Italian To Go / Bit Of Italy

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Scott Gregory

This is an inviting, comfortable restaurant, offering six to eight tables able to seat four. The atmosphere is very casual with decent decor, and seems quite clean, four or five stars thru the door. However: The selection of food is somewhat limited, with a fair pizza menu cobbled together with a variety of dishes spanning a narrow wedge in the spectrum of Italian cuisine. Prices are quite high, esp regarding "side" items - expect to pay triple what your good conscience will tolerate for the vegetable medley, for instance, and you can expect some attitude if you dare mention this (I was told, "Im sorry you feel that way." Yikes.), and refills were not offered. The menu declares that youll enjoy two pieces of bread with each entree, which, it turns out, is pizza dough shaped into "rolls" and baked hard. Our second "roll" had to be requested specifically, and the resulting simpering set the tone for the remainder of our visit. If you can get past this and actually order, youll be presented with a fairly sized portion. Thats where, for us, the "fairly" ended - the salad was a pedestrian medley of iceberg lettuce with some grazing done at the pizza pantry on the way by, and I kid you not, our pasta came with sauce that suspiciously whispered "Im trying unsuccessfully to emulate Ragu", slathered generously atop "Great Value" noodles that sought, shame facedly, to silence the scant bits of meat that screamed "CHEF-BOY-ARDEE". I finished, being half starved, but my wife was not so full of fortitude, leaving the final third of her cannoli for the wait staff to address. We are not likely to return.

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Jennifer Rodriguez

My dad has come clear from Boise to eat here, so we decided to give it a try. A cute and cozy place that reminds me something of a little eatery you might find in New York, but without any big city snootiness. We were greeted as soon as we walked in the door by a friendly, professional, down-to-earth server. Hubby had the Lasagna and liked it very much, but we were especially wowed by the Salmon Chowder served tonight. Dinner salad was a happy mix complete with garbanzo beans, kidney beans, salami and a pickled pepper along with a little tomato; rolls were fresh, hot and rustic; and the background music and atmosphere made us feel welcome. My daughter and I shared a plate of Pesto Manicotti made with crepes that stood up well to the sauce, and yet were tender and delicious. She also loved the cheesecake she had for dessert. Italian To Go has begun with excellent ingredients, that, like a bottle of good wine, will age beautifully as time goes on.

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Jarrod Bell

Its such a good Italian place that I am torn to tell my friends about it so that it could just be my little find :). The staff and chef were very welcoming especially considering we had a 2 week old in tow. If you eat in, prepare for the Italian experience. In other words, you have a wait but it is worth it. Everything we had seemed to be cooked to order and was evidently so from the taste. The ravioli with marinara was fresh (although the beef could be seasoned a little more). We also got the Pepperoni pizza which has to be one of the best pizzas I have had in Idaho. It even eclipses Idaho Pizza Company. We finally finished off our meal by splitting a cannoli which neither of us has had before. It was delicious. We will definitely be back. Thank you for producing good food and being in Canyon Co.

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Robert Runyan

We are changing our recommendation for this establishment. At first this was a great restaurant however in our last four visits and our most recent one our pizza was given to us under cooked and cold. This is a to expensive restaurant to have this kind of food presented to a customer. Sad to say pizza hut has better pizza and their pizza is cooked and delivered hot. Sad to see such a establishment fall way short of what they were once. Last time we were told to leave because another couple showed up and wanted our table also had to ask for glasses for our wine guess the management believes you should drink right out of the bottle. Bad food bad service just an all around bad restaurant. Save your money and dine at a quality restaurant this is not one

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Jazz Hayes

So I ordered a pizza and they deliver it, it has the wrong toppings so I call and ask to have it replaced and then they tell me they wont replace it after I spent $30 for the food. Then they give me the owners number and tell me to call him. He tells me it would cost him too much money to replace our pizza and that they wont redeliver it. He then says "is the pizza really that important?" Like dude I got the wrong food and you have my money of course its important. So now Im out $30 and have the wrong food. Never do business with these shady people. If I could give 0 stars I would

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Emily Butlin

I needed to carb load before my bike ride tomorrow so we have this place a try. Its a very quaint little place with only five indoor tables. The garlic bread was amazing and I highly recommend trying their marinara sauce, its the best Ive had in a really long time. My parents got the combination pizza and there was no shortage of toppings. The service was great and the food is tasty, homemade italian. Please do yourself a favor and try this place if youre craving delicious italian food.

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Thea Jordan

Yummy! Finally an authentic italian food restraunt down town nampa, this place is delicious, and has an awesome outdoor patio to sit out and relax on (expecially in the summer evenings) the food is affordable and comes in great size. The service is nice, food takes a little bit longer to be delivered to your table but they make it all from scratch YUM! Also there family meal deal is amazing and will feel a family of 4-8 depending on appetite well worth the money (:

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Aurelio Valdovinos

I must say the pizza was great!!!!! Way better than dominoes or Pizza Hut I was in town for the weekend I stayed at the sleep inn looked around for different options and my kids decided they wanted pizza my wife wanted spaghetti so I looked around and read the reviews on this place and was definitely not disappointed but the lady that took my order very polite very patient and the lady that delivered very polite and professional thank you guys

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Bricelyn Towne

Great food friendly people, terrible attention to detail. We have ordered delivery 3 times and have had the wrong food delivered each time. Even though its the wrong food (sometimes just one dish) its always delicious. I would rate them a 5 if we had gotten the correct order even once, but three times is a pattern. I havent had the same problem with carry-out as I have with delivery. We love dining in the place has charm.

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Donna Shepherd

Friendly fast service, however prices are quite different on Web page than actual prices. You can expect to pay more. Ours was $6.50 more than what the Web page said and from ordering the same thing as we had 2 and 1/2 weeks earlier. We ordered the spaghetti and it did not have any Italian flavor, it really didnt have to much flavor at all. The rolls are tough. We just werent impressed with it and do not recommend it.

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