Calabria Restaurant Bar & Pizzeria
| Address: | 588 S Livingston Ave, Livingston, NJ 07039, USA |
| Phone: | +1 973-992-8496 |
| Site: | calabriarestaurant.com |
| Rating: | 3.5 |
| Working: | 10AM–10PM 10AM–10PM 10AM–10PM 10AM–10PM 10AM–10PM 10AM–10PM 11AM–10PM |
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Aimee Kessler Evans
Family-friendly. If you have noisy kids, this is the best place in town to go for dinner! Its extremely kid-friendly, and hands-down the BEST pizza in town. I love the Margherita pizza, and the Sicillian slices are great, too. The pizzeria is cafeteria-style, so you and your kids will be fed quickly, and since you can buy pizza by the slice, you wont spend a fortune, either. It should be noted that the atmosphere is fairly non-existent, owing in part to the massive number of families with kids under 5. Its more like a huge indoor picnic than a restaurant. Its loud, its cavernous, but your kids will sit down, eat well, and youll be home quickly with cash still in your wallet! I cant speak for the nicer restaurant side, but my kids and I really love the pizzeria!
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Richard Krasney
Went in with my daughter and got two spaghetti and meatballs orders to go. I could not believe it was $27 for the order. Completely ridiculously overpriced. The dinner size order didnt come with anything (like a side salad). When I told the owners son I thought it was overpriced, he started defending cost of meat and labor, rather than trying to do anything to please the customer. I finally asked if he could throw in a garlic bread, he said no. Instead, he threw in some cold, stale garlic knots. I suggest you learn the first rule of business: The customer is always right. The meatballs were good but Ill never go back to a place that treated me like that.
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angelo cruz
Perhaps eating inside is better but do not order delivery. They left out part of my order. When I called back they said theyll have it delivered right away. 10-15 minutes later they called to let me know it had to be paid for. They didnt even start making it. So I had to wait an extra 15 minutes on top of the 15 minutes I waited for that stupid phone call. They didnt apologize, in fact the girl on the phone was rude and snotty. So finally got my food and my whole family sat for dinner. The pasta was over cooked and my tortellini Alfredo was more like a soup. Apparently they dont know what al dente is. Bad...bad...bad. Less then a star.
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Sarah Levine
Food was bland. Waitress took order then busboy delivered food. Never saw waitress again. Complained to manager - just shrugged off complaint. On way out complained to owner - he said if the food wasnt good why are you taking home leftovers? I told him if I was paying for it - I was taking it. He really didnt care that we were unhappy - he said dont come back. Guess what I wont come back. I usually dont complain or write a bad review but this guy doesnt care if he loses customers.
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Dee T
Food is never consistent sometimes theres garlic in the shrimp scampi sometimes theres not. Dont specify what dressing you want because they give you what they want. Order a canoli and the shell was at least 2 weeks stale, couldnt get the stale taste out of my mouth from 2 bites. Complained to the owner Joe and his response was dont eat here then, and its only dressing. They also have illegals serving you that dont speak english, and this is America!!
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A Private User
You may want to get pizza to go, but the sit-down part of the restaurant is horrendous. The food is bland and way overpriced and there is no ambience in the dining room. The service was so bad I thought the waitress disliked us. We had to wait forever just for her to acknowledge us, bring us our food or refill drinks. The busboy clearly felt so bad that he went into the kitchen to get us our meal.
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A Private User
The last time I ate there the string beans were so over cooked as to be inedible. I got the distinct impression that they were canned. I didnt complain, but when they asked if everything was allright, I told them what I thought and asked them to try the beans and tell me whether they thought it was allright. Then the manager came over and started arguing with me and told me that the food was good.
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A Private User
We order pizza or some pasta dishes from this establishment only to go.If we stay there for more than a few minutes we get a convaluted stench of Chheses and garlic and marinara sauce, The place is badly ventilated. Their pizza is of inferior quality,the crust is thick and doughy, the flavor of their topping tomato sauce not so tasty.Compared to other Livingston Pizzerias it ranks bellow average.
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Alexandra Bohigian
I absolutely love Calabria. The cozy and rustic atmosphere make it the perfect restaurant for date night or for dinner with the family. The servers are always super friendly and happy to assist you in any way they can. I highly recommend the Mediterranean Salad, it is to die for! If you like Italian food, you cant go wrong with a night out at Calabria.
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A Private User
If I can give them no star I would. The pizza is not anything special, very much like many other pizza places who serve large amounts of specialty slices. The service is horrible, and the employees and owner in particular is very rude and thinks he is something special. I would recommend if you have never been here, dont go.
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Allison White
WOW!! The pasta fagioli was WHITE BEAN and delicious just like my Italian grandmother used to make!! I ordered Chicken Francese which was freshly made (NOTHING FROZEN or PRE PREpared)!! Amazing!! We went to the back door which is the more casual attired place and it was SO CLEAN!!!
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John Soroka
Went for pizza with my soccer team and the service was fine, but when I wanted to order garlic knots at the front desk a lady was very rude to me and sloppily wrapped the garlic knots and threw them in a bag. Calabrias would be an amazing restaurant if this women got fired.
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Gina Kay
$14.52 for a chicken cutlet sandwich with provolone, tomato and mayo and a Fuse iced tea!!! Are you kidding? The waitress informed me that it was $1/slice of provolone. I said no cheese then please and the price came out to $13! WHAT?! No thanks...Ill go elsewhere.
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Shawn Hacker
Completely horrid food ordered 2 sandwiches which was basically 4 toasted slices of stale bread .they put one slice of turkey on the one sandwich....the mussels were pretty small and the food was late so dont give them the time of day HORRIBLE! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Atal Shailabh
Most rude behavior I have ever encountered. The owner came to us after having served ingredients that we had specifically asked them to not include. And then, when I complained, he said he "cant deal with it!" We paid and left all the food on the table!
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Alice Koerner
Unfortunately $21 for a bland gluten free pizza doesnt make make sense to me. Not only was it bland, it was bad and small. The employee couldnt even understand our order as there was an apparent English language barrier.
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M Magnus
The super smart and friendly bartender made this place worth the visit,,, Daniel, i think? I enjoyed a very light pasta dish with shrimp and a cream sauce, it was deeeelish
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Michele Thorkelsen
Calabrias is my favorite restaurant to go to whenever Im in the area! The food is delicious, and the staff is always extremely friendly. Id recommend this place to anyone.
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Tyler Thomas
Calabria has the best pizza and also has other great dishes. The food is also very affordable. Its always worth it to get such great food as such fair prices!
