Riccardo's Pizza & Restaurant — Restaurant in Beverly

Better than expected! We were looking for a local pizza place for takeout and were a bit hesitant to try Riccardo's because of the mixed reviews, especially Yelp. However, we were pleasantly surprised to find the pizza was pretty good! We got an individual white pizza, an individual "The Works" pizza, and an order of honey hot wings to share (for two). The pizzas had good flavor, the crust was soft, and the portions were decent. The wings were pretty tasty as well, and the honey hot sauce was amazing! Speaking of honey, I decided to buy the bottled honey since that's what they're known for and it is actually REALLY GOOD on pizza and in tea (and I dont even like honey!) It just give pizza an extra kick and zing because the honey is infused with chiles. Further, the staff was pretty friendly, though the wait was a bit long for takeout (about 20 minutes, though this was Friday evening).

One downside is that The Works is UGLY looking because they do not cook the vegetables into the pizza; it looks like they just plop the veggies on top after they cook the pizza. We ended up adding some mozzarella cheese on top and melting it in our oven at home so that the veggies felt more cooked into the pizza. I'm also not sure if they vegetables were super fresh. They looked and felt a bit off.

Overall, not the best pizza I have ever had, but Riccardos is a great standby if we ever need pizza in a pinch! I'll also keeping enjoying the bottled honey for other meals and...

EDIT: 1/3/23: I received a hand written apology letter in the mail today for the orders we’ve gotten recently. This was very much appreciated, thank you for that! It truly shows the love the staff has for its customers! I changed my rating because of this.

Original Post 12/28/22: I love ordering from here and have been for years, but my last few orders have been rough. At one point I ordered bbq wings and got like no sauce on them. Last night we ordered a snack pack with wings, mozzarella sticks and fried ravioli. While the wings and fried ravioli were good I only got 1 mozzarella stick. Tonight we also ordered for our company who we had over and we got pasta and there was barely any pasta in the container, like two fork fulls. We also got another order of mozzarella sticks again and barely got any. Not sure who’s been in the kitchen lately but they have been skimping. I love the food from here but i’m going to have to change places if the food keeps coming like it has. Photo of the bbq wings attached from an order a...

You guys should really do a Trenton Pie. I got a Parm slice, and cheesesteak slice today. You pizza crust was awesome. Was thin, but held up with the toppings. I wish I got a plain slice so I could get a taste of the sauce and mozz straight up with the crust. I'll do that next time, but I can honestly say, with that thin crisp crust, if you layed down some nice high quality cheese and top it with some sweet San Marzano tomatoes freshly food milled you could make a really nice Trenton Pie. You crust really is perfect for it, and it is shameful that there aren't any "great" pizza joints along the RT130 towns between Trenton and Philly. You guys have the crust right for a Trenton Pie...just get the mozz and sauce to go with that nice crust. You have half the battle down with that nice crust...it's then just quality mozz and sauce...charge for it of course, but it will work with the crust you have and people won't have to go to Robinsville to get a Trenton Pie, but can't finally get one...