of it anyway. read more

You can't go wrong at Oreganos with delicious Italian food, generous portions, interesting and entertaining ambiance and knowledgeable and attentive staff. This is regular place for us. It gets pretty busy during dinner hour so we use the call ahead feature to grab our place in line. read more

Never been to this specific location before but I'm really glad I stopped by! I absolutely love the atmosphere. It was giving cozy/ homey vibes, which was a nice touch. My guest and I were sat right away this past Thursday night. We were greeted by our server name Andrew. He was on top of our requests and drinks we orders; thanks Andrew! The food was so delicious along with the generous portion. We had to take the rest home; however, we order dessert. We had the cookie with ice cream on top, I can see why so many people love this item choice. Oregano's did not let me down at all; will return for sure! read more

Oregano's - Lemon chicken pasta with strawberry lemonade and mango/ strawberry lemonade - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

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#1 thing to get is the fried zucchini. Trust me, you won't regret it. #2 Peroni Beer. Again, trust me. We don't go to chain restaurants that often, but we love their thin pizza and have been coming more and more. If you like thinner pizzas, look no further! Their deep dish pizzas are good too, just not my preference. Our server was SO amazing and kind....possibly the nicest lady I've ever met. She had a shorter low black pony tail, and was serving us in the patio area. Didn't over do it by checking up on us but was always there when we were ready, and she was super quick. Wish I could remember her name to shout it out! We were there last Sunday before Thanksgiving. I can see us continuing to come here. You feel like family when you're here! read more

Oregano's - Fried zucchini and calamari. Calamari was ok, but the zucchini is the best. Plus the Peroni beer - Pizza Near Me - Glendale, Arizona

Got the Ragin Cajun with fettuccine noodles and scarfed it down immediately. It tastes great and I look forward to ordering it again at my next visit read more

Taya gave us great service! Was very helpful with the menu & very friendly. The pasta was delicious, also have fine wine. read more

We enjoy coming here becuase the quantity of food is enormous and so delicious. We ordered the Cajun Pasta and Baked Ziti. So delicous and the service was Excellent, Kallie always had our glasses full, food was brought out hot and she answered every reqest we had including the 2 spoons with the Pizza cookie and vanilla ice cream. Very quiet locstion and so much to look at on the walls, cielling. Great music and atmosphere! read more

When you don't know where to go, go to oregano's great place to hang out and eat some pizza!