Outstanding! Pizza is real hand tossed, NY style pizza. Cheesesteak was awesome, just like home! Very few places here can do that. The service was stellar!!! We'll be back, over and over! We ate there last night and I'm ready to go again! read more

This is our favorite local pizza place and I can't even tell you how many times we've been there (both eat in and take out.). The staff has always been courteous and the food has never disappointed. We always recommend our friends to eat here! read more

We've been here four or five times in the past six months, and the food is always solid, and place packed on Friday and Saturday nights. It's located on Hwy 76 on the opposite end of the shopping center from Food Lion. The menu is varied enough that you can find something everyone will like. The 'specials' we've ordered have been somewhat different but always VERY good. Their version of a white pizza was okay, but not worth the price in our opinion, but the Italian sausage, ham, etc. meat special pie was fantastic and a great value. The Italian pot roast special, Gorgonzola chips, and meatballs were also excellent. Salads were a bit plain-jane with lots of iceberg lettuce, dressings seemed to be run-of-the-mill bottled stuff. Nothing was old, wilted, or bad....just kind of pricy for a bag salad and store bought dressing. They have some REALLY excellent menu items that stand out, so it makes the average items seem out of place. Service has always been excellent, except when the place is packed out on a weekend night. It's very clean, friendly, and far-far better than any chain restaurant could hope to be. Definitely a great neighborhood restaurant for Italian inspired cuisine. read more

Well this was my first time going here and I love it i highly recommend it we got a medium pepperoni pizza very tasty and cheesy I'm not sure about every other items on the menu but by the pizza alone it was fantastic, the customer service was also very good so if your looking for a good pizza place in town I very much sing praise for Tonellas. read more

Great people, great food! Favorite place! Best pizza in town, garlic knots to die for, excellent brushetta, love their salads! Homemade tiramisu, yum!!!! read more

My daughter and I go here for lunch every once in a while. She gets a slice and I get a slice. When we leave we laugh about how amazing the pizza was. Absolutely delicious!! read more

I've eaten here three times now, and I finally decided it was time for a review. Each time we've been, the best part has been the service, which is okay, at best. I'm rarely moved either positively or negatively to write about anything in Columbia, but this place is far too overrated here on Yelp! and I hope that my review can offer some insight into why. Our party ordered spaghetti with sausage, lasagna, and a cheese steak sandwich. Each with a Caesar salad. The Caesar salads are pure romaine lettuce, no filler iceberg involved, which is nice. The croutons are presumably made in house (I'm almost positive that they are), and look nice. Looks are deceiving though, as they were spongy and seasoned far too heavily with what appeared to be one of those 'Italian Seasoning' herb mixes you buy in the spice aisle. Small crushed dried herbs caked one side of each little soggy piece of bread. The dressing was okay. Not house made, but okay. The lasagna and spaghetti are both swimming in grease. Their sauce is better than most Italian places around in flavor, but it's still far too sweet for my liking. They seem to be unable to find the balance with their sauce. It almost tastes as if it's a canned sauce that's been doctored, but I've heard they make it in house. Either way, it's nothing special. The lasagna is much the same. Completely mediocre. It's edible, but nothing I'd ever order twice. Which is why I didn't order it on this trip, but tasted a couple of bites from my family member's plate, wondering if it had gotten better. It hadn't. My order was the cheese steak. I will never recommend anyone eat at this establishment, but please, if you do, do NOT order this sandwich. It's a six inch hoagie roll that's doughy and has the consistency of having sat in the bread aisle a little too long. The filling was the most pathetic thing I've seen called a cheese steak in my life. There was approximately 3 ounces of unseasoned meat mixed with cheese slapped inside this sad little hoagie roll. And that was it. So I took a bite. I have rarely been so underwhelmed with a sandwich. I love cheese steaks almost as much as I love a good burger, and this cheese steak sandwich doesn't even deserve to be called one. On top of that, it was $7. Had I not been a guest of one of the other diners, I would have refused to pay for it. Instead, I just acted like I was full from lunch still and took it home to find a resting spot in my trash can. I didn't want to embarrass my family by confronting the staff about the quality of the food, so I decided to express my opinion about it here. This place is terrible. read more

We aren't originally from this area. We have tried so many different pizza places, and Tonella's is by far the best one we can find. There isn't a pizza here we've tried that we don't love. We will continue to come here. Great workers and family atmosphere! read more

It seems that 4 out of 5 times I order my food they get it wrong. They either drop my pizza on the floor or give me the wrong pizza or don't give me extra sauce when I ask for it and when I call back they tell me they did and it is not on the pizza. I don't have many options for good pizza around here, but please get better at your service. Not quantity, but quality. I pay for the quality but I am not receiving it. Last chance before I give up for good. read more

Best pizza in ballentine! If I feel a need to fall off my gluten intolerance wagon this is my pizza joint. Wether it be by the slice or the pie it's awesome! read more

Service was good & calzone was good! Pizza okay but not great. Atmosphere was good. I did not like paying premium prices but eating off of a paper plate which tore when cutting!! read more

Enjoyed white pizza. Friendly staff quick service. Would go back. Hope they stay around forever.

We have always loved Tonella's but tonight was a huge disappointment. We called yesterday to reserve the back room for a party of 20 and the waitress they assigned to take care of us also had tables in the dining room so our service was awful. It took 90 minutes to get our pizzas and the buttered noodles we ordered for the kids. We went out front to inquire about our orders and the cook told us they were "slammed" with to-go orders. We felt since we had made a reservation, our orders should have been taken care of ahead of the call ins. The waitress spilled sauce all over the back of one of our group and dropped a knife on another. Disaster! read more

Best New York style pizza in the Columbia area. Hand tossed, thin crust dough, high quality cheese and toppings. Great casual atmosphere. You'll never want another chain restaurant pizza. --------- PS - The bread pudding with vanilla sauce dessert is KILLER! ===== PSS - Wyatt doesn't get out much...:) read more

A true Italian Pizza and pizzaiolo and a friendly and familiar environment. Give a try.

I'm not sure if my fiancé and I got food on an off day or what? In reading majority of the other reviews people seem to truly enjoy this place....I am not a fan. We ordered two pizzas the hypocrite and a custom pizza as well as the garlic knots. It was all kinda bleh. Pizza was most comparable to gas station pizza, with canned mushrooms and a doughy crust with no flavor or ability to hold up to the toppings on the top. After we baked it at home it was much better and became edible. As much as others seem to like it we spent too much money for a subpar meal and will not be returning. read more

Passing through from Louisville, KY we found great reviews for Tonella's Pizza Kitchen on Yelp. The pizza and cannolis were amazing and our waiter, Furman was fabulous! So glad we decided to stop at this hidden gem read more

Very pleased. Try the garlic knots for sure, or the "chips". Not happy with the pizza but everything else we have had is amazing and service is great. read more

The food is always delicious but the service is awful. I would recommend only using this place for take out orders. Came in tonight with a large party and have been waiting for 50 minutes so far and they still haven't even managed to bring out the children's food. Very disappointing experience. read more

Mostly everytime I order from here there is a problem when I get home my pizza order is messed up. I call and get an answer of I don't know what happened. I think they have bad customer service. This has happened most of the time and it's frustrating. I've given them many chances to change this problem but apparently the people working there don't care. I just want to make people aware of my issue hoping this helps other people who order. read more

I was sick for a week because their red sauce was so raw. And when you ask for a little bit extra Alfredo Sauce.....50 cents extra?????? Really!???????? The appetizer was great, but not great enough to return. read more

Terrible kitchen line management. Four for dinner last night, two received our dinner orders a full 30 minutes before the other two. Nibbled at ours before leaving it get cold and then sent it back for reheat and THAT took way longer than necessary. Server did well to take care of us but what could she do? She comped some drinks and the woeful tiramisu. COME ON TONELLAS, you've been doing this too long for it to be this bad. Or don't you care anymore? read more

Just moved here last year from NY and was craving authentic NY style pizzeria pizza. We found Tonella's and are sooooo glad we did! The pizza was excellent--as good as anything we have had in NY. I can now say with conviction that there is NOTHING I miss about NY! We will be back and will try other menu items! read more

My favorite pizza place anywhere. The marinara sauce is delicious. If you get a chance to try the Bolognese sauce when they have it on special - try it - it is to die for!!! read more

Great food. Price is a little higher but well worth it. Love the sandwiches and they have New York style pizza.

Wow, you guys recently switched from cardboard takeout boxes to flimsey paper boxes...bad move. My box came apart on the way home and when I went to take it out of the car, the whole thing collapsed on my garage floor. Thanks a lot, hope your savings on takeout boxes covers the loss of customers! read more

The food is good, but the service is a little slow. They seem to be understaffed a lot. The staff are friendly but just running too much

Food is delicious. This has become our new favorite pizza place. The house salad is quite good, and the canolis are to die for. Definitely worth your hard earned dollar. The place is packed every evening we've been there, including mid-week, and for good reason. read more

Justin R is not an idiot, Cherie R and Taylor S are correct!!!! This pizza is super disappointing and super overrated. I'm from NYC and so is my wife and her mother. So we know real pizza. Lets start with what they call garlic knots, see the photos. 1st of all the kid on the phone said a large order of garlic knots is 10, I got 7. I got some B to the S excuse that it's whatever looks close to a large. That's an F, you find ur own definition for that letter. As you can see (look at the photo) they're not real knots and they soak this undercooked bread in garlic butter. Disgusting and not truly garlic knots. Now the thing that is they're version of pizza, ok not the worst , but definitely not good. It's about a C-minus to D. The pizza looks legit but what lies beneath is a over chewy crust that could have used extra time in the oven. A lot of people who I know and I thought I could trust, told me it was good to really good. It's not unless you never had real pizza or have no taste. I don't think a place could have so many off nights, based on other negative reviews and the b.s. Excuse I got, I'm never going to waste my money again. If I could give it less stars I would, and the place wasn't even packed. If you want to have real good pizza and Knots go to Rays in Lexington or Dano's in Columbia if you don't mind the drive, they're worth it. Btw to those of you who want to defend Tonellas. DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINION!!! Obviously you don't know what good is. Also I ordered a large plain cheese and knots because that's how you measure a real pizzeria. If you're from The north east, DON'T BOTHER!!! read more

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Stopped here on the way to the hockey rink to get some pasta for my son and WOW!! The Italian sandwich I had was awesome and the chicken Parmesan my son had was delicious. Very clean and the staff was friendly and efficient. read more

Great food. Love the Gorgonzola Chips. Pizza and sandwiches.

A great sort of old school delicious Italian place to eat. Friendly, capable staff serves delicious and fresh food. Check out the Gorgonzola wing chips! read more

Excellent food and excellent service. We have ordered here many times and the friendliness of the staff still amazes me. The food is consistently great and the atmosphere is very cozy. Pizza is our favorite but the appetizers and pasta won't disappoint ya! read more

Great food and excellent service. Some of the best, most authentic New York style pizza (pie) around.

The garlic knots were delicious! Then we had some of the best pizza I've ever had. They even specially sliced it small for our two young girls. Ask for a side of the garlic butter to dip your pizza crust in! We had Lauren as our waitress, and she was GREAT! The guys in the back put on a great show throwing the pizza up for the kiddos, too! read more

The food is outstanding! My favorite is the lasagna, but the pizza is awesome! Fast friendly service and reasonable prices make this a great place to take the family. read more

The young lady named Camille always has great customer service! Anytime the fam and I come in for dinner and she's there, we always request her!!! Fantastic service!!! read more

The only entree we have had is the pizza and it's the best in the area by far....we have only done take-out and when we leave, the chef says "thanks for your business" every time! We we want to splurge, we get the gorganzola chips....to die for. read more

Just wanted to say to Justin R. You are an idiot. This is basically your review. "I was told this pizza restaurant was great so I decided to go try it out. Being that this is a pizza joint and pizza is their specialty I decided to order a sandwich. Can you believe it, I didn't like it. Did I try the fantastic pizza? No, why in Gods name would I do that. So if you want a sandwich from this pizza joint then stay away." So I'm assuming when you go to a great seafood restaurant Justin you order a burger and then complain about that as well. read more

Stay away! The owner markets this place as family friendly but he has the filthiest mouth I've ever encountered. He's rude, dishonest, and unscrupulous. He curses at employees during business hours in front of other customers. The pizza is not worth the prices charged. He violates federal and state labor laws with no remorse and wouldn't even have the air conditioning fixed in the restaurant during 110 degree summer weather until another customer complained and wrote a bad review on another website. If you knew the things that go on behind the scenes, you'd ask for this place to be shut down PERMANENTLY! Don't waste your time or money here. Go to Gina's Pizza in Irmo. The service is always great and the owner is genuinely a nice person without a hidden agenda. read more