La Pizzaria

Very spacious. This place is huge. Food is great and service was stellar both times I’ve gone. Great place for larger parties. Salmon was delicious.

I wish I had all good things to say about my visit today. Unfortunately, I don’t. My husband and I arrived at 11:45 am on a Sunday morning. We walked in with another party (not with us). The server at the front seemed to know them and greeted and sat them immediately. We were not acknowledged and stood there a good 3 – 4 minutes with other employees walking around ignoring our existence. Finally, a busser came over and sat us. He was nice. Then we sat another 4 – 5 minutes with no server coming to the table to get a drink order. There was a table on each side of us and their servers were getting their orders and totally ignoring us. Finally, Matt, came over and took our drink orders. He was very polite and attentive. We ordered a large pizza and an order of red lasagna. In the meantime we ate salad and bread, which was very good. It took a good 20 minutes for our food to arrive to the table. Matt, our server came over and apologized because they made our pizza a small instead of a large. We decided to take the small, but my husband made sure Matt knew to charge us for only a small pizza. The lasagna and pizza were very good and very hot. So for service, not such a good review, but for food, very good.

Five stars for consistency in home cooked Italian cuisine. I even worked there back in the day when they were in East Canton. The new place is amazing and atmospheric. However this restaurant will escape your radar because it’s not close to any of your usual hang outs. Definitely give it a few tries, their pizzas are awesome! Ciao!

We had our daughter wedding reception there. They make promises they do not keep. One example is they agreed to flexible seating but when we arrived they changed the seating chart and there were people without seats. Embarrassing! They also did not refill the cookie trays and I took home hundreds of cookies the next day. Again, I was embarrassed because guests had made cookies that were never put out. Three stars however because the atmosphere is beautiful and food was good. Just watch out for the details!

We are local to La Pizzaria and have dined here a few times over the years.
They’re great at putting together buffets for special days like Easter.
I just called to make reservations for their 2015 Easter buffet– pricey at $ 21.95 per adult, $ 20.95 for seniors.
This upscale Italian restaurant never fails to please with delivering great dinners, desserts, etc
You get what you pay for here, which is why I keep returning.

I come to Canton once a year on business. This place is the best. Great service and even better food. A must go. Get the cheese balls.

Large open room. Food is better than average for the area, though the bar is not high around here. Not a place for an intimate dinner.

I came here with a large party so our service was in the party room rather than in the restaurant. The staff were attentive and patient with our group. I did not feel like they were bothered by our slowness to place orders which was nice. Once we did order, our food came quickly. The mozzarella cheese on a stick– loved! I ordered the sausage and peppers with linguine. I was expecting sliced sausage pieces and peppers mixed into a red sauce over noodles. The sausages were in whole links with pepper slices on the side. The pasta and sauce was served on the side of the sausage and peppers. Taste was good, just not what I was expecting.

The staff is friendly and accommodating. The owners are like family. The facilities are huge and absolutely gorgeous! I had my wedding reception there and I couldn’t be happier.

Wow. pretty disapointed. This used to be one of my favorite italian spots. Unfortunately, the food tonight was unedible. And the experience was piss poor.
First off, my dinner companion ordered scallops and they brought her scrod!!! The waitress took it back and 25 minutes later she brought her scallops laying on the exact same bed of hard pasta??? Instantly, we qere overwhelmed by thought extra ripe fish smell. We told the waitress it was unedible, she agreed, and took it to the kitchen. By this time I was done with my chicken marsala which was equally not good. It tasted as if it were microwaved. You know when you over cook something in the microwave and it is super hot and rubbery? Thats what the chicken tasted like. My companion agreed to try the lasagna since the waitress said it was quick.. 20 minutes later out came the microwaved lasagna.
We received our bill and her meal was not comped… I asked why. the waitress said let me see what I can do. She said the manager or owner (whoever it was) said no she had 3 choices and liked none.
I went and «talked» to the manager/​owner and agreed to accept I $ 15 gift card since my credit card was already proccessed.
There are too many restaurants in the area to poorly manage one. poor management will lead closure. the gift card I received will be a gift in somebodies bday or xmas card because I will not return.. and that sucks because this used to be my «goto» italian spot. not no more back to napolis.

Fantastic, as usual! They host a luncheon for about 60 people twice a year, and the service and food are always phenomenal!

2.5 stars. I must say I was disappointed with my last visit here. I have never really though highly of the food, but this time I actually think I have to say its sub par.
«Bryan’s caviteli» seems to be one of the dishes they are known for, and I can’t really see why. The caviteli itself tasted rubbery and the sauce was just butter really. A couple thin strips of basil and a few chopped tomatoes were basically unnoticeable.
I tried a few other apps and entrees and they all disappointed me about equally. Other than the mozzerella cheese sticks/​balls app. That was excellent. Soft, fluffy, cheesy and great flavor. Felt like it was made at a different restaurant.
This feels like mass produced Italian food and corners feel cut. I know they do great business for large parties/​banquets/​weddings. And I’m sure it’s fine for those events. But not my kinda place…

I am going to give this one more star than it may deserve, especially for the service we had, because I thought a couple things were so good that it made the mediocre things a little less important.
First let me say this place is huge. Like absolutely enormous. Great for large parties, weddings, etc. We had the appetizer medley to start and the the ‘cheese stix’ they list on there are out of this world. This is not your average cheese stick at all, this is fresh mozz in a ball with maybe some kind of beer batter? I don’t know but it was the best cheese stick or ball or whatever I have ever had. Next, we tried the wedding soup and I really enjoyed it, very flavorful although I wouldn’t say I’m an expert at wedding soup. So then I got the blackened shrimp and scallops with a Parmesan cream sauce and it was delicious. Everything was cooked perfectly and it was fantastic.
So now for the mediocre part of the meal… the calamari app was OK, cooked well enough but nothing special. My husband got some kind of salad with strawberries and a maple dressing and it was pretty bad. It was so sweet from the maple dressing that it just made it not very enjoyable. My brother got a seafood pasta dish as well but his shrimp was overcooked by quite a bit.
As for the service, it was bad. Not just bad, pretty awful. I understand she was busy and we had 6 adults and 2 kids but let me give you an example. She came by while I was in the bathroom and asked my husband if I wanted another glass of wine, of course he said yes, while he had an empty glass of beer in front of him but she never asked him if he wanted another one. She was very very slow as well.
So I would absolutely be back, and would actually be excited to go back bc the menu was huge, with a lot of things I would like to try!

Came here for a wedding reception. Some of the food was pretty tasty (potatoes, appetizers– stuffed mushrooms, meatballs, breaded chicken. It was a beautiful venue (if you ignore the awkward paintings on the wall), and the service staff and bartenders did a great job. Things seemed to go smoothly, and it was a fun time for all.

First off, I really want to like this place. However, after two visits I can say that I do not like nor recommend this restaurant. The interior is overdone, but I like that. Makes it feel like more of an ‘experience.’ Then service began.
If I order a sweet tea (that comes from a dispenser behind the bar — not freshly brewed) I expect it to be refilled with sweet tea, not just cold weak tea.
The menu is huge. This should set off an alarm to anyone dining here. With such a gigantic menu you have to know the food quality will not be that good… and it isn’t.
I finally decided on the wild mushroom ravioli in a cream sauce with a salad as my side.
All I can say is the salad was the best part of the meal. It was a great mix of greens and perfect size. Enough about that — if you reading this you don’t want to know about my salad!
My entrée arrived and looked delicious, but the deliciousness ended there. I would be surprised if the raviolis were not pre-​made and cooked from frozen. They were just too perfect and the dough was quite thick. Mushrooms did not taste fresh inside at all. If you are only putting three raviolis on a plate, at least make them in house! Then there was the cream sauce…
The cream sauce LITERALLY tasted and looked like canned cream of chicken soup. Overwhelmingly chicken flavored that drowned out any mushroom flavor.
As stated earlier, I really want to like this place and only offer this review as assistance to ownership to offer more authentic Italian dishes! The prices seem to make it appear that you will be.
Service was maybe slightly below average because the server seemed distracted. Don’t know why, it was not busy by any means.

Good food but a bit over priced. I always get the chicken parm (which is very good) but I always have to pour out the water. So make sure you ask for a bowl for the water.

Great bread! A lot of choices on the menu. Excellent service. Food, not so good. They would do better to cut the menue in half and improve the food quality.

Rude from start to finish. Food was overpriced and average at best. Interior is bizarrely over the top. I have tried it over and over, as I like to support mom and pop shops, but this was the last straw. If the waitresses were at least civil, i would consider trying again in the future. Oh well.
Locals wonder if the focus on banquets and the addition has hampered the main restaurant?

My boyfriend and I went here the other day for my birthday, and to sum up my feelings on the place, I would truly just say «Meh.»
The outside of the place was a bit ostentatious, but perhaps that was due to the fact that it has banquet halls in addition to the restaurant in the building. There was a TV embedded into the brick outside as we walked into the restaurant, and inside it had an expensive-​looking light fixtures, tile work and a grandfather clock with a gold pendulum.
Despite the expensive appearance, the interior looked rather dated. We sat in one of the booths, which were floral print with mauve trim. The wall next to us was covered with a giant mirror with a design in the middle and surrounded by pink-​marble effect plates. My boyfriend even agreed that the place looked like it had been designed by someone’s grandmother.
Also, our table was right next to the bar and the entrance to the kitchen. We don’t drink so we didn’t really care about the bar, but being so close to the kitchen allowed us to hear the workers shouting conversations at each other. It was 8:00 PM on a Wednesday but the place wasn’t busy at all, so I don’t know exactly why they put us in such an unpleasant spot. Perhaps so the waitress didn’t have to carry our food as far?
The good: the service was fantastic and the salad with their house dressing was delicious.
My meal wasn’t exactly bad, but not great either. It was not nearly as good as I was expecting it to be from another review. I ordered the «Italian medley» entrée, which was a sample of 3 different dishes: lasagna, shells in alfredo, and gnocchi in pesto. They were all put together on the same plate… Personally, I don’t like different types of sauces mixing together, and it certainly wasn’t visually appealing, but it wasn’t bad.
The pesto was oddly creamy and the other 2 sauces tasted similar to store bought sauces. It was $ 14, but it was a huge amount of food. I have a big appetite and was only able to eat half of it.
My boyfriend, however, had an awful experience with his meal. He got the eggplant parmesan, which came with some pasta on the side. The pasta was apparently acceptable since he ate all of it, but the eggplant itself was heavily breaded and then deep-​fried, much to his displeasure. He ate a little over a quarter of it before he was too disgusted to eat any more. He said it reminded him of fair food and he even felt a slightly sick later because of how oily it was.
Overall; not bad, not good. If it had been a couple bucks cheaper and from a place that was more casual, I probably would have walked away feeling quite pleased with the food. The appearance of the place and the quality of the food just didn’t mesh, and I probably won’t bother
going to La Pizzaria again.
If you do decide to give it a try, I’d recommend wearing nicer clothes, as my boyfriend felt out of place wearing a t-​shirt, shorts, and sandals.

This is my favorite Italian food (outside my Nanna’s kitchen) by far.
My wife and I had dinner her the night they opened and have been hooked ever since. We find ourselves here often even though we;ve moved 40 minutes North.
The Fresh Cut Veal Parm is my favorite dish here — although I’ve never had anything I didn’t like — it’s breaded well, a great cut of veal, and the house red sauce here is perfect.
La Pizzaria has been consistent whether its my wife, son and I, a wedding reception for 300, or a holiday brunch for 3000.
I’ll never pass up a chance dine here.