If you are looking for a more traditional style Italian restaurant, Venice is a reliable source... great food, and wonderful consistent service!! read more

I ordered trays of Chicken Parm and Chicken Franchese for a family get together. EVERYONE LOVED the food! The service was excellent. Everything went went perfectly well! So happy read more

Wonderful service and atmosphere with great food. And so reasonably priced. Always a delight every time.

Service and food are both outstanding . Recent menu additions are really delicious, the shrimp over pasta is especially good .The kitchen and staff make sure the food is served hot which enhances the experience. read more

Simple order for 12" Cheese pizza half pepperoni. Was just passing thru Ridgefield. Called order in ahead. Drove to bring for my kid as an afternoon after school snack. Opened the box. No pepperoni? Was charged addtl for the pepperoni too! Called in to bring to attention a lot of back n forth... "Come by, next time and we will make you another one"... I'm over an hour away. How about just refund me for the mistake? Unbelievable. Avoid this place. read more

Ordered for pick up to a very uninterested rude person over the phone. First time eating/ordering from here and we were really disappointed. Chicken rolatinni is basically boiled chicken breast with stuff in it. No flavor or spices. I actually thought it was fish when I first saw it. (Also no mozzarella to be see on top). very dry and over cooked. The pasta that came with the entree was once again lacking flavor (please use salt!) Chicken Parm hero was eaten by my husband and he also complained of the lack of cheese... I mean really?? How can you not add enough cheese to a chicken Parm hero? Fried calamari was bland and not crispy (which the crispy part I can over look bc we ordered pick up but the blandness is not ok). SALT!! Over all will not be back to order or eat in.... read more

Venice Restaurant & Pizza - Chicken rolatinni - Pizza Near Me - Ridgefield, Connecticut

A hidden gen. I don't know why but I'm constantly forgetting about Venice and we don't go very often. When we do we are always shocked how great it is and ask ourselves why we don't come more often. Maybe we have it stuck in our head as take out pizza? Food is great, the price is more than fair and they often run great dinner specials for 2. It does get crowded because the secret is out and people correctly rave about it. We will try to make the Tuesday dinner special soon. read more

Venice Restaurant & Pizza - Meat tortellini soup, very nice - Pizza Near Me - Ridgefield, Connecticut

Making my favorite pizza since 1976! I love it here. I grew up in Ridgefield and my parents still live here so I come back regularly and always want to hit Venice. Everything is great but walking in and picking out a slice (they always have about 6 kinds available) is the best! And the slices are huge. You really only need 1.... But you will want like 4! read more

The Food is good the Pizza is not on the one bite scale 6.1 I call them Like I see them. Pro tip on the pizza to the owner MAKE YOUR OVER HOTTER !!!!!! I had cup cakes with better crust. I wish the PIZZA was better. read more

Amazing service even better food friendly atmosphere my favorite restaurant. Can't wait to go again read more

Venice Restaurant & Pizza - Love this place. Great food and service - Pizza Near Me - Ridgefield, Connecticut

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Last night after working late we decided to eat dinner out. We decided once again to go to Venice The reason.... It's very relaxed, excellent service, a great menu. The $49 special dinner for 2 has to be the best deal anywhere. It even includes a bottle of wine (medium quality) Lots of selections for everyone .Portions are generous quality of food is very good. If you are looking for a relaxed atmosphere to enjoy your dinner this is a must go to place. read more

Venice Restaurant & Pizza - Pizza Near Me - Ridgefield, Connecticut

Today there was a young female cashier who handled this old angry dude like a boss. The old feeble angry dude was super mad about getting some mushrooms on his food when he apparently asked for it to not be included. Rather than being an adult and understanding that the cooks in the back made a tiny error he tried to shame and yell at a young 20 something girl over a small mistake, making the meal of every family at the restaurant super awkward and delaying everyone else's order. Luckily the girl had poise and a backbone and she handled the situation very well. The food was good, pizza A+, service A+, old angry dude who clearly has a little man complex gets an F- but everything else about the experience was great! read more

Closest to get to New York Italian chow in Connecticut. This time went for a Sunday lunch and sat outside They actually use all quality ingredients and the bread and ingredients come from the Bronx. Services always been a 9/10. read more

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I've only gone in for pizza and as well took home their pizza special. It's a great place for a great slice. It's quite simply craveable pizza done right. The counter people are always friendly and the place is always clean. This is my only "go to" spot in Ridgefield. read more

This place is a 10!!! Totally unexpected to be so good. We move to Ridgefield a few months back and usually go to Posa or TerraSole. The #of stars I saw made me not really wanna try it here. But we live close and wanted to try something new. I haven't read any of the reviews that are less than 5 stars but WOW!! Great food and I'm a picky picky person. It's our first time and brought my 8 year old so wanted to try the 'kid friendly' entree first. Fettuccine Alfredo was one of the best if not the best I've tried. Light cream and noodle vs the usual heavy stuff. The spaghetti with meat sauce was delish! My son who hates salad even said the Caesar salad was tolerable. (I liked it!) Servers were friendly and attentive and atmosphere nicer than I expected. To think when I rolled into the parking lot, I almost left really wanting a good dinner. - This WILL be our new IT spot for local Italian. read more

This is a popular casual Italian / pizza restaurant, especially on a Friday or Saturday night when you can expect to wait up to an hour to be seated if you show up between 5:30-7:00, after that, the crowd thins out and adult seating takes place-- easier to get in. Young families, high schoolers and moms with kids are gone. The Food: They have scungilli! And the scungilli salad is perfectly delicious. The pasta and eggplant Dishes are wonderful. Unfortunately the pizza is not very good. We had a large eggplant pizza, and found it Far too doughy and undercooked for my liking, we left without taking the uneaten slices of our pie. All in, worth a return visit, but not for pizza. read more

This restaurant is an Icon in Ridgefield. Italian must be jealous of the recipe for pizza, my family overseas asked me to bring them pizza when I go to Ecuador. Everything in the menu belongs to an Italian ristorante in Italy. Soooo happy that I get to see at here just minutes away from my house. Buon Appetite! read more

I walked across to Venice for a bite to eat while my car was being worked on at Copps Hill Shell. I was delighted to discover that their seafood salad includes scungilli. (Snails are delicious, yet they seem to be under-appreciated in American restaurants. Give scungilli, escargot, and conch a try when you get the chance, seriously!) But I digress. The service at Venice was very down to earth and fast. And the salad was amazing. I would definitely like to try more dishes in the future, but I have a feeling I'll be stuck on the seafood salad for awhile. read more

Maybe it's been a long time since I had great Italian food (Mulberry St. in Manhattan used to be a regular haunt for me but I haven't been there for many years now), but I came here without any expectations, and was suitably impressed. My brother lives in the area and I originally came to this location about 10 years ago, after watching a niece's dance recital. I think it was a different Italian restaurant at the time, although it was in the same building, but I don't remember it making any particular impression on me back then, either positively or negatively. I was in the area not long ago to assist family with an errand that had to be done, and this was the place picked for lunch. I didn't have any objections, although...as I've mentioned...I didn't have any great expectations either. The tab was being picked up for me, and I was game (and hungry, by that point). I should say that I love Italian food, but it doesn't always take great effort to satisfy me. I loved Manhattan's Mulberry Street back in the day (the old Luna's and Umberto's...the original one, where the holes left by the bullets that claimed the life of mobster "Crazy Joe" Gallo in 1972 were still visible in the walls...were my favorites), and there are a few here and there in NJ that rate highly (as another side note...I'm nothing if not verbose...the only other decent Italian food I ate outside of the NY/NJ area, besides Italy of course, was in Chicago and...strangely enough...Tijuana, Mexico, but I digress...), but I usually can find even mediocre chicken parmigiana and pasta acceptable if I'm hungry enough. An Italian restaurant has to really work hard for me to dislike it. Like Domino's hard. Which is not meant to damn Venice Restaurant with faint praise. Anyway, for all I know, these are the same owners who were here when I dined at the place 10 years ago, but I don't think so. Even though the layout of the restaurant seems similar. Bread and butter were quickly supplied and, being ravenous, I dug in (the relative picking up the tab said, "Y'know, Italians don't use butter with their bread," but I didn't care; I was hungry and the bread and butter combination tasted just fine). My relative/dining-companion/benefactor ordered gnocchi; I ordered...you guessed it...chicken parmigiana with spaghetti. Usually when I'm trying a new Italian restaurant, I order lasagna as a yardstick to measure its quality by, but since I wasn't paying my own way, I thought chicken parm and spaghetti was a more modest proposition (although I ruined that calculation by impulsively ordering a side of sausage). My relative liked her order. And I really liked mine. I have to mention that I'm really not up on New England style Italian food (I ate it once or twice in Providence, Rhode Island, years ago, and that's about it). Is it better or worse than the NY/NJ area variety? I couldn't really say (although logic would suggest that the NY/NJ variety is better), but I really liked what I had. The chicken parmigiana wasn't (or at least didn't seem to be) the bland, Sysco-supplied product that I've gotten so used to during the last few years in numerous Italian restaurants everywhere. Everything tasted fresh, and zesty. The spaghetti came in a substantial side dish, with a rich sauce and freshly grated cheese. And the side of sausage really hit the spot. Service was a little spotty, but friendly and efficient enough, and the spottiness that there was didn't really amount to anything that would prove detrimental to the entire dining experience. My eyes ultimately proved bigger than my stomach, and I ordered a chocolatey dessert nightmare called "the Bomb." Indeed. It wasn't homemade; it's obviously something pre-made that's shipped in from somewhere else. Even if it had been whipped up from scratch by a Michelin-rated Pastry Chef Extraordinaire, I should have avoided it. I'm not 17 and can't eat like I used to when I was 17. My expanding waistline cried out, "Help!" and I didn't listen. Hopefully, I'll listen next time. Bottom line; I liked this place, was more than satisfied with my meal, and would eagerly dine here again. read more

Family owned my husband must visit every time we go to Connecticut. He brags its the best pizza ever

The food is really good, but the people that pick up the calls for take out orders are always rude, always seem to be in a rush, won't inform you if any change requested will have extra charge. Your clients are what keep the business going, stop treating them as a bother read more

Food is always good, service always fast and friendly, hard to go wrong here well worth a visit.

Best bang for the buck Italian in Ridgefield. Don't expect a meal like Michaels off Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn but the food is reasonably tasty and the prices are quite good. The deserts cost it a 5 star. The biscotti is tasteless store bought. Suggest two homemade deserts on the menu. Would include biscotti that has great shelf-life and ricotta cheese cake. Make your own whipped cream as well. It ain't hard to do. read more

First time coming here and it was amazing. The service was amazing and they were very attentive and kind. the food was delicious and very tasty, I wish I had a bigger mouth. the ambiance was very homy and very welcoming, the decor and music was top notch. 10/10 would recommend people to try this place out read more

If i could give no stars i would. 2 weeks ago i order to go and after 45 mins and driving there i waited an additional 20 mins and no order. They wanted to give it to me for free and i refused. I decided to give them a second chance and have dinner since rules have lifted to eat at the restaurant. I got seated and waited for about 15 minutes and no body asked us for drinks or appetizer . I had enough went to southwest cafe and within 5 minutes had a drink in my hand and placed my order. Shame on the owners of venice i will no longer be a patron of there. read more

This place was just terrible, absolutely awful the last time I was in this place. I ordered veal parmesan and it was just awful. The worst I have ever had. It literally tasted exactly like cardboard with some melted paper on it. Only if there was a negative star rating or at least a zero star on this app, I would leave it for this place. I will never go back to this place. read more

Nice average italian restaurant! Pizza very good and fresh. Think the food is also very fresh, really liked the angel hair pasta they had as a side which was served with very fresh garlic. I wouldn't say to expect a fine dining experience but its a good casual Italian with friendly service read more

A wonderful family owned Italian restaurant in the heart of the town. One will often find this restaurant very crowded during the week, which is a great thing. these days. The food is freshly made and very generous. The menu variety offers every type of dish one might think of. Monday through Thursday, there is a dinner for two deal available as well as the regular menu. Food is very flavorful, generous and warm. The owner often walks to each table to check in on the guests. Desserts are very tasty as well, however, I really recommend the cappuccino which comes with a dunking cookie. Attire is very simple, and it is not dress up fancy, though you may; rather, it is a small restaurant, casual attire, with a pizza, shop attached, and a dining room for a good times and good food. Wait staff is attentive and very professional. Highly recommend Venice as each visit has been something to look forward to. read more

The food is delicious at this place. I have been eating a this place since 5 years ago. Chicken cacciatore is my favorite with side of mixed veggies. The Italian dressing is so good. The have a variety of desserts and coffee drinks. If we talk about the staff. They are so friendly and respectful, always with great attitude and an smile on their faces. I live eating at this place. If you visit Ridgefield I really recommend this place read more

I've been coming to get food hear since I was a kid and not only does it have the biggest slice of pizza I've ever seen, but the tastiest as well. The people who work there are also so nice, I remember the owner from when I was a kid and he never fails to say hi when I walk on. There food also keeps improving, every time I go the menu is more broad and I never have any complaints about what I order. I love this place. Still my favorite pizza ever. read more

Used to like getting take out food until I went this past Friday night. Too many people in waiting area for take out pick up. It was difficult to stand apart from each other. Two people (priests mind you - not a joke!) walked into the crowded front entrance with no masks on at all. Strolled through the restaurant and sat at a table in the dining room. I did ask one priest why he didn't have a mask, he ignored me. Employees didn't care. Food is ok not worth risking getting sick from this place. read more

I've been dining here for 2 decades now and fairly often. Excellent food, and consistently good. Service dining in is very good (although not very careful during Covid, masks need to cover the nose!). However - take out service is bad. They often underquote the wait time by a large margin, and the order taker by phone and cashier are both quite rude. Owner or Manager, you need to fix this. Talk to these two individuals. Also problematic with take out is getting the order right. At this point I need to have them talk through the contents of the bags when I arrive. And those side salads will ALWAYS come with oil and vinegar no matter HOW MANT TIMES I ask for blue cheese! One more important note - they are too easy going with COVID restrictions. Keep the doors open as late in the season as possible! Don't let the cashier area overcrowd, and by all means - wear the face mask properly!!! read more

I put 3 stars up there, but its more like 3.5 - This is good pizza, and its not a chain/franchise which makes it a bit better. Venice makes a good pizza. I forgot that my favorite was the Sicilian last time I was there and just had a plain round pie and it was good but after seeing the Sicilian i remembered and wished I had got that instead :( We grew up going here, back when it was in the original location that is now where the stop & shop is. It used to be much bigger, but never was overly crowded (i was never there at peak pizza hours i guess). Now in the new spot its a pizzeria oven/take out slice area up front and a small seating area in the back with a few more tables outside for when its warmer. Like i said - The dining room is small and it will be crowded if you are there at a busy meal time. If you dont like sitting practically on your neighbors lap, get it to go. Recently I have only had pizza here, but all the pasta dishes coming out were nice big portions and everyone was eating them up so I can assume they were as good as they looked. They do some meal/wine specials that looked like they were good and it seemed like a lot of people were getting them. The pizza is still great, as it was in the old place. Next time I will get the Sicilian. read more

Venice Restaurant & Pizza - 2 venice pies. low light cel pic. - Pizza Near Me - Ridgefield, Connecticut

So, I know it's a pandemic, and I usually love the food, but the last couple of take out orders were really disappointing. Both times, I recognized that the marinara was not their own (it tasted like Prego, or another store-bought brand). The second time, we ordered pasta primavera and it was topped with frozen vegetables. I really want to support this restaurant during these times but I'm afraid the quality has gone down. I understand the staff might not be what it once was and the produce quality and shipments are often difficult to manage, but if this is the case, take the more complicated items off the menu. Please don't use cheap sauce or frozen vegetables. You can do this! read more

This place should be designated as a National Treasure. Three generations of my family have descended upon Venice Pizza and enjoyed its traditional thin and Sicilian slices. I prefer ordering by the slice. Food/activity recommendation for families with little kids: Pick up a pizza and head to the playground at Ballard or Veterans Park in Ridgefield. read more

We visit Connecticut from Maryland with the family. We were invited to try this restaurant, and it was a excellent service. All the family was impressed of the food taste and the friendly, professional and family feeling services we got. Thanks to everyone for the pleasant dinner. Definitely returning here for dinner when we come back to Connecticut. read more

Great food at a great price service was good also nice outdoor patio.Pizza is delicious I also had the chicken parmigiana that came with pasta and salad side for $20 bucks it's a good deal read more

Best calamari ever, followed by delicious pasta dishes with vodka sauces and limoncello flutes for desert. Enjoyed every bite while feeling somewhat guilty seeing the waiting crowd behind us. Worth another visit for sure.. read more

Long wait, rude staff and mediocre food. Other than that this place is fantastic. Yelp is making me to write a little bit more so the review won't be too short. read more

Another one of my favorite hometown pizza places. The people are pretty friendly, but there's not a lot of space if you're just sitting down for a quick slice (especially if it's too cold to eat outside). I think their cheese and bacon pizzas are the best. read more