Fresco Cafe and Pizzeria

I had an awesome meal here on Friday night! The service was friendly, and the food was delicious. My fiancé and I split the dip sampler appetizer, a small fresco salad, and a small meat pizza. The dip appetizer was delicious and was a lot of food. The salad was great– especially the house made balsamic dressing. It was so good I asked the waitress if they by chance sold it. Which sadly they don’t :(. The pizza was fresh, the meats were great, and the cheese was really creamy and melty. It was a great quality pizza. Overall a wonderful meal! My only complaint is that they put all of the food orders in at once
Instead of staggering it– so we were still eating the appetizer when the salad and pizza came out– and we had all of the food at the table at the same time. Very minor detail, of course :)

I think this place is underrated. I’ve had takeout a number of times and have now dined in. I can honestly say I’ve never had anything I didn’t like. Their pizzas are really tasty and their house made salad dressing can’t be missed. I love their balsamic vinaigrette and have heard that the Caesar is really good too. The gyro lavish wrap is a nice option as well.
I’ve seen some complaints about the service. Perhaps it was a little on the slow side but I thought it was fine. We started with the dip trio, also delicious, and that did take a little while to come out. You would think 3 cold dips would be pretty quick. There was a bigger table already seated when we arrived and it wasn’t until after they got their food that the dip came out, so I wonder if the kitchen only works on one ticket at a time. Anyway, other than that, no complaints.

I’d give this place 3 stars based on an average of 4 for the food and ambience but a 2 for the service.
I enjoyed dining on the covered patio today as it is such a mild almost spring-​like winter day. My roasted eggplant sandwich was huge, I didn’t even fully finish one half. It tasted pretty good too with the nice flavor from the pesto and the olives. The Rosemary roasted potatoes were a nice addition on the side. I didn’t realize it came with those. My guy had one of the lavash wraps and completely demolished his, so I’m assuming it was delicious as well.
During lunchtine at noon on a Thursday, I was pretty surprised that we were one of only 3 tables total. Even with only 3 tables of 2 people each, service was slow. I’d hate to see if it was packed. Sounds like most of the other reviews are on point– decent food but room to improve on the service level.

Really like this place for various reasons.
We’ve been here several dozen times over the years — it’s a nice family place within walking distance from our house.
Pros: nice outdoor seating, dog friendly, relaxed casual atmosphere, free wifi, very reasonable prices, really really excellent deals on booze!
Cons: occasionally spotty service, but usually very friendly; your kids may like the smiley face pizza, but you won’t; interior is a bland cafeteria.
My favorites:
— The (1) hummus, (2) roasted eggplant dip and (3) spicy tomato (with walnuts & feta) dips are excellent appetizers, and can be ordered in a trio. Warm pita comes with.
— The Mediterranean shrimp appetizer (sautéed with garlic butter and feta) is also really tasty and also comes with warm pita.
— The shrimp pesto wrap is my favorite entrée here. In fact, it’s so damn good that I have never bothered to order anything else. Happy with it Every Single Time.
Great place with kids — they are expected and catered to, but we rarely see kids here other than our own! Lusher families, take note!

I have been ordering from this restaurant about twice a week for the past 3 months (since I’ve moved to NOLA) and it’s always been delivery. I called for delivery tonight and I was told «no, we definitely don’t go out that far.» This has been at least 20 orders that have ALL been delivered and my address is on file when they ask for my phone number to place the order. They pick and chose when and where they want to deliver to and they offer no sound logic as to why they refuse to deliver and make a profit when I literally live 8 minutes away and 2.2 miles away.
They have great food, but the customer service is not worth the time and energy. I can find better food who will appreciate loyal customers.

I came here once well over 6 months ago and I’m just now writing a review. Ok I’m late, I know. I stumbled across this place on
. I wanted to find more dog friendly places in New Orleans so that I can tag my «kids» along when my husband and I go out. If you have a dog, you will eat outside… as expected. The patio is cute and the service was good. I had the Margherita pizza… NOM NOM NOM! SO GOOD! I am currently craving it which is why I turned to Unilocal since I completely forgot the name of this spot. Thank God for pictures. I am surprised to see that this place only has 3 stars. My review is based off food alone. I haven’t seen inside the restaurant and I have not used their delivery service.

We stopped by Fresco after a day at the zoo. It’s very close to the zoo (about 5 minutes). Our party of 14 was promptly seated and served drinks. The menu offered a good variety of sandwiches, wraps, pastas, pizza, salads and soups. Based on the responses of our party, ALL were amazing. The hummus is out of this world too. Fast and polite service, great food and a chill atmosphere. Why more can you ask for? Will be back!

I had a Fresco Special pizza delivered and it was amazing! Will order delivery from them again soon.

Spend your money elsewhere! Mediocre college Italian with worse service than almost any other place in New Orleans. Not worth your time, unless you like cold, drab food and people. Sorry. WHATEVER you do, DON’T ORDER DELIVERY!!! Like many others on this page, food arrived late & cold then when I called to complain I got total attitude and no apologies, etc. Asked for a supervisor and was put on infinite hold, forget them: I’ll take care of it on Unilocal.Most wasted twenty bucks ever!

This place is good for dine-​in, but mostly I use them for delivery. It’s very convenient to have semi-​healthy food available for delivery. I really like their hummuses, especially!

Great and inexpensive lunch with wonderful atmosphere! Just went for the first time, and I will be back! They have nice indoor and outdoor seating. Prices were very reasonable, and the portion sizes are huge! I ordered the spinach salad and had grilled chicken added on top. Enough for two meals! And delicious! Had a taste of the stromboli, and it was great, too! Service was on top of things, but not hovering. Kept our water glasses filled, and we drained them many times. Was tempted by the Godiva chocolate cake, but trying to be good. Maybe next time?

So good I forgot to take a picture of it. Got the hummus which was amazing and the fresco salad. Yummmm. I was just glad they delivered to my work so late. Now I’m glad because it was so good.

I almost never write reviews but feel compelled to do so in this instance. Ordered a pizza for delivery at 9pm tonight and was told it would be approximately fifty minutes. At 10pm, I still had not received the order so I called them back and was told that it was on its way. At 11pm, still had not received the pizza after waiting two hours and called them again. The lady on the phone told me that she did not see my order in the system. She had me speak to the manager who said his name was Steven and he told me that he would check with his delivery driver and call me back, which made no sense since the previous person I spoke to did not see my order in the system. After more than two hours I had no pizza and Fresco’s could not provide me with a clear answer on what had happened as they gave me the run around. I will not be ordering from them again.

Ordered online for delivery. Received email a7 6:43 saying order was out for delivery. I live maybe 15 minutes away. I called and the girl that answer the phone got frustrated with my questions and I guess put the manager on who quickly told me the order was on it way and hung up. I received my order at 7:32pm. Food was not even warm.
THe thing is my house is under construction and the door bell doesn’t work so I was hanging up front waiting for order.
There are too many great restaurants in NO to deal with these people. I won’t be back in any capacity.

The food was nasty omg never again. Food super salty I wouldn’t even feed it to my dog

Slow service due to the fact that I’m pretty sure there was only one person working to fulfill orders and she may have also been washing dishes. Our server was visibly and audibly angry with the situation. Working in the service industry, you don’t wear that stuff on your sleeve with customers. She kept muttering things like «I can’t. I just can’t.» and «I’m so damn hungry.» and quite a few other gripes while bussing between tables and stacking piles of dirty dishes on tables in the front of house. I feel her frustration (I’ve been there too), but we waited 20 minutes not to be served our appetizer, not have our water filled, and generally feel like we should just leave. At no point did she check in and apologize or assure us that we hadn’t been forgotten about. When we did receive part of our meal it was cold and bland. Our silverware was dirty and everything In general was bad.
Long story short, We won’t be returning and I don’t encourage others to make this fruitless venture either.

This has become one of my favorite lunch locations! Service has always been efficient, staff is friendly, veggies here are more fresh than other restaurants in the same price bracket. The free wifi, large enough tables to spread out with study material and covered outdoor seating is always a plus! Gyro anything on the menu is absolutely delicious, if you are hungry a sandwich or burger is big enough to fill most appetites, the lavash rolls are something similar to a matzah wrap and make for fresh meal. Unfortunately the only thing on the menu that I’m not a fan of is the pizza. That’s personal preference and should in no way prevent anyone from giving this place a try. I highly recommend this place!

Fresco has the best stromboli in town! I’ve ordered take out 3 times in the last few months and each time was delicious. We’ve had several different stromboli and a couple of pizzas so far and everything has always been delicious. The stromboli are by far my favorite, maybe one day I’ll try something else, if I can tear myself away from hot cheesy goodness. The sauce is also really on point too!

This eatery is located in heart of Maple Street, Uptown New Orleans. Out of all the restaurants on this strip, you couldn’t ask for a better location. They offer outside and inside seating.
The décor inside couldn’t be any more generic and bland. From one to 10 it gets a 3– at least it was clean.
The service was good.
I went in while it was slow. I ordered a gyro lavash roll. It was really good. Can’t complain on the food. So for a quick casual bite; I’d recommend this place.
What I wasn’t too crazy was some bar flies that kept staring. I dined by myself so I wasn’t too worried about it. But there’s nothing worse than guys lounging at the bar staring at people.

Ok, I’m being too nice again and they probably deserve two stars but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because I used to love their portobello mushroom panini and the last time I came I ordered something different.
My bestie wanted pasta and in his neighborhood so we came to Fresco’s. it was a lovely evening and they have a great front patio. We ordered the spinach appetizer and it was meh. My friend ordered the shrimp Alfredo and enjoyed it. He especially likes the cheesy bread it comes with. Meanwhile I ordered the spinach and artichoke panini which was meh. Note that the restaurant is located near Loyola and Tulane so it’s overrun by college students.