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    Wayne's Pizza

    3.8 (228 reviews)
    InexpensivePizza, Italian
    Closed • 4:00 pm - 11:00 PM
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids

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    Wayne's! Super clean!
    Steve S.

    Wayne's is a classic Love the alley on the east side that you drive through to get to the back to pick up your pizza! Inside the place is impeccable!! Fast prompt service, friendly team as well. Pizza was very good bit prices have $$$ a bit. Ordered a medium for two of us and it could have fed 4!!!! I'll be back!

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    Tim A.

    Wayne's has been our family "go to" pizza for over two decades. The thin crust pizza is excellent, but it's not cheap. Keep in mind, there are much better deep dish options like Lou Malnati's and Gino's East, but it is a very competitive thin crust pizza. Thin crust (4/5) is very good--cracker thin, but tasty. Sauce (4/5) is also good and sweet, just the way I like it. Cheese (4/5) is lean, but good. I prefer a bit more on mine. Toppings (5/5) are exceptional! We normally get pepperoni and onion. The onion is very thin cut--outstanding! They also have a very good gluten free crust--tastes like regular crust! Highly recommended.

    (16") 1/2 cheese 1/2 mushroom. Side of fried cauliflower
    Brad C.

    Delicious 16' 1/2 cheese 1/2 Mushroom-Very generous with the mushrooms. Me personally I'd eat a whole cheese pizza to myself. Fried cauliflower as a side a

    Place used to be very consistent. Not sure what has happened but this pizza was ordered this past Saturday well done. As you can see it's not even done and it looks like they may have added the spinach after the fact. I've honestly never seen such a poor attempt in 50 years. Will be going with JJ Twigs or Tortices going forward.

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    I've been ordering from Wayne's for years. The quality hasn't been as good and they have significantly raised their prices. On the most recent order a 4 ingredient medium pizza and breaded mushrooms was almost $38. The mushrooms were $7 and there were only 8 mushrooms in the bag. Additionally they were skimpy on the sauce and the pizza was dry. The final kicker is the pricing on their website points to using their app to see the pricing. For which, it would have been $26. $11 less. I included a screen shot to show this. Not sure what has changed there but not the place I've known for over 20 years. Maybe it explains the drivers sitting around with nothing to do when I picked up the pizza. Unfortunately I will not be ordering again any time soon.

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    3 months ago

    The very best thin crust (don't call it tavern style). Worth the drive to Arlington, Heights.

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    Nice and clean inside great customer service and the food is really good. I like how they make their thin crust pizza

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    Thanks so much Tim! We can't wait to see you again soon!

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    Wayne's consistently delivers the best pizza in the area. We love the double crust. It stands up well to toppings with no flop. Delicious.

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    Good pizza. Very tasty and prices are reasonable it's the best on that side of town. Pizza was very good.

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    This is the best thing crust pizza in the Chicago area. Yeah, I said it. Don't sleep on this.

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    Sauce and crust are great. Crust is thin, but holds. I think cheese could be improved though.

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    Passero

    3.9(546 reviews)
    1.3 mi
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    Meal was complimentary (Media Lunch) THE COMPLIMENTARY STATE OF THE FOOD DOES NOT CHANGE THE…read moreREVIEW. prices here are competitive with other upper end bistros. Drinks are nice and they provide very good water quality The hibiscus pineapple spritz was tasty with a light flavor. Dominated by mint and pine apple the hibiscus was a dim note. The Bloody Mary was delicately made with lovely easily readable notes of lemon and lime. The pepperoni olives add a delightfully erotic combination. I have no way to describe this Bloody Mary other than erotic. There's an anchovy chunk hidden in the olive muted by a creamy sauce. It gives a lovely salty kick to an otherwise calm Bloody Mary. Honestly I like a calm Bloody Mary that has a lot of defined flavors rather than a shelf made clusterbomb of chemicals. This tastes like home made pours. The calamari appetizer is soft and almost reminds me of the yesteryears of long John silvers fish sticks. But more refined with octopus for the core flavor. What a delightful recipe. Mushroom blue crab. Very soft and enjoyable. A lovely lightly salty earthy treat with a rich crab slice covered in batter. Lightly spicy in the aftertaste. A great minimalistic mid meal palate cleanser. Their lemon braised chicken I was only able to get a tiny taste by the time the press plate made way to me. The skin is actually IMPRESSIVE. I can only imagine the meat inside but the other press member who ordered that dish had a lovely time with it and said it was fresh and made him happy to eat. The Margherita pizza was flavorful despite missing a lot of visible basil. I would appreciate more leaves next time but this isn't a demerit as much as it's a presentational desire to have. This whole restaurant carries a delighting spirit. It's very easy with the music here the good food and good people to slide upward on the mood scale. This isn't a bistro. This isn't your stuffy formal place. This is a place to flash your fashion in a daytime club atmosphere. This is a place for a business luncheon where high level service needs exist. Addendum V1: This restaurant was a sensory nightmare, as a person with autism I can only call this restaurant "socializing on extra hard mode" the acoustics are not very good with the curved walls and there is poor to no noise isolation, if you're sat next to the windows and the tree cutting team starts cutting ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR DINE (Or ask for a new table, the waitstaff are glorious people here who will accommodate most any request. They are great personalities and everyone is very sociable. There was a three way birthday at our table and they brought out wine and fireworks for us to all take pictures with. I found the birthday presentation simple classic memorable and highly photographable for pro photographers looking to experience lighting in an exotic location. LIGHTING and ENVIRONMENT is where I had to take a half star off, due to the existing California Pizza Kitchen design having been overlaid on top of much like a Bathtub remodel all of the existing CPC issues were brought to the new location, some were reduced others weren't eliminated at all. Sound propagation in the restaurant is a total mess, the windows at mid day allow too much noise and could use a thin soft black curtain that mutes the dull city landscape. The atmosphere here at dinner changes so I'll have to revisit this restaurant at evening time and see how the sensory noise problem is, but visiting this restaurant at lunch is something I'd save for a quick drink at the bar rather than a drawn out meal. Having a drawn out meal here definitely sounds better at evening. When I get complaints about being socially unresponsive and am almost unaware that there were long periods, clearly I was retreating onto working on the phone trying to extrapolate a review from a limited amount of food instead a full menu flight in one bite serves. The complaint was that this review isn't detailed enough, this should resolve some of that and as for lack of details, well stop complaining on this one because the conditions I was creating my review in. Also I left out one of my FAVORITE rooms to review in a restaurant, the waterclosets... Here they were impressively clean and well decorated. The atmosphere here is minimalist modern eclectic, the only thing I hate is that damn ceiling and those walls. Fix the acoustics in here and I can probably go back to a five star. Oh and seriously, more basil on that margarita pizza.

    Flavors were good and the service was average…read more We ordered their "Our Chicken Parm" although the flavors were good, the plate did not have good temperature, there were parts of the chicken that were cold. It seemed like they had it made due to beating their top selling plate. The chicken had a rubbery feeling, for sure did not meet the hype. We ordered it and it was served very fast. In the other hand, their "Pesto Cavatappi" was served warmed and you could tell it was just made. The chicken on this dish tasted very good and the texture was very different from the Chicken Parm. I would recommend this dish instead of their number one as it was told to us by the server. We ordered two cappuccinos and their Flourless Chocolate Cake. Both cappuccinos were very milky and not warm enough. The dessert was really good but it also took a while to get it. We were half way done with our cappuccinos. Price - I feel they are priced too high for a chicken dish and pasta. Although it is a good portion it is still chicken and pasta. It was $31 for the chicken parm and $26 for the Cavatappi. The dessert was $12 It was a busy day but they should still keep their standards and serve food with the right temperature. I will give it another change for sure.

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    Trezeros Kitchen + Tap

    4.2(262 reviews)
    3.7 mi
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    On our way home from Prospect Heights to Wheaton, we Yelp searched for "Italian Restaurants Near…read moreMe." Trezeros came up on the Search with good reviews. We were so happy with our lunch experience. The food was better than other Italian restaurants we have ate at. Service was great. Full disclosure. It was a Saturday late lunch and the place was basically empty. Our server started us off with a small loaf of warm Italian bread. Dipping sauce was olive oil with spices and tomatoes. It was heavenly! My husband ordered the Vodka Rigatoni with small asparagus pieces. He said it was better tasting than my homemade Vodka Rigatoni! And he was right! I ordered the Eggplant Salad. What a showstopper it is! It tasted as good as.it looked. The fried eggplant was sliced thin, breaded and fried. The salad included mixed greens, mozzarella slices and tomatoes. Their prices are very reasonable. I urge everyone to go to Trezeros.

    Wife and I finally decided to comeback to this place after a few years, our first experience wasn't…read moregreat. The place was crowded, but we got seated right away. First point the waitress was very nice. First came The bread which was very good, then we ordered the mussels, average garlic sauce awful mussels, way too small And overcooked! You could barely see the mussels inside the shells. I ordered a Braciole and my wife ordered Veal Saltimbocca. We waited about 45 minutes for the food to come, my braciole was flavorless the stuffing didn't taste like anything the meat was tough and tasted boiled, the risotto underneath was Ok, only ate about 1/3 of the braciole, it truly awful. My wife's veal was inedible, very very tough, she couldn't barely cut it! The prosciutto on it was thick and overcooked, disgusting! We told the waitress who was sympathetic, said she would send the manager we never saw him instead she offered free dessert. Moral of the story! We left most of the food on the plates as it was inedible, worse $132.00 I have ever spent, we will not be back, I wouldn't feed that food to a dog!

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    Maggiano's Little Italy

    Maggiano's Little Italy

    3.4(845 reviews)
    3.8 mi
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    Came here for dinner twice in one week and I don't have enough good things to say!…read more Food: We had the Caesar salad, Four cheese ravioli and rigatoni vodka. First off the portion size are very generous- one entree is large enough for 2 people for hard and in this day and age I truly commend the restaurant for doing this, it was noticed and def appreciated. The Caesar salad is truly such a classic salad, the oil dressing and grated cheese on top is perfectly balanced, it felt refreshing yet very savory as well. The rigatoni pasta was so so yummy. The orange sauce was very hearty. Last but not least the 4 cheese ravioli was W-O-W. I mean the consistency of the sauce just blew me away, and the pistachio pesto?! Genius. It was soo good I had to not lick the sauce off the plate (might still do for take out nights). Cant wait to come back and try more dishes! Service- Both times we made revelations on open table. We were seated very quickly. The waiters were very polite, gave great suggestions. Extra point for when we told them we were sharing, they made sure the dish was split onto two plates. Again, the effort and attention was really noticed and very admirable. Ambiance- It may be a chain but this place has such a classic Italian feel. From the decor the colors and even choices on the menu, very well thought out. The place is renovated and very clean and over ambiance is romantic. It def has more of an adult restaurant feel, as it's quite classy. Don't wait noisy kids to ruin the vibes. Great place for date night, girls night out, anniversary party etc. You guys blew me away. Can't wait to come back!

    I held my son's graduation party for 15 guests on Sunday. While the day ended on a positive note…read morethanks to some incredible staff members, the management and initial service were deeply disappointing. Despite having a reservation confirmed three weeks in advance and receiving a confirmation call that same morning, our party was not seated until 4:30 PM for a 4:00 PM booking. My husband and I checked in with the host starting at 3:55 PM, only to receive vague, dismissive responses like 'we're working on it.' Worse, the host displayed an unprofessional attitude, stating 'I have already told you in a few minutes' and was seen talking to other hosts about how upset our group was. When I finally spoke with a manager, Don M., his response was unsettling. Rather than apologizing for the 30-minute delay, he simply told me 'I am not kicking you out,' which felt incredibly unprofessional and dismissive for a milestone celebration. After we were seated, Don M. never returned to check on us or acknowledge the delay. Fortunately, Assistant Manager Luis Martinez and our servers, Marco and Georgina, completely saved the day. Luis came to our table to check on us personally, and Marco and Georgina were excellent, accommodating our large group's orders perfectly. If it weren't for their professional care, I would not return to this location." I truly hope that you consider looking into this matter as I have seen and witnessed how rude and unprofessional the host was yesterday not only to our party but to other guests checking in. It was a busy day for graduation parties and I just hope that they were all treated right. " Our Purpose is to bring people together to celebrate the love of family and friends", which is the main goal of this restaurant which I truly hope that you stand by with".

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