We ordered pizza, chicken Caesar salad, and pasta Alfredo. The food and customer service was great! Ambiance is welcoming Italian restaurant. read more

Original Italian Pizza & Restaurant - Cheese Pizza - Italian Near Me - Elysburg, Pennsylvania

We were very disappointed. I had 3 coupons for free hoagies that I purchased from a fundraiser that did say "take out only" which I did not notice until we arrived to eat. There were 6 of us and we were going to order other food in addition to the 3 hoagies. I asked if it would be possible to order the hoagies and then just bring them to the table and have them with the rest of the food we were ordering. The waitress said she didn't think so, but would check with the manager. She came back and said no, the manager said it's take out only. I asked who would stop me if I were to get the hoagies and then just come around through the dining room door with them to the table. She said "I would! And don't roll your eyes at me!" I would understand if the restaurant was busy and they needed the table, but there were only about 3 other groups in the entire dining room, so it's not like we would have been taking up a table that they needed for another party, and as I said we were going to order other food. So we got up, I went to the counter , ordered the 3 hoagies and we left. She lost out on a very nice tip and they lost out on a very nice food order, because we were planning on ordering quite a bit of food. I will also not go back, nor will I ever purchase any fundraising coupons for any organization if it is from them. read more

To start this off we have been going to OIP and taking out from them for many years. After our recent order from them we definitely will not be ordering again. To preference we ordered 3 pizzas, all three we have ordered in the past, on this particular one we got a mushroom with extra sauce. Again never had a problem before with this order, but for some reason this pizza was very soupy and haphazard with very little cheese. There was nothing wrong with the other two pizzas but the man on the phone insisted he made it himself and everything was made to perfection and tried explaining that adding extra sauce does that. He then tried to explain that in my transportation from driving the roads could have even caused it. It got to the point that he told me i would have to pay for another pizza to be made at this point it made no sense. what got me was he told me he didn't have time to argue, and tried back tracking and told me he didn't say that. The main of the argument was he personally made the pizza and blamed me without saying it was my fault but everything i did and ordered was the problem. read more

FIX THE ENTRANCE. I have been here beyond numerous times. I came up to OIP to have dinner with my friends Steve and Jack. Steve is a very big man and it's taken a toll on his knees. So we parked at the "old" front entrance or what any person in the world would assume to be the front entrance. We walked through the door and were told by the snotty little bleached blonde waitresses that the entrance is now on the "side" and we'd need to go back out and walk all the way around the building. I said ok and walked past her twenty feet to the hostess stand. REALLY????? You should be happy people come in here for your AVERAGE pizza and LESS THAN AVERAGE service. $30 plus tip for a pizza and 3 sodas........... And yes I walked right back through the restaurant and back out the door I came in when I left. read more

9/11/20 they would not honor my yelp reward of free breadsticks so that was disappointing. The place was really busy and although the inside seating area was virtually empty thanks to the governor we were on a 25 minute wait. We elected to get take out instead. . . I was grateful that they took our order and we did get our food within the 30 minutes as promised. We ordered 1 large pizza half pepperoni and half cheese. I felt like the pepperoni was very stingy and there was a lot of crust on the pizza. I felt like it was cutting corners. The garden salad was good -crispy lettuce, tomato, peppers and cucumbers. The pizza was ok and I teetered on a 2 1/2-3 star review. I would probably return again but would try something else on the menu- not pizza. read more

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Food here is great, but the prices are starting to push a little bit too high to come here consistently. The subs are good, but after hearing the total for 3 the other day, I had to check what the price was and was surprised that they've gone up to $8.50 each for cold subs. You can even see on the menu here on Yelp that they used to be under 6 bucks. Wings have been way high for a while, but now subs are getting to that point as well. I think we'll just come by for a takeout pizza once or twice a month now. Everything else has gone up too much. Edited to add: Can you all PLEASE post an updated menu online somewhere? A lot of your prices have gone up a lot lately, and it would be nice to be able to see them before ordering. read more

This place has the worse pizza. The sauce is too tart and the pizza was hard. Hardly any cheese never again

Let me tell yall future customers this, STAY FAR FAR AWAY FROM THIS SCUMMY PLACE. We ordered mozzarella sticks as a starter cause that's what we always do, keep in mind im a regular here so im surprised I even experienced this today. They arrived within a minute and I was shocked that they came that fast even though she had just taken our order. I bite into it and it was completely frozen. Almost broke my damn tooth biting into it that's how frozen they were. I waved over the waiter and she didn't apologize for inconvenience just took it off our table and went to go bring another one. I'm over here thinking they will definitely say something, maybe take it off, or even give us something as a sorry since they saw me bite into a hard ass popsicle, BUT HELLLL NO THEY STILL CHARGED US FOR IT. I'm telling the fat grumpy manager that even though I bit into a rock solid mozz stick you're not even gonna compensate me or at least discount for THIER MISHAP but the bowling ball manager replies with this "but we made you another one" with attitude looking at me like it was my fault when they f*cked it up in the first place. If she would've taken it off in the first place maybe the server would've gotten a tip but hell no they would rather keep the $8 from their Sysco mozzarella sticks and give the customer a big F U, insanely unbelievable. She doesn't even know how to run a business and im surprised she's even a manager. Couldn't take it off and now she just lost a repeat customer. Must really really suck. I warned you guys yall are better off going to Pizza Hut than this shit show. read more

I ate here with 4 other people. The inside is a bit run down with booths having rips in them but the service was nice and attentive. The food was yummy. I recommend getting garlic bread with cheese for the table, it was so yummy. I ordered a vegetarian calzone with basil which was pretty yummy! Overall everyone enjoyed their meal except my mom who ordered a taco salad. For the most part I would stick to ordering classic Italian food while you dine here. :) read more

Original Italian Pizza & Restaurant - Taco salad, not great - Italian Near Me - Elysburg, Pennsylvania

great place to eat food is fantastic. staff is friendly and pleasant. we dine here every time we come to knoebels. Takeout is easy and fast read more

Terrible terrible terrible customer service. Condescending staff, can tell they hate working there. 90% of my takeout orders are messed up. Reading a piece of paper and making the food on it is far from rocket science, yet I ordered a cheesesteak salad and it didn't even have cheese in it. That's like buying a car and they don't give you wheels with it. Atmosphere is confusing as well, different entrances for different service, lol, very intelligent. read more

Large servings. My salad went for 2 days! Can get busy around dinner time. They have 2 entrances, one for takeout only

Awesome place to eat and very fast service! If you like blue cheese the Blue cheese crunch burger is awesome!

We wanted pizza before Knoebels opened. Our waitress was friendly and we got our food fast. We all thought the pizza was really good! I'm surprised they only have 3 stars. We would definitely go back if in the area. read more

:-( Man, I really want to give this place a good review. There's so little in the restaurant scene in Elysburg. Every time I order a pizza, it's under-cooked. Ugh. Every time I go in - no one really seems to be in a good mood that works there. Ugh. Sandwiches - mediocre at best. The place itself is very nice, but the food is just going downhill. It's a shame. read more

This insanly easy. I ordered 10 wings from a menu last year (2020) and 10 wings. We're 10$ now they are 16$ don't go there !!!!!!!!!!!

WOW!!! We loved it! We're from Philadelphia which has a lot of great places, so we are picky when it comes to pizza pies! We stopped in to the Original Italian Pizza & Restaurant on Saturday night, Sept 5, 2020 on our way home from Knoebels for take out, right before they closed. The counter girl couldn't have been nicer and made sure we had everything we needed to eat on the go. The order was perfect - the food, plates, napkins, ketchup, knives & forks, etc! The pizza was really great, and the sauce they use was delicious! Our kids are young, 4 & 7, and loved their chicken finger platters, with nice square cut fries...and she made sure we had plenty of ketchup & happy kids! We are looking forward to coming back and are happy to recommend Original Italian Pizza!!! read more

We've made this place a regular stop when we're in the area! Great food, good atmosphere, friendly people! Really like their pizza! Portions are big too. Leftovers heat up well. Overall an enjoyable dining experience that keeps us coming back for more. read more

I just checked in and got a free order of bread sticks with my large pizza. Great deal very friendly staff! I'll be back read more

Original Italian Pizza & Restaurant - Back of house cooking my pie! - Italian Near Me - Elysburg, Pennsylvania

SUMMARY: Something happened here, its just not good anymore :( We used to LOVE going to this OIP. The cheese steaks were to DIE for, they were that good. Then something happened, we don't know what. But it seems like management changed and everything went down hill. The cheese steaks where in theory the same, but they weren't anywhere near as good. Steaks were over cooked, cheese wasn't mixed in, bread wasn't as fresh. Then we hit the service that stopped us from going here. We ordered ribs and they came out BLACK as in BURNT to hell and back. We tried, I mean tried to eat them. They were not eatable. We called the manager over and told her of the concerns and she never once apologized or seemed to care. Almost telling us that they were fine. Trust me, they were not OK, like char on a stick! ... It got so bad that we basically told her that we weren't paying for this and had to walk out of the restaurant after insisting that we pay for the drinks. Ok, now cooking 101: YOU DO NOT put BBQ sauce on ribs and then put them on the grill, it burns. You heat up a pot of BBQ sauce, heat up the ribs and then smother it on. So long story short, something happened. This place went from being WE HAVE TO STOP here each time we are in elysburg to: Lets never go here again. Slow service, bad food, and not nearly as clean all around. This review was in my humble opinion and your mileage may vary. read more

Food was great value for the money. Large portion sizes. Wings are really good.

I went here after going to the Bloomsburg Fair. We had garden salads, pizza and lobster ravioli. The pizza was very fresh. The crust was cooked perfectly. All the toppings were fresh. We had green peppers, mushrooms and black olives. The service was very attentive and pleasant. Our server was Chrissy. Everything exceeded my expectations. My experience definitely contradicts other reviewers. My visit was not anything like what the negative reviewers experienced. I would recommend trying it out for yourself! read more

OIP has good pizza. Not "OMG the best pizza I've ever eaten", but okay. I ate in the restaurant and it was pleasant, service was good.

I've been here four times and have the following to offer: 1). Customer Service. Staff are all very pleasant. You get a table quickly and your drink order is fast. The wait staff to get your order aren't quite as fast but quite friendly. 2). Alcohol prices are very reasonable. 3). Generally speaking for the price the food is good. Their Italian meatball soup is quite nice. So are their salads, which have very generous portions. I had two pasta dishes. One was a special and one was a staple. The special was quite good with the Alfredo sauce. The meatballs and marinara sauce had what seems to be too much sugar. Meatballs appears to be bought rather than homemade. 4). Overall reasonable food at treasonable prices for Elysburg PA. read more

Good real pizza, not like Dominoes or Pizza hut. But it would be SO VERY convenient if you had your menu online. Even a Facebook page where you could post a photo of your menu. Tonight Id like to place an order but I cant find a menu. read more

Ok. Last time I was here I got really sick from there food! It was under done! Not the right sauce! Not the right noodles! I basically didn't even get the right meal! They put no heart in their food! We were treated very rudely! How hard is it to make Zedi with meatballs! read more

We just got out of the amusement park and we were hungry, luckily the pizza place was right nearby. The pizza was amazing and the staff was very friendly. We are definitely coming back! read more

This is the best OIP in the area. It is pretty new and has a more sit down, out to eat meal. Decent pizza here and great subs. Salad is good too. Now that I moved away, I see how good I had it having access to such good pizza and subs. read more

Stopped in here a couple times and each time it has been fabulous. The stuffed pizza is delicious and garlicky (the family was fighting over the pizza drippings). The spicy ranch wings were cooked perfectly crispy, loved the sauce. My son had barbeque and liked then as well. Attentive wait staff and great food, who can ask for more. My entire family looks forward to stopping here again, and soon. read more

Excellent meal. Wonderful service. Great value. Clean and relaxing environment. You can't go wrong. We had the stuffed pizza and breadsticks. DELICIOUS and filling read more

Worst place ever ! They charged me 9.50 for a chicken cheese steak. An extra 2.00 just for chicken I didn't know about since they didn't have a website as I i was passing through. Beef is more expensive then chicken which makes no sense. Got it for pick up. Barely had any meat in it had to eat half the bread to get to it in the back of sub. Literally took a slice of tomato and cut it in half and used it forsandwich. Tiny bit of white lettuce to go with that. Paid almost 10$ for bread and mayo. Thanks! I can get extra meat on sandwich for same price anywhere else in the area! Made an account just to make a review for this place. Should be ashamed of burning people like this! read more

I thought pizza had a flavorful sauce in it. But I guess this OIP decided not to use any sauce at all. The 3 pies we got today were bland and had no sauce. Never again! read more

We stopped at oip after a wonderful visit to knoebels. The restaurant was crowded but by no means packed. We ended up leaving after waiting for over a half an hour for our waitress to bring our menus. Instead of an apology the waitress was extremely rude. I have never gone through the trouble of writing an online review but I couldn't let this one go. Customers beware! Take your business elsewhere! read more

Ordered a Ravioli "carry out" dinner for my 90 year uncle to surprise him from the Original in Elysburg. The main course came in a small dish (about 1/3 the size of other Original restaurants that I have been to. (A "child" serving). Another reviewer said that their portions are generous. That may be so for "eat in" but not "carry out". The price was the same, but the value for your money was not there to say the least. My uncle in fact remarked about the extra small size of the serving. Will not be going there again. To top it off, the meal was not that good either. This business will make big profits initially based on the above, but in the long run, they will not be able to continue to fool their customers. read more

Wanted to reserve for 20 people, as we had last year for this Sat. Only to be told they can't do that because they are too busy to reserve space. Um..... Ok, so we should take our 20 person business elsewhere? And your restaurant miss out on a 20 person profit? Your loss read more

I was discriminated against here. We had a party of 8 they told us we could only be sat separately in two different booths. We questioned this, asked if they could put two tables together and they checked with the lady in charge, and she said, and I quote "They must be sat in two separate booths." They said there was no other options. When we were seated I noticed that three other groups of 8 were seated at two tables that had been moved together, and there were two open tables still in the same room. I asked if we could just put these two tables together and sit there. The guy said "no." I asked why, and he responded simply with "I have to follow what my boss says." What do you know, five minutes later another group of 8 came in, they moved the two open tables together and sat them there. A couple minutes later one of the previous groups left and we were not offered their tables. After that a couple minutes later another group of 8 left and we were not offered their tables. On top of this in the other dinning room, during the duration of our entire visit there was a table open that could have been moved to seat 8. Unreal! read more

By far the worst dining experience I've had in awhile or even ever. Ordered our meals and the waitress was nice. Then it went down hill, took forever to get our food and then I saw my grilled chicken salad(you could see into the open kitchen from our seats) it sat up on the food shelf for awhile the the cook took it down then 10 minutes later put it back up. Meanwhile our waitress never came to apologize for the wait or ask if we needed anything. Then another waitress asked ours what the salad was doing up there and she started complaining about the other cooks making my wife's Stromboli and then the cooks says o I put that Stromboli in a to go box and its been sitting up here, so he takes it down and puts it on a plate, then my waitress touches the chicken on my salad and says its cold so the cook behind the divider picks the chicken off my salad and throws it on the grill and squirts water on it and then puts it back on my salad. So I get my salad with soggy chicken and grill juice all over my lettuce. To top it off I sat the majority of our stay with an empty drink my waitress didn't even glance at my empty cup. Epic disappointment WILL NEVER GO BACK. read more

Beautiful restaurant,Very Extensive menu of italian food. Specials, soups, good food, and friendly service. Salads are great here.The prices were reasonable. read more

Would give a zero star if possible. Ordered food and it came with meat on it after we ordered vegetarian food. The cooks then proceeded to make a joke out their mistake. The owner then came over with a filthy pizza cutter and tried to explain how sometimes pizza cutters get dirty and stuff sticks to it. He then tried to say that it wasn't his employees fault that they run a disgusting restaurant. read more

Very clean and wait staff is friendly. If you want fast service you be better served to go to the McDonalds across the street. Messed up order so that is why they cannot have a rating any higher read more